The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-08-03
PROSPECT FOR BUSY
WEEK IN CONGRESS
Future Legislation Depends On
Action of the House During
the Week.

ends the calendar will be cleared for
several of the important matters now
pend ng and the date fixed for the
final adjournment. The president has
cancelled all outof-town engagements
for the near future and will probably
remain in the capital until the session
ends.
The situation in the House is the
key to the entire tariff tangle in Con-
gress. Upon the action of the House
this week rests the possibility of fur
Their tariff legislation at this session.
Speaker Clark expressed confidence
that wool bill would be agreed on in
conference and that it would be
signed by the president. Other
House leaders, however, adopted
more pessimistic view of the presi-
dents attitude and expect him to
veto any wool bill framed by the pres
ent Democrat-insurgent Republican
coalition in the Senate.
Coalition Threatens General Revision.
The coalition of Democrats and in
surgent Republicans which bowled
over the regular organization and
passed a compromise bill for the rev-
sion of the wooden tariff by 4S to 80,
flushed with victory, is Threatening
not only to pass the so-called farm
ers' free list BILL" as it came from
the House, but to put through a cotton
bill as well. The insurgents want the
sugar and steel schedules included in
the program.
Two-Thirds Vote Lacking.
In the event the president should
veto the final conference wool bill, the
Democratic leaders will begin calcu.
lations as to whether the bill can be
passed by the House over the presi-
dents veto. The Underwood bill
passed the House on June 20 by
vote of 220 to 100. But to pass over
a veto two-thirds of the House mem
bership of 391 must vote for the bill.
This would be 261, or Al more than
went on record for the original bill in
the House. There is nothing so far to
self added strength.
1t is clear that the House will not
be in hurry to ask for a conference.
The Senate wool bill, when it is taken
up in the House, VIII be promptly re-
jected and sent back to the Senate.
1t will remain for that body to ask for
a conference committee
Entrymen May Take More Land.
Congressman Mondell has just Sc
cured from Secretary Fisher a very
important Interpretation of the 800
acre homestead law, making it posi-
BILE for entrymen who have taken less
than the maximum under that law to
enter now additional land up to the
full amount. Heretofore the Interior
Department has held directly oppo-
ste view.
New instructions, embodying the
changed Interpretation of the law, will
be sent to all land offices. Members
of Congress have received thousands
of complaints from entrymen who de-
sire to take up add ;tional tracts I'M
der this law, who have only filed on
160 acres.
National Capital Brevities.
The government has decided to ap-
peal the Hartman merger case to the
United States supreme court
Fines of $500 to $4,000 for each Of
Tense for sending intoxicants from me
state to another are provided in a bill
introduced by Representative Jackson,
of Kansas
Unsatisfactory conditions in the ma
tional banks, accord ng to Controller
of the Currency Lawrence o. Murray,
are due, in nearly every case, to the
failure of the directors to direct. In a
letter to the national bank exam ners.
just made public, Murray implored
them to be more stringent in their ex-
aminations.
Young men ambitious to enter the
United States army need not depend
upon a nomination to West Point. So
great IS the demand that the Secre-
tsry of War has issued a general call,
and any young man with good moral
standing, and who can produce let
tiers of reference will now be desig-
mated for the compel tive examina-
ton.
A bill prohibiting the employment
in any capacity of persons under 16
years of age by the government or any
government contractor and providing
that special delivery letter carriers
shall not be less than 10 years of
age, was introduced by Representa-
tive Berger. of Wisconsin, the So
cialist member.