Mexico Missouri message., 1912-05-30
Congressional Notes

GIhNue, OItSuu.
The president sent to the senate the
correspondence relating to the alleged
efforts of the Japanese to get foot.
hold in the locality of Magdalena Bay,
called for by resolution Of Senator
Lodge, May 1G.
The senate adopted an increase of
s12, 100000 to the annual budget for
payment Of pensions carried in the
pension appropriation bill, as II came
from the house. This addition, 1t was
explained, was made necessary by the
Sherwood jollar.a-day pension bill un-
der which more than 10000 applica-
tons have been received at the Pen
sion bureau. Next year, the commit
tee explained, It will be necessary to
increase the total about s35,O00,O00.
Lafayette Young and Senator Ken
yon filed preliminary statements Of
their campaign expense for senator
from Iowa. Young reports he received
no contributions from any person. cor
poration or representative or agent of
a corporation and expended S3,456.33,
all out of the proceeds Of the Des
Moines Daily Capital, of which he is
owner and publisher. Senator Ken
yon received contributions from per-
sonal friends to the extent of $500
and expended s1,96G.2S. including rail.
road and hotel bills.
BY a vote of l47 to 1875, the house
finally adopted the Doremus amend
ment permitting American ships en-
gagged in the coastwise trade to pass
through the Panama canal without
paying tolls. The bill also provides
lower tolls for American ships en-
gagged in the foreign trade. Ships
owned or controlled directly or indi-
rectly by competing lines of railroad
are prohibited passing through the
canal.
Abrogation OF the Morua law for
bidding the organization of the ne.
groes into a political party is claimed
by the negroes in Cuba as a basis for
their movement, according to state de-
partment advice.
In a speech in the senate in opposi-
tion to the houste steel bill Senator
McCumber of North Dakota. a mem
uted the unpopularity of the Payne
Aldrich bill and the subsequent cleo.
ton Of a democratic majority in the
house TO the split of the republican
party and the opposition of the press
because that measure did not provide
for the free admission of print paper.
A speakership in the hand is worth
two presidential booms in the bush,
Champ Clark has decided, and he will
accordingly file his petition for nomi-
nation for congress in the Ninth Mis-
souri, district. This decision was
reached by the speaker today, follow.
ing conference Of the Missouri demo-
Gratis in congress, which included the
two senators and all of the house mem.
bers except Shackleford and Rucker,
who were out of the city.
Summer has arrived in earnest in
Washington. Its official appearance
was heralded when Speaker Champ
Clark tucked huge handkerchief I'M
der his chin TO save a whiting collar,
discarding the dignity Of the speakers
rostrum. Uncle Joe Cannon thereupon
released the bottom button OF his vest,
the only one he ever has buttoned.
and Representative Paine, who weighs
about $50 pounds, and a dozen others
followed suit, some of the members
displaying gorgeous-hued suspenders.
The senate committee on finance,
to which has been referred the Pujo
bill to amend the banking laws and
give congress visitorial powers over
the national banks, has not yet taken
steps considering the measure.
An attack on present Legislative
tendencies was delivered in the SEN
ate by Senator Gallinger during de-
bate on the bill passed by the house
extending the eight.hour law to labour
on government contracts.
Senator Winthrop Murray Crane Of
Massachusetts publicly announced
that he would not be a candidate for
reelection to the senate. His term
will expire March 3, 1913.
Representative Robinson of Arkan-
sas, who recently captured the guber-
material nomination, introduced a bill
appropriatiRg $4,000 for new free
bathhouse on the government reser-
walton at Hot Springs. Robinson says
Hat Springs should have a commod-
ious, modern, free bathhouse for in
digent persons, and thinks $4,000 is
none too much to pay for it.
The Senate Finance Committee, by
party vote, decided upon an adverse
report upon the wool bill as it came
from the house.
After a bitter fight the house passed
a bill placing the LOCALIZED Philippine
friar lands under the Jurisdiction Of
the Philippine government, and sub
ject to the land laws as framed for the
archipelago.
By vote of 100 TO go the house
went on record in favor of free pas
sage for American ships in the coast.
wise trade using the Panama Canal.
Many amendments we're voted down,
showing that party lines were oblit-
Grated.
A bill of Senator Clarke OF Arkansas
passed the senate IL authorizes the