Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-04-03
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Nearly the entire session of the Senate
Friday was consumed by the consideration
and final vote on the ship subsidy bill,
which was passed without a division being
call ed for. a bill was also passed in
creasing the salaries of men employed in
the life saving service. President Roose-
welt was roundly denounced in the House
by Mr.. Hardwick of Georgia for failing to
send to Congress all information regard
fling corporations which had come into his
possession. Mr.. Mann of Illinois asserted
that the President had acted with the
utmost good faith in sending to Congress
all Information that had come to him.
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Almost the entire session of the Senate
Saturday was consumed with the con-
sideration of the legislative. executive
and judicial appropriation bill, which
was passed, carrying an appropriation of
$50, $40 ,631. the amount added to the
House bill by the Senate being $Gi2,11S.
Without being materially amended the
fortifcation appropriation bill was passed
by the House.. During the closing debate
the War Department was criticised by
several members regarding the money
spent on Qualifications at Subig Bay, The
Democrats procured the adoption of an
amendment permitting the Secretary of
War to purchase abroad ANY" war ma
terial, but the Republican leaders soon
rallied their members and reversed that
action, leaving in the bill a restriction to
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ator William James Bryan of Florida
was made in the Senate Immediately after
the prayer by the chaplain Monday,
whereupon. in respect to his memory the
Senate adjourned. In the House Mr..
Mann of Illinois charged that Mr.. Sulzer
of New York had put in the Congressional
Record what purported to be a speech de-
livered by him last Saturday, but which
Mr.. Mann charged was not the one deliv-
cred. A resolution offered by Mr.. Mann
to expunge the printed speech from the
record was adopted by a strict party vote,
but not until after the House had been
treated to a bitter denunciation of Mr..
Mann by Mr.. Sulzer and several lively
tits between the latter and the Speaker.
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The currency bill was practically given
an exclusive right of way in the Senate
Tuesday until finally disposed of by an
announcement from Senator Aldrich that
he would move Wednesday to give it that
status. Senator La Toilette concluded
the third installment of his speech on the
bill. A question brought out a statement
by MI. Aldrich that he hoped to see the
creation of a joint commission of the
Senate and House authorized to consider
permanent. currency reform before Con-
gress adjourned. Determination to con-
duct a flibuster on all occasions where
opportunity presented itself, in order to
force the Republicans to action on an
employers liability bill and other meas
ures deemed necessary of enactment was
announced by Mr.. Williams of Mississippi
in the House. General debate on the ag-
ricultural appropriation bill continued
throughout the day, except for a BRIEF
time, when Mr.. Sulzer of New York, by
way of retaliation for the action of the
House Monday in eliminating from the
record his speech of Saturday last, sought
to have expunged some remarks of Mr..
Dalzell of Pennsylvania regarding the
rules. In that, however, he was unsuc-
c~essful.
Voting on amendments to the currency
bill consumed nearly the entire session Of
the Senate Wednesday. All of the COM
mittee's amendments were accepted and
Incorporated in the bill, and all other
amendments, except one, were disagreed
to, the voting showing conclusively that
only with the sanction of the committee
could any change be made in the bill.
In the course of a bitter denunciation OF
President Roosevelt on the floor of the
House of Representatives Mr.. Stanley
of Kentucky compared him with Alexan-
der Hamilton, whom he designated as IAN
obscure adventurer," and both of whom
he said had profound contempt for the
constitution and displayed everlasting i'm
patience with it's restraints. Mr.. Bryan,
he said, had the respect of the country as
a statesman. Apparently ignoring Mr..
Stanley's remarks, Mr.. Cocks of New
York, representing the Presidents dis
trict, defended the President against the
recent attack of Mr.. Willett. Mr.. Will
lett, replying, declared his complete abil-
ity to defend all that he had said. All
the remarks were made during general
debate on the agricultural appropriation
bill, the consideration of which had not
been concluded When the House adj
iourned.
The Senate Thursday devoted consid-
,rable time to the credentials of Senator
elect John Walter Smith of Maryland.
The result of a longhdebate was the adj
mission of Mr.. Smith. The currency bill
was then taken up and amendments were
considered. More shafts of sarcasm and
invective were aimed at President Roose-
welt in the House. Mr.. Beall of Texas
charged the President with having been
guilty of "a disgusting usurpation of pow
err not only toward the national legisla-
ture. but the judiciary as we'll. God and
the future alone knew, he declared, just
what niche he was to occupy in the tenn
pie of his country. The agricultural APP
preparation bill was considered for amend
meht. and when it was laid aside for the
day there had been stricken out the pro-
vision for new weather stations IN the
States of Texas, Kansas, Virginia, Michi-
ran, Vermont, Missouri and Indiana.
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