The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

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vocational educational bill And an at
recognizing the government of Porte
| Rico and extending citizenship to tie
| islanders.
The ship purchase bill established
government shipping board TO stI
porviSe shipping matters generally. II
appropriated SJO.OO0.0OO to be OBJ.
tanned from the sale of Panama canal
bonds for the purchase or construction
OF ships to be leased to private indi-
viduals in an effort to restore the
American merchant marine.
The AdamSOn eight-hOur railroad
law was enacted on the eve Of ad-
JOurnment of the first session Of the
last congress. The enactment of
the measure prevented nation
wide railroad strike. II. however,
has never become effective. Be
tween the time of its enactment and
the time for the commencement Of its
operation, January l last, the cOnStitu-
tionality of the measure was chat
lenGed by the railroads. and the whole
matter is now pending in the Supreme
court.
Supplemental railroad legislation.
proposed by President Wilson in his
annual message last December, failed
of enactment This legislation would
have provided for the prevention of
strikes by compulsory legislation. II
was heartily opposed by all of the
bodies of organized labor which had
previously sought the eight-hOur rail
road law
Child Labor and immigration.
The child labor law barred from in
terState commerce all products of chill
dren under sixteen years of age in
mines or of children under fourteen in
factories.
The passage Of the immigration bill
with its literacy test was accomplished
over President Wilson's second veto.
The literacy feature had been
subject of controversy between the ex-
ecutive and legislative branches of the
government for the past twenty years.
Presidents Taft and Cleveland both We
tOed immigration measures because
they carried the literacy feature,
which all three presidents thought was
not proper measure of the fitness of
aliens for admission to the United
States
The federal farm-lOan act. commonly
called the rural-credits bill, created
II federal land banks with S7j0,OO0
capital each. The bill provides a sys-
TEN whereby loans may be made to
farmers for productive purposes
through national farm-loan aSSOcia-
lions. 1t will meet more particularly
the needs of agriculturists in the West
and South.
Under the vocational educational act
the federal government on gradually
scale covers every state ap-
dollar for dollar for secOn-
dairy school instruction in agriculture
and the mechanical and industrial arts |
On the eve of adjournment congress |
passed the pOSt-office appropriation |
bill. with an amendment making "bOne |
dry" all states having prOhibitOry laws. |
This measure was introduced in the |
senate by Senator Reed of Missouri. |
Its unexpected enactment had the eff |
feet of absolutely prohibiting the ship |
nent in interstate commerce of intOXi- |
,antS into states or territories which |
forbid the manufacture or sale of
liquor.
It also closes the mails to all liquor
including newspaper adj
iertising. Neither can letters solicit
ng liquor orders be carried in the
nails.
Sixteen Senators Retire.
Sixteen senators have now discarded
heir togas and prefiXed their titles
with Eek" This disturbance of per-
sonnet reduces but does not upset the
Democratic control of the upper house.
The Democratic majority of 16 is cut
% -, leaving out of consideration such
senator's and senatOrs-elect as La Fol
cite, Hiram Johnson, Poindexter and
Norris, officially classed as Republic
ms but not always voting according to
Among the nationally known sena-
Ors now retired to private life are
Clarence d. Clark of Wyoming, who
las served in the senate continuously
since January %. 1895; Moses f. Clapp
If Minnesota, one of the original Pro-
,ressives; Luke Lea of Tennessee, now
,nly thirty-seven years old. known as
he Baby SENATOR" James f. MARITIME
# New Jersey, who acquired fame
,arly in his senatorial career by his
;tanch defense of applejack as bev-
rage, and John w. Kern of Indiana.
Who has been Democratic leader of the
senate.
Needing no introduction" among the
lew senators are Hiram Johnson of |
Frank B. Kellogg, trust
of Minnesota, and Philander
;. Knox of Pennsylvania. Unlike the
est of the senatOrs-elect, their repu-
ations are made;" all they need to do
$ to live up to EN-"
Could Afford the Newest.