Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-03-05
WORK OF CONGRESS.
Senate.

lions Tor re-e0lStma0e Of discharged negro
soldiers Of the TwenU-afth Infantry regi-
ment who were accused of shooting mp
1s-14, 1905 The Aldr,ch bill for this pur;
by party vote Of Sc to 90, except that Sen
ator Teller voted with the Republicans for
the passage of the bill. The Till is g com.
Roosevelt, Senator Foraker and all Of the
military affairs. The Senate also passed
aggregating S., 320,1 III, and the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill carrying SIS
646, 1856. At 4:40 O'Clock the Senate al
jour1ed
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 IN
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 a speech
which occupied two hours Considera ton
of the bill was not concluded. Adjourned
at $40 p. m.
The entire time of the Senate was occu-
pied on the 25th with the consideration or
items providing for various investigations
and matters relating to new legislation
were stricken from the bill on points OF
order. The forestry service was again Sc,
verely criticised by Senator's Carter and
Hepburn. The Senate at 6:OS o'clock al
journed.
The passage of the agricultural appropria,
ton bill by the Senate on the Goth followed
an extended debate on the forestry service,
which occupied the entire sess on. A
passed the measure appropriateS $l3,O1o, 40,
bill as passed by the House. Senator Frye
gave notice that he would call up the river
and harbor appropriation bin tomorrow
morning at IL O'Clock. AT {: 80 CLOCK the
Senate adjourned
The river and harbor bill. carrying an ap
preparation of about $9,70O,0O0 was passed
Saturday. Eulogies were delivered upon thu
lives of the late Senator Latimer of South
Carolina and the late Representatives Pow
ers of Maine, Wiley of Alabama, Meyer of
Louisiana, Brick of Indiana and Granger OF
Rhode Island. Senators Tilman. HemeD-
way, Overman. Carter, Smith of Michigan;
Clay, Flint and Gary spoke on the life of
Mr.. Latimer; Senators Frye, Sutherland,
Dixon, Smith of Michigan and Hale on Mr.;
Powers; Senators Bankhead. McEnery and
Johnston on Representative Wiley Senator's
McEnery, Clapp, Perkins. Gallinger and Eos
ter on Representative Meyer; Senators Bev-
eridge and Hemenway Oh Representative
Brick and Senators Adrich and Wetmore
on Representative Granger. Adjourned at
5:27 .. m.
The sundry civil bill appropriating $139,-
100000 and the military academy bill carry
ing an appropriation OF S234i wv were
passed on the LIST Senator Balley caIIln ~
departments in response to Senate resolu-
lions calling for papers and information.
stated that such replies received from the
secretaries of the treasury. commerce ana
labor and war and navy had been sent 'nE
direction of the President" which he de-
clared was inferentially denial Of the
right of Congress to demand such lntOrma-
ton without the Intervention of the Presl,
dent. Presenting resolution directing thaI
all such communications be returned to the
heads of departments from whom they had
been received, Mr. Bailey attempted to Sc
cure it's passage, which was opposed by Mr.;
Aldrich and other senator's on the ground
shat the orderly way to dispose of matter
committee After debate it was allowed to
lie on the table until Tuesday.
House.
Appropriation bills mainly occupied the
HouSe on the 23rd. The sundry civil bill
was considered but progress with it was
slow. The Notifications, legislative, exc
cutive and judicial, diplomatic and consular,
and pOstoffice appropriation bills were sent
to conference. Mr.. Clarke, Florida, unSuc-
cessfully attempted to secure an investiga-
ton by the committee on the Judiciary into
the writing of the recent letter by Secre-
tary of State Bacon apologizing for Mr..
Rafneys remarks regarding President
obada of M Mr. GakS object
| to Mr.. Rainey constituted an abuse of the
privileges of the House. At $50 p, m. the
House took a recess until II O'Clock to-
| With its warpaint the House on the
4th, by sweeping majorities, many times de
| fed the Senate by rejecting it's amend
ments to the legislative appropriation bill
! providing for salary increases for the Presi-
dent, the vice president the speaker, the
| judiciary and for the creation Of the offices
| of under secretary and fourth assistant sec
| rotary of state. Party lines were obit-
Grated completely. Not during the present
| Congress mas the speaker been compelled to
| about order The battle waged for more
than six hours, at the end of which the
bill was sent to conference. SO much time
in nf
| ference report on that measure that night
session was made imperative in order that
further Of the su1 mr. e civil ap
| for several days, might be had. Although
the members were prlmed for discussion
of the secret service, the subject vas al, a.,
was less than one-third completed when
the House at sos q. m. recessed.
By an overwhelming vote . and n With without
| tfves on the 18th sustained the committee
on appropriations in again reporting no
vision in the sundry civil bill restricting the
oDera tons of the secret service detectives
| Of the treasury department, The President
was scathingly denounced by Mr.. Cook
| Republican, Colo), while Mr.. Smith (Re-
publican, Iowa., member of the approprta-
| fions committee and one of those named by
the President in his message Of January 4
last as being responsible for the secret
service limitation, employed all the invec-
tive at his command in an attack on that
service He compared the secret service
detectives to common liars, declared
them to be worthless and pointed to the
assassination of President Mckinley as a
sample of the watchfulness and capacity
of those men, one of whom, he said, stood
at the Presidents side when he was shot
down and failed to observe the approach OF
the assassin with his supposedly bandaged
hand in full view. Consideration of the
sundry civil bill was continued into the
night The conference report on the post
office appropriation bill was agreed to dur
ing the day and the naval bill was sent
back for further conference.
After having dragged along for a week
the sundry civil appropriation bill, carrying
in the aggregate $137, 100000, was passed
by the House on the Goth with numerous
material amendments. Amendments which
would have forced the attorney general to
prosecute the United States Steel corpora
ton for absorbing the Tennessee Coal and
merger was in violation of the antitrust
law were voted down A rule brought in
by Mr.. DalzeIl Pennsylvania) making it in
order for a majority instead of two-thirds
to pass bill under suspension of the rules
aroused the Democrats to serve criticism
of the appropriation committee in not af-