Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1913-02-14

summoned dS WlLu6SSeS Dy the S0udL6
campaign expenditures committee
when it opens up its investigation into
campaign expenses OF the general cleo
ton of 1912.
With mo battleships" as their sIo-
gan members of the house opposed to
a big navy got sufficient number of
signatures to a petition for Demo-
cratic caucus on the question of how
many battleships shall be authorized
this year.
Senator Cullom filed with the senate
a memorial signed by 400 citizens of
Illinois protesting against the passage
of the Owen bill, providing for the Gre
alton of an Independent bureau of
health or other similar radical legis-
lation. Christian Scientists probably
predominate among the signers. al
though osteopaths, eclectics, homeo-
paths and others appended their
names.
Loan sharks in the capital, cred
tied with doing an enormous business
among government clerks, received a
blow when President Taft signed the
''loan shark" bill limiting their
charges and also those of pawn brok-
ers to / per cent a month.
Former Senator Joseph W. Bailey's
farewell address to the senate will not
be printed as public document.
When Senator Martin proposed it Sen
ator Smoot objected to having the
speech reprinted at the governments
expense.
Despite the fact that the author of
the principal charges of corruption in
the election of Senators Watson and
Chiffon of West Virginia in 1911 with
drew his allegations, the senate elec-
tions committee may proceed to an In
vestigation.
Eulogies on the life of the late Sen
ator Rayner of Maryland were deliv-
cred in the house by Representatives
Lewis, Talbot, Linthicum, Konig and
Covington and other members
Before he quits office President
Taft expects to send to the senate
two nominations of five more federal
judges, mating Il total of III during
his administration, number un-
equaled so far as records of docu-
ments show, by any other president
in term.
The house passed the bill already
passed by the senate, repeating the
provision of the Indian appropriation
act of 1907, authorizing the sale OF
the Wyandotte burial ground in Kan
sas City, Kan.
The senate passed a bill granting
an increase of pension to Harriet Pier
son Porter, widow of Maj Gen. Fitz-
john Porter, of Mexican war fame.
John Burroughs and Ernest Thomp-
son Seton, the naturalists, are in
washington to urge congress to enact
legislation designed to protect bird
life in the United States.
Coal mining companies in Oklaho-
ma, operating in the Choctaw-Chicka-
saw country, receive the right to ac-
quire an additional $40 acres of land
adjoining their present leases, under
a bill passed by the house of repre-
sentatives.
President Taft signed the congress
sional resolution appropriating $4,000
for the expenses of Gov. Wilson's in
auguration.
The diplomatic and consular bill,
carrying $3,764,643, was reported to
the house by the foreign affairs conn
mittee. The total is 100000 below
the official estimate and $1S0,000
above last years appropriation.
Four hundred women from every
section of the Union appealed to the
house committee on presidential and
congressional elections to appeal for
the passage of the French bill to give
women the right to vote for represen-
tatives in congress.
A joint resolution to make the
"Star-Spangled Banner" the official
anthem of the United States was in
troduced by Representative Levy Of
New York 1t also provides: THAT
whenever the 'Star-Spangled Banner
is played on any occasion at any pub
lie place, where persons belonging to
any branch of the government service
are present, they viii stand at atten-
tion, and all other persons will stand,
such positions being retained until the
last note Of the anthem"
The senate committee on military
affairs has favorably reported a bill
introduced by Senator Clarke author
izing the secretary of war to take
over and maintain the Confederate
cemetery at Little Rock. The Union
and Confederate cemeteries are sep
arated only by a wall, and it will be
necessary only to make an opening.
Transatlantic traffic occupied the
attention of the house merchant ma
rine committee hearing in shipping
pool investigation for several days.
Commercial travellers reports urged
passage of Peters bill to require rail-
roads to issue interchangeable mile
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