The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-08

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tempt at flibustering at this session
occurred in the house yesterday in a
Democratic endeavor to defeat the
provision of the urgent deficiency bill
! waving the eight-hour law for foreign
laborers on the Panama canal. The
amendment was placed in the bill in
committee of the whole after the
house had divided many times on
every pretext which Minority Leader
| Williams could make the cause OF a
vote. When the bill to which the
amendment was proposed was finally
finished, late in the day, a demand for
a separate vote and roll call on that
amendment was made and ordered. at
| which time the house adjourned. The
vote will occur as the first business to-
DAY.
Washington, Jan. 29.-In a session
Of two hours Saturday the house
passed the urgent deficiency appropri-
alton bill. carrying $1~5,216,103, in
corporated in which is a provision that
the eight-hour law shall not apply to
alien laborers on the Panama canal.
In addition it passed 262 private PEN
sion bills and read the Mann general
bridge bill, making it the unfinished
business for to-day.
AZ roll call was demanded by the
Democratic side on the eight-hour
amendment. Its adoption was by a
vote of 100 to 108. Nineteen Repub-
licans voted with the Democrats and
one Democrat, DeArmond tMo.), with
the majority. ..'
Washington, Jan. 3O.-What is con-
sidered a strike at the railroads was
taken by the house yesterday in the
adoption of a resolution calling On the
president to furnish information as to
the existence of an alleged agreement,
in violation of the interstate COM
merce law, between the Pennsylvania,
ern, Chesapeake & Ohio, Northern
Central & Philadelphia and Baltimore
& Washington Railroad companies.
A tribute was paid to Gen. Wheeler
by naming a street in Washington
Wheeler" street.
The Chinese boycott and the auInin-
~istration of the forest reserves divided
the attention of the senate yesterday.
Mr.. Hepburn raised the question re-
garding the reservations. He sharply
criticised the methods of the forestry
bureau and charged it with maintain
ing a press combination for the pur-
pose of attacking him.
Washington, Jan. 31.-Members of
the house evinced a more general in
terest in the discussion of the railway
rate bill throughout yesterday than
on any topic of legislation for some
time. The debate throughout was
listened to attentively and many ques-
tions were asked Of the different
speakers to bring out either obscure
points Of the measure or evils COM
planned Of, which no attempt had been
made to include in the bill. The de-
bate was opened by Mr.. Townsend of
Michigan in an exhaustive argument
on the general subject and sharp crit
icism directed to those. who had OPP
posed railway rate legislation.
Mr.. Adamson of Georgia, represent
ing the minority, followed in COM
mendation of the measure and in
praise of President Roosevelt's stand
on the question, which he said the mi.
nority were ayailing themselves of in
the present instance.
Questions addressed to the various
speakers by Mr.. Sharley of Kentucky
and Mr.. Littlefield of Maine indicated
that there is to be some opposition to
the bill at least in debate. The fea-
ture seemingly subject to attack is as
to just what will be the authority of
the interstate commerce commission
The senate yesterday passed about
forty bills, many of them of consider
able importance. The list included a
number of measures TOR lighthouses,
fog signals, revenue cutter vessels
and public buildings, and also the bill
providing for the reorganization of
the consular service, which passed
practically without discussion.
Washington, Feb. 1.-Discussion of
the railroad rate bill continued in the
house yesterday. Incident to it, two
speeches, the efforts of Mr.. Campbell
(Kan.) and Mr.. Martin Is. d., took a
wider range and swept the horizon of
trust evils" generally.
Mr.. Bartlett (Ga.), a minority men,
Der of the committee reporting the
bill, made a two hours speech in
which he discussed the legal and con-
stitutional questions involved and ad-
vocated the passage of the bill as the
proper remedy for an intolerable con
dition. The first speech in opposition
to the bill, which concluded the days