Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-07-20
FIX VOTING DATES
VARIOUS FACTIONS AGREE TO
BALLOT ON PACT Bill ON
JULY 22.
SESSION ENDS ON aug. I
Wool Revision Bill to Be Considered
july 27-Democrats in Accord
ance in Order to End
Present Session.

Washington, d. c. = An agree.
ment to vote on the Canadian reci-
procity bill on July % was reached
by the leaders of the various factions
of the senate.
The agreement fixes a vote on the
house wool revision bill for July 20,
free list bill Aug. /. reapportionment
bill Aug. 3 and statehood on the leg
islative day of Aug. Z. 1t is expected
that the adjournment of congress will
Immediately follow the statehood
vote.
The agreement was formally offered
in the senate by Republican Leader
Penrose.
Senator Martin, Democratic leader,
said Democrats favored the agreement
because of the desire throughout the
country to see the present session ter
minated.
Senator Penrose advised Senator
Kenyon during the senate's discussion
of the adjournment program that
though not inclined to the voting
agreement the senate would be free
TO take up the campaign publicity bill
if it so desired. Many senators par
ticipated in the discussion of the
agreement in the senate chamber.
The charges made against DR.. Har-
vey w. Wiley, of the bureau of chem
istry, were taken up by the house
committee on expenditures in the de-
partment of agriculture.
1t was declared that the committee
wanted to know who wanted DR..
Wiley fired and why The recon-
mendation that the pure food expert
be dismissed and the reasons there
fcr it is said, will be thoroughly gone
into.
Letters and kilograms expressing
confidence in DR.. Harvey w. Wiley,
the pure food expert of the depart
ment of agriculture, and urging Pres
ident Taft to consider most carefully
the charges made against him by
the personnel board of the department
and indorsed by Attorney General
Wickersham, came pouring into the
White House from all over the coun-
try. Many of the messages were from
personal friends of the president and
of DR.. Wiley and still others from
organizations especially interested in
DR.. Wiley's work. Neither the White
House officials nor DR.. Wiley had any
thing further to say today about the
case although it was up for discus
sion at the regular meeting of the
cabinet.
An investigation of pipe lines, the
rates, classitications and regulations.
was ordered by the interstate COM
merce commission. Informal COM
plants have been made to the COM
mission that certain pipe lines are be-
ing operated in an unlawful manner
and to the prejudice of the interests OF
Oil shippers.
No date has been fixed for the be.
ginning of the inquiry. but already the
commission, through it's agents. has
acquired considerable information re-
lating to the operation of the lines.
Pipe lines, as common carriers, are
subject to the provisions of the inter-
state commerce act. 1t is alleged that
the rates and regulations of many Of
them are discriminatory and unduly
~ SlSi W CGildlu Shippers ana
in direct violation of the law.
The Controller Bay Inquiry.
Washington, d. C. Testimony
preliminary to a thorough probing of
the restoration of the Controller bay
lands to entry and the claims repre-.
sented by Richard S. Ryan, of New
York, said to represent the Guggen-
helm mining syndicate in an effort
to monopolize Alaskan. coal fields, was
taken by the house committee on ex-
penditure in the interior department
The witnesses were Major j. B. Cav
anaugh. assistant to the chief engineer
of the army, and Alfred H. Brooks, in
charge of Alaskan mineral resources
for the United States government sur
vey. who told of topography and coal
resources of the Controller bay region,
and of the permits already granted by
the war department there for trestles
and wharves, etc.
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