The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-02-10
FOOD COST PROBE
LODGES RESOLUTION is REPORT
ED FROM COMMITTEE ON
FINANCE.
PASS AGRICULTURAL BILL
Elklns Charges Colleague With Try.
ing to Protect Trusts.-Admlnis-
tratIon Ship Subsidy Bill to
Go Before House.

Washington, D. c. - The house
passed the agriculture! appropriation
bill carrying appropriations aggregating
nearly $13, 500, 900, being a net increase
OF over S400,0 900 over the %appropria.
tons for last year. This increase was
chiefly for the forest service and was
made necessary by the addition to the
national forests OF 26,52S,439 acres.
The senate devoted the greater part
OF the day to the consideration Of the
postal savings bank bill, agreeing to
several amendments.
The Lodge food investigation resolu.
ton was reported from the committee
OF finance aud the fact that 1t received
so much more prompt attention than
the resolution of Senator Elkins on
the West Virginia senator as a dis
elimination against him. He made a
speech complaining seriously of the
treatment and asserting that 1t was
intended to protect the trusts and the
tariff against the inquiry.
The Lodge resolution provides for a
committee of seven. The resolution
was referred t. the committee on con-
tingent expenses and when that COM
mittee reports it will be taken up by
the senate and probably adopted.
Ship Subsidy Bill.
After a short but torrid open hear
ing. replete with personal disputes and
acrimonious utterances followed by an
executive session Of an hour also filed
with d~issension, the house committee
on merchant marine and fisheries by
a vote Of 10 to Z, voted to report fav-
orably to the house the administra-
ton bill on ship subsidy rs introduced
by Representative Humphrey, of
Washington.
Ten Republicans voted In favor of
the bill and five Democrats and two
Republicans voted against 1t. The two
boiling Republicans" were Wilson of
Illinois, and Swasey, Of Maine. Rep
re~sentative Hobson, of Alabama, re-
of Virginia, against it, both Democrats,
were absent.
The Democratic members of the
committee were greatly wrought up
over what they characterized the rail
reading" of the measure without con-
sideration or opportunity to amend it,
and held a meeting with Champ Clark,
the minority leader, to map out the
future party course against the bill.
1t is expected that the measures will
meet with most stubborn opposition
when 1t reaches the house.
Representative Spight, of Mississip-
pi, ranking Democratic member of the
committee, will file a minority report.
He declared that Representative
Humphrey and his Republican asso-
ciates, in rushing the bill through, had
broken faith with the Democrats.
llncoln's War Substitute.
The soldier who fought through the
Civil wal as the personal substitute
of Abraham Lincoln may have a statue
erected in commemoration Of his ser.
vices. Few people knew that Presi-
dent Dincoln sent a substitute to the
front during the Civil war, but his
name will be engraved in the niche
Of fame II the bill providing for a
statue In his honor becomes a law.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for the
purpose was presented to the house
by Representative Palmer, (Democrat)
Of Pennsylvania. The name of this
hitherto almost unknown hero is j.
Summerfield Staples, of S%troudsburg,
Pa. He died there some 10 years ago,
and 1t is at Stroudsburg hat 1t is now
proposed to erect the statue. In the
burial ground there, a small tablet
marks the resting place Of Staples
bearing on its face the simple ipscrip-
ton:
There lies the body of j. Summer
field Staples. representative recruit of
Abraham Lincoln"
No particular record Of valor or
heroic service is recorded in the favor
of Lincoln's substitute, but the annals
Of the war department show that
Staples served throughout the war
with honog A0vhimself and his. country.