Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-05-09
Congressional Notes

preparation bills and other prospective
Legislation probably before July 1.
Representative Hull (Dem.) intro.
duced a bill intended OF prevent gov
eminent employees from participating
in presidential campaigns or from
having official connection with any
organization or movement looking to
such an election.
Democratic members of the senate
committee on finance practically
agreed to favor a reduction of 33 Is
per cent from the present tariff on
sugar and voted to abolish the Dutch
standard and direrential on sugar.
The house of representatives de.
clined, by an overwhelming majority,
TO cut down the mileage allowance TO
members. In a debate on the econ
| omy program, upon which the house
has entered, Representative Page OF
North Carolina introduced an amend
ment to the pending Legislative bill
to reduce the mileage from 20 cents
to 5 cents.
William Jennings Bryan, just re-
turned from the South, visited the
| capital and conferred with Speaker
Champ Clark and other Democratic
| leaders.
The Magdalena Bay incident, which
recently received much attention in
| the senate, was brought up in the
house in a resolution by Representa-
tive Ranter of California, directing
the house foreign affairs committee to
! learn of any effort by foreign govern
ments TO acquire any concessions or
grants upon the western shores of
Mexico, cor in any of the CULTS or
bays adjoining the west Mexican
coast"
BY failing to report an appropria-
! tion for the recently created commerce
court the houes committee on appro-
| prations sought to abolish that tri-
bunal.
Representative Clayton of Alabama,
chairman of the judiciary committee,
introduced a house joint resolution to
provide an amendment to the consti-
tuition fixing the term Of office Of the
president Of the United States at six
years and making him ineligible for
a second term.
A resolution ordering the recommit-
tai to the judiciary committee OF the
.workman's compensation bill has been
presented in the senate by Senator
Culberson Of Texas.
President Taft signed the Percy res
olution placing $500, 900 Immediately
at the disposition of the Mississippi
river commission for repairing and
strengthening the leyees within the
commissions jurisdiction.
The house aided the national good
roads movement by passing a pro.
vision in the postofice appropriation
bill which would grant a subsidy to
all highways used in the rural free
delivery mail service.
The senate committee on commerce
and the house committee on merchant
marine are considering measures de-
signed to insure the safety of ocean
traffic in the light of the Titanic dis
aster
The senate committee probably will
recommend bill TO require wo wire
less telegraph operators on all ocean
passenger craft of more than 5000
tons.
The senate adopted the Culberson
resolution calling for a full report on
the contributions made to the national
committees of all parties in the presi-
dental and congressional campaigns
of 1904 and 1908
The governments right to sue In
1908 to set aside the conveyances by
Seminole freedmen of their allotted
Oklahoma land was sustained by the
supreme court of the United States as
to homestead land and as to surplus
land of freedmen minors. 1t denied
the right to sue as to surplus land of
adults, who sold after 1904.
Because Of criticisms Of his recita.
ton TO the senate of political par
ody on the Apostles Greed Senator
Williams of Mississippi ordered the
parody be stricken from his speech in
the permanent copies of the Congress.
sional Record.
A broad anti-injunction bill, such a
measure as has long been advocated
by labor unions throughout the com
try, was favorably reported to the
house by Chairman Clayton of the ju,
dietary committee. The bill provides
that injunctions in labor disputes shall
only be issued after the defendants
have had opportunity TO make answer
TO the complaint against them.
Representative Jackson OF Kansas
one of the new Sunfiower State insur.
. gents in the house, has introduced a
bill providing for the regulation OF
fees by the court of claims in all
cases coming before that tribunal
Mr., Jackson would limit all fees to a
= maximum Of 10 per cent, except in
, cases where the amount involved is
p less than $500, when he would allow
, fee of 20 per cent. The bill also pro
; vides that attorneys fees may be paid
: by the court as a part of the settle
ment of cases.