Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-02-22
Congressional Notes

signees and bankers appealed to the
senate Interstate commerce commit
tee to recommend legislation making
railroads absolutely liable for state
ments in bills of lading.
Doubt as to the legality of an exec
ntive order signed by Theodore Roose-
welt two days before he left the White
House has caused the transfer back
from the forest service to the depart
ment of the interior of more than
2,500,0 900 acres of Indian forest land
in California, New Mexico and Ari-
IONA. {,
The war department decided to
deal drastically with Lieut.. Fields.
who, made the mistake of crossing
into Juarez from Ell Paso and nearly
precipitated an international clash.
Adjt. Gen. Fred c. A~insworth, who
was relieved of his office on charges
assumed to be those of conduct preju-
dicial to good order and discipline,
was placed on the retired list on his
own application.
In the army appropriation bill
passed by the house a saving of
$3,500,000 by comparison with the
same bill as enacted last year, is &C
complished. The appropriation is
s92, 000,O 0
In an executive session of the sen
ate the nomination Of Myron T. Her
rick of Ohio as ambassador to France
was confirmed. The vote was about
three to one, fewer than fifteen votes
being recorded in opposition.
Representative Hamlin introduced
a bill to prohibit the interstate ship
ment of convict-made goods or pro-
duct of mines in which convict labor
Is employed.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nominations of George NJ. Bour-
quin to be United States district
Judge of Montana, and of Lockwell J..
Flint to be United States marshal for
the Western district of Wisconsin.
Negotiations will begin soon for a
new treaty with Russia, to replace
the convention of 1882 recently abro-
gated, the operation of which will ex-
pire at the end of 1912.
The Honduran government assured
the state department that it would re-
lmburse the Valentine syndicate, a
United States corporation, for any
damage to the corporations railroad
and wharf properties.
The high cost of living is to be in
v~estigated by the department of jus
tice to determine in what measure it
is due to trusts or other combina-
tions.
Senator Bourne of Oregon, chair
man of the senate committee on post
offices and post roads, announced his
opposition to any present effort to es-
tablish penny letter postage.
Quarters for troops in the larger
cities instead of at the present army
posts were urged before the house
committee on war department ex-
penditures by Maj. George H, Shell
ton of the bureau Of insular affairs.
Correspondence intended to prove
that the Panama revolution had been
planned in New York and Washing
ton was produced before the house
committee IN foreign affairs by Hen
ry N. Hall Of the New York World.
The Sherwood so-called "dollar-a-
day" pension bill was rejected by the
senate committee on pensions and an.
other measure which would involve
an annual expenditure of $24, 600, 900
proposed as a substitute by Senator
Smoot of Utah was adopted.
Representative Dyer Of st. Louis
introduced a bill appropriating $780,
900 for the erection of a memorial in
st. Louis to the memory of Gen. Will
liam Tecumseh Sherman of civil war
fame. Provision is made that st.
Louis donate a site and obligate itself
to assume responsibility for the main
tenance and care of the monument
and grounds.
House elections committee No. 2
will meet February 20 when Chair
man Hamill expects to dispose of the
Maurer- Bartholdt contest and set
dates for hearing argument in the
Gill-Catlin and Kinney-Dyer cases
all of st. Louis. !,
Trade between Porto Rico and Con-
tinental United States in the calendar
year just ended amounted to 10000
900, or eighteen times as much as in
1897, the year preceding the annexa-
ton of that island by the United
States.
Orders for FIVE %aeroplanes Of the
latest type for the army aviation
school were placed by Brig. Gen.
James Allen, chief officer of the sig.
nal corps. These machines are to be
delivered at College Park, Nd, some
time in May or June.
The house committee on banking
and currency, which vas directed by
the recent Democratic caucus to in
vestigate the money trust" appeared
before the committee on rules to help
TO draft a resolution under which the
inquiry is to be made.
Postmasters at postal savings de-
%positories may accept deposits from
anybody, the regulation restricting
depositors to the patrons of a partic-
ular office being 'rescinded in an or
der issued by Postmaster General
Hitchcock.
An order was issued by the inter
state commerce commission vacating
the suspension Of an advance of the
freight rates on bituminous coal from
the fields Of Franklin, Williamson and
Saline counties, Illinois, to Chicago
and points beyond, particularly Mil
Waukee. Wis.