Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-07-02


Whole Nation-Cannon Forgives.
Important measures passed:
Railroad rate bill.
Postal savings bank system.
Statehood tor Arizona and New
Mexico.
Publicity, after elections, of campaign
contributions
Withdrawal of public lands by the
president.
Appropriation of $25O,OOO for the
tariff board.
Bureau of mines and mining.
Use of improved safety appliances by
the railroads.
Issue of $2O,OOO,OOO reclamation GER
ti6cates.
Reorganization of the lighthouse
service.
Two new battleships.
Additional regulation of the white
slave traffic.
Agricultural settlement on coal lands.
Washington, June 25.-"I leave be-
hind me the contest of this winter in
the house with malice toward none. -
With these words, amid perfect
silence, Speaker Cannon, at IL o CLOCK
tonight, adjourned the house of repre-
sentatives for the second session of
the Sixty-frst congress. For five min
utes, in low monotone, Cannon spoke
to the house. No other sound was audi
BILE. When he finished the applause was
moderate and the leave-taking of the
members unusually quiet.
The absence of the usual uproarious
termination was surprising to many, but
followed a night that was full of serious
work.
Cannon Is Forgiving.
"Where men act in great deliberative
bodies,'' said Cannon, ''there are some
men, earnest and positive, who say that
which, were the circumstances other
wise, they would not say SO, upon q
sober second thought, broad men realize
chat these earnest, positive men are not
TO be held responsible for that which
under the influence of passion, they say
and which they would not say il
moments when they were cool.
AS this session is about to close
Ms one member and as the speaker,
wish to say that L pass from Washing
ton to my home, putting behind me The
contest through which this house hal
passed, and l go with malice towarC
none. L have nothing to apologize fol
as a member or as speaker. L presum,
each member of this house can now say
the same. And so the chair adjournl
this house, wishing each member healtl
during the vacation period, hoping thai
ing not backward, but forward, to the
duties which we must perform.
Late tonight scene that dazzleC
old timers was enacted on the floor Of
the senate. AS long as anybody car
rremember, when Senator Cullom fxeC
his gaze on the vice president, i
was sign of an executive session. II,
usual motion half an hour before ad
journment, but not with the usual re
suit.
Senator Hale looked at the beauteoui
hundreds in the galleries and observed
that it was absurd to suggest that thu
galleries be cleared for secret SEES
sion. Other senators joined in the Hal,
opinion. The Cullom motion was lost
much to the disgust of the patriarcl
from Illinois.
Cullom and Lorimer had agreed upoi
a number of Illinois appointments the,
wished to have confirmed. Their con
frmation was defeated because the sen
ators would not discommode the ladie
an the galleries. President Taft will
probably repair the damage by givinI
them recess appointments.
Shortly before the closing hour tn
senate passed resolution praising tn
fairness of the vice president as presid
sng officer. Sherman replied with
speech expressive of his appreciatio
and gratitude, and announced adjourn
ment.
Taft Winds Up Work.
Gin the presidents room," just o
che lobby of the senate, President Tat
put in exactly an hour signing his nam
60 bills and holding impromptu recel
lions with various members and sci
ators.
The average value of occupied far
Land in Canada last year was $500 a
acre, compared with $3.50 the ye'
before.
The known petroleum areas of Il
eountry cover $3.50 square miles an
the natural gas areas 10,075 squa
miles.
There were fewer deaths to Il
thousand of population in PhiladC
phia last year than ever before in Il
eity's history.
At Bay After Killing Two.