Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1910-02-11
The Week
in Congress

The postal savings bank bill was r.
ceiyed by the senate Thursday, reter~ E
red to committee II a bill for tho
disposition of Indian lands in South +
Dakota by lot was passed, but not u.
til Senators Gore and BurkeI had bit.
terly assaulted the system. Animated
debate and political speeches were tho
order of the day in the House, tho
subject being the agricultural appro-
priation bill. Mr.. Boutell upheld tho
PAYNE tariff law
The Senate spent more han two
hours Friday in a fruitless academic
discussion of the tariff. Mr.. Lodge
contending that the rates of duty have
no effect on the price of living and
Senator Bacon taking the contrary
view. Mr.. Gallinger n Mr.. Bailey
indicated that they would oppose the
postal savings bank bill. The Gore
resolution for an inquiry into the cost
of transportation of second class mail
matter was referred to the committee
on postofices and post roads and ad.
JOuIuIlltitJ q oES p AJ
until Monday. Mr.. Douglas suggested
creation Of a committee on budget 50
that war expenses could be kept down
in the interests of agricultural appro-
priations. General debate on the agrl,
cultural bill was concluded and al
4:36 the House adjourned
The Senate was not in session Sat.
urday. An effort on the part of South
ern members to ave increased from
S215 900 to $500, coo the appropriation
carried in the agricultural bill for a
study and demonstration of methods
of controlling the boil wee7il was the
topic of chief interest in the House TO-
lay, but the absence of a quorum
forced early adjournment. Mr.. Slmms,
Tennessee, denied that his colleagues
abused their ranking privilege. The
House adjourned until Monday.
In the Senate Monday Senator Car
ter spoke at length on the postal saw
ings bank bill and answered some OBJ
j%ections by Mr.. Hepburn. The bill
went over. To make the principal Of
L dIiuld did DoIllo poy stoiS AA SSAS
and to exempt from taxation certif1'
Gates of Indebtedness authorized BY
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, the
House passed a joint resolution re
ported from the committee on ways
and means by Representative Payne
Mistakes in the enactment of the law,
Mr.. Payne explained, made the legls
lation necessary. The agricultural ap
preparation bill was before the House
during nearly all the session.
The entire time of the Senate Tues
day was devoted to a discussion of the
postal savings bank bill. Senator Da-
Wis declared that the bill as it stood
was in the interest OF the national
banks, while Senator Smith of Michi.
gan thought the measure might prove
a plague instead of a blessing. ". E.
Purcell was sworn in as successor Of
Senator Thompson of North Dakota,
who was appointed to succeed he late
Senator Johnson. Mr.. Thompson 70
signed on account Of illness. Criticism
of the bureau of forestry, led by Rep
resentatives Mondell of Wyoming and
Taylor of Colorado, was the chief fea.
ture of the proceedings of the House,
The agricultural appropriation bill
continued before the House through
out the day.
The urgent deficiency and the army
bills passed the Senate Wednesday
carving a combined appropriation o!
S1O2. 900, 900. The postal savings banA
ii was discussed at length. A bill
exempting certificates of Indebtedness
and requiring the payment of the prin
cipal of Panama Canal bonds, pre-
viously passed by the House, was act
| ed upon favorably. After a long de
bate the census bill was passed in thu
House, providing for amendment t.
the present law so that there should
be an enumeration of cattle slaugh
tered and hides produced in country
neutrality-suspicious., together with a
provision for an enumeration of in
formation concerning irrigated lands
Charges of partisanship in the taking
of the ensus were numerous. Demo
of the census were numerous, Demo
cratic members insisting that a non
partisan census were impossible I'M
less enumerators were appointed from
men of both political parties.
SHORT NEWS NOTES.
William Bennett committed suicide
in his home at New London, Conn, BY
exploding a stick of dynamite.