Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1905-12-20
THE WORK OF CONGRESS
What Our National Law Makers Are
Doing Day by Day.
Rate Bill By Tillman.

ing through the introduction of n bill
by MIR. Tlllman to authorize the inter
state comerce commission to fix max
imum rates, and the Panama Canal
due TO controversy over the refer
ence OF the emergency appropriation
bill to committee Monday,s session
OF the Senate continuously proved in
teresting for more than four hours
An adjournment was taken without a
mention OF the late Senator Mitchell
OF Oregon, and so for the first time
the death OF Il member was permitted
to pass unnoticed by the Senate.
After more than score of Senators
had discussed the Panama Canal bill
1t was referred to the appropriations
committee by vote of 40 TO 23.
House Committees.
The addition o. Republican mem
her 10 all of the important committees
of tie House has enabled Speaker
Cannon to solve the difficult problem
OF committee assignments IL Il matter
which apepars most satisfactory to
both parties in the House. Only two
important chairmansllips were vacant.
appropriations and public buildings
and grounds. In filing the former.
the Speaker followed precedent and
looked the whole House for the avail
able material. James a. Tawnev, of
Mlnn., was chosen chairman of appro-
prlat!ons, and Richard Bartholdt. of
Missouri, chairman of public build
ings and grounds.
The minority committee places
were decided on by Mr.. Williams, the
minority leader. The changes of note
are the transfer of Shackclford. (Mo.)
and Lamar. (Fla.) from the inter.
State and foreign commerce commit
tee and the substitution 10 their places
OF bartiess, (Ga.) and Russell, (Tex.) J
'--'-T hessrs. Underwood, (Ala) and
Granger, OR. ~ wer named for the
Democratic vacancies on ways and
means
Brief Session of Senate.
The open session of the Senate
Tuesday was brief. One bill was pass.
ed.
Mr.. Taliaferro took the oath of of
flee Tor his new term as n Senator.
He was escorted by his colleague. Mr..
Mallory, before the vice-prcsident.
who administered the oath. In the
executive session Senator Lodge NOV
ed to send back to the committee on
foreign relations the treaty in rcla-
tion TO Santo Domingo affairs. OPP
position developed. and without cx-
planning his reasons for asking for
the consideration of the treaty again
blythe committee, Senator Lodge with
drew his motion. Senator Morgan
= said that before any amenments were
voted upon or the treaty itself was
discussed, it was desirable To have
further information as to what had
been done during the recess of the
Senate. If the provisions of the
treaty had been carried ont before
the treaty had been ratified il was
desirable to know why such action
had been taken and by what authori.
ty.
While the lowering Joint resolution.
directing the Secretary of Agriculture
to furnish certain information con-
cernlng the cotton crop is not taken
very seriously as n piece of prospec-
tive legislation, number Of people
will doubtless be interested in the pro
visions of the bill, and it is therefore
given
LOVERING'S RESOLUTION
Whereas, the estimate Of the grow
ln@ cotton crop made and published
by the Agricultural Department on
December fourth indicated a total pro-
duction in the United States for the
season of nineteen hundred and five
ahe ninetenn hundred and six of ten
million one hundred and sixty-seven
thonsand eight hundred and eighteen
bales OF five hundred pounds each,
gross weight and
Whereas the census returns of the
cotton ginned i'll the various States
up 10 the first of December nineteen
hundred and five, show that in the
States Of North Carolina, South Caro-
ma Georgia and Oklahoma the yield
lor The entire season as estimated bv
the Agricultural Department had been
more than ginned; ard
Whereas neither tie picking nor
the ginning of cotton in the State
namct, or IN any other of the cotton
producing States OF tho United States
IS completed by the first -ef Dccem-
Der, and that therefore the estimate
of The Agricultural Department as
to the Weld of cotton in the States
named IS plainly an understanding
and likely to mislead. and damage the
cotton interests of The United States:
and
Whereas, in various other States
where the picking and ginning is
known not to have progressed toward
completion even as fully as in the four
States named the amount of cotton
ginned mp to the first OF December
shows that the Agricultural Depart
ment's estimate CT the yield is unques-
ticr@bly an underestimate: and
Whereas il is q matter OF the first