Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-01-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
-ue LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
roreion Lands Throughout the Ma
ton and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
CONGRESSIONAL.


ponrosentative Hackney of Missouri
,,troduced a bill so amending the In
.orstate commerce act that common
.iorc are nermitted to issue passes
- tho widows of deceased employees
and TO their minor children.
chairman Hepburn of the house COM
sit+oo IN interstate and foreign COM
merce gave notice that on the first
ruosdav in March the committee Will
bogin pubAc hearings on the Gronna
ond watson bills to provide for the
;nsnection and grading of grain enter
ing into interstate commerce and 10
eocure uniformity in standards and
IN the classification of grain.
Surgeon General Rixey of the navy
osked the house committee on naval
affairs to raise an appropriation OF
a 100000 for the construction and
eouinment 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 Mr.. 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 &C
counts of patents appropriated by the
government without recompense to tne
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
amendment. the measure failed OF
passage by the house. The Dalzell bill
is non-retroactive.
The senate passed a 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
made by Senator Hepburn and Senator
Hale to the reception by the senate of
bills sent by Secretary Garfield in con-
nection with a communication.
Senator Warren, chairman of the
n0mmittpo on ,oi1itorv OF int
duced bill increasing the pay of
army officers as follows: Lieutenant
general, 10 per cent; major generals
and brigadier generals, Is per cent;
colonels, lieutenant colonels and ma
1ors, 20 per cent; captains and first
and second lieutenants and cadets, rs
per cent.
There was running fire of criti-
cism in the senate of the bill to re-
wise the criminal laws Of the United
states, which Senator Hepburn, chair
man OF the joint committee. framed
Inc bill met with many explanations.
senator Bacon claimed that the print
oi the bill was not arranged in way
70 make clear every change of law co.'s
famed In the bill. Senators Hepburn
ana Sutherland defended the bill, ex-
piainlng that they were ready to give
lull explanation of each section when
reached.
Inc senate committee on commerce
considered the revenue cutter service
prsonnel bill, which reorganizes the
service and increases the pay and rate
VI some of the higher officers and
oauered favorable report upon it.
Inns is the first of the bills increasing
Tue 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.
lie senate ratified and made public
treaty between the United States
Snu spain, wherein it is agreed that
pain SNAIL upon requisition, deliver
up TO justice persons charged with
snS Oh list of certain crimes ranging
'ioin murder to slave trading.