The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1909-01-29
WORK OF
CONGRESS-


Ev a vote OF y. 10 - the Senato
Monday fixed the salary of the Speak
er OF the House Of Representatives at
$i5.o0o instead of $4,000. as mt pres
ent. and instead OF 10000. as proposed
by the Committee on Appropriations
Senator Rayner endearered to have the
Senate adopt a resolution ealing on the
Attorney General for information as to
whether the President had ordered a
suit brought against the New York
World and the Indianapolis News be-
cause OF an alleged libel, and under
what statute this action had been TAX
en-. Mr.. Rayner declared that there
was no statute authorizing such legal
procedure and that the attempt to sue
the new simpers in the name of the
United States. IL entered upon, was an
attempt to apply the sedition laws long
since repealed. Under objection fur
ther consideration was postponed. A
sensational and bitter attack on Pres
ident Roosevelt was made in the House
by Mr.. Willett of New York. His re-
list Ms Nttt ttistltti OItiN AhN ttNASS
of general .ieba te on the pension appro-
briation bill. The President was char
acterized by Mr.. Wilett as a ~"gargoyle.
tyrant. pygmy descendant of Dutch
t~radespeople, hay tedder, fountain Of
billingsgate. a popularity, imitation Of
a king and bogus hero" On a motion
by Mr.. Gambler of Mississippi that the
New Yorker be allowed to proceed lin
order" the House voted him of the
floor. IS to 1a6. Mr.. Willett declared
the action put an end to free speech"
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The salary of the President Of the
United States was Tuesday fixed at
100000 per annum. SC far as the Sen
Vice President and the Speaker of the
House of Representatives at S1o.0OC
each. The salary of the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court was increased
from $4,000 to $4,000, and those Of
associate justices from $4,000 to S14.-
500. These changes were made 40
Amendments to the legislative. execu-
tive and judicial appropriation bill and
after an extended debate. Amendments
allowing 5000 each TO the Vice Pres
idcnt and the Speaker of the House
for horses and carriages were stricken
from the bill. Senator Rayner's reso~s
luton calling on the Attorney Genelfk
for information concerning the suit
purposes bringing against certain news
papers on the charge of libel i'm connec-
ton with the purchase of the Panama
Canal property was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary after a
strong fight to have it adopted without
such reference. Various pension bills
were passed. After disposing OF the
speech of Representative Willett at
lacking the President by referring it
10 a special committee, the House
passed the pensions and urgent def
cheney bills, and when adjournment
was taken the naval appropriations
bill was under consideration. The pen
sions bill abolishes all but one OF the
eighteen pension agencies throughout
the country and carries a total appro-
priation of s16O, 6 1900. A plan to
pay pensioners quarterly was defeated.
The urgent deficiency bill carries ap-
preparations amounting to 81. 026, 400. A
ing an appropriation of $4,000 for q
commission to investigate conditions
in the Republic of Liberia, Africa. wal
read.
The Brownsville affair was again be
fore the Senate Wednesday, Senator
Frazier of Tennessee speaking in OBJ
position to the passage of the measure
for the reinlistment of the discharged
soldiers Of the Twenty-fifth Regiment.
He insisted that the guilt of some men
of the regiment had been established
beyond any doubt, although the indi-
viduals who had committed the crime
had not been determined. Mr.. For
aker announced that be would move
the next Monday TO take up his bill
TO reinstate the soldiers unless an
agreement On n time to vote for tho
measure Is made sooner. The leCis.
latiye. executive and judicial appropri.
alton bill was under consideration also
After adopting without opposition n
resolution by which Governor George
J.. Lilley OF Connecticut ceases to be
o member of Congress. the House ~
Representatives proceeded with thu
naval appropriation bill. There were
few amendments offered to the meas.
ure, the Items under consideration be.
Ing those OF maintenance and improve.
ments to navy yards, stations and other
public works of the navy. Represent.
alive Foss OF Illinois. chairman OF the
naval affairs committee, had charge of
h bill on the floor, and Representa-.
fiyes Tawney (Mlinn.l J. Fitzgerald
fNew York;, Gaines tTepn.l. Macon
fArk.) and others spoke. Representa-
i've lam (Iil.l occupied the chai,
during the consideration Of the bin.
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