The Monticellonian., 1908-03-19
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The senate Thursday passed the widows pension bill, providing that every soldiers widow now receiving less than SIP per month shall receive a minimum of SIP hereafter, upon proof of her husbands death, and without proof that his death was from causes incident to his military serv- ice. The bill has already passed the house.
 Senator Lodge of Massachusetts Thursday strongly indorsed the pend. ing currency bill in the senate and declared that it would be serviceable as an emergency measure and would not prevent the enactment of gen eral currency law which. he declared, he hoped to see realized in the fu- ture on the basis of a central bank.
 Senator Paynter of Kentucky op- posed the currency bill in short speech. and especially condemned the proposition to insure bank deposits.
 The bill to require American sup plies for the Panama canal to be car ried 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 texcept 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 6c tax on tobacco was what was need ed for the benefit of the farmers of his state Distance" said MT Me \ ' view of the senator from New York, but if he had confined himself to the stock gambling and the burdens of trusts and lawlessness or 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 crticise Kentucky"
 Senator Nelson of Minnesota gave notice Thursday of an amendment he will propose to the AIdrieh currency bill requiring national banks to pay per cent interest on weekly balances of government deposits of money
 The postoftice appropriation bill had rough sailing in the house of repre- sentatives Thursday Its progress was halted at every turn by amend. ments upon which there was lengthy discussion The attacks begun on the section relating to the pneumatic tube service. which was forced to undergo a change so that extensions of such service should not be confined to the several cities named in the bill, but that they should be made wherever the postmaster general may think best The house was a unit for with holding a portion of the pay to rail roads for transportation of the mails until a correct system of weighing should be established, a provision to that effect being incorporated in the measure. and finally a vigorous. but intellectual attack was made on q prop osition by MT. Goebel of Ohio to in crease by s20O9,009 the appropria tion for paying the expenses of railway mail clerks while trayeling on business of the department.