The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1909-02-12
MONTANA NEWS FROM
WASHINGTON


appear here as required by law on Jan.
%, excited much amusing comment in
eastern papers and was apparently re-
garded in some quarters as serious. The
general appeared this week done up in
plaster to support broken arm or badly
strained shoulder. He called on Senator
Carter, who went with him to make
peace with the vice president with view
not only to avoid the 81 900 fine which
the law permitted the vice president to
impose but likewise to secure allowance
of his mileage. General Warren ex-
planned how his arm had been broken by
falling on slippery sidewalk few days
before the Montana electors were called
to meet. The vice president remarked
that it was fortunate that his arm and
not his head had been broken. In the
end, however, the general was not pen
allied, but on the contrary received
certificate for mileage and went OH his
way rejoicing.
The good opinion of Hon. Fletcher
Maddox as the chief law officer of the
bureau of internal revenue is made man
ifest by a $500 increase i'll his salary over
that paid his predecessors. He will now
receive S., 900 per year.
A pleasant indication of the harmony
which prevails in the Montana senatorial
delegation is shown by the selection of
Richard A. Harlow to represent the.
Treasure state at the inaugural ball. In
many states the senators have been I'M
able to agree on a selection for this i'm
portant social function and it happens in
consequence that a friction which is
known only in the senate cloakrooms is
announced to the committee in charge of
inaugural proceedings through failure to
agree upon an inaugural representative.
1t is now pretty we'll settled that the
new Taft cabinet will not embrace sim
gle member OF the present Roosevelt
cabinet.
Senator Carters postal savings bank
bill, one of the pet measures of the ad-
ministraton, is still the unfinished bust
ness of the Senate and its author is losing
no opportunity to press its consideration
whenever the way is left open by regular
appropriation measures. The debate in
the senate has filtered through the house
to such an extent that it is now believed
that the members of the lower branch of
congress will insist on the subject being
taken up at the south end of the capitol.
Speaker Cannon, who has been very de-
termined in his opposition to postal saw
ing's bank legislation, is now said to be
assuming an attitude of indifference. The
debate is hanging in the senate on the
amendment proposed by Senator Cum
Minis, the new senator from Iowa, who
is opposed to protecting the savings de-
posits from garnishment proceedings,
and whose amendment removed the legal
protection thrown around public moneys
and also proposes to throw out of the bill
the clause which prohibits all employees
of the Government from disclosing the
amount of any depositor's account except
by direction of the postmaster general.
Finally the Cummins amendment pro-
poses to do away with all securities for
savings funds deposited in banks and to
take personal or security bonds instead.
Senator Dixon's bill providing for the
opening of the Crow reservation to settle.
ment, with an amendment added reserv.
ing 500, 900 acres OF land for the purpose
of establishing thereon horse breeding
station, will probably be reported by the
house committee on Indian affairs. Sew
eral hearings have been had on the
measure during the past couple OF weeks
in which representatives of the Indian
Rights association have taken an active
part. 1t is authoritively stated that al
to all parties interested and the measure
will be favorably reported and enacted
into law before adjournment.
Congressman Pray has introduced {
substitute bill for one formerly intro
duced by him which provided for the di
vision of Montana into two judicial dis
trcts. The new bill provides for thu
creation of an additional judge for thu
district of Montana rather than divi
sion of the state territorially on arbitrar,
lines of demarcation.
The resolution introduced by Senate
Carter providing for a survey of Polsol
harbor and an estimate for dredging
channel and driving piling to protect thu
same has passed the senate and has beef
put on the rivers and harbors bill, as ha
the bill of Senator Dixon which provide
for the survey for ship canal through
Kalispell slough, saltwater and Flatheac
s rivers and the lake, which insures tn
favorable consideration of both measure
by the present congress.
Congressman Pray's bill which provide
for an extention of time in which settler
on lands within the Huntley reclamation
project may make payments for the same
has been favorably reported by the com
l mittee on Indian affairs and will go OF