The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1908-08-07

during the session two of which became
laws: The bill reported by the Ways
and Means Committee, removing the
tax from leaf tobacco, and passed by
the House of representatives is SINH
lar to bill introduced by him.
His bill denying to the Tobacco
Trust, the use of Interstate Commerce
is fashioned upon the same line as the
Beveridge Child Labor bill which pass
ed the Senate in the 59th Congress.
II ole lawyers say that Mr.. kimoall's
oil is constitutional. and if it should
become law, will dissolve the TobacC
Trust. He will press this bill as lorg
as he is remains in Congress, and if
the Democrats obtain control, it prob
ably will become law. Mr.. Kimbail
vas the first man on the floor of the
House to predict toe nomination and
election ofMr. Bryan TO the Presidency.
II declared In January last. that Bry-
an and Taft would both be nominated
by the Convention or their respective
parties on the first ballot, and that Bry-
an would sweep the country; that the
next House OF Representative would
be Democratic, ard that Champ Clark
of Missouri, would be elected, Speaker.
John Sharp Williams has resigned as
Minority Leader, and Mr. Clark viii b.
chosen to Ill the vacancy next winter,
which Will put him right In line for
the Speakership if the Democrats con-
troll the next House. His predictions
as to the the nominees for Presi-
dent. have already been literally veri-
fed
|. On January last, when the House
nf ,4.@, [. i L.
alton the criminal code bill he offered
an amendment to the act of January.
1907, which prohibits national banks
from making money contributions"
for campaign purposes, and to prevent
corporations generally from making
such contributions at any election
where Federal officers are to be elected.
The amendment proposed 70 strike out
the words "a money contribution" and
insert the words ''any contribution of
money or anything of value. which
was adopted on a division, but defeated
when tellers were demanded by Con-
gresham Don, OF Pennsylvania, the
chairman of the Committee on the re-
vision OF the Laws, who had charge of
the bill
1t was defeated by the votes of the
1eSpODilNol lhdJOIily OulN one Oh lnCin
making any protest and that was Coop
er, OF Wisconsin But his protest came
after the vote had been taken. Under
the law, as it now stands, it will be I'M
lawful for any corporation to make
! money contribution" of so, 600 to the
Republican campaign fund next fall,
but it will not be unlawful to make
such contribution in stocks, bonds or
onvrt1Inor Of uoltrn ,.o,I,Ir1 Ii
into money. The amendment would
have given the law some efficiency for
good, and might have interfered with
J frying the fat from the trusts and
unlawful combinations of capital bv the
Republican campaign managers.
The widow of one of the field officers
of one of the Kentucky Regiment in
the Spanish-American war, whose nus
, band had died some time after the close
of the war, applied to the Pension Be-
reau for pension. After invest igat-
ing the case, the pension was refused
on the grounds that the proof that e
officer had died from disease contracted
while in the service was not sufficient.
The widow, who was in needy cir
cumstances, appealed to Congressman
Kimball, who introduced special pen
sion bill for her, worked it through
Congress and followed it until it became
law. The widow is now receiving
pension of $500 per month. And vet
the dead officer and the Congressman
were bitter enemies, and had not spoken
for years. This illustrates the charac-
ter of the man who represents the
seventh district in Congress.
w. L. M.