Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-03-28
Congressional Notes


hfbit at the fifth annual corn exposi
ton at Columbia, S. c., January 7-1S.
1913.
A bill creating a national park in
Oregon, to be known as Saddle Noun
tain park, passed the senate.
Republican members Of the ways
and means committee introduced a
minority bill revision the wooden
schedule of the present. tariff law in
accordance with their Interpretation
of the report of the tariff board.
By a unanimous vote of the senate
Senator ~Brandegee of Connecticut
will preside during the absence Of
Vice-President Sherman next week.
The abolition of the United States
senate and the office of vice-president,
with a reduction of the membership
of the house to 800, is proposed in a
resolution which Representative Lind
bergh of Minnesota will introduce.
The United States will not interfere
with legitimate expectations of foods,
clothing, dry goods and hardware to
Mexico. President Taft and his cabi-
net decided that such necessities did
not come within the meaning of the
presidents proclamation f~orbidding
the expectation of munitions of war"
during the Mexican revolution.
President Taft probably will not ap-
point a successor to DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley of the bureau of chemistry for
several weeks. Two names suggested
were those of DR.. H. E. Barnard, food
commissioner of Indiana, and DR.. Pau
Gaspard Freer, director of the bureau
of science in Manila.
Senatorial precedent which was
Jared by Senator Lea of Tennessee,
when he held up appropriations for
three public buildings, received an
other Jolt when Senator Kenyon of
Iowa gave notice of a motion to re-
consider the vote by which the bill
providing for a public building IN st.
George, Utah, passed the senate.
BY a vote of $50 to 40 the house
passed the Democratic special excise
tax bill, eighty Republicans joining
with the Democrats in the vote that
started this measure for the senate.
The subcommittee of the house
, committee on agriculture has conclud-
: ed hearings on the Lever and Haugen
: oleomargarine bills. Oleomargarine
: laws from various foreign countries
!, are now being translated and COM
. piled. When this work is finished a
report will be made to the full com
mittee.
Senator Hepburn of Idaho has re
turned from Atlantic City, where he
went a fortnight ago, suffering with a
lesion over his left eye. He is prac-
n tically well.
a That Mississippi valley commerce
a will derive little benefit from the
Panama canal unless its use is made
free for American tonnage is one OF
r the principal arguments made in the
It minority report filed by four mem
d bers of the house committee on inter
It satte mmerce as to the Panaa cana
is tolls bill.
The bill making appropriations 10
,e Notifications was passed by the ser
N ats. 1t carries $4,186,235, about a mi
lion and a quarter less than the al
lie preparation of last year.
is Representative Underwood say
m that he hopes to have the ways an
* means committee consider a wool bill
s. before the end of next week, The eH
III perts who have been checking up tn
ye figures in the report of the tarit
al board Of schedule K and comparin
at them with other figures at the dis
Id posal of the Democrats of the CON
mittee have about completed thei
aI work.
It. Edgar A. Bancroft, general counse
W for the International Harvester con
W pany, discussed with Attorney Gel
40 eral Wickersham plans for a volur
gu tary dissolution of that corporatio
under the Sherman antitrust law.
&C. A brief, summing up arguments o
the facts in the investigation of Sci
ator Lorimer's election, was filed wit
the senate investigating committee b
r. Lorimer's counsel.
=, Commissioner of Internal Revenr
49, Cabell declares that about 1000 co
porations have been o. will be hale
into court as delinquents in the pa
ed ment of the corporation tax last yea
m Secretary Knox has cabled fro
oh Nicaragua to President Taft urglr
IN that the senate foreign delegate
he committee give attention to the Mic
,w raguan loan treaty, which has bee
nv. pending more than a year.
arg Attorney General Wickersham I
in ported to the house that there is n
,ce In his department information sho'
DIV ing the existence Of a smelter tru'
va His communication was sent in l
Spouse to a resolution introduced
Representative Martin of Colorado.
- Luke E. Wright of Tennessee, Sc
rotary of war under former Preside
ks Roosevelt, told the committee on W
vas department expenditures that Nj
Gen. J. Franklin Bell, then chief
ecn the general staff, was responsible I
m the orders moving Maj. Beecher
ne Ray of the pay department from pla
to place.
ms
Ire Representative Stevenson OF M
tn nesota introduced a resolution prov
ing for a special committee of Fl
of members of the house to investig'
an alleged combination of coal de
ers and coal mine operators at t
head of Lake Superior in Minnes'
and Wisconsin.
The senate finance committee c.
cluded its hearings on the house che
hat ical tariff revision bill. The conn