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nn,w! "? ur 'I i I! Kill ' .'.' r- m i (, i3 ,? ' if I WASHINGTON NEWS The Commoner. VOLUME 12, NUMBER 22 An Associated Press dispatch, datod May 28, says: Tho Titanic disaster oC April 15, in which 1,517 souls wont down amid icebergs off tho banks of Newfoundland, was tho thomo of speech, roport and pro posed legislation in tho senate lobby. Sonator William Aldon Smith of Michigan submitted tho report of investigation by the sonato sub-committee, a feature of which was tho condemnation of tho captain of tho steamer California for not going to tho aid of tho sinking vessel; de livered a speech in which ho per sonally took much stronger ground reviewing tho disaster and intro duced measures designed to safe guard llfo in the ocoan traffic. Ono of the most important recommendations was for strictor inspection of vessels by the federal steamboat inspection servico and tho meeting of all tho requirements of American navigation laws by ovory vossel clearing from American ports. It was ono of tho notable days of tho present session of con gross. Almost all tho senators woro in their scats and gave closo atten tion. Tho galleries woro crowded. Tho sonato passed a joint resolution extending tho thanks of congress and appropriating $1,000 for a medal for Captain Arthur H. Ros tron of the Carpathia, and also a vote of thanks to tho Carpathian crow. Tho resolution was introduced by Senator Smith at tho conclusion of -Ills spoech. It was adopted Immedi ately without reference to a com mittee. Senator Brown q. 'Maryland fol lowed with aBpeech arraigning American navigation laws and draw ling lssoiTsTrom the accident. incroaso wages of their operatives. Tho increase, Mr. Difonderfer claims, amounted approximately $5,000,000, while the incroaso charged to con sumers had already amounted to more than $15,000,000. By a vote of 35 to ?A tho senate voted down an amendment to the metal tariff bill offered by Senator Smith of Goorgia, placing a largo number of farming implements on tho freo list. Accordinc to testimony Riven be fore tho house judiciary committee, members of the bar who practiced before Judgo Archbald, of the court of commerce, when he was United States district judge at Scranton, Pa., contributed to a fund for a va cation trip to Europe for tho judge. bo voted upon by tho senate. It reached tho senate January 30, and has sinco been under consideration by tho committee on finance. Tho Indian appropriation bill, carrying $13,070,303, was reported to the senate by the Indian affairs committee. The total appropriation is $4,920,943 over tho bill as it passed the house. Senator Curtis an nounced that tho bill was $3,000, 000 in excess of tho estimates and that he would oppose many of the now provisions. aggregates" of outstanding capital stock, indebtedness, income, unin sured losses, annual depreciation, in terest on indebtedness, taxes, stato and foreign taxes, receipts by divid ends on stock of other federally taxed organizations and net incomes in the metal, mining, woolen, cotton and sugar industries. Tho house passed the military academy appropriation bill carry ing $1,034,059, an increase of about $125,000 from last year. President Taft made an address at the Memorial day exercises at the Arlington national cemetery, An Associated Press dispatch says: Representative Henry of Texas, chairman of tho house rules com mitteo and ranking member of the judiciary -committee, announced his retirement from tho last named com mittee. His chairmanship duties, he explained, had become so onerous that he found It impossible to attend to both committees. Theodore Roosevelt was de nounced In the house by Representa tive Fitzgerald of New York as a peril to1 the nation. Guerilla warfare Is thought to be tho program of the Cuban Insurgents. Mexican rebels accuse the United States of showing favor to the Ma dero government. Tho senate rejected by 12 tho Cummins substitute in the iron and steel bill, which have provided for free ores. to GO house would The senate passed a bill to permit tho Central Railway & Bridge com pany to build a bridge across the Missouri river at Council Bluffs, la. An Associated Press dispatch, dated May 30, says: The president will have to send the senate a com pilation of corporation tax laws re turns under a resolution introduced by Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, aimed at revenue evasions by big corporations and adopted by the senate today. The measure, tho vehicle of lively debate In the senate over the amassing of wealth by Car negie and others, calls for "total Senator Porter J. McCumber of North Dakota, a member of the finance committee and chairman of the pensions committee, who has been investigating government ex penditures, In a statement says he is in favor of a complete overhauling of the departments, with a view to promoting greater economy and business efficiency. "This is one of the first problems that congress muot take up at tho beginning of the next session. Tho revelation of extravagance and waste that have come to view in con nection with the work of the vari ous committees of congress investi gating the government departments show the paramount importance of the introduction of strict basiness methods," he declares. "No private business concern would tolerate the extravagant methods employed in running some of the federal departments," says Senator McCumber. "None of tho departments is freo from faulty ad ministration, and millions of dol lars could be saved the government by simply adopting the methods of up-to-date business management. Until this is done tho government will bear the burden of needless ex pense in many directions." Two bills aggregating $74,000,000 for levee work and improvements to tho Mississippi river have been in troduced into the house. A Washington dispatch, dated May 28, says: Tho precautions taken to protect American and other foreign interests in Cuba have been amply justified, in tho judgment of tho stato department, based on re ports that have been received from many sources and especially from owners of plantations and sugar fields and other Industries. Up to tho present time, It Is declared, there has been no destruction of valuable property, but on tho other hand the situation an Guantanamo is Improv ing. One fact vindicating the state department's action in asking for naval protection of Amorican in terests la the threatening attitude of tho rebels, according to Information, apparently reliable, that comes to tho department, that the are becoming desperate, , leaders declare that if Gomez does not procure of tho Mo rau law organization of Congress celebrated Memorial day by passing the annual pension ap propriation bill after fifteen minutes' consideration. Tho measure car ried $165,102,500, an increase of about $3,000,000 over the amount appropriated by the house. &P Top Baggy- xl fw 1 M Retail Prlco $60.00. "Buggies, Snrrcyo, 7flBD JwSUmKLt WL IW Spring Wagons, Farm wagons, wo ar l IHMUJ Wimi&LWBr Tv JT WL M bavocnt out our Jobbers, our "Whole- JSEmmrsWlLWmBmKf i. wk m oalers and our Rctailera and offer YOU AJTOnsBHHIERflBM W WL their profit. Writo today lor our Pc0fW5T"ffl?SliV----ni KJ B Free Catalog and Delivered Prices KQjl xT7 m m Mutual Carriaoo & Harness Mfo. 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Insurgents and their President tho repeal prohibiting tho a strictly negro By a decisive vote of 45 to 11 the senate passed the house bill extend ing the eight hour principle to con tracts involving labor on government work. colony in Cuba ho and the other leaders will demand contributions from the railroads and from the owners of estates in order to pro long the conflict and destroy the property of those that refuse. Tho present rebellion long continued. threatens to be The house steel and iron tariff revision bill passed tho senate May 30, 35 to 22, repealing tho Canadian reciprocity law, putting a universal duty of $2 a ton on print paper and cutting the duty on pig Iron and ferro silicon. The liill now goos to conference with the house. Commercial Appeal ) American Homestead. . . Tho Commoner ) Weekly Enquirer .) Amorican Homestead. . . The Commoner ) Industrious lion. . . .-. 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