The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-05-11
RECIPROCITY next IN
SENATE COMMITTEE
After Farmers Free List Bill
House Will Act on Wool
Schedule.

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this week with many subjects. Tar
lift tinkering will have a change OF
scene, the Senate committee on fin
ance taking up the Canadian Reciproc-
ity bill with hearings expected to
continue throughout the week.
After the farmers free list bill is
passed, tariff debaters in the House
will rest from their efforts while
members of the ways and means COM
mittee behind closed doors prepare
for the next assault on the Payne
Aldrich bill. Their center of attack
Is to be on the wool schedule.
Among the important matters on
the Senate program are the election
OF president pro tempore to succeed
Senator Frye; the proposed investi-
cation of Senator Lerimer's right to
remain in his seat and the resolution
providing for the popular election OF
Senators.
Mexican Intervention improbable.
Stories that General Leonard Wood,
chief of staff of the army, at an in
formal gathering of members of the
House committee on military affairs,
expressed the opinion that interven-
ton in Mexico will be inevitable and
that 1t would take 100000 American
troops to patrol the troubled republic,
brought no little chagrin to admins
tration circles.
Official denials that Intervention
would come were issued from several
sources, and care was taken to ex-
press anew the administrations posi-
ton that Intervention is a most re-
mote possibility.
Free List Bill Debate Ends.
A handful of faithful members of
the House witnessed the termination
OF memorable debate on the tariff
free list bill. The debate was note
worthy because Of the number of
speeches and the small membership
present. From the opening of the
general discussion there was no re-
striction on the speaking.
Uncle Joe Cannon, voicing the pro-
test of the Republican protective
stand-patters against the Democratic
tariff revision, predicted calamity and
dire disaster as the result of the
work of this session of Congress; de-
clared that wages were going down,
and scored the Canadian reciprocity.
Change Inauguration Day.
A change of the date of the inaugu-
ration of the President is assured of
ratification by the GID Congress, and
1t Is not improbable similar action
Will be taken to change the date of
holding national elections. The pro-
posed amendment of the constitution
OF the United States changes the date
OF the inauguration from March 4 to
the last Thursday in April. The date
OF holding national elections would
be changed from the first Tuesday in
November to the first Tuesday in
April preceding the expiration of the
terms of the President and members
Of Congress.
National Capital Brevities.
Universal woman's suffrage was ad.
vocated in a joint resolution intro.
duced by Representative Mondell of
Wyoming.
Final hearing of the evidence to de-
termine whether the CUNNINGHAM land
claims shall be granted started Mon.
Gay IN the office of Fred bennett,
commissioner of the general land of.
fee.
Second Assistant Postmaster Cen.
eral Stewart appeared before the
House committee on civil service in
opposition to the Lloyd bill. giving
government employees the right to af.
hllate with trades unions.
Free sugar was the burden of a
speech delivered in the House by
Warburton of Washington.
For the first time in nine years the
original declaration of independence
and constitution of the United States
was recently taken from their abid.
Ing place and opened to the light of
day. Secretary of State Knox exam.
1ned them and found them in as good
condition as when they were placed
In the case especially designed for
their custody.
President Taft designated Secretary
OF Commerce and Labor Nagel and
Chandler P. Anderson, counsellor Of
the State Department, to confer with
representatives of Great Britain. Rms
STA and Japan, and to negotiate and
sign treaty for the protection and