The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-08
Pennsylvania Representative
Says State Department Too
Eager to Please Mexico.
SULZER INTRODUCES BILL
TO CUT TARIFF ON CATTLE
New Yorker Says Meat Trust
Sells Abroad Cheaper Than
at Home.

WASHINGTON. Dec. Interest in
congress today ccnterod in the reporting
to both houses of the findings of the
Baliuger- Pinchot investigating commit :
tee.
Invoking the rules OF the senate, Sem
ator Hale today forced delay of at
least twenty -four hours in the introduce
ton of Senator Cummins's resolution re-
sardng the consideration OF tariff lcgis-
lation and providing that when an
amendment 10 any schedule OF the
Payne -Aldrich tariff bill is under cousid :
other schedule OF the law shall be In
order,
Sulzer Tackles Tariff
The Grst effort made in the present
session OF the house to have Il change
made in the tariff law was by tho In
PRODUCTION today by Representative Sui
zar of New York of bill Ito repeal the
duty meats and cattle
The meat trust is selling meat cheap
or by from 6 to Is cents a pound in Lon
don than III the United States" said Mr..
Sulzcr.
Mr. Sheppard of Texas introduced a
penny postage bill,
The senate committee on foreign rcla-
tiops voted today TO recommend 10 tho
senate the approval of the treaty be-
tween the United States and Mexico. by
which the dispute over the Chamisel
zone nj III Paso. Tex, Will be submitted
To- arbitration.
senator Brown of Nebraska presented
an amendment of the railroad law 80
as to prohibit one railroad company from
acquiring control OF competing line.
either By lease or purchase
Senator SmooL presented blll rcgulat-
ing the public lands. Ono OF the Utah
sena tors measures authorizes prospecting
for oil and gas ON such lands AS may
have been withdrawn from entry, and
the other provides for the withdrawal by
the government of lands which may be
valuable because Of water power
Tho military court OF inquiry that in
yestigated the Brownsville riots I'm 1906
when, negro troops were charged with
shooting up tho Texas town. today sub
mitted It's report TO the senate. The re-
port was ordered printed,
The Indian appropriation bill the first
duceds 1t carries SIS, $50, ,S95.
Arrests for Mexico.
Rcpr escntativc Wilson of Pennsylvan MIA
who represents II district that includes a
large mining population. will press the
house rules committee for quick action
ON his resolution TO investigate the
charge that the Mexican government Is
using the judicial and state depart ment5
Of this government in prosecuting politi-
cal refugees from Mexico.
Mr.. Wilson is comforting with state de-
partmcnt officials to secure Information
concerning the recent arrest Of Juan
Sanchez Azcona, an alleged Mexican
revouLIonisi. hy United States authorl-
ties. and said today that In a couple of
days he would demand action in the
matter.
IIe contended that Il similar resolution
referred 10 the rules committee at the
Inst session OF congress: had q good ef-
feet on the Mexican autbprities. for their
activity In this country had diminished,
but now seemed revived.
Speaker Cannon today announced sav-
eral committee assignments. including
both new and present members who sue
cceded to committee places made vacant
by deaths. Dawson of Iowa. Republican:
who declined q recollection. was appointed
on the appropriate committee, TO sue
ccod BrownloW of Tennessee, who died.
and Morehead OF North Carolina, also an
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