The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1906-12-06
MORE MESSAGES
Due THIS MONTH
PRESIDENTS VIEWS ON PORTO
RICO AND PANAMA COMING.
ANNUAL MESSAGE HEARD
Read to Senate and House Which
Then Adiourn--smoot Case
Comes Up Next
Tuesday.

washington, dec. 0.--PreSidens
Roosevelfs special message to con-
gress on Porto Rico will be sent to
congress on December IL. The presi-
dents views on the island and the leg
islation he favors are the direct out
come of his recent visit to Porto Rico.
The presidents special message on
Panama will be laid before congress
on December IL. With only bare
reference to Panama in his regular
message, Mr.. Roosevelt reserved his
| observations and recommendation No
| garding isthmian affeirs until he had
completed his trip of inspection OF the
work In progress, which he will deal
with in his special message.
Annual Message Read.
The reading of the presidents an
nual message consumed two hours
and twenty-five minutes in the house
Tuesday and was followed closely by,
very large number of MEMBERS
while the crowded galleries gave close
consideration
Here and there the reading of the
document was punctuated with APP
plause, and hearty handclapping from,
Democrats as well as Republicans fol-
lowed its conclusion. During the
major portion of the time of the read
Ing of the message, Mr.. Lacey, OF
Iowa, acted as speaker pro tenn, being
the first of the defeated "stand-pat-i
ters" to be recognized by Speaker
Cannon.
Cousins Succeeds Hit.
While the house waited upon the,
secretary to the president to appear
with the message, which had been
promised by the committee appointed
by the speaker to wait upon the chief
executive and inform him that the
| two houses OF congress were organ
ized and ready to proceed to business.
Speaker Cannon appointed Robert O.
ICousins, of Iowa, chairman OF the
committee on foreign affairs, to sue
ceed the late Robert Hit, Of Illinois.
He also appointed Mr. Frank o. Low
| den to place on the same COMMITTEES
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Mr. Hit.
After the customary resolutions re-
lating to the printing of the message,
the house at 1853 adjourned until
noon Wednesday.
President Roosevelt's message oc-
cupied the attention of the senate for
two and one.half hours to the ex-
clusion of nearly all other business.
The exception to this was the intro
duction of resolution on the Japan
ese situation by Senator Raynor. of
Maryland, and the adoption OF appro-
pirate resolutions regarding those
members of the house of representa-
tives who have died since the last
session. AS mark Of further re-
spect to their memory, adjournment
was taken at 2:54 o'clock.
Smoot Case Next Tuesday.
Senator Burrows, of Michigan, gave
notice Tuesday that next Tuesday he
would call up for the consideration OF
the senate the question Of the right Of
Senator Reed Smoot to seat in that
body.
Senator Clark, OF Wyoming, chair
man, called a special meeting of the
senate judiciary committee for We'd
nesday morning to consider the nomi-
nation of Attorney General VIM. H.
Moody for the supreme court bench,
and other nominations to which no
objections have been filed.
The caucus of the Democrats OF the
house Tuesday night elected Paul B.
Porter, Of Mississippi, to succeed the
late COL Isaac R. Hill as sergeant at
arms of the caucus and special en-
ploye Of the house." and resolutions
were passed deploring the latter's
death and citing his services to the
Democratic party.
Mr. Gaines, of Tennessee, intro
duced bin Tuesday raising the sal
aries of members of congress to ST.
500 annually, to become effective in
the sixty-first congress, and reimburs-
ing them for money actually spent in
going to and from each session Of
congress.