Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-01-22
Declares Colleague Has
Lived Clean and Fought
Polygamy.
BELIEVES In THE HOME
House Passes Senate Bill to
Prohibit Campaign Con-
tributi0nS.

Washington. Jan. Ex-senator Suth
erland today came TO the defense OF
his colleague, Senator Smoot of Utah
defending his right to retain his seat
in the United States senate.
Opposed Practice.
Smoot himself, said Sutherland, had
always insisted that the practice OF
polygamy should be abandoned. He
had never been polygamist. and not
a line of testimony could be found
which indicated he had ever advocated
pOlygamy.
His Life Clean.
He said Shoots whole life had been
clean and above reproach: that the
demand of petitions that he should be
removed from the senate in order that
he might not, from that exalted place.
make war upon the American home.
had no justification whatever.
To Prohibit Contributions.
Washington, Jan. 22.-The senate bill
to prohibit corporations from making
contributions to campaign funds was
passed by the house yesterday after n
lively debate, in which the democrats
landed on the republicans heavily. Will
Iiams of Mississippi, Robinson OF Ar
kansas and Hardwick of Georgia TOOK
the~iead in the attack, criticising for
mer Republican National Chairman Cor
teIyOu for his alleged activity during
the last presidential campaign in Sc
Letting contributions from corpora
lions.
Called Upon to Refund.
Mr. Hardwick called upon the re-
publicans to refund to widows and
orphans" the $4,000 contributed by
the New York Life Insurance company.
the facts of which were brought out III
the recent insurance investigation i'll
New York. He referred to Mr. Nc
Call, late president of the company, and
ANDY" Hamilton, who was said to
have received money from insurance
companies for use in politics. Mr.. Sher-
man of New York put into the record
that both of these men were democrats.
Mr. Williams declared it to be
still sadder commentary on the evil
practices of the republican party, when
it could go outside its own ranks TO
corrupt"
Neither Give Nor Take.
The bill makes it unlawful for any
national bank or any corporation or
ganized by authority of any laws or
congress to make a money contrl0u-
ton in connection with any election
to any political Office or for any corpor-
alton whatever to make a money con-
tribution in connection with any cleo
ton at which presidential and vice
presidential electors or representa-
tive in congress is to be voted for, or
any election by any state legislature
of a United States senator. One of the
provisions added by the house makes
such corporation, upon conviction. pun
ishable by a fine of not exceeding
81 600 and not less than $3.50, or by
Imprisonment for term of not more
than one year or both such fine and
Imprisonment in the discretion OF the
court.
VIII Cut Pension Agencies.
Washington, Jan. 22.-Upon the rec
ommendaticn OF Commissioner of Pen
sions Warner the number of pension
agencies probably will be reduced and
an annual saving of s104.500 effected.
The pension appropriation bill, as re-
Ported to the house yesterday. reduces
the number of agencies from eighteen
to nine The Offices abolished are
those at Milwaukee. Detroit. Des
Moines. New York, Pittsburg. Augusta.
Me-. Concord, Mass, Knoxville, Tenn,
and Louisville, Ky.
Sell Chinese Children.
Washington, Jan. 22-"Chinese boys
and Chinese girls are sold in the San
Francisco market every day like horses
and mules" was one of the statements
made by Representative McKinlay of
California before the house committee
ON foreign affairs which is consider
ing the Perkins bill to modify the Chi
nese exclusion act. Mr.. McKinlay urg
ed that only a few great companies,
which brought such young Chinese tol
this country in practical slavery, would
profit by any notifications of the ex-
clusion act, and said the majority of
Californians are opposed to any tam
nil fr,. 1oxr -.