The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1905-12-19
At the annual meeting Of the


and directors were elected
President. G. Fox,
Vice President - Philip Nc
Callum.
Sec'y.-C. v. Hanson.
Treasurer-W. II. Felkner.
The above with Geo. E. Keyes
constitute the board of directors
for the year.
G. V. Hanson is at present
general manager. Six men are
employed on the mines.
The Fifty Ninth Congress OPP
ened without the spectular feat
ures that have marked recent
meetings of that body, but with
the prospect of being a more inn
portant meeting than any that
has preceded it for many years,
that which inaugurated the
Spanish war not excepted. The
Opening was really very quiet.
Speaker Cannon had put his foot
down on the custom of decorat-
ing members desks with flowers
so the House was not turned in
to a conservatory as usual. The
Senate adjourned almost imme-
diately after swearing in the
new members as a mark of re-
spect to the late Senator Platt
of Coma. Thus the decks were
cleared for business on the first
day without anything definite be-
ing done. But this is not to be
expected of an assembling Con-
gress. Now comes the contest
of legislation and the crisis will
of course will be in the House.
The way old-timers have it fig
ured out is Rate Legislation, the
Panama Canal, the Philippines,
the Santo Domingo Treaty and
the Ship Subsidy Bill in the or
der named. But there will be a
fierce fight for precedence. The
! Townsend rate bill, which is the
amended form of the Esch-
Townsend Bill is said to stand
the best chance of consideration
and-is said to more clearly en-
body the ideas of the President
than any.other of the numerous
bills. But there will be others.
Senator Elkins on the other side
of the house has a bill and Sena-
! tor Foraker is credited with an
other bill. There is the amend
ment bill of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, sent to the
Senate by request when the rate
l hearing was on last May, and
: there are several other bills any
one of which may come to the
front in the present conflict.
? Then there is Panama Canal
legislation. This will make a
2 strong fight for recognition in
/ the House, for the President
5 wants $4,000, 900 for the cana
t and he wants it quick as he wants
r most things that he wants at all
4 Speaker Cannon is said to have
5 a lot of hard questions to ash
r concerning the Panama Cana
. and what has gone with the $40,
t 000,00 already appropriated
b Then there is the question of the
e reduction of the Philippine tarit
J. and that is goad for as long {
e talk as the House wants to ex
t pend on it. Afterward there il
the question of the San Domingo
J. treaty and the taking over of tn
t custom houses by the UniteC
n States. There is said to be SOM
l. inside history attached to thi
k and the State Department il
f ready to transmit some paper
a to Congress that will show tina
IS the action of the administrator
If in San Domingo was necessar,
v to preserve the Monroe Doctrine
/, But this is an abundance at pres
n ent. And with the regular ap
% preparation bills and the urgen
,e deficiency bills, it is a seriou
h question whether Congress vii
d get through on the first of Jun
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