Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-25
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CONGRESS


In the Senate Wednesday resolutions
were agreed to calling upon the President
for information regarding the seizure by
Mexico of the fishing schooner Silas
Stearnes. and directing the Secretary of
War to furnish information regarding al
legged experience with cholera virus at
Manila, resulting in ten or more deaths.
Senator Rayner made speech unfolding
states rights doctrines, as involved in
the japanese question. The Senate in
executive session ratified the Algeciras
treaty on Morocco after Democrats had
compelled the adoption of a resolution
disclaiming responsibility for the partici-
patton of the United States in the pro-
gram arranged by the conference as to the
future of Morocco. The House took up
the legislative. executive and judicial APP
preparation bill by paragraphs and COM
pleted thirty-four pages OF the bill be-
fore adjournment. Ar amendment was
adopted instructing the public printer to
use the photography generally recognized
by the standard dictionaries.
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In the Senate Thursday Senator Du-
bois of Idaho spoke in favor of the I'M
seating of Reed Smoot. A bin was
passed providing regulations for fishing
vessels to prevent collisions at sea- In
the House a resolution favoring return
to the old standard of spelling was
adopted. An agreement was reached for
a vote on an increase in the salaries of
members of Congress, cabinet officers
etc, when the legislative appropriation
bill, now under consideration, is reported
to the House from the committee Of the
whole. resolution was adopted calling
on the Secretary of Commerce and / abor
to investigate the high prices of lumber.
and another calling upon the Secretary of
the Interior for detailed description of
the coal lands withdrawn from public
entry since July /, 1906. After complet-
ing 145 pages of the bill it was laid aside
until Friday.
The Senate was not in session Friday.
BY a vote of LOG to 1888 the House re-
fused to increase from $4,000 to $500
the salaries of Senators. members and
delegates The House, however, by an
overwhelming vote, increased the salaries
of the Vice President, the Speaker of
the House and members of the Presidents
cabinet to $4,000 each. The legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation bill
was passed.
The Senate was. not in session Satur-
day. The House passed $50 invalid pen
sion bills An urgent deficiency appro-
priation bill carrying S5S1,500 for The
various departments of the government,
including $150,000 for mileage of army
officers, and $250,000 to carry out the
pure food law, was passed Sunday, Jan.
90. was set apart by the House to take
cognizance of the death of the late SEN
ator William B. Bate of Tennessee.
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Messages from the President on Pana-
ma, public lands and navy personnel were
read in the Senate Monday. Resolutions
were agreed to for a recess from Dec.
20 to Jan. 3, directing an investigation
of the International Harvester Company
and ordering an inquiry by the judiciary
committee as to the power of Congress
to prevent interstate commerce in child
made goods. Senators Whyte and Ray
ner presented resolutions to guard against
infringement of States rights. In the
House the Indian appropriation bill occu-
pied all the time not taken up with the
reading of the Presidents messages.
Speaker Cannon announced the following
committee assignments Knox of Illinois,
chairman, expenditures in the State De
partment, Nelson of Wisconsin, Pacific
railroads and expenditures in the State
Department.
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In the Senate Tuesday many minor
bills from the calendar were passed with
out objection. among them one providing
for a child labor investigation by the
Department of Commerce and Labor and
one authorizing a loan of $1,000,000 to
the jamestown exposition. The urgent
deficiency appropriation bill was passed.
A message from the President on the jap
anese qqueStion was read. The Indian
appropriation bill was passed by the
House District of Columbia business
and the reading of the Presidents mes
sage occupied the remainder of the ses-
sion.