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The Commoner.
APRIL 1, 1910
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Washington News
Senator Hale has secured the in
corporation of a provision in the
legislative appropriation bill that in
formation under the corporation tax
law shall be made public only on the
order of the president when he
deems it for the public interest.
Tho house passed a bill forbid
ding proprietors of amusement
places in the District of Columbia
or 'the territories to deny admission
to soldiers or sailors because p
their uniform.
The legislative, judicial and execu
tive appropriation bill, as reported
to the senate, carries $34,034,357,
an increase of $197,562 over the
bill as it passed the house.
Two of President Taft's conserva
tion measures were introduced in
the house. One providing for clas
sification of public lands was intro
duced by Smith of California.
Pickett of Iowa introduced one per
mitting the president to withdraw
lands from entry.
The senate committee on appro
priations has restored to the legisla
tive appropriation bill the provision
for automobiles for Speaker Cannon
and Vice President Sherman.
The bill abolishing the federal
circuit courts has been favorably re
ported to the house.
The senate confirmed the nomina
tion of William S. Kenyon of Iowa
to be assistant to the attorney general.
tA.n Associated Press dispatch says:
" 'Squatters' on unsurveyed lands
within the national forests, who
have occupied their tracts continu
ously since before the creation of
the forest reserves and who have
complied with the homestead law,
have had their rights increased by
an order which has just been issued
by the secretary of agriculture. Such
settlers can now acquire title, prior
to survey to 160 acres, a full home
stead entry, wherever possible. The
object of the order is to provide for
the listing of the full amount of
land which the occupant would re
ceive if he exercised his option of
awaiting the government survey irre
spective of whether or not the en
tire area is cultivatable, and the land
is not more valuable for its timber
than for agriculture. In cases where
less than 160 acres have been listed
to a person who settled upon the
land prior to the creation of the for
est an additional area sufficient to
complete the homestead entry will
be allowed on application."
The administration railroad bill
introduced by Representative Town
send of Michigan and largely amend
ed in committee was ordered favor
ably reported by the house commit
tee on interstate commerce. The
vote on the bill was on party lines.
The republicans voted for it unani
mously. Four democrats voted
against it and two democrats voted
present. There will be a minority
report.
Norris of Nebraska was permitted
to preside over the house of repre
sentatives ten minutes March 24.
emburg; Montenegro; Montnaco;
Andorra; San Marino; Liechten
stein; Haiti; the Kwantunk terri
tory; Weihawei; Kiaochow; German
possessions in Samao; German
New Guineau, Including tho in
sular possessions of tho Carolines,
Pelew and the Marianne islands;
Marshall, Brown and Providence
islands; Straits settlements, includ
ing Keeting islands; the federated
Malay states; Brunei and Sarawak;
Hong Kong and Kowloon; Nyasa
land; northern Nigeria protectorate
(Lagos) ; Gold Coast colony, includ
ing Ashanti; the colony and protec
torate of Sirra Leone; tho colony
and protectorate of Gambia; Fiji;
Tonga and Turkish possessions in
Africa. China, commercially the
most important nation in the list,
had a total trade with the world for
the year 1908 of $436,258,000, of
which the United States had $42,
295,000. Of this last amount the
exports of the United States to
China amount to $26,810,000 and
the imports of the United States
from China that year aggregated
$15,485,000. The United States
rank with other nations was fourth
in exports to China and fifth in im
ports. During that year the princi
pal exports from the United States
to China were mineral oils, $8,631,
000; cotton manufactures, $3,413,
000; copper manufactures, $3,231,
000; wheat flour $1,923,000; tobac
co, $1,518,000; iron and steel, $1,
175,000; manufactures of wood, $1,
002,000. The statistics show that
there was an increase in the im
ports into the United States from
China during the ten years ending
in 1908, of 23.1 per cent, and an
increase of exports to China during
the same period of 123.6 per cent.
Senator Owen of Oklahoma advo
cated his bill for the creation of a
new executive department to be de
voted to the public health. He de
clared that six hundred thousand
lives annually were sacrificed in this
country because of the lack of prop
er attention to sanitation.
