Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — PRESIDENT BREAKS MESSAGE RECORD. [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT BREAKS MESSAGE RECORD.

Up to adjournment for the holidays -President Roosevelt had sent eighteen messages to Congress during the present session, an average of one and a half per day. The following is a list of the messages : Dea. 3—Congress convened. Dec. 4 —Message on the treatment of criminals by probation. Message transmitting the annual report of the Civil Service Commission. Message on control of the yellow fever. Message on church claims in the Philippines. Message recommending the authorization of the President to dis- _ , miss officers of the navy without trial. Dec. s—Messages— Message recommending legislation for Alaska. Dec. 10 — Message recommending the reimbursement of the owners of the British schooner Lillie. Message transmitting the ordinances of the Executive Council of Porto Rico. . Message recommending payment to Lieut-Col. L. K. Scptt, U. S. A., for an invention used by the army. Message recommending the return of customs duties collected from certain British Importers. Message recommending an appropriation for the payment of the cable company whose wires were cut by Admiral Dewey during the war with Spain. Dec. 11— Message describing conditions In Porto Rico and recommending citizenship for its people. Message transmitting the report of • the Keep Commission on the purchase of department supplies. Dec. 17—Message describing conditions on the Isthmus of Panama. Message concerning revision of the public land laws. Message recommending reorganlzatlon Of the naval personnel. Dec. 18 —Message transmitting the report of Secretary Metcalf on the Japanese questions. Dec. 19 —Message on the discharge without honor of three companies of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry. - ■ - h __ Dec. 20 —Congress adjourned for the holidays. President Roosevelt will send still another message to Congress immediately after the holiday recess. This will deal with the subject of immigration.