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Mr.. NewlandS on Wednesday lnCrOOuceO
resolution directing the finance commit
tee of the Senate and the ways and means
committee of the House to consider the
feasibility of the government guarantee
ing bonds to be issued by San Francisco
to provide money for the reconstruction
os the city. Both Mr.. Flint and Mr..
Perkins of California deprecated the in
PRODUCTION of the measure at this time,
and said the California delegation should
have been consulted. The resolution was
referred to the committee on finance. Mr..
Daniel concluded his speech on the rate
bill. and then the army appropriation bill
was read. An amendment appropriating
$1,500,000 for a supply depot at Fort
Mason, San Francisco, was accepted, as
was one appropriating 100000 for q
cable to Panama. In the House the agri-
cultural appropriation bill was completed
and passed, including the provision for
the free distribution of seeds, which was
carried by a vote of 1913 to SO. The bill
carries $7,4S1, 440. The military acad-
envy appropriation BILL carrying $1,663,
115, also was passed, after the deficiency
appropriation of $1,50o,000 to complete
improvements at West Point had been
stricken out.
The last day Of the general debate on
the railroad rate bill in the Senate Thurs.
day brought out much criticism of federal
judges. Mr.. Tillman, by citing individual
cases, attempted to show that the powe.
of granting temporary injunctons should
be taken from the inferior United States
courts in interstate commerce commission
Fol he
con. Bailey, Teller and Foraker. The
army appropriation bill, carrying about
$74,000,000, was passed. The naval APP
preparation BILL which carries nearly
$100,000,000, was taken up in the House.
Mr.. Foss (Ill.) explained the measure
and the general debate which followed at
once took on other lines. The tariff again
forged to the front, with the prices of
steel rails abroad as the main object of
interest.
The Senate Friday entered upon consd-
Grafton Of the amendments to the railroad
rate bill under the fifteen-minute rule.
The measure was changed so as to in
clude oil pipe lines as common carriers,
not excepting the one on the Isthmus Of
Panama. A proposal by Mr.. Foraker to
exclude refrigerator cars from the opera
tions of the measure was voted down, as
was an amendment by Mr.. McCumber
making the requirements concerning these
cars more stringent than in the original
bill. The Senate adjourned until Mon
day. The House spent the day consider
ing the naval appropriation bill. Mr..
Burton (Ohio) delivered a speech against
what he termed the needless enlargement
of the navy, while Mr.. Butler (Pa.) and
Mr.. Calder IN. W supported the bill.
Other speeches, covering wide range Of
subjects, were made by Mr.. Flood (Va.),
Mr.. Clark (Fla.) and Mr.. Shackleford
(Mo.).
The Senate was not in session Satur-
day. General debate on the naval appro-
priatiou bill terminated with the close Of
Saturdays session of the House, one par
agraph of the bill being read in order to
make it the continuing order before the
House adjournment. International arbi-
tration, the reduction of armament, a
carefully prepared address on the achieve
ments Of the navy and defense of the
naval program for 1907, together with
speech in favor of a monument on Kings
Mountain battlefield were the features of
the legislative day. Those who addressed
the House formally were Mr.. Bartholdt
of Missouri, Mr.. Johnson of South Caro-
lima, Mr.. Webb of North Carolina, Mr..
Tirrell and Mr.. Weeks of Massachusetts,.
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In the House Monday forty-five impor-
tant bills, covering a wide range of sub
jects, were passed. The Senate spent
most of its time on a single amendment
to the railroad rate bill, and ended by
adopting substitute instead. The provis-
ion under discussion was Senator Fora
ker's prohibition of the granting of re-
bates, passes, drawbacks. special psssen-
ger rates, or Determinations in accommo-
dations to railroad patrons paying equal
rates. Senator Culberson finally secured
the adoption of the following substitute
"That no carrier engaged in interstate
commerce shall directly or indirectly issue
or give any free ticket, free pass, or free
transportation to any person except to the
officers, agents, employees and attorneys
exclusively in the service of the carrier
issuing the same, or to ministers or re-
ligion, inmates of hospitals, eleemosynary
or charitable institutions. Amy carrier
violating this provision shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall for
each offense pay to the United States a
penalty of not less than 500 nor more
than $1,000"
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The House devoted Tuesday to the ma
val appropriation bill and accomplished
the reading for amendment of the first
fifteen pages. Several topics were dis
cussed, including the difficulty of obtain
ing enlisted men in the navy, the location
of the naval training station on the great
lakes, the cost of smokeless powder, and
finally the unnecessary expenditure OF
100000 year for chains for ships. This