Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-02-21
Congressional Notes

WIN elaborate CeIGulOhS, NV aNA
ate and house in joint session can
vassed the electoral votes of the va
rious states and officially declared
Woodrow Wilson and Thomas B. Mar
shall elected president and vice presi.
dent of the United States for the term
beginning March 4.
Government ownership or control
of telegraph lines again is recon-
mended by Postmaster General Hitch
cock in his annual report submitted
to congress.
BY viva voce vote the house re-
passed the Webb bill to prohibit the
shipment of intoxicating liquors into
dry" states as it passed the senate
and thereby removed a parliamentary
obstruction which threatened to delay
its final passage until another session
of congress.
The Poindexter resolution callins
upon Secretary MacVeagh for full
statement of his reasons for issuing
treasury order No. s" for the deopsiI
of customs receipts in national banks
was passed by the senate after short
debate.
Carrying a total Of $94,585, 628, the
army appropriation bill was reported
to the senate from the committee on
military affairs. The committee in
creased the allowances made by the
house to the extent of $68O,45O. A
number of amendments in the shape
of legislation were added, most i'm
portant of which provides for changes
in the method of appointment and con-
stitution of courts martial.
The bill to provide $2,000,000 for
government participation in the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition in 1915 at San
Francisco was killed for this session
of congress by the action of the house
on test vote of 112 to lit in par
liamentary skirmish for closing de-
bate.
Criticism OF the present conserva-
ton system in the country because of
the power it gives to departmental
heads in Washington to regulate af-
fairs in great areas of Western states
was voiced in the senate by Senator
Thomas of Colorado.
The house passed a resolution in
troduced by Representative Thomas
w. Hardwick of Georgia, calling on
the president for investigation regard
ing the exemption Of American i'm
porters of Manila hemp from pay
ment of the export tax thereon.
Eulogies for the late Senator Frye
of Maine and Representative Hub
bard of Iowa and Utter of Rhode Is
land were delivered in the house.
Many representatives joined in the
symposium of tributes.
By a viva voce vote the house re-
passed the Webb bill to prohibit the
shipment of intoxicating liquors into
dry" states, as it passed the senate,
and thereby removed parliamentary
obstruction which threatened to de-
lay its final passage until another SEES
sion of congress.
The Clayton resolution for a con-
stitutionai amendment for six-year,
single presidential term effective in
1921, to exempt Taft, Wilson or
Roosevelt from its operation, was put
over to the next congress by
the house judiciary committee. This
indicates no action will be taken on
the Works single-term resolution al
ready passed by the senate.
Senator Poindexter introduced "a
resolution calling upon the secretary
of the treasury to furnish him rea-
sons for treasury order authorizing
deposit of customs receipts in ma
tional banks.
Senator Crawford introduced bill
to restrict issuance of interlocutory
injunction which suspend enforce
ment of a state statute.
Resolution calling for safeguarding
American interests in Mexico was in
troduced by Senator MARITIME.
President-elect Wilson's attitude on
the Panama canal tolls and free pass
age for American coastwise ships, is
expected to have an important bear
ing upon the senate action on the
Root amendment proposing the repeal
of the free ships provision of the bill
passed last August.
The majority of the house commit.
tee on ways and means, which body
is framing tariff revision legislation
for the coming extra session OF con-
gress, agreed upon radical reductions
in the customs duties on mica, as
pratt and various kinds of chinaware
and glassware of the cheaper Varie-
ties.
Representative Morgan Of Oklahoma
addressed the house on his bills to
appropriate more than $3O,0OO,OOO to
compensate that state for losses as a
result of nontaxable Indian lands.
Opposition Of Democratic senators
to the confirmation of President Taft's
1,500 pending nominations has
brought some Republican senators in
to the position of threatening retalia-
tion after the Democrats come into
power March 4.
A resolution calling on President