Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-12-25

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the senate yesterday was a brief dis
cussion of the question of railroad
legislation by Senators Foraker and
Culberson. The controversy was pre-
cipitated by some remarks made by
Senator Foraker in connection with a
request preferred by him for the print
ing of papers connected with a case
recently before the interstate COM
merce commission. The Ohio senator
reiterated his position On the question
of rate legislation, saying he differed
from the other senators only on the
point as to the remedies to be applied
for the evils of which complaints have
been made.
The combinations by the senate of
nominations of members of the 18TH
milan canal commission were recon
5idered yesterday in executive session
and motion was adopted calling up
on the president for the return of the
notification of the senate's previous
action. When this had been done the
nominations again will be referred to
the interoceanic canal committee for
consideration.
Before the decision was reached to
reconsider the vote, charges of rail
reading nominations were made by
several minority senators and counter
charges that the protestants were
proceeding in manner not prescribed
by the rules of the senate were made
by republican senators. The discus
sion developed the fact that there had
been no poll of the canal commission
on the nominations in question and as
result objection to reconsideration
was withdrawn.
1t is generally understood that the
purpose Of the minority in asking to
have the nominations returned is to
permit a protest against Chairman
Shonts holding a position on the com
mission and the presidency of the
Glover Leaf railroad at the same time.
House Still in Debate.
The house continued to shoot clay
pigeons" yesterday, as one member
put it, and the debate on general top
les continued for five hours. 1t is I'M
ierstood that with adjournment yes
terday, the general debate on the pres
ident's message, which has been in
progress for several days, has been
concluded and the session today is to
be brief, when adjournment for the
holidays will be taken.
The feature of the discussion yester-
day was the defense of the agricultu-
raj department by southern members,
who endorsed the government cotton
statistics. The accuracy of these sta
tistics during the past year, as stated
by Mr.. Bowie of Alabama, had been
but seven-tenths of one per cent from
the actual crop. The house agreed to
(: the conference report On the Panama
canal appropriation bill.
Will Not Hurt Beet Industry.
The favorable report of the ways
and means committee of the house on
the Payne Philippine tariff bill, for
mally presented to the house yester-
day. states that the hearing recently
concluded brought to light few facts
which were not presented to the COM
mittee at the last session 1t was
shown that the cost of refined sugar
made in the Philippines when de-
lvered in New York is $40 cents a
pound The cost of refined beet sugar
is said to be 8 IL cents a pound in
Colorado and 4 cents in Michigan.
Therefore the committee says the cost
Z of Philippine sugar is not as much
( lower as the opponents of tariff re-
duction have stated.
Wants Trust People Prosecuted.
Representative Williams introduced
a resolution asking the attorney gen
eral to inform the house whether any
criminal proceedings have been insti-
tuted against the individuals or cor
porations recently adjudged of unlaw-
full restraint of trade in the Northern
Securities case.
Would ReestabI lsn Cuban Tariff
Representative Needham of Califor-
MIA introduced bill providing for the
repeal of the Cuban reciprocity treaty
and authorizing the president to pro-
CACAIi the ISpCoA COu uetJ . 1LIOA IAAS
passage~of the measure Mr.. Needham
attempted to have this repeal incor-
porated in the Payne-Philippine tariff
bill reported favorably by the house
ways and means committee. In expla-
nation of the measure he said the Gu
ban treaty had resulted in serious loss
of revenue to the United States, as
Cuba makes extensive purchases in
Europe and does not give American
merchants an opportunity to get any
thing in return for the reductions in
the tariff on Cuban products admit
ted to the United States.