Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-12-22
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hill but did not come to a vote.
separate bill regulating the issuance Oh
bonds for the canal and placing them
on the same basis as other government
bonds was passed without debate.
n1re-food bill was reported by Mr.. hey
hurn. Mr.. Ekins made Statement
from the committee on interstate COM
merce expressing the opinion that the
committee would report rate bill WITH
in reasonable time. Debate ON the
recommendation in the Presidents an
nuaI message regarding insurance regu-
lation occupied the House again without
a conclusion. The pending resolution re-
| fers the question to the ways and means
committee. and in it's defense Mr.. Payne
| argued that the only way Congress couid
control insurance was through the taxing
mower. After number of long speeches.
| the House adjourned.
The Senate Friday adopted a resolu-
| tion of Mr.. Stone requesting the POST
| master General for information as TO
| whether college periodicals are admit
| tod TO the mails as second-class matter
| and whether a preference is shown
| some such periodicals over other similar
publications. Mr. Gallinger reported
| tbe merchant marine bill. The Panama
| Canal bill was laid before the Senate
| and Mr.. Bacon presented an amendment
requiring quarterly reports giving lists OF
officers and employees of the commission
above the grades of laborer and the sal
| aries paid them. After debate by Messrs.
| Tillman, Spooner, Money, Hale, Cul-
berson and Allison an agreement Tor
vote was reached and the Senate adj
| iourned. The House devoted nearly all
| of the session to a lively debate on the
possibilities of controlling insurance COM
| panies. Mr.. Sherley ky.) stood for the
| doctrine of States rights and Mr.. Cock
| ran IN. W attacked the officers OF the
| big life insurance companies. A mes
| sage was sent to the Senate returning its
bill regarding canal bonds as usurpa-
ton of the constitutional right of the
House to originate revenue legislation.
The hazng incidents at Annapolis came
| up for much criticism.
The emergency bill appropriating SILL
| OOO,O 900 for the Panama canal was pass
ed by the Senate Saturday, after de-
| bate which practically excluded all other
| business. A substitute offered by Mr..
Hale for Mr.. Bacons amendment, speci-
fically requiring that Congress shall be
supplied with regular estimates of all
salaries except those paid to laborers,
was accepted. Mr.. Hale made the au-
| thorized announcement that Secretary
Bishops duties as press agent would be
abolished. The House INDUCED itself
again to the extent of four hours in an
| academic discussion of federal control of
insurance. The holiday recess was fixed
| from Dec. 81 to Jan. 4. For the pur-
| pose of bringing out information show
| ing the existence of a civil pension list
the House asked the President for the
number of civil employees of the govern
ment who have reached the age of TO-
Whether the Senate is warranted in
| ignoring a Senator convicted in the
courts on charges of misconduct and in
| not assigning him to places on standing
| committees, yet leaving his name on the
| roll, was discussed for two hours Monday
and then dropped without ruling. The
I matter came up when the list of standing
| committees was presented and it was
| stated that the name of Senator Burton
| OF Kansas had been left out at his re-
| quest. A resolution providing for ad-
| journment from Dec. 81 to Jan was
| adopted. The message from the House
| disagreeing with the Senate amendments
| to the canal appropriation bill was laid
| before the Senate. A motion that the
| Senate insists on the amendments and
| agreeing to a conference was adopted.
| The ship subsidy bill was taken up,
| which makes it the unfinished business.
| resolution calling on the Secretary Of
| the Treasury for the names and locations
| of national banks and the amount of de-
| posts of United States moneys from
| June 30, 1901, to 1905 was adopted In
surance, hazing at West Point and Ann
| apolis, the sufferings of the Russian Jews
and immigration were the topics of dis
cussion in the House under a general
leave of talk. The only business done
was to send the Panama canal appro-
| priation bill to conference.
The Senate Tuesday accepted the re-
| port OF the conference committee on the
Panama canal emergency appropriation
bill, which incorporated the Senate
amendment as article 1, making the
canal bonds available as a basis of ma
tional bank circulation. There was
brief discussion of the restoration of this
provision and of the attitude of the
House in resenting the Senate's action,
In which speeches were made by Messrs
Spooner, Aldrch and Teller. All ex-
pressed the opinion that the Senate had
not exceeded it's prerogatives, but the
finance committee was asked for an opin-
lon A bill was passed establishing
hsh culture station in Illinois, 500, 900
being appropriated. The House contin-
ued debating topics of local or national
interest, under the guise of referring the
message of the President to committees.
Federal control of insurance was the
main feature in the remarks A nlea