The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-02-04
FIGHT FOR AUTOS
FOR PRESIDENT
HOUSE LOCKS HORNS WITH THE
SENATE ON SUBJECT.
A BROWNSVILLE VOTE SOON
Upper House Committee Probes The
Tennessee Corporations Sale to
Steel Trust Which Roose-
Welt Permitted,

Washington, Feb 3.--The house
locked horns yesterday with the SEN
ate on the question of automobiles for
the White House, and refused to ac-
| cept an amendment to the urgent de-
ficiency bill striking out the appropri-
alton of $4,000 for that purpose. The
bill was sent to conference, after a
members took occasion to refer to the
bodily proportions Of the president
elect. @
The hopes of the army for sufficient
money to continue its experiments in
aeronautics were blasted when the
house reconsidered its action of last
week and by a vote of to / withdrew
the increase of 100000 then made
After undergoing this and other
amendments the army appropriation
bill was passed, and consideration of
the agricultural bill Immediately be-
gan.
Under license of debate on the latter
measure, Mr.. Keifer made an ex-
haustive speech in support of his bill
for ship canal from Toledo to Cincin-
natl along the Miami and Erie canal.
Mr.. Ansberry of Ohio spoke in advo-
cacy of a ship canal from Chicago to
Toledo, and Mr.. Larrinaga, delegate
from Porto Rico, urged a duty on 9TH
er than Porto Rico coffee entering the
United States.
Vote on Brownsville Incident.
An agreement was reached in the
senate to vote. on February % on the
Aldrich substitute bill for the appoint
ment of court of inquiry to deter
mine the qualifications for re-enlist.
ment of the discharged soldiers of the
Twenty-ffth infantry, as the result of
the Brownsville incident.
The senate passed a house bill
which is intended to prevent the i'm
purtatfon OF opium into the United
States except for medicinal purposes.
A large part of the day in the senate
was devoted to an executive session,
during which the nomination of Col
leetor Crum of Charleston, s. c., was
considered. H%a
TTope oteeI meFgeT. .'-
Details of the formation of a syndi-
cate to control the Tennessee Coal &
Iron Company and of the later negotia-
tons for the sale of a majority of the
stock of that concern to the United
States Steel Corporation were given
by Grant B. Schley of New York, a
member of the New York firm of
Moore & Schley, who was a witness
before the special committee Of the
senate committee on judiciary which
is investigating the presidents author
ity for permitting the merger In No
vember, 1907.
Mr.. Schley gave the names of the
16 men who associated themselves
together to control the stock He told
also of the arrangement for the sale
Of the stock to the Steel Corporation,
and indicated that this was brought
about through the agency of J. Pier
pont Morgan & Co.
. Describes Panieky Days.
In response to questions by Senator
Dillingham;, Mr.. Schley said the eff
feet of the purchase was to relieve the
situation most decidedly, not only
with Moore & Schley, but with every
body about. The witness gave a
graphic description of the panicky
days and told of the calls made upon
his firm, which he said amounted to
100000 in three days, and he de-
clared that nobody could pay all that
money at once"
1t was brought out by Senator Gull
berson that the relations of Moore &
Schley to the Tennessee Coal & Iron
Company were known in the street"
and as result his firm was specially
pounded during the panic