The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-04-25
NEWS OF The WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton, and Particularly From tho
Great Southwest.
CONGRESSIONAL.

The house committee on banking
n currency decided, by a vote of 1:
TO 8, to lay the Vreeland financial
bill on the table and by a vote of II
to 3, to favOrably report the Fowler
bill providing for a currency commits
sion.
Speaker Cannon Monday introduced
a resolution for the appointment by
himself of a select committee Of six
members of the house to investigate
in all of its many phases the wood
pulp and print paper question and to
report on the necessity of legislation
to relieve the conditions complained
of by the print paper users of the
country. The resolution was referred
to the committee on rules, of which
the speaker is chairman.
With the exception of Messrs. Coop
er and Nelson (Wis.), Republicans,
the house Monday, by a strict party
vote, declared that the action of
Speaker Cannon last Saturday in sum-
marily a%dOurning the house was not
"a breach of the privilege Of the
house affecting its safety, dignity and
the integrity Of it's proceedings" The
declaration was made when a resOlu-
ton by Mr.. Williams, holding such a
breach to have been committed, was
tabled, 146 to 119. The vote was pre-
coded by statements by both Mr.. Will
liams and the speaker. After dis
claiming that as a result of the cpl
between him and the speaker, Mr..
Williams maintained that the action
was an unprecedented parliamentary
act. On the other hand, Speaker Can
non called attention to the diliatory
tactics of the n<lority leader for the
past two weeks and said it was the
speakers privilege and his duty to
sweep aside a d%iiiatory demand and
declare the house adjourned.
The Brownsville affair was again a
subject of interest in the senate Mon
day, when Senator BOrah of Idaho
took the ground that negro soldiers of
the Twenty-ffth infantry were guilty
Of the raid that occurred in the Texas
town Aug. 1874. 1906. Mr.. Borah
analyzed the testimony taken in this
case and declared that no reasonable
man could read it and fail to be con
WINGED that negro soldiers shot up"
the town. He secuted the suggestion
of a conspiracy among citizens of
Brownsville to create a state of riot
in their own town and wound and kill
their own citizens in order to secure
the removal CT the negro troops.
The senate gave further cOnsidera-
ton during the day to the bill devot-
ing about $1,000, 900 received from the
sale Of public lands in Alabama, Ar
kansas, Florida, illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wis
%consin, Mississippi, Missouri and
Ohio to the construction of drainage
in those states. The section of
bill authorizing the loaning of this
funds to states. corporations, etc, for
drainage Of state and private
was stricken out.
During the day the naval and ag-
ricultural appropriation bills were ne
ported to the senate.
Tributes of respect to the memory
Of the late Senators Morgan and Pet
us OF Alabama, both of whom died
the recess of congress last
summer, occupied nearly the entire
session of the senate Saturday. On
both the Republican and Democratic
sides of the chamber, leaders who
lad known the Alabama senators dur
ng many years joined in giving their
estimony as to the splendid qualities
If mind and heart that had given
hem enviable places in American his
DRY. The District of Columbia ap-
'ropriation bill was reported during
he day.