The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-05-04
HOUSE STARTS ON
;. Free & LIST IS BILL
viii Meet One Hour Earlier
Until Farmers Fill is Dis
posed Of.

aside the discharge calendar on
Monday and to meet an hour earlier
each day until the bill is voted on.
The Democratic leaders are anxious
to hasten the free list bill so that
the ways and means committee may
be free to devote it's tim to the re-
vision of textile schedules. While
this work Is progressing it is prob
able the House will act upon the re-
port OF the territories committee on
statehood for Arizona and New Mex
leo.
Among the important articles
placed on the free list by the bill Of
fered by Oscar Underwood, Demo
cratic leader of the house, are plows,
tooth and disk harrows, headers, har-
vesters. reapers, agricultural drills
and planters, mowers, horserakes,
cultivators, threshing machines, farm
wagons and all other agricultural i'm
plements.
Wire for baling hay, straw and
other agricultural products
Grain. buff, split, rough or sole
leather, band, bend or betting leather,
boots and shoes made wholly or in
chief value of leather, harness, sad
dies and saddlery, and leather cut
shoe uppers or vamps or other forms
suitable for conversion into manufac-
tured articles.
Barbed fence wire and other kinds
of wire suitable for fencing, includ-
Ing wire staples.
Beef, veal, mutton, lamb, pork and
meats of all kinds, fresh. sailed,
picked. dried, smoked, dressed or un-
dressed bacon, hams, shoulders, lard,
lard compounds and lard substitutes;
and sausage and sausage meats
Buckwheat -four, corn meal, wheat
-four, rye flour, bran, middlings and
other offals of grain, oatmeal and
rolled oats, and all prepared cereal
foods.
Timber, hewn, sided or squared,
shingles, laths. fencing posts, sawed
boards, planks, deals and other lum.
Der, rough or dressed.
House Expands to 433 Members.
A bill providing for the enlarge
ment OF the national House of Repre-.
sentatives from 391 to 433 members
and the apportionment of three mem
bers to the different states on the
basis OF the population shown by the
recent federal census passed the
House after vain efforts of members
OF both political parties to amend it.
The proposed size of the House is
identical with that provided for in the
Crumpacker bill passed by the House
at the last session of Congress, but
not acted upon by the Senate. The
bill leaves to the legislatures of the
different states the power to rear
range the congress onal districts in
their respective states on the new
population basis of one member for
each 211,877 inhabitants.
Pinehot Men Now in Control.
1t is pointed out here that since
the first OF the year there has been
practically clean sweep in the in
terror department of all the pro- Bal
finger adherentg and that they have
been replaced by progressive, pro-
Pinchot conservationists. Secretary
Ballinger was succeeded by Walter
Fisher. associated with Pinchot In the
conservation project; Assistant Sec
rotary Frank Pierce will be replaced
by Samuel Adams, an ardent conser.
vattonist Of the progressive type; tie
successor OF Oscar Lawlor,- assistant
attorney-general for the department,
is Charles w. Cobb of San. Fran.
cisco. former law partner of Francis
J. Heney; E. c. Finney, assistant to
the secretary.
Only Don McCarr, formerly Balm
gers private secretary, and Land
Commissioner Bennett now remain.
McCarr, it is announced, will shortly
be transferred to job in the field in
the far west with the Indian service.
Bennett is expected to resign shortly.
National Capital Brevities.
With the declaration that the postal
savings banks had made good. off,
ciais Of the postoffice department an.
nounced that the system would be
speedily extended to the larger cities.
An exodus of Republican employees
OF the House has begun and MANY
who have been fixtures for years at
the capital will receive notice of re-
movaf.
President Taft has begun a can
vass Of the Senate situation with ref.
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