Mexico Missouri message., 1912-07-25
Congressional Notes


in public buildings, which Chairman
Cyrus Cline of Indiana submitted TO
! the house.
President Taft in a speech In the
| east room of the White House to a
delegation from the National Civil aud
Political Negro league. publicly ac-
knowledged his debt OF gratitude to
the negro delegates to the Republican
national convention.
Representative Berger OF Wisconsin
entertained the house with a key
note" speech on Socialism. He de-
scribed the Socialist ticket as the in
ternational ticket of humanity"
The rivers and harbors appropria-
ton bill, carrying about S53,000000
including $6,O0O,0O0 for Mississippi
river Improvement, was finally passed
by the senate when the conference re-
port was adopted
The house agreed to the conference
report on the rivers and harbors bill,
which carried approximately S33,O00,-
600, an increase over the original
measure of about S7,000,000. There
was decided opposition to the scheme
by which the federal government is
committed to the maintenance and
repair of levees in the Mississippi,
Missouri and Ohoi valleys, but friends
of the project won the point. The bill
now will 60 TO the president for his
signature.
Final preparation Of the last appro-
priation bill remaining TO be passed
by the house--the general deficiency
measure-was begun by the house APP
preparations committee. 1t will aggre-
gate about Si1,000,000, about the same
total as in former years.
Secretary Fisher expects to visit
the hawaiian Islands after the ad.
journment of congress to make an in
yestigation OF the charges against
Gov. Frear by Delegate Kalanianaole.
A Neutrality-suspicious. vigil in the wire
less room of every ocean going vessel
clearing from an American port with
fifty or more persons aboard is pro-
yided in a bill agreed TO by senate
and house conferees.
The impeachment of Judge Robert
w Archibald OF the commerce court
was formally laid before the senate
by the committee of managers from
the house, headed by Representative
Henry d. Clayton, chairman of the
judiciary committee.
Senator Culberson's bill for an agri
cultural plant experiment station at
Plainview, Tex. was ordered favor
ably reported from the senate commit
tee on agriculture. 1t carried an APP
preparation of $4,000.
The senate passed without discus
sion the terror battleship resolution
by Senator 1illman, proposing that
the United States build the greatest
warship possible under modern naval
conditions to put an end to the race
for naval supremacy"
Thomas jefferson was not the au-
thor of the Declaration of Independ-
ence," declared Senator Hepburn as
he blocked consideration of joint |
resolution proposing the purchase of |
Monticello" by the government.
The senate and house conferees on
the river and harbor appropriation bill |
reached an agreement on an amended |
bill carrying an appropriation of $685. /
coo, 900. The bill as it passed the sen
ate was reduced in conference by |.
100000.
The Pepper bill, to bring the nation |
al guard into closer touch with the .
regular army, has the approval of the .
war department. 1t has been reported .
favorably by the house military affairs .
committee. Under the bill the federal .
government would disburse about .
IS 600, 900 a year to the 10000 commits .
stoned officers and the 10000 enlisted .
men OF the national guard in the
states and territories.
The solemn ceremonial of impeach-
ment Of Judge Robert w. Archibald of
the commerce court in the senate will
depend az TO date largely upon the
preference expressed by the accused
jurist At least majority of the Re-
publican senators prefer 20 postpone
the formal proceedings until cooler
weather, meantime allowing the house
and the counsel for defense ample
time for preparation.
Physical valuation of railroads, a re-
form long fought for by Senator La
Toilette of Wisconsin, was incorporat-
ed into the house program by the COM
mittee on rules. A physical valuation
bill by Adamson of Georgia was re-
ported several weeks ago by the com
mittee on interstate commerce and
was placed on the house calendar. It's
in its regular order will
be impossible at this session.
The Democratic members of the
rules committee decided to report ia
vorably resolution enlarging the in
luisitorial powers OF the committee on
marine and fisheries, which
S to conduct a sweeping investigation ,
into the alleged combination of coast :
wise and foreign shipping concerns {
with the railroads. :
Formal denial of the published state
nent that treaty between Japan and
Russia, looking to the definition of