The Forrest City times., 1907-02-22
IN CONGRESS

dueed a bill giving to intermarried 1 whites of the Cherokee nation tho right to sell improvements to enrolled citizens of the tribe al a valuation ap- l proved hy an official designated by the secretary of the interior for that pur- l pose. The bill also would give inter. married whites q lien on the rents and profits of the land on which im- provements are located for any pur- chase money remaining unpaid The further right is given to enforce such l liens through courts of competent ju- risdiction
 The sundry civil appropriation bill reported to the house Tuesday con tatns many items of appropriation for cities. towns and institutions in the middle west The appropriation for the new postoffce at St Louis Is $l50,000 for use during the fscai year 1908, for which year all the items in the bill are appropriated
 Senator Reed Shoot, of Utah. read ing from a manuscript. addressed the senate Tuesday in his own defense He showed intense feeling when he referred to the soldiers Utah had placed in the field in the civil and Spanish-Ameriean wars, soldiers who. of Mormon belief, walked side by side with the others, fighting for their united country"
 The nomination of members for tho isthmian canal commission, recently sent to the senate by the president. held II n hn on interoceanic canals Tuesday The committee acted as 1t did because, it was alleged, Chairman Shonts was al. ready drawing a salary from the Bel mont Ryan interests and had opened an office in New York to dschage tho duties of his new position as president of the poiitan-lnterborough Co. 1 w Leon Pepperman resigned the position of chief of the Washington office of the isthmian canal commis sion to become Mir Shonts' assistant in the Interborough-Met Co of New York city. MT Pepperman has been with the isthmian canal com mission since Mr. Shonts became chairman, two years ago. anu during much of the time has been in charge of the Washington office. For twelve years Mir. Peppesman has been in the government service.
 Attorney General Bonaparte has di. rected that suits be instituted against a number of railroad companies to recover penalties for violation of the safety appliance law. Information upon which these prosecutions will be based were reported to the interstate commerce commission by it's safety l appliance inspectors. Seventy -eigN violations in all are alleged
 The Post Office Committee of the House adopted a series of provisions l governing railway-mail pay, each of which slashed present allowances to the railroads. The provisions were in eorporated in the Post Office appro. priation bill, which is now on it's pas sage in the House. Being general | legislation in an appropriation bill, the railway clauses are subject to a point of order, and hence some step had to be taken to protect them from being stricken out through this paraliamen. tary device
 Attacks on the Forestry Bureau. the Department of Agriculture and the Interior Department were freely ban died about the Senate Monday during consideration of the agricultural ap- propriation bill. Last weeks comment regarding the increase in the salary of | Mir Pinchot led Senator Fulton to make a general criticism of the admin. istration of this bureau The salary l increase was agreed to before MT. Full. | ton took the floor
 The house Monday took action on the question of reducing railway-mail pay, which means that instead of cut ting the pay of the railroads 25 per cent, at saving of $12,000,000 annual. | ly, reduction of between and per cent will be made. or s2,500,00 an nually
 The House Monday passed the csn- ference report on the immigration bill l providing for Japanese coolie exclusion by vote of 1S7 to 101. The Senate already has approved the conference report so that it only remains for the President to sign the bill
 Senator Warren, chairman of tho senate committe on military affairs, has introduced bill providing for the raising of a volunteer army of the United States during actual or threat ened war Tho bill divides the mili- tary establishment into three branch es. the regular army the national guard and the volunteer army. 1t provides that the volunteer army shall be maintained in time of war. and when war is imminent, and that it may be raised by proclamation of the president after congress shall have authorized such act.
 The regular quadrennial weighing to determine the basis of compensa- tion of railroads for carrying the mails in the tsates of Ohio. Indiana, Michi- gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri. began Feb. 20.