Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-16
Congressional Notes

In an effort TO stop he proposed eS
penditure of $40, 900, 600 or 25,OOO,p0O
for use Of the public roads for rural
mail carriers as inserted in the house
postoffice appropriation bill, Senator
Gore has introduced an amendment
to the postoffice appropriation bill to
be offered as a substitute for the
house good roads provisions.
After several roll calls had e
ordered on separate amendments and
important new legislation" the house
passed the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill, carrying
upward of $33, 000, 900.
The river and harbor bill, carrying
a new appropriation of $SO0,O0OO Tor
the Missouri river and increasing the
house appropriation for the lower Mis-
sissippi from $500, 600 to $6,OOO,OOO
was passed by the senate.
Solicitor McCabe of the department
Of agriculture attacked the credibihty
of witnesses called by Representative
Nelson of Wisconsin in support OF his
resolution calling for an investigation
of the meat inspection service before
the house committee on expenditures
in the department of agriculture.
The senate committee on interstat~
commerce divided into three factions
on the merits of a uniform bill OF lad
ing. Senator Clapp, chairman OF the
comomittee, submitted the majority
report. Senator Townsend Of Michl-
gan, Republican, gave notice OF a mi
nority report and Senator Pomerene
of Ohio, Democrat, ~nnounce ne
would submit still another minority
report.
That neither early adjournment nor
a. recess of congress during the nation
al convention period is among the
; probabilities was made clear In the
senate at the beginning OF the discus
, sion of the metal tariff bill.
The Florida everglades investigation
was resumed before the Moss commit
tee of the house, with the testimony
= of Edward Wilkinson of ellhaven N
. c.. who told Of the operations OF J. w.
Wright. formerly a drainage engineer
in the department of agriculture, IN a
land development deal near Abe
marie, N. c.
- Standing in front of the speakers
:. desk in the house, Representative
Madden of Illinois (Rep.), denounced
:, a published criticism of MIN by MS
:, colleague, Minority Leader Mann as
y ga slanderous statement, every WORD
- of which uttered by him was false, SO
far as it concerns the charge that L
- had entered into any plot"
Adequate provision for the protec-
ton of the mouth of the Mississippi,
which means the whole MISSISSIPPI
- valley, will be made in the naval ap-
propriation bill that will be reported
o. as soon as the legislative, executive
=. and judiciary appropriation bill, be-
fore the house, is out of the way. Inc
Estopinal amendment adopted n>
~ committee appropriating $l,2OO,ooo 1oi
~ two submarines to be stationed to pro
tect the passes, is not the only item
that will be carried in the bill looklnl
to the defense of the mouth.
U.s. The workmen's compensation bill
VI was passed in the senate, "a to 10
gu substantially as framed by the EN-
blowers liability commission, ant
lie amended only to increase its dement's
The house committee on banking
and currency voted to report favora
bly, the bill 10 extend the inqulsitoria
powers of congress to banking instiIV
tons.
President Taft sent to congress
message approving the plan OF IN
~ commission on economy and efficlenc
49, to retire all government employees Z
Iis the age of 700 years on annuitie
equal to half salary, with a maxlmul
limit of $500.
The house committee on expend
lures in the p~ostoffice departmel
1. which has been investigating the
the q Lewis case, will withhold its +
IN port to the house until the snort Sc
$685. sion of congress next winter
ted Upon motion of Representative Ba
tholdt the house unanimously pass
nan his resolution extending for two yea
v the life o. the international pea
commission. This is the commlssi
lme. Of five members, which, under t
rms BarthoIdt resolution, approved Ju
Fri Is. 1910, President Taft received 9
vase thority to appoint.
The United States took its first
cisive step toward freeing its OF
hostages of war when the mouse
). dian affairs committee voted to rep'
-. - -. - A111 nyrnnttnU Nfrnp60m a
all free release" to those Apache lnola
r.old who have been held prisoners
lives many years at Fort Sill, Okla.
UNFOLDING the traditional generos
nj congress. when citizens OF
United States are gravely atflict
o the senate added $4,000 to the
raar passed by the house for reviewing
49, flood sufferers in the Mississippi
: ~ lev. AS approved in conference
: tween the two houses 1t appropria
s. ,2S9,179.65.
rip. The senate passed a bill autho
ilenn ing the government of the Philip
from Islands to issue bonds to secure III
es, a for mort and harbor works, bridi
was roads, buildings for provincis4 and
or 70 nicipal schools, court houses, pf
institutions and other public impr'
ments.
The interstate commerce com
assist haorino n represe
y ~ tiyes of the Standard Oil comp
Y that anu ow.ont 30 tba iurisdictio
the pelns ns,sa;on oyer the nine line