Mexico Missouri message., 1912-05-16
Congressional Notes

/ the measure when II was reported to
| the house.
In an effort to stop he proposed ex-
penditure of 100000 600 or S25 .000, 900
| 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 been
, ordered on separate amendments and
/ important new legislation the house
passed the legislative, executive and
( judicial appropriation bill, carrying
upward of S33.00O,OOO.
The river and narbor bill, carrying
new appropriation of SSO00000 for
the Missouri river and increasing the
house appropriation for the lower Mis-
sissippi from $3,500,0O0 to $4,000, 600,
was passed by the senate.
| Solicitor McCabe of the department
Of agriculture attacked the credibiiity
Of witnesses called by Representative
Nelson of Wisconsin in support of mis-
/ 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 intersta'
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 Michi-
gan, Republican. gave notice of mi
nority report and Senator Pomerene
Of Ohio, Democrat, announced he
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 Bellhaven, n.
| c., who told of the operations of ]. o.
| Wright, formerly a drainage engineer
In the department of agriculture, in
| land development deal near Abe
marie. N. c.
Standing in front of the speakers
| desk in the house, Representative
Madden of Illinois (Rep). denounced
published criticism of him by his
colleague, Minority Leader Mann, as
| "a slanderous statement, every word
Of which uttered by him was false, so
far as it concerns the charge that
/ 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 APP
/ preparation bill that will be reported
as soon as the legislative. executive
and judiciary appropriation bill, be-
fore the house. is out of the way. The
| Estopinal amendment adopted by
committee appropriating S1,200,000 for
| two submarines to be stationed to pro-
| tect the passes, is not the only item
| that will be carried in the bill looking
( to the defense OF the mouth.
{ lie WI hllth oiliptHSdAlNl bllA
was passed in the senate, GA to 10,
substantially as framed by the en-
/ ployers' liability commission, and
| amended only TO increase its benefits.
The house committee on banking
and currency voted to report favora-
bly, the bill 10 extend the inquisitOrial
powers of congress to banking institu-
tons.
President TAFT sent to congress a
message approving the plan of the
commission on economy and efficiency
to retire all government employees at
the age of 700 years on annuities
equal to half salary, with a maximum
limit of 5000
| The house committee on eXpendi-
lures in the postoffice department,
which has been investigating the +.
G. Lewis case, will withhold its re-
port to the house until the short SEES
sion of congress next winter.
Upon motion of Representative BaE-
tholdt the house unanimously passed
his resolution extending for two years
the life of the international peace
| commission This is the commission
OF five members, which, under the
Bartholdt resolution, approved June
| 25, 1910, President Taft received au-
thority to appoint.
The United States took its first de-
cisive step toward freeing its only
hostages Of war when the house In
dian affairs committee voted to report
| favorably a bill granting freedom and
! free release" to those Apache Indians
who have been held prisoners for
many years at Fort Sill, Okla.
UNFOLDING the traditional generosity
of congress, when citizens of the
United States are gravely afflicted,
the senate added $4,000 to the bill
passed by the house for relieving the
flood sufferers in the Mississippi val
ley. AS approved in conference be
| tween the two houses it approprlates
s1,239, 1895.
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