Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK
-,r LATEST NEWS OF THE
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Great Southwest.
CONGRESSIONAL.

rho senate Thursday passed the
uidows' pension bill, providing that
.,,or1 soldiers widow now receiving
hon s12 per month shall receive
minimum of $12 hereafter, upon
oof of her husbands death, and
r,itbout proof that his death was from
aorces incident to his military serv-
600 The bill has already passed the
house
conator Lodge of Massachusetts
rh,rsdav strongly Endorsed the pend
mo currency bill in the senate and
declared that it would be serviceable
as an emergency measure and would
not prevent the enactment OF gen
oral currency law which, he declared,
no boned to see realized in the fu-
tire on the basis of central bank.
Senator Paynter of Kentucky op-
nosed the currency bill in a short
speech. and especially condemned the
imposition to insure bank deposits.
The bill to require American sup
niles for the Panama canal to be car
red in American bottoms was again
considered Thursday, but not acted
upon.
The house committee on naval af-
fairs Thursday reported favorably the
bill introduced by its chairman, Rep
resentative Foss of Illinois, to equal
ize and fix the pay of the navy and
the marine corps The bill provides
that the pay and allowances Except
mileage and forage of all officers of
the navy and marine corps shall be
the same as the pay and allowances of
officers of corresponding rank in the
army
Senator McCreary of Kentucky took
occasion in the senate Thursday to
reply to recent references by Senator
Depew of New York to night riders
and the burning of tobacco barns in
Kentucky. incidentally he reviewed
the operations of the tobacco trust
and declared that the repeal of the
&c tax on tobacco was what was need
ed for the benefit of the farmers of
his state. Distance" said Mr. Nc
Creary may lend enchantment to the
view of the senator from New York,
but if he had confined himself to the
stock gambling and the burdens of
trusts and lawlessness OF the state of
New York, it seems to me it would
have been more appropriate than wan
dering so far away from his subject
as to criticise Kentucky"
Senator Nelson of Minnesota gave
notice Thursday of an amendment he
Will propose to the Aldrich currency
bill requiring national banks to pay
per cent interest on weekly balances
OF government deposits of money.
The postoffice appropriation bill had
rough sailing in the house of repre-
sentatiVes Thursday It's progress
was halted at every turn by amend
ments upon which there was lengthy
discussion. The attacks begun on the
secton relating to the pneumatic tube
service, which was forced to undergo
eAanSe so mat extensions of such
service should not be confined to the
several cities named in the bill, but
mat they should be made wherever
.ne postmaster general may think
pest The house was a unit for with
Aoiuihg portion of the pay to rail-
roads for transportation of the mails
until correct system of weighing
should be established, provision to
mat effect being incorporated in the
measure, and finally a vigorous, but
inenectual attack was made on a prop
osi'ion by Mr.. Goebel of Ohio to in
crease by 100000 the appropria.
uon Tor paying the expenses of railway
maii clerks while travelling on business
OF the department.