Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-02-24
A BRIEF DAILY REPORT ON
THE WORK OF CONGRESS

Washington, Feb. 1a. - The post
Office appropriation bill, reported t.
the house late yesterday, makes NJ
change in second-class postage rate
and contains no ship subsidy provision
The bill carries nearly $3.50, 900, 600
which is an increase over last year,
Of $5, 900, 900.
-Four administration measures are
sure of passage at this session ut con
gress. After conferences with sen
ators and Representatives, President
Taft told callers today that he felt Ger.
tain the amendments to the interstate
commerce law, the postal savings bank
bill, the anti-injunction proposal and
che statehood bill would go through.
The situation now seems to portend
that the Alaska legislative council bill,
the Federal incorporation bill and sew
eraI other measures desired by the
president will either fall by the way
side or be laid upon the shelf for an
other session.
With view to preventing specuIa-
tion in Carey act lands, Representa-
tive Mundell today introduced bill
authorizing the secretary of the inter-
ior, on application by any state or ter
ritory, to withdraw temporarily from
entry lands which are desired for re-
clamation under that law.
1t is provided that formal applica-
tion for segregation, accompanied by
maps Of the proposed irrigation pro-
ject, must be submitted within one
year from date of withdrawal or else
the withdrawal will be revoked.
Washington, Feb. 18.-EmpIoyment
for the unemployed is the subject of a
bill that has been introduced by Repre-
sentative Garner, Republica, Of Penn
sylvania, who proposed, through the
medium of the Postoffice department,
to bring the employer in touch 80 that
the labor market may be normal at
all times.
He proposes to authorize the post
master general to establish in the de-
partment and in every postoffice in
the United States "an information la
Dor officer" whose duty it shall
be to supply daily to employers lists of
persons wanting work and to the latter
lists of employers want laborers.
Each county seat is to be distribut-
ing center for the county in which it is
located, applications for labor and
laborers being sent to all points in the
county.
The senate today passed the follow
ing bills introduced by Senator Piles:
Appropriating $780, for the estab-
ishment of a lighthouse on KeIlet's
Bluff; $50, 900 lighthouse at Part
ridge Point; SAL, 900 for small aids TO
navigation on Puget Sound; 1925, 900
Tor lighthouse tender for Alaska and
80, 900 to construct two revenue cut
,er launches for Puget Sound.
Senator Jones and Representative
McCredie today introduced bill ap-
'ropriating $4OO, 900 for the purchase
# site and the erection of an immi-
grafton station at Tacoma.
Senator Chamberlain today intro
luced bills formerly offered by Senator
fulton, as follows: For final settle
nent with the Clatsop tribe of Indians,
ppropriating SIS, 900 to pay for lands
aiken; S10,500 for the TiIIamook
ribe, $1,000 for the Kathlamet band
# the Chinook tribe, SIS, for the
Vheelappa tribe, $50, 900 for the lower
and of the Chinook tribe, $1,000 for
he Waukinum band of the Chinook
ribe, and 81, 500 for the Nuc- Quee-
'ha- Wi Muck tribe.