East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-08-19
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TARIFF BILL BY ADJOURNMENT
CAMPAIGN PUBLICITY APPROVED BY PRESIDENT
Woudbe Senators and Congressman May Pay $4,000 and
SIS 900. Respectively, for Coveted Offices Cotton
Amendments Accepted.

and Representative Mann today made
an unsuccessful attempt to bring
about the adjournment of Congress
tonight, in order to side track the cot
ton revision bill. which the Demo-
cratic house has fought so hard for
during the present extra session. The
Democrats in the house, being in the
majority of that branch of Congress,
refused to consider adjournment, un-
til the cotton bill reaches the hands
of President Taft.
Washington, d. c., Aug. .19.-Pres-
ident Taft today signed the campaign
publicity bill for candidates for con-
gressional representatives and United
States senator's
The bill provides for the complete
publicity of all campaign expenditures
by the candidates for seats in both
houses of congress. before the gen.
eral election and limits the sum that
the candidates may expend in further
ing their candidacy in single cam
paign to $1,000 for candidates for
representative and $4,000 for can
didates for seats in the United States
senate.
Cotton Amendment Accepted
Washington, Aug. 19.-According to
a statement issued by the house COM
mittee on ways and means today, that
committee believes that congress Will
adjourn possibly Tuesday of the COM
ing week and at the latest Wednes-
day.
on a strictly party vote, the house
decided to accept the senate amend
ment to the house cotton tariff Dill
and the bill will be reported foday
and action on it called for Monday
This is the last bill on the demo-
cratic tariff revision program and the
democrats feel that they have won
glorious victories in forcing some
measure of downward tariff revision
even If they were not able to bring
about as sweeping betterments as
were intended.
atin-Amcricans Invited.
Washington, Aug. by vote
of 100 to 81, the house today passed
n resolution, authorizing President
Taft to issue invitations to foreign
and south and Central American ma
tions To send delegations to the PAN
amA-Cal.fornia exposition, to be held
in san Diego. Calf, in 1915.
BEFORE passing the resolution
amendments were made to the orig
inal and accepted, providing thdt 'he
foreign nations in accepting shoulu
secure proper sites at the expos.'i 'ion
Grounds and subscribe to iuhd oi
60 oon ooo To assure the success OF the
Tho compromise statehood bill also
a,rai,s the houses action The reso-
luton providing for the direct elec'ion
- sonators probably will so over IN
oa,,rerence. until the next session
Adjourn Tuesday.
Washington, Aug, ia eo',
ourrent resolution, fixing Tuesday az
ternoon as the time for congress 10
odiourn was adopted in the senate tpis
afternoon,
Suprcmc Court Played.
vvasl,ineton. Aug. 19.-Assertlns
that the United states supreme cou'.
hoa welded to "the interests" and hau
written into the antitrust law matter
which congress had never piaceu
there. senator La Toilette, in the SEN
ate today. introduced and discusseu
s,,,ooning series of amendments 10
tbe sherman law which are desisheu
to make any restraint of trade uh-
reasonable"