Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-04-20
SIXTY SECOND CONGRESS-.


Senate today by Senator Culberson,
declaring the sense of the Senate TO be:
That the situation in Mexico
| does not warrant intervention by the
| United States.
'2-That the duty Of the United
States does not extend rigid enforce
ment of the neutrality laws.
1t was referred to the committee on
foreign relations without discussion.
The preliminary skirmish in the
battle for constitutional amendment
permitting the popular elections OF
senators was renewed in the Senate
today. 1t began when the motion OF
Senator Culberson, referring the house
joint resolution to the judiciary COM
mlttee which came up for action.
A vigorous protest was made by
Senator Dillingham;.
He said the nvariable practice for
40 years had been to give the COM
mittee on privileges and elections con-
troll over such legislation. The only
exception occurred 10 the last session.
Interrupting Senator Culberson
said that since 1881, % resolutions OF
that kind had been introduced. OF
these went to the judiciary commit
tee and IS to the committee on
privileges and elections.
In the opinion of Senator Bailey,
every resolution involving constitu-
t onal amendment should 60 TO the
judiciary committee. II the Income
tax matter, he said, had been sub
| united to that committee it would not
now be subjected to the criticism that
| comes from many eminent men.
The motion was adopted without a
discussion and the resolution went to
the judiciary committee.
Asserting that President Taft should
be authorized Immediately to wage war
against Mexico, if American rights
should he again DO violated, Senator
Stone discussed the southern border
situation.
Il am going to say" Stone declared,
whether / do right or wrong in say
ing it, that the Congress sheuld at
once authorize the president to employ
whatever force may be necessary to
prevent a repetition OF the bloody
outrage committed at Douglas, Arizona
and repetition Of which is threatened
at Ell Paso.
Stone said he did not believe that
Japan figured IN the sending Of troops
to the border. That action was justl-
fed, in his opinion, by the unsettled
conditions in Mexico.
Senator Works spoke for the ad-
mission of Arizona and in favor of
the initiative and referendum.
An investigation Of the many COM
missions created by Congress was pro
posed in a resolution introduced in
the Senate by Senator Williams.
HOUSE.
Another day Of debate on the Cana
dian reciprocity agreement began today
in the House Messrs. Hobson and
Doremus, opened the day in favor Of
the bill, and Mr.. Needham followed in
an elaborate argument to show that the
republicans who supported the bill were
really in strict accord with their party
platform and principles.
The House today provides the siuews
of war for the investigation OF all the
executive departments Of the govern
ment when the Hamlln authorization
resolution reported by the committee
on rules passed without scarcely a dis
seuting voice
The resolution gives the ten commit
tees on expenditures in the departments
and on public buildings the power to
subpoena witnesses, call for books and
all other powers necessary for the con-
duct of the Investigations. The COM
mittees will immediately proceed with
their probes.
A radical change in the fiscal policy
of the country is proposed in a bill
introduced by Mr. Fitzgerald, propoS-
ing to repeal section 40 of the Payne
Aldrich tariff law, which authorizes
the issue of certificates of Indebtedness.
Fitzgerald declared today that he
expects to push the bill through the
lower house of congress.
This authorization clause. said
Fitzgerald. eugrafts permanently upon
the fiscal policy Of the United States a
device reSorted to as an emergency
measure during the stress Of war times.
A reapportionment bill giving the
House of Representative membership
of 1873 was reported to the House today
by the committee on census. The bill
is practically Identical with the Crum-
packer bill that passed the House later
out failed 10 reach vote in the Senate.
The committee struck from the bill.
however, the clause making it the duty
OF the Department of Commerce and
Labor to make future reapporiion-
ments.
Under the bill as presented today no
state loses member and the following
gain: