Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-04-19
: Washington.


Gus agreed upon the initial steps in
tariff revision. BY vote of 12S to
29 it was decided to pass the Cana
dian reciprocity within the next week
without amendment. The following
articles are to be put upon the free
list as sop to the farmers along the
Canadian border who will be adverse.
ly affected by the reciprocity agree
ment, though the effect of the action
will be widespread: Agricultural i'm
plements, including plows, harrows.
reapers, binders, mowers, boots and
shoes, harness and saddlery. barbed,
wire and other fencing, cotton bag
ging and ties, coarse sacks, burlaps,
-four, dressed meats and meat prod
ucts, salt, sewing machines, seedard
and hardwood. Another caucus will
probably be held within the next two
weeks to decide what shall be done
to the woolen and cotton schedules.
A fight on the amendment feature
of the New Mexico constitution will
delay it's ratification in the senate.
Senator Owen announces that he will
introduce a resolution providing that
before the president shall issue proc
lamation admitting New Mexico and
Arizona into the union, the people OF
New Mexico shall vote on proposed
amendment to the constitution. He
contends that, as framed. the consti'
tuition is impossible of popular amend
ment in any important particular.
The Supreme court of the United
States held to be valid the so-called
Grant patent, covering a system OF
setting rubber tires on carriage
wheels.
Representative Clark of Florida Gre
ated some excitement in the house by
moving to abolish additional house po.
sitions amounting to- about $4,000
annually Mr.. Clark proposed to take
from. a dozen or more committees
their assistant clerks and stenogra'
pliers, saying that the committees had
no more use for these employees than
a "hog has for side pocket"
President Taft sent in the nomina.
tions. of Walter Z. Fisher of Illinois
to be secretary of the interior and
Roland P. Faulkner of the District
of Columbia to be assistant director
of the census. They were recess ap.
pointments.
Senator Cuiberson of Texas pre-
sented IN the senate memorial sign.
ed by 500 citizens of Ell Paso, Texas,
who, 'being liberty-loving npple,
request the United States to saae no
steps or interest in the Revolution,
which is being waged in Mexico. The
petition asks that If any steps have
been taken by the United States
which would interfere with the Revo.
luton, that such action be rescinded
at once for the reason that warfare
waged by the insurrectos is a strug.
gle for existence"
It is becoming manif st that con-
gress is facing a stormy session, and
that there can be made no forecast
of the probable legislative results.
That fact that both Of the great po,
litical parties are badly divided is no
longer denied, ard the leaders appear
to have little hope Of restoring any,
thing more than surface harmony,
There are virtually four parties, each
with a large representation, working
at odds in the session. The Republi.
can minority in the house is divided
between Regulars and Insurgents, and
the Democrat wings are the Conserv'
atives and Progressives.
Trouble is brewing for George w.
Wickersham, attorney general in Pres,
ident Taft's cabinet. Official Washing
ton is agog over a resolution intro
duced in the house of representatives
by Representative Rainey Of Illinois,
which is aimed directly at the attor'
ney general. Mr.. Rainey's resolution
calls for an investigation concerning
the proceedings Instituted under the
Sherman antitrust law and subse'
ouently dropped and as to whether
Attorney General Wickersham has
"outside employment" which would
disoualify him for his position in the
presidents cabinet.