Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-22
TO PROTECT
THE PRESIDENT.
Tho Senate Passes Bill for That
Purpose, 81 TO b.
WHAT THE ACT PROVIDES
,a,ouso Passes che River "nd ""rpor
Carries Nearly siNty-one
million Dollars

uroshirgton. March I.-Two impor-
49,, measures were passed by the sem
a,a today the bill for tile repeal Of the
~o. revenue taxes and that for the
nso,octlon Of the president of the
r,ved states The war revenue bill
,yos passed without division, and az
Cor only one short speech. Mr. TIL
man embraced the opportunity arord'
cd nv the bIlIs consideration to protest
against the repeal Of the duty Of ten
cents a pound upon tea
The bin for the protection OF the
orssldent was under discussion during
he greater part Of the session MT
pat,erson of Colorado made an eN-
.ondad speech In opposition to IT and
Nr Fairbanks supported 1t. All amend
raonts 10 the measure We're rejected,
and 1t was passed by vote OF % 10
Is. az follows: a.
Yeas-Aldrch, Allison, Bard, Beye-
ridge. Burnham, Burrows, Burton
clark MONT, Clark (WyoD, Cockrell'
Cullom. Deboe, Depew Dillingham;
nGyden. Dubois, Elkns, Fairbanks,
Eoraker Foster La.), Foster (WashD,
F,ye 0allnger Gamble, Gibson, Han
ma uansbrough Harris. Hawley, Heit-
Isd Hoar. Kearns, KIttredge Lodge,
McComas. Mcmillan, Martin, Mitchell,
Nslson, Perkins. Plat Comm, Nit
cheu Nelson. Perkins Plat Comm,
prltohard. Pdoctor, Quales, Scott, Sim
mons spooner. stewart, Teller, Vest,
Warren, Wetmore-O2.
Nays-Bacon, Bailey Bate, Berry,
blackburn. Carmack, clay, McCumber,
Mallory. Patterson, Pettus, Rawlins,
Tallafero. Tlllman Wellington-l5.
The bin provides that any person
WITHIN the United States who shall viii
fully and maliciously kill the president
ar any officer on whom the duties OF
rresldent may devolye. or any sover-
egn of A foreign country, or shall at
tempt TO kin any Of the persons named,
shall suffer death; that any person who
shall aid, abet, advise or counsel the
killing Of any Of the persons named, or
shall conspire 10 accomplish their death
shall be Imprisoned not exceeding
20 years; that any person who shall
threaten to Kill or advise or counsel
another to kin the president or any Of
aclal on whom the duties Of president
may deyolye shall be imprisoned not
exceeding ten years; that any person
who shall wilfully aid in the escape OF
ANY person guilty Of any Of the Of
lenses mentioned shall be deemed an
accompice and shall be punished as
principal
The secretary Of war is directed to
detail from the regular army a guard
Of officers and men to protect the presl-
dent. without any unnecessary dis
play" and the secretary Is authorized
10 make regulations as 20 dress, arms
and equipment Of such guard
At the conclusion of the routine busi-
ness consideration OF the bin to re-
zeal war taxes and for other purposes
vas taken up on motion of Mr.. Aldrich,
chairman of the committee on finance,
The measure was read at length All
Of the amendments prepared by the
senate committee to the house bill were
agreed to during the reading OF the
measure
At the conclusion OF the reading Of
The bill, Mr. Hoor would not offer 1t
Unless II met the approval Of the
finance committee. He said his amend
ment was proposition to refund to
charitable and educational institutions
the taxes they had placed on legacies
left TO them while the old law was In
operation
Mr. Aldnoh said the amendment
would be out Of place, as this will was
simply to repeal certain specific war
taxes Mr. Hoar therefore did not Of
fer his amendment,
The bin was read a third time, re-
ported TO the senate and then passed.
The oleomargarine bill was made the
unfinished business,
The senate. at 4;45 p. m, went into
executive session and at $40 p. IN. ad-
Iourned until Monday,
PASS RIVER AND HARBoR BILL
Washington, March 2l.--The house
today passed the river and harbor BILL