Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-05
1000 BILLS
INTRODUCED
IN SENATE
UPPER HOUSE rs DELUGED
WITH MEASURES
Many Were Considered Last Year.
Committees viii Take Up Work
as Soon as They Are
Appointed
Isy Associatea Press.

Isy Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec i.--Nearly 1OgO
tills were introduced in the senate today,
ana all of them were referred to the com
lnittees, whepe they will be taken up tor
consideration after the new senators shall
be given committee assignments. NO
other business OF Importance was trans
acted.
Almost all of these bills were consid-
cred in the last congress and most OF
them are private pension bills
The whole number introduced in the
senate of the fifty-ninth congress was
SG27, and before the Christmas holidays It
IL probable that at least half of them will
again be introduced and referred to COM
mittees
Among the more important measures in
troduced today we're the following:
BY Senator Fulton: Amending the rail-
road rate law in such manner that
change of tariff filed with the interstate
commerce commission can go into effect
where objection is made until the COM
mission has declared the rate fair.
By Senator Dick: The administration
measure providing for an increase OF pay
for the army, navy and marine corps
BY Senator Burkett: Providing for the
teaching of agriculture in normal schools,
free postage on reading matter mailed TO
the blind, and prohibiting telegraph and
express companies from transmitting re-
turns pertaining to gambling.
Heyburn's Bills
BY Senator Hepburn: Bills providing
for the purchase of public building
grounds in Washington; the establishment
of land courts and appellate land court;
the establishment of a national board "r
corporations and department of mines,
and placing In the capitol building Of
each state a model of the naval vessel
which has been named after that state.
BY Senator Hansbrough: Repeating tho
timber and stone act and providing FOR
the sale OF timber on public lands; also
Till giving homestead entrymen the right
10 be absent from their homesteads our
ing four winter months.
BY Senator La Toilette: Requiring that
rates shall be fixed SO as only to yield
fair return on the valuation of u rail-
roads property.
BY Senator Nelson: Extending the free
delivery service to all towns having a
postal revenue of $1,000.
A bill which may take the place OF a
regular ship subsidy bill this session was
introduced by Senator Gallinger. 1t pro-
vides for an increase of the mail carry
ing rate for sixteen-knot ships plying on
the Pacific and South Atlantic. to an
amount not exceeding the rate paid to
first vessels. The bill is designed to
meet the ideas set forth on ship subsidy
in the presidents message.
Senator Gallinger also introduced bills
prohibiting the sale and transportation OF
poisonous foods, providing for monu-
ynent in Washington to the private sol
dlers Of the army and increasing pensions
FOR total deafness.
Two single statehood bills were intro
duced, one by Senator Teller for the ad-
mission of New Mexico and the other by
Senator Stone for the admission of Ari-
zona as a state.
Senator Newlands of Nevada introduced
a bill today providing for an inland
waterways commission, and providing
for the Improvement of inland water
ways. The bi4. appropriates $50,0OOO 900 to
an inland waterway fund and provides
that whenever the fund is reduced by
below $20,000.003 the presi-
dent may make up the deficiency by issue
Of bonds.
with the army engineering corps, the
fifth the army engineering corps, the
bureau of soils, forestry and reclamation
and other branches of the public service
related to waterways.
After the examination and determina-
ton of the feasibility of any project by
the commission it may contract for con-
struction. 1t is provided that the pro-
1ects may include collateral works for
the irrigation of arid lands, conservation
of rorests and utilization Of water powe.
as deemed advisable in connection with
the development of channels for naviga.
ton