The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-22
Measure Is Said to Have the
- Unqualified Approval of
President Roosevelt.
SIMPLER THAN OTHERS
1T Gives the Commission Power to Fix
Maximum Reasonable Rates and
to Enforce Their Order in
the Courts.

$500 last 1uesudy the rate
regulating bill which he has been pre-
pairing for a month. II is regarded as
the administration bill and is much
simpler than the Interstate Commerce
commission measure.
1t gives the essential power to fix
maximum reasonable rates and to en-
force them in the courts.
Last night he bill was discussed at
length at the White House by Roose-
veit. Root, Moody. Dolliver and Judge
sam H.. Cowan of Fort Worth. Tex. a
representative of the Interstate Com
Smerce Law association and prominent
attorney for the Interstate Commerce
commission. Approval was expressed
by them.
Free Trade with Philippines Favored
Washington, d. c.. Dec. 21.-By AZ
on ways and means reported favorably
today on the Payne bill, admitting all
philippine products into the United
states free. excepting sugar and to-
oacco, which are to pay 25 per cent.
of the Dingley rate until 1909, wher
they go on the free list.
The senate began it's session today
by passing a bill for the relief OF a
dead man, the late Lieutenant William
II. Hugo, VINO was cashiercd in 1881,
as Pettus. who reported the bill, said,
for the cffense of being "tipsy" at roll
call.
Both Houses Agree on Canal.
A conference on the part Of the SEN
ate and house on the Panama canal
emergency appropriation bill, agreed to
restore to the bill a provision relating
to ISSUANCE of bonds for canal con-
struction.
A bill was passed by the senate es-
tablishing a fish culture station in III
inois and appropriating $25, 900 for the
purpose.
In considering the question to refer
the presidents message to committees,
Watkins (La.), in the house today said:
"The president has shown he pos
sesses he convictions of a Bryan, firm
ness of an Andrew Jackson, popularity
of A. White and patriotism Of Il Jap
anese."
Watkins was making his first speech
n said it was the function of q kid"
TO butt i'm
To Help Disabled Soldiers.
The secretary of wa today trans
1nitted to congress, through the secre-.
tary of the treasury, an estimate for
the appropriation made by the board of
managers OF the National Home for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for $149,-
500. OF this amount $1,000 is for con-
struction Of chaplain's Quarters at Dam
Vile, Ill.
Debate on Convicted Senators.
Washington, d. c., Dec. 19.-Whether
the senate is warranted in ignoring a.
senator convicted in the courts on
charges OF misconduct and in not as
signing him to places on standing COM
mittees, yet leaving his name on the
senate rolls, was discussed for two
hour and then dropped without a rul-
ing on the question. Several senate.
leaders took up the subject. On account
of the delicacy Of the question the de-
hate r1fnr9nV was nor az omen DS,
would be necessary for final deter1ni-
nation of the matter.
Senator Bailey raised the point by
inquiring of Senator Hale, when the
latter presented the new list of stand
ing committees, whether every senator
has been provided with a place.
Senator Hale responded that every
senator except Senator Burton, of Kan
sas, had been given assignments. and
hat he had been left off the commit
tee on his own request, until the
charges against him had been disposed
of.
Senator Bailey protested against any
senator's name being kept IN the roll
unless he was given work to do n
argued that it is the duty to the SEN
ator himself, to Kansas and to the
country to investigate the charges
against Senator Burton and determine
whether he IS entitled to a seat in the
senate
In response several senators called
attention to the fact that congress is
following the precedent established by
the English parliament in not taking
~cognizance of charges against a MEM
Der until the charges had been deter
mined in the courts. Senators Hale,
Spooner, Lodge inc DAME were of this
opinion.
Senator Railey, calling attention to
the fact that there had been five SEN
ators indicted in the last ten years, all
on charges implying that crimes had
been committed for money. said the
time had arrived When the senate
should testify that this is no place TO
come to make money dishonesty" He
complained that senators who behave
themselves were compelled to suffer
for those who 10 not. through being
subjected to ridicule n iests.
Counseling the philosophy of the
stojcs against attacks on the senate
as a body. Senator Daniel said that any
person who would originate a plan to
protect the senate against a ribald jest
would be hailed as the greatest invent
or of the age. He did not think the
senate suffered by unjustitiable attacks
nv irresponsible persons.
Senator Teller defended the late Sen
ator Mitchell, saying that 1t would
take more than the word OF a self
convicted thief. perjurer and forger. to
convince him that Senator Mitchell had
committed a crime.