The Detroit times., 1911-03-03
SENATE Gets
DOWN TO WORK
Passes Appropriation Bill. After
Truce Is Declared-vote on Tariff
Board Saturday.

WASHINGTON, March 3.-The SEN
ate OF the sixty-frst congress upon Its
last session today, passed the sundry
civil appropriation bill, carrying $142,-
100000 aftey three hours Of discus
sion. A recess may be taken late to-
night, but the concluding meeting will
be virtually continuous. This was as.
sured by the agreement to vote on the
tariff board bill at $3.50 tomorrow
morning.
An amendment by Senator Owen
(Dem.. Oxla.), increasing the salaries
OF all public health and marine hos
pital service Official was adopted. IL
makes the salary of the surgeon-gen.
eral $4,000 per year.
Senator Culberson (Dem., Tex).
succeeded In reducing the appropria-
tion for the present tariff board ex-
perts from 100000 to 100000, and
limiting It's use to one year. II was
adopted, 80 TO "a.
Much merriment was created when
Senator Lorimer, who was reading q
paper, closely followed Senator Lodge
(Rep.. Mass.), as his "Bellwether" In
the voting.
Another amendment by Culberson
ordering a report from the tariff
board on the wool and wooden sched-
ules before the first Monday In De-
cember, 1911, was accepted after
much wrangling.
An amendment offered by Senator
Jones tRep., Wash.), appropriating
$12, 900 for suppressing the liquor traf-
nc In Alaska. was adopted.
A motion by Senator Burton (Rep.,
o., to eliminate the appropriation for
fortifying the Panama canal, was
defeated by viva voce vote.
Senators resarded IL as practically
assured that the Taft permanent tarifI
board bill VIII be passed by the sen
ate tomorrow morning. II may fail OF
enactment, however, unless the house
accepts the senate amendments. II
the house disagrees, a conference
committee will have to be appointed
and IL Is a question whether the com
mittee could report before final ad.
journment at noon.
The main points In the tariff board
bill are:
Tariff board of five members ap.
pointed by president
Term OF ONCE, six years.
Not more than three members to be
OF the same political party.
The president may remove any
member for inefficiency or malfeas-
ance.
Salary Of chairman $500: other
members $1,000.
The board shall investigate the cost
OF production Of all articles named in
the tariff law. domestic and foreign
labor prices. prices paid for raw mate
rails, producers and retailers prices,
and condition OF domestic and foreign
markets.
The house bill authorized the board
to obtain evidence For It's conflden-
tial use,' but the senate struck out
that provision.
Other senate amendments provide
that appointments of members of the
board shall be subject to the consent
OF the senate and that the board shall
Investigate the cost OF transportation
In figuring the cost OF goods.
Eight million dollars a minute.
That's the way Uncle Sam throws
his change around at the end OF a
session OF congress.
II is the new record OF the senate
for spending the peoples money.
BY passing the pension bill with
$153 900, 900, the diplomatic and con.
sular with $4,000,000 and the forth.
cations bill with $6.000000, the sen
ate disposed OF $163, 100000 in twenty
minutes.
March 10. the president, let 1t be