Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-12-13
Fifty-ninth Congress.
Washington, Dec. 10.
SENATE.

Immediately after the opening of the
senate today bill was passed providing
rules and regulations for fishing craft at
seq. II is in turtheranee of rhe purpose
Of the maritime congress to prevent col
lision'.
Senator Dubois. OF Idaho, in a speech
in the Senate this afternoon, denounciDg
the Mormon hierarchy, and urging that
Reed SmOo., the Apostle Of that Church,
be driven from bis seat in the body,
charged that President Roosevelt had
knowingly ana willingly aided the Idaho
Mormo1S 10 the last State election. lie
declared that Governor GOodiug, the re-
publican candidate for Governor, was
the recognized Mormon candidate while
his opponent, who as Chief Justice
of IDAHO, delivered the opinion re
fusing the writ OF hsbeas corpus for
the three labor leaders charged
with murder, stood on 4 radical
Damoccatic platform to Mormon die
tatiop. Notwithstanding this, he says,
the President sent Secretary Taft into
Idaho to rally the republicans to the
standard of Governor Gooding. tine
nom Mormon citizenship of Utah and Of
Idaho, think they are entitled to the
support of law-abidiDg citizens every
where in their efforts % maintain Ameri-
lean citizenshipin those Mormon States"
he declared, "and il they cannot receive
that, they have the right to demand that
the President Of the United Sla,es shall
rot use the great power vested in him 10
the interests of this law -lefylng sn I'M
American organization in is determi-
nation to rule the politics of this section
Of our country"
The Secretary Of War notified the
Senate this afternoon that he had called
upon the governor Of the Philippine:
for detailed report Of the recent death
of ten inmates of the Bilibid prison on
account of the administration Of plague
serum.
The Senate agreed this afternoon that
when it udiourns today it be until
Monday.
HOUSE.
The House today adopted resolution
calling upon the Secretary of the Interior
TO furnish & complete list of ali public
land withdrawals since last July.
Testimony Was given the House ccm-
mittee on agriculture today by editors OF
farm journals to show that the American
press has not been influenced by pecun-
larry inducements to take up the fight
against the government Tree seed graft.
The House committee on banking and
currency today heard Joseph I Talbot,
of Chicago, and ]. G. Wa!rulf, OF PItts'
burg, on the elastic currency proposition.
A bill was acted upon faVOrably today
By the Senate com nittee on lndian al
fairs directing the Secretary of the Inter
Tor to allow any well behaved Indian to
draw from the treasury his prOrata share
of any tribal or trust funds held by the
government.
The House today unanimously passed
the Miller resolution directing the Score
tary OF Department OF commerce anc
Labor to inquire into the high prices OF
lumber and to gather all evidence show
ing the existence offs trust.
Mr.. Hayes, OF California, offered a
resolution calling upon Secretary Taft
to in form Congress whether it is the
governments policy to engage Chinese
or japanese coolies on the Panama CO
nal and if so how many are now at work
or engaged and under what conditions
they labor