The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-04-04
Sherwood Pension Bill Is De-
feated in the Senate By a
Decisive Vote.

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The senate added provisions that
would prohibit att orney's fees, and
that would grant $50 month to tor
mer soldiers disabled by service,
wounds or diseases, the latter being
estimated to add s2,5OO,0OO to the an
nual outlay under the bill.
The entire negative vote on the final
passage of the bill was cast by demo-
cratic senators from the south. The
northern democrats voted with the re-
publicans for the bill.
Bill to Appraise Railroads.
Physical valuation of all the rail
roads of the United States is author
lied in a bill reported unanimously to
the house by the interstate and for
eign commerce committee. The meas
ure enlarges the power of the inter-
state commerce commission and en-
powers it to make the valuation and
to fix and adjust rates.
Republicans and democrats alike
voted for the measure. It would pro-
vide for comparative investigation
into the actual value of the property
of every common carrier, and would
authorize the commission to inquire
into the stock and bond issues of all
railroads, the connection of banking
corporations and capitalists or COM
binations of capitalists or financial
institutions with the various roads, as
well as their connection with the re-
organization of any common carrier
in recent years.
Arms For Americans in Mexico.
The state department announced
that 1000 rifles and supply revolvers,
and quantity of ammunition was
shipped from New York to Vera Cruz.
The munitions are consigned to Uni
ted States Ambassador Henry L. Will
son, at Mexico City. Wilson plans to
distribute the arms and ammunition
among the Americans in the Mexican
capital so that they may properly de-
fend themselves in case of trouble.
Anti-foreign sentiment is growing to
dangerously aggressive proportions in
the Mexican capital, and violence is
being prevented there only by the
presence of the government troops.
II these soldiers leave with President
Madero, anarchy is certain to follow,
1t Is declared.
Appropriation Deadlock.
It looks as if the house and senate
will find it much easier to agree on
the tariff bills than on appropriation
bills, judging from the radical manner
In which the senate has revised the
bills already considered. In several
instances the house will meet strong
opposition, particularly in the army
bill, as the senators have no intention
Of having many military posts aban-
doned or the army reorganized, as
proposed by the Hay amendment to
the appropriation bill.
National Capital Brevities.
A conference committee on the Bor-
ah-Jones three-year homestead bill,
which will adjust the differences bet
ween the senate and house bills, has
been appointed. Senator Chamberlain
is member of the committee.
BY vote of to on all vital points
the Lorimer Investigating committee
completely exonerated the Illinois sem
ator of any knowledge of legislative
corruption. Edward Hines, the mil
lionaire lumberman, also got a vindi-
cation by the committee.
Replying to resolution of the SEN
ate, the secretary of the interior de-
clares that it will take 10 years or
more to complete the classification of
public lands that have been with
drawn for coal, oil, phosphate or pow
er. There are 100000 acres of land
withdrawn in the west and unclassi-
fed.
Four senators from the two new
states Of Arizona and New Mexico this
week enlarged the membership of the
upper branch of congress to 81. The
new men. all lawyers, are Marcus Aur-
elius Smith, of Tucson; Henry F. Ash
urst, Of Prescott, Ariz., democrats,
and Thomas Catron of Santa Fe, and
Albert Bacon Fall, Of Three Rivers, N.
r.. republicans.
Colonel Goethals told the senate
committee on canals that the first
ship will pass through the Panama
canal in August or September, 1913.
He opposes the exemption of coast
wise vessels from tolls and favors
driving the Inhabitants from the Pana-
ma canal zone, and letting it grow up
q jungle without clearings sufficient
to permit an enemy to congregate or
> fss Of this government to exist