The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-22
NE WS 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.


 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 oI 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 unwrirten law of the senate is that none but members of the big committees may move eX- ecutive sessions. MT Owen, intrenched behind his B years, calmly moved such session. Everybody looked at him in amaZement and Senator Hale said in a tone of ice: Pending that motion, I move that the senate do now adjourn" Nearly everybody had left the chamber before Mir 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 a bill to provide a 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 S5,000 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 next
 Nearly three hours discussion made
 equally divided as to the propriety of
 adding an aggregate of $404.000 in
 salaries to public officials
 The president has vetoed the bill
 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 l says that unless the United States is | paid for the use of the water, no bills
 should be passed which give monop- l oly.
 | An amendment in the legislative,
 executive and judicial appropriation
 bill increasing the salary of the presi- ' re | and speaker of the house of repre- 1 sentatives to $20,000, with 5000 ad- | ditional allowance for carriages and l coachmen for the vice president and | speaker and increases for the judi ciary aggresating $32S,500, precipl-
 tated lively discussion in the s--.2t Q
 Fri1ay.
 ' Inf. r.al discussion of Senator Hop
 kins' bill providing an authorization for the issuance of S500,000,000 worth | of bends 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 | a measure would be 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 l claims to urge claim of S305,100 as reimbursement for 5000 acres of land | along the Little Miami river in Ohio, which was granted to Washington, | but was lost by conflicting grants made under the authority of the | United States.
 l After years of vain endeavor to ob- l tain compensation for the loss of her | kingdom. Lilluokalani former queen l of the kingdom of Hawaii appeared in | person before the house committee on l claims to press her claim. It was the first time in history that a real former 1 queen had faced a committee of the
 house. The queen is willing to accept | s250,000 as a complete settlement.