The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-06-08
NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What Our Lawmakers Are Do
ing and Other Items of
Importance.

consideration for more than twelve
weeks during which practically no
other business except appropriation
bills were considered, the Senate
passed the Administration railroad
bill. Only twelve votes, all by Demo
Gratis, were cast against the bill. The
practical unanimity was due to radical
| changes made in the measures from
J the form in which 1t was drafted by
Attorney General Wickersham after
numerous conferences at the White
House on the subject of amending in
terstate commerce laws. All the sin
surgents," who opposed many features
,, of the original bill, voted for it.
Through the elimination of the pool
ing and merging sections and by rea-
son of the adoption of many amend
ments in the interest of shippers, the
progressive Republicans claim sig.
nal victory and most of the Demo
Gratis express themselves as favorable
to the large portion OF the measure.
The bill places telegraph and tele-
phone lines under jurisdiction of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
The Commission is authorized to de
termine the reasonableness Of rates,
and a penalty is imposed of from 500
to $4,000 against granting franks or
passes for the transmission of mes,
sages. Special night and press rates
are authorized.
/ Six States Ratify Income Tax.
Six states thus far through their
Legislatures have ratified the income
tax amendment to the Constitution,
i've have rejected it and two have
postponed action.
"a Friends of the income tax express
the fullest confidence that the amend
ment ultimately will be adopted, and
believe that one or two of the States
now on record against 1t will reverse
their attitude when new Legislatures
are chosen.
The six States that have voted tc
ratify this amendment are Alabama
South Carolina, Illinois, Maryland
Kentucky and Mississippi. The
States voting adversely are New York
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Virgins
and Louisiana, while Georgia and New
Jersey have postponed vote unit
the next session of their Legislatures
Land Grant Brief Filed.
, After fourteen months of prepare
Q ton, b. d. Townsend, special prosecu
e tor for the United States, has filed ,
brief containing the case Of th'
, United States in its suit against th
/ Oregon G. California Railroad Com
S pany ct al, suit by all odds the mos
e important ever filed in Oregon, ant
/. one involving the ownership of abou
v 100000 acres Of Oregon land value
at between $45,O00,O00 and $50.0Oc
e 900.
n The suit of the Government is t
n set aside the grants Of 1865 and 1877
e to the railroad, consisting Of abou
g 100000 acres Of land, and to regal
!, possession OF the 100000 acres 9
2 unsold lands on the contention tha
IS the railroad company has fiagrantl
D. violated the conditions of the gran
Borah's Bill Is Favored.
s The conference committee in charg
4. Of the Borah bill, extending the pr,
e, visions Of the enlarged homestead la
b. to Idaho, has reached an agreemer
It and will report the bill substantial
L. as 1t passed the Senate. Senator b
q rah expects the report to be adopte
n. in the near future. AS agreed upon,
r limited number Of nonresident hom
a steads may be made In Idaho.
PRESIDENT Gets new Cow.
n Senator Isaac Stephenson Of WI
"A consin has informed President Tia
that the new presidential COW tn
!, will furnish milk for the White Hou
a. will soon be In this city. The ne
= COW will take the place of the late
~ mented "Muley" and her name
a. Pauline" Pauline IS some COW.
:, cows 60 She is worth $4,000 on Il
q, hoof and is full blooded Holstein.
MS State Department Acts.
- The State Department has TAX
" cognizance Of the Associated Pre-
dispatches from San Juan del 81
that William Pittham, the Americ
az captured by the Madriz troops, wou