Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1913-02-28
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the Country.
CONGRESS-.

The diplomatic and consular appro
priation bill carrying So, 761,642, was
passed by the House.
The senate passed the bill author
izing payment of $1,000 to American
injured by firing on the Mexican Dor
der.
The house Eefused by a vote of 213
to ia, to pass the Dillingham-Bur-
nett immigration bill over the presi-
dents veto.
The House Territories committee
heard Alaskan plea for legislation
permitting entrymen to prove coal
claims in court.
The house money trust Investigate
ing committee has begun considera-
ton of the financial regulation legis-
lation which will be recommended in
its report.
Secretary MacVeaGh submitted to
President Taft his plan for the reor-
ganization of the customs service in
accordance with the authority grant
ed by congress.
Senator Brown introduced amend
ments to the public building bill pro-
viding for the following public build
ings: Alliance, $125,000; Wahoo,
500, 900; Auburn, S6S,000.
Secretary MacVeagh told the house
committee on Treasury department
expenditures that S25,000,000 in the
treasury above current liabilities was
a practicable working balance and
kho4 ~ ap,ar~oro;oc - could ho RIM
below that amount.
Representative Webb Of North Car
DINA has introduced a resolution re-
questing the attorney general to fur
nish the public with information as to
why the criminal prosecution of i'm
porters of china from Limoges,
France, had been discontinued.
The largest pension bill eve re-
ported to congress, carrying appro-
priations a~ggregating $1S0,300,0 900,
was passed by the house by a vote of
219 to 40, with an amendment which
will make necessary an additional ap-
preparation of more than $1,000.000.
Resolutions commencing the efforts
of Secretary of State Knox as chair
man of the governing board of the
Pan-American union for the last four
years to further amity and friendship
between the United States and Latin
America were adopted unanimously
at a meeting Of the governing board
of the Pan-American union.
Plain labelling of food packages with
the net weight and contents before
they are sold to the public is required
by a bill passed by the senate, which
already had passed in the house.
Slight changes made by the senate
will require a conference committee
of the two houses before the measu
is sent to the president for signature.
The proposed 500, 900, 900 Rookie
Teller foundation for benevolent pur
poses constitutes the safest DISPOSE
ton that can be made of that portion
of John D. Rockefeller's immense for
tune, is the conclusion expressed in a
majority report from the senate judic-
larry committee to the senate recon-
mending the passage of the Rookie
Teller foundation bill.
Extravaganza in the present sys-
TEN of improving waterways and the
need of closer cooperation between
the states and the federal government
were emphasized in the senate in a
fight over certain provisions of the
annual river and harbor a~ppropria-
ton bill. Senator Nelson, chairman
of the senate committee, said better
results could be secured in waterway
Improvement if congress would appro-
pirate a lump sum and leave the de.
tails Of river improvement to a com.
mission Of army engineers.