Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-02-11
Publisher.
o. E. BOWEN,
CONGRESS IN SESSION.
Senate.


The entire time OF the Senate on the
Isl was devoted to a discussion of the
postxL savings bank bill. Senator Davis
declared that the bill as it stood was in
the interest of the national banks, while
Senator Smith of Michigan thought the
measure might prove a plague instead
Of q blessing. W. 4. Purcell was sworn
in rs successor of Senator Thompson OF
North Dakota, who was appointed last
Saturday to succeed the late Senator
Johnson. Mr.. Thompson resigned on
account of Illness
The urgent deficiency and the army
hills passed the Senate on the 2nd, car
rying a combined appropriation of $1O2,-
OG0U00. The postal savings bank bill
was discussed at length. A bill exempt
ing certificates of indebtedness and re-
Quiring the payment of the principal of
Panama canal bonds. previously passed
by the House, was acted upon favorably.
The Senate devoted the greater part
Of the day on the 3rd to consideration of
the postal savings bank bill. agreeing to
several amendments. The Lodge price of
food investigation resolution was report
ed from the committee ON finance, and
thas-8act that it received so much more
prCaapt attention than the resolution of
Senator ElkinS on the same subject was
interpreted by the West Virginia senator
as a discrimination against him. He
uuut Il speech complaining SeIiOuSIy VI
the treatment and asserting that it was
intended to protect the trusts and the
tariff against the inquiry.
The Senate devoted its time on the 4th
to listening TO speeches by Senators Nc
Cunber Of North Dakota and Hepburn
of ITTaho. The North Dakota senator de-
Iivered a prepared argument to demon
strate Jhat the farmer does not obtain
his due share of the prices paid for food
products Mr.. Hepburn concluded his
speech ia opposition to the postal saw
iu1S bill. For the first time this session
the Senate failed to adjourn over Satur-
day.
The Senate gave the greater part of
the day en- the 9TH to the question Of
constitutionalty of the extraditiOn of
criminals from one state to another in
cases in which the prosecution is accord
ing to the process of information" No
action was taken. The postal savings
bank bill was also up for a time The
only important action taken was on Il
bill opening to settlement the unallOtted
lands in the Pine Ridge Indian reServa-
tion in South Dakota. Early in the day
Senator Aldrich reported from the com
mittee on public expenditures a bill ere
atE4g permanent commission for the
regulation of methods of government ex-
penditure. He failed to obtain the unan-
imous consent asked to have the measure
Senator Hepburn on the 9TH bitterly
opposed q loan Of tents by the govern,
ment for use at the annual encampment
of Confederate veterans at Mobile. Ala.
next April and strongly condemned the
acceptance by Congress of a statue of
Robert Z. Lee as a contribution by Nir-
ginia to Statuary hall in the capitok The
bill was passed unanimously except for
Mr.. Heyburn's vote. Mr.. Rayner i'll 4
speech attacked the cOnstitutiOnality of
the proposed postal savings banks law.
The Senate passed Il dozen bills for the
establishment of fish hatchery stations in
various parts of the country.
House.
Criticism of the bureau of forestry, led
by Representatives MOndell of Wyoming
and Taylor of Colorado, was the chief
feature Of the proceedings of the House
on the LIST. The agricultural approprla-
ton bill continued before the House
throughout the day.
After a long debate the census bill was
passed in in the House on the End, pro-
viding for amendment to the present
law so that there should be an enumera-
ton of cattle slaughtered and hides pro-
duced in country Strengthening houses, to-
gether with a provision for an enumera-
ton of information concerning irrigated
lands. Charges of partisa nship in the
taking of the census were numerous.
Democratic members insisting that a
nonpartisan census was impossible IN
less enumerators were appointed from
men of both political parties.
The House passed the agricultural ap-
DrOpriation bill on the Ord. carrying ap-
propriations aggregating nearly $780,
600, a net increase of over 100000 over
last year, this increase being chiefly for
the forest service. made necessary by the
addition to the national forests of 90
500 439 acres Consideration of the diplo-
matte and consular appropriation bill was
begun.
The death of Representative Lowering
of Massachusetts Friday had the effect
of causing both houses to adjourn i'll ad-
vance of the usual hour. The House was
in session less than half an hour and the
Senate only two and a half hours. The
House transacted practically no business.
The House was not in session on the
9th.
The Presidents federal incorporation
hill was introduced in the House on the
9Th and was opposed by Representative
Garrett of Tennessee on the ground of
unconstitutionality. The House devoted
two and a half hours to discussion of
one of its rules recently adopted for the
purpose of macilitating business.