Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-02-01
Congressional Notes


bers of the resident social set.
The house committee on postoffices
and post roads voted to eliminate
from the big postoffice appropriation
bill an item providing for the estab
lishment of an experimental parcels
post on rural routes.
President Taft sent a cablegram Of
congratulation to King Alfonso on his
name day and the dispatch, the terms
Of which were made known in Wash.
ington, was welcomed warmly by the
newspaper and the Spanish people.
The house committee on rules
closed its hearings q the so-called
money trust resolution of inquiry, and
will meet within a few days to decide
whether to recommend to the house
a special investigation of the sub
ject.
Three new natiorAl bird reserva-
lions, two in Alaska and the third in
Nebraska, have been created by Pres
ldent Taft and placed under the de-
partment of agriculture.
President Taft committed, to expire
at once, the life Imprisonment SEN
tence of Toy Toy, an Umatilla Indian,
who, in accordance with the tradi-
tons of his tribe, murdered Anna
Edna, a woman doctor, who failed to
cure his father.
Publication by the president of ev-
cry written or verbal Endorsement of
candidates for all federal judgeships,
from the supreme court down, prior
to the appointment of the judges,
would be required by a bill passed by
the house.
Representative Bartholdt of st
Louis submitted to the house a unan,
tmous report from the committee Oh
foreign affairs on his resolution invit-
ing the Interparliamentary Union to
hold its next conference in the United
States next fall and appropriating
$4,000 for the entertainment of for
eign delegates. ~
Representative Humphrey of Wash
lngton told the committee on inter-
state and foreign m why, in
his judgment, American ships should
be permitted to pass through the
Panama canal after its completion
without the payment Of tolls. He
pointed Il that such a discrimina-
lion in favor of American vessels
would go far toward restoring the
stars and stripes to the sea.
The committee on postoffices and
post roads devoted a day to the con
sideration of the p~ostotfice a%ppropria-
ton bill, which will carry an aggre-
gate appropriation of upwards Of
$3.50, 600, 900.
More than $500, 900 acres of public
lands now withheld from settlement
because of their supposed oil deposits
would be available for agricultural
entry under a bill favorably reported
by the senate committee on public
lands. 1t would permit surface en-
tries, reserving oil rights to the gov
eminent. Most of the lands affected
are in California, Utah and Wyoming.
Promoters of fraudulent schemes
who had obtained $4,000, 900 from the
public were put out Of business during
the fiscal year ending julie 80 last, ac-
cording to the annual report of Rob.
ert s. Sharp, chief inspector of the
postoffice department.
Two more cabinet officers, upon the
suggestion Of President Taft, are to
visit the Panama canal this winter.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher and
Postmaster General Hitchcock will de-
part February Ia to spend a week on
The canal zone.
Certain members of the senate com
mittee on privileges and elections are
not yet satisfied with the findings of
The subcommittee which investigated
and e~xonerated Senator Stephenson Of
Wisconsin on the charges growing out
of his election, and it is intimated
that a minority report may be pre-
sented to the senate.
Chairman Lever OF the subcommit-
tee of the house committee on agri-
culture, has been considering the
oleomargarine bills, and recommended
q bill to the whole committee de-
signed to lower the tax on oleomarga-
rine from 10 cents to less than 1 cent
q pound.
Judge George Donworth of Seattle,
Wash, a United States district judge
for the Western district OF Washing
ton, has withdrawn his resignation,
which was submitted to President
Taft two weeks ago. The withdrawal
is a result of a bitter fight against
the proposed appointment of Repre-
sentative William e. Humphrey Of
Washington, whose candidacy was
supported by Senator Jones.
Contracts for construction Of two
battleships were signed for the navy
department by Acting Secretary Beck
man Winthrop. The two ships are to
be called the Nevada and Oklahoma.
The Fore River Ship Building com
pany Of Quincy, Mass, will build one
for $5,S 5000, with Curtis compound
turbine engines.
Secretary Of the Interior Fisher and
Postmaster General Hitchcock, only
members Of President Taft's cabinet
who have not visited the Panama
canal, probably will depart about the
middle of February.
by reducing the internal revenue
tax on colored oleomargarine from 10
cents per pound to l cent a pound
you will increase the federal reve-
nues over $1,000,000 a year" This