Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-02

Republicans had agreed on Il candidate
ana named President Roosevelt as the
man.
There also was further discussion on
the committee amendments for the pur-
chase of IN additional post Office site
in New York city.
In the Senate. today, Mr.. Patterson
introduced !; bin for The amendment
OF tho Chinese exclusion act of 1872
giving notice that on Wednesday next
he would address the Senate on the
bill. In giving this notice he said he
had received what he considered def
nit" iItnrrl1ti&n that tho Chinese gov
crHrput had denounced the treaty be-
tween that government ANA the United
States and that the treaty would cX-
rirc ICc. I. next. Unless The law should
ba amended chinese can come into the
United states after that time without
ObstrC ton. N'r. Plat Of Connecticut
espresso Il dissent from this view.
Mr.. Mallory addressed the Senate on
the Carmarll resolution instrECting the
committee on the judiciary 10 make in
Giiry into the legal ii-ht of tie sccre-
Ky
disability pension ordered recently pro-
inIigatci. lie said III the outset thar
there mead not be any apprehension
that the resolution was intended to af-
feet the status Of the pensioners, for
there was 10 such intention or desire
on tho part of tho Democratic senator's
He cGntonicd that the quest ion of lib
cra!ity 10 the Veterans is not invoked
| Il any respect whatever. but the Only
point Was whether tire executive
b"anrh Of the government had not
transcribed its authority ana usurped
Legislative functions in establishing the
rule by the new order.
Mallory said that Lochren had no
authority 70 fix - years as the age or
even prosumrtive disability nor there
was th""" any sanction fOr the recent
order reducing tn" age to e. years
Toral;e" ton'i exception t. Mallory's
chaTtct CREATION Of the now railing MS
arbitrary. saying that it fixed GO years
only as ''cvidential fact of disability
Mallory entered uron n line of argu-
ment to show that the order OF score
tary Hitchcock is in some respects
equivalent to 4 service pension law
mcnt that Congress had fixed the age
Of &C years rs the age of disa bility in
the case of Mexican war veterans
That" he said, was not d service
pension bill'
Mallory replied that Congress had
Il perfect right to act in that case,
while an executive official has not
Congress acted then" interrupted
Carinack. because it did not have a
secretary of the interior to lcgis!atc
for it. Consequently Congress had to
act f0r itself"
Mallory had not concluded when the
post Office bill was taken up.
Before the consideration of the post
office bill could be proceeded with. Per-
kins presented partial conference re-
port on the civilizations appropriation
bill.
The report was accepted and n fur
thcr conference ordered.
Tho post office bill was again taken
UP ami Simmons spoke in favor Of the
desirabilty of a congressional investi-
CATION into pest Office department af-
fairs
IN response to questions from Bevc-
doubt that If crime was brought to the
immediate attention of the President
he Would disapprOve it. He did not
conccde, however, that the President
had done any more than his duty and
he repeated his charge that an invcs-
tagtiOn of Congress had been refus ID
only because of fear of disagreeable
developments.
Bevcridge asked if Simmons would
not conCede that the source or the
fountain head of the corruption discov-
cred had been found in the last DEM
ocratic administration"
$50 far rs Machen is concerned" the
North Carolina senator replied, Girls
tow says that is true
BeveTidgc wanted Simmons to admit
that all the corruption discovered had
centered in Machen, but Simmons
would say only that he had no informa-
ton Oh the subject except that supplied
by Mr.. Bristow.
In connection with the charges
against members Of Congress, Sim
mons declared that while all incrimi-
mating charges were given. all the ex-
cuipating matters had been suppressed
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