Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-23
Capital Jottinqs.

Government receipts Tuesday: From
internal revenue. $33S.61S: customs.
s1.1S4.249; miscellaneous, $113.593. Ex-
penditures. S1.5SO,O0O
The Senate Tuesday passed bill
forbidding the carriage of interstate
commerce of falsely stamped articles
of merchandise made of gold and sill
YER.
Secretary Bcnapartc resumed his duties
Tuesday at the navy department. after an
absence Of about three weeks due to
Illness. He attended the regular meeting
of the CibEct.
Senator Knox Monday gave notice of
m amendment to the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill, to raise the
diplomatic post at Cnnstantinoplc from
a legation to an embassy.
The dangers of infection incident to
travel on railroads and the proper
ms thods of sanitation occupied the at
tcntion of the national conference of
state and prov incinl Boards of Health
at Tuesdays meeting.
To meet an Imperative emergency
that the federal courts may not be
obliged to adjourn for the lack of funds
| the House committee on appropriations
Tuesday reported an urgent deficiency
| bill, making available for immediate
| use. $4,000 of The unexpected apprO-
priation of 1905 for the payment of wit
| ncsses and jurors.
Speaker Cannon has promised Sera-
tor Hale to attend the Republican state
/ convention ut Portland Maine. June 81
l. 81,
The only condition is the adjournment
Of Congress before that time. The
Speaker has been in New England fire.
qucntly. but has never visited Maine.
He IS anxious to make the trip, and
has discussed with the Maine senators
the outline Of his speech.
a. G. Hayden, representing the Car
ncEie Steel Co.. opposed the S-hOur bill
Tuesday before the House commit tee
on labor II said the enactment of the
measure would drive every large insti-
tuition now taking government con-
tracts from that field, would turn over
the manufacture of the supplies of the
government to the small contractor and
would increase the cost of the same to
the government from 12H to % per
cent.
The President has accepted the res
ignation of Second Lieut.. Charles Da-
ley Of the Artillery Corps. recently sta
toned at Fort Totten n. y. to take
effect at once. Lieut. Daley is best
known to fame as the star quarter
back of the Harvard football team in
1899 and 1900. His reason for leaving
the army after less than a full years
service was to enable him to accept a
lucrative offer to engage in private
business pursuits.
Sec. Shaw and Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue Yerkes testified before
the Senate committee on finance Tues
day in regard to the denatured alcohol
bill. The treasury department favors a
small tax on alcohol denaturaliZed and
the adoption of regulations of all of the
alcohol manufactured for that purpose.
This is n difficult subject to deal with
and the committee will meet Wcdnes-
day and make up the bill line by line
in order to consider amendments.
The railway rate bill found an echo in
the Senate Tuesday when Senator Nc
Cumber rose to question of personal
privilege to make reply to a publication
one of the North Dakota senators would
accomplish the defeat of certain purposes
Of the bill. The amendment was describ
cd as a little JOKER" and it was repre-
scented that by changing the word ''regu-
larly'' to the word lawfully" common
carriers would be enabled to disregard
the orders of the commission. 1t was
stated that the senator had admitted
tI,ot al, ~ ~ 49,
McCumber said that he had never made
any such admission. He expressed the
opinion that if there had been any Joke"
on anyone it twas on the writer of the
article. He also said that the amendment
could not have any effect like that indi-
Gated.