Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-20
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Senate.
Cotton as a basis for the issuance of treas
ury notes in times Of money stringency was
TIE chief feature Of q speech III the senate
Sepat tor McLaurin of Mississippi. Senator
Galinger secured an agreement to vote on
the ocean mail ship subsidy bill March ~:
After passing several bills on the calendar
the Senate at S:15 D. N. adjourned.
message from the President and reports
from the committee OF military analrs on
the Brownsville affray consumed the time
of the Senate during the early part OF the
session on the 18th. a brief debate brought
out a statement by Senator Warren chalr-
man of the committee on military affalrs,
that bill will soon be introduced for the
reinstatement Of the discharged colored sci
diers of the Twenty.ffth regiment under
discussed by Senator Clarke Of Arkansas,
who declared that he would vote for neither
the Aldrich bill nor the Bailey substitute.
The consideration of the Panama transpor-
tation bill was postponed until tomorrow.
After the passage Of several bills on the
calendar the Senate at 4:15 p. N. adjourned
until the 18th.
Senator Lodge of Massac husetts on the
18th strongly Endorsed the Aldrich currency
bill in the Senate and declared that It
would be serviceable as an emergency meas
ure. Senator Paynter of Kentucky opposed
the bill Referring to Senator Depew's re-
cent remarks about might riders and barn
McCreary Of that state condemned SUCH
lawlessness and denounced the tobacco
trust. AT 4:15 p. m. the Senate ADJOURNED
until the 18th.
Senator Bacon Of Georgia in the Senate
on the 18th spoke Of executive encroach-
ments on the legislative power of the gov
eminent and read freely from newspaper
reports to show that legislation is being
mapped out in the white house at confer
ences at which congressman are not even
present. The bill providing for the ship
canal i'll American ships was passed. Sen
ator Simmons OF North Carolina spoke IN
favor of the ocean mail shipping bill.
The Senate was not in session on the 14th
Under the guise of discussing legislation
the session of the Senate on the 10Th was
devoted to a political discussion, in which
Senator Tillman Of South Carolina and sen
ator Beverage of Indiana were the chief
participants The conference report on the
Indian appropriation bill was disagreed to
bill appropriating $4O3,03 to pay the arch
bishop of Manila, as representative of the
Roman Catholic church, for damage to
church property during the Spanish war
was passed.
Consideration of the ,postofIice appropria
ton bill was resumed i'll the House or the
gan upholding the right of the federal gov
eminent to control corporations and Sus
tanning the President in his attitude toward
them was the feature of the days proceed
ings. Small of North Carolina and Finley
of South Carolina attacked the proposition
to increase the pay for ocean mail service
the RrOuHu IudI II was d SuubSI1uSe 1OL
a ship subsidy At SIS p. N. the House
adjourned.
Persistent assaults on the posto6ice appro-
priatfor bill in the House on the 18th re-
Suited in the amplifcation of that measure
in many important parts despite the pro-
tests of Chairman Overstreet and the com
fight for $1,000 salaries. The House, Also
allowed an additional $4,000 for clerks in
third class offices and $4,000 additional for
contract stations. There was Incorporated
in the bill a provision prohibiting the trans
mission through the mails of Intoxicating
liquors, which was later modified to include
appropriations carried by the bill were in
creased 81, 225, 600 The House at 5:13 p. M
adjourned until the 18th.
The postoffice appropriation bill had rough
sailing in the House the 18th. The at
lacks were begun on the section relating to
the pneumatic tube service, which was
should not be confined to the cities named,
hut should be made wherever the post
master general may think best: The House use
pay to railroads for transportation of mails
until correct system of weighing should
ne established. vigorous but inenectual
fight was made On a proposition to increase
by 100000 the appropriation for paying
the expenses of railway mail clerks while
travelling on business OF the department;
the 18th
Carrying the largest appropriation in all
its history-$222 1870 392-the postofice APP
preparation bill passed the House on the
18th. This is 81 425. 900 more than was re-
ported by the committee. Chairman Over
street opposed the proposition to increase
!he pay of letter carriers, which was voted
into the bill last Wednesday, but that &C
ton was confirmed, 1876 to i26 The appro-
pration for the rural delivery service was
increased 5000. 900 Following the passage
of number of private bills and an agree
ment to take up the pension appropriation
bill on the 14th, the House at ABS p. IN.
adjourned.
Members of the House, on the 18th, were
afforded an opportunity, under license OF
general debate, to express their views on
topics of the day. Among other subjects
uOiitiCS, the recent financial panic, the tariff
and the Sherman anti thrust law were dis
cuSsed while the pension appropriation bill
technically was under consideration. Among
the speakers were Mr. Hamlin of Missouri,
who placed on the shoulders of the Re
publCans the responsibility for the recent
panic: Mr.. Langley of Kentucky, who want
ed pensions granted certain persons in Ken
lucky who aided in SuppreSSing the re-
beIliOn, and Mr.. Hughes of New Jersey,
who desired the Sherman antitrust law
amended so as to work less hardship on
House adjourned until the 10th.
The session of the House on the 10th was
devoted to the consideration of bills under
suspension of the rules. y number were
toration of the motto In God We Trust
on American coins, and another increasing
the efficiency Of the medical department of
the army. Other bills passed were the fol-
lowing: Granting to local steamboat in
spectOrs authority to pass upon the fitness
of officers and crews of steam vessels;
recognizing the consular service and amend
ing the game laws of Alaska so as to sub
ststute the license system for the present
permit system.
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