Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-03-22
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Washington. March u.


priations completed the fortihcations
bill, and it was reported by Senator
Perkins. 1t carries appropriations ag-
gregating $5,6lS,993, an increase of
$4,000 overrA amount appropriate
ed by the house BILL The increases
are for mountain, field and siege can
non and equipments, and machinery
for their maintenance at arsenals,
100000; erection and equipment OF
a powder factory, s125,000, and for
sea-coast cannon for insular pos
sessions. equipment and machinery
for their manufacture. $360,000, A
proviso is added to the appropriation
of 100000 for the fertilization OF in
sular possessions, which declares
that no part of the sum shall be ex.
pended at Subig bay. Philippine
islands.
The house committee on inter
state and foreign commerce decided
to make facorable report on the
Townsend joint resolution providing
for an appropriation of $4,000 to en-
able the interstate commerce com
mission to investigate railways ane
monopolies under the Tillman-Gil
lespie resolution. The Townsend
resolution also corrects the Tillman
Gillespie resolution as pointed out by
the president.
Indications are now that the rate
regulation contest will be pressed Il
speedy conclusion. Many look for
to wind up this month. Senate
Tillman has given the senate NOTES
that he will not consent to have
dawile away time In considering
and that 1t will come up every da,
until voted on, directly after morning
converting In the senae.
II deyelopes that a Des Moines boy
Joseph Fitz, was among those wound
ed in the recent battle on Jolo island
A cable to the navy department from
Admiral Train, commanding the
Asiatic squadron, is as follows; IN
reply to your cablegram of 10Th inst,
only information Ensign Cook wound"
ed in foot; B. f. Gilmore, coxwain,
in elbow; j. Fitz, ordinary seaman,
L
to hospital Zamboanga 25th inst.
Need not be sent home" BY the
navy records, J. Fits next kin 10
Joseph Ftz, father, S22h West Second
street, Des Moines. The cable dis
patch refers to the action at Mount
Daio, In which the crew of the gun
BOAT Pampanga participated March
6-8.
Senator Dolliver continues to re
ceive assurances of support for an I'M
amended rate bill from senator's who
have hitherto been inclined to insist
On amendments. Senator Carter or
Montana has assured him that he
wants an unamended bill passed.
Quite a number OF others have done
So and Senator Dolliver remains
strongly of the impression that things
are rapidly shaping themselves SO
that the house bill can pass without
change.
Representative Smith of the Ninth
district was one of those republicans
that stayed away from the conference
on statehood on the afternoon OF the
18th. Judge Smith Is opposed to
Joint statehood, but does want Okla
bona an Indian Territory admitted,
and did not propose to be tied up by
any conference.
Politicians In Washington have
just begun to wake up to the fact that
"Uncle Joe" Cannon, speaker of the
house, is playing the presidential
game with q skill that Is likely to
make him one of the foremost fac
tors In the 1908 contest. While other
candidates for the presidency are
carefully planning and calculating
and are making much of speech maxi
ing, Speaker Cannon Is conducting a
campaign along distinct lines with
the purpose, as politicians here be-
lieye, of making himself the success
sor of Roosevelt and winning to him
self the support Of the elements that
were most prominent IN packing
Roosevelt in the last comnaign. AS
speaker of the house Mr.. Cannon
holds the second Office of the ma
ton in influence, and the manner In
which he has exerted the power OF
that office to force through congress
administration policies has attracted
notice. Mr.. Cannon is in almost
daily conference with Mr.. Roosevelt
and he Is seeking to carry through as
far as he can the measures that the
president wants, The speaker has
exerted himself for the presidents
railroad rate legislation, for the Phil
ippine tariff, for joint statehood and,
short of doing anything that woui"
cause general tariff schedule dis
turbance, has evinced a disposition
to do whatever the more radical ele-
ment of the republican party, express
ing its wishes through the president,
might demand. Speaker Cannon 10
credited with entertaining shrewd
notion that the presidential nomina
ton of the republican party In 1908 Is
Likely to go about as far west as IL
linois and that 1t will accrue to his
advantage to get ready to receive II
woen 1t reaches the vicinity OF Dan
Vile.
"Do you intend to remain here
longer than four weeks?" Don't
know. I'm going to stay until / can
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