Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-01-27
A BRIEF DAILY REPORT on
THE WORK OF CONGRESS

The Hamilton bill which was passed
by the house is declared to be objec-
tionabe to the senate committee.
Representative Ellis today recon-
mended to Secretary BalinRer that the
nine warm springs on the Warm
Springs Indian reservation be set apart
as resort, so that sanatorium may
be erected for the benefit of those de-
string to make use of the springs.
These springs will be readily access
ible as soon as the railroads are built
along the Deschutes river.
/ A general denial of the sweeping
charges of reckless and improper ex-
penditures in the Interior department
melted by Representative Hitchcock
was made today by Fred bennett, COM
missioner of the general land Office, at
the opening session of hearing before
the houes committee on expenditures
in the Interior department. He ad-
mitted, however, that some Of the
minor specifications were true.
Washington, Jan. Without de-
bate and by viva voce vote the house
today adopted the conference report on
the Balinger-Pinchot inquiry resolu-
tion and then devoted almost five hours
to further discussionof the urgency de-
ficiency appropriation bill. Consider
alton OF this bill was not concluded.
After cleaning up the calendar by
passing about 40 bills, majority of
private character, the senate today
adopted a resolution requesting the
secretary of the treasury to advise
the senate if newspaper reports were
true that the customs house at New
port News, Va, was to be closed to-
morrow in observance of the birthday
of General Robert E. Lee.
Speaker Cannon today officially ruled
that President Roosevelt had acted
without authority in appointing repre-
sentatives to the third international
conference on maritime war at Brus-
sells. He did this by sustaining point
of order made by Representative Har4
rison of New York against an appro-
priation for the continuance of the SER
vice of these representatives.
Accordingly, the paragraph asking
such an appropriation was stricken out
when consideration of the urgent de-
ficiency bill was resumed in the house.
Representative Hawley today intro
duced bill to pay the state of Oregon
SIP, the amount due the state on lands
selected on desert land list No. H..
Washington, Jan. 17.-For the third
time the house Of representatives
passed bill today giving separate
statehood to the territories of New
Mexico and Arizona. The vote was
taken amid applause. The absence of
opposition was the most striking fea-
ture of the debate.
The house committee on claims today
reported favorably bill to reinstate
William Boldenweck, assistant United
States treasurer at Chicago, for the
5 $4,000 stolen from the sub treasury
there in February, 907.
Consideration of the urgent def
cheney appropriation bill, carrying
more than $4,000, 900, was begun by
the house.
The conference report on the Balling-
er-Pinchot inquiry resolution by the
senate was feature of today's ses-
sion in both houses.
Eulogies on the late George L.
Shoup, ex-senator from Idaho, in con-
nection with the acceptance of his
statute was the special order in the
senate.
Senator Chamberlain and Represent
ative Hawley today introduced bill,
irawn by the Interior department,
granting relief to bona fide settlers on
the Siletz reservation. The bill is
even broader in its provisions than the
Hawley bill previously introduced.
Secretary Ballinger today recon-
nended the appropriation of $3.50, 900
% irrigste and drain from 10000 to
10, 600 acres of low land on theYakima
indian reservation not included in the
present irrigation project.