Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-12-26

interstate commerce is the owner of
the stock of any other corporation
tfanspoi ting passengers and freight,
AID calling upon the interstate COM
merce commission TO define the au-
thorlty Of the federal government ana
OF the states in respect to the ccntrol
OF the liquor ttraffic drought the opera
ticn Of the interstate commerce law.
The resolutions provoked consider
able debate and were finally referred
TO the senate committee, though one
Ct them was transformed into bill
Senator Culbertson spoke oa his
resolution calling on the committee
Oh finance to investigate and report
rpon the cause OF the present imam
cial stringency and to recommend
measures for preventing it's re2ur.
renee. The resolution was referred
to the committee on finance.
The secretary of the interior sent
a communication to the senate recon-
faending a provision in the urgent de.
ficiency appropriation bill for the
support of the Ute Indians who are
low off their reservation and in the
vicinity of the Cheyenne river agency
in South Dakota. Authority to expend
a portion of their tribal funds to pre-
vent want and suffering among them
IS requested.
Senator Kittredge introduced Il bin
Oh copyrights which gives composers
all rights over their compositions so
4 - Nf oo1
machines and devices may not make
use of amy copyrighted composition
without securing consent. Senator
Gore of Oklahoma introduced a bill
providing for the election of United
States senators by popular vote.
Speaker Cannon announces the
committees, with the exceptions of
appropriations, banking and currency,
mileage and rules, which already have
cen named. The house will now be
i'll n position to get down to business
immediately after the holiday recess,
which will last from December 81 I'm.
Ill January 6. Following precedent, no
chairman in the seth congress who is
a member of tie Goth will be super
seeded, unless through the occurrence
Of a vacancy elsewhere he has be,
come the ranking member of another
and more important committee, in
which case lie is expected to step out.
Washington Dec. 19.-The word
'Fliar" was twice used in anger on the
floor Of the house. the first occasion
being when Mr.. Gaines of Tennessee
denounced a local newspaper for
printing a statement regarding his
alleged interest in the deficiency ap-
preparation for seeds for free distri-
button, and the second and more seri-
GUS occasion was when Mr.. De Ar
mond Of Missouri applied the epithet
to Mr.. Williams of Mississippi, the
minority leader, resulting in the two
men engaging in a fistic encounter
which only ended when they were
forcibly separated.
The trouble arose over the misun-
derstanding regarding a conversation
OF a week ago about some committee
appointments Mr.. De Almond insist
ing that he had not made any spe-
cific recommendation but only had
asked that Mr.. Booker Of Missouri
and one or two other democrats from
that state be considered according to
their special fitness. Mr.. Williams
maintained otherwise and the anger
OF the two men increased until they
came to blows. The fight was pre-
ceded by the passing of the lie on
the floor Immediately after adjourn
ment Of the house.
Mr.. Williams struck the first blow
and Mr.. De Almond retalated vigor-
ously iwth clipched fists. When the
combatants were separated blood was
flowing down Mr. Williams face from
a small cash in the left cheek and his
forehead was red and abrazed. Mr..
De Almond bore no mark of the fray.
A resolution offered IL the house
Dy Mr.. Mccall Of Massachusetts post
poning until next May the quetiCn of
the location of the statue of General
u. S. Grant in the United States DO
tanical gardens in this city, furnished
the occasion for a brief but lively
debate Mr.. Smith of Iowa strenu-
ousIy objected to it's consideration,
because he said the site already
agreed upon represented the best
Judgment of Secretaries Root and
Taft, General Gsenville NJ. Dodge, the
senate committee on library and the
members of the Grant family. Messrs.
Williams of Mississippi, Sherley Of
Kentucky and Mann cf Illinois, sought
in vain to get Mr.. Smith to permit the
resolution to pass, but he was obdu-
rate and the contractor will now be
permitted to go on with the work of
builing the foundation. It was rep
resented that in placing the statue on
the site selected, many historical
trees would be destroyed.
Representative Hill introduced the
following concurrent resolution:
That it is the sense of congress that
the secretary of the treasury should.
in his discretion and under such
regulations as ne may prescribe, per
nit the receipt Of certified checks OF
banks in payment of all public debts,
the deposits Of the same in depository
banks, and the drawing of checks
against such depository accounts by
disbursing officers in sub-treasury
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