Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-02-11
DoINCS OF CONGRESS
Summary of Important Proceeding
Enacted From Day to Day.

support Of Senator Bacon's resolu.
ton declaring that the Senate has 8
right to any information in posses.
sion of the executive departments
and cited various %precedents to US.
tain his contention. He claimed that
only in exceptional eases is the Pres.
ldent warranted in Withholding in.
formation and declared that Congress
had new failed to respect such &C.
ton on the part of the executive
when it has been based on considera,
tons of public interest. .
The Senate remained in executive
session during most Of the day con.
sidering the nomination-of DR.. w. D.
Crum. to be collector Of customs at
Charleston, S. G., and at 5:27 p. m.
adjourned.
General debate or the agricultural
appropriation bill in the House az
forded critics and defenders of the
Department Of Agriculture an excel
lent field day.
Mr.. Lever, of South Carolina. led
off with an attack on the appoint
ment and work of the referee board
Of consulting chemists, in the depart
ment. Mr.. Heflin, of Alabama, asked
on behalf Of cotton growers for a
governmental monthly report on the
consumption of cotton. Mr.. Sturgis,
Of West Virginia, urged an extension
Of the forest service. Mr.. Humphrey,
Of Washington, took an exactly op-
| posite view, while MI. Mondell, of
Wyoming, declared the bureau of
forestry the most autocratic govern
ment bureau outside Of Russia. Mr..
Bartholdt, Of Missouri, urged the is
sue Of bonds for inland waterway
improvement and Mr.. Gambler. of
Mississippi, complained Of the tariff
On agricultural implements. Chair
| man Scott, Of the agricultural com
mittee, closed the debate with ex-
planatory remarks on the work done
by the department during the past
year.
While the bill was under considera.
ton under the five-minute rule, an In
crease Of $500, to the salary Of Sole.
itor George P. McCabe, making il
$4,000, was stricken out On a point
of order.
An increase of the salary Of Di
rector Willis B. Moore, Of the wealth
er bureau, from $4,000 to $4,000 suf
fered a similar fate.
Before the bill was taken up ii
general debate the House passed tn
Senate pension bill for Fedora
judges.
The monotonous tones of the read
ing cleark Of the Senate as he labor
ed through the bill Of over 100 page
making appropriations for the Dis
trict Of Columbia constituted tn
chief feature in the proceedings Q
that body Thursday. There was al
evident intention on the part. of tn
authority to lengthen the time neces
sary to dispose of the measure, it he
ing the only obstacle to an executiv
session for the further considerable
Of the nomination Of William I
Crum to be collector Of customs a
Charleston, S. C.
t On the Democratic side. there was
: persistent demand for the most care
! full reading of the bill and Occasional
1y members Of the minority becam
involved in a spirited debate on item
usually left to the judgment Of tn
: committee reporting the measure.
!. When the Senate adjourned at 81
O'Clock the reading of only half Q
; 1.-THE bill had been completed.
In the House the forest service e
its usual annual drubbing Thursda,
the criticisms against it coming pri1
n cipally from Mr.. Smith, Of Califo,
MIA, Mr.. Cook, of Colorado, and M
g Mondell, Of Wyoming, all of who
charged extravaganza in administer
S ton and the extortions Of money fro,
miners, farmers and even the ownel
} of bee hives. Mr.. Cook attributed
+ MI. Pinchot, the chief forester, Il
s.Hlterior motive Of scheming for Sc
rotary Wilson's seat in the Cabine
Both MI. Pinchot and the forest Sc