The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-03-08
WEEK IN THE WORLD.
Great Events and Movements Which
Are Making History.

The second session of the 59th con
gress came to an end Monday at noon
The amount of actual legislation it ae'
complished exceeded general expecta'
ton. Instead Of devoting itself wholly
to routine business congress enacted a
number of important measures in re-
Spouse to the desire of the president
and the people Its responsiveness to
popular demand was remarkably illus
trated in the defeat of the Aldrich
amendment to the free alcohol bill,
over which the interests of the trusts
and the people came in sharp collision.
On Friday the house succeeded by al
most questionable tactics in passing
the ship subsidy bill after it had once
been defeated, Congressman Foster Of
Vermont being one of the republican
| insurgents to side with the democrats
against the measure. By persistent
flibustering, however, the bill met de.
feat in the senate, Mr.. Carmack of
Tennessee holding the floor until the
republican senators finally gave in. A
feature of the last day of the session
was the passage of the Philippine
bank bill, supposedly dead. Following
is list of some of the more important
bills enacted during the session:
Anticampaign contribution law.
Law giving government right of APP
peal in criminal cases.
Law providing for expatriation of
foreign born citizens who return to
foreign countries and of American wo-
men who marry foreign husbands.
Free alcohol law, giving farmers ad.
vantage of manufacturing denatured
alcohol.
Law limiting the hours of railroad
employees in the interest of the en-
ployes and the safety of the travelling
public.
Elastic currency law, giving greater
freedom to the secretary Of the treas
ury in depositing government funds
with national banks, etc.
Investigation ordered of child and
woman labor throughout the country.
New immigration law carrying pro
vision for virtual exclusion of Japan
ese coolies.
Two battleships to cost $10000,000
each, authorized in naval appropria-
ton.
Artillery corps strengthened by in
crease of 1000 men.
River and harbor improvements au
thorized to the amount of $S7,000000.
Salaries of senators and representa-
tives increased to $500, salaries of
speaker, vice president and cabinet of
ficers increased to $4,000.
General service pension law giving a
minimum pension of $12 month to
all veterans of the civil war or the |
Mexican war.
A bill in equity to secure an account
ing of the financial affairs of Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy, head of the
Christian Science church, was filed in
the superior court for Merrimac coun-
ty at Concord N. H., Friday, by Mrs.
Eddy IS son, George W. Glover of Dead
wood, S. D., and his daughter, Mrs.
Mary Baker Glover, and George w.
Baker of Bangor Me-, nephew and
next friend - of Mrs Eddy The bill
is directed against Alfred Farlow and
other trustees of the Christian Science
church in Boston and Calvin A. Frye,
Mrs. Eddy secretary, Lewis y.
Strang, her assistant secretary, and
Herman s. Herring, first reader of the
church in Concord. Besides demand
ng an accounting of all transactions
n connection with Mrs. Eddy's affairs,
he bill asks for restitution in case any
appears; for an injunction
Turing litigation against interference
with her property and business, and
for receiver. In a statement issued
1T Concord, N. H., by former United
States Senator William E. Chandler, as
special counsel in the action, it is de-
Jared that Mr.. Glover is actuated by
10 spirit of disrespeet to his mother,
put believes that the proceeding is in
her real interest. Mr.. Glover says
hat the action is not directed against
he religion of the Christian Scientists.