Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1902-06-13
WEEKS D0|NCS
IN CONGRESS
Business Transacted by the
House and Senate in the
National Capital.
ANTI-ANARCHIST BILL PASSED
House Passes Substitute for Senate Meas
ure-Senate Has the Nicaragua Cahai
Bill Under Consideration-Hanna FaSors
Panama Route.

Washington, June 9.-Senate.-After
transhacting some routine business
and discussin the bill to relieve
shippers from the London dock charg'
es, the senate resumed consideration
today of the isthman canal project.
| Mr.. Mitchell, of Oregon, continued MS
speech begun on Thursday in opposl'
ton to the Panama route. After con.
sidering the engineering difficulties OF
the route, which he regarded as very
serious, he entered upon denuncla.
,lou of the methods of the Panama Ca.
Gal Company. Mitchell handled with
out gloves the proposition to build the
canal by the Panama route. and Incl
dentally the Spooner amendment. BY
the addition of this proposition, ne
said, the United States would be
lacking onto one Of the greatest frauds
and pieces of corruption known since
the world began He could not be.
lieve, he said, that the senate proposed
to consider seriously proposition
which will involve the United States
in a legal controversy for hundred
years. | want the senate to know the
facts and to determine whether we
really shall take up this rotten con-
Germ across the sea- Mr.. Mitchell
expressed the opinion that the enact
ment of the Spooner amendment would
result in the postponement of the be-
ginning of the canal project, as the
president ostensibly would have to
make an important investigation of the
subject before he reached a decision.
House.-The house spent the entire
day voting upon amendments to the
anti-anarchy bill but all failed except
one proposed by Mccall, of Massachu'
sets, to strike from the anarchist Sec
ton the word assault" where it is
coupled with killing" in the inhibition
against conspiring for the killing of
the chief magistrate Of foreign coun.
try. After the bill had reached the
last parliamentary stage before pas
sage De Almond. of Missouri. moved
to re-commit The quorum failed at
this point and the house was compelled
to adjourn without final action.
Washington, June 9.-Senate.-An
interesting contribution to the discus
sion of the isthmian canal project was
made in the senate today by Harris
of Kansas. member OF the committee
on interoceanic canals, who is also all
engineer of recognized ability. His
discussion of the technical details OF
canal construction was listened &c
with profound attention. He strongly
advocated the selection of the Mica
ragua canal. He maintained that ii
was entirely feasible and practical
from an engineering standpoint, and
said that some of the difficulties pre-
sented by the Panama route were in
perable-notably the construction
of the Bohio dam. During the early
part of the session the naval appro
priation bill was considered. All OIL
the committee amendments were dis
posed of except that relating to the
construction Of two additional battle
hips, two cruisers and two gunboats
House.-The house today passed tbs
bill to protect the president. vice
president and members of the cabinet
and foreign ministers and embassa
doris, and to suppress the teaching
of anarchy, by vote OF ITS to SO. A
motion to recommit the measure with
instructions to strike out certain sec
tons, was defeated by vote Of Il
to 1913. The remainder of the day was
devoted to the bill to transfer Ger
tain forest reserves from the interior
department to the agricultural de-
partment and to authorize the creation
in such reserves of game and fish pre-
serves.
Washington, June 1O.-Senate.-An
other of the big supply bills of the
government was disposed of by the
senate today, the naval bill, carrying
more than 378,0000O0, being passed
1t includes provisions for two frs
class battleships, two nrst class ar
mored cruisers and two gunboats, bu
strikes out the house provision tina,
each one shall be built at government,
yards. When consideration was re
sumed of the isthmian canal question
Turner delivered an extended argu
ment in support of the Nicaragua
route He maintained that the new
Panama company could not pass {
clear title to the Panama Canal Com
pany's rights. franchises and proper
ty to the United States. and that il
this government purchased it 1t wouit
be with all membranes Carmack
of Tennessee, offered a resolution di
recting the committee on civil service
and retrenchment to investigate thu
case of Rebecca j. Taylor, a clerk II
the war department, who was dis
charged for the alleged reason of cri
itching the administration Philip
pine policy in communication to thu
press. The committee was directed Il
investigate the reasons for his dis
charge. The resolution went over I'm
der the rule.
House.-The house today defeated
the bill to transfer certain forest re
serves to the agricultural department
and to authorize the president to es
tablish game and fish preserves. Its
death was accomplished by striking
out the enacting clause. The motion
was made by Cannon and was carried
by 100 to 70. He claimed that the
bill would greatly increase the cost OIL
administering forest reserves and de
clared that the estimated receipts o.
the next fiscal year already were ex
ceeded by the appropriations up to thu
present time by over $51,000000. The
house then adopted a special order
for the consideration of the Corliss
Pacific cable bill, by vote Of 1O8 t.
ternoon listened to the author of the
measure in favor of its passage.
Washington, June 11.-Senate.-Just
before adjournment today the senate
agreed to vote finally on the Nicara
qua canal bill and all pending amend
ments on June 49, the voting to begin
at 2 o'clock. Before consideration OF
the canal question was resumed to-
Antitrust Law Upheld.
- ! I,
Farelly antitrust law was upheld in
a decision handed down by the state
supreme court in the case Of E. ]
Smiley, secretary of the Kansas Grain
Dealers Association. Smiley was ar
raefod for Violating the law was con