The National tribune., 1908-05-14
CONGRESS-.
Brief Digest of Proceedings from Day to
Day.
Senate.

/ Monday, May 4.-Senator Bulkeley
in a speech which occupied four and 3
! Quarter hours. defended the negros who
were dismissed from the Army without
honor for shooting up Brownsville, Tex
Senator Carter presented memorial
which may result in the erection of a
i monument to Pelatiah Webster, who is
said to have originated the form of the
Constitution of the United States
The House bill increasing the men,
/ bership of the Philippines Commission
was. passed, being substituted for that
previously passed by the Senate.
A resolution appropriating $250.000
for the relief of Southern cyclone suf-
| ferers was passed.
Senator Lodge introduced a bill pro-
posing to purchase embassy property in
Paris.
Three hundred additional copies of
the report on fire protection in the Dis
trict schools were ordered printed.
A bill proposing to make certified
copies of the records of wills and deeds
in the Distict admissible as evidence was
reported favorably.
Senator Carter offered a bill provid-
ing for the purchase of the site on
which the Census Office stands and the
construction of a new building for the
Bureau.
The treaty providing for marking the
few nominations were confirmed in
short executive session, after which the
Senate, at 4:5S p. m, adjourned.
House.
In Committee of the Whole the
House took up the further consideration
of the sundry civil appropriation bill.
At $40 the House took recess.
SENATE.
May 5.-Senator Warner continued
his speech on the Brownsville affray,
but did not conclude.
Senator Hepburn occupied four hours
during consideration of the Agricultural
appropriation bill in opposing the en-
croachment of forest reserves In Idaho.
Senator Gallinger introduced a bill
proposing to amend the District law re-
lating to the practice of medicine and
Surgery.
At $50 p. m. the Senate adjourned.
House.
In Committee of the Whole the sun
dry civil bill was again considered.
The tuberculosis registration bill, re-
ported from conference with Senate
amendments, was agreed to.
AT 7:45, after two hours of roll calls
in an almost vain effort to produced
quorums, the House took a recess.
Senate.
May 6.-The child labor bill, applica-l
BILE to the District of Columbia, wasl
passed.
A resolution by Senator Foraker wasI
agreed to calling for information from
The Interstate commerce COmmissionl
concerning those roads that have and |
have not complied with the commodity |
clause of the rate law, and whether any /
has been made granting
immunity to those roads that are yio-
lating the law.
Mr.. Warner concluded his speech onl
the Brownsville affray. Mr.. Forakerl
called attention to letter said to have
been written by the President to SEM
ator Smith, of Michigan, in which heI
was quoted as having stated that het
had not modified his opinion as to the
guilt of the discharged soldiers of the
25th Inf.
The conference report on the Army
bill was agreed to.
House.
BY a vote of 167 to 46 the House
voted down a proposition to restore the
canteen in the various Soldiers Honest
Of the country.
During the discussion a stranger at
tempted to address the House from the
gallery.
With the exception OF agreeing to the
conference report on the bill reorganiz-
ing the Consular Service, the sundryI
civil bill was under consideration all
day. and but little progress made to-
ward its completion.