Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-01-21
CONGRESS IN SESSION.
Senate,

Us
out IN more than two hours on the
18th IN discussion as to whether it
should allow about $4OOO,00O worth of
claims for additional salaries to GER
tam postmasters who served during the
decade from 1864 TO 1874. The claims
master. and the Senate adjourned to
2:3o D. m. until Monday.
The Senate was not In session on the
18th.
The Senate was not in session on the
18th.
The Senate adopted the conference re-
port on the Ballinger inquiry
resolution, and passed bill authoriz-
1ng an additional judge for the fourth
United States district on the 18th Eu-
5ogies were heard on the late George
L. Shoup, former senator from Idaho,
IN connection with the acceptance of his
statue.
After cleaning up the calendar by
passing about forty bills, the majority
of them being of private character.
the Senate on the 18th adopted reso-
luton requesting the secretary Of the
treasury to advise the Senate if news
paper reports were true that the custom
house at Newport News, Va, was to be
closed tomorrow in observance of the
anniversary of Gen. X. f. Lees birth
day.
The Senate did quick work on The 10Th
in disposing of the District of Columbia
appropriation bill carrying about S1O.-
100000.
The Notifications appropriation bill,
carrying more than 5000 900 was
passed on the 18th.
Partisan feeling was injected into the
discussion about the destruction of 10
600 tons o. worthless documents presi-
dentia: messages among them. Repre-
sentative Fitzgerald humorously com
mented on the number of Roosevelt mes
sages consigned to the waste basket A
resolution was passed granting addition
al clerical help to the nine committees
on expenditure in the various executive
departments, but not until after Mr.
Fitzgerald had provoked protests by
calling attention to the failure of these
committees to scrutinize departmental
eXtravagances.
The passing Of March 4 as 'inauguro
lion day" is foreshadowed by Il Joint reso-
luton proposing to the states an amend
ment to the constitution having that end
III view, and fixing the date the last
Thursday in April. II was before the
House on the 18th and a final vote on it
was prevented by an early adjournment
Ratification by at least thirty-five states
will be necessary after the resolution is
adopted by both houses of Congress and
approved by the President The mes
sage of the President on conservation Of
natural resources was presented and
read at the opening of the session The
bills embracing the Presidents recon-
mendations were not introduced because
Representative Mondel of Wyoming,
chairman of the House committee on
public lands, refused to stand sponsor
for them. Representative Murdoch of
Kansas introduced 4 resolution demand
ing that the postmaster general shall fur
nish the House with information relative
10 the Infringement on the governments
mail carrying monopoly by express COM
panies.
The fight between two committees
over the jurisdiction of the Henry reso-
luton proposing a constitutional amend
ment to change the date of the presi-
dental inauguration from March to
the last Thursday in April resulted in
the House committing the matter back
to the judiciary committee, which had
reported it on the 18th. An effort will
be made to reach an understanding
with the committee on election of Pres-
dent and vice president, which had re
ported an almost Identical measure, and
the judiciary committee will report the
Henry resolution back within ten days.
The territories committee reported. rec
ommending statehood for New Mexico
and Arizona. After eulogies by a mum
Der of members on the late United
States Senator Shoup Of Idaho, the
House passed a concurrent resolution
accepting the Shoup statue just placed
in Statuary hall.
The House passed the bill granting
separate statehood to the territories of
Arizona and New Mexico on the 18th.
Consideration of the urgent deficiency
appropriation bill. carrying more than
Sc. 600, was begun.
Without debate and by a viva voce
vote the House on the 18th adopted the
conference report on the Ballinger-Pin-
.hot inquiry resolution. and then de-
voted almost FIVE hours to further dis
eussion of the urgent deficiency appro-
priation BILL Consideration of this
measure was not concluded. The SEES
sion was somewhat enlivened by criti-
.isns of former President Roosevelt by
Representatives Harrison and Fitzger-
aid of New York. the former denouncing
him for appointing representatives to
ahe third maritime conference to be held
at Brussels next April without due au-
sbority of law. and the latter because
of his alleged numerous violations of the
civil service law.
The House was engaged on the 18th
in an extended debate on the Mann
1.swhite slave bill The House also
passed a resolution calling on the secre-
.tary of the navy to report whether dur
ing the present fiscal year any powder
has been bought from trust