Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-02-04
CONGRESS.

senate today heard further discus
sion on the question of appointments
TO office made during congressional
recesses, listened to speech on the
fsthmian canal question by Mr.. Nor
gan and passed number Of bills Of a
semi-public character. AS a result of
the debate on the appointment ques-
I ton, resolution asking for specific
information concerning the nomination
OF W. ID. Crum as collector of Gus
toms at the port of Charleston, s. c.,
was passed. A resolution asking for
similar information concerning the
1 nomination of Brigadier General Wood
and other army officers went over
until tomorrow. Among the bills
passed was one authorizing the cree
ton of a monument to the memory
Of John Paul Jones.
Washington, Jan. 6.-Senate.-The
time of the senate today was again
divided between consideration of the
Panama question and other subjects.
There was only one speech on the
canal and it was made by Mr.. Stone
OF Missouri, who spoke to a resolution
foreign relations to make an investi.
cation into the Panama revolt. He
contended that the circumstances in
dicated completely on the part of the
| United States in the secession OF
Panama and urged that in the inter
est OF the country's good name all
the facts should be known.
Washington, Jan. 27.-Senate.-Sen
ator Simmons Of North Carolina
spoke today in support of the Panama
canal treaty. Mr.. Simmons is the
first democratic senator to favor the
measure on the floor of the senate
He announced his disapproval of the
Intervention of the United States in
the Panamanian revolt, but said that
as the revolution was fact, and was
such before the treaty was made, he
could not accept the theory that the
treaty was invalid. A bill providing
means for citizens of Porto Rico and
the Philippines to become citizens OF
the United States was passed.
House.-Mr. Hemenway of Indiana,
from the committee on appropriations,
reported the resolution requesting
the secretary of war for a statement
showing the amount of money dis.
bursed by his department in promo
ton of flying machine experiments
and construction, whether under di.
rection Of Professor Langley or other.
wise, with a recommendation by the
committee that 1t be laid upon the
table. The house laid the bill on the
table. The urgency deficiency bill
was then taken up
Washington, Jan. 2S.-Senate.-The
time Of the senate today was devoted
to debate rather than to set speeches
on the attitude of the United States
towards the Panama revolution. There
was a variation, however, in that the
discussion also had reference to the
right OF the president to withhold in
formation called for by the senate.
The immediate foundation OF the con-
troversy was the democratic caucus
resolution calling on the president to
state whether he has yet supplied all
the papers in the archives bearing
upon the Panama affair. The debate
was opened by Mr.. Culberson and was
participated in by Messrs German Anu
Bacon on the democratic side Of the
SAaADCA anu ny MOSSESs
Spooner and Lodge on the republican
side. The democrats contended for
the right of the senate to demand in
formation in the possession of the ex.
ecutive department bearing on treaties
before the senate, while the republi-
can speakers spoke in defense of the
discretion of the president to with
hold information.
Washington, Jan. 29.-Senate-The
senate today adopted the resolution
introduced by Mr.. Culberson for the
democratic caucus which calls on the
president to state whether the senate
has been supplied all the facts bearing
| on the controversy OF Panama. The
vote on the resolution was unanimous,
but there was roll call on the amend
ment suggested by Mr.. Cullom, for
the republican side of the chamber,
calling for the information only in
case the president should consider it
not incompatible with the public in
terest to supply it. This amendment
was adopted by 80 to 20, all the re-
publican senators present voting for
the amendment and all the democrats
except Mr.. McEnery, who voted with
against it. There were during the de-
bate, frequent assurances that not
withstanding the modification all the
papers bearing on the question would
be sent to the senate. The Bacon
resolution looking to the adjustment
of our differences with Colombia by
arbitration was also considered.
|, House.-The house today considered
whether members of congress are en-.
titled to be paid mileage a second
time. The controversy arose on an
item in the urgent deficiency bill pro-
viding for two payments of mileage
for senators and members of the house
on account of the extra session which
| merged into the regular session. A
point or order was raised by Mr.. Mad.
dox, DEM, of Georgia, against the pay.
ment Of mileage second time, and he
was supported by Mr.. Littlefield, rep,
Of Maine, who contended that there
had been no interregnum, and conse.
quently but one session OF congress,
! and there is no authority of law for a
second appropriation for mileage. .Ad.
| journment was taken before a con.
clusion was reached.
Fully Sc per cent Of the Presbyter.
| ian ministers OF the United States re-
ceive less than. $4,000 year. as
shown by the statistics Of the clerk OF
the General Assembly. 30
| 1t isn't so bad to be absent minded
II we can only forget our troubles.
The future holds no failures to the
eye of faith.
Fast living makes most links in