Times-promoter., 1909-01-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERsELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the, Ma
tion and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
CONGRESSIONAL.

To use an artillery figure, congress
has been firing projectiles at the pres
ident not by piece, but by battery.
The last missile was a naval shell
fired Friday in the form OF provision
in the house navy appropriation bill
recommending that the marines be re-
stored to the status that they former
ly held in the service.
Senator Owen of Oklahoma was
hazed Friday, The unwritten law of
the senate is that none but members
of the big committees may move ex-
ecutive sessions. Mr.. Owen, intrenched
behind his So years, calmly moved
such session. Everybody looked at
him in amazement and Senator Hale
said in tone of ice: Pending that
motion, l move that the senate do
now adjourn" Nearly everybody had
left the chamber before Mr.. Owen
had realized that he had been sat
upon.
Chairman Hepburn and Representa-
tive Stevens of the house committee
on interstate commerce will call upon
President Roosevelt to talk over with.
him the draft of bill to provide
new civil government for the Panama
Canal zone. The. delegation returned
from the trip to Panama to investigate
conditions in the canal zone. The
committee had hearings of all the Off
cials engaged in the work
Speaker Cannon and Vice-President-
elect Sherman did not get their allow
ance of $4,000 year for horses and
a carriage from the senate. Neither
did the president, vice-president and
speaker, to say nothing of the entire
Judiciary, have their salaries in
creased, to begin with March a next
Nearly three hours discussion made
1t appear that the senate is about
equally divided as to the propriety of
adding an aggregate of $404,000 in
salaries to public officials.
The president has vetoed the bill
authorizing the building of dam on
the James river in Stone county, Mis-
souri,, and the diverting of water
enough to run power plant to be
built by William H. Standish. He
says that unless the United States is
paid for the use of the water, no bills
should be passed which give monop-
oily.
An amendment in the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill increasing the salary of the presi-
dent to 100000, of the vice president
and speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives to $4,000, with $4,000 ad-
ditional allowance for carriages and
coachmen for the vice president and
speaker and increases for the judi
ciary aggregating $32S,500, precipi-
tated lively discussion in the senate
Friday.
Informal discussion of Senator Hop
kins' bill providing an authorization
for the issuance of $500,000,000 worth |
of bonds for the Panama Canal, leads
to the conclusion that it will be op-
posed in the senate. Members of the |
senate committee on Isthmian Canal |
doubt If the bill will get the approval
of the committee. They urge that such |
n measure would he construed as at |
once raising the limit of cost of the
canal to the amount here given.
Heirs Of George Washington appear
ed before the house committee on
claims to urge a claim of $305, 100 as
reimbursement for 5000 acres Of land
along the Little Miami riverain Ohio,
which was granted to washington
but was lost by conflicting grants
made under the authority of the
United States.
After years of vain endeavor to OBJ
tain compensation for the loss of her
kingdom, Lilluokalani, former queen
,f the kingdom of Hawaii, appeared in
person before the house committee on
claims to press her claim 1t was the
irst time in history that real former
queen had faced a committee OF the
louse. The queen is willing to accept
S250,000 as complete settlement.
NEMEDAI ME.uYc |