Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-03-11
Sixty-first Congress.
SENATE,

senate today providing tuat Eli uoeu'
mepts, foreign and domestlc, printed By
order of Congress, the president or The
executive departments must be In the
English laueu gs. All foreign terms
expressing time, measure OF degree must
be kiyen In The Eugllsh equivalent. All
coins must also have their value ex-
pressed In the same manner. The metric
system must be figured Gu. 10 English.
At the request Of Senator Aldrich,
the Senate sgreed that the exercises To-
cident 10 accepting the statue OF John
O. Calhoun tomorrow shall take place
Immediately after the Senate conyenes
and that no other business Of any kind
/ be transacted.
A Communication from TIE govern or
| of South Carolina was laid before tue
Senate, announcing that the Legislature
| OF that ttlie bad ratified the proposed
| a meudmeut to tie constitution provid.
iug for the imposition Of tax on in-
| comes.
The Senate 10 executive session con-
1 irmed the nomination OF Marion d.
Stevenson, OF Vlrginis, to be collector
of cult,ms for the District Of Cherry
stone 10 Virgipis.
Sidney Bieber's nomination for col
lector OF customs, In this district, which
had been recommended by the Senate
committee on commerce for confirma-
tion, Was today fecomrnitlsd to the COM
mittee. This is to give opporiu atty for
the fling OF protests by persons opposed
to his appointment
HOUSE.
Ia accordance with the last request
made by Representative Perkins, the
House proceeded with itS regular bnsi-
ness after being officially informed OF bis
death.
According TO Mr.. Payne, who con-
veyed the message from the lips OF the
congressman to bis fellow. members, 1t
IVES the frst requsa! of the kind ever
made 10 history.
ut becomes my sad duty" said Mr..
Payne,
The members Of the foreign affairs
committee OF the House will act as
honorary psll.besrers at the funeral ser
vices Sunday afternoon.
The New York congressional delega-
ton will hold meeting this afternoon
to select the members OF the escort to take
the body OF Mr.. Perkins u Rochester.
"I'll tell you how to save few
million of dollars" said Mr.. Champ
CLARK. "Muster out the troops you've
got In the Philippines and it'll be the
happiest set that was ever recorded since
the morning stars got together and sang
for JOY"
The discussion was upon en- appro.
priaton for additional officials Ia the
Department oil Stat, and Mr.. Tawney
was defending the Items.
''Senstor Aldrich says he could run
the tuIiness of this government for
$500, 600, 900 less than it is btiug run
now" continued Mr.. CLARK, "and for
one am In favor OF letting him try It,"
The records made by Commander
Pesry belong to the pablo according to
Mr.. Hughes, dem, N. J.), who intro
ducsd a resolution calling upon the
Secretary OF Commerce and Labor To
transmit the "scuudings and tidal obser-
vaiions" made by the explorer on his
polar trip.
Declaring that conditions are outrs.
geous Ia the Bethlehem Steel Works,
Representative Rsiney dem, III to-
day introduced a resolution In the H.use
calling for an investigation of the big
steel plant BY the Hsuie committee on
labor.
A bill was fsvorably reported to make Guy
K. Calhoun, the midshipman at Annapolis
who leaped from a window Of the academy
while delirious and cripple for life, profes-
sor of mathematics at the institution.