Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — CONGRESSIONAL DOINGS. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL DOINGS.

Washington. Dec. 20. —The senate went into executive session for an hour to consider presidential appointments. The Democrats conducted a successful filibuster until it was sary to reopen the doors to continue the Archbald trial. Only one nomination, that of John Brown, postmaster at Concord, N. H., was confirmed. The immigration bill was sent to conference. The hearing in the Jtrchbald case was continued. The senate adjourned for the holidays. It will reconvene at eleven o’clock on January 2. While attention at the house end of the cajmol was riveted on J. P. Morgan’s testimony before the money trust committee, the house proper held only a 15minute session. The house found itself without a quorum, and when Representative Borland called attention to the fact Representative Foster moved an adjournment, sayfng “there Isn’t a quorum in town and it is use--less to have a call of the house.” Owing to the unexpected adjournment the Indian appropriation bill, which is pending, goes over until after- the holiday recess. The sudden adjournment also prevented the reading of the president’s message to the house, although the senate received it. The committee on expenditures in the interior department filed a report on the charge* against former Commissioner of Indian Affairs Robert G. Valentine. The commission finds that Mr. Valentine was guilty of official misconduct, including a “flagrant disregard of the civil service law,” and the former commissioner is accused of having been “extravagant” in the expenditure of public funds and of showing favoritism among his subordinates.