Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-01-23

also passed a bill to increase the
limit of the cost of FIVE lighthouse
tenders, making the total limit $780,
600 instead of $135,0OO The house
adjourned until Monday
Washington, Jan 14-Taking but a
brief time to pass the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill. carrying nearly 100000, the
senate devoted the remainder of the
day to the Brownsville ARRAY. Pres
ident RooseveIt's message. accom-
panied by many additional affidavits
and a cigar box of bullets and empty
cartridge shells, was received, read
and ordered printed. Speechmaking
on the subject then began. Senator
Mallory and Senator Clay indorsing
the action Of the president. Senator
Spooner was in the midst of con-
stitutional discussion of the authority
of the president in the case when
adjournment was taken Senator
Spooner holds that when the presi-
dent exercises his powers as COM
mander-in chief of the army, the
senate has no Jurisdiction to review
his actions.
The house spent most of the day
considering legislation perta ming to
the District of Columbia circular
sent to the members of congress stat
ing that certain naval officers who
had invented grades of smokeless
powder had sold their inventions to
the Dupont Power company, was the
subject of considerable discussion.
Mr.. Hepburn insisted that the govern
ment could afford to go into the man
ufacture Of powder If men educated
at public expense were permitted to
sell their inventions TO companies
selling Their output to foreign govern
ments
Washington, Jan 10 -Goaded b.
frequent interruptions from Senator
/ 1illman, the speech of Senator
Spooner in the senate on the resolr-
lion for investigation of the ARRAY at
Brownsville. was changed from a CON
stitutional argument in defense OF
| President Roosevelt's course in dis
| charging the negro battalion of the
army to a severe arrangement of the
South Carolina senator He quoted
from Senator Tillman's utierances de
! Tending lynching as means of con
trolling negroes and said that to en-
courage such mob violence was a dis
grace to civilization. Senator Till
man was not permitted to reply. but
at the conclusion of Senator Spooner's
attack he declared that at an early
I date he would take occasion to de
fend himself against the insulting
illusions made to him.
Washington. Jan. i6-The senate
| leaders regard the end of the Browns
willie discussion in sight, and it is con
fidently expected that a compromise
resolution offered by Senator Foraker
will be adopted The substitute is
as follows: Resolved. that the
committee on military affairs is d.
rected 10 take and have printed tes-
timony for the purpose of ascertain
ing all the facts with referelce to or
connected with the ARRAY at Browns
vile August Is. The committee is
authorized to send for persons and
papers. to administer oaths The
feature of the debate was an arraign.
ment by Senator Carmach of repub-
lican senators who have criticised
the president for his action in the
brownsville matter He regarded
lt as an attempt to 'dethrone" the
president as the leader of the party
and declared that either the presi-
dent must be renominated or the plat
form on which he stood returned to
the democrats Senators Stone
Money and Knox followed each up
holding the authority of the prest
dent
The fertilization appropriation bill
was passed ny the house without
amendment, an unusual thing with
appropriation bills. Appropriation
bills for the District Of Columbia
we're taken up. February p was
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