Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-17
WITH THE NATIONAL. LAWMAKERS
Of THE S|XT|ETH CONGRESS
Discussion in the Senate Postponed Until Ate,
House on the Penal Code B1-Pension for Ad
mira1 Coghlan's Widow-Judge Thayer Confirmed.
Retaliation Suggested Against Turkish Cigarettes

The Senate yesterday informally agreed
to postpone until after the Christmas
holidays action on the bills providing for
the re-enlistment of the negro soldiers
who were discharged on account of the
Brownsville ARRAY of 1906. The under
standing was arrived at after a brief
discussion in which Mr.. Foraker said he
did not wish to speak further the
subject until the reply of the Secretary
of War to the resolution calling for in
formation concerning the use of de-
tectives in that connection is received.
Senator Warren, chairman of the COM
mittee on military affairs, announced that
several other senators desired to submit
remarks on the pending bills. Mr.. For
aker said he would call it up as soon as
possible after converting January 4.
Boulevard to Mount Vernon.
The House committee on claims yester-
day heard Senators Daniel of Virginia and
Rayner of Maryland and Representative
Carin of Virginia, who appeared to in
dorse the Carlin bill providing for a
Washington memorial boulevard from
Washington to Mount Vernon. After the
hearing the bill was referred to Chairman
Miller of the claims committee as sub
committee Of one to look into the merits
of the measure and report.
The bill asks that Congress appropriate
$12O, 900 for the construction of the boule
ward, which will allow the expenditure of
about $4,000 a mile. In the early days of
the republic George Washington borrowed
from the state of Virginia $12O,OOO to use
in the construction of government build
been paid back to Virginia, and Virginia
has never demanded it, but Virginians
hold it would be only fitting for the gov
eminent to appropriate this money for the
construction of handsome memorial
highway to Mount Vernon.
Mr. Carin believes that the committee
will report the bill to the House. and fees
confident that, once it is before the House.
it will be favorably acted upon. Senator
Daniel, who introduced similar bill In
the Senate, is also confident of it's pas
sage.
To Improve the Lower Chesapeake.
Representative Maynard of Virginia has
introduced bill in the House granting
the Lynnhaven Terminal corporation per-
mission to improve the lower Chesa pake
and Lynnhaven bays by the construction
of breakwater and allowing the cor
poration to charge anchorage fees for all
vessels taking shelter in the harBor Great
ed by the breakwater. The corporation
thinks the government should either make
the improvements or allow them to be
made.
Would Bar Turkish Cigarettes.
Representatives of Virginia and North
Carolina tobacco growers were heard by
the House ways and means committee
yesterday They declared that the Con-
necticut raised tobacco, which has a
competitor in the Sumatra leaf. enjoys
protection of a schedule of $1.S5, while
the bright leaf of Virginia and North
Carolina, used in making cigarettes has
a protection of only 35 cents per pound
from the Turkish and Egyptian product.
The southern tobacco men asked that
the southern product be given as proper
tionate protection from foreign products
as is enjoyed by the northern-grown
weed.
The speakers also declared that the
American-made cigarettes are debarred
from Turkey. and for this reason a pro-
hibitory tariff should be enacted against
the Turkish cigarette and tobacco. They
declared that the tobacco business of
Turkey, where enormous quantities of
tobacco are used, is a government mo-
nopoly, and all foreign tobacco is forbid
den to enter the kingdom They there
fore contended that if Turkey refused to
permit the American cigarette and to-
bacco to enter its kingdom, America