The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-13
news NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Happenings of the Wesk Briefly
Told--The Latest News
From the Capital
The House passed the Appalachian

The House passed the Appalachian
bill.
Congress passed bill revising the
copyright laws.
The general deficiency bill was
passed by the Senate.
i Fred w. Carpenter was appointed
Secretary to the President
All of the members Of President
Roosevelt's Cabinet resigned.
The house. BIZ vote Of fo rs
epted the slair 81, +
President Elect f6lt TOOK up kis
official residence at the White House.
Ben S. Moore, OF Monroe, La, sent
President Taft unique walking cane.
Southern senators began filibus-
ter in the Senate against the penal
code bill.
A movement has been started to
change the date of the Inauguration
to May 1.
Roosevelt is puzzled over the pro-
blem of how to dispose of his stock
of 500 'big sticks"
| The War Department will send q
snagboat to Cane River, La, to re-
| move distractions.
The cadets of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute were presented with q
silk flag at Washington.
James Richardson Stevens, of Ala
bama, was appointed National Bank
Examiner at New Orleans.
Senator H. D. Money, of Missis-
sippi, delivered notable speech in
the Senate on the race question.
President Taft sent the nomina-
tions of his Cabinet to the Senate
and they were promptly confirmed.
The American cruisers Pennsyl-
vania and California are investigat-
ing the trouble in Central American.
Wyron T. Herrick, of Ohio, for
business reasons, declined an ambas-
sadorship at the hands Of President
Elect Taft.
The Government engineers are puz
zled over the question of how to re-
store Jefferson Davis names to Cabin
John Bridge.
Ex-President Roosevelt before he
retired issued an order closing the
Naval Stations at New Orleans and
Pensacola, Fla.
Everybody at Washington Is happy
over the resignation OF d. w. Crum,
the negro Collector of Customs, at
Charleston, S. C.
The conferees on the agricultural
appropriation bill agreed to an ap-
preparation of $225,000 to fight the
cotton boil weevil.
The new tariff bill has been tenta-
lively completed by the Republican
members of the House Ways and
Means Committee.
William Loeb, Jr., who was Sec
retary to the President under Roose-
welt, was appointed Collector of Gus
toms at the port of New York.
The Louisiana delegation in Con-
gress called on President Taft and
ask him to revoke the order closing
the New Orleans Naval Station.
BY a vote AZ to 35 the Senate re-
fused to put statehood rider on
the House resolution looking to the
prevention of discrimination against |
American Jews travelling in Russia.
There is rumor floating around !
Washington that the Supreme Court |
has given an intimation that it will |
sustain the validity of an income
tax If case again brought before
that tribunal.
Rear Admiral Charles s. Sperry,
made formal application to be reliev /
ed from duty as Commander-in-Ch Chief |
of the Atlantic battleship fleet, and
Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder, has
been appointed in his place.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary
voted to report disagreement on
the resolution providing for an in
vestigation of the absorption of the
Tennessee Iron and Coal Company by
the United States Steel Corporation.
The Democratic members of the
Senate conducted a successful fill
buster against the reconstruction
provisions in the penal code bill At
ter the Objectionable sections had
been stricken out the bill was pass
sd. -
Speaker Cannon. Of the House OF
Representatives, declared HIM
'elf in favor OF changing the date
If the presidential Inauguration from
March, to May 1. and added that
Is one Representative In Congress
,e would lend his aid in any effort
o bring this about.
Il witnessed tire dreadful weather
conditions that prevailed in 1872,
when four or five hundred people
aught their Deaths" he said. II
ecall the Harrison Inauguration,
With the soaking. chilling rain
torms, ana the snow and icy gale
hat made life miserable at Cleve-
and's second Inauguration. If the
hange of date is made it might as
rell be fixed later than April, for
ven an April rain woulf cause great
iscorfort and much sickness. and
should think that May ! would pro-
1ise more certainty for fair weather.
The final act. though unofficial in
o far as the House was concerned
COX place in the Senate chamber,
here both houses witnessed the in
oming of the new administration.
It was reported that Oscar Strauss
ad been offered the ambassadorship
} Japan.
The Senate was more critical in
ontirming Mr.. >Taft's cabinet than
YER before.