Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-05-19
DOINGS OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS

Washington, May 14.-Many mem
bers of the house of representatives
today received in the mail a printed
copy of telegram sent to Representa-
tive Poindexter May 9 by Father Fl. j..
Vandeven, pastor of st. Patrick's
church of Walla Walla, viciously at
tacking the Jones bill authorizing
the sale of the Walla Walla military
reservation to Whitman college. 1t is
expected this bill will be called up for
passage in the house Morday, and the
sender Of the telegram expects his mes
sage to be read to the house at that
time.
The house committee on library has
favorably reported the Humphrey bill
authorizing the marking of the old
Oregon trail, and authorizes an appro-
priation of $25, 900 as the governments
contribution toward the cost of the un-
dertaking. The bill is amended to per-
NIT the secretary of war to receive
contributions from any one source to
fund to be known as the Oregon trail
fund, which money shall be used, in
connection with that appropriated by
congress, in the erection OF suitable
monuments along the Oregon trail.
The adoption by the senate yesterday
of long and short haul amendment to
the railroad bill will result, it is be-
lieved, in fastening the final vote on
the measure and make easier the task
of the conferees who will attempt to
harmonic the differences between the
senate and the house. This is the con-
census of opinion expressed by con-
gress leaders.
Washington May 13.-By sudden
welding late today of supposedly ire
concilabIe factions, the senate by
vote of Sc to 10 adopted compromise
amendment to the railroad bill for the
regulation of relative charges for long
and short hauls.
The agreement was reached chiefly
because each faction apparently
thought it was getting the better of
shrewdly-driven bargain. Some sena-
tors tonight suggest the Supreme court
may have to arbitrate the question as
to which factions judgment is right.
Representative Mondell, of Wyom-
ing, is playing the "Heyburn act"
with the Warren irrigation bill that is
now before the house committee on ir-
rigation. He is not objecting to the
bill on the alleged ground that it is un-
constitutional, as Hepburn did, but he
is objecting to the form and the lam
guage of the measure as it passed the
senate, and wants to substitute bill of
his own framing. This is Mondell's
favorite method of opposing legislation
that other Western men advocate.
Ever since he entered congress Mon
dell has regarded himself as the only
man in either body competent to draw
satisfactory legislation in the interest
of the West. No matter who intro
duces bill, how popular it may be, or
how satisfactory its form, Mondell
wants to change it and substitute Ian
guage of his own.
In the house Of representatives to-
day, Congressman Fordney, of Michi-
gan, delivered an address in reply to
Senator Beveridge's Indiana tariff
speech, in which the latter criticised
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. Fordney
declared Beveridge had assaulted the
Republican party and held himself up
to his constituents as martyr, repre-
senting himself as the savior of his
people.
Washington, May 12.-"The new
corporation tax law is exceeding our
said Internal Revenue
Commissioner Royal E. Cabell, the
official charged primarily with the i'm
position and collection of this new form
of tax which was authorized by the
Payne-Aldrich tariff act of August 5,
1909.
"Not only will the corporation tax
yield greater revenue than we antici-
pated," continued the commissioner, ,
"but the corporations, with very few
exceptions, are showing a disposition /
to meet the requirements of the law
and have made prompt returns. There
has been very little attempt to evade
the law, and it may be said to be work
ing with greater satisfaction than
might reasonably be expected of law
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