Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1906-12-12
THE WORK OF CONGRESS-
What Our National Lawmakers Are.
Doing From Day TO Bay
. Taft Co Give Information.

L t51uS j.CSoluGlOu VI OCuaGo1 SA1AOSS
calling the President or all the facts
regarding the discharge of the negro
troops belonging to the STwenty-Afth
Infantry, was received ut the White
House and at once turned over by the
President to Secretary Taft, who will
furnish the information desired. The
Foraker resolution, which also was
passed at Che same time, but which
lis directed to the Secretary Of War,
had not been received by Secretary
Taft UP to a late hour Friday. Sec
retary Taft said, however, upon re-
turning from the cabinet meeting,
that he would comply with both reso-
lutions te the fullest extent.
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reported to the House by the com,
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authorized by low or ordered by
Congress OF either branch thereof the
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follow the rules of photography es-
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The bill carries an appropriation Of
$31 ,2l5, ,525, which is $6S5,SS42 less
than the estimates made for the leg
islative, judicial and executive De-
partments of the government.
An increase from ST. 1,200 to 81 600
is made, in the allowance to members
of the House for clerk hire; and tn;
requirement that members certify
they have spent this amount is omit
ted.
Efforts to take up the bill confer
ring citizenship upon the citizens of
Porto Rico, reported from the COM
lnittee on insular affairs of the House
were defeated by objections of the
Democrats.
An Important Measure.
During the three hours the House
was in session it passed bill which
has the enthusiastic endorsement Of
labor as well as manufacturers gen.
orally, repeating that portion Of the
Wilson interstate commerce bill re-
lating to convict-tnade goods and
pointing the4several States to regu-
late their competition with free
labor" made grods.
The bill was introduced by Mr..
FIunt, of Missouri, himself a practi-
cal stonemason. Under the Wilson
hill. which became a law i'll 1890, con-
pinet labor-made goods may enter in
to active competition with the goods
manufactured by "free labor" and
under this Federal law State could
not pass law that would prevent
the shipping into the. State prison
made goods of other States. The law
which was passed abrogates the inter-
State commerce law as at present ap-
piled to >convict-made goods, thereby
affording to the different States and
Territories theszright to inhibit the
Shipping Of conyct ctZmade goods swith-
linS the confines of any State or Terri
Istory.
Senator Simmons gave further at
.tention to the case which he is to
aake, out against Federal sofficehold-
ers in North Carolina, who have been
}:perniciously active in political mat
ters. He conferred with Mr.. Degraw,
Fourth Assistant Postmaster general
concerning the specific charges which
have been made against Daggerhart,
the rural free delivery carrier, who,
it is alleged, tried to break up a meet
ing in Iredell county, at which Mr..
Hackett was to speak. Mr.. Degraw
said that the inspector assigned to
look into this matter had not yet COM
pleted his report, but he thought it
would be at hand in a very few days.
Mr.. Degraw cnfrmed the report given
out by the civil service commission
that an agent would be sent from the
department to accompany Commits.
sioner Green when he starts on his
tour of investigation to the State to
look into charges against Federal Of
fee holders.
Minority leader John Sharp Will
liams declared it to be his intention
to recommend Representative Small
for membership on the rivers and har-
bors committee, a recognition that is
being urged by the entire North Car
olina delegation. Mr.. Williams is re-.
| puted, to have said that Mr.. Small
was his first choice, and that if
Speaker Cannon did not approve Of
this recommendation he would next
endorse Representative Ellerbe Of
South Carolina.
Japs Want Naturalization.
Washington, Special. = Favorable
action by Congress on the recommen-
dation of the president in his last an
nual message that an act be passed
specifically providing for the natural
ization of Japanese who come to the
United States intending to become
American citizens, will go far toward
securing continuance of the tradit-
ional friendly relations between this
coontry and Japan, in the opinion of
Viscount Aoki, the japanese ambas-
sador.
The ambassador expressed the be-
lief that there were not so many Jap
aneses in this country to take advan-
tage.of naturalization if it were
granted, but he thought that such an
opportunity should be afforded them
along with the citizens of other coun-
tries. He said he did not think it
probably that those Japanese who
were emigrating in large numbers to
Hawaii and the Pacific coast would