The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23
Public Buildings and Postal
Savings Most important
PROBLEM FOR SOLUTION
Congress Must Decide Whether Labor
Unions May Be Prosecuted Tor
violation of the sherman
Anti-Trust Inv

Antitrust Inv
washington, June 22.-The Senate To-Day
passed four important general measures.
Repinning the session with the consldera-
tion of the public building bill, carrying
total annropriation of about $24,OOO.Ooo for
the erection of and additions Oh pupne
buildings throughout the country. rms
.,re was disposed of and the pos'ai
rs bank bill was taken up.
.< Sree hours were given to the CONSIDER
. s IN of the postal bank measure rms
Sl had previously passed the senate ana
ne House, and II came up today on mo-
lion made by Senator Carter to concur
in the House amendments
Opposition to the motion was made by
Senators Bristow, Hughes and simmons
while Senator Carter advocated its adop-
t,on The motion prevailed, A to %.
The only republicans voting against the
hill on anal action were Messrs. Bristow,
C,,mnins and LaFollette. Senator Cham-
berla,n was the only democrat to vote Tor
the bill.
The Senate also amended and passed
the House bills authorizing sDVo'Vo
worth of certificates of Indebtedness 10
aid the completion of existing irrlgatlop
reclamation projects, and requiring tne
publication of contributions made through
campaign committees In the interest OIL
members of the House of representatives.
The Appalachian forest reserve bill Will
ha considered by the Senate tomorrow
Purposely blocking a flood of eleventh
hour legislation that otherwise wouio
have been considered, the House spent
the entire day on the Currier bill to per-
NIT patentees to sue the government toi
unauthorized use of their inventions,
which fnally was passed. Many nlem'
hers participated in the desultory dis
cussion. In the chamber members well
tered. the thermometer registering a rec
ord maximum Of Sc and one Of the official
reporters. George c. Lafferty, was over
come by the heat.
It is understood the Appalachian reserve
and anti-option cotton bills and confer
ence reports will have right of way In
the Hotise tomorrow.
isfs5ss4n ~ . : r5hs-srs-
washington, June 2z--Congress is
confronted with a serious difficulty
which has brought the houses OF Cen
gress into direct disagreement and may
delay adjournment in the question Of
whether labor unions shall be ex-
empted from prosecution under the
sherman antitrust law. The confer
ees of the two houses met today and
adjourned with both sides standing as
firm as ever
The public conferees, Representative
Tawney of Minnesota, Smith of Iowa
and Fitzgerald of New York, voted sol
idly for the House provision to ex-
empt labor unions contained in an item
in the sundry civil appropriation bill.
The Senate conferees, Senators Hale
Perkins and Clay, stood firm for the
Senate position against exempting or
ganized labor.
The House conferees were instruct
ed yesterday by a decisive vote OF that
body to insist upon the provision as
placed In the bill by the House and
they would be in contempt of the House
If they did otherwise unless the House
votes to recede from its position.
Taft Rouses the House
Washington, June 22-President Taft
stirred UP a hornets" nest in the
House with his ge yesterday. rec
ommending legislation providing for an
appeal from the decision of the Secre-
tary of the Interior in land cases to
the court of appeals of the District o
Columbia.
1t was charged by democratic members
of the public lands House committee to-
day that the bills introduced by Senator
Nelson of Minnesota and Representative
Mondell of Wyoming following the Pres
ident's recommep dation might accomplish
nothing more or less than the ultimate
clear listing of the famous Cunningham
group of claims-the bone Of contention in
the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy. The
public land committee considered the
Mondell bill today, and Assistant Attor-
ney General sLaw1er from the interior de-
partment appeared to explain the matter
Representative Robinson. democrat, or
Arkansas, asked Mr.. Lawler why the bill
had been brought In just at the close Of
the session, instead Of during the earlier
days. when time might have been had to
consider it?
Mr.. Lawler replied that the interior de-
partment had not thought before to sus-
gest 1t to the President.
Preparation of Treaty
washington. June 22.-Dificulties of
translation from the English to the Span
i.h ~ the proposed treety between the
r1nitad states and Mexico for the sub
,,,iasion to arbitration Of the dispute over
the title of the Chanizal territory at Ell
Paso. Tex, prevented the document being
signed here today when Secretary Knox
and Mexican Ambassador DeLabarra