Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-06-28
Senate Workina
Despite the In
tolerable Heat
ALDR|CH APPEARS NET1LED
Because of Delay in Forcing
the Tariff Bill to the
Front.

Washington, d. c., June 2S.-The
extreme heat that forced most of the
Senators to appear in the chamber
clad in white, did not deter from ac-
tion on the tariff measures. Vice
President Sherman appeared in a
white suit and many members follow
ed suit. Clapp, when the corporation
tax measure was brought up, urged
an amendment eliminating from the
measure the right of corporations to
own stock in other companies. In con-
nection with the same measure, Cul-
berson proposed a modification where
by the Senate may obtain possession
of any information gathered by the
commissioner of internal revenue con-
cerning corporations. Aldrich, nettled
at the delay to force the tariff to the
front, accepted an amendment by Nc
Laurin, whereby cotton bagging Is
placed on the free list.
The action of the Senate will mere.
ly have the effect of throwing the
matter of duty on cotton bagging
/ into conference where it will be fought
out. The Senate then turned to the
iron and steel schedule, and on mo-
tion of Aldrich the paragraph relat-
ing to structural steel was slightly
changed SO that the products valued
at less than nine-tenths cent a pound
will be taxed three-tenths of cent
per pound instead of four-tenths of a
cent per pound. An Intellectual at
tempt was made by Stone Of Missouri
to place structural steel on the free
list. A duty of one and a half cent
pound on zinc instead of one cent
as in the House bill was agreed to.
| Petition for Executive Clemency.
Washington, D. G., June 2S.-A pc
tition for executive clemency to save
a young woman from disgrace and a
term in prison was brought to the
White House this morning by Mon.
dell of Wyoming, in behalf of Mrs.
Ethel Donovan, formerly postmaster
at Dietz, Wyo. Mrs. Donovan, who is
only 26 years old. was convicted OF
embezzlement in connection with the
issuance of money orders and she will
be taken to Denver to serve six
months in jail Mondell brought the
papers to show that eight jurors who
voted to convict Mrs. Donovan now be-
lieve that she intended no crime.
Refuse to Give Senate the Documents
| Washington, d. c., June 2S.-Att0r'
ney General Wickersham has refused
to send to the Senate files in the de-
partment of justice relating to the
trial of DR.. f. B. Perrin, charged with
conspiracy to defraud the government
in the California timber land cases
The data was demanded in connection
with the nomination of Robert Devlin
to be U. S. district attorney for the
northern district of California. The
nomination was put over until fall.
Wickersham Says the Commission
Must Enforce Railway Law.
Washington, June 28.-The sugges
tion that the enforcement of the so
called hours Of service law" relating
to the employment Of men on rail
roads, be postponed until there is g
final decision of the supreme court
of the United States, determining al
possible controversies as to its con
struction cannot be entertained an
nounced Attorney General Wicker
sham in a letter made public today
The attorney general said that it is
the duty of the Interstate Commerce
Comission to enforce this statute and
"the commission has been so advised
by this department"