Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-05-08
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CONGRESS
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lhe pension and the District of Colum.
bia appropriation bills were passed nv ii.
Senate Tuesday. In addition. tho snoo;-, {
message OF the President urging \ ,or;.
latire program was read, and a,ott~-
chapter of Senator Warmers sppccb
the Brownsville ARRAY was heard. IN
resolution of the House to give uovorn
ment aid to cyclone sufferers in the Som,
was passed. The resolution to extend H.
time when the commodity clause of ~
railroad rate law shall become OPERATE
was called before the Senate by Mr. m
kins, but went over under objection fra,
Mr.. CulDerson. OstensibIy cousiderina
the sundry civil appropriation bill. tha
House devoted most of its time to.aar
to speeches covering a wide range. Of SUI.
jccts and concluded the session by s;yin,
an attentive hearing. to the Presidents
special message referring to the multi.
millionaire whose son is a fool and his
daughter a foreign princess was reached
there was a storm of applause.
Senator Davis of Arkansas created a
mild sensation in the Senate "Wednesday
when in discussing his resolution calling
on the Secretary of the Interior for in
formation about the tribal rolls of the
Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians of Okla.
homa he declared that 10000 names were
being kept off the rolls by the secretary
and instanced a case in which he said
min members of a family were rated MS
negroes and only one as an Indian. Ad.
~vancing toward Mr.. Foraker of Ohio. his
voice Numbered throughout the chamber
and adjacent halls as he asked, if the
Ohio Senator loved nigSers' SO well, why
did he not come forward and defend those
members of that race. Only Laughter
greeted this and Mr.. Foraker requested in
a mild tom that the Senator speak loud.
er. Later Mr.. Davis resolution was
passed. All the pension bills on the cal
endar and many other measures of minor
Importance were passed during the day.
The sundry civil appropriation bill was
under consideration in the House and the
greater part of the time was consumed
in general debate and discussion under the
fve-minute rule. Mr.. Fowler, New Jcr-
sey. denounced the Aldrich currency bill
and pleaded for the passage of his bill TO
create a currency commission. Mr.. Will
Jams, Mississippi, presented a petition,
signed by 164 of the 166 Democrats com
posing the minority, asking the speakei
to recognize some member of the House
to move the discharge of the ways and
means committee from further considera-
ton of the Stevens bill for the removal OF
the duty on wood pulp and print paper
and to pass that bill or a similar one. Mr..
Dalzell of Pennsylvania offered an amend
ment to the sundry civil bill appropriate.
ing $4,000 for the establishment of a
national art gallery in the Smithsonian
Institution. The amendment was reject
cd on a point of order. The House disa-
greed to the Senate amendments to the
naval appropriation bill and the bill was
sent to conference.
The Senate had under consideration all
day Thursday the agricultural sppropria-
tion bill. Practically all the committee
amendments were disposed of except those
| relating to the forest service. which will
| be taken up Fridays Consideration Of
the sundry civil appropriation bill was
! resumed in the. House. Mr.. Townsend OF
| Michigan offered an amendment increas-
ing from $4,000, to $$3350,OO0 the appro-
priation for the enforcement by the in
~terstate commerce commission Of that
| clause of the Hepburn act directing the
| commission to cause to be made examina-
tons of the accounts of the interstate
ulilOAt r VI liVE &odhti " III uPIeTIQluG
| whether that law is being violated and to
make public the results of such examina-
tons. After a debate lasting four hours
the amendment was agreed to. The House
| disagreed to the Senate amendments to
| the District of Columbia and pension APP
preparation bills and sent those bills to
conference.
The time of the Senate was taken up
for two hours Friday with a speech by
| Senator jeff Davis of Arkansas. asking
that the committee on the Judiciary be
| discharged from further consideration of
| his bill for the suppression of trusts. The
remainder of the day was given over to
| the consideration of a resolution by Sen
| ator Elkins, s%uspending until Jan. 1,
1910, the commodity clause of the Hep
| burn railroad rate law. The resolution
provoked so much debat and SO many
| amendments were offered dealing with
| other phases of the railroad legislation
| that the whole matter went over until
Monday. The House spent all of the
| days session in considering and passing
paragraph by paragraph under suspension
of the rules, the sundry civil appropria-
| ton bill. A determined effort was made
to strike from the bill a restriction pro-
hibiting the employment of secret service
employees in any detective work other
than the guarding of the President and
the running down of conterfeiters, but the
Limitation was agreed to and the para
graph finally adopted in substantially its
original form. Objection by Democratic
members to unanimous consent defeated
the passage of a bill for the printing and
distribution of 100000 copies of a special
report by the Department of Agriculture
describing diseases of cattle.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
The conference report on the Indian