Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-05-02
Congressional Notes

sonal military aid TO succeed Mai
Archibald w. Butt, who lost his life
in the Titanic wreck.
After an hour and half of deba,.
the house by a vote of 24i IN II
passed the Puio resolution conferrirr
more power on the committee on
banking and currency for the invest
cation of the money" trust
A favorable report was made 20 the
house by the insular affairs commit
tee on Representative Jones, bin pro
viding for the gradual taking over by
the Filipinos of the duties OF self gov
eminent, and complete independents,
in 1921.
The committee on patents heard
more arguments for and against On.
Oldfeld bill codifying the patent aw-
The committee on merchant marine
and fisheries reported favorlbly tn.
Wilson bill abolishing involuntary SER
tude Of seamen.
An emergency appropriation Of 500
600 to repair the banks OF the Nilsson.
ri river in Dakota county, Nebraska.
was urged on the house committee ON
rivers and harbors at hearing. Il
was claimed the sewerage system Of
Sioux City, Ia, is endangered
The house will not act on the cen
stitutional amendment for direct cleo
ton of senators until the postofrice
appropriation bill now before it has
been disposed Of.
! AS the first step in the money trust
! investigation, the committee on bank
| ing and currency announced that it
had sent to over 10000 banks re
quest for detailed information on an
phases of their business and their re
lations with other institutions.
The house voted to concur in the
senate amendments to the bill intro.
duced by Representative Cantrill Ct
Kentucky authorizing the director of
the census to take periodically a cen
sus of tobacco. excepting the manu-
featured product.
Hearings on the Standardization
bill, which you'd create a commission
to represent the United States gov
eminent and supervise the govern
ment's participation in the celebration
in 1914-15 of the one hundredth ami
versary of peace among English
speaking peoples, began before the
house foreign affairs committee and
senate foreign relations committee.
On motion of Senator Johnston OF
Alabama the senate adopted reso!u
ton directing the attorney general to
supply the senate with the instruC
ions given by President Roosevelt i'm
1907, concerning the proposed prose
cution of the International Harvester
company and also to give the reasons
for the abandonment of the prusccu
ton.
President Taft will send special
message to the congress urging what
ever emergency appropriation or d.
version of a regular appropriation
made for the Mississippi river is rec
commended to him by Brig. Gen. VII
liam II. BiXby, chief of engineers Of
the army, for number Of years pres
ident of the Mississippi river commits
sion.
Representative Alexander OF Mis-
souri,, chairman of the house commit
tee on merchant marine and fisheries.
offered a bill in the house striking at
two defects in existing law, which,
he believes, are responsible for the
appalling Titanic death list Tn"
measure is likely to be reported by
Mr. AleEander's committee and passed
by the house.
A bill to provide medals OF honor
for Capt. A. II. Rostron and the OIL
ceSs and crew of the Cunard liner
Carpathia, was introduced by Repre-
sentative Francis of Ohio It would
appropriate $1,000 and instruct the d.
rector of the mint to strike OFF suit
able medal to commemorate their he
roism in rescuing the Titanic sur
vivors.
Samuel Untermeyer of New York
has agreed to direct the house inyes-
tigation of the so-called money trust,
If a resolution, offered by Chairman
Pujo of the banking and currency
committee comforting the widest pow
ers of investigation, is adopted
That more than 100000 persons
in the United States will record their
votes for president in the campaign
Of the present year is evident from
, the official statistics OF presidenuai
vote published in the Statistical AO.
stract of the United States, which has
jus been issued by the bureau OF eta
tistics.
Banks holding special deposits oil
the United States must pay the ieu'I
al government 2 per cent instead OF
per cent interest in the future. a
= Plat Andrew, assistant secretary Oh
= the treasury has decided to doup'5
the rate of interest under the author
Ity imposed on the treasury depa''
= ment by congress. The change reI''s
to the stationary deposits distribute.
j among about 1000 banks scatteIt'
over the country, but not to the I'LL.