Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1906-06-28
NO. 1907
WORK OF CONGRESS
Wider Scope of Federal Control
Feature OF First Session 81
50 n Congress.

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measurers extending Federal regulation
ani control have been enacted ct ths
first session Of the 69th Congress. The
7silroad rate and the meat inspection
bills will soon become laws, and before
adjournment both houses will have
passed pure food bills. which, though
dissimilar in terms, are both based on
the same principle Of Federal control.
It is the present intention to try to ad.
lust these differences before adjourn
ment.
There has been no marked division on
party lines in effecting these results, the
differences being only as to ways aud
means rather than as to policy.
Besides branching off into this new
field of legislative endeavor. the present
session has made itself important in
other ways. 1t has added one, and per-
haps two new states to the Union, and
by go doing has disposed Of four terri
tories.
Great results to the people are expec'.
ed from the removal of tax on denatur-
ed alcohol. and, If pre- tions are fu!-
filed, heat, light, and power are to be
supplied by alcohol made from the corn
fields of the country, from sugar beets
and sugar cane, from fruits and other
vegetables.
BY deft turn of legislative points of
view the questions that have perplexed
Congress for some time regarding the
Panama Canal has been settled. The
President may dig lock canal as fast
as he pleases. A joint resolution was
agreed to requiring canal supplies to be
made Of American manufacture.
Congress has not dealt with the for
eign situation to any ext Mt. An act
making a much.needed reorganization
of the Consular service was passed.
Nothing wss done in the Santo Domingo
controversy. and the legislation affect
ing our colonial possessions was meager
and unimportant, although tariff re-
vision for the Philippines received the
attention and approval of the House,
and an act was passed revising the tariff
collected by the Philippine government.
A colnsge act for the islands also was
passed
Organized labor has succeeded in its
requests of the present session of Con-
gress to the extent of securing the
enactment of what is known as the "em.
ployers' liability bill" This enact
ment will make it possible for an en-
ploye 10 secure damages for bis injuries
his own negligence
may have been in part responsible for
that injury.
Another bill that doubtless will be-
come law is that limiting the hours Of
continuous service of railway trainmen
to l6 consecutive hours work, to be
followed by ton hours rest. The much
agitated eight-hour day bill received .
favorable vote in the House from tho
labor committee, but too late to secure
action at the hands of Congress. Tho
bill was postponed in
The committee until next session.
Enthusiasts for the "greater Navy"
regard the legislation of the session as
initial to proper growth of that arm of
our fighting force. Congress authorized .
he construction of the "biggest battle
ship sfioat," with the provision that
!, sfore the plans are submitted or bids
'eceived or accepted. the plans of the
'hlp must be submitted to Congress at
IS next session.
law was passed W hch will result in
appropriate markings being made over
he graves OF Confederate veterans of
he army and navy who died in North
IN prisons during the Civil War. The
wearing of the insignia of the Grand
Army OF the Republic or other soldier
nsignias by other than members OF
hese organizations is made a mis-.
Concluded O. rage s.