Mexico Missouri message., 1912-05-23
Congressional Notes

IL is thought probable congress VIII
be in session until September l or
later.
The Panama canal bill, providing
for the administration of the canal
onez and the operation Of the canal it.
self. was introduced in the house.
Arrangements are being made for
conference of all representatives and
senators from states in the Missssip-
pi and Ohio river valleys affected by
the food TO arrive at an understand
ing as 10 what legislation is required
to meet the emergency and afford a
reasonable measure Of protection
against a repetition OF the food.
Representative Russell Of Missouri
introduced a bill appropriating $1,000
600 to be expended under the diyec.
ton Of the Mississippi river commits
sion In protecting the leyees and i'm
proving the channel Of the Mississippi
river between Cape Girardeau and
Donaldsonville. La, by revetment Of
caving banks.
The senate passed without debate
the house bill changing the date OF
issuance of the cotton acreage report
by the department Of agriculture to
the first Monday in Juy OF each ysar
Heretofore the law required that it
be issued in June.
The house committee on eXpendi-
lures in the agricultural department
postponed Indefinitely action on the
Nelson resolution to investigate the
meat inspection service.
Conferees Of the senate and house
on the army appropriation bill have
reached an agreement on the ques-
tons in dispute between the houses.
President Taft has RENTED the
fines imposed upon eight defendants
found guilty of night riding" and pre-
venting the shipment OF tobacco in in
terstate commerce. The defendants
were John Steers, Perry Stimson, Jer-
ry S. Carlton, Hugh B. Conrad. r. B.
Conrad, Fred X Conrad, John Cald-
well and A. c. Webb, all of Kentucky.
The preliminary hearing before the
house committee on expenditures IN
the department of agriculture on the
Nelson resolution directing a thor
ough investigation of the federal meat
inspection service narrowly missed
winding up in scrap" between Rep
| resentative Nelson OF Wisconsin and
Solicitor McCabe of the department.
The news of the death Of Thomas
| f. Kinney OF st. Louis, who WAS CON
| testing the seat occupied in tn: house
| by Representative Dyer, will have no
bearing on the decision of the com
mittee on elections, which has the
contest under consideration. Repre-
sentative Dyer received assurances
| which led him TO believe the commit
( tee is unanimously in his favor.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
| Neagh forwarded to congress an esti-
mate for $4,000 to provide medical
and hospital supplies and services for
/ the relief of sufferers from the flood
in the Mississippi and Ohio rivers
valleys and to reimburse the medical
department of the army for the value
Of supplies issued and expenditure
made toward such relief
That the charges filed against Rob
| ert w. Archibald, Judge of the Com
| merce Court, were the outgrowth of
a deliberately laid trap to discredit
the jurist and UNIT him to sit upon
the federal bench was the statement
made by Allen V. Cockrell, private
secretary to Interstate Commerce Com
missioner Meyer, before the House
Judiciary Committee.
]. w. Burroughs, a former Federal
meat inspector, testified before the
Moss Investigating Committee that
Philadelphia packers violated the law
by refusing inspectors access to GER
tain parts of their plants.
Whether any movement will he
made by the United States authorize
to apprehend Emilio Vasquez Gomez
on charge of violating the neutrality
laws was not known at the State De
partment. Ii was declared this was
a matter for the Department of Jus.
tice.
Secretary Meyer has made public
correspondence between himself and
Gov. Colquitt OF Texas, showing Il
was the governor who requested the
designation Of Miss Claudia Lyon
daughter Of Cecil Lyon. national com,
mitteeman from Texas, to act as
sponsor al the launching of the bat.
tleship Texas, May is. next.
Apropos OF the Neson resolution
demanding an investigation OF the
federal meat inspection service, Dr.
A. d. Melvin, chief of the Bureau Of
Animal Industry. which conducts the
inspection work, has issued a state
ment in reply TO the charge that dis
eased" meat is passed by the inspec
tors for human food.
President Taft, acting on the sug
gestion OF j. w. Hamilton OF st. Paul
has Joined in a movement to make
general throughout the country the
wearing OF a spris OF evergreen or 2
knot of the national coloTs on next
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