Mexico Missouri message., 1914-02-26

Burleson's power TO
a, marcel post rates, assailed by Con-
greesman Lewis, father Of the parcel
most. as a Joker" was analysed by
Senators Bristow and Kenyon.
Members of the interstate commerce
commission appeared before the house
committee on interstate commerce to
discuss the advisability of legislation
for federal regulation of railroad Sc
curities.
In the committee Of the whole, the
bouse. IS to 81, adopted Represents
five Fitzgerald's amendment to elimi.
nate the s4O,OOO.OO0 bond issue provi-
sion from the Alaska railroad bin.
Representative Fitzgerald contended
the road should be built with current
revenues.
The Alaska railroad bill was passed
by the house, 230 to 81. The bill, as
perfected in committee of the whole,
sppropriates outright $1,O0O,000 and
authorizes the president TO expend not
10 exceed $S5,OOOOOO for the construc-
ton of government railroads in
Alaska.
A 100000 campaign against hog
cholera and q horse disease called
dourine is TO be financed by a bill
passed by the house and which al
ready has passed the senate.
June IL is the date Democratic lead
ers hope to adjourn congress Prest
dent Wilson believes the senate and
house may work at the same time on
he trust bills,
President Wilson will veto the Bur.
nett immigration bill if it comes 10
him for signature with the so-called
literacy test contained in it.
The funeral services OF the late
Senator Augustus Bacon, held in the
senate chamber, we're simple but i'm.
music and no flowers. The senate
transacted no business and adjourned
Immediately after the service.
The army appropriation bill, aggre-
eating $94,000,000 as reported, is $10,
73S,5S5 under the estimates and
$4,000 below the current army APP
preparation. The signal service gets
100000, including maximum Of
s25O,O0O for airships.
Representative Burnett of Alabama,
Chairman of the house committee on
immigration, predicts that as a COM
promise on the Pacific coast fight to
exclude Japanese and all other Asiat-
les, congress, at this session, would
enact legislation to bar out the Hin
dus.
Administration leaders in congress
are seeking to speed up the legislative
program so far as 1t has been planned,
ana TO this end an effort will be made
Inis week to dispose of more of the
appropriation measures.
on the theory that the present title
10 an obsolete misnomer, Representa-
1--WE Bartholdt introduced a bill in the
mouse proposing to change the name
Vi the war department to army de-
partment'
ne annual report OF the commits
sionef general of immigration shows a
tremendous increase in the number of
@'''hs who arrived in the United
states during 1913. In all, 1,197.S92
,,ninllsrants arrived, a net increase OF
4Vl's36 over 1912.
PRESIDENT Wilson's cold was de-
O'dred at the White House TO be very
nuch Improved The president lunched
S nu uihed with his family in the state
UAi'hg room. 1t was the first time in
,A'ee Gays that he had descended
m ION the upper apartments of the
white House.
=, 4n'edlate release OF all munitions
va, war under seizure in Texas, New
To .A'co and Arizona. except those
y, s.ueu as evidence against violatorl
a. 'ne neutrality laws, was ordered by
"e department of justice.
WINS aHs Tor the reorganization of the
,a Ia railroad have been drawn up