Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-06-06

L~aekawanna & Western railroad, de-
manded that the house judiciary COM
mittee clear his name of vicious
lies" which he said appeared in the
testimony concerning him in the in
vestigation of charges against Judge
R. w. Archibald of the commerce
court.
The senate committee on finance
voted to place in the legislative, exec
utive and judicial appropriation bill
the appropriation for the commerce
court eliminated by the house.
The operations of the so-called cof-
fee trust would be put under the in
terstate commerce laws if a bill intro
duced by Representative Norris of Ne
braska should become a law.
The house judiciary committee
made a call on William Lamb of Chi
cago and other attorneys in the New
Orleans rate case to see If Judge
Archibald of the court of m
gave them opportunity to reply to the
additional brief" submitted in that
case by Helm Bruce of Louisville,
counsel for the Louisville & Nashville
railway. {
The senate rejected by IL to 60 the
Cummins' substitute to the house iron
and steel bill, which would have pro-
vided for free ores, except lead and
zinc, and would have made heavy cuts
or other schedules of the present tar
if law.
The house passed the naval appro-
priation bill without providing for any
new ba~ttleships. In the final hours,
however, a radical amendment was
added by which government contracts
in the future must be filed under the
eight-hour law.
Senator Bourne of Oregon, as presi-
dent of the National Progressive Re-
publican league, issued a warning to
the p~rogressives to begin a campaign
for ratification of the proposed consti-
trtional amendment for popular, d.
rect election of senators.
Senator Lorimer has telegraphed to
Senator Kern, n of his leading OPP
%ponents, requesting that his case be
not called up for the present, and say
ing that he hopes to be able to return
soon to Washington.
A compromise tariff plan designed
to graduate reductions of duties de-
signed ito avoid impairing any Amer
lean industry was offered by Senator
Newlands as an amendment to the
house steel bill.
The senate by 81 to q agreed to an
amendment to the metal tariff re-
vision bill so as to repeal the Cana
dian reciprocity law and to provide a
duty Of So per ton on print paper.
The activities Of Coz. Theodore
Roosevelt were denounced in the
house in a speech bristling with sar-
casm delivered by Representative
Fitzgerald (Dem.) of New York, chair
man of the house appropriations com
mittee.
Senator William Alden Smith of
Michigan, chairman of the Titanic in
quiry committee, merely smiles at the
criticisms vented on him by a section
OF the British press.
Representative A. P. Pujo of Louis
lana; chairman of the house banking
and currency committee, confessed the
the failure of the committee to learn
the secrets of the national and state
banks when he made public a letter
which he had written to banks that
have failed to comply with the call
for information.
In one of the most remarkable
speeches of the present session of
congress. Representative Dies assailed
former President Roosevelt in bitter
terms and referred in almost as bit
ter fashion to the leaders of his own
party. including Speaker Clark, and
Gov. Wilson, to whom he alluded as
"Parson'' Wilson.
Longer daily sessions OF the senate
will begin this week with a view to
expediting legislation and speeding
adjournment of congress. Republican
leaders like Lodge of Massachusetts
and Smoot of Utah are trying to bring
the session to a close by the latter
part Of June.
President Taft sent a message to
the Senate declining to make public
the correspondence between this gov.
eminent and Columbia relating to Pan.
anna. The president said it won'd be
incompatible with the public interest
to do SO. x
Unqualified approval Of the Bourne
parcels post bill was given by Post
master General Hitchcock in a report
on the measure sent to the senate
p~ostoffice committee, and made pub
lie.
A charge that members OF the house
were guilty of petty grating was made
on the floor by Representative Fitz
gerald, chairman Of the appropriation
committee.
The senate passed Senator Reeds
bill authorizing the Burlington rail
road to construct a bridge cro tht
Mississippi at a point between thu
Eads bridge at st. Louis and the Altor
bridge at Alton. The exact point O.
location is undecided.
The house passed the military acad
envy appropriation bill, carrying 81,
034,O59, a decrease of $125,000 from
LAST year.
The president has sen t to tn
senate a compilation of corr Grafton
tax law returns under a resolution in
troduced by Senator Hitchcock aimee
at revenue evasions by big corpora
tons and adopted by the senate.
The. house steel and iron tariff re
vision bill passed the senate So to %
repeating the Canadian reciprocit,
law. putting q universal duty Of 50
a. ~ ,.r.nt nanar snd o~,tt;no ~.