The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-01-31
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The Senate was not in session Friday.
After passing q large number Of p-ns,axa
bills the House At :: }. m. adjourned
until Monday. The penal code bin wss
not taken up.
The bill revising the criminal laws q
the United States was taken up ~ ua-
hnishe4 business in the Senate Moniay.
and its discussion occupied the greater
part Of the session. A letter was rcc~iv-
cd from Secretary Cortelyou explaining
his delay in giving the financial agurca
which had been asked for. Unrest rained
opportunity TO express views on the i'm.
migration question was afforded members
OF the House by the decision. som after
converting, to take ep and consider q bill
appropriating $2:sl.opO for an immigrn-
ton station in Phiiadclrhia. and 80 many
took advantage Of ii that the code of laws
bin. which the managers of the House
had planned to take up. was also side
tracked for the day. The entire session
was devoted to a consideration of the bill
which was passed.
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The Senate Tuesday discussed The pro
priety of authorizing one OF it's commit
tees to investigate the circumstance con-
nected with the issuance of an injunction
in the case of the Iiitchman Coal and
Coke Company versus John Mitchell. BY
Judge Aston g.. Dayton of the United
States Circuit Court Of the northern dis
trict Of West Virginia. Senator Culber-
son asked to have a resolution for that
purpose adopted. and Senator Halls
thought it should not harass judges In
their decisions. and he did not favor
such b resolution unless there was con.
siderable ground for believing that a
Judge had exceeded his authority. Con.
siderable time was spent in considering
the bill to revise the criminal code. Al
the close of a day of excitement in the
House Of Representatives an amendment
was added to the penal code bill making
1t q criminal ofense for any officer OF
employee Of the government TO give out ad'
ance information regarding ans crop sta
tistics authorized by aw to he repaired
The original amendment was by Mr.
Burleson Of Texas. who made a strong
plea for its passage, but a substitute
by Mr.. Sherley Of Kentucky. with a brief
addition by Mr.. Olmsted of Pennsylvania,
was accepted. Earlier in the day interest
attached to a tilt between Mr.. Dalziel Of
Pennsylvania and Mr.. Randeli of Texas
over the ~Iat.er's amendments prohibiting
Senators or members from being employ
ed by public service corporations. The
climax of the debate came when Mr..
Clark of Missouri announced. amid thun-
derous Democratic applause. that William
]. Bryan would be nominated at the Dem
yer convention. while Mr.. Bonteil OF
Illinois aroused the members on his side
to a high pitch of enthusiasm by stating
that Speaker Cannon would be the Re
publican nominee.
The Senate spent over an hour We'd
nesday in discussing a resolution offered
by Senator H~ansbrough of North Dakota
directing the Department of Commerce
and Labor TO suspend its investigation
into the affairs Of the International Har-
vcster Company. which was ordered by a
resolution over a year ago. During this
discussion Senator iiansbrough declared
that the harvester trust is attempting
to control the selection of delegates 10
the next Republican national convention
and is especially plotting TO defeat him
for reelection to the Senate. Tka resolu-
ton finally was referred to a committee.
The criminal code bin was again consid-
cred for over two hours. Rapid progress
was made in the House of Representa-
tives in the consideration of the bill 20
codify and revise the penal laws of the
United States. The only amendment Of
any importance which got through was
one by Ollie James of Kentucky, making
II . criminal ohense. under heavy penalty,
to falsify government crop statistics. the
object Of the amendment being TO protect
the cotton and tobacco gfowers from
SPECTATORS. Over fifty pages Of the bill
we're disposed of.
In the Senate Thursday Senator Stone
presented statistics of government de-
pcsits in national banks 10 show that
the distribution OF money daring the re-
cent currency s~tringency was not .equits-
ble." as contemplated by the law gov.
erning the Treasury Department. He de-
clared that the West and South were
Disseminated against. while New York
and Boston were favored. Senator Teller
followed with brief comment upon the
action Of the Secretary of the Treasury.
declaring that the placing OF money in
New York City during the panic was
fully justified. The Senate devoted the
latter part OF the session TO n considers
ton Of the bill to revise the criminal
code. and adjoursed until Monday. The
urgent deficiency appropriation bill occn-
pied the attention of the House TO the
exclusion Of all other business. A sur
prise wa sprung when Chairman Tawney
of the appropriations committee warned
the members that the country was con-
fronted with the certainty Of n xid0.OtHl.-
OD deficit unless the estimates for the
next fiscal year should be cut down nate-
rally. 4 discussion on tariff revision
was injected into the proceedings, in