The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-05
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Canadian Reciprocity Passes House
The Canadian reciprocity bin pass
ed the house last Friday night by al
overwhelming majority-256 to SO
Only 10 democrats voted against it
while 7S republicans voted against
Taft's pet measure. and only 81 voted
in favor of it. 1t looks now as though
the republicans will also split in the
senate on the bill, which will lead to
hopeless confusion and defeat of the
republicans in the next presidential
election This breach is being further
widened by the insurgents in the SEN
ate organizing to make a fight on the
standpatters.
Gore Would Economize.
Senator Gore has introduced a bill
to discontinue the printing of private
pension bills until they are reported
by the committee. Every pension bill
that is introduced in either house is
sent to the public printing office and
several hundred copies printed. This
measure provides for the discontinue
ance of this practice, which would re-
suit in a saving of over $1OO 900 every
session of congress.
Cores Good Roads Bill.
Senator Gore has introduced a bill
in the senate appropriating one mil
lion nine hundred thousand dollars,
half of the amount the state has con-
tributed to the irrigation fund, for the
construction of public highways. Ok
lahoma has contributed something like
three million dollars to the irrigation
fund, and as the government officials
claim that Oklahoma has no practical
irrigation sites, the senator thinks it
but just that Oklahoma should have
at least part of the amount she has
paid in for the construction and main
tenance of public highways.
Senate Democrats Reinforced.
The democrats in the senate have
some strong reinforcements from the
election last November. With the
election of Senator Reed, of Missouri,
Kern of Indiana, O'Gorman of New
York, Pomerene of Ohio, Williams of
and Johnson of Maine, the
democrats will be able to make much
stronger showing in the senate. All of
-hese senators are giants intellectually
and the democrats are real enthusias-
.ic as to the prospects of securing good
legislation during the extra session of
congress.
The democratic majority in the
house of representatives are busy
passing legislation, having already
passed the bills for the direct election
of senators, campaign publicity and
he Canadian reciprocity agreement.
This clearly convinces the country
hat they are capable of handling the
governments affairs, which fact has
lever been questioned except by the
Get More Alaska Coal.
1t seems that the Guggenheim-M Nor
san syndicate have at length gotten
practically all they want in Alaska.
md better thing than if Ballinger
lad approved the Cunningham claims.
n October last the president opened
o settlement 10000 acres of land in
Alaska which had been a part of the
crest reserve. These lands were i'm
nediately filed upon by stool pigeons"
t SO happens that the only possible
way of getting to and from the coal
ields which did not already belong to
his syndicate lies across this 10000
cres, so that the syndicate now con-
rolls absolutely the only means of get |
ing to coal in Alaska.