Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-07-09

the Philippines through a combination
of Democrats and stand pat Republic
an senator's. The committee voted s to
5~againgt reporting this cherished adj
nlnistration measure, and the efforts
to bring about q reconsideration proved
futile.
The senate on June 5 tabled the pro-
posed constitutional amendment per-
hitting federal divorce law.
The house defeated by q large major
itv the Adams bill authorizing whip
ping posts for wife beaters in the Dis
trict of Columbia.
The senate on Feb. II voted SO to 81
in favor of the ship subsidy bill estab-
fishing thirteen new contract mail lines
to Central American, South African,
Australian and Pacific island ports at
the rate of So per ton q year for the
foreign trade and $3.50 per ton for the
colonial trade. It includes provision
for naval reserve force by payment
of retainers to officers of subsidized
vessels. This measure is stranded,
however. in the unfriendly house com
mittee on the merchant marine.
\ new bill to restrict and regulate
immigration, which passed the senate
May %, contained provision for an
educational test-namely, the ability to
understand the English language
raised the head tax from 50 to S.,
while creating a commission to investi-
gate the entire subject. When, how
ever. the house passed this bill June IS
the educational test and the head tax
! were stricken out and, the senate re-
/ fusing to agree, the bill died in confer
! ence.
Throughout the session the senate
committee on foreign relations res
lutely resisted the administrations in
fuence to report favorably the Santo
Domingo treaty.
Other administration measures which
Jared badly in one house. or the. other
We're.
1Forifederal control of life insurance
i companies.
I Specific laws for prevention of cleo
ton corruption.
| Uncle Sans Big Expense Account.
i Just before the close of the session
it became apparent that the total Of
i appropriations to carry on the govern
ment for the next fiscal year would be
somewhere in the neighborhood Of
S900,000,OGO At this writing the exact
figures have not been officially report
ed. It is customary for each party to
insert in the record a week or two
after the end of the session a statement
Of the appropriations and its own eX-
PLANTATION thereof This total recalls the
+. outcry that was made only fifteen
years ago, when the Fiftyefrst con-
gress, under Reeds speakership, appro-
priated little over S1,000,000,O00 in
the two years of its existence. Reply
ing to the criticism that it was .'bil-
lion dollar congress-" Reed said, at
lis a billion dollar country" Even the
F Fifty-fffth congress, which covered
much of the Spanish war expenses,
spent only 1888, 100000 in its two
years; hence, at the pace set by this
first session, the Fifty-ninth congress
is certain to outstrip all it's predeces-
sors in the matter of public expendi-
lures. 70 the criticism of the minority
? the dominant party replies that the
, country has grown in all directions. AS
a matter of fact. the numerous investi
+ cations and federal inspections provid
! ed for have added largely to the cost
:, of government
The approximate amounts carried by
a the different appropriation bills and
: some extraordinary appropriations
We're as follows: