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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.
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ations has completed the sundry
civil bill, the largest omnibus supply
measure which comes oof ore congress.-
The bill contains appropria
tions of more than $125,000,000:
This bill, with the deficiency bill,
tho last to bo acted upon, completes
the house committee's work. Chair
man Fitzgerald declined to make
public tho provisions of tho bill.
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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
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30, 35 to 22, repealing tho Canadian
reciprocity law, putting a universal
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a resolution in tho house calling for
a thorough investigation of tho
anthracite coal trade. He says tho
operators were using an excuse for
alleged exorbitant prices tho fact
that recently they were compelled to
The metal bill went throuch tho
senate by default May 30, many of
the republicans disappearing in
order to allow tho democratic bill,
Instead of tho Cummins substitute,
to go through and permit tho presi
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for tho bill. The bill is tho first of
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