Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-23
Congressional Notes

be In session until September l or
later.
The Panama canal bill, providing
for the administration of the canal
onez and the operation of the canal it.
self, was introduced in the house.
Arrangements are being made for a
conference of all representatives and
senators from states in the Mississip-
pi and Ohio river valleys affected by
the food to arrive at an understand
ing as 70 what legislation is required
to meet the emergency and afford a
reasonable measure of protection
against a repetition of the flood.
Representative Russell of Missouri
introduced a bill appropriating $4,000
900, to be expended under the direc-
ton Of the Mississippi river commits
sion in protecting the levees and i'm
proving the channel of the Mississippi
river between Cape GiraPdeau and
Donaldsonville, La, by revetment Of
caving banks.
The senate passed without debate
the house bill changing the date of
issuance of the cotton acreage report
by the department of agriculture to
the first Monday in July of each year.
Heretofore the law required that it
be issued in June.
The house committee on expendi.
lures in the agricultural department
postponed indefinitely action on the
Nelson resolution to investigate the
meat inspection service.
Conferees of the senate and house
on the army appropriation bill have
reached an agreement IN the ques-
tons in dispute between the houses,
President Taft has RENTED the
fines imposed upon eight defendants
found guilty of might riding" and pre-
venting the shipment of tobacco in in
terstate commerce. The defendants
were John Steers, Perry Stimson, Jer-
ry S. Carlton, Hugh B. Conrad, R. B.
Conrad, Fred X. Conrad, John Cald-
well and A. c. Webb, all Of Kentucky.
The preliminary hearing before the
house committee on expenditures in
the department of agriculture on the
Nelson resolution directing a thor
ough investigation of the federal meat
inspection service narrowly missed
winding up in a scrap" between Rep
resentative Nelson Of Wisconsin and
Solicitor McCabe of the department.
The news of the death of Thonas
E. Kinney of st. Louis, who was CON
testing the seat occupied in the house
by Representative Dyer, will have no
bearing on the decision of the com
mittee on elections, which has the
contest under Consideration. Repre-
sentative Dyer received assurances
which led him to believe the commit
tee is unanimously in his favor.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh forwarded to congress an esti-
mate for $4,000 to provide medical
and hospital supplies and services for
the relief Of sufferers from the food
In the Mississippi and Ohio rivers
valleys and to reimburse the medical
department of the army for the value
Of supplies issued and expenditure
made toward such relief.
That the charges filed against Rob
ert W. Archibald, judge of the Com
merce Court, were the outgrowth of
a deliberately laid trap to discredit
the jurist and unfit him to sit upon
the federal bench was the statement
made by Allen v. Cockrell, private
secretary to Interstate Commerce Com
missioner Meyer, before the House
Judiciary Committee.
j. w. Burroughs, a former Federal
meat inspector, testified before the
Moss Investigating Committee that
Philadelphia packers violated the law
by refusing inspectors access to Ger
tain parts Of their plants.
Whether any movement will he
made by the United States authorities
to %apprehend Emilio Vasquez Gomez
on a charge of violating the neutrality
laws was not known at the State De-
partment. 1t was declared this was
a matter for the Department Of JUS
tice.
Secretary Meyer has made public
correspondence between himself and
Gov. Colquitt of Texas, showing IL
was the governor who requested the
designation of Miss Claudia Lyon,
daughter of Cecil Lyon, national COM
mitteeman from Texas, to act as
sponsor at the launching Of the bat
tleship Texas, May IS. next.
Apropos OF the Neson resolution
demanding ar investigation of the
federal meat inspection service, DR..
A. D. Melvin, chief of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, which conducts the
inspection work, has issued a state
ment in reply to the charge that dis
eased" meat is passed by the inspec-
tors for human food.
President Taft, acting on the sug-
gestion of J. w. Hamilton Of st. Paul,
has Joined in a movement to make
general throughout the country the
wearing OF a sprig of evergreen or a
knot of the national colors on next
Memorial Day, May 30.
The United States has made strong
representations to the government Of
Ecuador that 1t must settle with the
American owned railway running be-
tween Quito, the capital, and Guaya-
gull, for services rendered as well as
the ~subvention the government al
lows.
The senate adopted a resolution di-
recting the secretary Of state to sub
NIT copies Of all letters from the
American syndicate concerning the
proposed sale of Mexican lands at