Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-06-30
CONGRESS CLOSES
TAFT'S PROGRAM is CARRIED
OUT PRACTICALLY IN tTs
ENTIRETY.
POSTAL BANK BILL SIGNED
Both Houses Adopted Resolutions for
Searching Investigation of Gore
Bride Piot-BllIion Dollars
Voted During Session.

Wash1ngton.-The first regular ses-
sion Of the Sixty-hrst congress was
brought to q 9Gfsh Saturday with the
Taft progressive program carried out
practically in It's entirety,
In the final hours the president
signed the rivers and hsrbors bill,
but sent message to congress in.
dicating that he had made up his mind
to do SO practically at the last min
ute of time at his disposal, so far as
that measure was concerned.
Congress was warned that 1t must
change its method of framing river
and harbor Improvement measures,
and announcement is made that IN
less reforms which he suggests are
carried out in future bills the with
holding OF executive approval Will be
justified, even though a rivers and har-
bors bill fail.
The president also signed without
comment the postal savings bank bill,
the omnibus public building bill, the
latter carrying authorization for i'm
proVements aggregaSng $23,000,000,
but leaving the items of appropriation
to be attended to later, in connection
with the regular estimates of the
treasury department with respect to
work authorized by congress.
There was little work remaining to
be done when the two houses of con-
gross met for the last day of the ses-
sion. Practically everything of i'm
portance had been attended to except
the general deficiency appropriation
bill, which had become involved in the
charges of attempted bribery made
by Senator Gore of Oklahoma. The
upshot of the recommitting of the last
OF the big appropriation measures to
conference was the adoption of an
amendment more drastic even that
the Oklahoma senator had desired,
providing that no contracts heretofore
or hereafter made affecting the tribal
money or property of the Indian
tribes shall be approved until further
action by congress.
With this amendment, following the
adoption of resolution In the senate
to have the Indian affairs committee
investigate the contracts involved in
the Gore charges, the general de-
tciency bill was passed by both
houses. The one thing left pending
when congress adjourned was the Ap-
palachian forest reserve measure,
upon which opponents in the senate
prevented a vote
For ten days after the president
reaches his summer home at Beverly,
according to an announcement made
at the White House, he will attend to
no business matters-make no ap-
pointments and have no political con-
ferences, deyoting the time to rest
and recreation.
The only touch of excitement in the
closing hours of the house came when
Representative Mcclure of Oklahoma
arose to a question of personal priv
ilege and offered resolution directing
an investigation of the charges of
fraud and bribery in Indian contracts.
A substitute amendment, offered by
Representative Carter, more specific
and stronger, was preferred by the
house after promiscuous debate, which
developed nothing of Importance, ex-
cept widespread sentiment that a
thorough inquiry should be made
After a fight which had lasted al
most from the beginning of the SEES
sion Of congress just ended Represent
ative Martin (Dem) of Colorado sue
ceeded in securing an investigation by
congress of his charges of fraud and
maladministration in the sale OF friar
lands in the Philippines and of the en-
tire interior department of the Phil
ippine government by the house COM
mittee on insular affairs