Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1908 — NATIONAL LEGISLATURE [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL LEGISLATURE

Synopsis of the Proceedings in Um Senate and in the House of Representatives. Bailey held the attention of his colleagues in the senate Monday and visitors who crowded the galleries with a speech in opposition to the Aidrich currency bill. The senate spent over an hour in debating the Frye bill, providing that materials and supplies shipped from the United States for the Panama canal shall be transported only in vessels with a United States register. Resolutions of sorrow upon die announcement of the death of Representative Adolph Meyer (La.) were adopted. The house was In session but a few minutes, adjourning upon announcement of Meyer’s death. On Tuesday, cotton as a basis for the Issuance of treasury notes in times of money stringency was the chief feature of a speech in the seuate on the pending currency bill by McLaurin (Miss.). Gallinger secured an agreement to vote on the ocean mall subsidy bill on March 20. Consideration of the postofflee appropriation bill was resumed In the bouse of representatives, and eleven pages were disposed of. Hamilton (Mich.) upheld the right of the federal government to control corporations and sustained the president 1n his attitude toward them. On Wednesday a message from the- president and reports from the committee on military affairs on* the Brownsville affray consumed the time of the senate during the early part of the session. The pending currency bill was discussed by Clarke (Ark.), who opposed the issue. Some bills were passed. Determined and persistent assaults were made ,on the postofflee appropriation bill In the house. Amendments were adopted giving letter carrleri $1,200 salaries; allowing an additional $2,500 for clerks In certain thirdclass officers; prohibiting the transmission through the malls of intoxicating liquors, The bill was still pending at adjournment.