Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-27
WORK OF
CONGRESS-

The Senate was not in session Satur-
day. The House passed $50 invalid Pen
sion bills. An urgent deficiency appro-
p~riation bill carrying 1851 800 for the
various departments of the government,
including $150,00O for mileage of army
officers. and S250.O00 to carry out the
pure food law, was passed. Sunday, Jan.
20. 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 Il recess from Dec.
20 to Jan. 3. directing IN Investigation
of the international Harvester Company
and ordering an inquiry by the judiciary
committee as to the power of Congress
to prevent interstate 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.OOO.OU 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
81 ge occupied the remainder of the SEES
sion.
President Roosevelt sent in a message
to the Senate Wednesday dealing with the
discharge of negro troops. After some
debate action was postponed until the
next day. The pension calendar was
cleared by the passage of more than 200
private pension bills. In the House a
resolution was adopted giving the com
mittee on enrolled bills an additional
clerk. 4 resolution still further ~increas-
ing the force in that office met determined
opposition. The absence of a quorum was
disclosed and Speaker Cannon brought
about adjournment.
In the Senate on Thursday Senator
Foraker made an extended criticism of
the basis of President Roosevelt's action
in discharging the negro troops of the
Twenty-fifth infantry. He was replied to
briefly by Senator Lodge. while Senator
Scott sustained the demand of the Ohio
Senator for a full investigation by the
Senate military committee. A resolution
directing such investigation is before the
Senate for action at its next meeting.
Adjourned at . 4 p. nj. until Jan. 3.
1907. In the House Representative Mon
dell (Wyoming) succeeded in passing his
bill extending the time in which entry
men may make final settlement on the
Shoshone indian reservation. Representa-
tive Payne New York; called up his
resolution relating to the distribution OF
the Presidents annual message to the
several committees. The House then.
after passing the resolution. adjourned
for the Christmas holidays at II 40 p. IN.