The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1907-01-31
DOINGS OF CONGRESS
What Our National Lawmakers Are
Doing From Day TO Day


| dent : cabinet to .:I2, 900. This ac-
ton wa, taken hy a vote Of - to
y aud followed duscussion o. near
| y three hours. An amendment con
| tinIng the increase 10 cabinet officers
and the presiding officers % the
Senate aud House, was voted down,
as was also a proposition 10 postpone
| the increase until 1913.
| Senator Heyeyidge Of Indiana. be
gan an extended address setting forth
the child labor conditions uf the
country, IN support Of his pendin"
bill prohibiting Interstate comnerce
III articles which are the product %
from } O'Clock until t 30 and gave
notice that he would conclude hl~
address Thursday.
President Roosevelt : message III
support Of the ship subsidy was re-
ccivcd and read by both houses Of
| Congress-
After the reading in the House,
the message was referred TO the com
mittee on merchant marine and fish
cries, from which mail subsidy
measure has just been reported. III
the Senate the message was sent 10
the committee on commerce.
The President calls attention to
the great deSirability of enactment Of
LEGISLATION to help American ship
ping and American trade by eucoul-
aging the building and running Of
lines of large and swift steamers to
South America and the Orient.
For An Increase of the Navy.
An appropriation Of about $95,-
100000 is provided for III the naval
appropriation bill agreed upon by the
House committee Oh naval affairs.
The bill provides for an additional
battleship Of the type agreed upon III
the naval appropriation bill OF last
year. 1t also makes provision for two
torepdo boat destroyers and appro-
pirates $2.000.000 for submarine.
This $2,000,000 is additional to the
ST. 100000 for submarines provided
in the bill last wear, which has not
yet been expended. Provision Is
made for about 5000 additional sail
ors and 900 additional marines.
The new battleship provided for
in the bill is to be sister ship Of the
monster authorized by Congress last
year, which the bill requires should
"be a first-class batt!eship, carrying
as heavy armor and as powerful ar
mament as any known vessel of Its
class, to have the highest practicable
speed and greatest practicable radius
of action.' The cost OF the new bat
; tleship is estimated at $l0,000.000.
To Abolish Pension Agencies.
The House voted to abolish all
pension agencies throughout TIE
country, IS in number. and centra-
lize the payment of pensions in the
city of Washington. This ection was
taken on the pesion appropriation
bill after spirited opposition on the
part Of those having pension agencies
4 in their States
| By vote of s. to ia an amend
: ment offered by Mr.. Dalzell, OF
5 Pennsylvania, restoring the number
= of agencies to Is as at present, was
| defeated, and Then AL amendment
. offered by Mr. Gardner, Of Michi
!. gan, consolidating all the agencies II
D one was adopted without division.
rying $13S.000.0J0 IN round number:
was passed.
A message from the President wa;
,. read relative 10 insurance. and a
$50, out Of respect to the memory O:
the late Senator Aloer, of Michi
. gan, the House adjourned
A Brief Session.
The Senate was in session Satur
day only for a little more than al
% hour, the early adjournment bein;
y taken to permit attendance on tn
. funeral of the late Senator Alger.
few bills OF minor Importance wer
/ passed, but most OF the time of til
. sitting was devoted to the further dis
:. cussion of Senator Hale's resolution
providing for an inquiry into the pei
It sonal interest manifested by nava
h officers in the navy personnel bill
Il The resolution was ultimately refer
red TO the committee on naval affairs
n The Chald Labor Law.
st Senator Beveridge occupied the al
+ tentlon of the Senate throughout til
day with continuation of his areu
ment in behalf of his child labor bill
He had but reached the legal and cor
stitutional phases of the questio
after speaking for more than fou
it hours and arrangement was mad
= whereby he will continue. In takin
the position that as to power Cor
"a gress could exercise any power it sa'
D. tit on Interstate commerce, Mr. Be,
s, erldge met a fussiiade Of question
1t by his colleagues and his progress
10 argument was slow While he sal
If | the power to regulate was absolute
n he maintained that the question c
re policy would always restrain an
nr hurtful regulations.
r Mr.. Beveridge stated. that thre,
fourth Of the cotton factories Of ii
South were opposing the bill, ths
the railroads of the South were OF
posing it and that the coal mine OF
es orators of the South were opposin
It it. He presented an illustrative ma
showing the location of the oppo
Y. ing industries, and said that in al
Mt ticipation of this weighty opposite
ed he should devote the major portio
er of his speech to setting forth ev
dence Of the deplorable conditions |
u had pictured. This evidence, he sal
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