The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-07
NEWS OF The WEEK
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Foreign Lands Throughout the Ma
ton and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
CONGRES SIGNAL.

bill to reorganize the con ular
service of the United States uassed
the senate Monday. Mr.. Lodge stated
that the net result of the measui e is
to save about $1,000 to close IS con-
suIates and to create seventeen rev
ones. No consul will be dropped as
a result of this legislation, which VIII
take effect July l, 1908.
A variety of subjects were consi7-
cred by the house Monday. A resolG-
ing was passed authorizing the M
migration committee to investigate
charges of peonage in certain states
In the debate ON that question MI
Clark of Florida denounced Assistant
Attorney General Russell in connection
with certain prosecutions in F!orl1a
and referred sarcastically to Attorney
General Bonaparte. There was
lively discussion over a bill to decort,
after the serving of their sentence, all
aliens convicted of felony. The meas
ure was defeated.
An important bit of legislation was
offered in the house by Mr.. Hepburn
of Iowa, through bill imposing
tax of SO cents per hundred shares on
stock or agreements to SELL
Senator Tillman's resolution calling
on the secretary of tho interior for in
formation concerning charges OF fraud
in the Choctaw and Chickasha litIga-
lions, in which the court was charged
of hn Vtlr
commissions, was adopted by the stn-
ate Monday in modified form.
Consideration of the postoffice ap-
preparation bill was begun in the
house of representatives Monday. AS
presented, the bill carries a total APP
preparation of s220,765,392, which is
S9.675, ga less than the estimates. Mr..
Overstreet of Indiana explained the
provisions of the measure, the main
feature of which has already been pub
lished.
The senate Monday passed bill au-
thorizing the entry under the horne
stead laws OF 800 acres of land instead
of 100, as at present, when the land
is arid and incapable of irrigation.
THE nomination of Grosvenor A. for-
Ter a cousin of Mrs. Roosevelt to be
United States marshal for the Eastern
district of Oklahoma, will not be re-
ported by the senate committee on
judiciary 1t was decided Monday to
request the president to withdraw the
nomination.
BY special order the house Monday
considered pension bills, 400 being
passed at the rate of ten minute.
A bill to punish conspiracies provo
cative of labor disputes was intro
drced Monday by Representative
Smith of Missouri. 1t provides that
any agreement or combination OF two
or more persons to do any act in CON
temptation of furtherance Of a trade
dispute between an employer and
workman engaged in interstate COM
merce. shall be indictable as COLI
spiracy, IF such act committed by one
person would not be punishable, as
crime
Representative Crumpacker Of In
diana Monday introduced a bill prOVid-
ing that members of congress shall
receive mileage at SC per mile TO be
estimated by the nearest route usually
Travelled, to and from each session OF
congress. The resident commission
ers from Porto Rico and the Philip
pines are not included in the bill The
present rate is 10 cents.
Representative Harrison of New
York Monday introduced bill making
the 18th of October of each year, the
day on which Columbus discovered
America. legal holiday.
The improvement and care OF the
Hermitage, the old home of Andrew
Jackson in Tennessee, is provided for
in a bill which was passed by the SEN
ate Monday. For this purpose $4,000
is appropriated to be paid to the
Ladies' Hermitage Association.
MISCELLANEOUS.