El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-27


/ branches of congress upon the success
/ full passage of most of his pet meas
ures. Mr.. Taft shook hands all around
and continued to smile
The Gore Charges
Each house of congress marked its
! closing hours by voting for an investi-
! CATION of the McMurray indian con-
tracts. Instead of the usual scene of
comparatively undignified relaxation
| from the business of legislation, both
| houses devoted exceedingly serious at
tentiOn to the charges of bribery at
tempted, and other forms of improper
I influence made in the senate Friday
by senator Gore of Oklahoma, and sub
| sequently in the house by representa-
tive Murphy of Missouri
Two separate Investigations are pro-
vided for, one in each house. Each
I body passed a resolution crea ting
select committee of five members to
pursue the inquiry to the bottom dur
! ing the recess of congress and to re-
port whether any of its members are,
or have been interested in any of these
/ contracts.
Members of Committees.
Speaker Cannon appointed the fol-
lowing committee to conduct the house
| inquiry: Messrs. Burke of South Da-
! kota, chairman; Campbell of Kansas,
Texas and Saunders of Virginia.
Vice president Sherman announced
the following committee to conduct the
senate investigation: Senators Jones of
Washington, Burton of Ohio, Crawford
of South Dakota. Hughes of Colorado
and Percy of Mississippi.
Friar Lands.
After a fight which lasted almost
from the beginning of the session of
congress just ended, representative
Martin Democrat, Colorado) succeeded
80 minutes before adjournment in Sc
curing an investigation by congress of
his charges of fraud and maladminis-
tration in the sale of friar lands in the
Philippines, and of the estire interior
department of the Philippine govern
ment on insular affairs. The vote was
unanimous.
Commissioner to Mexico.
The compassion to represent the
United States, at the centennial of the
republic of Mexico was commpleted and
is as follows:
Senators Crawford. Euggenheim and
Overman and representatives Foster of
Vermont and Fassett of New York
Cannon Holds No Malice.
Speaker Cannon in a statement just |
before the house adjourned declared |
that he had nothing TO apologize for |
speaker, and he presumed each member |
could express similar sentiments.
This has been at times a strenuous |
session." said the speaker "Virile |
men, acting in great representative |
body, earnest, positive, sometimes in
debate or otherwise, say that which il
conditions were different they would !
not say So that, in sharp contests,
when sober. second thought comes
n
do not hold responsible colleagues who,
under the infleunce of passion or other ]
wise, speak in detriment that which
they would not say in moments when
they were cool. AS We pass from
Washington to our homes, 1 shall go
putting behind NE the contests through
which the house has passed, without
malice"
Champ Cark's View
Representative Champ Clark. the
Democratic leader in the house. com
menting upon the result of the session
jusl ended, issued statement. saying
IN Tart:
The Republicans have at last begun
their old game of claiming everything,
but 1t is another case of whistling to
Keep up your courage while going
through a graveyard. They are now
hTaSging that they have fulfilled their
promises. Their biggest promise-the
promise to revise the tariff downward
they utterly failed to fulfill. On the
contrary, they revised it upward and
for so doing are in for a good trounc-
ing.
They started this session with loud
pronunciamentos about economy and |
wound up, as usual by increasing The
total Of the appropriation bills. The
most important bill, perhaps, we passed
session. !
The bill as passed is a very different
and much better bill than the Wicker
sham or administration bill. Almost
every Improvement was forced into
that iii by the Democrats and insur-
gents in the passage
HarbOr Work.
Prot testing at the rivers and harbors
bill. president Taft said in a message
to congress just before it adjourned:
The total Of the BILL $4,000 900, is
not undUly large, but the policy of
small appropriations with great
many different enterprises, without pro-
vision for their completion is unwise.
1t tends to waste, because thus con-
srrueted the projects are likely to cost
more than if they were left to con-
tractors who were authorized to COM
pete the whole work within a reason
ably short time.
THE proper policy, it seems to me,
IS to determine from the many prof.
ects proposed and recommended what |
IRE tho most important and then to
proceed TO complete them with due dis
atch; then to take up others and do
he same thing with them"
HALF HOLIDAY IN
FEDERAL BUILDING.
The federal building contingent of