Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1906 — PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS [ARTICLE]

PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS

What the National Solons Are Doing for the Good of the Country. Washington, Dec. 11. Minor matters occupied the attention of the senate during Its session. A resolution was adopted calling for the record of the negro troops dismissed by the president, prior to the Brownsville (Tex.) affair. Consideration of a child labor bill for the District of Columbia was begun. An executive session was held. The house began consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. Simplified spelling held the attention of the house for an hour or more, but no action was taken. There was wide latitude of debate and several Irrelevant subjects were discussed. Washington, Dec. 12. —The question of Reed Smoot’s right to a seat as United States senator from Utah was discussed by Burrows in the senate for more than three hours, In opposition to that right. President Roosevelt’s message in Forto Rico was read and an executive session was held. The house, ostensibly considering the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation, put In the day talking of pretty much everything else, Including a ponegyrlc on the president as the recipient of the Nobel peace prize, l>7 Boutell of Illinois. No action was bad on the bill.

Washhyton, Dec. 13.—The open session of the senate was limited so that the major portion of the day might be devoted to a consideration In executive session of the Algedras treaty, which was ratified. The feature of the day was a speech by Rayner upholding the state’s rights doctrine as Involved In the present Japanese question on the Pacific slope. Some resolutions asking Information of the executive were adopted. An executive session was held. The house began the consideration of the legislative, executive nnd judicial appropriation bill by paragraphs nnd completed thirty-four pages of the bill. A provision was adopted Instructing the public printer to use the orthography generally recognized by the standard dictionaries. Moody In Confirmed. Washington. Deo. 13. The senate confirmed the nominations of William n. Moody, of Massachusetts, to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States; Charles J. Bonaparte, of Maryland, to tie attorney general; Victor H. Metcalf, of California, to be secretary of the navy, and Oscar S. Straus, of New York, to be secretary of commerce. The opposition to Moody nnd Bonaparte which hail been raised In the senate by a number of Democratic senators was not strongly pressed at the session. Ambassadors Nominated. Washington. Dee. 13. —The president has sent the following nominations to the senate: Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary: Henry White, Rhode Island, to France; Lloyd C. Orlscoin, Pennsylvania, to Italy; John W. Riddle, Minnesota, to Russia, Irving B. Dudley, California, to Brazil. Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary: Leslie Combs, Kentucky, to Perp.