The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-06
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appropriation bill.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
was passed by the House.
There is naval cadet vacancy il
the First District of Louisiana.
i The Panama Canal scandal was
again the subject of debate In the
House.
The Brownsville negro soldiers
bill is to be railroaded through the
House.
s Dr.sS~ AsKnapp has prepalcd nj re.
port showing how rainfall affects the
cotton boil weevil.
The House rejected the proposition
of the Senate for salary increases af.
ter a stormy debate.
Congress forced President Roese-
velt to personally sign for tickets to
witness the inaugural ceremonies.
The District Attorney at Washing
ton is making another effort to indict
Waldemar Billie, of New Orleans.
| George w Wickersham, who will
be Attorney General in Taft's Cab
met, has bought home In Washing
| ton.
President-e1ect Taft will be called
upon to settle the dispute in north
Alabama over. the appointment of a
Federal judge.
The Arizona-New Mexico statehood
bill, which passed the House. has
been sidetracked in the Senate and
will probably fail
The Department of Agriculture
overruled DR.. H. w. Wiley. and is
sued regulations permitting the use
of benzoate of soda.
All of the items In the rivers ard
harbors bill affecting this section of
the country were favorably reported
by the Senate committee.
Because of important military ac-
tivfty in Nicaragua, the State Depart
ment has asked that warships be sent
to Amapala, on the West coast
There will be two vacancies in the
Senate on March 4 on account of the
failure of Hopkins, of Illinois, and
Stephenson, of Wisconsin, to secure
reelection.
Frank n. Hitchcock, Chairman of
the Republican National Committee;
put pressure on the House Commit
tee on Postoffices and Post Roads
and forced favorable report on the
mail subsidy bill.
The Democratic members of the
Senate have failed to put President
Roosevelt in hole," as they ex-
pressed it. The Presidents order re-
storing Jefferson Davis name il On
Cabin John bridge is expected to
popularize him in the South.
That the Interstate Commerce Law
prohibiting the issuance of passes on
railroads is applicable to the grant
the Supreme Court to the United
States In the case of the American
Express Company against the United
States. The case originated in Chi
cago.
Senator Tillman introduced a reso-
luton instructing the Senate Com
mittee on Postoffices to inquire and
report whether the recent message
of the President forwarding to Con-
gress the report of the Home Com
mission should not be excluded from
the mails as matter improper for
transmission.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary
adjourned without action ON the Sub
committees report, holding that the
President had no authority to sane
ton the merger Of the Tennessee
Coal and Iron Company with the
United States Steel Corporation. The
committee agreed to take vote on
next Monday.
Deciding the case of the Hammond
Packing Company, of Chicago, rs.
the State of Arkansas, favorably to
the state, the Supreme Court of the
United States, upheld the constitu-
tionality of the Antitrust Law of
Arkansas The company was fined
$4,000 in the Arkansas state courts
for failing to observe the law.
The House passed the sunGry civil
appropriation bill. An amendment
directing prosecution Of the steel
trust was voted down. Provisions to /
pay $4,000 for Catholic lands in
Porto Rico, and for raising the wreck
of tie Maine, were stricken out. The
salary of the Secretary of the 18TH
mian Canal Commissions secretary
was cut to $4,000.
The Notifications and the diplo-
matte and consular appropriation
bills we're passed by the Senate.
The Supreme Court of the United
States decided the case of the Cum
berIand Telephone Company vs.. the
Railroad Commission of Louisiana,
involving the right OF the Commis-
sion to reduce the company long
distance rates, favorable to the state.
The new Mexican Ambassador to
the United States, Senor F. L. De La
Barra, who is the successor OF Senor
Inrico CreeI, arrived at Washington
and opened the Embassy.
President RooseveI.s enemies in
Congress are preparing te attack him
as he makes his exit from Official
life.
The House inserted provision in
the sundry civil appropriation bill
limiting the operations Of Secret
Service detectives to ths Treasury