Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-12-05
Bills in the House.

A large number ofbilis and joint reso-
lutions were introduced 10 the Hoase
yesterday. They cover a large variety
Of subjects, including Philippine tariff,
statehood, pensions, regulation of the
hours OF employment in the executive
departments, merchant marine, increase
of salaries of the Vice President and
members of the Cabinet, requiring cor
pOrations to make full reports of their
affairs to the Commissioner of Ccfpo-
rations, increasing the powers OF the In
terstate Commerce Commission, inyesti-
CATION Of campaign funds, of expendi-
lures on the Panama canal, of insurance
companies doing an interstate business,
of cotton reports aud of the condition OF
child labor, provision for six.year term
for the President and the election of
Senators by direct vote of the people.
for repeal ofIhe Fifteenth amendment Of
the Constitution. To make it unlawful for
corporations engaged in interstate COM
merce to make campaign contributions.
providing for a special investigation ofthe
methods of the Department Of Agricul-
ture and Census Bureau in making cotton
reports.
Mr.. Hepburn introduced a bill to
amend the Panama canal law so as TO
facilitate the sale of bonds and APP
propriating SIC, 500, 90, to be immedi-
ately available, for canal construction.
Mr.. Brownlow introduced bill ia
c. ngress for an appropriation OF $780,
00U for The establishment of home for
aged negroes in Washington.
Mr.. Rixey for this, the Eighth, Vir-
ginia district introduced the following;
For relief of veterans of the COnied.
eracy; for protection of the Balls Bluff
battlefield, in LoudOun county; for con
struction of memorial bridge; for con-
structiou OF public avenue IN the south
side of the Potomac river from Washing
ton to Mount Vernon; TO protect dislii-
leries in local option communities: to
protect the monuments already erected
on the battlefield of Bull Run and other
monuments that may be erected there;
to correct the naval record of COmman-
der Sidney Smith Lee Gather of Gen.
Fitzhngh Lee and CIpt. Dan NJ. Leo.
He resigned at the outbreak of the war
End went with the Confederacy. Record
shows he was dismissed; to pay NJ. F.
Snider, (carpenter). of Fairfax county,
for loss of an eve while at work at Fort
Washington October -, 1904; for relief
of volunteer officers OF the u. :. navy (;
to pay W. J. Lapp & Co, Of Culpeper,
$240. 10 as a refund in duties erroneous
ly collected: to pay Paris Simms, Silas
Madells, WIN. A. CATER. Albert stew
art and many other colored people Of
Alexandria, Va the 81 per month de-
Quoted from their wages by order of the
War Department Of September p, 1862;
to pay John Linton for The use OF his
farm in Fairfax county, adjoining Fort
Hunt; to pay John II. Hammil for two
lots in OccOquaD, Va, taken under con-
6scation proceedings; to pension j. L.
Flewellen, of Fairfax county, who was
injured at West Point, but afterwards
served in the Confederacy; to increase
pension of Chas. II. Pratt. of Fauquier
county, Va; to increase pension of AL
bert Drew, of Loudoun county, Va, and
ll6 other bills for war damages. All
pending church claims in the Eighth
district have been disposed of, temporar-
lily at least, by having been referred TO the
court of claims to ascertain the amount
due. There is little or no prosp' ct that
the private war claims will ever be re-
cognized or paid by the government.