The Forrest City times., 1906-12-21
IN CONGRESS
The Senate.

President hoose'ets 5 messdSe on .,,n subsidy, which will be presented - congress shortly after the Christ. ~.s boli, ys, it is believed, will sup .or, the Gallinger subsidy bill as ...sed by the senate, but the house Committee on merchant marine and ssberies probably will report the bin ,o amended that it will merely offer .,,bsidies to mail steamers sailing be. ,veen this country and South Ameri. ran and Oriental ports.
 Representative Humphrey has called Inc presidents attention to the fact ,bst Japan has been negotiating for ,he purchase of all first-class Amert can ships on the Pacific, and ex. nressed the opinion that the pur. chase of the Pacific Mail, or Hill, line by Japan would almost certainly result in freight agreement with Japan extending over an American railway. He also assured the presi- dent that the Japanese lines running to this country give rebates and other advantages 10 Japanese merchants in the United States, with the result that many American merchants would have been driven to the wall
 The senate agreed to the holiday ad. tourDment resolution, and will be in recess from the end of the session Thursday next until January 3.
 A resolution was agreed to direct. ing an investigation by the depart ment of commerce and labor of the International Harvester Co, to ascsr. tain whether 1t effected a restraint of trade.
 The senate confirmed the nomina. ton of Afford W. Cooley, of New York, to be assistant attorney-general.
 The senate agreed to a resolution requesting the Judiciary committee of the senate to inform the senate ii ongress can prohibit interstate com. merce in child labor-made goods under the commerce clause of the constitu. ton.
 In presenting to the senate . memo. rial from the cattle raisers of tue western states, Mir. Culberson said the cattle raisers were suffering more ex. tensive damage at this time from shortage of cars and bad service from transportation companies than from disease of cattle, limited markets and all other causes combined.
 Indications are, Government will take strong action in Japanese school explusion.
 Belief prevails that when Senate gets legislative appropriation bill 1t will vote 10 increase Congessmen's salaries
 The House.
 Speaker Cannon assigned Repre- sentative Knox, of Illinois, to be chair. man of the committee on expenditures tn the treasury department.
 The house began consideration of the Indian appropriation bill in com. mittee of the whole.
 The house discussed a bill yalidat ing some 10000 certificates of nat uralization which were issued by courts the clerks of which failed to inquire whether the persons to whom the certificates were issued were an archists or not.
 The sensational speech of Victor H. Murdock. of Kansas. on the floor of the house last week, is bearing fruit to the extent that the house postoffics com mittee, of which hc .s mombeY, is determined the forthcoming appro priation bill shall be So drawn that further abuses in the matter of weigh. ing mails carried by the railroads oi the country will be impossible.
 MT. Murdock charged that the basis of pay to the railroads for carrying the malls is false one. He declared that tho government had lost $40, ,0oe,. ooJ as result in the past ten years. The annual locs is figured at approxi bately S5. DOG. .OGO