Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-08-24
DEFENDS
MIR. TAFT
Rep. Humphrey of Washington Ac-
cuses Investigators of
Cowardice.
STYLE OF RECORD CHANGED
White House Being Protected by
Lightning Rods---Matters
of Interest.

Washington, d. c., August 81
Congressman Humphrey of Washing
ton, who is generally supposed to
know about things in Alaska because
the representatives of that state are
on the outer edge made a very
strong defense of the president in
which he accused the democrats on
the committee Of investigation Of the
Controller Bay charges of cowardice,
and with deliberate attempt to shield
those responsible for colossal fake,
as shown in the introduction in the
investi igation of the dick to Dick let
ter" and he did not hesitate to con-
trmn the investigating committee
which has denied a hearing to witness
ses who could have disproven the
fake charges that were made in the
Controller Bay affair MI. Mann said
that the committee having realized
that the scandalous charges made d.
eainst the integrity of the president,
could not be proven, had not the man
illness to go forward and say SO, but
had stopped hearings on the inquiry
in order that a false impression
might prevail thruout 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 though it best to make hay SLOW
ly." Representative Burke of South
Dakota inforned Ais colleagues in
congress as toaat.ae realS manner in
which the postponem ent of the inves-
tigation had been brot about, and he
states that he had made every effort
II rssiblt 10 push the investigation but
withou, success. The postponement .
he said had not been ordered
in a full committee hearing but had
been decided upon by the chairman
and his democratic colleagues
The attention of Congress IN re-
gard to the wide differences of the
courts in reference to marriage and
divorce laws thruout the states, has
been directed to plan remedying the
faults of the divorce laws, by Repre-
senlatives George w. Norris, of Nc
lraska, who suggests that the govern
ors of the different states send repre-
;sentatives to congress of delegates
to be held in the hall of the house Of
representatives for the purpose Of
formulating uniform laws of marriase
and divorce for the different states.
The proposition embodied in the Nor
ris resolution has created a large
amount of favorable comment ard q
surprising amount of support might
volunteer to go to the aid of Mr. Nor
ris and his proposition. In the senate
the chairman of the judiciary com
mittee, Nj. Clark of Wyoming, has
decided ideas upon the question of a
constitutional amendment to make de.
constitutional amendment to make
the laws of the different states uni
form, expressing himself to the effect
that this course would not be neces-
sary and that the matter could be ad-
justed between the states through
their legislatures. 1t is quite probable
with a fighter like Mr.. Norris at the
helm that this great problem may be
worked out
In the final passage of the Under
Wood-LaFollette wool measure as d.
greed upon, tlle democratic vote was
solid in favor of the measure and
the following republicans cast their
vote for. the. compromise. measure:
Akin, New York independent repus-
lican);; Linbergh, Nye, Volstead, Da-
Wis, Anderson Miller, and Steenersop,
tof Minnesota; Eseh, Kopp. Lenroot,
Morse, Dawson, and Nelson Of Wis
"consin; Hanna, Helgesen, of North
Dakota; Hubbard. Rees, Murdoch,
Madison and Young of Kansas; Kent
and Stephens of California;: Kinkaid, |
Norris, Sloan of Nebraska; and La
Toilette and Warburton of Washing.
ton.
The Penrose resolution ito fix the
time Of adjournment did not prove en-
tireiy pleasing to some of the progress
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