Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-05-12
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The Senate had under consideration all
day Thursday the agricultural appropria-
ton bill. Practically all the committee
amendments were disposed of except those
relating to the forest service, which will
be taken up Friday Consideration of
the sundry civil appropriation bill was
resumed in the House. Mr.. Townsend of
Michigan offered an amendment increas-
ing frem $4,000 to $4,000 the appro-
priation for the enforcement hy the in
terstate commerce commission of that
clause OF the Hepburn act directing the
commission to cause to be made examina-
IONS OF the accounts of the interstate
railroads of the country to determine
whether that law is being violated and to
make public the results of such examina-
tons. After debate lasting four hours
the amendment was agreed to. The House
disagreed to the Senate amendments ia
the District of Columbia and pension an |
preparation bills and sent those bills to
conference
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The time of the Senate was taken up
for two hours Friday with speech by
Senator JEFF Davis of Arkansas, asking
that the committee on the judiciary be
discharged from further consideration of
his bill for the suppression of trusts. The
remainder of the day was given over to
the consideration of resolution BY Sem
ator Elkins, suspending until Jan. /,
1910, the commodity clause of the Hep
burn railroad rate law. The resolution
provoked so much debate and so many
amendments were offered dealing with
other phases of the railroad legislation
that the whole matter went over until
Monday. The House spent all of the
days session in considering and passing
paragraph by paragraph under suspension
of the rules, the sundry civil appropria-
ton bill
The policy sought to be established bs
the government of providing and equip
ping buildings for its ambassadors in
European capitals received setback Sat
urday in the Senate, where the diplo-
matte bill was under consideration.
Through point of order by Mr.. Culber-
son of Texas, an amendment appropriate
ing 100000 for such a building at Paris
was stricken out The bill was then
passed, following which eulogies on the
life and public services of the late SEN
ators Mallory and Bryan of Florida were
delivered. Passage by paragraph, under
suspension of the rules, of the sundry
civil appropriation bill was continued in |
the House, but was not completed
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Senator Buckley of Connecticut. a |
member of the military affairs commit |
tee, spoke at length in the Senate Mon |
day on the Brownsville ARRAY. He de- |
cared his belief in the innocence of the |
negro soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Regi- |
ment and said the rioters in the town
on the night of Aug. 1914. 1906, in his |
Judgment. were lawless Mexicans from |
outside the town, assisted by the lawless
class within Brownsville. The House
resolution appropriating S25o,000 to re-
lieve the recent cyclone sufferers in Ala
lana was passed The House completely |
OVERRIDE the committee on appropriations
in connection with several items in the
sundry civil appropriation bill. When |
the measure vas laid aside for the day |
S250OOO had been added to the sum |
granted by the committee, which includ- |
ed 100000 for gauging the streams and |
determining the water supply of the Uni |
ted States an increase of $50,NN in the |
appropriation for testing structural mate
rails and $4,000 for testing coal, lig-
mites and other fuel substances.
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An extended speech in opposition 10 the
forestry service was made by Senator |
Heyburn of Idaho in the Senate Tuesday |
while the agricultural appropriation bill |
was under consideration. lie criticised |
the practice of speaking of ANY mans |
policy saying that the only policies of
the government that are not fictitious are /
those that are written in the laws of the |
land. Mr.. Warner of Missouri continued |
his speech on the Brownsville ARRAY but |
did not conclude. A lively debate was |
kept up all day in the House on the sun
dry civil appropriation bill. Repeated ef-
forts were made by Messrs. Gaines OF
Tennessee and CLANCY of Indiana, sup
ported by many other members. to pro-
cure an appropriation for any investi-
CATION looking to increasing safety in min
ing. and they had about got Chairman
Tawney to the point where he would con-
sent TO an appropriation of $4,000, when
Mr.. Underwood of Alabama objected and
the proposition, for the time at least was
dropped A provision in the bill for the
purchase of over 5000 acres of land as an I
addition to Fort Mckinley Philippine Isl
ands. based on a recommendation by Gen.
Leonard Wood, elected severe criticism
Of that officer by Messrs. Fitzgerald OF
New York and Butler of Pennsylvania,
the former continually referring TO him
AS '.Dr. Wood The provision. on mo-
ton of Mr.. Hay of Virginia, was striek-
en- out by unanimous vote. The three re-
naming hours Of the session were taken
up by Succession of roll calls, caused by
a refusal of the House to take recess
at ) o'clock. as result of joke on the
part of some Republicans to hold the
Democrats in the House until the time
the Republican caucus was scheduled 10
be held.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES
The Senate passed Senator Hepburn's
resolution calling on the names of EN-
Moves of the forestry division who have