Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1908-12-24
THE WORK OF CONGRESS
Synopsis of the Proceedings of the
National House and Senate.
Saturdays Session.

members were especially interested,
and In some cases vitally concerned,
were considered. With few excep-
tions they engendcrcd the liveliest
sort of debate, and it was disclosed
that the forces for or against them
were fully lined up for the fray.
Parliamentary tactics were freely re-
sorted to, with the result that five
times the roll was called.
The first rangle occurred on a rcso-
lnsion fixing the boundary line be-
tween the States of Colorado, Okla
homa and New Mexico, which was
agreed to bv a majority but not with
out two roll calls. The House then
by decisive vote refused to further
consider the bill providing for arbi-
trSry settlement of disputes between
employers and employees.
NeEt turning attention to the bill
providing for the protection of aliens
IN the United States the subject was
threshed on. at length. The measure
hal rough sailing and it was passed
by slim majority after the roll had
been called twice.
The Brownsville Affair.
The Brownsville affair consumed
nearly the entire session of the SEN
ate Monday. Senator Foraker obtain
ed the floor caily in the day and
read letters from q former soldier of
the Twcnty-fifth Regiment telling of
the procedure of government dctec-
tivcs ir attempts to get confessions
from hi Mr. Foraker introduced an
Amendment to his original bill for
the re-onlistinent of these soldiers
providing that commission of three
retired crmy officers be created TO de-
telmine whether discharged soldiers
arc innocent of completely in the
shooting mp of Brownsville as a pre-
requisite for their rc-enlstment in
stead of leaving that duty with the
President as provided by the Warner
bill
Following closely upon these re-
marks the Presidents s message giving
the results of the War Department s
investigation of the Brownsville af-
fair was read and Mr.. Foraker again
took the floor to comment upon the
message.
Senator Carter announced that he
would sneak upon tho postal savings
bank bill and would ask that it be
made the unfinished business of the
Senate.
In the House.
Win 0Esidering bills dealing with
affairs District os Columbia
! ] !: !. !: !: !.
Tho hill 10
ct shops
Henry, of Tey |l5fain a change
IN the referenceto 70 n bill prohibiting
the marketing or future contracts on
agricultural products brought forth
the promise from Chairman Scott, of
the agricultural committee, that his
committee would soon grant hearings
to farmers unions and others on this
subject. The House voted to adjourn
Saturday, December 10Th, to Monday.
January 4th, and adjourned for the
day at 5 p. m.
A Special Message.
On Tuesday Congress received n
special message from the President
bearing upon the Panama Canal mat
ter. The message was directed
against the New York World and was
very bitter, demanding that the editor
Of The World be put in prison and
otherwise punished.
Repeated peals Of laughter greeted
the reading In the Senate Of the open
ing paragraph of the President IS mes
sage on the Panama canal charges.
AS the secretary read the statement
that the charges were Hfalse in every
particular," Senator Bailey laughed
outright as he wss passing along tho
rear CT the chamber to his seat. 9th.
er Senators on both sides of the cham
ber Joined with him. and when the
reader reached the statement that n
statement in newspaper which he
mentioned would not be believed,
there was general merriment from
both sides Of the chamber.
There was only a small number of
Senators present when the reading
was begun and it was hurried through,
the papers accompanying the message
not being read at ALL
The House Interested.
The message elected tile greatest
interest in the House of Representa-
tives. The members gave close at
tention during the reading of the doe
ument and there was a ripple Of
laughter over the Presidents charac-
terization of Joseph Pulitzer. publish
er of The New York World. The
message with its accompanying pa
pers was referred to committee.
Accompanying tire Presidents g mes
sage was large bundle of documents
bearing upon the transfer OF the
canal property to the United States.
Many Of these documents were in
French, without English translation.
There was nothing which showed di-
riectly the persons who received the
$40, 100000 paid by the United States,
bat there wa gincluded list OF about