Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1903-03-06
LEAKEsvILLE, COUNTY, MISS FRIDAY 1908

the protection Of thePresident. has
passed both houses and conferees have
agreed upon II.
The bankruptcy law was amended
and number OF bills affecting public
lands were passed.
In addition large number OF bills
Of interest to different localities have
been passed, together with q consld-
erable number of private pension bills.
A new building to cost 81, 800, 900 has
been authoriz sd for the Department
Of Agriculture.
Among the acts OF the Fifty-eight
Congress which were adopted at the
first session are the following
Authorizing the construc ion OF an
Isthmain Canal (; providing civil gov
ernment for the philippines; providing
for revenue for the Philippines ex-
tending Chinese exclusion laws re-
peal of war taxes extending charters
of national banks creating per-
manent Census Bureau providing O
system for the irrigation OF the arid
lands of the West providing con
sular aud diplomatic service for Cuba.
Bive of the general appropriation
bills have been signed by the Presi-
dent and two others the Indian and
the Army, have finally passed both
houses. With one or two exceptions.
all the others have been sent to con-
ference. Those approved are the
pension, the legislative, executive and
judicial, the diplomatic and consular
service and two urgent deficiency bills
rhoee in conference are the District
Of Columbia, the Agricultural, Military
Academy. postofIice. sundry, civil,
naval aud fertilization bills. Owing
to the difference between the tigut I
in the bills as pissed by the House
and amended by the Senate, it is diff
ficult at this time to give any estim tte
of the aggregate of the appropriations
carried by the general bills.
The senate committee on appropria
tions has concluded its consideration
Of the general deficiency appropria-
tion bill. The committee adopted as
an amendment to the deficiency bill
the house bill making provisions for
the conduct of the business of the de.
partment OF commerce and labor and
appropriating S30l.75 for the same.
Among other important amendments
were: Giving the pre- ident authority
to extend the leave OF absence of Miu-
lister Bowen; appropriating S945, 085
ito pay the prize money claims of Adj
miral Dewey and the officers and men
under him at Manila; appropriating
$50, 900 for the payment OF claims o.
Confederate soldiers for the horses Ia.
ken from them in violation of the
terms of surrender and barring all
such claims under act of 1902, which
are not filed by March |, 1904; to pay
the. claim of the "Compagne Franchise
des Cables Tele8raphiques," and the
claim of the Cuba Submarine Tele-
graph company for compensation on
account of expenses incurred in re-
pairing damages done to their clbl es
and property by the United States
forces during the war with Spaie, the
former ST., 7l2, the latter $39, 1875; ;ix-
ing the minimum of attorneys fees be.
fore the Spanish claims commission al
Is per cent. There is also provision
for the payment of claim made by
South Carolina amounting to SAT, 245.
AS reported to the senate the bill car
ries total ef SO, 5O3, ,472.
The American minister at Berlin,
Mr.. Charlemagne Tower, a Pennsyl
vania Millionaire, pays for the rent oi
the domicile he occupies in the Ger
man capital more than he receives a.
] his yearly salary. Cabinet minisfer,