The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-02-19
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Joint printing committee of Congress
VIII not respond to the rule issued
by Justice Wright, of the District su.
preme Court, calling them to ap.
pear before him. Their refusal will
be based on the constitutional pre-
rogatives of members Of Congress as
construed by the senate. The House
took the opposite view and instruct
ed Its members to appear.
Senator William E. Borah. OF
Idaho, took occasion in the Senate
4 to attack the position OF those w1aE
oppose acceptance by the several
States Of the proposed amendment
to the Constitution Of the United
States. which would permit the levy
Ing Of tax on incomes without ap-
portionment between the States.
A medal of honor instead Of pro-
motion to rear admiral for Command
er Robert e. Peary, discoverer of the
North Pole, is proposed by a sub
committee of the House committee
on naval affairs The subcommittee
unanimously disapproved the bill
passed by the Senate making Peary
a rear admiral.
The fight in the naval committee
| of the House over the Meyer reorgani-
cation plan and the rumored inten-
tion of Secretary Meyer to discipline
Rear Admirals Capps and Rogers for
testifying before the committee
against his plan, aroused much feel
ing.
Determined to defeat the admins
tration ship subsidy bill recently re-
ported to the House, the minority
members of the House committee on
| merchant marine and fisheries held
meeting and decided upon a substi-
| tute for the Humphrey measure
Senator Hepburn, of Idaho, waved
the bloody shirt in a speech in the
Senate opposing the loaning of army
tents to the Confederate reunion at
Mobile. The Senate administered a
stinging rebuke to Hepburn by pass
ing the resolution, every senator ex-
cept Hepburn voting for It.
John Hays Hammond and Daniel
J. Sully, associated with several men
prominent in the cotton business in
the South, are planning the organiza-
tion of cotton securities corpora
ton, which probably will have a cap
italization 100000.
President Taft was given full de-
tails Of the plans that have been for
mulated thus. far for the reception to
velt upon his arrival in New York,
some time between June Is and 21.
The Republican insurgents in the
Senate are opposed to Senator Bal
ley's plan of changing the hour of
meeting from 12 o'clock noon to
pm.
The administration's Federal incor-
poratiop bill is looked upon by many
members Of Congress with suspicion.
The eagerness with which the trusts
have accepted 1t is not relished.
gunners mates occurred during the
firing of salute off Guantanamo on
the battleship Virginia.
The Senate public lands committee
made favorable report on the bill
authorizing a pipe line from Okla
homa to the Gulf of Mexico.
The president issued a proclama-
ton of the Payne-Aldrich act to Ar
gentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay,
Mexico, Panama and Liberia
A bill making Commander Robert
E. Peary, U. S. A, discoverer of the
North Pole, a rear admiral was pass
ed by the Senate.
The management of the Southern
Railway announces that 1t will re-
sumo industrial development in the
South.
The public expenditures commit
tee Of the Senate is engaged in a
conflict with other Senate committees
over expenditures and appropriations.
The National Geographic Society
decided to fit out an expedition to
search for the South Pole.
The House committee on agricul-
;ure began hearings on bills to pro-
libit dealing in futures.
The rivers and harbors bill makes
LIBERAL provision for Louisiana and
Mississippi streams and harbors.
President Taft is being urged to
Ippoint Ex-Congressman Cooper, 81
Texas, Federal judge.
A speakership boom has been start
d for Congressman Crumpacked, of
indiana.
Congressman Harrison, of New
'ork, assailed Secretary of State
>nox in a speech in the House.
Reports reached Washington that
ne Madriz forces won a victory in
icaragua
An omnibus claim bill will probab-
7 be passed at the present session
Congress. I
The Senate adopted the Elkins re-
,lution providing for an investiga-
en- by select Senate committee of /
wen of the causes underlying the t
lgher cost of living. Ii
Congress threatens to make seri-
is trouble for Secretary Meyer if he r
adertakes to discipline Capps and q
igers for testifying before the t.
ouse naval affairs committee. 0
An effort will be made to induce
ongress to make an appropriation to Il
" the Juig.l Almlouse claim OF II
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