Sharp County record., 1906-12-14
NEWS OF The WEEK
AN EPIToME OF THE MOST IN.
PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Dgestsd and Condensed
Compilation Of Current News
Items, Domestic and Foreign.
Fify-Ninth consress-Last Session.

Fifty-Ninth consress-Last Session.
1t took thesenate Is minutes to ar
range its preliminares on reassem
bling for the last, or short session.
and the house occupied an hour. The
president sent long list OF recess
appointments to the senate. Senators
Penrose and Foraker introduced reso-
lutions of inquiry regarding the dis
charge Of negro troops Of the Twenty
fifth infantry. One was addressed .
the president and the other to the
secretary Of war Both resolutions
went over Senator Dupont of Della
ware. took the oath
Some Of thesenatOrs wanted to set
angry because the president sent in
a batch of nominations before the
senate had notified him that it was in
session. When they came to realize
that the constitution of the United
States required them to assemble, and
that the president had to only assume
that the senate was obeying the con
stitution, and was on hand ready 10
attend to business, they concluded
to allow the "affront" to pass I'M
noticed.
The house passed the bill authoriz-
ing the secretary of the treasury to
duplicate gold certificates in lieu of
ones lost or destroyed, and the bill
amending the national banking laws,
permitting national banking associa-
tions to make loans on real estate as
security and limiting the amount of
such loans.
Senator Flint has introduced a bill
providing for an exhibition at Los An
geles, Cal, in 1915, to celebrate the
completion of the Panama canal. The
bill provides for government aid of
$10000,000 provided the exhibition
company furnishes an equal amount.
The president sent special mes
sage to congress urging legislation
giving the executive authority upon
his own initiative and responsibility
to dismiss any officer whom he thinks
unworthy to remain in the service.
The Senate.
Washington, d. C.-President
Roosevelts annual message to con-
gress occupied the attention of the
senate for two and one-half hours to
the exclusion of nearly all other busi-
ness. The exception to this was the
introduction Ola resolution -on..J the
japanese situation by Senator Rayner,
of Maryland, and the adoption of ap-
propriate resolutions regarding those
members of the house of representa-
tives who have died since the last ses-
sion. AS a mark of further respect to
their memory, adjournment was taken.
Senator Rayners resolution says:
THAT in the opinion of the senate the
government has no right to enter into
controversy with any foreign govern
met relating to the public school sys-
tenn of any of the states in the union,
that no treaty rights with Japan have
been violated, and that further, that
1t is the duty of the president of he
United StaHes to notify the government
of Japan, and to notify any foreign gov
ernment with which the question may
arise, that the public educational in
stitutions of the states are not within
the jurisdiction of the United States
and the United States has no power to
regulate or supervise their administra-
tion."
House.
Washington, d. C.-The reading
of the presidents message consumed
two hours and 25 minutes in the
house, and was followed closely by
large number of members while the
crowded galleries gave close consid-
Grafton Here and there the reading
of the document was punctuated with
applause, and hearty hand-clapping
from democrats as we'll as republicans
followed its conclusion, During the
major portion of the time of the read
inc of the message, Representative
Lacey of Iowa, acted as speaker pro
ten, being the first Of the defeated
stand patters' to be recognized by
Speaker Cannon
While the house waited upon the
secretary to the president to appear
with the message Speaker Cannon ap-
pointed Robert G. Cousins, of Iowa,
chairman of the committee on foreign
affairs, to succeed the late Robert
Hit, of Illinois. He also appointed
Representative Frank o. Lowden to a
place on the same committee to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Mr..
HIT
After the customary resolutions re-
lating to the printing Of the message,
the house adjourned.
The Missouri court of appeals, It
Kansas City, holds that the state
government OF Missouri has no power
TO regulate dramshops or the sale 0i
intoxicating liquors on Sunday in St
Joseph. st. Joseph is working under
special charter granted by the legis
lature.
The annual report Of Commissioner
of Internal Revenue John w. YerkeS
for the past fiscal year shows tota
receipts of $249, 9,1O2,79S, an excess Of