Times-promoter., 1909-01-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERsELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma
ton and Particularly From the
Great Southwest.
CONGRESSIONAL.

After hot debate Friday the house
voted two battle ships.
An interesting fight will occur ir
the senate over the proposed increase
of the presidents salary from $4,000
to 100000, with the repeal of the
provision allowing $25,000 for travel
ing expenses. The amendment to the
legislative, executive and judicial bill
containing this provision was adopted
in the committee of the whole after a
prolonged discussion, and after the
point of order made against it had
been voted down so it was supposed
to have been disposed of, but Senator
Beveridge has conceived the idea that
it can be beaten when the bill is re-
ported to the senate, and has been
working assiduously all day to that
end
The outlook for statehood in the
United States senate is not bright.
While members of the house and lead
ers in that body are working to put
forward a bill that can command ma
jority of that body it is admitted by
members of the senate committee on
territories that almost insuperable
obstacles offer themselves to a state
hood programme in that body.
President Roosevelt sent to the SEN
atc response to Senator Foraker's
resolution calling upon the secretary
of The, treasury for an itemized state
ment of expenditures from the $3,000,-
600 war deficiency fund. The reply
reached the senate in the form of an
executive document. 1t purports to
be a complete answer, SO far as the
use of the war deficiency fund is con-
cerned, but some of the names of per-
sons to whom payments were made
were withheld.
There is no likelihood that the pend
ing Investigations of the secret SER
vice, the disbursement of funds appro-
priated to detect and prosecute viola
tions of the federal statutes, will be
completed before the 4th of March.
This means, of course, that the prom
ised exposure of the administration Of
President Roosevelt the implied, if
not promised attacks on the president
and the promised censure of the secret
service, have gone glimmering.
The senate committee on public
buildings and grounds reported favor
ably bills increasing the cost of post
office buildings already authorized as
follows: Boise City, Idaho, $125,O00;
Sioux Falls, s. D., 100000, making
total of 100000; Beatrice, Neb, $751;
600 for additional land; Missoula,
Mont, $4,000, making total of $780,
O00 and Kansas City, Kan, $4,000,
making $240,O00 in ALL
Cutting down the estimate nearly
$10,000,000, the house committee on
appropriations agreed to report the
Notifications bill carrying only $7,920,-
Ill for the next fiscal year. The lar
gest item carried is that of $1,000,000
for seacoast batteries in the Philip
pine Islands.
The select committee appointed by
the house to make an inquiry into the
activities of the secret service held it's
first meeting Wednesday, organization
was perfected and the announcement
made by Representative Olmstead,
chairman, that the active work of in
vestigation would be begun at once.
He added that for the present the |
meetings of the committee will be ex-
ecu;ive.
SpeaEer Cannon announced the ap.
pointment as member of the house |
committee on invalid pensions of Rep
resentative Joseph J. Russell of Mis-
souri,. to succeed Representative
Hackett of North Carolina, who re-
signed Mr.. Russell was recommend
ed to the speaker by Representative
Champ Clark, the minority leader. Mr..
Russell retires from congress March 4.
Expressions of opposition and hos
tility to the action of the president in
appointing a commission of architects
and artists to have charge of all public
buildings and the erection of monu-
ments and memorials in the national
capital continue to be heard on Capitol
Hill.
GENERAL NEWS.
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