Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-02-26
WORK OF CONGRESS.
Senate,

eu delay IN reporting great appropriation
bills. Mr., La Toilette had at length chided
the Senate with permitting n glut of import
ant legislation to be disposed of in haste
during The last days of Congress. and had
suggested that it would be no calamity If
all Of these bills could not be acted upon
in the regular session, saying that n re-
organization of committees would allow the
special session to consider them and ether
Important legislation. Responding in angry
tones, Mr.. Penrose charged the senator from
Wisconsin with having failed to attend
meetings of committees of which he was a
member, finally declaring that his criti-
cisms sounded more like the arguments
made by vender of IL patent medicine
from the tail door of Il cart in Il village Of
Wisconsin, than those of a senator CT the
United States. AT $40 the Senate ad-
journed.
gress has such large amount of legislative
business been done by the Senate as was
accomplished on the 10Th. The army bill,
carrying appropriations amounting TO SlO2,-
626o5o, and the pension bill. with appro-
prlauons aggregatiug $160, S69. 900, of which
Sl6ooOOoOo was for pensions and $4,000
pills, forty Of which had previously been
IaNorably acted upon by the House, were
passed Adjourned at 500 O'Clock.
The Indian appropriation bill occupied
almost the entire time Saturday and was
oyer $9,oooOoO. Of this amount al a6o6t ST.,
amendment. Adjourned Mt SIG ~ m
For two hours and Il half on the 22d the
Senate discussed the postal savings bank
proposal. but an attempt to reach an agree
ment as TO day for voting on tue measure
failed. The reading by Senator NIcIaurin
of Washington's farewell address consumed
the first hour of the session. Senator Aid
rich obtained the consent of the Senate 10
a resolution continuing the committees of
the Senate as they now exist until their sue
cessOrS are chosen in the next regular SEES
sion. The agricultural appropriation bill
was taken up. The Senate adjourned at
4 40 y. IN.
The President is authorized to appoint a
court of inquiry to determine the qualifica-
lions for re-enistment of discharged negro
soldiers of the Twenty-ffth Infantry regi-
ment who were accused of shooting up
Brownsville, Tex, on the night of August
1914, 1906. The Aldrich bill for this pur-
pose was passed by the Senate on the 2Grd
by party vote of 90 to 26, except that Sen
ator Teller voted with the Republicans for
the passage of the bill. The bill is com
promise measure approved by President
Roosevelt, Senator Foraker and all of the
Republican members of the committee ON
military affairs. The Senate also passed
the Notifications bill. with appropriations
aggregating $S.320.111. and the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill carrying So.
646,3S6; At 4:4O o'clock the Senate al
jour2ed
The agricultural appropriation bill was
under discussion in the Senate during prac-
tically the entire session on the 4th. Sen
atOr McCumber of North Dakota discussed
at length the right of Congress under the
constitution to fix standards for grain and
declared that present practices make i'm
possible the sale of western grain at the
prices to which it is really entitled Sen
atOr Hepburn denounced the methods of
administering the forest service in speech
which occupied two hours. COnsidera ton
of the bill was not concluded. Adjourned
at $40 p. m.
The controversy over the legislative APP
preparation BILL in connection with the
much discussed salary of the secretary of
state, involving the eligibility of Senator
K M for N of lAI Il,
House on the 18th, when the bill was sent
to conference and the committee authorized
TO consider the salary provision as if in dis
agreement This gives the committee pow
er to reduce tie pay from $4,000 to $4,000,
its former figure. The Republicans were
caught mapping when resolution by Mr.
Fitzgerald was adopted disagreeing on the
Senate amendments creating the office of
uLdersecretary and fourth assistant secre-
tary of state. The bill cOdifying and amend
ing the penal laws of the United States was
passed and the Notifications appropriation
bill discussed. Vigorous attacks on the
House rules were made by MesSrs. Hubbard
and Hepburn of Iowa. The latter asserted
that members had betrayed their trust anC
Frustrated themselves at the feet of the
speaker, who, he said, had been made a
tyrant. The bill was pending when the
House at $40 p. m. took a recess until II
q. m. tomorrow.
The Notifications bill was completed on
the 10Th and went over to the Senate; the
sundry civil bill was reported and the post
office appropriation bill was sent to con
sion on pulp and paper investigation was
read; the river and harbor bill was report
ed, and the report of the special printing in
VeSugation committee was submitted Dur
ing the general debate ON the fortifica tons
bill numerous speeches miscellaneous
topics were made: Mr. Peters Mass.) plead
ed for a chtldrenS bureau for the study Of
problems for the welfare of the young; MI
Foster Vermont discussed the question of
order among members in the House, his re
marks being supplemented by Mr.. Davis
Minn.) and the speaker. who occupied the
chair, calling members to order. Mr.. Smith
Cdc) made some observations on recent
court decisions affecting labor; Mr.. Foster
Ql) advocated free antitOXin. and Mr.. Cox
Qnd) favored a modification of the law re
lating to writs of injunction in certain
cases. At J:21 the House recessed until to-
morrow at II Il. IN.
Two more of the annual supply bills. the
diplomatic and consular and the military
academy measures, were passed Saturday.
Neither excited mucL debate nor was either
amended in any important particular. The
rivers and harbOrS bill also was passed I'M
der suspension of the rules, after Mr.. kei-
fer Ohio had inaugurated Il full-fedged
filibuster against it in the expectation or
securing an amendment providing FOR a sur
vey of the proposed Ohio and Erie canal.
The House also sent the pension approprIa-
ton bill to conference. Following a speech
by Mr.. Hitchcock (Neb) advocating the i'm
position of an income tax, the Sundry civil
bill, carrying an appropriation of $l31OOO,-
600, was called up. and an agreement
reached whereby two hours were to be de
p. IN. the House adjourned until Sunday at
noon, when a special session was held for
the delivery of eulOgieS on the late Senator
Allison of Iowa and Latimer of South Caro-
lima and Representative Wiley of Alabama
The fact that the House adjourned instead
of recessed disposed of last Monday as the
continuous legislative day.
A second speech by Mr. Rainey Qll) re-
iterating his former statements concernins
the Panama canal and q bitter arraignment
of Mr. Rainey by Mr.. Burton (Ohlo) fur
niShed the principal incidents in the House
on the 22nd. After the Illinois member had
spoken for an hour in further denunciati ton
took the floor and vigorously defended Mr..
Cromwell. G =. Taft, President-elect Taft
and others whom Mr.. Rainey on a former
occasion had made objects of his attack.
Mr. Rainey, he said, had furnished no
proofs of wrongdoing in connection with the
purchase of the Panama canal franchise,
but instead had conjured up wrongs and
buttressed them with SANDER and falsehood.
thereby placing himself on a level with the
scuryy politician He challenged Mr.
Rainey to get from behind the protection
afforded him by the Constitution of the
make his charges in the open. Following
the sending of the army and Indian appro-
priatfOn bills 10 conference consideration OF
the sundry civil appropriation bill
sumed and 1t was pending when the House
AT y. IN. adjourned
Appropria ton bills mainly occupied the
House the 23rd. The sundry civil bill
was considered, but progress with 1t was
slow. The Notifications. legislative, exc
cutive and judicial. diplomatic and consular,
and pOstOffice appropriation bills We're sent
to conference Mr.. Clarke Florida. unsuc-
ccssfully attempted to secure an inyestiga-
ton by the committee on the judiciary into
writ iTsr pf 10 ct for i,y-