The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-03
BILLS FLOOD HOUSE
TEXAS CONGRESSMAN INTRODUCES
 THE FIRST BILL.
Representative Gaines of Tennessee Presented a Resolution Calling for an Investigation of the
 Financial Disturbance.

Washington, Dec. 2.-There was practically no rivalry among the Rep resentatives of the Sixtieth Congress for the usually coveted honor of intro- ducing the first bill. The figure "l" at the bill clerks desk was placed on bill reintroduced by MT. Burleson, of Texas. pensioning the surviving of- ficers and enlisted men of the Texas volunteers employed in the defense of the Texas frontier against Mexican and Indian marauders in 1S55-6o. A bill by Representative Capron of Rhode Island. to increase and adjust the pay and allowances of the army and marine corps and revenue cutter ser vice was numbered e." The third measure was a resolution and the fourth bill to be referred was one by Mir. Andrews of Delaware. enabling New Mexico to obtain Statehood, majority of the several hundred bills to find their way into the record of the first session of the House was introduced by Democrats. Currency reform, the tariff, abolishment of liquor licenses. postal savings banks and for eign marine penalty were the chief measures comprised. A resolution caM- ing on the Speaker to appoint q com mittee to investigate the financial. dis turbance was presented by John Wes- ley Gaines of Tennessee. Two bills for the protection of creditors of failed national banks were introduced. one by Mr. Chandler of Mississippi the other Dy Mr Morris of Neb -aska. The former provides for tn, creation of a $10.000.000 reimbursement fund by the payment to the United States Treasury by each national bank of one fourth of 1 per cent of its average de- posits for the last six months Of each | year. this fund to be drawn on bv the Comptroller of the Currency to repay | to depositors and creditors the amounts they have lost by the failure The hill does not exempt stockholders from their bank liabilities. MT. Morris's bill is framed along similar lines. Tariff bills were introduced as fol- lows:
 By Mir. Clark of Missouri, removing the important duty on white paper and pulp; by Mir. Williams, of Mississippi, establishing free trade between the Philippines and the rest of the United States; by MT. Richardson, of Alabama, resolution instructing the commit tee on ways and means to so revise the tariff as to make it tariff for revenue and not for protecting one class of citizens at the expense of an- other; by MT. Thomas. of North Caro- lima, placing white paper on the free list; by MT. Payne. of New York, a re- introduction of the Philippines tariff bill as finally amended from the House of the Fifty ninth Congress; by MT. Williams to establish a minimum tariff.
 A postal savings bank bill was in troduced by Representative Hitchcock of Nebraska
 Among the bills introduced in fur therance of prohibition were the fol- lowing.
 By Representative Bartlett. of Geor- gia, abolfshing Federal liquor licenses in prohibition states. counties and municipalities; by Representative Wal lace. of Arkansas. prohibiting common carriers from taking intoxicants into prohibition states and nullifying the original package" clause.
 MT, Henry, of Texas. introduced a bill limiting passenger fares on inter state railroads to two cents a mile for adults and one cent for children be- tween , and 12 years.