Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-08-15
WOOL BILL PASSED
e! s'!,'ER TAFT's VETO
LOWER HOUSE OvERRIDEs PRES
dents VETO AND ENACTs
TARIFF MEASURE.
Resume of Congressional Activity
During Present Session. Will
Adjourn Soon.

Washington, Aug. 13.-By the
close vote of IS to 80, the wool tar
iff revision bill was passed by the
house of representatives today over
the presidents veto. The announce
ment was greeted with great con-
fusion. The sugar tariff committee
| met later, but failed to agree. This
will probably end the tariff legisla-
ton, as congress adjourns soon.
Congressman Helgeson Of North
Dakota Joined with the Democrats
in passing the bill. This is stated
to be the first tariff measure passed
over a presidents veto by the low
er house..
The Work of Congress.
Congress has been in session over
$50 days. Since the organization
! of the government there have been
but seven continuous sessions of
greater length. Measured by the
| standard of new laws enacted, this
I one has not been fruitful of much
general legislation; it's interest is
from the standpoint of great issues
fought out.
Political activities have helped to
prolong it; and political differences
between the house and senate, the
one Democratic and the other con-
trolled by an Independent element
of the Republican party, have serv-
ed to tie up appropriation bills and
impede the progress of much gen.
eral legislation.
/ Many huge annual appropriation
bills that should have become effec-
tive July 1 still are at issue between
/ the two houses. Minor legislation
and important questions of general
1 interest are to be laid aside in an
| effort to bring about adjournment
by next Saturday, or at the latest
by the end of the following week.
The more important developments
that have marked the session, many
of them outside the record of gen.
eral legislation, are:
The decision of the senate that
William Lorrimer was not legally
elected senator from Illinois.
The beginning of impeachment
proceedings against Judge Robert
w. Archibald of the commerce court.
Abrogation of the Russian treaty
following the agitation in congress
over the Jewish passport question.
Substantial defeat by amendment
of President Taft's arbitration trea-
ties with Great Britain and France.
Notice by the senate to foreign
nations that the United States will
permit none to acquire naval or
military sites in the western hem
isphere.
Approval of constitutional
amendment for the direct election
of senators.
Decision of both houses in favor
of free passage for American ships
at Panama, in face of Great Brit
aims protest that this would be a
violation of the treaty rights.
Admission of New Mexico and
Arizona to statehood.
Veto by President Taft of tariff
bills: passed by Democratic-Progres
sive alliance.
Creation of a children's bureau
in the department of commerce and
labor.
Increase of civil war pensions
through the Sherwood service PEN
sion law. >
Important questions remain to be
settled this week between the two
houses, or between congress and the
president. Many of them, incor-|
porated in the annual appropriation
bills, are:
Proposed abolishment Of the tar
III commission and commerce court.
Battleshipr building program for
1918.
Reorganization plans for the ar
my, partly rejected by the president
when he vetoed the army appropria-
ton bill.
Establishment Of a parcels post
system. s5s3
Restriction of civil service em-
ployes to seven year terms.
Details of the Panama canal adj