The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-06-20
NEWS FROM Our
NATIONAL C''.o,,TaL
House Would Do Away With
Land Office Receivers and
Give Work to Cork. :.

lCc On appropriations, III lTdulIHS IuS
sundry civil bill, abolished the Office
of receiver and transferred the duties
of that office to the register. This
was in accordance with the recon-
mendation that has been made many
times by the general land office.
Representatives from the public
land states fought in vain in the house
against the provisions of the bill re-
lating to the land service. The resolu-
ton to abolish the offices of receivers
of public money and substitute the
appointment OF chief clerks for land
offices went through under a sharp
fire. Charges that special land agents
abused their positions failed to cut the
appropriation of 100000 to prosecute
depredations. Chairman Fitzgerald,
Of the appropriation committee, de-
Tended the bill against attacks led by
Representatives Mondell, Hawley, and
Burke.
Disagree Over Rivers And Harbors.
The conference committee on the
river and harbor bill is deadlocked
and after a spirited row adjourned for
10 days. Threats are being made by
house members that the whole bill will
be defeated unless the senate recedes
on some of it's larger amendments
One amendment which brought
about serious disagreement was the
senate's increase in the appropriation
for the Cello canal from 100000 to
100000. The house conferees are in
sisting that they will not stand for
this increase, but senates members of
the conference insist that this and all
other increases are justified by the
recommendations of the army engin-
GERS, and that no increases have been
made that were not recommended by
the war department.
1t is understood that none of the
other northwestern amendments is at
tackled by the house, Cello being the
largest increase made in that section
Committee Will Investigate Hanford.
By unanimous vote the house di-
rected a subcommittee of the judici-
airy committee to go to Seattle, Wash,
and other places to Investigate the
charges against Judge Hanford, of the
federal bench, which have arisen from
his decision in the OLSON socialist cit
izenship case.
Chairman Clayton named the follow
ing subcommittee to go to Seattle:
Representatives Graham, Illinois,
chairman; Higgins, of Connecticut,
and Mccoy of New Jersey.
Timber Industry Ranks Third.
Lumber and timber manufacturers
rank third in value among the pro-
ducts of the industries of the United
States, according to the 1912 statistics
made public by Director Durand.
The census figures show that there
were 4O,671 lumber and timber es
Establishments and 784,989 persons en-
gagged in the industry.
The value of products were $1,156,-
128,747 The value added by manu-
facture, which is the difference be-
tween cost of materials and value of
products, was $648,O11,16S.
Louisiana led all other states in
number of wage earners, 46,072, and
Washington ranked first for value of
products, s89,154,S25, and value added
by manufacture, $52,275,954.
National Capital Brevities.
The president, in a special message
to congress asked for an appropriation
of 100000 to care for volcano victims
near Kodiak, Alaska.
The house has refused to appropri-
ate more than $4,000 for preparation
and mounting of skins collected by
Theodore Roosevelt on his African
hunting trip.
Petitions favoring an amendment to
the constitution enabling women to
vote, signed by 1852 persons, were
presented in the house by Congress-
man Berger of Wisconsin.
The United States bureau of educa-
ton, using the preliminary figures OF
the 1910 census, reports that the pro-
portion of illiteracy in the United
States is ITO per 10000.
Both the senate and house have
agreed to the conference report of the
army appropriation bill, carrying
which will legislate Ma
jor General Wood out of his office as
chfef of staff on March 4, 1913.
The president has vetoed the army
bill He returned the
bill to congress with message 1ndl-
eating his disapproval of the leglsia-
tive provision which would GUST Ma
Lr-General Wood from the offlce OF
next March 4.
BY defeat of an amendment In the
senate to make provision in the legls-
lot;xo oxoou+ivo and iudiCial apprO-