The Green Forest tribune., 1908-03-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK
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CONGRESSIONAL.

The senate Thursday passed the widows pension bill, providing that every soldiers widow now receiving less than SIP per month shall receive a minimum of $12 hereafter, upon proof of her husbands death, and without proof that his death was from causes incident to his military serv- ice. The bill has already passed the house.
 Senator Lodge of Massachusetts Thursday strongly indorsed the pend ing currency bill in the senate and declared that it would be serviceable as an emergency measure and would not prevent the enactment of gen. eral currency law which, he declared, he hoped to see realized in the fu- ture on the basis of a central bank. Senator Paynter of Kentucky op- posed the currency bill in short speech, and especially condemned the proposition to insure bank deposits.
 The bill to require American sup plies for the Panama canal to be car ried in American bottoms was again
 considered Thursday, but not acted
 upon.
 The house committee on naval at- fairs Thursday reported favorably the bill introduced by it's chairman, Rep
 resentative Foss of Illinois, to equal
 ize and fix the pay of the navy and
 the marine corps. The bill provides that the pay and allowances (except mileage and forage) of all officers of
 the navy and marine corps shall be the same as the pay and allowances of officers of corresponding rank in the
 army.
 Senator McCreary of Kentucky took occasion in the senate Thursday to
 reply to recent references by Senator Depew of New York to night riders
 and the burning of tobacco barns in
 Kentucky. Incidentally he reviewed the operations of the tobacco trust
 and declared that the repeal of the
 6c tax on tobacco was what was need
 ed for the benefit of the farmers of
 his state. "Distance," said MT. Mo
 Creary, may lend enchantment to the
 view of the senator from New York, but if he had confined himself to the stock gambling and the burdens of trusts and lawlessness Of the state of
 New York, it seems to me it would ! have been more appropriate than wan dering so far away from his subject as to criticise Kentucky"
 Senator Nelson of Minnesota gave
 notice Thursday of an amendment he will propose to the Aldrich currency
 bill requiring national banks to pay
 per cent interest on weekly balances of government deposits of money. The postoffice appropriation bill had rough sailing in the house of repre- seDtatives Thursday. Its progress
 was halted at every turn by amend
 ments upon which there was lengthy
 discussion. The attacks begun on the
 section relating to the pneumatic tube
 service, which was forced to undergo
 change so that extensions of such service should not be confined to the
 several cities named in the bill, but that they should be made wherever { the postmaster general may think best. The house was unit for with
 holding a portion of the pay to rail
 roads for transportation of the mails
 until correct system of weighing
 should be established, provision to that effect being incorporated in the
 measure, and finally vigorous, but I intellectual attack was made on prop
 osition by MT Goebel of Ohio to in-
 crease by $2OO0,OO0 the appropria ! tion for paying the expenses of railway s mail clerks while travelling on business ] of the department.