The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-02-04
THREE GIANTS
o., THE HOUSE
HAD THEIR INNINGS YESTERDAY
ON SUBJECT OF PARTISAN
POLITICS.
WIDOWS GET PENSIONS
Bryan and Roosevelt Designated crl'
saders - Claim For Republican
Party Vigorously Disputed
BY Democrat.

Washington, Feb. 3.--Three of th
giants of the house OF representative
had their innings today. Technical
the Indian appropriation bill was IN
der discussion, but legislation wa
relegated to the background while na
tional politics occupied the stage.
Before the political question crop
ped out. the house with but one dis
senting voice, passed the general wid
ows pension bill granting a fiat pen
sion of Sl2 a month to widows of al
honorably discharged soldiers Of the
United States who have heretofore RI
ceived benefits ef the pension law aaH
an increase of 81 a month for thos.
who have under the act Of June q
1890 The law expressly valves limt
tation of property holdings The bill
involves an expenditure Of more than
$12, 100000 annually
The political debate was opened by
Townsend, of Michigan. who, In a pre-
pared speech, claimed FOR the Republi-
can party credit fer all national legis-
lation in the last fifty years Of vital
interest to the public. In this he was
vigorously disputed by Cochran Of
New York. who afterward launched
into a discussion of the president :
message OF few days ago. his remarks
frequently eyoking applause on both
sides of the chamber.
The presidents utterances in that
document he declared were such that
neither party. could ignore. for he had
named conditions for which both must
contend. He characterized President
Roosevelt as the only CRUSADER IN
the Republican party and said that he
could not, in view OF his statements
with honor again accept the nonina-
tion for presidency. Bryan, also was
a crusader" and he believed that
with. the presidents message as his
guide, Bryan would become the fore
ordained champion of law and order
Hepburn also defended the presl-
dents message and said that condem.
nation of it had come only from the
great malefactors of the age "and the
gentleman from Ohio meaning Sen
ator Foraker.
While the debate was OF almost
every seat on the floor and in the
gallaries was occupied.
Senator Piles, of Washington, today
delivered an eloquent appea: in the
senatee in favor of appropriation by
congress Of 100000 for the govern
ment exhibit at the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition TO be held in Seattle
next year.
The day was chiefly devoted to
consideration of bills on the calendar
several of which were passed.
At 1857 the senate adjoured.
Representative Cary of Wisconsin,
today offered a joint resolution au-
thorizing the president to at once ap-
point a commission to inquire into
charges that the Western Union and
Postal Telegraph companies are
a community of interest
in the restraint or trade and con
tiary to law and that during the re-
cent strike of the union telegraphers
these companies Transmitted tele
grams by mail and delivered them un-
der the pretense that they had been
by wire.
A bill to require the enforcement by
the secretary of the treasury the in
come tax law enacted In 1904, was in
trodueed today by Representative
Hull. of Iowa. Speaking of the bill.
Hull said:
While the Dingley law expressly re-
peats all other provisions of the VII
son tariff act of 1894. provisions OF
that act comprising income tax tax
law have been left undisturbed by
Every reason now rests in
the support of some action by con
gress that will result in securing a re
view by the United States supreme
court of the important constitutional
question in this law which were by
lhdt c0ufI ueCldeu duAtEstl4 10 Nht
i'm the face of the uni |
form line OF decisions to the contrary.
over one hundred years OF
the nation'c history. Furthermore.
this decision of the supreme court
only declares invalid certain portions |
Of the income tax law. while other
provisions we're treated as within
themselves valid by the court. 1t is
due the country and due the supreme /
court, in 'ay judgment. that an oppor-
these controverted questions so vital
10 the taxing power Of congress,
should be given the supreme eourt"
Tawney. Of Minnesota. chairman Of
the appropriation committee Of the !
house. today re-5pened his fight on the |
tobacco trust by reintroducing his bin I
TO impose a federal tax on the issu-
ance Of all prize coupons accompany
ing cigars and packages Of tobacco Ia
whatever form, also snuf