Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-09
Congressional Notes

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preparation bills and other prospective
legislation probably before July 1.
Representative Hull (Dem.) intro
duced a bill intended OF prevent gov
eminent employees from participating
in presidential campaigns or from
having official connection with any
organization or movement looking to
such an election.
Democratic members of the senate
committee on finance practically
agreed to favor a reduction of SO 1-3
per cent from the present tariff on
sugar and voted to abolish the Dutch
standard and differential on sugar.
The house of representatives de-
clined, by an overwhelming majority,
to cut down the mileage allowance to
members. In a debate on the econ
omy program, upon which the house
has entered, Representative Page of
North Carolina, introduced an amend
ment to the pending legislative bill
to reduce the mileage from 20 cents
to 5 cents.
William Jennings Bryan, just re-
turned from the South, visited the
capital and conferred with Speaker
Champ Clark and other Democratic
leaders.
The Magdalena Bay incident, which
recently received much attention in
an nopa+o uta broY,uht nm in tho
house in a resolution by Representa-
tive Ranter Of California, directing
the house foreign affairs committee to
learn of any effort by foreign govern
ments to acquire any concessions or
grants upon the western shores of
Mexico, cor in any Of the CULTS or
bays adjoining the west Mexican
coast"
BY failing to report an a%ppropria-
ton for the recently created commerce
court the houes committee on appro-
priations sought to abolish that tri-
bu9a1.
Representative Clayton of Alabama,
chairman OF the judiciary committee,
introduced a house joint resolution to
provide an amendment to the consti-
tuition fixing the term of office Of the
president of the United States at six
years and making him ineligible for
a second term.
A resolution ordering the recommit-
tai to the judiciary committee of the
workman's compensation bill has been
presented in the senate by Senator
Culberson of Texas.
President Taft signed the Percy res
olution placing $1,000, 900 Immediately
at the disposition of the Mississippi
river commission for repairing and
Strengthening the leyees within the
commissions jurisdiction.
The house aided the national good
roads movement by passing a pro-
vision in the ~postoffice appropriation
bill which would grant a subsidy to
all highways used in the rural free
delivery mail service.
The senate committee on commerce
and the house committee on merchant
marine are considering de-
signed to insure the safety of ocean
traffic in the light of the Titanic dis
aster.
The senate committee probably will
recommend a bill to require VIC wire
less telegraph operators on all ocean
passenger craft of more than 5000
tons.
The senate adopted the Culberson
resolution calling for a full report on
the contributions made to the national
committees of all parties in the presi-
Dental and congressional campaigns
of 1904 and 1908.
The governments right to u in
1908 to set aside the ~conveyances by
Seminole freedmen Of their allotted
Oklahoma land was sustained by the
supreme court of the United States az
: to homestead land and as to surplus
: land of freedmen minors. 1t denied
the right to sue as to surplus land o.
adults, who sold after 1904.
j Because of criticisms Of his recita
ton to the senate of a political par
ody on the Apostles Greed Senator
Williams of Mississippi ordered tht
parody be stricken from his speech il
the permanent copies of the Congress
1 sional Record.
A broad anti-injunction bill, such
measure as has long been advocated
e by labor unions throughout the coun
s try, was favorably reported to tn
House by Chairman Clayton of the jr
dietary committee. The bill provide
e that injunctions in labor disputes shal
only be issued after the defendant
o have had opportunity to make answe
to the complaint against them.
Representative Jackson of Kansas
: one of the new Sunfiower State insul
gents in the house, has introduced
bill providing for the regulation {
fees by the court of claims in a
cases coming before that tribuna
Mr.. jackson would limit all fees to
4 maximum Of 10 per cent, except !
y cases where the amount involved
!. less than $500, when he would allo'
y q fee of 70 per cent. The bill also pr,
e yides that attorneys fees may be pal
by the court as a part Of the settl
ment of cases
The house Of representatives Q
ss dered an investigation Of the condu'
d. Of Judge Robert w, Archibald Of Il
a. commerce court, to determine whet'
RS err or not he should be impeached {
8, charges that he has used his office
procure favors from railroads.
The house passed the joint resol
tion appropriating $697,179 for the 7
70 lief Of food sufferers in the Mississi
re nj and Ohio vaIIayc M