Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-05-05

Washington, April 30. If "credi
to whom credit is due" be given, Sen
ator Bourne will be accorded larg
measure of praise for his intense activ
ity in behalf Of Oregon as member o
the senate committee on commerce
which added to the house rivers am
harbors bill about $40, ,000,0 900, bring
ing the total up to $52, 900, 600. 0
these additions Oregon received sever
al hundred thousand dollars.
Of course, the most important iten
of these additions was the provision
that the Federal government pa.
$500, 900 towards the purchase of tn
Oregon City locks, on towards th'
building Of new locks. 1t assures tina
traffic on the Willamette river, nov
hampered by 50-cent ton tariff a
the locks, because of private ownership
thereof, will be freed from this incu
bus.
If the river and harbor bill passes
the house as amended by the senate
the Oregon City locks will become the
property of the United States and will
be free, or entirely new locks will bt
built by the Federal government, to-
gether with the state, for which an ap
preparation of $500, 900 has been made
by the state to assist the government
in the project.
The senate today adopted the Hey
burn resolution creating committee
of five senators to investigate the ad-
ministration of the third degree by
Federal officers to extort statements OF
confessions in criminal proceedings.
The people Of the Pacific coast need
have no fear concerning their rights to
prospect for oil or gas on the public
lands that have been or may be with
drawn.
Washington, April 29.-By the de-
cisive vote of 35 to 29, the administra-
tion Republicans today defeated the
Cummins substitute for the Crawford
Elkins traffic agreement provision of
the railroad bill. This question had
been practically monopolizing the at
tention of the senate for the last week
and was regarded as one of the most
important subdivisions of the bill.
The vote is generally accepted as a
test of the strength of the contending
sides and it is believed it presages the
passage of the bill by safe majority.
Of the total membership of 92,
there were % senators who did not
vote and of these four, all Democrats,
were absent and impaired. They were
Senators Clark, of Arkansas; Bank
head, of Alabama; McEnery, Of Louis
lana; and Smith of Maryland.
"The investigation into the sales of
cotton which Attorney-General Wick
ersham is conducting has cost the
American people nearly $40, 200, 900. +"
Thus asserted Senator Smith, Of
South Carolina, in the senate today.
He was making speech in the hope of
persuading the senate to adopt reso-
luton directing the attorney general TO
ascertain the names of the persons who
sold the cotton to the New York pool,
the operations of which have recently
received so much attention.
AS solution of the tangle that
arises over the bill to sell the Walla
Walla military reservation to Whit
man college, the house committee on
military affairs has decided to amend
and report the bill in form authoriz-
ing the secretary of war to dispose of
the reservation and improvements at
public auction to the highest bidder.
Representative McCredie today in
troduced bill authorizing construction
of $3.50, 900 public building at Che
halls.
Washington, April 28.-The house
today passed unanimously the resolu-
tion offered by Slayden, of Texas,
calling on the secretary of war for in
formation concerning the sale or leas-
ing of land in the Philippine Islands.
The resolution was offered to ascer-
tain the truth of reports that the friar
lands in part have been transferred to
the sugar trust, in violation Of the pro-
visions of the act of 1902 establishing
civil government in the Philippines.
In reporting the resolution from the
committee on insular affairs, Olmsted
of Pennsylvania said amendments had
been incorporated in the measure to
extend the scope of the inquiry beyond
that provided in the original draft,
The regular Republicans ran nip
and tuck with the insugrent Republi-
cans and the Democrats in sustaining
their organization when the voting on
to the railroad bill began
in the house today.
Only by tie vote of 121 to 121 did
the regulars prevent the striking from
their bill of the provision which placed
on the Acknowledgement the response
bility for the defence of suits brought |
to set aside decisions of the Interstate |
commerce commission instead of al
lowing that duty to be performed by
the commission itself, as under the
present law.
The motion to strike out this COM
mittee provision had been made by
Hubbard of Iowa, one of the staunch |
and 13 other insurgents
voted to sustain his amendment.
The committee on public lands of
the house, by a majority vote of two,
has reported out the Pickett bill auth