The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands Throughout the Ma tion and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.
CON NGRESSIONAL.

The Hayes bill to regulate the con- Ing into and the residence within the United States of Asiatics was consid cred Tuesday by subcommittee of the house committee on foreign af fairs. Representative Mckinley of California appeared in support of the measure and urged chiefly as against the immigration of Japanese and other Asiatics the charges that they work for wages which disrupt conditions of the American workmen and that, racially, they are non-amalgamatiye No decision was arrived at.
 Representative Stevens of Minneso- ta introduced bill to remove the duty on pulp wood and white paper.
 A careful canvass of the senate to ascertain the sentiment Tn regard to the Aldrich currency bill indicates that when the bill comes to vote there will be more democratic senators re- corded for it than republican senators against it. Since the speech by Sen ator Smith of Michigan in opposition to the railroad bond feature of the measure, it has been stated persistent ly that there is republican defectlon that endangers the passage of the bill.
 The system Of legislative procedure in the house of representatives was severely criticised in that chamber Tuesday by MT. Murdock of Kansas. He declared it to be all wrong and as- serted that under it the vitality of initiative in the individual in his rep resentative capacity was being sapped. He has his share of the responsibility in a majority vote on non-partlsan leg islation," he asserted. but he has lit tie or no voice in determining the question upon which he shall vote ex- cept in purely partisan matters"
 The bill granting additional time to the Alaska Pacific Railway and Termi- nal Co. to file completed surveys by road sections was ordered favorably reported without amendment Tuesday by the house committee on territories.
 The senate Tuesday passed the res olution offered by Mir Tillman calling 
 tion in his possession concerning court proceedings in 1905 in the Indian ter ritory affecting the Cherokee and Chickasha Indian tribes.
 The startling charge that the rail roads of the country carrying mails b d robbed the people out of $7O0OO,- ,00 was made in the house by MT. Lloyd of Missouri He declared that the new system of weighing mails was an admission of the postmaster gen. eral that the weighing in the past 27 years had been fraudulent. He called for an investigation of the postoffic department, and MT. Wanger of Penn sylvania, chairman of the committee to control the expenses of that depart ment, promised that an injury would be conducted. Others who spoke were Messrs. Moon of Tennessee, Goebel of Ohio, Briggs of Georgia, Murdock of Kansas and Smith of California.
 Senator Tillman's resolution calling on the secretary of the interior for in- formation concerning charges of fraud in the Choctaw and Chickasha litiga- tions, in which the court was charged with receiving part of the lawyers commissions, was adopted by the sen ate Monday in modified form.
 Consideration of the postoffice ap- propriation bill was begun in the house of representatives Monday. AS presented, the bill carries a total ap- propriation of $220,765,392, which is s9,675, ,624 less than the estimates. MT. Overstreet of Indiana explained the provisions of the measure, the mai feature of which has already been pub lished.