Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-06-05
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An effort to annihilate time by dilatory
'actics without making progress on any
legislation except that involved in confer
ence reports was the chief occupation Of
the Senate under the leadership of Mr..
Aldrich. The attempt was SO successful
that the net result in the way of accom-
plishment of the days session was the
adoption Of the conference report on the
sundry civil appropriation bill. MIR. Bev-
eridge was busy in an effort to get q vote
on the bill compensating government en-
ployes for injuries while on duty, but Mr..
Hale said he had information from the
House that no action could be expected
there Monday on the conference report
on the public buildings bill, and that IN
til that measure should be disposed of the
deficiency appropriation bill could not be
perfected. Working under heavy pres
sure, with a single eye to adjournment at
the earliest possible moment, the House
disposed Of a great amount of business.
The conference reports on the sun
dry civil and the pension appropria-
ton bills were agreed to, thus sending
those measures to the President for sigma
ture, and leaving only the general def
cheney and military academy ]appropria-
ton bills to be considered to complete the
disposition of the fourteen supply meas
ures of the government. The conference
report on the District of Columbia child
labor bill also was agreed to, and the fol-
lowing bills were passed Amending tho
navigation laws; removing the discrimina-
lions against native officers of the Porto
Rico provisional regiment of infantry;
granting title to a cemetery in Dubuque,
Iowa, to the archbishop of that city au-
bhorizing the sale of unallotted lands of
the Spokane Indian reservation; encour-
aging the development Of coal deposits in
Alaska
The session of the Senate dragged along
Tuesday in such an unimportant way that
little effort was required on the part of
managers of the 6libuster to occupy the
time by dilatory tactics. The conferees
on the currency bills met and the Senate
was merely kept in session in the hope
that something might be done toward
substantial progress in the work of clos
ing up the opposition. During the day a
| bill was passed amending the navigation
laws in many minor respects and a reso-
Tuition was considered calling for names
of FORMER postmasters who served from
1864 to 1874 and who have been adjudged
by the auditor entitled to additional COM
pensation. The two floor leaders of the
House again occupied the center OF the
stage e. and performed their usual feat Of
charging each other with responsibility
for the conditions at present existing IN
that body. The conference report on the
military academy appropriation bill was
agreed to. Bills We're passed as follows
iRefunding certain stamp taxes on foreign
bills of exchange and certain duties on
1Na1 ;l1,rolv ool1aotal nrnJjI-
ing for the opening to settlement of por-
tons of the Cheyenne and Standing Rock
Indian agencies: promoting the safety OF
employees on railroads by requiring the
equipment of locomotives with ash cans
that can be dumped without requiring an
employe to go under the locomotive; pro-
noting the safe transportation of explo-
sives. The on appropriations
suffered defeat in the rejection of a bill
to acquire certain lands rs an addition
to Rock Creek Park in the District OF
Columbia. After passing resolutions re-
classifying the clerks in the government
departments at Washington and declaring
entitled to their seat Messrs. McGavin
(Republican) and SABBATH (Democrat) as
Representatives from Illinois, the House
at 7 :43 o'clock, owing to the difficulty of
keeping a quorum, took a recess until II
O'Clock Wednesday.
The conference report on the currency
bill was laid before the Senate shortly
before adjournment Wednesday, and Mr..
Aldrich announced that Thursday he
would move to take it up and keep it I'M
der consideration until disposed of. While
waiting for the conference report the ses-
| sion was occupied with a running debate
on the bill to compensate government en-
| ployes for injuries sustained while in ser
vice. The Senate passed a resolution call
ing for audited accounts Of former post
masters who served between 1864 and
1874 where accounts have not been GER
titled for payment under the act of March
8, 1888. Interest in the proceedings OF
the House centered in the report of the
committee on the currency bill. After an
hours debate the report was adopted, l66
to 40. all the Democrats voting against
it. Fourteen "insurgent' Republicans
voted with the opposition Aside from
the currency proposition there were pass
ed the following measures: Providing for
the erection in Washington of a pedestal
for the statue of John Witherspoon he
curing greater space and better accommo-
dations on steamships for steerage pas
sengers: authorizing the sale of certain
lands at the Head Of Cordova Bay. Alas
ka, and granting relief to the Alaska
Terminal and Navigation Company ex-
tending the time for the completion of the
Washington and Western Maryland rail-
road in the District of Columbia author
izing a resurvey of certain townships IN
Wyoming; granting to the interstate COM
merce commission additional authority in
the matter of requiring reports OF all ac-
cidents on interstate carriers. The con-
ference report on the omnibus bill and
the Senate amendments to the bill grant
ing obsolete ordnance to various institu-
tions and organizations also were agreed
to. After passing a bill revising the tariff
laws of the Philippine Islands. placing
agricultural machinery. implements and
other articles on the free list, the House
took a recess until Thursday.
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.
An operation on Jacob Ritz. who shot
himself at New York, removed four ounces
of his brain, but he retains all his facul-