Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1906 — CONGRESS [ARTICLE]

CONGRESS

The Senate ..Thursday passed the. publie building bill, reported from committee with a net increase of $4,084,500 over the total as passed by the House. A confergace report on the agrieultural approoriation bill, complete except for the meat inspection measure, was accepted and another conference .ordered on the disputed point. Consideration of the conference report on-the pure foml bill was delayed until Friday. Conf.-rrnce reports on the Lake Erie and Ohio river ship canal bill and the measure" creating a United States court for China were accepted. Senator Tillman made his long-deferred speech on tie ejection of Mrs. Minor Morris from the White House. The general deficiency appropriation bill, the. last of the great supply measures, was reported and a night session held, for its .consideration. It carries a total of $11,549,365, an increase of $684,405.0ver the amount voted by the Hoiise, and was passed in that form. The House adopted the conference report on the railroad rate bill and accepted a partial report on the agricultural a^prepriat+en--449 r —HistMi cling—ksconferees nbt to recede from the meat inspection amefuhnenf 'IJJT the vote of 193 to 45. Under a special rule the conference reports qn the immunity bill, tlie Chinese court measure and a number of minor acts were put through. Fifty-five bills were passed; including the following: To pay Si.tXK) eael| to the widoTvs" of Cap- : tain Charles W. Dakin and Thomas Ilennessy of the San E'ranciseo fire department, who lost their lives fighting the fire on board the transport Meade; to pension Gen. E. F. Bragg of Wisconsin; appropriating $20,000 to raise Commodore Perry's flagship Niagara, to be kept on free exhibition in the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home. The resignation of Timothy D. Sullivan (N. Y’.) as a member of the House was head.

The Senate Friday adopted the conference reports on the railroad rate and pure food bills and the meat inspection amendmentj to the agricultural appropriation hill. The action on the rate bill passed the measure. Senators Tillman and Bailey engaged in a heated controversy on the subject of jiasses for railrlmd lawyers. The confcronoo reports on the sundry civil and general deficiency bill was sent to conference, and at 11 o’clock Senator Scott reported that there were fourteen items of difference between the two hnnses, and it would be impossible to complete the work that night. After a discussion without action on the La Follette lull, limiting the hours of labor Tor trainmen, the Senate adjourned. The 440 h se-ftdopted— eoti fe re nee -re ports on - t-lie-followiHg bills, completing their passage through Congress: Agricultural appropriation with the meat inspection provision, pure food, sundry civil, creating a bureau of naturalization and immigration, and Lake Erie and Ohio river ship canal. Bills to simplify the collection of revenues and to aid the Alaska railroad ili the construction of a railroad and telegraph and telephone line from Cordova bay to Eagle and the Yukon river were passed. Considerable feeling developed during the consideration of the bill to grant an extension of time for the completion of the Alaska Central railroad, but it was p.tsse<l. A bill to extend the time for the construction "of a bridge aefoss the Mississippi river near South Omaha. Neb., also went through. Final action on the gen-eral-’'deficiency bill was taken. The omnibus public-building bill was sent to conference. but late in the evening Representative Barrholdt reporteiFit disagraemenU on fourteen items. A motion instructing the conferees not to agree on the Senate amendment appropriating $.”,,000.090 for the purchase of a site in Washington- for a building for the departments oi State, Justice and" Commerce and Ixtbor was adopted by a unanimous vote.

The conference report on the public buildings appropriation bill was reported in the Senate Saturday and Senator Seott said the Senate conferees had been forced to yield the provision for the $3,000,000 building for the Departments of State, Justice arc! Commerce and Labor. The report was adopted. An appropriation bill carrying into effect the provisions of the omnibus buildings bill, with a total of $(,000,000, was passed. Owing to an error in engrossing the sundry civiUttill. (discovered after the President had signed the measure, a resolution was adopted to straighten out the tangle. There wore many recesses, owing to diKSy in engrossing bills, and Senator Hale offered resolutions directing the committee on rules to investigate the enrolling force of the Senate and the committee on printing to make inquiry as to the cause of delay at the government printing office. Roth were adopted. AL IO p. ni. Vice President Fairbanks declared the final adjournment of the first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress. The members of the Houso spent the day with humorous speeches and songs during the intervals betweti the necessary ballots on the final measures. The conference report on the public buildings bill and the bill making appropriations to carry into effect its provisions were passed in short order, as was a resolution r earing the tangle on the sundry civil biil. Speaker Cannon appointed Messrs. Rartholdt, Burleigh and Bankhead a cotnn.ission to invesiijpto a certain site for the State, Justice and Commerce and Labor building in the capital. At 10 p. m. Speaker Cannon declared the final adjournment of the session.

Notes of the National Capital. Cohfress passed many laws of benefit to nation and made record for wot*d«. Senator Tillman charges Standard Oil influence in changing common carrier clause in rate bill. President Roosevelt wants everybody in the United States to understand that the food at the White House is plain but wholesome, nothing more. He rend in a Washington paper a story about the elaborate menus declared to be in onbr throe times a day at the' WhiteJloiise. Straightway he sent for a reporter of this paper and made a strong denia| that he and his family had anything to eat so much better than .The average American family. “Why, for lunch,” he declared, “I sometimes have only n bowl of l mHk and a hunk of bread and the children get cold •oast beefs"