The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1908-02-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands Throughout the Ma
ton and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
CONGRESSIONAL.

When consideration OF the lndiah
appropriation bill was resumed In the
House of Representative Tuesday an
amendment was presented by Mr.. Fer
ris. Oklahoma, to make a per capita
payment of 500 to the Kiowa, Co
manche and Apache Indians OF Okla
homa. After some debate the amend
ment was adopted. The money, now
explained, would not have come out OF
the treasury, but would be paid from
the funds of the Indians themselves.
A resolution was offered in the
House by Mr.. Pou of North Carolina
directing the speaker to appoint
committee of FIVE representatives 10
ascertain what corporations contri-
buted to Presidential campaign funds
An the years 1896, 1900 and 1904; es-
pecially with a view to discovering
whether such a list will include any
of the corporations mentioned as law
yiolators by the president In his re-
cent messages. The resolutions re-
ouire the committee to report to Con-
gress some time in the present session
SO that the facts may be laid before
the people prior to the coming presi-
Dental campaign.
Debate on the Aldrich currency bill
was begun in the Senate Tuesday and
was followed with interest by many
bankers who occupied seats in the ga'
leries. Among them was j. Pierpont
Morgan of New York. The discussion
of the measure was directed chiefly to-
ward the provision for railroad bonds
as a basis for emergency circulation,
a wide difference of opinion being de-
veloped concerning the method that
should be adopted in determining the
valuation to be given such bonds as
well as opposition to the use OF such
security under any terms.
Interest in the proceedings of the
House of Representatives Tuesday at
tached to mild criticism of the
President by Mr.. Tawney, chairman OF
the committee on appropriations for
having, as Mr. Tawny charger. APP
pointed the inland waterways commits
sion without authority df law. The
debate was on the urgent deficiency
bill and grew out Of a Senate amend
ment to pay John H. Bankhead, new
senator from Alabama, for his SER
vices on the commission. The right
OF the President to appoint such CON-
missions was upheld by Messrs. Crum-
packer of Indiana and Underwood OF
Alabama. The House however, re-
fused to accept the amendment.
About $1G000,o00 may be secured
from the government by the people OF
the south, IL bill reported unani-
mously by the House Committee on
War Claims becomes law. The bill
gives to the court of claims jurisdic-
Non of the claims for captured and
abandoned property which was sold
during the civil war and the govern
ment authorized the seizure of aban-
doned property, to be sold and the net
proceeds placed in the United States
treasury. There was provision that
II any one should bring suit within
two years after the close Of the war
and prove that the property sold be-
longed to him the money received for
It should be turned over, but to do
this the citizen bringing suit had to
prove loyal to the union. This dis
qualified most southerners until the
amnesty proclamation was declared in
1866. which came too late to take the
claims to court, the two years grace
having expired. The object Of this
bill is to enable the original owners of
the confiscated property to get the
money it brought when sold.