Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-17

|
introduced by Representative Guernsey
of Maine, providing that public cere-
monies in connection with the inaugur
alton Of the president and vice presi-
dent be held on the last Thursday
of March Of each inaugural year.
The measure was presented wifh the
idea of avoiding constitutional
amendment by permitting the presd-
dent and vice president to take the oath
of office in the house of representa-
tives on March 4, and fixing the later
date for public ceremonies.
Having completed the regulations
for the labelling, marking and branding
Of whiskey in accordance with the
principle laid down by President Taft
in his decision of "what is whiskey,"
the committee which prepared the new
rules will give an opportunity next
Wednesday to the interests affected to
make suggestions for modification.
This committee is made up of Secre-
tary MacVeagh, Secretary Nagel and
Secretary Wilson, but the detail work
was done by subordinstes. The hear
ing is to be given in response to re-
quest from the whiskey interests.
Representatives of the claims de-
partments Of the big railroads were be-
fore the house committee on Interstate
and foreign commerce today. One of
them testified that last year he settled
claims amounting to more than mill
lion dollars against his road.
Washington, Feb. 11.-Secretary of
State Knox was subjected to caustic
criticism in the house today by Repre-
sentative Francis Burton Harrison, of
New York, in consideration of the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill.
Many bold strokes in diplomacy, said
Harrison, were justified only by their
success. as in the instance Of Presi-
dent Cleveland's Venezuelan message.
But that had not been the case with
some of the bold strokes of diplomacy
made by Mr.. Knox, he said. The
Nicaraguan imbroglio, the Msnchurian
railway matter, and the secretary's
declaration that he would make it his
duty to see that democratic forms of
government were maintained in Cen
tral America, were examples of fail
ure in the diplomacy of Mr.. Knox, he
said.
"This posi- tion is so untenable," he
added, referring to the maintenance of
democratic governments in Central
America, "that some day we will be
obliged to retire from it with mortif-
cation"
The senate today passed the Bennett
"white slave BILL" which had pre-
viously passed the house. The measure
was so amended IS to eliminate the in
terstate regulations originally con-
tanned in the bill, the object of the sen
ate being to divorce the immigration
feature of the question from all others.
Slow handling of livestock by the
railroad causes the loss of 100, 900 head
according to witnesses be-
fore the house committee on interstate
commerce today. A bill is before the
fixing a minimum rate Of 16
miles an hour at which railroads may
transport livestock shipments.
William B. Turner, of Oregon, print
ing clerk Of the senate, was summarily
today for alleged "o-opers-
tion with +. G. Rappone and others in
terested in the prosecution Of the So
called Spaulding claims to reimburse
for amounts claimed due
them from the government. Turner
was a protege of the late Senator
and held his position in the
senate clerical force despite the efforts
made to displace him after MitchelI's
retirement from the senate,
Washington, Feb. Whether q
court at law has power to summon be-
tore it committee of congress was
The chief subject.of discussion before
The senate and house today.
The senate gave positive instruc-
lions to Senators Reed Smoot, Jona-
han Bourne and Duncan Fletcher not
o respond tomorrow to the order is
Iued by Justice Wright of the supreme
court of the District of Columbia, di-
'ecting them to appear before him.
The house took the opposite action.
The house military committee today
eported the military academy bill,
which carries an appropriation of ST.
|76. 332. About $25, 900 was cut from
he estimate, the principal item reject
ID by the committee being one of S10,
100 for new chapel organ.
Defending the cotton exchanges as
,atherers of true information that is
disseminated by thousands of brokers
o everyone interested, Solomon Napol-
on Cone, of Greensboro. N. c., attack
d proposed anti-option bill in the hear
ng before the house committee on ag-
iculture tday.
Mr.. Cone described himself as a spot
otton dealer, a stockholder in various
Mills, a member "of all the cotton ex-
hanges of the world" and the handler
f more than 100000 worth of spot
otton annually.
Washington, Feb. 9.-Because Sena-
or Bailey is not ready to make the
peech in opposition to the postal saw
ngs bill, of which he has given notice,
Large Area to Be Opened.
Washington, Feb. 10.-Upon the rec
of the secretary of sgri-
r