Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-06-25
PROVISION IS
MADE TO AID
PEACE PLANS
SENATE ADOPTS JOINT REsoLU-
TioN APPRoPRIATING 100000
FOR COMMISSIONS; CONGRESS
RusHINe BUSINESS.

fining the expenditure to 100000 the
senate today adopted the joint reso-
luton authorizing the appointment OF
commission for the promotion of
universal peace.
The house conferees today receded
from their disagreement to the SEN
ate amendment to the campaign pub
licity bill and the act will provide for
the publication of contributions after
elections. The report was adopted by
the senate today.
The option bill to restrict cotton ex-
change transactions which do not in
volve the actual delivery Of the COM
modify passed the house, loo to Al.
Provisions of the Bill.
II the bill becomes a law the forth
coming congressional campaign will
be conducted under these regulations:
National, congressional, and other
political committees or associations
shall kept detailed accounts of all
funds received and of all disburse-
ments Of such funds, vouchers being
preserved for all expenditures over
$40.
All persons receiving contributions
shall render an account, together with
the name or names Of the contributors,
to the treasurer Of the committee
within five days.
The treasurer of the orga ganization
shall file with the clerk of the house of
representatives within thirty days aft
er an election a detailed sworn state
ment of all contributions and expendi-
lures, including the names of the con-
tributors and the amounts of the sub
scriptions and the names of the per-
sons to whom the funds were disburs-
ed and the amounts thereof.
Any person who shall expend more
than $50 in a campaign, unless he con-
tributes 1t to one of the committees, is
required to file similar statement OF
receipts and disbursements with the
clerk of the house.
The nenalty for violation Of the act
Is a fine OF not more than $1,000 or Inn
prisonnlent for one year, or both.
The investigation into the sale OF
frair lands in the Philippines was re-
commended to the House today by the
committee on insular affairs.
Labor organizations have lost their
fight to gain exemption from prosecu-
tion under the antitrust and inter
state commerce laws. BY a vote Of
1873 to 13O the house yesterday after
noon agreed to the senate action,
striking out the provisions in the sun
dry civil bill that would have effected
this immunity.
When the sundry bill was before
the house, an amendment by Hughes
of New Jersey, democrat, providing
that no part Of the appropriation for
the enforcement of the antitrust law
Shall be spent in prosecuting any or
ganization or individual for entering
into a combination, or a agreement
having in view me increasing of
wages, shortening Of hours or better
ing the condition of labor, or for any
act done in furtherance thereof not in
itself unlawful"
The senate killed the amendment.
Twaney, of Minnesota, one of the
house conferees on the bill, moved
that the house recede from its posi-
tion and concur with the senate action
Regular Hornets Nest.
The motion stirred up hornets
nest. Many, conscious Of the pos
sible labor Interpretation of their vote
in the coming election. participated in
the debate to make clear their posi-
tions. The following republicans
voted with the democrats for the
Hughes amendment: Austin, of Ten
nessee; Cary, Cooper, Lenroot, Nelson,
and Stafford, of Wisconsin; Dayis, of
Minnesota; Fish, of New York; Greene
Of Massachusetts; Fotch n d
Reynolds, of Pennsylvania Hubbard,
Kendell and Woods, of Iowa; Hayles,
of California; Kronmilley, of Mary
land; Lundin, Rodenberg and Wilson
of Illinois; Murdock, of Kansas, and
Poindexter, Of washington.
The democrats who voted with the
republicans were: Bartlett, of Nevada;
Sherley of Kentucky, and Page, Of
North Carolina. Sixteen were pres
ent who did not vote, and there were
numerous pairs of democrats with re-
publicans.
Political Buncombe.
Tawney declared the amendment
was offered for pure political bun
combe. He protested against con-
gress tying the hands of the govern
ment in the enforcement Of a crimi-
cal laws. and declared that the
amendment worked for class discrimi-
nation which would institute policy
that some day would shake the very
foundations of the government.
The action marked the successful
termination of the fight by President
Taft against what he termed class leg
islation of an improper sort, and ap-
parently removed the last real OBJ
stacle in the way Of the adjournment
of congress within the next few days.
President Taft spent the entire day
bending every energy toward the de-
feat Of the amendment. He declared
Il 1t cost him the support of every
laboring man in the country he would
not approve such provision of the
law. The liboring man, he believed,
asked only equality before the law
and was entitard to no more.