The Tupelo journal., 1907-01-18
IN CONGRESS
The House.

The army canteen was again under
discussion in the House of Represen-
t~atives. While the army a%ppropria-
ton bill was UP. Representative Nor
rell. OF Pennsylvania, intimated that
he would like to attach a paragraph
doing away with the ~anti-canteen law
In line with a bill he had introduced
in the first session OF the Ffty-ninth
Congress.
Representative Gragg, Of Texas, in
troduced a bill to appropriate 1925
900 for the construction of sea walls
and entertainments to protect the sites
selected for fertilization works at Gal
weston.
BY a vote of 20 to 1, the Senate
passed a bill providing that railway
employees engaged in handling trains
shall not work more than sixteen con-
secutive hours, which period is to be
followed by ten hours off duty.
1t is believed that the rejection
of the plan to build an island at the
mouth of the Chesapeake bay for de-
tense is probably the most important
step taken by the house committee on
military affairs. The committee re-
fused to accept the suggestion of a
subcommittee. which recommended
that an appropriation be made for a
survey of the proposed Improvement.
Lively debate in house over main
tanning maneuvers between regulars
and state militia.
The Senate.
Washington, d. C.-The first speech
in defense Of the right of Reed
Smoot to a seat in the senate was de-
livered by Senator Hopkins, of ILL
nois. MI. Hopkins took the position
that senators were not federal officers
to the extent that the senate could
pass upon their qualifications and
eligibility, or could impeach them for
high crimes or m~isdemeanor. If a
senator was to be punished. ii must
be done by the state or federal courts.
Only federal officers, he maintained,
were Improbable, and this impeach-
ment must be for acts committed as
such federal officers.
Washington, ID. C.-Alarmed by re-
ports that the house committee on
rivers and harbors will not include
the project for a 14-foot waterway be-
tween Lockport, ILL.,, and st. Louis. in
the rivers and harbors appropriation
bill, the Illinois and Missouri delega-
tons in congress called on Chairman
Burton and asked for information con
corning the status of the project, and
also sought a postponemens of tho
completion of the bill until Representa-
tive Lorimer, of Illinois, who is now IL,
can return to Washington and resume
his work as q member of the com
mittee.
Mr.. Burton expressed ar unwilling.
ness to delay presentation of the re-
port long, as such action might en-
danger the passage of the measure.
Mr.. Burton asked that representa-.
tives of the two states visit him again
on January IA, when he will decide
how long the committee can wait for
the return of Mr.. Lorimer.
Mr.. Burton asked Mr.. Madden il the
| delegations would oppose a survey for
a 14-foot waterway from Chicago all
the way to the gulf of Mexico. Mr..
Madden replied that they would not
oppose such a survey, but would net
be willing to accept that in lieu of an
appropriation to begin the work on the
project in Illinois.
Answering Senator Lodge, who had
made a studied speech in defense OF
the president, Senator Foraker Mon
day attacked the Lodge defense and
President Roosevelt's Brownsville or
der of dismissal in terms more vigor-
GUS than have been used and in a
manner more savage than he has yet
shown in debate upon the subject.
Senator Gearin, of Oregon, discuss
ing his resolution on the Japanese
question, argued in favor of the doc
trine of states rights and protection
of labor by the exclusion of coolies
from both China and Japan. He crit
icised the stand taken by President
Roosevelt on the Japanese question as
to his Interpretation of the existing
treaty with Japan, and charged that
the presidents position in regard to
the Introduction of cheap labor as ap-
piled to the Chinese was inconsistent
with his recent message to congress
in regard to the treatment Of Jap
anese on the Pacific coast.
1t was learned Monday from a relia-
BILE source that members of the select
senate committee which investigated
Indian Territory needs believe the
methods of the commission to the
Five Tribes are so lax that the prac-
tice of graft would be easy.
Champ Clark, OF Missouri, will not
oppose John Sharp Williams for dem
ocratic leadership in house.
Supporters of deep channel from
lakes to the gulf are organizing plan
to force house to revolt against Bur
toms programme.
To Visit LaWton Monument.