Woodruff County news., 1906-12-13
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Fiftv.Ninth consress-Last Session

Fifty-Ninth Congress-Last session.
 r. took thesenate 15 minutes to ar range it's preliminaries on reassem- h,ing for the last, or short session. "nd inc house occupied an hour. The nrosident sent a long list of recess anrointments to the senate. Senators ponrose and Foraker introduced reso- 1,tions of inquiry regarding the dis charge of negro troops of the twenty 6fth infantry. One was addressed 70
 tho nresident and the other to the
 oocretary of war. Both resolutions
 wont over. Senator Dupont, of Dela-
 ware. took the oath.
 Some of thesenators wanted to set
 anqry because the president sent ill O hatch of nominations before the
 sonato had notified him that it was ln
 session. When they came to realize
 that the constitution of the United States required them to assemble, and
 that the president had to only assume
 that the senate was obeying the con
 stitution, and was on hand ready 10
 attend to business, they concluded 4o allow the "affront" to pass un-
 noticed.
 The hoHse passed the bill authoriz- iro tho secretary of the treasury to
 dnnlcatf gold certificates in lieu Of
 oras lost or destroyed, and the bill
 onondhg the national banking laws,
 norniAing national banking associa-
 tions D make loans on real estate as
 security and limiting the amount of such pans,
 SenaSQY Sdnt has introduced bill providing for an exhibition at Los An gees, Cal, in 1915, to celebrate the completion of the Panama canal. The bill provides for government aid of S10,000,000 provided the exhibition company furnishes an equal amount. The president sent a special mes sage to congress urging legislation giving the executive authority upon his own. initiative and responsibility to dismiss any officer whom he thinks unworthy to remain in the service The Senate.
 Washington, D. C.-President Rooseyelt's annual message to con gress occupied the attention of the senate for two and one-half hours to the exclusion of nearly all other busi- ness. The exception to this was the introduction of a resolution on the Japanese situation by Senator Rayner, or Maryland, and the adoption of ap- propriate resolutions regarding those members of the house of representa- tlves who have died since the last ses- sfon. As mark of further respect to their memory, adjournment was taken. House.
 Washington, < D. C.-The reading or the presidents message consumed two hours and 20 minutes in the house, and was followed closely by a large number of members while the crowded galleries gave close consid- eration. Here and there. the reading oi the document was punctuated with applause, and hearty hand-clapping rom democrats as well as republicans ioiowed its conclusion. During the maJor portion of the time of the read
 Ing Of the message, Representative Lacey, of Iowa, acted as speaker pro
 tem, being the first of the defeated
 stand patters" to be recognized by speaker Cannon.
 While the house waited upon the
 secretary to the president to appear
 "in the message Speaker Cannon ap-
 pointed Robert c. Cousins. of Iowa,
 cnalrman of the committee on foreign
 anafs, to succeed the late Robert
 nit'' of Illinois. He also appointed
 representative Frank O. Lowden to a
 place on the same committee to fill the
 vacancy caused by the death of MT