Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-12-26
Congressional Notes

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After holding up the promotions Of
Brig. Gems. W. W. Wotherspoon and
lanes b. Aleshire, all of last session,
he senate committee on military af-
,airs agreed to report them to the
Ienate with recommendation OF con-
irmation of Brig. Gen. Wotherspoon
as a major general, Brig. Gen. Ale
shire as major general and chief OF
he quartermasters department, and
Col T.. j. McClernand rs br!gadior
general, succeeding Gen. Wother-
spoon.
William j. Flynn of New York was
appointed chief of the United States
secret service by Secretary Mac
Veagh of the treasury department,
succeeding John Il. Wilkie, now chief
supervising agent of the customs.
Representative Rodenberg of East
st. Louis, a member of the committee
On rivers and harbors, said that action
On his proposition to have the juris-
1iction of the Mississippi river COM
mittee extended from Cape Glrardeau,
Mo-, as far north as Rockland, Ill., on
| both sides of the river, would not be
/ taken until after the holidays.
President Taft has received assur-
ances that Col. George oGethals, build.
or of the Panama canal, will accept
/ The post of governor Of the Panama
canal zone. His nomination probably
will be sent to the senate after the
presidents return from Panama.
Senator Bristow OF Kansas intro
iuced bill providing for preference
primary for the appointment of post
masters which would affect the APP
pointment of every postmaster in tho
United States who receives $500 or
more year.
Representative Oscar W. Under
wood of Alabama. whose name has en-.
tered into notice as a personal cabi-
net selection by the president-elect,
asserts he is aware of the president
elects purpose to offer him port
folio.
The house passed the Burnett lite.
racy test immigration bill, 17S to SO.
The measure, a substitute for the SEN
ate Dillingham; bill, would bar from
The United States immigrants over JIG
years OF age unable to read, except
those proving to have em!grated on
account of religious persecution al
home.
The first measure 10 provide ar
rangements for the Inauguration OF
Woodrow Wilson was a joint resolu
ton introduced by Representative
Johnson of South Carolina at the re-
quest OF the commissioners OF the Dis
trict of Columbia, TO appropriate $685.
900 for the expense of special protec
ton of life and property and mainte
nance of order for two weeks begin
ming February %.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer has
signed the plans and specifications fol
the new battleship Pennsylvania, the
largest warship yet designed for The
United States of any other navy. The
plans will be in the hands OF pros
pective bidders by December 20. Bidi
will be opened at the navy DEPART
ment on February is, and 1t is Secre
tary Meyers plan to award the con
tract for this biggest battleship befor,
he retires from office. March 4.
The chair of the presiding Officer
of the senate, vacant when that bod,
convened, was filed for the rest o
the session by the adoption of a plal
through which Senators Gallinger ant
Bacon will alternate in terms OF twt
weeks each as president pro temper,
-. until March 4.
v "a III .
, sent to congress during the curren
session to fill judicial and law vacan
cies will remain Enacted upon unit
after the holidays, as a result of tn
failure of a quorum to attend meeting
of the senate judiciary committee.
Denunciation of the mail orde
liquor business" as the enemy of stat
prohibition, characterized the opening
|. Of the fight in the senate for the pass
age of the SheppardKneyon bill t
prohibit the shipment of liquor acros
state lines into dry territory"
Following a consultation with Sec
rotary of State Knox, President Tai
decided that he would not appoint
successor to Whitelaw Reid, ambasss
= dor to Great Britain, who died in Lor
don. Announcement of his decision
was made at the White House.
Representative Beall of Texas, chair
man of the committee on expenditure
in the department of justice, intro
duced resolution requesting author
ity to investigate branches of that dc
, partment outside of Washington. Tn
Texan has a notion that conditions a
the Leavenworth and Atlanta peniteI
tiaries are not what they should be.
John j. Carney, Democratic cand
date for congress in the Second Okla
, homa district, will file contes
J against Representative DickaT. Mol
, gan, who was reelected November
Mr.. Carney will set up the contention
that the fourteenth and fifteent
amendments to the federal constitl
! ton were not toally adopted and tina
, the negroes have no right to vote 1
his state.
Senator Bailey declined to discus
published reports that he Will resig
about January | and that the Texa