Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1906-12-13
The WORK OF CONGRESS
What Our National Lawmakers Are
Doing From Day to Day
Taft to Give Information.

The resolution of Senator Penross
calling the President or all the facts
regarding the discharge OF the negro
troops belonging to the Twenty-fifth
Infantry, was received at the White
House and at once turned over by the
President to Secretary Taft, who will
furnish the information desired. The
Foraker resolution, which also was
passed at the same time, but which
is directed to the Secretary of War,
had not been received by Secretary
TAFT up TO a late hour Friday. Sec
retary Taft said, however, upon re-
turning from the cabinet meeting,
that he would comply with both reso-
iutions to the fullest extent.
Simplified Spelling.
Simplified spelling received hard
bolw in the legislative bill for 1908
reported to the House by the COM
mittee on appropriations, which says:
Hereafter i'll printing documents
authorized by low or ordered ty
Congress or either branch thereof the
Government Printing Office shall
follow the rules of orthography es-
tablished by Webster's or other gem
orally accepted dictionaries of the
English language.
The bill carries an appropriation of
S3l ,2l5,525. which is $6S5.S42 less
than the estimates made for the leg
islatlve, judicial and executive De-
partments Of The government.
An increase from $1,000 to 81 900
is made III the allowance to members
of the House for clerk hire, and th1
requirement that members certify
they have spent this amount is omit
ted.
Efforts to take up the bill confer
ring citizenship upon the citizens of
Porto Rico. reported from the COM
mittee on insular affairs of the House
were defeated by objections of the
Democrats.
An Important Measure.
During the three hours the House
was IN session it passed n bill which
has The enthusiastic endorsement of
labor AS well as manufacturers gen
orally. repeating that portion of the
Wilson Interstate commerce. bill re-
lating TO convict-made goods and
pointing the several States to regu-
late their competition with '.free
labor" made grods
The bill was introduced by Mr..
Hunt. OF Missouri, himself n practi-
cal stonemason. Under the Wilson
hat. which became Il law in 1890, con-
vinct labor-made goods may enter in
to active competition with the goods
manufactured by ''free labor" and
under this Federal law State could
not pass n law that would prevent
the shipping into the State prison
made goods of other States. The law
which was passed abro"atcS the inter-
State commerce law as nj present APP
plled to convict-made goods. thereby
affordina to the different States and
Territories the right to imhibit the
shipping of convict-made goods with
in the confines of any State or Terri
| tory.
Senator Simmons gave further at
teHtlcn to the case which he is to
make out against Federal oflicehold-
trs i'll North Carolina. who have been
I perniciously active in political mat
ters. lie conferred with Mr. Dcgraw,
Fourth Assistant Postmaster general
concerning the specific charges which
have been made against Daggerhart
The rural free delivery carrier. who
II = alleged, tried 10 break mp Il meet
ing III lrcdcll county, ri which Mr.
Hacl;ett was to speak. Mr. Degraw
Sald ihat the Inspector assigned I,
look INTO this matter had not vet com
pietcd his report, hut he thought il
would he at hand in a very few davs
Mr.. Dearaw cntirncd the report river
ont by the civil service commission.
that an agent would be sent from th,
department to accompany Commits
Sl0nSr Green when he starts on hi,
tour Of investigation to the State t,
look into charges against Federal of
flee holders.
Minority leader John Sharp vii
liams declared it to be his intention
to recommend Representative Small
for membership on the rivers and har
bors committee, a recognition that i
being urged Ly the entire North Car
olina delegation. Mr. Williams is re
puted to have sail that Mr. Smal
was his first choice. and that
Speaker Cannon did not approve o
this rccommcndaticn .hc would ncS
endorse Representative Ellerbe q
, South Carolina.
Japs Want Naturalization.
I Washington. Special. - Fa.orabl
action by Congress on the recomme,
= daticn of the president in his last a,
{ nual message that an act be rassa