The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1904-04-02
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

(First Session.)
Senate-Consideration in the senate, on
the 21st, of the bill for the purchase Of a
site and the erection of building for the
departments, state, justice and conn
merce and labor. was made the occasion
for adverse criticism Of the architecr who
planned the Whit, White House Offices. Mess .r
architect and Mr.. Newlands defended
him. During the morning number OF
bills were passed. -. House-After being
the house adjourned out of respect to tbs
memory of the late Charles w. Thoms-
son, of Alabama, who died Sunday. Con-
sideration of other business was object
ed to by Mr.. Williams, whereupon Mr.
Wiley. of Alabama, announced the death
OF his colleague, Hon: Charles Winston
tions of sympathy and respect, which
were agreed to. The speaker appointed
committee to represent the house of
representatives, at the funeral At 1:2c
O'Clock p. m. adjourned until Tuesday.
-Senate-The senate, on the 22d, spent
the greater part of the day on the Indian
appropriation bill. Late in the day Sem
ator--elect Dick Ho9 appeared in the
election. He went direct to Senator For
aker's seat and was cordially greeted,
but their conference was cut short by the
from WHICH Mr.. pi SIC A not yet s SaHing
taken the oath of office, was excluded
under the rules of the senate. At 5:15
senate adjourned. .House-Outside of a
few routine matters, the house of rep
resentatives devoted the entire day to
further discussion of the post Office APP
preparation bill, but disposed of only one
deavored unsuccessfully to have, passed
an amendment designed to transfer back
to the office of the first assistant post
master-general jurisdiction of the free
delivery service. An amendment by Mr..
Tawney (Minn) which was agreed to,
prohibits the acknowledgement from
ordering out of the post offices, telephone
An amendment by c. B. Lands Qnd),
prohibiting the further rental of cancel
ing machines, was adopted after spir-
tied debate. Adjourned at 500 p. m.
Senate-The senate, on the 23d, again
spent the greater part of the day consid-
ering the Indian appropriation bill. Three
hours of the time was given to the dis
cussion of a claim of $4,000 for services
rendered the Choctaw Indians. 1t finally
was eliminated from the Indian bill The
amendment exempting agency farmers
GRAFTON of the bill the senate, at 5:34 p.
m, went into executive session, and at
$3.50 p. m. adjourned. 49,. .House-When the
house adjourned some progress had been
made in the reading of the post office
bill for amendment, but only six pages
were disposed of The appropriation for
the railway mai service was carefully
scrutinized and in the case of inland mail
transportation by star routes, the appro-
priation was scaled down from IS, 100, 900
to S.850000.
Senate-The senate, on the 24th, passed
the Indian appropriation bill. After the
routine features of the bill had been dis
posed of, Mr.. Bacon again raised the
question of civil service appointments.
basing, his remarks upon the statement
made by Mr.. Hoar yesterday that SEN
ators from states of political faith differ
ent from that of the president should be
consulted in the matter of appointments
n nff n w N0lyn ~, ~ Of
his bill for the repeal of the desert land,
the timber and stone laws, and of the
communication clause of the homestead law.
ecG H session and and at 5 io1 ntH
House-The house of representatives
again put itself on record against any
investigation of the post office depart
Of the post office department was brought
up by Mr.. Williams, the minority leader,
who proposed an amendment providing
for select committee of five members
of the house and three senators to make
complete investigation into the alleged
frauds in that department. The chair
sustained a point of order by Mr.. Over
street against the amendment and when
Mr.. Williams appealed, the chair was
sustainedS 1873 to 80.
Senate-Senator Hansbrough charges
in the senate, on the 18th, that the move
ment to secure the repeal of the desert
land law, the timber and stone law, and
the Communication clause of the home
stead act was due to the efforts of a
lobby composed mainly of holders of
lands bought in large tracts from railroad
companies, with a desire thereby to in
crease the demand for their property
Senator Dubois intimated that the pres
sure for repeal was due to large holdings
of forest lieu lands by the railroads.
House-The house passed the post office
appropriation BILL after a prolonged de-
bate on the paragraph affecting rural
letter carriers, which was stricken out,
but which was inserted with enthusiasm,
on the 18th. under special order of the
committee on rules. Every amendment
and substitute offered to this paragraph
was voted down. Mr. Moon made an un-
successful attempt to recommit the bill,
with instructions to strike out the ap-
preparations for special facilities over
trunk lines south of Washington and
west of Kansas City.