Kansas (republicans) and Senator
Gore of Oklahoma (democrat), re
ported adversely to the pensions on
tho grounds that Mrs. Harrison and
Mrs. Cleveland were both in comfort
able financial circumstances and in
no need of aid."
David J. Brewer, associate justice
of tho United States supremo court,
died suddenly of apoplexy.
It is reported that Representative
Hinshaw, republican, of Nebraska
will not bo a candidate for re-election.
President Madrlz of Nicaragua has
offered to give the United States
every guarantee demanded for the
safety of American lives and property
if this government will formally
recognize tho Madriz government.
Secretary Knox insists that before
recognition is extended, order in
Nicaragua must be restored.
A Washington dispatch carried by
tho Associated Press says: "In ap
preciation of the action of tho war
department in recommending and
of President Taft in granting a par
don last year to John Joseph von
Schiller, a grandson of poet Schiller,
who for desertion, had been sen
tenced to three years in the federal
prison at Ft. Leavenworth, German
admirers of the poet intend to pro
duce here ono of his plays and do
nate the proceeds to the national
soldiers home in this city!"
Representative Shackleford, demo
crat of Missouri, made an attack up
on Speaker Cannon in the house
March 22. He said that Cannon must
bo driven from power as the first
onslaught on Cannonism.
The committee on pensions recom
mended the abolition of pension
agencies. Some of the regulars, un
der the lead of Dalzell, fought this
recommendation. Norris, insurgent,
championed it. The recommenda
tion was approved by a vote of 76
to 94 and this will abolish eighteen
pension agencies.
The city of Des Moines, Iowa, lost
its fight for a re-adjustment of
freight rates from that city to points
in western Minnesota and North and
Smith Dakota throueh the decision
of the interstate commerce commission.
It is announced that the regular
republicans will enter the Chautauqua
list in the effort to defend the record
of their party and make an attack
upon insurgency.
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer,
democrat, of Pennsylvania, attacked
the administration on the floor of the
house. He praised Roosevelt. He
said that the republican party had
violated its pledges and was doomed.
In a speech in the senate, Senator
Clapp of Minnesota denounced the
Taft railroad bill, calling it "abso
lutely revolutionary."
President Taft has issued procla
mations declaring that the following
named countries are entitled to the
minimum rates of the Payne-Aldrich
act: The empire of China, including
all its dependencies; Oman, Afghan
istan; Nepal; Bhutan; Johore; Lux-
An anti-vaccination society, with
Harry B. Bradford president has
been organized at the national
capital.
A Washington dispatch to the Chi
cago Record-Herald says: "It is cus
tomary to pension widows of former
presidents, and, while provisions have
been made for Mrs. Mary Lord Har
rison and Mrs. Frances F. Cleveland
in the way of granting them franking
privileges, etc., it was not until today
that a serious move was made in the
direction of placing them upon the
pension rolls. The pension commit
mittee of the senate, following the
well-established precedent, voted
each of them $5,000 a year, but not
without encountering strong opposi
tion A minority of the committee.
S nSkota i Senator Curtis of
Representative Sheppard of Texas,
speaking in the house, combatted the
Osier theory, and maintained that
after tho age of forty years men and
women not only were endowed with
their best faculties, for scientific and
professional work, but in the govern
ment service were fully qualified in
many instances for efficient service.
General J. Warren Keifer of Ohio,
who is in his seventy-fifth year and
was formerly speaker of the house,
frequently applauded his complimen
tary references to the abilities of old
men, and women.
Tho military academy appropria
tion bill carrying $1,856,649 has
been passed by tho senate.
"Copenhagen is the one place in
the world where we should not send
the proofs of an American explorer
when those proofs have been attested
in the United States," said Repre
sentative J. Hampton Moore, of Penn
sylvania, in the house during his ad
vocacy of recognition of Commander
Peary by congress for his discovery
of the north pole. Mr. Moore made a
plea for proper recognition of Mr.
Peary at the hands of congress.
A Washington dispatch carried by
the Associated Press says: "Steps
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