Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1913-01-16
Congressional Notes

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| received assurances Of President-elect
Wilson's satisfaction with the outlook
for cooperation in the senate during
his administration The president
elect has adopted the policy of hands
off, in connection with the senate's in
ternal organization.
Enormous profits by the First Ma.
tional bank of New York city were re-
counted by George +. Baker. chairman
Of the board Of directors, as a witness
| before the house money trust commit
| tee. Mr.. Baker furnished the commit
tee with records Knowing that since
its organization, in 1868, with a capt.
talization of 100000, the bank has
made profits amounting to more than
/ $SO,OOO,OOO
}. N. Heiskell, publisher of the Ark
ansas Gazette, the second newspaper
/ publisher to be sworn in as a senator
within a week, took the oath of office
| as successor to the late jeff Davis of
! Arkansas. Heiskell bears his commits
sion from the governor of Arkansas,
/ who appointed him, to serve until the
/ legislature elects. The new senator
appears the youngest man in the SEN
/ ate.
Senators Stone and Reed of Mis-
! souri, have put their shoulders to the
wheel in the effort to make sure that
the house committee on rivers and
harbors will include in the forthcom-
| ing river and harbor appropriation
| bin an item extending the jurisdiction
: .e a.,
far north as Rock Island, Ill.
The Indian appropriation bill, carry
ing approximately SS,OO0,OOO, was
passed by tho house The principal
items in the bill as finally adopted by
the house include for gratuity appro-
priations, $G,OS4,O93; for fulfilling
treaty stipulations, $740,5G0, and for
reimbursing items, SS50,000.
y protest against any action by the
senate based upon an appeal to pas
sion or prejudice" marked the closing
arguments in the defense of Judge
Robert w. Archibald.
The house committee on rivers ami
harbors has referred TO subcommit-
tee the proposition to extend the juris-
diction of the Mississippi river com
mission as far north as Rock Island,
| III, Advocates of the change ex-
I pressed themselves greatly cncour
aged over the outlook. Represents.
tive Rodenberg Of East St. Louis,
who introduced The bill, said the prop
ositon would be inserted in the river
and harbor bill
The chemical schedule OF tho re-
vised tariff legislation to be enacted
by the coming extra session of con-
gress was closed so far as public
hearings are concerned.
A plea for the encouragement of
rife practice among schoolboys Of
America was made by Lieut. Gen.
John C. Bates, United States army,
retired, on the occasion of his retire
ment from the presidency of the Ma
tional Rife association of Omaha.
/ Seeking to evolve a new currency
= system plan to be recommended 20
congress as a substitute for the one
! proposed by the national monetary
! commission, a subcommittee of the
house committee on banking and cur
! rency began series of public hear
! ings that probably will continue sew
eral weeks,
Federal appropriation of S25OOO,O 600
! to aid the states for good roads is pro-
posed in a bill offered by Senator
Swanson. The act would apportion
the money among the states accord
ing to population and mileage of post
roads. 1t is provided that in every
instance the states shall pay one-half
the cost of construction.
Notice of contest against Repre-
sentative Francis Burton Harrison's
reelection from the Twentieth New
! York district was filed with the clerk
of the mousse by julius II. Reiter, who
alleges fraud and trickeTy."
The situation is such in the senate
as to render it certain that neither
Ferdinand c. Schwedtmann of st.
Louis nor any of the other eight men,
bers of the federal industrial commits
sion appointed by President Taft will
serve in that capacity unless the APP
pointments are approved and sent 10
tie senate again after Woodrow Will
son becomes president.
( President Taft is willing to submit
to arbitration the questions at issue
between Great Britain and the United
States over Panama canal tolls, but
he does not favor arbitration by the
| Hague tribunal.
President Taft renominated Charles
| p. Neill to be commissioner of labor.
That the American Indian should
be released as soon as possible from
the paternal care of the United States
government is the advice in the an
nual report from the bureau of Indian
affairs submitted to Secretary of the
Interior Fisher by Robert G.. Valen.
tine, until recently commissioner.
Senator Bristow introduced bill
for an industrial commission to con-
troll corporations and with power sim
liar to that of the interstate commerce