The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-04-12
WORK OF CONGRESS
What is Being Done Day by Day By
the National House and Senate.
After Southern Fast Mail.

When the House convened Speaker
Cannon appointed the following COM
mittee to participate in the exercises
attendant upon the second centenary
Of Benjamin Franklin's birth to be
held at Philadelphia April II: Messrs
Olmsted of Pennsylvania; Stevens of
Minnesota; Fassett Of New York;
Hoar Of Massachusetts,: Smith Of Ma
ryland; Pou of North Carolina: Ryan
of New York, and Watkins of Lou
isiana.
The bill making it obligatory for
the circuit and district court of the
middle district of Alabama to sit six
months at Birmingham was passed.
Nj. Gaines of West Virginia Sc
cured consent to have printed in The
Record Judge Humphreys opinion in
the beef packers cases, the oral ar
gument made by the Attorney Gen
eral and the several statutes relating
to compulsory testimony and result
ing immunity from prosecution.
The postofice appropriation bill
was then taken up.
Nh. Moon of Tennessee, the rank
ing minority member of the postof-
flee and post roads committees, In
explanation of the several provisions
of the postofice appropriation bill,
said that the railroads contended that
they were not receiving sufficient pay
to carry the mails Notwithstanding
The charges made that the railroads
were receiving sums of money far IN
excess of the value of the service
rendered. He insisted that IL the APP
preparation for railway mail service
was to be cut down it ought to be
after complete investigation.
Should Forego Benefits.
After citing instances of special
privileges to certain Southern local.
ties, Mr.. Moon asked: "What does
the Democratic party demand on this
question? It repudiates, it denounces
it condemns every character of sub
sidy. The Republican platform does
likewise. Can you say-to the people
of the United States, standing upon
your platform and opposed to ship
subsidy, that you are ready, because
of little paltry benefit to your imme-
date section, to violate the pledges
of your party and the great tenets
that it has held for a century? I
believe the Southern Democrats ought
to appeal to their people and not to-
this railroad company which is grant,
ed special privileges between Wash
ington, Atlanta and New Orleans"
President Not a Gar"
The House during its session lis
tened to a criticism of the President
on the part of Mr.. Fitzgerald New
York; for the failure of he Chief
Executive to properly advise the
House as to the objections he had
to the bill opening 505,000 acres of
land for grazing purposes III Okla
homa territory, instead OF advising
the members of the Indian Affairs
Committee as to the weakness of the
measure so that it might be amended
to meet the wishes of the Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs.
Mr.. fitzgerald, In the course of his
structures on the President, said:
"This is not Russia. The Presi-
dent is not like the Car, who origi-
mates and enacts legislation. The
President may recommend, but he can
neither originate or enact legislation.
Somebody may say this is trivial.
The history of all governments which
have parliamentary institutions shows
that the failure to resist trivial en-
croachment on the part of the chief
executive has led to vast encroach-