The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-31
REARRANGEMENTO IF
 CONSULAR SERVICE
Senate Authorizes Dam Across
 MusseI Shoals
MANY MEASURES PASSED
Bulk of Time Is Devoted to Shipping Subsidy Bill-Railroad Liability for Injuries of Elm
 ployes.

Washington, January 3O.-The Senate to- day passed about forty bills. many of them of considerable importance. The list included a number of measures for lighthouses, for signals, revenue cutter service and public buildings, and also the bill providing for the reorganization of the consular service, which passed practically without discussion. It makes many changes in the service, among which are the following
 It provides for the classification of consular officers in grades; gives the President authority to transfer officers from one station to another; provides an inspection service with five inspectors, who are to rank as eonsuls general; re- quires that clerks at eonsulates shall be Americans; prohibits eonsuls from en- gazing In law business, and requires that all consular fees shall be accounted for.
 The shipping bill was under considera- ton for a time It was amended so as to relieve 1t from constitutional objee- tions, and MT. Lodge delivered a speech in support of the bill. in which he gave the details of combination of the own CTS of foreign sailing vessels for the pur-
 
 grain shipments from the United States There also was a discussion of the bills making common carriers liable for in- juries to employees, which arose over the question of their references to commit tees Some of the senator's intmated that the committees were anxious to avoid the responsibility of passing on these measures. MT. Patterson gave mo- tice of a speech tomorrow on the Mo- rocean and Dominican questions.
 Canadian Solon is Present.
 Senator McCul1en. a. representative from the province of Ontario in the Canadian parliament, was a guest of the Senate at the beginning of its session today. He accompanied MT. Warner and was pre- scented to many other senators.
 The resolution providing for the pay ment of the funeral expenses of the late Senator Mitchell Of Oregon, amounting to s547, was reported from the committee on contingent expenses by MT. Kean and adopted. There was no comment on the re solution.
 A resolution directing the Secretary Of the Navy to send to the Senate the records of the court-martial at Annapolis in the cases Of Midshipmen Marsoni and Mayo, and also directing him to inform the Senate as to his authority for the proceedings, was adopted.
 There was some discussion of the change of reference from the committee on inter- state commerce to the committee on jul dietary of two bills relating to the liabil- ities of common carriers on account of accidents to employees during which MT. Daniels said that bills similar to these had been pending before the Senate com mittees for the past four years without securing report. He characterized the process of re- ferring and re-referring game of battledoor and shuttlecock. The inter state commerce commission does not want It. he added land the judiciary commit- tee has twice had it and has done noth- ing"
 Mr. Foraker said there was no objection to considering the bill by either the judiciary or the interstate commerce commission.
 MT. Newlands said the propositions which the bills embody were being pressed by the labor interests of the country in all the state Legislatures and opposed by the railroads and he added that he did not want to be a party to any sub terfuge to avoid consideration. He thought