Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-08-22
Congressional Notes

tanic disaster.
The nomination Of Jacob Gould
Schurman, president of Cornell uni.
versity, as minister to Greece and
Montenegro, was confirmed by the
senate.
! The census bureau issued an ad
vance bulletin on the population of
Arkansas OF the total population,
! 1,131,O24, or 71.8 per cent, are whites,
and 442,S91, or PSI per cent, ne
groes.
The house, by adopting the report
Of the elections committee, sustained
the right of william W. Wilson, a
Republican of Chicago, to retain his
seat as representative of the Third
| Illinois district.
Complete disagreement between
| the house and senate on the sugar
/ tariff bills was outlined in a confer
ence report on the measure presented
( TO the senate by Senator Penrose.
This indicates there will be no sugar
legislation at this session
The appointment of a commission
/ by the Southern Commercial Con-
gress to investigate rural credit sys-
TENS in Europe. was indorsed in a
senate joint resolution.
The bill creating a commission on
Industrial relations to investigate Ia
Dor conditions and the relations of
employers and employees. passed the
senate with practically no debate.
The senate passed a bill placing at
the disposal of Luther Burbank
twelve sections OF land in California,
New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada for
the propagation of the spineless cacti.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination of Jacob Gould Schur-
man, president Of Cornell university,
TO be minister from the United
States to Greece and Montenegro.
Representative James T. Lloyd of
Missouri, chairman of the Democratic
congressional committee in 1908, told
the senate campaign fund investigat-
ing committee that he had no abso-
Lutte record of his committees re-
ceipts and expenditures of that year,
but he was certain the receipts were
S27, 800 and the expenditures about
500 less.
Repeating its action, when it passed
the wool tariff bill over President
Taft's veto, the house repassed the
vetoed steel and iron tariff bill, with
in two hours after il had been re.
turned from the White House with
the presidents veto message. The
vote was 173 to SO.
The house election committee in
vestigating the contest between Rep
resentative Charles c. Bowman of
the Eleventh Pennsylvania district
and George X. Mclean, has prepared
report recommending Mr.. Bowman's
unseating on the ground of large eX-
penditufes in his election Mr.. Bow
man admitted spending S7,194.
The wSys and means committee of
me house named Representative Pat
rick F. Gill, who was seated in place
of Theron Catlin, member of the
house committee on merchant marine
and fisheries. Representative Alex
ander Of Missouri is chairman Of this
committee.
When the army appropriation bill
energies from conference for the sec
ond time it will not contain a pro-
vision removing Maj. Gen, Leonard
Wood chief of the general staff from
office on March next and also will
omit several other provisions obnox-
ious to President Taft, and which
caused him TO veto the first bill
Representative James 7. Lloyd of
Missouri, chairman of the Democratic
congressional campaign committee, is
out in a statement that the Democrats
will increase their majority in the
next house from the 60-odd they now
have to 100 or more.
A resolution that would appropriate
100000 for memorial building to
commemorate the services of the 10y
al women" of the United States dur
ing the civil war was passed by the
senate. The building would be occu-
pied as the permanent headquarters
of the American Red Cross and would
be erected in the District of Columbia.
September was the earliest date
fixed for adjournment Of congress in
various discussions of the burning
question. The heat wave which swept
down on the national capital vitalized
the subject which has been paramount
in the minds of many members and
senators for weeks.
House Democrats declare ii is their
purpose TO fight President Taft TO a
finish on the commerce court provis-
ion of the legislative appropriation
bill. which the president has formally
announced he will veto.
A fight which may assume large
proportions began when Senator Sim.
mons of North Carolina held up the
confirmation of Dorcas c. Newberry,
whom President Taft had named to
be collector for the district of Abe
marie, N. c.
The senate passed the Kenyon
freight classification bill, which would
empower the interstate commerce
commission to determine what will be
a just and reasonable uniform classi,