Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-17
IN CONGRESS
The House..

The House.
The army canteen was again under
discussion in the House Of Represcn.
tatives. While the army appropria.
ton bill was up, Representative Nor
rell, Of Pennsylvania, intimated that
he would like to attach a paragraph
doing away with the anti.canteen law
In line with a bill he had introduced
In the first session OF the Ffty.pinth
Congress.
Representative Gragg, Of Texas, In
troduced a bill to appropriate $1.275..
900 for the construction OF sea walls
and entertainments to protect the sites
selected for fertilization WORKS at Cab
weston.
BY a vote of 20 to l, the Senate
passed a bill providing that railway
employees engaged in handling trains
shall not work more than sixteen con-
sccutive hours, which period IL to be
followed by ten hours of duty.
1t is believed hat the rejection
of the plan to build an island at the
mouth OF the Chesapeake bay for de-
tense Is probably the most important
step taken By the house committee on
military affairs. The committee re-
fused to accept the suggestion of a
subcommittee. which recommended
that an appropriation be made for a
survey Of the proposed Improvement.
Lively debate In house over main
tanning maneuvcrs between regulars
and state militia.
The Senate.
Washington, ID. C.-The first speech
in defense of the right OF Reed
SmOot to q seat in the senate was de.
livered by Senator Hopkins, OF ILL
nois. Mr.. Hopkins took the position
that senators were n federal officers
to the extent that the senate could
pass upon their qualifications and
eligibility, or could impeach them for
high crimes or misdemeanOr. II a
senator was to be punished, 1t must
be done by the state or federal courts.
Only federal officers, he maintained,
were impeachable. and this impeach-
mcnt must be for acts committed as
such federal officers.
Washington, ID. C.-Alarmed by re-
ports that the house committee on
rivers and harbors will not include
the project for a 1i.foot waterway be.
tween Lockport, ILL.,, and st. Louis, In
the rivers and harbors appropriation
bill, the Illinois and Missouri delega-
tons In congress called on Chairman
Il,.tn, ,nl ocLnl prr f,p,nttDr mn
corning the status of the project. and
also sought a postponemen. of the
completion of the bill until Representa-.
tive Lor .mer, Of Illinois, who Is now IT,,
can return to Washington and resume
his work as a member OF the COM
mittee.
Mr.. Burton expressed an unwilling.
ness to delay presentation Of the re-
port long, as such action might en-
danger the passage of the T"asure.
Mr.. Burton asked that Representa-.
dives OF the two states visit him again
on January IA, when he will decide
how long the committee can wait for
the return OF Mr.. Lorimer.
Mr.. Burton asked Mr.. Madden II tha
delegations would oppose a surve! %.
a li-foot waterway from Chicago all
the way to the gulf of Mexico. MIR
Madden replied that they would not
oppose such a survey, but would Ect
be willing to accept that In lieu OF an
appropriation to begin the work on the
project in Illinois.
Answering Senator Lodge. who hat
made a studied speech in defense o.
he president, Senator Foraker Mon
day attacked the Lodge defense ant
President Roosevelt's Brownsville or
, der of dismissal in terms more vigor
: Gus than have been us,'l and In
> manner more savage than he has ye
,hown in debate upon the subject.
Senator Gearin. of Oregon, discuss
. ing his resolution on the japanese
question, argued In favor OF the doc
: trine of states rights and protection
, of labor by the exclusion OF coolic
from both China and Japan. He crit
!ciscd the stand taken by Presiden
. Roosevelt on the Japanese question a
to his Interpretation OF the existing
treaty with Japan. and charged tina
the presidents position In regard t
the Introduction OF cheap labor as AZ
~ piled to the Chinese was Inconsistent
q with his recent message to congress
in regard to the treatment Of JaI
anesc on the Pacific coast,
II was learned Monday from a reli,
BILE source that members of the selet
senate committed which Investigate