Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-12-13
CONGRESS AT WORK.
SECOND SESSION OF 5eTH BODY
BEGINS LABORS.
Many Questions of Great Importance
Are Expected to Receive Consider
Extraordinarily May Force Tari6
Issue to the Front.

NpAiCspoAuChtc.
The Fifty-ninth Congress, which
broke the records of achievement dur
ing Its first session, resumed its labors
Monday. There are just three months
Of life remaining to it, and in these
three months new questions of vital
Importance will be brought to the front
Ihere are, IN addition. many important
measures that were hanging fire when
adjournment was taken last summer
ana between the new and the old. to
gether with the appropriation bills that
must be considered, there is a tremen-
dous amount of work ahead for the ma
tional lawmakers.
Both houses were called to order at
noon. After some perfunctory work
adjournment was taken to await the
PRESIDENTS annual message ON Tues
day. In the House there was practi-
caIly nothing on the first days pro-
gram, aside from the swearing in of
new members who had been elected to
Ill vacancies. Four members have died
since the adjournment in June, and
resolutions were adopted and adjourn
ment taken out of respect to their
memory before the regular routine was
begun. The Senate was ready to go
ahead from where it left off five
months ago.
In the Senate Monday Senators Pen
rose and Foraker introduced resolutions
of inquiry regarding the discharge of ne
gro troops of the Twenty-ffth infantry,
which went over by unanimous consent.
Senator Dupont of Delaware took the
oath of Office. 4 long list of presidential
nominations was received. Thirty-eight
public and $50 private bills were intro
duced in the House. Speaker Cannon
appointed Mr.. Mann of Illinois a member
of the board of regents of the Smith
sonian Institute, vice Robert r. Hit, de-
ceased. Representatives Overstreet of
Georgia, Lowden of Illinois, Gilhams of
Indiana, Reyburn, Moor and Bruman of
Pennsylvania and Nelson of Wisconsin,
elected to fill vacancies, were sworn in.
President Roosevelt's message occupied
the attention of the Senate for two and
one-half hours Tuesday. to the exclusion
of nearly all other business. The excep-
ton to this was the introduction of a res
Olution on the japanese situation by SEN
ator Rayner of Maryland, and the adop-
ton of appropriate resolutions regarding
members of the lower house, who died
since the last session. The reading of
the message in the House consumed two
hours and twenty-five minutes. During
the major portion of the time Representa-
tive Lacey of Iowa acted as Speaker pro
tenn, being the first of the defeated
"standpatters' to be recognized by Speak
er Cannon. Speaker Cannon appointed
Robert G.. Cousins of Iowa chairman on
foreign affairs to succeed the late Robert
Hit of Illinois. He also appointed Rep
resentative Frank o. Lowden to a place
on the same committee to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Mr.. Hit.
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The brief session of the Senate We'd
nesday resulted in the introduction of
many bills, resolutions and memorials,
and the receipt of a number of commune
cations from the executive department.
Senator Foraker asked immediate action
on the pending resolutions for Informal
ton regarding the discharge of the negro
soldiers of the Twenty-fif,h infantry. In
the House bills were passed incorporating
the National German-AmeriCan Alliance,
authorizing the Secretary oflthc Treas
ury to duplicate gold certificates in lieu
of ones lost or destroyed. and Amending
the national banking laws so as to permit
national banking associations Ito make
loans on real estate as security and linn
iting the amount Of such loans.
Resolutions were adopted by the Sen
ate Thursday calling on the President and
the Secretary of Wal for information as
to the discharge of soldiers of the Twen-
infantry. Senator Morgan spoke
for two hours on his resolution to secure
the control of the Panama railroad by
the isthmian commission, but no action
was taken. The bill of Mr.. Littlefeld
of Maine, known as the anti-compulsory
pilotage measure, removing discrimina-
lions against American sailing vessels in
the coasting trade, was defeated in the
House, 10 to 1874, after a long debate.
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The Senate was not in session Friday.
The House received from cor zee the
legislative, executive and judicial appro-
priation bill. which was made a special
order for Monday, no day having been
fixed for the vote. A bill which has the
Endorsement of labor as well as manufac-
generally, repeating that portion of
the Wilson interstate commerce bill relat-
ing to convict made goods, and permitting
the several States to l~egislate for them
selves as to their competition with free
made goods was passed. 4 bill
also was passed creating a game preserve
in the Olympic Mountains in Washing
ton. Adjournment until Monday was
National capital Notes.
Representative Gaines of Tennessee in
troduced a bill to raise the salaries of
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