The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-19
.wHhT.CONGRESS IS DOING
What is Being Done Day by Day By
the National House and Senate.

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ton of Senators by direct vote of the
people has been favorably acted upon
by the House committee on election
of President. The resolution which
was introduced by MI. Noriss of Ne
bFaska, makes the term of member
ship of the house four years instead
of two. Both propositions are to be
accomplished by amendments to the
constitution.
Reason why the term of members
should be four years are stated to be
because no party can inaugurate It's
policy IN two years.
Deliberations Tame.
The deliberations of the House were
tame as compared with the two pre-
vious days; which may be attributed
III a measure to the fact that there
was no discussion of the fast mail
appropriation for the benefit of the
Southern Railway. No one subject
has engendered so much bad feeling
in the House In a long time, and it has
not been confined to either of the
parties.
There is much speculation as to the
outcome of the vote, predictions of
victory being made by advocates of
both sides. A vote may be reached
soon, though in order to do so, the
regular order, will have to be displac-
ed.
All of the North Carolina members
will be present unless Representative
Blackburn, who is i'm Greensboro, re-
mains at home. Representative Pou
and Gudger got back to the city and
| Representative Small will be back.
Representative Small and Gudger are
committed to the appropriation and
Representatives Page, Patterson,
Webb, Thomas and the two Kitchens
will vote against it.
Some doubt has been expressed as
to how Representatives Pou and
Blackburn will vote. Mr.. Pou has
voted against the appropriation in the
past, while Mr.. Blackburn has voted
for it. Representative W. W. Kitchin
hopes to be able to get lii under the
five Mute rule to reply to statements
that have been made in debate.
Discussion Near It's End.
In the Senate Mr.. Aldrich express
ed the opinion that the end of the
general debate on the railroad rate
bill would become apparent before
the end of the present week, and that
then an agreement upon a day for a
vote could be reached. The statement
was made in response to a request by
Mr.. Tillman for such an agreement.
There was no other discussion of the
rate bill during the day, owing to the
fact that no senator was prepared to
speak. 1t was announced that Mr..
Spooner would reply to Mr.. Bailey's
speech.
The session was almost entirely de-
voted to the consideration of the con-
ference report on the bill providing
for the final settlement of the affairs
of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians
and In connection with that report
there was a sharp controversy over an
amendment inserted by the senate
which provided for the ratification of
the Disbursement of $1S6,000 of the
Lloyd Seminole fund made by Special
Agent J. E. Jenkins and Administra-
tor A. j. Brown. The debate turned
upon the exceptional fact that the
house was insisting upon the reten-
ton of a senate amendment from
which the senate was apparently anX-
ious to recede. The debate was
characterized by a numebr of spirited
passages between Mr.. Tillman on the
one side and Messrs. Teller and Clapp
on the other. The South Carolina
senator contended that the Indians
had been defrauded, while his oppon-
ents urged that if they had been the
proposed legislation did not deprive
them of their rights under the law.
No conclusion was reached.
Some Lively Discussions.
After a brief speech by Mr.. Lati-
mer in support of the House railroad
rate bill, MI. Foraker took the floor
on the measure and consumed practl-
cally all Of the remainder of the days
session. He spent some time in the
discussion of some of the amendments
he has suggested to the bill and then
entered upon the consideration of the
entire question of railroad rate regu-
lation, urging again the unconstitu-
tionaiity Of the pending bill from va
rious points of view. He was fire.
~quently interrupted by other Senators.
MI. Lodge spoke briefly in support
of the practice of granting lower rates
on goods intended for export than on
those used in domestic consumption.
Mr.. Latimer in his speech said that at
the present time seven corporations
control practically all of the railroads
of the country, and no argument IS
necessary to convince a thinking man
that his consolidation means the elm
nation of competition and the placing
of desDotic power in the hands OF a