Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-03-28
FACE LONG SESSION
Congress- May sit Until After Ma
tional Conventions.
SUPPLY BILLS ARE FOUGHT
Deadlock 5etweeR House and Senate
Might Leave Departments of Gov
eminent Without Any Visible
Means of Support.
BY o r CLINTON.

BY GEOHGE CLiN ON.
Washington.-This year in congress
there has been a disposition to tack
"extraneous legislation onto the ap-
preparation bills. Under the Republic
an rule no legislation was put on the
supply measures except that which the
party members claimed had a rightful
place there. Years ago there was
adopted In congress what was called
the Holman rule prepared by Repre-
sentative Holman Of Indiana, the
watchdog of the treasury" This rule
allowed legislation to be put on the
supply measures provided it was In
tended to decrease government ex-
penditures. The Republicans repudi-
ated the Holman rule, but the Demo
Gratis have reinstated it.
The army appropriation bill carries
Legislation reducing the cavalry OF the
army from Is regiments to 10, and IT
contains some other legislation which
the Republicans say is "extraneous'
The senate is Republican and it seems
to be opposed to the action Of the Dem
ocrats in attaching legislation to the
supply measure. There are arguments
for and against the curse which the
Democratic majority in the house has
followed, but the right or the wrong
of the thing aside, the fact remains
that the senate Is likely to get at log
gerheads with the house over these
matters and as a result 1t may be tnat
congress will sit until a time long
after the national conventions nave
been held.
Produces New Situation.
If either house wishes to do 1t. 1t
can hold up appropriation bills and by
refusing to sanction them can leave de-
partments and branches of govern
ment without visible means of support,
provided, of course. that adjournment
comes before the supply bills have
been sanctioned. 0 If the senate shall
agree with the house and pass the ap-
preparation measures with their riders
1t is possible, perhaps even probable,
in one or two instances that the presi-
dent will veto the bills which he does
not like. If he should veto the army
bill, for instance, because of attached
legislation OF which he disapproves,
the army officers and the $4,000 or 10
600 enlisted men would be left without
a cent of pay, and more than this,
there would be no money for the pur'
chase of supplies. This thing did hap
pen once away back in the time oil
President Hayes. He vetoed an army
appropriation bill because it had 9
rider on 1t to which neither the presi
dent nor his party could subscribe. The
matter which was put onto the bill
at that time, however, was to some ex
tent political and controversial In iti
nature. Nothing has been put ontt
the appropriation bills this year which
is not either directly or indirectly con
nected with the service for which thu
money supplied by the bill Is voted. l
is said that there has been no situation
lust like this within the memory o
the Oldest member.
Indians Visit Taft.
President Taft was visited a day o
Z two ago at the White House by thre'
bands of Sioux Indians from the San
tee, the Pine Ridge and the Rosebu'
agencies. The braves Of the Pin
Ridge were led by Jack Red Cloud
son Of Old Red Cloud, who die
a year & and who in his da
was one Of the great warriors OF tn
Dakota nation. Jack was dressed
the clothes of civilization. in a wa
he looked we'll enough, but not att
gether comfortable. This son OF
warrior of many battles has see
some fighting himself. He was "out
with the bands of Kicking Bear an
Short Bull in the last uprising again'
the whites in the days OF the Gho'
Dane craze. The last timo that on
white man who was at the Whit
House when the Indians called sa
lack Red Cloud, the Indian was tea
ing down the trail leading past tn
RAIDER store at Pine Ridge an
emptying his Winchester with, a gle
full disregard Of the terror that l
was causing.
At the time OF Jacks escapade
December, 1890, he was not thir'
years old and he was full OF war ar
enthusiasm. He had left the hosti
camp beyond White Clay Creek be-
on a froiic on his W account. {
his pony, painted, red fianneled. al
faathered. he dashed through u
agency emptying his gun and near
soaring the lives out OF half q COZ
newspaper correspondents VINO ma
pened to be in the trail.
sulleniy Surrenders.
Young Red Cloud on that day G
cled the agency, and before the troo
could kill him or arrest him ne "
beyond the danger line' heao'
straight for the hostile camp. :.
The day Of the Indians caii on y
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