Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1911-05-04
Congressional Notes

minister to Portugal; Maurice ;.
Swonson Of Minnesota, es minister to
Norway. MI. Boutelrs appointment,
without committee action, vas imme-
diately confirmed because os his long
service in congress. The senate also
confirmed the appointments of VIII
liam w. Rockhill as ambassador to
Turkey, and former Governor Curtis
Guild of Massachusetts as ambassador
to Russia.
A sensational arraignment OF the
United States senate was contained in
a resolution introduced in the house
by Representative Victor l.. Berger,
the wisconsin Socialist, demanding a
constitutional amendment abolishing
the upper house. The resolution de-
clares: "The senate has become an
obstructive and useless body, and a
menace to the liberties of the people;
a body many members of which are
the representatives solely of certain
predatory combinations, and a body
which, by reason of the corr upton Of
ten attending the election of its mem
bers, has furnished the gravest public
scandals in the history of the nation"
Representative Claude u Stone of
Illinois, who succeeded JOS. v. Graft
of Peoria, introduced a bin changing
the basis Of pay of rural carriers and
increasing 1t materially. Instead OF
the 5000 which carriers on standard"
routes-25 miles or more in length
now receive, Mr.. Stone would give all
carriers $50 per mile per annum If
this bill should become a law it would
have the effect of increasing the sal
aries of carriers, on rs mile routes
from $500 to $1,250.
Petitions to congress against any re-
duction in the tariff on raw wool are
beginning to reach many Democratic
members of the house in advance OF
the revision of the wooden schedules
of the Payne-Aldrich bill to be taken
up by the ways and means commit
tee next week. Representative Ash
brook of Ohio filed a petition signed
by 46 Democrats and is Republicans
of Jo~hnstown, o. Similar protests
have been filed from other sections of
the country.
AS a result of charges made on the
floor Of the house during the debate
on the farmers f~ree-list bill by Repre-
sentative Robert E. Nfendefer OF
Pennsylvania that Hermann & Co. of
Boston had a monopoly of the bust
ness of supplying shoes to the army
and navy, Representative Gardner OF
Massachusetts introduced resolutions
calling on the secretaries of the two
departments concerned for all informa-
ton on the subject.
AS a result of a conference be-
tween Speaker Clark and Represents
tive Carter OF Oklahoma, the latter
modified his resolution introduced sew
eral days age calling for an investiga
ton of the affairs of the Five Civilized
Tribes by a select committee of the
house. The modification would place
the investigation in the hands OF the
committee on Indian affairs, a regu
iarly constituted committee of the
house.
National bank examiners will be re
moved largely from political influences
if a plan now being worked out by
treasury officials becomes operative
1t is proposed to appoint all examin
ers on their showing in practical ex
aminations by the comptroller of the
currency. While the examiners vii
not be under civil service, the system
of examination will be much the same
Just before the house passed thu
congressional reapportionment bill
Representative Bartholdt of st. Louis
a Republican, made an attempt t.
have incorporated in the proposed Law
a clause which in effect would hav'
given Governor Hadley power to re
district the state Of Missouri. His Ell
forts were unsuccessful.
Representative Reilly of Connect
cut has introduced a bill providing TO
an eight-hour work day for mail car
riers and clerks in first and second
class post offices, the eight hours 7
! be consumed within a limit of ten con
!, ~secutive hours, and for pro rata CON
p~ensation for all work in excess 0
{ eight hours a day.
Victor Berger Of Milwaukee, the Sc
cialist member Of congress, in a rest
/, luton introduced, not only purpose
J to abolish the senate, but aims t
strike from the hand of the ~presiden
the veto power, and take from tn
courts authority to invalidate legisls
ton enacted by the house of represer
~tatives.
+ The Houston bill, passed by tn
+ house, leaves to legislatures OF the di
! ferent states the power to rearrang
the congressional districts in their r
d spective states on the new populatio
a basis of one member for each 211,S7
n Of inhabitants.
I William s., Kenyon of Iowa and M
than P. Bryan Of Florida took tn
= oath of office In the senate as SEN
tors from their respective states.
Passage Of the congressional real
%portionment bill, which went throug
I the house, seems impossible in tn
4 senate. Republican senators frol
I states now having Democratic legisli
lures are in agreement to defeat tb
bill. They admitted that they wi
flibuster If this extreme course prove
necessary to accomplish their purpos
Representative Cullop Of Indiana,
10 Democrat, in a speech in the hous
al vigorously assailed Postmaster Gene
8. al Hitchcock and the p~ostoffce depar
N ment for "pernicious activity IN pol
tics.