Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-15
WORK OF CONGRESS.
Senate.

Il,
1906, in lis Judgment, Were lawlesS Next
cans from outside the town, assisted by the
lawlesS class within Brownsville The
House resolution appropriating $3.50, 600 TO
relieve the recent cyclone sufferers in Ala
bama, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana
was passed. At 4:4T p. m. the Senate ad-
journed.
An extended speech in opposition to the
forestry service was made by Senator uey
burn of Idaho in the Senate on the 9th,
while the agricultural appropriation bill was
under consideration. He criticised The
practice CT speaking of any man policy
saying that the only policies of the govern
ment that are not fictitious are those that
are written in the laws of the land. MIR
Warner of Missouri continued his speech
on the Brownsville ARRAY, but did net con
clude. At $50 O'Clock the Senate ad'
journed.
The Senate on the 9th passed bill pro
htbiting the employment within certain
hours of children under II years of age III
the District of Columbia. The Senate also
adopted Z resolution offered by Mr.. For
aker of Ohio directing the interstate COM
merce commission to inform the Senate
whether the commodity clause of the ~
terstate commerce act had been complied
with since May /. 1905, and if not whether
the noncompliance by the railroads has
been due to any agreement. arrangement or
understanding between the railroad com
panIeS and the authorities. The conference
report on the army appropriation bill carry
ing an aggregate of $95.37724G was adopted
Senator Warner of Missouri concluded his
speech OH The brownsville affair his clos
ing remarks calling forth a statement from
senator Foraker that Il western paper had
announced that the President recently
wrote to Senator Smith of Michigan to the
effect that he had not changed his mind as
to the guilt of the negro soldiers of the
Twenty-hfth regiment. Mr.. Foraker sug-
gested that the introduction of that letter
in the record would he interesting The
Senate at 300 p. m. adjourned.
The forestry provision of the agricultural
appropriation bill was before the Senate
several hours on the 9TH. Senator Teller
of Colorado denounced that service rs I'M
wise and its administration as arbitrary,
while Senator Depew spoke in advocacy or
the extension of the work of the forest re-
serves. An address in support of the bill
to establish postal savings banks was made
by Senator Carter of Montana. Senator
CUbCrsOn Of Texas called the attention or
the Senate TO newspaper publications TO
the effect that the President and the inter
state commerce commission had agreed to
allow the railroads to increase freight
rates This suggestion precipitated dis
or the commission to make such an agree
ment. The Senate passed a bill appropriate
ing $1,000 toward the erection of mOnu-
ment to Pocahontas at jamestown, Va. At
$40 o'clock the Senate adjourned.
But little progress was made in the Sen
ate on the Sth on the agricultural appropri-
alton bill, the session being devoted to a
discussion upon the principle of forest re-
serves and the administration of that serv-
ice. Senator McCumber called the atten-
ton of the Senate to deadlock among the
on the Senate amendment requiring a con-
tinuance of the present system of having
the pension fund disbursed through eight
cen pension agents located throughout the
country instead of through Il single agent
in this city. Many senators expressed the
desire that the cOnfercCs should insist on
the Senate amendment. 4 resolution was in
PRODUCED by Senator Burkett of Nebraska,
naming May 10 as mothers day" and Sug-
costing that all senators and officials and
employees of the Senate should wear Il white
honor their mnthRrS
day. The Senate at $40 O'Clock adjourned.
The debate on the main features Of the
agricultural appropriation bill was prac
tically concluded by the Senate on the OH.
Senator Smoot of Utah spoke at length in
advocacy of the forest reserve service. Sen
ators Lodge and NcWland& also supported
the policy of the service. Senator Clark of
Wyoming reviewed at length what he said
he regarded as the weakness of the forestry
service. In addition to the attention given
to the agricultural bill the Senate voted to
send to the committee on the Judiciary the
resolution introduced by Senator Burkett of
Nebraska, declaring tomorrow to be moth
ers' Gay. and suggesting that senator's ami
employees of the Senate wear Il white flower
in honor of that day. Senator kCan of New
Jersey proposed as a substitute a resolution
enbodying the ffth commandment: Honor
thy father and thy mother that thy days
may be long in the land which the Lord,
thy God, giVath thee" The Senate ad-
Journcd al 40 =. m until Monday.
House
The House on the 4th completely oynrroae
the committee on appropriations in connec-
ton with several items in the Sundry civil
appropriation bill. When the measure was
laid aside for the cay $250.O00 had been
added to the sum granted by the committee
which included 100000 for gauging the
streams and determining the water supply
of the United States; an increase Of $4,000
in the appropriation for testing structural
materials and $4,000 for testing coal. liz
mites and other fuel substances. Al $50 D.
N. the House recessed
A lively debate was kept up all day in
the House on the sundry civil appropria-
made by Messrs. Gaines of Tennessee and
CLANCY of Indiana, supported by many
for an investigation looking to increasing
safety in mining and they had about got
Chairman Tawney to the point where he
would consent to an appropriation of $780,
600, when Mr.. Underwood of Alabama OBJ
jected and the proposition for the time at
least, was dropped. provision in the bill
for the purchase of over 5000 acres of land
as an addition to Fort Mckinley, Philippine
islands, based on a recommendation by
Gen. Leonard Wood ELECTED severe criti-
cism of that officer by Messrs. Fitzgerald
the former continually referring to him as
"Dr. Wood" The provision, on motion or
Mr.. Hay of Virginia, was stricken out by
hours of the session were taken up by a
succession of roll calls, caused by refusal
of the House to take a recess at D O'Clock,
as a result of a joke on the part of some
Republicans to hold the Democrats in the
House until the time the Republican caucus
was scheduled to be held. In this they
were successful, the House finally at t:4f
p. m, taking n recess.
By vote of 16T to 4G, and following a
two hours debate; the House on the 9th
again went on record against the re-cStaD-
lishment of the canteen in national soldiers
homes. In the course Of the discussion II
man giving his name rs George L. Gridley
of Providence, Il. l., unfurled an American
flag and proceeded to make an address from
the gallery on the temperance question. He
was promptly taken out Perhaps the real
sensation CT the day was an admission by
Mr.. Bennett of New York, 4 member Of the
immigration commission, that he had, I'M
der the old immigration law. ''railroaded ?
the naturalization of many foreigners in
one day. With the exception of the adop-
ton of the conference report on the bill re
organizing the consular service, the Sundry
civil appropriation bill was under consider
alton the entire day. AT J:19 p. m. a re
cess was taken.
After ten days discussion consideration
completed by the House on the 18th, but be-
fore putting it on its passage recess until
tomorrow was taken. The Lill carries a
total appropriatiOn of S1OG. $50. 800 or ST.
241 600 more than as reported by the com
mittee. A provision providing that salaries
and wages for work on the Panama canal
should not exceed by more than . per
cent the salaries and wages paid in the
United States for similar work was de-
feated, 10 to 1O1- At $40 p. IN. recess
was taken.
The officers and enlisted mel, of the army
on the Sth won their fight for increased
pay, when the House agreed to the confer
ence report on the army appropriation bill.
An appropriation of 100000 was made
for the purpose, $5,OO0OO3 of which will 20
to the enlisted men. Under suspension OF
the rules bills were passed placing the
Porto Rican regiment of infantry on Il per
manent basis, and authorizing additional