The copper era., 1907-12-19
CONGRESS IN SESSION.
A Number of Bills Introduced in Both
 Houses.

lUuSSS.
 The following are a few of the many bills that have been introduced in the present session of congress:
 By Platt for national supervision for corporations, including a national bureau of incorporation.
 By Laurin, to relieve the present money stringency and prevent its re- occurrence. It permits persons own- ing any bonds of the United States to deposit them in the treasury and receive notes to an amount equaling theIr par value. It is provided that until February, 1909, persons owning one or more bales of cotton may de- posit in a depository designated by the secretary of the treasury, and re- ceive treasury notes to the extent of 70 per cent. of the value of the cot ton. If not redeemed, the cotton shall be sold by the government. The bill also imposes a penalty on dealing in ''cotton futures" of s10O,OOO fine or five years imprisonment.
 By Nelson, allowing national bank ing associations to loan their funds on real estate and lands to one-third of the value; also amending the national bankruptcy act so as tC more clearly define just who may be. come a bankrupt.
 By Shoot, granting 23O acres of -1,-i6 h l fa hnp,ncAnaI tiers, one-eighth of which must be put under cultivation during the first year of occupancy.
 By Peurose, providing for separate statehood for New Mexico.
 By Hall, removing the duty from imports of lumber where dressed or rough.
 By Macondrey, making it felony punishable by imprisonment by from two to five years or by a fine, to pub- fish or circulate any false or mislead ing advertisement; retiring on pay all veterans of the civil war who have attained the age of seventy.
 By Fulton, prohibiting the mailing of any statement of margin or other stock wagering transaction, and mak ing it felony under the interstate commerce law to utilize the telegraph for that purpose. Directing the secretary of the interior to at once place on the pension roll the name: of all survivors of the civil war whether regulars or volunteers, who served at least sixty days, and so in creasing pensions that no such sur vivors shall receive less than S4C monthly.
 Representative Dalzell, introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor tC publish an untrue or derrogatory statement about national bank and penalizing such an act by fine or i'm prisonment.
 Congressman w. R. Smith intro duced a bill appropriating three hundred thousand dollars for making on the Fl Paso fedora buildings.
 With only one committee appointed that on banking and currency, anG with the assurance of Speaker Can non that no other committees would be announced until next week, the house after T brief session, adjourned until Thursday.
 The president sent the senate the following names:
 Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Nicaragua and Costa Rica, Wm. L. Merry of Cali fornia.
 Interstate Commerce Commission Chas. A. Prouty of Vermont.
 Assistant attorney general, Johr O. Thompson of Kansas.
 Senator Tillman introduced a reso. lution directing the committee or finance to investigate the recent pro ceedings of the secretary of the treasury in connection with the financial crisis and also to make in. quiry concerning clearing house certificates. The resolution direct: an inquiry as to whether there i: warrant of law for the issue ot certif cates of indebtedness bearing 3 pel cent interest; whether the issue oi S50,000,O00 Panama bonds were re, quired "to defray the expenses of the canal, there being at the time up wards of s2OO, 100000 in the treasury for current expenses" what authority in law there is for clearing house certificates.
 Culberson called up his resolution asking for information concerning the issue of Panama canal bonds, and the total number of banks in opera on November IS, and the amount of public money deposited in the banks. Good Cough Medicine for Children