The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-14
COMMITTEE FAILS
TO AGREE ON BILL
Ship Subsidy Measure Threat
ems to Cause Trouble and
1t Is Dropped.
WILL BE TAKEN UP AGAIN
WRANGLiNG OVER THE BILL
STOPPED BY CONGRESSMAN
WATSON, WHO SUGGESTS AD-
TOURNAMENT TILL SATURDAY..
Publishers Press

committee on merchant marine failed
to reac1 an agreement on a ship sub
sidy bill. Four of the Republican mem
bers of the committee expressed them
selves as opposed to reporting any
measure and a caucus of the Republi-
can members of the committee will
be held Friday to consider the after
Chairman Gresvenor presented the
amendments combining government
aid to mercantile and South American
shipping. Opposition of the Republi-
cans to the measure developed at
once. Finally the committee, on mo-
ton of Representative Watson of In
diana, adjourned without action to
meet again Saturday.
/ Four of the Republican members,
Fordney (Mich), Wilson Gll0, Bird
| sail Ua.) and Hinshaw (Neb.), an
nounced that they would not be bound
| by the action of the caucus. Wilson
| told the chairman he had no thought
| of accepting the caucus action as bind
| ing. Grosyenor replied: We'll, it
doesn't make any difference whether
| you attend or not
But I'm going to attend. That's
what my constituents send me here
| for replied Wilson. 81 am opposed
| to ship subsidy and my constituents
are opposed to it,"
At present nine members of the
committee are said to be for oriental
CHI dv
| while nine are opposed. Only one
Democrat on the committee, McDer-
mott IN. j., favors government aid
to shipping.
The house agreed to vote on the
resolution increasing the salaries of
senators and representatives to $500,
and making other increases in official
salaries, when the legislative bill is
reported to the house from the COM
mittee Of the whole. The resolution
also fixes the salaries of the vice pres
ident and speaker at $4,000, and Of
cabinet officers at $4,000.
The house authorized an fnvestiga-
ton into the so-called lumber trust"
A petition for the establishment of
postal savings banks bearing the
names Of nearly 10000 persons in 10
states was presented to congress by
Representative Boutell of Illinois.
Representative Smith of Texas in
troduced a bill requiring railways to
furnish cars promptly to shippers of
live stock.
The senate confirmed the nominal
tions of William H. Moody of Massa-
chusetts, to be associate justice of the
supreme court of the United States;
harles j. Bonaparte Of Maryland, to
be attorney general: Victor H. Met
calf Of California, to be secretary of
the navy, and Oscar s. Straus of New
York, to be secretary Of commerce
and labor.
The senate in executive session rati-
fled the general act to the delegates
Of the powers represented at the con-
ference which met at Algeciras, Spain,
in April last. to draft treaty concern
ing Moroccan affairs. Opposition by
the Democrats compelled the adoption
of a resolution disclaiming RESPONSE
bility for the participation of the
United States in the program arrang-
ell by the conference as to the future
of More eco.
President Roosevelt was directly
charged in the senate with using his
influence for the election of Republi-
can Mormon candidates in the recent
election in Idaho and Utah. The
charge was made by Senator Dubois
in the course Of q speech in which he
discussed the right of Reed Smoot to
a seat in the senate. Mr.. Dubois as
serted the control of the Mormon
church to be complete hierarchy, con-
sisting of the presidency and the II
apostles, of which Mr.. Smoot is one.
This control. he maintained, is eccle-
siastical, political and commercial,
and exercised completely over follow
ers. who come principally from for
eign countries. Polygamous relations
are being sustained. Mr.. Dubois said,
by the Mormon president, Joseph
Smith, and a majority of the II apos-
ties. Continually there is contracting
of new polygamous marriages surrep-
titiously arranged by the church in
Canada, Mexico or on the high seas.
Polygamists, he said, occupy the high
est positions, politically and in the
church. and constitute the wealthiest
and most powerful members of the
church organizations. This is a
change. he asserted. from the old days
when polygamy was entered into in
discriminatory. Now the polygamists
are selected by officers of the church,
and in this way is being built up a
cult and aristocracy of polygamists.
But no record of polygamous mar
riages is kept which is available for
the people of the United States. Be
cause of this. he pointed out the fulfil
fly of passing q national law prohibit |
ing the practice. Politically. he said, /
the Mormon church holds absolute |
sway in Utah and is extending its con-
troll in Wyoming. Idaho and Oregon. |
As to Senator Smoot, he said, it /
makes no difference whether he is or /
Is not polygamist. The senator is a /
pillar in the church. and in control Of /
Its temporal. spiritual and political /
policies. and was selected for the sem
ate because of his position in the /
church. '.Smoot represents the church |
and not the state" he said. and |
would do the bidding of the church