The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1906-06-28

field Of legislative endeavor, the pres
ent session OF congress has made it
self important in other ways. It has
added one, and perhaps two new
states 10 the union. and by so doing
disposed Of four territories. Great re
suits 10 the people are expected from
the removal Of the tax on denaturcd
alcohol. If predictions are fulfilled.
heat, light and power to be supplied
by alcohol made from the confclds
Of the country. from sugar beetS. and
sugar cane, from fruits and other
vegetation.
Panama Canal.
BY a deft tIrn Of legislative points
Of view. the questions which have pei
picked congress for some time regard
ing the Panama canal have been set
tied. The president may dig a lock
canal as fast as he pIeases. A Joint
resolution was agreed to requiring
canal supplies to be Of American man
ufacture.
An act making a much needed reor-
ganlZatlOn Of the consular service was
passed. Nothing was done in the
SantO Domingo controversy and the
Legislation affecting our colonial pos
sessions was mea9re and unimportant,
although tariff revision for the Philip
pines received the attention and APP
proval of the house. and an act was
passed revising the tariff collected by
the Philippine government \ coin
age act was passed.
But congress talked about our own
tariff law. Thousands and hundreds
Of thousands more words than have
been uttered at any other one session
Of congress were compiled in The
Congressional Record. Nearly 10000
bills were introduced. 1t has been i'm
possible TO hold the appropriations
down to much less than 100000, 900,
although economy was the watch
word from the start. Permanent an
nual appropriations increased during
the session nearly $5,O00.0O0, making
total permanent annual appropria-
ton of $140,000,000. The meat IN
spectlOn bill carried a permanent an
nual appropriation of $3,000,000 and
the same day the house passed the bin
adding 81 100000 to like amount an
nually for the support of the State
militia.
Important to the South.
Important to the Southern States
was the enactment of the general
quarantine bill providing for coopera-
ton Of State and federal authorities
ts suppressing yellow fever.
President Roosevelt was given $25..
600 to pay travelling expenses for him
self and invited guests.
The private pension legislation of
the session was heavy and many hum
dred acts will be signed before the
end comes
The jamestown, Va, tercentennial
IS expected to be recognized by law
before the session ends.
Organized labor succeeded in secur-
ing the enactE:cnt Of the "employers
liability BILL"
The e1ght-hour bii1 got no furthar
| than favorable committee action and
the anti-injunction bill was postponed
until next session.
Congress authorized the construc-
ton of the biggest battleshir
afoat. y with the provision that before
the plans of the ship are submitted
or bids received or accepted the plans
of the ship must be submitted to con-
gress at its next session.
Hazing Rebuked.
| Hazing in the naval academy was
given a further legislative rebuke by
the passage Of bill giving the secre-
tary of the navy discretion to dismiss
or otherwise punish hazers at that in.
stitution.
An anti-hazing bill and a bill wind
ing up the affairs Of the Five Civilized
Tribes were among those passed.
| Ten bills relative to the courts o.
the United States were passed. These
related to the establishment Of addi
tlonal courts, procedure, etc, includ
| lIlS O1iC W give 1ttII IL
criminal cases to the witness ano
party seeking Information regardin:
the subject of immunity.
\ law was passed which will re
suit in appropriate marking beins
made over the graves of Confederate
veterans Of the army and navy wht
died in Northern prisons during tn
Civil war The wearing of the in
sigma Of the &. 4. r., or other soldie
organization by others than mmeber
Of said organizations, was made mis-
demcanor, with appropriate punish
| ments.
Alaska was given the right to sen(
a delegate to congress. The ship sub
sidy measure did rot become law.
An omnibus bill authorizing the err
ection of a number Of aids to navaga
! tons became 4 Law.