The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-04-19

six.
| Only two mail trains in the United
States receive subsidies. One Is run
from New York to New Orleans, the
Southern Railroad Company, and is
paid $4,000 year and the other
from Kansas City to Newton, Kan,
| for which the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railroad company Is given
| $4,000 annually. No other subsidies
are paid as the various railroad com.
panies strive to secure mail contracts
for the regulation price, which nets
the railroads of the United States In
round numbers 40 million dollars.
Monday, April rs.
Washington. The house committee
on railways and canals authorized q
favorable report on the Williams reso-
luton asking the department of COM
merce and labor for information rela-
tive to the cost, maintenance, amount
OF business and freight rates charged
on the canals of the country. The
committee considers this information
desirable In view Of the generally
known fact that the business of the
canals has steadily declined for years
Owing to the fact that none Of Its
members were prepared to speak on
the railroad rate bill, that measure
Ills Temporarily laid aside in the SEN
ate, permitting the devotion of the
entire time to the consideration Of
other bills on the calendar. OF those
more than 900 were passed, most OF
them being private pension bills.
Among the general bills passed was
one increasing the pensions Of ex-
soldiers who lost limbs in the service;
another retiring and pensioning petty
officers and men Of the army, navy
and marine corps after thirty years
of service at three-fourths their regu-
lar pay, and a third bill increasing the
pensions Of ex-Mexican war soldiers
at 500 per month and making the at
tainment Of rs years of age evidence
Of disability.
Senator Morgan offered an amend.
ment to the railroad bill providing for
the review by federal courts of find
ings by the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission.
The first steps towards providing |
the federal government complete
code Of criminal law Independent Of
and separate from that of the indi-
vidual states has just been recon.
mended in a bill favorably reported
from the house committee on re-
vision of the laws. The bill contains
As sections. Besides bringing togeth-
er all statutes and parts of statutes
relating to the same subject, obsolete
enactments are omitted, such altera.
tons are made as are necessary to
reconcile contradictory statutes and
supply omissions, amend imperfec.
tons in the general text and such new
legislation proposed as is considered
necessary and advisable.
Saturday, April IA.
Washington. = Representative Den.
by, of Michigan, introduced a bill
making extensive revision of the
Chinese exclusion act. 1t extends the
operation of this act ten years and In.
corporates the recommendations Of
Commissioner General Sargent for
American inspectors in China under
the supervision Of the immigration SER
vice and for the registration of Chin
csc now in this country. The bill Is
not intended to modify the basic pol
icy of excluding Chinese laborers, but
according to Mr.. DENLY, is an attempt
10 find compromise which shall har.
monize differences with China. 1t per.
nits Chinese residents of this coun.
Try to go and come at will under
proper regulation In regard to return
certificates, etc. 1t repeats the pro-
vision Of existing law permitting
Chinese laborers to leave the United
States and subsequently to return
only in case they have wives or fami.
les or debts due to them in the Uni
ed States, and which limits their
light of return to one year. 1t admits
Chinese applicants for the writ Of
labeas corpus to bail, privilege now
lenied them. 1t provides that any
Jhinaman resident In the United
States and wishing to go back to
China and then return to the United
States may receive a return certifi-
,ate on exhibition of his certificate OF
'egistration or original certificate of
,ntry and proof Of his identity. 1t re.
,eals the provision Of the existing law
placing the burden of proof upon Chin.
,se arrested for being unlawfully IL
he United States to show his right
o be here. 1t repeals specifically the
provision in the law of 1892 already
leld unconstitutional that Chinese
ound unlawfully in the United States
hall be imprisoned at hard labor for
me year and then deported.
1t enlarges the exempt classes be-
'ond these mentioned in the treaty
Il 1880 to include accountants, book
Leepers, bankers, members Of the