The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-03
NEW CONGRESS
 LEGISLATION Representative BuTltsOn Gets In
 First Bill SEVERAL CURRENCY BILLS Champ Clark of Missouri Introduces Bill To Remove Duty on White Paper and Pulp--Prohlb-
 ton Bills Framed.
SEVERAL CURRENCY BILLS

Washington, December 2.-There was practically no rivalry among the rep resentatives of the Sixtieth Congress for the usually coveted honor of introducing the first bill. The figure 1T at the bill clerks desk was placed on a bill rein troduced by MT. Burleson of Texas pen sioning the surviving officers and en- listed men of the Texas volunteers em- ployed in the defense of the Texas front tier against Mexican and Indian ma rauders in 1S55-60.
 A bill by~ Representative Capron of Rhode Island to increase and adjust the pay and allowances of the army. navy, marine corps and revenue cutter serv- ice was numbered "2." The measure was followed by a resolution and a fourth bill to be referred was one by Andrew Ogleware enabling New Mexico to obtain statehood. A majority of the several hundred bills to find their way into the record of the first session of the house were 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 call ing on the speaker to appoint a commit tee sto investigate the financial disturbance was presented by Represen- tative John Wesley Gaines of Tennessee. Two bills for the protection of creditors of failed national banks were introduced, one by Mir Chandler of Mississippi, the other by MT. Morris of Nebraska.
 The former provides for the creation of $l0000,000 reimbursement fund by the payment to the United States treasurr by each national bank of one-fourth of per cent of it's average deposits for the last six months of each year, this fund to be drawn on by the comptroller of the currency to repay to depositors and cred itors the amounts they have lost by the failure. The bill does not exempt stock holders from their bank liabilities. MT. Morris bill is framed along similar lines. Tariff bills were introduced as follows: By MT Clark of Missouri removing the import duty on white paper and pulp; M. Williams of Mississippi. nsta Dlishtng i free trade between the Philippines and | the rest of the United States; by MT. Richardson of Alabama, resolution in- structing the committee on ways and means to "so revise the tariff as to make 1t a tariff for revenue and not for protecting one class of citizens at the expense of another"; by MT. Thomas of North Carolina, placing white paper on the free list by Mir. Payne of New York reintroduction of the Philippines tariff bill which was finally amended in the house of the fftp-ninth congress; by Williams, to establish a minimum tariff.
 A postal savings bank bill was intro duced by Representative Hitchcock of Nebraska
 Among the bills introduced in further ance of prohibition were the following: Representative Bartlett of Georgia abol- shing federal liquor licenses in prohibi- tion states counties or municipalities; by Wallace of Arkansas prohibiting common carriers from taking liquor into prohibit ton states and nullifyng the original package clause.
 MT. Henry of Texas introduced a bill limiting passenger fares on interstate railroads to two cents mile for adults and half fare for children between and 1 F years old.