Mexico Missouri message., 1913-02-27
Congressional Notes

Slreatlon OF the measure was resumed |
in the house.
Secretary Nagel has made a report |
to President Taft on the official con- |
duct of Daniel J. Keefe OF Detroit. !
commissioner general of immigration, !
and has recommended that Keete's |
resignation be demanded.
How President Taft turned down
proposal which probably would have
permitted American interests to win
prize of S2.500,000 offered by the
Chilean senate is told by Senator
Bankhead of Alabama in a statement
showing that capital is being taken
out of the United States and invested
in Canada at such rate that this
country must soon take preventive
action.
Because the conference report on
the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill contained provi-
sion eliminating the assay office at
Carson City, New, Senator Newlands
of Nevada prevented adoption of the
report when It was brought into the
senate. The provision extending the
life of the commerce court until June
80 also had been eliminated by the
confcsees.
On the strength of representations
made in numerous kilograms received
from the Southwest, Senator Ashurst
of Arizona made an urgent appeal to
the state department 20 intervene in
Mexico to the extent of making an
10 tho nxnpItinn nf
John Kenneth Turner. an American
newspaper man taken into custody by
the Huerta government charged with
stirring up dissension and being an
active partisan of Madero.
A session of government business,
the reading of Washingtons farewell
address by Senator Brandegee of Con.
necticut in the senate, and by Rep
resentative Barnhardt of Indiana, in
the house, and the holding of exer.
cises by civic and patriotic organiza-
tons throughout the city Saturday,
made up the celebration of the 1SOth
anniversary of the birth of the father
of this country in the national capt.
tai.
Policies of a new administration
and plans of a new congress will be
fairly well outlined within the next
10 days. Anxious to start the new
machinery, Democratic leaders have
prepared for party reorganization and
the outlining of legislative action i'm
mediately after Mr.. Wilson assumes
office.
BY vote of 154 to 112 the house re-
fused to reduce the expenditures for
pensions by approximately $1,000,000
at the expense of aged veterans, wild
ows and mothers of veterans who hap
pen to be living abroad. AS reported
to the house, the pension appropria-
ton bill contains a provision abolish
ing the pensionable status Of persons
on the pension roll who are residing
abroad permanently.
The report was current among Dem
ecratic leaders in the house that the
extra session of congress would be
called to convene in the first week
of April.
The Newport News Shipbuilding
companys bid of $7,235,O00 for con.
struction of the new dreadnaught
Pennsylvania with Curtiss turbine en-
gines was the lowest OF all proposals
opened at the navy department.
The house refused, by vote of 213
to ia, to pass the Dillingham; Burnett
immigration bill over the presidents
veto. Five votes, changed from the
negative to the affirmative, would
have given the two-thirds necessary
to override the veto.
Secretary MacVeagh told the house
committee on treasury department ex-
penditures that $35,000,000 in the
treasury, above current liabilities, was
a practicable working balance, and
that in emergencies it could be run
below that amount.
Memorial services were held in the
Representative w. w. Wedemeyer, OF
Ann Arbor, Mich; John G. McHenry
OF Benton. Pa, and Richard e. Cor.
nell of Poughkeepsie, n. Y, and Sen.
ator George S. Nixon of Reno, New.
Former Senator Eugene Hale Of
Maine is reported to be in a critical
condition from paralysis with which
he was stricken. Because OF his ad.
| vanced years. Senator Hale's friends
are apprehensive that he may not re-
| cover.
Chas. p. Higgins of st. Louis will be
supported by Senators Stone and Resd
of Missouri for sergeant.at-arms of the
United States senate during the Viii
son administration.
Senate Republicans who mapped
out a Legislative program" at eau
Gus have little hope that any of the
bills recommended for passage will
so through, the railroad physical val
uation bill being the oEly one Endorsed
by the caucus, which is believed to
have the slightest chance.
An increase of nearly 100000 in
the annual postoffice appropriation
! bill was made by the senate commit