Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-18
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Resolutions were adopted by the Sem
ate Thursday calling on the Presiden. and
the Secretary of War for information as
to the discharge of soldiers of the TWEEN
ty-fifth infantry. Senator Morgan spoke
for two hours on his resolution to secure
the control of the Panama railroad by
the isthmian commission. but no action
was taken. The bill of Mr.. Little6eld
of Maine, known as the anti-compulsory
pilotage measure. removing discrimina-
tons against American sailing vessels in
the coasting trade, was defeated in the
House, ITO to 164, after a long debate.
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The Senate was not in session Friday.
The House received from committee the
legislative. executive and judicial appro-
priation bill, which was made a special
order for Monday, no day having been
fixed for the vote. A bill which has the
Endorsement of labor as we'll as manufac-
turers generally, repeating that portion OF
the Wilson interstate commerce bill relat-
ing to convict made goods. and permitting
the several States to legislate for them
selves as to their competition with free
labor made goods was passed. A bill
also was passed creating a game preserve
in the Olympic Mountains in Washing
ton, Adjournment until Monday was
taken.
In the Senate on Monday more than a
hundred pension bills were placed on the
calendar with favorable reports; a reso-
luton was adopted calling for the record
of the negro troops dismissed by the
President, prior to the Brownsville, Tex
as, affair a few private relief bills were
passed and the consideration of a child
labor bill for the District of Columbia
was begun. Consideration of the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial appropriation
bill was begun in the House. SimpliGcd
spelling held attention for an hour or
more, the paragraph in the bill fixing the
photographic standard in some recognized
authority furnishing Mr.. Clark of Mis-
souri,, Mr.. Gillett of Massachusetts and
Mr., Livingston of Georgia an opportu-
nifty to express themselves on the Presi-
dents order TO the public printer relative
to the modified spelling of 800 words in
common use Mr.. Macon of Arkansas
delivered a speech on "bucket-shops" and
in favor of his bill prohibiting gambling
in agricultural commodities, and Mr..
Sheppard of Texas criticised the manner
in which appropriation bills are pre-
pared.
The question of Senator Reed Shoots
right to a seat as United States Senator
from Utah was discussed by Senator Bur-
rows for more than three hours in the
Senate Tuesday. Senator Smoot eccu-
pied his place in the chamber. No inter-
ruptions were made during the entire
speech, which was an arraignment of
Mormonism and the responsibility which
attached to Mr.. Smoot for Mormon prin-
ciples, as a member of the apostolic body
of the church. During the morning hour
the Senate listened to the reading of
President RooSevelt's message on Porto
Rico. In the House the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial appropriation bill
afforded an opportunity for general de-
bate covering wide range. Representa-
tive Boutell of Illinois, in speaking of
the bestowal of the Nobel prize upon
President Roosevelt, praised the Presi-
dents decision to use this prize in estab-
fishing a fund for bringing about a
friendly understanding between capital
lists and laborers as ''nobly humanitarian
and characteristic" Representative
Gaines of Tennessee urged increases of
salaries for members of Congress. Other
speeches were by Representative Keifer
of Ohio, against the reduction of the
board of pension appeals Underwood,
Alabama in behalf of good roads; Muir
dock. Kansas, on railway mail pay; Rich
ardson. Alabama, in behalf of an appro-
priation for cotton export; Perkins, New
York favoring an Inheritance tax, and
Dearmond, Missouri, in favor of new
constitutional convention.
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In the Senate Wednesday resolutions
were agreed to calling upon the President
for information regarding the seizure by
Mexico of the fishing schooner Silas
Stearnes. and directing the Secretary of
War to furnish information regarding al
legged experience with cholera virus at
Manila, resulting in ten or more deaths.
Senator Rayner made a speech upholding
states rights doctrines, as involved in
the japanese question. The Senate in
executive session ratified the Algeciras
treaty on Morocco after Democrats had
compelled the adoption of a resolution
disclaiming responsibility for the partici-
patton of the United States in the pro-
gram arranged by the conference as to the
future of Morocco. The House took up
the legislative. executive and judicial APP
preparation bill by paragraphs and COM
pleted thirty-four pages of the bill be-
fore adjournment. An amendment was
adopted instructing the public printer to
use the photography generally recognized
by the standard dictionaries.