The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-14
NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Chairman Underwood SAYS
Tariff Bills Will Be Ready
After Holidays.

FreSlOenC messages ana with still
others to follow.
President Taft will have pretty near
O decade Of work laid out for the
lawmakers If all his suggestions
should be taken into consideration
and passed. They may be considered
but they will not all be worked out
into law. Perhaps the piecemeal mes
sage will become popular in time, but
one short message covering every
thing would find favor if 1t is ever
tried.
Tariff Bills After Holidays.
Chairman Underwood announces he
will be ready with some of the i'm
portant tariff revision bills immedi-
ately after the holidays. He will bring
forth the wool, cotton and steel re-
vision bills in the order named. The
general impression in the House is
that there will be little change, if
any, in the new bills to be presented
by the Democrats of the ways and
means committee from the revision
bills presented at the last session.
The ways and means committee
will meet this week and take up work
on all the important schedules of the
tariff. An innovation will be that the
speaker may attend the sessions of
the committee to give its members
the benefit of his judgment and ex-
perience on tariff legislation
Does Little Work.
The Senate has been marking time
during the past week and will con-
tinue to do so until the house shall
have sent across some bills which
the Senate thinks worth it's time to
consider.
Up to the present the Senate has
been busy considering nominations
by the president and mulling over
the Presidential message on the
trusts and foreign affairs.
Most Of the committees of the
house will get busy this week. The
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce sailed from New York Sun,
day to inspect the Panaam Canal
This committee will have charge of
the fixing of tolls and enacting the
regulations governing the Panama
zone.
"Dollar-a-Day" Pensions.
Advocates of increased pensions for
veterans of the Civil War battled on
the floor of the House in the final
stage Of the fight to pass the Sher-
wood dollar a-day'' pension bill This
bill Is to pass the House before the
end Of the week. There were few
opponents Of the increased pension.
The contest lay between those who
favored the Sherwood bill, which es-
tablishes pension based on length
OF service, and the advocates of the
Sulloway age pension bill, which YVES
passed by the house but failed in the
Senate.
National Capital Brevlties.
The meeting of the Republican Ma
tional Committee this week brought a
large number of politicians to Wash
ington.
The Stanley steel investigating com
mittee resumed it's hearings Monday
on the work of the steel corporation
investigation, and Andrew Carnegie
Is expected to testify before the COM
m1ttee during the week
The first redemption of postal saw
ings bank bonds at par was made,
when Postmaster General Hitchcock
paid 5000 in cash for two 500 bonds
sent from New York.
The United States battleship Maine.
sunk in Havana Harbor in February.
1893, as result of an explosion, was
blown up from the outside. This was
announced by the Naval Board that
has been examining the wreck.
In taking stand against legislation
proposing to allow American ships
free passage through the Panama
Canal, while imposing tolls on fer
eign vessels, Representative Warbur-
ton of Washington comes out as an
enthusiastic advocate of free ship
bill, contending that such a policy
alone will solve the American mer-
chant marine problem.
Postmaster General Hitchcock, in
his annual report, expresses hope that
Congress, now that the postal deficit
has been wiped out, will lose no time
In authorizing the establishment of
parcels post. He rates this as the
most important postal problem to be
considered, and next to it he places
the readjustment of postal rates and
the fixing of the compensation of
railways for carrying the mails.