The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-06-12
CUrrency Bill II Passed BY Con.
gress in Its Closing
Hours.
NATION LIABLE TO WORKER
Employer Bill and Public Duildings
Measure Among Last Ones to
Become Laws.

WaNAtu4i1H NHffVsEOuIEnrS
The first session OF the Sixtieth Con,
Eress csauie TO u spectacular end ten
Minutes before midnight Saturday
night. The last legislative day of the
session was marked by a squirt OF ae.
fion which, continued a little bit far.
tacr. might have fais q crimp In the
relative Ids nothing program which
the leaders set cut To fulfill some
months aSo.
After adopting tiie currency confer
eiice report the Senate went ahead Sat
urday afternoon and passed the bill
providing compensation for injuries To
civil employees OF the government en-
gagged IN hazardous work. Several
amendments adopted By the Senate
were accepted by the House unanimous
~. and thus the Roosevelt percentage
III the contest with Congress oyer the
policies OF the administration went up
several points.
One Of the last measures to get
through was the public buildings bin.
which was held back to the last moment
Tor che purpose Of keeping members
here until the currency blu became an
s.et. A message from President Roose-
welt. To the House at lo:o0. told
or The signing OF both the currency and
public building bills. and a wild tumult
Of applause followed.
The end WAS spectacular. With that
freedom from dignity that always char
acterizes the breaking up time In the
House OF Representatives the recesses
between the receiving of messages from
the Senate md the President were
given over Oxild hilarity. There were
singing contests between the members
on the floor and the newspaper men In
b press gallery. Every member on
q floor had an American flag. They
waved the flags and sang all the old
melodies and a lot OF songs Of brand
new construction set to the old tunes.
Aside from the regular supply bills
making appropriations for the pro
Of the government during the next fiscal
year. the achievements and failures az
Congress during the session may be
summarized as follows:
what Congress Has Done.
Enacted an emergency currency law.
Prohibited child labor in the Distr;c,
Of Columbia.
Prohibited race track gambling in the
District Of Columbia.
1nrraa col ~r;lo-~.s .-.
from $ to sl2 a month.
Granted pensions of $40 a month n
practically all widows of Mexican and
Civil Wal soldiers.
Authorized expenditures of s3O.OooOOo
for public buildings.
Authorized general appropriations
mounting to nearly a billion dollars.
Ordered a currency commission to re-
port on revision Of financial and bankin.
lsAs Of the country.
R~eclassifed the consular service.
Passed employers liability law to take
place OF the one declared unconstitutional
BY the Supreme Court of the United
States.
Permitted free operation Of foreign yes
els in trade with Philippines.
Passed administration bill authorizing
employees to sue the government for per
scnai injuries sustained while in the line
81 duty.
Established a range for breeding
American buffalo.
Started the machinery for tariff re-
vision by the appointment Of an inyesti-
CATION commission.
Authorized the construction OF two bat.
tleships with the promise OF two next SEES
sion.
Raised the pay Of all officers and men
Of the army and navy, marine corps and
revenue cutter service.
Passed a militia law making every
ablebodied man between Is and As years
liable to service.
Adopted arbitration treaties with near
" every country In Europe and with
Japan.
Continued the WORK Of the waterway.
commission.
Provided for the defense Of the phiip-
pines and Hawaiian ports BY submarine
mines and fortifcatious.
Appropriated $1.50O.O0O for participa-
ton by the United States in the Japanese
exposition Of 1910.
WHAT Cesgress Has Nst Do.e.
Refused to place wood pulp on the
free HIST.
Declined to accept President Roosevelts
four hattleship proposition.
HARD LUCK TALN
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