The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-12-21
THE WORK OF CONGRESS-
What Our National Law Makers Are
Doing Day by Day.
Rate Bill By Tillman.

jects of railroad rate legislation. aris-
ing through the introduction of bill
by Mr.. Tillman to authorize the inter-
state comerce commission to fix max
imum rates, and the Panama Canal,
due to q controversy over the refer
cnce of the emergency appropriation
bill to a committee Mondays 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 a member was permitted
to pass unnoticed by the Senate.
After more than a score Of Senators
had discussed the Panama Canal bill
it was referred to the appropriations
committee by vote of 40 to %.
House Committees.
The addition of a Republican mem.
Der 10 all of the important committees
of tie House has enabled Speaker
Cannon to solve the difficult problem
of committee assignments in matter
which apepars most satisfactory to
both parties in the House. Only two
important chairmanships were vacant.
appropriations and public buildings
and grounds. In filling the former.
the Speaker followed precedent and
looked the whole House for the avail
able material. James A. Tawney, Of
Mimi, was chosen chairman Of appro.
priations, 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 Shackelford, (Mo. }
and Lamar, (Fla.) from the inter.
State and foreign commerce commit
tee and the substitution to their places
of Bartless, (Ga.) and Russell, TEX
Messrs. Underwood, (Ala.) and
Granger, (R. ~ 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 for his new term as Senator
He was escorted by his colleague, Mr..
Mallory, before the vice-president.
who administered the oath. In the
executive session Senator Lodge NOV
ed to send back to the committee on
foreign relations the treaty in rela.
ton to Santo Domingo affairs. Op-
position developed, and without ex.
planning his reasons for asking for
the consideration Of the treaty again
by the 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 out before
the treaty had been ratified it was
desirable to know why such action
had been taken and by what authork
tv. -
While the Lowering joint resolution,
directing the Secretary of Agriculture
to furnish certain information con-
cerning the cotton crop is not taken
very seriously as a piece of prospec-
tive legislation, a number Of people
will doubtless be interested in the pro-
visions Of the bill, and it is therefore
given:
COVERINGS RESOLUTION
Whereas. the estimate Of the grow
inc cotton crop made and published
by the Agricultural Department on
December fourth indicated total pro-
duction in the United States for the
season Of nineteen hundred and five
ane ninetenn hundred and six of ter
million one hundred and siXty-seven
thousand eight hundred and eighteen
bales Of five hundred pounds eacE,
gross weight; and
Whereas the census returns OF the
cotton ginned in tie various States
up to the first of December nineteen
hundred and five, show that in the
States of North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Georgia and Oklahoma the yield
for the entire season as estimated by
the Agricultural Department had been
more than ginned; and
Whereas neither the pickin" nor
the ginning Of cotton in the State
named. or in any other Of the cotton
producing States of the United States
is completed by the first Of Deem
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 sis
known not to have progressed toward
cOGipietlOH even us IullS aS III tue -o'ti
States named the amornt of cotton
ginned up to the first of December
shows that the Agricultural Depart
ment s estimate CT the yield is unques-
tionablv All underestimate: and
Whereas it is q matter Of the first
Importance to the people of the United
States that they be supplied with a
more accurate estimate Of this sea-
sons cotton crop; Therefore be it