The Green Forest tribune., 1909-01-29
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ATTEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
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ESSIONAL.

CONGRESSIONAL. Fl After hot debate Friday the house r0ted two battle ships
 An interesting fight will occur in N he senate over the proposed increase f the presidents salary from $50,000 No $100,000, with the repeal of the Provision allowing $25,00o for travel q ng expenses The amendment to the I egislative, executive and judicial bill ontaining this provision was adopted
 the committee of the whole after a ! Belonged discussion, and after the lDoint of order made against it had ,n,een voted down so it was supposed ,r o have been disposed of, but Senator 3everidge has conceived the idea that :. t can be beaten when the bill is re- s ,orted to the senate, and has been Y working aSsiduously all day to that md
 The outlook for statehood in the Jnited States senate is not bright While members of the house and lead ITS in that body are working to put . onward a bill that can command ma ority of that body it is admitted by Members of the senate committee on erritories that almost insuperable Obstacles offer themselves to a state lOod programme in that body.
 President Roosevelt sent to the sen ttc a response to Senator Foraker's 8 esolution calling upon the secretary f the treasury for an itemized state nent of expenditures from the $3,000, 700 war deficiency fund. The reply cached the senate in the form of an Executive document. It purportS to ,e a complete answer, so far as the ise of the war deficiency fund is con- :erned, but some of the names of per Ions to whom payments were made were withheld
 There is no likelihood that the pend .ng Investigations of the secret ser -~ s7e, the disbursement of funds appro- priated to detect and prosecute viola lions of the federal statutes, will be completed before the 4th of March. This means, of course, that the prom Sed exposure of the administration of President Roosevelt, the implied, if lot promised attacks on the president lnd the promised censure of the secret ,ervice, have gone glimmering.
 1.-The senate committee on public ,uildings and grounds reported favor h; i,o ha of ,ffice buildings already authorized as blows: Boise City, Idaho, $125,0Q0; ,ioux Falls, S. D., $90,000, making otal of $190,000; Beatrice, Neb. $15,- 100 for additional land; Missoula, Mont, $35000, making a total of $150,- 100, and Kansas City, Kan, S90,000, making s240,000 in all
 ECutting down the estimate nearly s10000,000, the house committee on Appropriations agreed to report the Notifications bill carrying only S7,920,- II for the next fiscal year The lar rest item carried is that of S1,000000 tor seacoast batteries in the Philip yine Islands.
 
 hc house to make an inquiry into the lctivilics of the secret service held it's irst meeting Wednesday, organization vas perfected and the announcement made by Representative Olmstead, Hartman, that the active work of in- Navigation would be begun at once. He added that for the present the 'neetings of the committee will be eX- eu:ivc.
 sNSDcaEer Cannon announced the ap Dointment as a member of the house ;ommittee on invalid pensions of Rep 'esentative Joseph J. Russell of Mis- iOuri, to succeed Representative laackett of North Carolina, who re- nened. MT. Russell was recommend sda to the speaker by Representative Champ Clark, the minority leader. MT. Russell retires from congress March 4.
 Expressions of opposition and hos hlity to the action of the president in kppointing a commission of architects Ind artists to have charge of all public fMfldings and the erection of monu- hents and memorials in the national Vapital continue to be heard on Capitol Hill.