The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1911-07-27

mittee on Expenditures in the In.
terror Department, which is in
charge of most of the big investi.
cations now being conducted.
Mr.. Burke was formerly chairman
of the Committee on Indian Affairs,
while Mr.. Mondell, of Wyoming,
occupied the same position on the
Committee on Public Lands. The
membership of both of these
gentlemen on the investigating
committee gives to the work under
way the fullest possible measure
of strength.
Wickersham VS. Wickersham has
furnished lively diversion for the
Capital during the last week.
Parties to the controversy have
been Delegate Wickersham of
Alaska and the Attorney General
of the United States who has the
same name. The Alaska delegate
has been specializing during his
term in congress, on attacks upon
the Morgans, Guggenheims, and
everyone else connected with them
in the Alaska development. 1t is
claimed that the Attorney General
has not been persistent in prose-
cutting certain Alaskan suits, and
seizing the proper opportunity the
delegate has rushed before an an
tagonistic democratic committee to
demand an investigation. The af-
fair has proved to be simply an
incident in the general round of
events that have been sprung al
most daily in Washington since
the special session commenced.
Commissioner William Williams
in charge of Ellis Island, has made
a report to congress in which he
says that the conditions of immi-
grants is greatly crowded. He
has told congressional committee
that 100000 is needed for the
erection of a new dOrmitory and
OBTAINING room for cabin passen-
gers. Congress is inclined to be
somewhat stingy with the great
New York immigration station,
and it is difficult for the members
to realize the Importance of the
condition of facilities, but Mr..
Williams has been attempting to
make this clear by pointing out
how more than one million emil
grants were handled on the Island
last year. and he says that the
number is constantly increasing.
In former times Castle Garden
served as the station for this work,
and when Ellis Island was taken
over, it was thought that the nec-
essity for all times had been pro-
vided for, but already the space
has become too small and crowded.
Senators are awakened to the
fact that proceedings of that body
are not making any great hit with
the people. A member has de-
clared that from reading the rec
ord one might suppose that it was
a report of a lot of men gathered
on street corners discussing the
news of the day. Senator Bacon
has proposed new rule which is
designed to restore Congressional
debate'' to its former decorum.
Senator Root says that the present
method of indiscriminating debate
is destructive of deliberate con-
sideration of legislation" and Sem
ator Lodge likewise declared that
the senate must reform it's methods
or become the laughing stock of
deliberative assemblies.
There has been generous ap-
plause from all parts of the coun-
try over the trust busting methods
of the Roosevelt and Taft admin
istration. 1t develops that this
work has been rather expensive,
and the House Committees on Ex-
penditures in the Department of
Justice has brought out the fact
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