Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-06-13
Congressional Notes

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the coming fiscal year.
This country has the political lin
Jams" in the opinion of Representa-
tive Thetus w. Sims OF Tennessee. He
gave the house the benefit of his dag
nosis during debate on the abolition
Of the Taft tariff board.
Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor, urged
the house committee on judiciary to
make favorable report on the Brant-
ley workmen's compensation bill.
Charges that the appropriation for
the Panama canal had been cut by
S16.700,00O on secret information OBJ
tanned by the appropriations commit
tee and not divulged to the house, pre-
cipitated a sharp clash in debate when
consideration of the sundry civil bill
was resumed.
President Taft signed the three.
year homestead bill permitting entry
men on public lands To prove their
-nims in three instead of five years,
allowing FIVE months absence from a
claim each year and reducing the acre
age TO be cultivated on large claims
from eighty to forty acres.
Representative Thomas Upton Sis
son of Mississippi has planned new
law to curb the warlike spirit of
Americans and has introduced a reve-
nue. measure which would impose a
heavy tax on gun toters" and vendors
Of deadly weapons.
The house judiciary committee, in
legislative session, decided to under
take preliminary investigation of the
beef trust.
A majority OF the money trust" in
vestigating committee. headed by
Representative Puio of Louisiana, its
chairman, were in New York to in
quire into the operations of the New
York clearing house and its relation
TO banks in the metropolis.
The committee on interstate and
foreign commerce voted to favorably
report the Lee bill extending the pro-
visions of the Erdman act to coal OPP
orators and employees. The act is re-
stricted to railroads and their en-
ployes, providing for the amicable
settlement Of differences
Representative Theron Akin of New
York introduced a resolution asking
that a special committee investigate
Chief Willis l.. Moore of the weather
bureau. He alleges that the service
suffers from mismanagement and that
Chief Moore made false statements to
congress.
Representative Thomas of Ken
lucky, a man of powerful physique
and quick temper, engaged in a fist
| fight in the house office building with
Joseph Amin, young newspaper re-
porter.
The Underwood cotton tariff reduc-
ton bill was reported favorably TO the
house by the ways and means COM
mittee. The bill is identical with that
passed by both houses and vetoed by
President Taft last August
When the house received word of
the death of Representative Hubbard
of Iowa all the flags on the capitol
were put at half mast and Hubbards
| desk was covered with lilies and
roses. The six members of the Iowa
| delegation will attend the funeral.
I'he second trial of Senator Lorimer
of Illinois, on the charge of having
been elected by corrupt methods, was
begun in the senate with speech by
Senator Kern of Indiana, member of
the investigating committe who signed
the minority report against Lorimer.
Representative Theron Akin of New
York, who calls himself an independ-
ent Republican, introduced a resolu-
ton in the house calling for the i'm
parchment of Russell p. Goodwin. as
sistant attorney general of the post
office department.
An all-inclusive bill, to be denomi-
mated the ocean safety act of 1912"
designed TO cover all the navigation
lessons drawn from the Titanic dis
aster, was introduced by Senator Mel
son of Minnesota chairman of the
commerce committee, which, through
subcommittee, investigated that dis
aster
The senate committee ON the judi
ciary ordered favorable reports on
Senator Lodges bills which would
incorporate the National Institute of
Arts and Letters and the National
Academy of Arts and Letters.
The house judiciary committee
agreed to report favorably the Norris
resolution aimed at the so-called ''cof-
fee trust" in the United States,
Acting under orders of the Socialist
party, Representative Berger Of Wis
consin, the only Socialist in congress,
lodged a vigorous protest with Attor-
ney General Wickersham against the
action of Judge Hanford in Seattle in
depriving John Olson of his citizen
ship rights because the latter wanted
to change the constitution"
The senate agreed to S150-a-month
pension for the widow of Admiral
Schley, after ii had first rejected by
AZ to 10 an amendment proposed by