Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-04-03
WORK OF CONGRESS.
Senate.


Senate
The currency bill was practically SVEN
an exclusive right of way in the Senate on
the oath until finally disposed OF by an ah-
nouncement from Senator Aldrich that ne
would moye to give 1t that at sf fhpS install
pent of his speech on the bill. a question
Brought out a statement by Mr.: Aldricn
Joint commission of the Senate and House
authorized to consider permanent currency
reform before Congress adjourned. at 4:1o
D. m. the Senate adjourned
Voting on amendments to the currency Dill
consumed nearly the entire session of the
Senate on the 25th. All of the committee
amendments were accepted and Incorporated
In the bill, and all other amendments, ex-
cept one, were disagreed to-, the voting
showing conclusively that only with the
sanction of the committee could any change
be made in the bill. At 515 O'Clock the
Senate adjourned.
The Senate on the Goth devoted consider,
able time to the credentials of SenatOr-elect
John Walter Smith of Maryland. The re.
suit of long debate was the admission OF
Mr.. Smith. The currency bill was then
taken up and amendments were considered.
At 6:12 o'clock the Senate adjourned.
The Senate devoted it's entire session on
the 27th to a consideration of the Aldrlch
currency bill. After further amending the
measure, it was passed by vote of AZ to
16. The Senate then adjourned
The passage of a large number of bills OF
minor Importance and an extended discus
sion of measure to authorize the damming
of the Snake river, Washington, occupied the
entire time of the Senate on the Both. The
lack of quorum, a motion to adjourn be-
ing adopted at 3:45 p. N.
House.
Determination to conduct tilibuSter on
all occasions where opportunity presented
itself, in order to force the republicans to
action on an employers liability bill and
other measures deemed necessary Of en-
actment was. announced by Mr.; Williams
OF C m1sTId debate on the agricultural appro-
priation bill continued throughout the day,
except for a brief time, when MI Sulzer
the action of the House yesterday in elim1-
Mating from the record his speech of Sat
ramGrks Of Mr.. Dalzell of Pennsylvania re-
garding the rules. In that, however, he
was unsuccessful. At 500 p. IN. the House
In the course Of bitter denunciation of
President Roosevelt on the floor of the
House of Representatives on the 25th Mr..
Stanley of Kentucky compared him with
Alexander Hamilton, whom he designated
as IAN obscure adventurer, and both of
whom he said had profound contempt for
Impotence with its restraints. Mr.. Bryan,
he said, had the respect of the country as
iey's remarks, Mr.. Cocks Of New York,
representing the Presidents district, defend
ed the agaRS the resent attaek
ciared his complete ability to defend all
that he had said. All the remarks were
made during general debate on the agricul-
tural appropriation bill, the consideration
of which had not been concluded when the
House at 5:13 p. m. adjourned
More shafts of sarcasm and invective were
aimed at President Roosevelt in the House
on the 2eth. Mr., BealI. of Texas charged
the President with having been guilty of
"a disgusting usurpation, of power not
only toward the national legislature, but
the judiciary as we'll God and the future
alone knew, he declared, just what niche
v,In nf II
try. The agricultural appropriation bill
was considered for amendment, and when 1t
was laid aside for the day there had been
stricken out the provision for new weather
stations in the states of Texas. Kansas, Vir-
ginia, Michigan, Vermont. Missouri and In
diana. At O'Clock the House adjourned.
The question whether or not President
Roosevelt is an intOlerant man after the
fashion of King George III, arose in the
House on the 9th The discussion was
ing, what purported to be the details or
an interview yesterday between the Presl-
dent ard Representative Deikema of Mich
igan, in which the President was repre-
sented by humping his desk and berating
Mr.. Deikema for having joined in the re-
committee censuring Judge Wiley of the
United States court in China. Mr.. Deike-
ma absolycd the President from the sug-
gestion of intolerance, and said he had dis
played tue greatest liberaity in receiving
his explanation. The agricultural approprl-
been been materially amended when it was laid
inside and at 5 p m. the House adjourned.
Charges OF serious nature against Gift
ford Pmchot. chief of the forestry bureau,
wore made in the House the Both by
Messrs Smith of California and MondelI
of Wyoming, during the consideration or
the agricultural appropriation bill MIR.
Smith accused him of entering into a Sc
cret understanding with the city of Los
Angeles with the view to securing to the
city valuable water rights in the owens
river valley as against the interests of prl-
waite parties having prior claims: Mr., Mon
dell denounced him for, as he charged, lille
gally paying the expenses of forest othcla Is
in attending conventions in the west. The
bill was under discussion all day. At o:34
.. 10. the House adjourned.