Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-24


conferees today receded from their
disagreement to the senate amend.
ment to the campaign publicity bill
and the act will provide for publication
of contributions after elections. The
report was adopted by the senate to-
day.
Favors Friar Land Probe.
Washington, June 24.-An investiga.
ton into the sale of friar lands in the
Philippines was recommended to the
house today by the committee on in
sular affairs
Anti-Option Bill Favored.
The anti-option bill to restrict cot
ton exchange transactions which do
not involve the actual delivery of the
commodity passed the house, 16O to IL.
$4,000 for Universal Peace.
Confining the expenditure to $4,000,
the senate today adopted the house
joint resolution authorizing the ap-
pointment of commission for the pro-
motion of universal peace. The bill
now goes to the president.
Need Not Pay Shortage.
The senate today passed the house
bill relieving Thomas ]. Atkins, for
mer assistant treasurer of the United
States at st. Louis, from the payment
of S61,5O0 due to the shortage of his
second teller. B. P. Dyer in 1906.
Labor Loses Fight.
Labor organizations have lost their
fight to gain exemption from prosecu-
ton under the antitrust and inter
I11,- ETD11< n two,
ly debate and by a vote of 13S to 130
the house late yesterday agreed to the
senate's action in striking out a pro-
vision in the sundry civil bill that
would have effected this immunity.
When the sundry civil bill was be-
fore the house that body tackled on an
amendment by Mr.. Hughes, a demo
crat, providing that no part of the ap-
preparation for the enforcement of the
antitrust laws shall be spent in the
prosecution of any organization of in
dividuals for entering into any combin-
alton or agreement having in view the
increasing of wages, shortening of
hours. or lettering the conditions of
labor, or for any act done in further
ance thereof not in itself unlawful"
Taft in Game.
The senate struck out the amend
ment The house then instructed its
conferees to stand by that provision,
and the senate Conferees, resenting
such an iron-clad direction, refused to
consider the item. President Taft de
voted yesterday to lining up the repub- /
lican members against the amendment. /
Publicity Bill In Danger.
Washington, June 24-The Mccall |
bill providing for the publicity of con- |
gressional campaign contributions and |
expenditures has encountered more |
vicissitudes than any other piece of |
legislation that has passed both houses /
and indications are that it is far from |
being out of the wilderness.
The bill was thrown into conference .
yesterday, where its fate is a matter
of speculation.
The conference committee has the
choice of accepting the senate amend
ment limiting the provisions to the
bill to post-election publicity, or of re-
storing the house regulation for pub
licity before as we'll as after election.
Deadlock Feared.
But in the Wrangle over thlS cholce
it is not unlikely that the committee
will become deadlocked and that the
bill will die in conference at the time
adjourns.
The bill as amended by the senate
was reported back to the house yes
terday afternoon and the house
promptly refused to accede to the SEN
ate's elimination of ante-electiOn pub
licitv. The conferees are Senators
Burrows Depew and Bailey and Rep
Gaines, Diekema and
Rucker.