The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-01-22
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.

To use an artillery figure, congress
has been firing projectiles at the pres
ident not by piece, but by battery.
The last missile was a naval shell
fired Friday in the form OF a provision
in the house navy appropriation bill
recommending that the marines be re-
stored to the status that they former
ly held in the service.
Senator Owen of Oklahoma was
hazed Friday. The unwritten law OF
the senate is that zone but members
of the big committees may move eX-
ecutive sessions. Mr.. Owen, intrenched
behind his SO years, calmly moved
such a session. Everybody looked at
him in amazement and Senator Hale
said in a tone of ice: Pending that
motion, move that the senate do
now adjourn Nearly everybody lad
left the chamber before Mr.. Owen
had realized that he had been sat
upon.
Chairman Hepburn and Representa-
tive Stevens of the house committee
on interstate commerce will call upon
President Roosevelt to talk over with
him the draft of a bill to provide a
new civil government for the Panama
Canal zone The delegation returned
from the trip to Panama to investigate
conditions in the canal zone. The
committee had hearings of all the Off
Gals engaged in the work.
Speaker Cannon and Vice-President-
elect Sherman did not get their allow
ance of $4,000 a year for horses and
a carriage from the senate. Neither
did the president, vice-president and
speaker, to say nothing of the entire
judiciary, have their salaries in
creased. to begin with March 4 neX
Nearly three hours discussion made
it appear that the senate is about
equally divided as to the propriety Of
adding an aggregate OF $4O4 600 in
salaries to public officials.
The president has vetoed the bill
authorizing the building of a dam on
the James river, in Stone county, Mis-
souri,, and the diverting of water
enough to run a power plant to be
built by William H. Standish He
says that unless the United States is
paid for the use of the water. no bills
should be passed which give a monop-
oily.
An amendment in the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill increasing the salary of the pCesi-
dent to S100, 00G, of the vice president
and speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives to $4,000, with $4,000 ad-
ditional allowance for carriages and
coachmen for the vice president and
speaker and increases for the judi
ciary aggregating $32S,5O0, precipi-
tated a lively discussion in the senate
Friday.
Informal discussion of Senator Hop
kins' bill providing an authorization
for the issuance Of $500, 900, 900 worth
of bonds for the Panama Canal, leads
to the conclusion that it will be op-
posed in the senate. Members of the
senate committee on Isthmian Canal
doubt if the bill will get the approval
of the committee. They urge that such
a measure would be construed as at
once raising the limit of cost of the
canal to the amount here given
Heirs of George Washington appear
ed before the house committee on
claims to urge a claim of $685. 100 as
reimbursement for 5000 acres of land
along the Little Miami river in Ohio,
which was granted to Washington,
but was lost by conflicting grants
made under the authority of the
United States.
After years of vain endeavor to OBJ
tain compensation for the loss of her
kingdom. Lilluokalani, former queen
of the kingdom of Hawaii, appeared in
person before the house committee on
claims to press her claim. 1t was the
first time in history that a real former
queen had faced a committee of the
Louise. The queen is willing to accept
1850, 900 as a complete settlement.