Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-08-08

Britain, made at Client in 1874, was
fayorably reported to the senate by
Senator Root from the committee on
foreign relations.
The construction of a Lincoln-Lee-
Grant memorial in Washington at an
expense of $1.250,00 is proposed in
a bill introduced In the house by Rep
r~esentative Pou of North Carolina. 1t
would appropriate $250,O00 for the
erection of a statue to Gen. Robert
E. Lee, directly opposite the statue
now being erected to the memory of
former President Grant.
The house passed, 1856 to Y, the cot
ton tariff revision bill, Which the Dem
ocratic majority claims will reduce
the duties on cotton and cotton manu-
features by approximately 21 per cent.
A congressional recall of judges
Of the inferior courts of the United
States is proposed in a constitutional
amendment which Representative
Cordell Hull of Tennessee offered in
the house and which was referred to
the judiciary committee.
Representative Levy of New York
introduced a bill in the house author
izing the secretary of the treasury to
use at his discretion the moneys in
the treasury general fund, to reduce
the tariff or articles of general con
sumption, and so reduce the cost of
living.
The restitution OF American refu-
gees from Mexico, now quartered at
Ell Paso, resulted in the passage by
the senate of a resolution authorizing
the war department to expend $780,
900 in transporting them to such
points in the United States as they
wish to reach.
A bill by Representative Stanley to
define more specifically the term mis-
branded" as used in the pure food
laws, was reported favorably by the
house commerce commission.
The senate, AZ to II, passed w
President Taft's veto a bill to reim-
burse those who furnished labor and
supplies to contractors on the Cor
bett tunnel in the Shoshone, Wyo., IT.
rigation project, to the extent of $42,-
600. Democrats, progressive Repub-
licans and regular Republicans from
Western States voted for it.
The movement to celebrate the one
hundredth anniversary of the treaty
OF Client was advanced by the senat
forcing relations committee.
The house by a vote of 172 to Sc
refused to accept the senate La Fol-
lette wool bill as a substitute for the
house bill, but agreed to a conference
if the senate should ask for one
The formation of a Democratic-Pro-
gressive Republican coalition in the
senate and . tentative agreement be-
tween house and senate leaders re-
suited in an agreement that will pro-
vide speedy action on pending tariff
measures. Agreements are in sight
on the iron and steel revision bill, the
wool revision bill and the excise tax
bill. On the sugar tariff measure an
agreement is hardly expected at this
session.
Representative Pou Of North Caro-
lima introduced a bill designed to OBJ
literate the line of division between
the North and the South. He would
have congress appropriate $3.50, 900 for
a memorial statue to the memory of
Gen. Robert E. Lee, locating it imme-
diately across Pennsylvania avenue
from the statue of Gen. Grant, now in
process of erection.
The house passed a bill introduced
by Robinson of Arkansas authorizing
Hot Springs to construct buildings
for fire apparatus on two government
lots.
House leaders who have been hold
ing out against battle ships capitu-
lated and gave assurances they would
stand for one large d~readnought.
The ways and means committee
Democrats voted in favor OF passing
a cotton bill and sending it over to
the Senate and to reject the senate
amendments to the excise tax and
wool bills and ask for a conference.
Senator Lodge introduced a bill
making it unlawful to make fake"
photographs in which the president is
put in the attitude of shaking hands
with or commingling with persons.
Some photographers have been offer
ing inducements to visitors to have
their photographs taken shaking
hands with Mr.. Taft.
The house adopted a resolution call
ing upon the secretary Of commerce
and labor to inquire into the different
elements of cost and profit included
in the present high price of anthracite
coal.
When the Panama canal bill vas
taken up Senator McCumber Of North
Dakota insisted the United States is
In honor bound to observe treaty obi
cations and admit the ships Of foreign
nations to the use of the canal on
equal terms with American shipping.
Senator Bradley of Kentucky and
Senator Massey Of Nevada took the
opposite view.
Another Lincoln memorial was pro
posed in the house by Representative
Taylor Of Colorado, who introduced
q bill to have the federal government
construct a national highway from
Boston to San Francisco by way Of
New York, Washington, Springfield,
Ill. and Denver.
With all his old time force and
yigor, former Speaker Cannon over
turned the Democratic majority and
forced the retention in the sundry
civil appropriation bill of a senate
amendment, appropriating 100000
for additional EMPLOYEES in the PEN