The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-08-24
A WEEKS NEWS
At WASHINGTON
REPUBLICAN MEMBERS WANT TO
KNOW WHY ALASKAN INVES-
TIGATiON HAlTS
A UNIFORM MARRIAGE LAW IS URGED
Congressman Norris of Nebraska
Would have Congress Formulate
Laws on Marriage and Divorce

Congressman Humphrey of Wash
ington, who is generally supposed tc
know things in Alaska because the
representatives of that State are or
the outer edge made a very strong
defense of the President in which he
accused the Democrats on the com
mittee of Investigation of the Con
troller Bay charges of cowardice, and
with deliberate attempt to shield
those responsible for a colossal fake,
as shown in the introduction in the
Investigation of the Dick to Dick let.
ter" and he did not hesitate to con.
denim the Investigating Committee
which has denied a hearing to witness
SEES who could have disproven the
fake charges that were made in the
Controller Bay affair says the Reg
listers special from Washington. Mr..
Mann said that the Committee having
realized that the scandalous charges
made against the integrity of the
President, could not be proven, had
not the manliness to go forward and
say so, but had stopped hearings on
the inquiry in order that a false inn
preston might prevail throughout the
country. Chairman Graham defended
the course of the Committee, saying
that since the inquiry was to be more
comprehensive" than at first planned,
he thought it best ito make hay slow
ly.' Representative Burke Of South
Dakota informed his colleagues in
Congress as to the real manner in
which the postponement of the in
vestigation had been brought about,
and he states that he had made every
effort possible to push the investiga-
ton but without success The post
ponement," he said, had not been
ordered in a full committee hearing
but had been decided upon by the
Chairman and his Democratic col
leagues"
The attention of Congress in regard
to the wide differences of the courts
in reference to marriage and divorce
laws throughout the states, has been
directed to a plan remedying the faults
of the divorce laws, by Representa-
tives to a Congress of delegates to
be held in the hall of the House
of Representatives for the purpose of
formulating uniform laws of marriage
and divorce for the different states.
The proposition embodied in the Nor.
ris resolution has created a large
amount of favorable comment and a
surprising amount of support might
volunteer to go to the aid of Mr..
Norris and his proposition. In the
Senate the Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, Mr.. Clark Of Wyoming, had
decided ideas upon the question of
a constitutional amendment to make
the laws of the different states uni
form, expressed himself to the effect
that this course would not be neces-
cary and that the matter could be
adjusted between the states through
their legislatures. 1t is quite probable
with a fighter like Mr.. Norris at the
helm that this great problem will be
worked out.
In the final passage of the Under
wood-LaFollette wool measu as
agreed upon, the Democratic vote was
solid in favor of the measure and the
following Republicans cast their vote
for the compromise measure: Akin,
New York Independent Republican,;
Lindberg. Nye, Volstead, Davis, An
derson, Miller, and Stevenson, of Min
%nesota; Esch, Kopp, Lenroot, Morse,
Dawson, and Nelson Of Wisconsin;
Hanna, Helgesen, of North Dakota;
Hubbard, Rees, Murdoch, Madison and
Young Of Kansas; Kent and Stephens,
of California; Kinkaid, Morris, Sloan.
Of Nebraska; and LaFollette and War
burton, of Washington.
The Penrose resolution to fix the
time Of adjournment did not prove
entirely pleasing to some of the pro-
gressive Senators like Mr.. Bristow of
Kansas, who said that he would oppose
an adjournment before any of the leg
islation now pending before Congress
had been acted upon Senator Cum
minis indicated that "some OF US" are
opposed to adjournment, and in reply
to an inquiry by the leader from Penn
sylvania, as to who was meant by
some Of U.S." the Iowan said that