Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-12-26
Congressional Notes

A tndt ooiuASAs
homes be transferred from the inte-
rior department to the war depart
ment is propsble as a result OF the
investigation Of the home at Los An
geles.
After holding up the promotions OF
Brig. Gems. w. w. Wotherspoon and
James B. Aleshire, all Of last session,
the senate committee OF military at.
fairs agreed to report them to the
senate with recommendation of con
frmation of Brig. Gen. Wotherspoon
as a major general, Brig. Gen. Ale
shire as major general and chief OF
the quartermaster's department, and
Col. E. ]. McClernand as b~rigadier
general, succeeding Gen. Wother-
spoon.
William ]. Flynn of New York was
appointed chief of the United States
secret service by Secretary Mac
Veagh of the treasury department
succeeding John E. Wilkie, now chief
supervising agent of the customs.
Representative Rodenberg of East
St. Louis, a. member of the committee
on rivers and harbors, said that action
on his proposition to have the juris-
diction of the Mississippi river COM
mittee extended from Cape Girardeau,
Mo-, as far north as Rockland, ILL.,, on
both sides Of the river, would not be
taken until after the holidays.
President Taft has received assur-
ances that Col. George oGethals, build
err of the Panama canal, will accept
the post of governor of the Panama
canal zone. His nomination probably
will be sent to the senate after the
presidents return from Panama.
Senator Bristow of Kansas intro
duced a bill providing for a preference
primary for the appointment of post
masters which would affect the ap-
pointment of every postmaster in the
United States who receives 5000 or
more a year.
Representative Oscar W. Under
wood of Alabama, whose name has en-
tered into notice as a personal cabi-
net selection by the president-elect,
asserts he is var of the president
elects purpose to offer him a port.
folio.
The house passed the Burnett lite
racy test immigration bill, ITS to So,
The measure, a substitute for the sen
ate Dillingham; bill, would bar from
the United States immigrants over 1f
years of age unable to read, except
those proving to have emigrated on
account of religious persecution a
home.
The first measure to provide ar
rangements for the Inauguration O.
Woodrow Wilson was a joint resolu
ton introduced by Representative
Johnson of South Carolina at the re
quest of the commissioners of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, to appropriate $23.
900 for the expense of special protec
ton of life and property and mainte
nance of order for two weeks begin
ming February rs.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer ha
signed the plans and specifications TO
the new battleship Pennsylvania, tn
largest warship yet designed for tn
United States of any other navy. Tn
plans will be in the hands of pros
pective bidders by December 20. Bid
will be opened at the navy depart
ment on February Is, and it is Secrt
tary Meyers plan to award the col
tract for this biggest battleship befor
he retires from office, March A.
The chair of the presiding office
of the senate, vacant when that bod
, convened, was filed for the rest
/. the session by the adoption of a pla
, through which Senators Gallinger an
Bacon will alternate in terms of tw
weeks each as president pro temper
until March A..
: All nominations Of President Ia
sent to congress during the currel
session to fill judicial and law vaca
cies will remain Enacted upon unit
after the holidays, as a result of tt
failure of a quorum to attend meetir
of the senate judiciary committee.
$ Denunciation of the mail ord,
liquor business as the enemy of sta
prohibition, characterized the openir
a OF the fight in the senate for the pas
( age of the Sheppard-Kneyon bill
= prohibit the shipment of liquor aero
v state lines into "dry territory"
s Following a consultation with Sc
rotary of State Knox, President Ta
decided that he would not appoint
successor to Whitelaw Reid, ambass
! dor to Great Britain, who died in Lo
= don. Announcement of his decisil
! was made at the White House.
10 Representative Beall of Texas, cha
man Of the committee on e%xpendituT
in the department Of justice, int,
= duced a resolution requesting AUTH
, ity to investigate branches of that
partment outside of Washington. 7
IN Texan has a notion that conditions
the Leavenworth and Atlanta penit'
tiaries are not what they should be
: John J. Carney, Democratic can
h date for congress in the Second Ok
b, homa district, will file a cont
against Representative Dick T. M
gan, who was reelected November
by Mr.. Carney will set up the content
is that the fourteenth and ffteel
amendments to the federal consti
y, ton were not toally adopted, and Il
III the negroes have no right to vote
az his state.
Senator Bailey declined to disc
published reports that he will res
about January 1 and that the re.
M Legislature will elect Col. r. M. 10
ng ston, editor of the Houston Post,
a fill out his term until March 4. M
or bers Of the Texas delegation in