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| OAOStS Oh Tue aulSrSldle commerce com
mission. The bill making an appropria-
ton OF 100000 for the employment OF
extra labor at the Mare Island navy yard
near San Francisco was passed. The ag
ricultural appropriation bill again was be
fore the House. but the discussion seldom
wandered in its direction.
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In the Senate Friday Mr.. Spooner con.
Guided his two days speech on the rail
1 road rate bill. There was more discus
sion of the necessity for fixing a day
4 for vote on this measure and Mr.. TIL
man gave notice that after the next Mon
| day he would insist that the Senate shall
proceed to vote if Senators are not pre-.
pared to speak. All the private pension
bills on the calendar were passed and
Mr.. Clapp gave notice that he would call
| up the Indian appropriation bill The
tariff debate in the House was further
continued by Mr.. Williams (Miss), who
| held the floor for two hours expounding
the Democratic doctrine of tariff for reve-
nue. only. An emergency appropriation
bill carrying $4,000 for the benefit of
the sufferers at San Francisco and the
employment of laborers at the Mare Isl
and navy yard was passed.
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The Senate Saturday passed the In
dian appropriation bill. An amendment
providing for the removal of the restric-
tons on the sale of the allotted lands
of the Choctaws, Cherokees, Chickasaws.
Greeks and Seminoles was offered, but
Mr.. Spooner raised a pont of order that
was fatal to it. Bills we're passed as
oil d. g. :
land in Washington as sites for build
ings for the Departments of State, JUS
tice and Commerce at a cost of $1,000
0Co; prohibiting the use of foreign built
dredges in the United States In the
House Mr.. Williams concluded his speech
on the tariff. Mr. Cushman wash
started to reply, but was taken from the
floor before he really had begun, owing
to the conclusion of the general debate
on the agricultural appropriation BILL
which was before the House Mr.. Foss
s(IllD reported the naval appropriation
bill 70 rthe fiscal year of 1907.
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The next Friday was set by the Senate
Monday as the. day for beginning to vote
on the amendments to the railroad rate
bill. MIR. Tillman endeayored to have
May 8 set as the date for voting on the
bill as a whole, but failed Senator Clark
of Arkansas occupied most of Monday
with speech opposing the pending meas
ure. The House emergency bill appro-
priating $4,000 for the Mare Island
navy yard and the San Francisco post
office was passed. Discussion of the ag-
ricultural appropriation bill, and incident
ally the distribution of free seeds. occu-
pied most of the day in the House. Res
olutious that the thanks of Congress be
rendered Gen. Horace Porter for his work
in recovering the body Of Jean Paul Jones,
and that Gen. Porter's speech at Annapo-
lis on the occasion of the interment of the
body be printed in the Congressional Rec
ord We're passed. Representative Hearst
introduced a resolution that an additional
$2,500,000 be appropriated for the relief
of the San Francisco fire and earthquake
sufferers.
Mr.. Daniel occupied large part of
Tuesday in the Senate with his speech on
the rate bill After debate the resolution
thanking Gen. Horace Porter for recover
ing the body of John Paul Jones was
referred to the committee on foreign re-
lations. Mr.. Allison explained the dispo-
sition which has been made of the money
appropriated for the relief of the San
Francisco sufferers. Mr.. Tillman pre-
sented a resolution directing the commit
tee on the District of Columbia to inves-
tigate the election of Mrs. Minor Morris
from the White House, and Especially to
inquire whether the superintendent of DO
,,ff ho &c ,.,4 ID.
Mrs. Morris have since received recogni-
ton by the appointment of near relatives
to Office" No action was taken. BY
vote of 1913 to % it was decided to con-
tinue the free distribution of seeds. Many
of the items in the agricultural appropria-
ton bill broadening the scope of the de-
partment of chemistry were eliminated.
Mr.. Sherman's request to have the Indian
appropriations bill taken from the Speak
er's table and sent TO conference was re-
fused on objection of Mr.. Williams.
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Mr.. NewlandS on Wednesday introduced
a resolution directing the finance commit
tee of the Senate and the ways and means
committee of the House to consider the
feasibility of the government guarantee
ing bonds to be issued by San Francisco
to provide money for the reconstruction |
of the city. Both Mr.. Flint and Mr.
Perkins of California deprecated the in
PRODUCTION of the measure at this time,
and said the California delegation should |
have been consulted. The resolution was
referred to the committee on finance. Mr.. |
Daniel concluded his speech on the rate
bill, and then the army appropriation bill |
was read. An amendment appropriating
81 100000 for a supply depot at Fort |
Mason, San Francisco, was accepted, as
was one appropriating 100000 for |
cable TO Panama. In the House the agri- |
cultural appropriation bill was completed |
and passed, including the provision for |
the free distribution of seeds, which was |
carried by a vote of 1913 to 81. The bill |
carries 81, 4S1,4 40. The military acad- |
envy appropriation bill, carrying S1,663.- |
115, also was passed, after the deficiency |
appropriation of $1,500,000 to complete
at West Point had been
stricken out.
Notes of the National Capital.
The President has sent to the Senate /
the nomination of Julius Jacobs to be |
assistant treasurer of the United States
at San Francisco, Cal.
For the first time in twenty nine years
the Supreme Court of the United States
called its docket of original cases, with
the end in view of eliminating some of
them if possible.
Senator Lodge denies the report that
he will offer the Philippine tariff bill as
an amendment to the House bill removing
he tax from denatured alcohol. and also
denies that he is opposed to that measure.
For the month of March, 1906, the col
ections of internal revenue amounted to
$50, 495, 800, gain over March, 1905, of
81, 10S,761. For the nine months of the
present fiscal year the receipts amounted
% S1S7, Az, 81, an increase over the cor
period in 1905 of S11 ,421, 1873.
Thomas Fitzgerald, general manager of
he Baltimore and Ohio railroad as a
witness before the interstate commerce
commission in the hearing under the Till
nam Gillespie coal and oil resolution, read
prepared statement detailing past and