The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-06-06
Congressional Notes

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/ structures.
Edward E. Lcomls, vice.president
and general manager of the Delaware,
| LaCkawanna & Western railroad, de.
manded that the house judiciary com
mttee clear his name of vicious
/ lies" which he said appeared in the
! testimony concerning him in the in.
/ vcstlgation OF charges against Judge
/ r. W. Archibald OF the commerce
! court.
/ The senate committee on finance
/ voted to place in the legislative, exec
utiye and judicial appropriation bill
/ the appropriation for the commerce
court eliminated by the house.
The operations of the so.called cof.
/ fee trust would be put under the in
terstate commerce laws If Il bill intro
duccd by Representative Norris of Ne.
braska should become law
The house judiciary committee
made a call on William Lamb of Chi.
cago and other attorneys in the New
d
Archibald Of the court of commerce
gave them opportunity to reply to the
additional brief" submitted in that
| case by Helm Bruce OF Louisville,
counsel for the Louisville g. Nashville
railway. {
The senate rejected by u to GO he
| Cummins' substitute to the house iron
and steel bill, which would have pro.
yidcd for free ores, except lead and
zinc and would have made heavy cuts
or other schedules OF the present tar.
/ in law.
The house passed the naval appro.
priation bill without providing for any
new battleships. In the final hours,
| however, radical amendment was
added by which government contracts
| cirhthour law.
Senator Bourne of Oregon, as presi.
| dent Of the National Progressive Re-
/ publican league issued a warning to
the progressiyes to begin a campaign
| for ratification of the proposed consti.
| trtional amendment for popular, d.
rect election Of senator's
Senator Lorimer has telegraphed to
| Senator Kern, one of his leading op.
| pOnents. requesting that his case be
not called up for the present. and say
ing that he hopes TO be able to return
soon to Washington.
A compromise tariff plan designed
to graduate reductions Of duties de.
signed Ito avoid impairing any Amer.
lean industry" was offered by Senator
Newlands as an amendment TO the
house steel bill
The senate by 81 to 81 agreed to an
amendment to the metal tariff re-
vision bill so as TO repeal the Cana.
| dian reciprocity law and TO provide a
duty OF 81 per ton on print paper.
The activities of Col. Theodore
Roosevelt were denounced in the
house in a speech bristling with sar.
casm delivered by Representative
| Fitzgerald DEM of New York, chair.
man Of the house appropriations com.
/ mittee.
Senator William Alden Smith Of
Michigan. chairman Of the Titanic in.
quiry committee. merely smiles nj the
criticisms vented on him By section
OF the British press.
Representative 4. p. Pujo Of Louis
lana, chairman of the house banking
and currency committee. confessed the
the failure of the committee TO learn
the secrets of the national and state
banks when he made public letter
which he had written to banks that
have failed to comply with the call
| for information.
In one of the most remarkable
| speeches OF the present session Of
congress. Representative Dies assailed
| former President Roosevelt in bitter
| terms and referred in almost as bit.
ter fashion to the leaders of his own
/ party. including Speaker Clark. and
Gov Wilson, to whom he alluded as
"Parson" Wilson.
Longer daily sessions or the senate
will begin this week with q view to
eXpediting legislation and speeding
/ adjournment OF congress. Republican
| leaders like Lodge of Massachusetts
ard Smoot of Utah are trying to bring
the session to close by the latter
part of June.
President Taft sent message to
the Senate declining TO make public
| the correspondence between this gov.
eminent and Columbia relating to Pan.
anna. The president said 1t would be
Incompatible with the public interest
! TO do so.
Unqualified approval OF the Bourne
parcels post bill was given by Post.
master General Hitchcock in a report
on the measure sent 10 the senate
postoffice committee. and made pub.
lie.
4 charge that members Of the house
were guilty of petty grating was made
on the floor by Representative ritz-
gerald, chairman Of the appropriation
committee.
The senate passed Senator Reeds
bill authorizing the Burlington rail-
road to construct a bridge across the
Mississippi at a point between the
Eads bridge at st. Louis and the Alton
bridge at Alton. The exact point Of
location is undecided.
The house nnsSpd tho military acad.