The Huttig news., 1908-01-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands Throughout the Ma tion and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.
CONGRESSIONAL.

Representative Hackney of Missouri introduced a bill so amending the h. terstate commerce act that common carriers are permitted to issue passes to the widows of deceased employees and to their minor children.
 Chairman Hepburn of the house com mittee on interstate and foreign com merce gave notice that on the hrst Tuesday in March the committee Will begin pubic hearings on the Gronna and Watson bills to provide for the inspection and grading of grain enter ing into interstate commerce and to secure uniformity in standards and in the classification of grain.
 Surgeon General Rixey of the navy asked the house committee on naval affairs to raise an appropriation or $1,500,00 for the construction and equipment of a navy hospital ship. This estimate contemplates the in stallation of the most modern instru- ments and appliances which science has perfected in the surgical field. The committees attitude was friendly to the request.
 The house committee on patents, through MT Hinshaw of Nebraska, re- ported favorably the Dalzell bill, which bestows on the United States court of claims the power to consider claims by inventors for compensation on ac- counts of patents appropriated by the with 4O patentees in cases where contracts were entered into. A bill similar was passed by the senate at the last ses- sion and was favorably reported to the house, but on account of the in- clusion of a retroactive clause as an passage by the house. The Dalzell bill is lhon-retroactive.
 The senate passed resolution de- claring that no communication from heads of departments, chiefs of bu- reaus or other executive officers will be received by that body unless they are sent in compliance with law or are transmitted by the president. The resolution was the result of objections a5ade Senator ffifeyburn and Senator Hale to the reception by the senate of bills sent by Secretary Garfield in con- nection with communication.
 Senator Warren, chairman of the committee on military affairs, intro duced a bill increasing the pay of army officers as follows: Lieutenant general, 10 per cent; major generals and brigadier generals, 15 per cent; colonels, lieutenant colonels and ma jors, 20 per cent; captains and first and second lieutenants and cadets, 25 per cent.
 There was a running fire of criti- wise the criminal laws of the United States. which Senator Hepburn, chair man of the joint committee, framed. The bill met with many explanations. Senator Bacon claimed that the print of the bill was not arranged in way tained in the bill. Senators Heyburn and Sutherland defended the bill, ex- plaining that they were ready to give full explanation of each section when reached.
 The senate committee on commerce considered the revenue cutter service prsonnel bill, which reorganizes the service and increases the pay and rate of some of the higher officers and ordered a favorable report upon 1t. This is the first of the bills increasing the pay of any part of the military or naval service to be reported to the senate. A small increase of officers is provided in the bill.
 The senate ratified and made public treaty between the United States and Spain, wherein it is agreed that Spain shall, upon requisition, deliver up to justice persons charged with any of list of certain crimes ranging from murder to slave trading.
 MISCELLANEOUS.