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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1908
Page
13
Maryland senator declares executive capable of do no wrong and infallible while sharp attack on military committee for failing to act on the officer exiled in Arizona.
Senator Rayner lampoons the President as infallible while deriding Col William F Stewart’s banishment to Fort Grant Arizona. He criticizes the war department and delays in documents reaching the Senate, arguing that executive power cannot err and that Mr. Raner’s push for a court of inquiry stalls without War Department compliance.
A Senate debate centers on military discipline and executive power as President Clinton faces pressure over a Fort Grant officer. Warren criticizes urging restraint, Rayner seeks expedited papers, and discussions touch on constitutional limits and public opinion reacting to perceived punitive action.
The House Republican conference adjourned after three hours of debate on an anti injunction bill with no decision to meet tonight. Leaders expect a bill similar to the Payne measure to emerge, while others push for stricter restraint on court orders. Representative Townsend of Michigan cited a letter supporting existing practices amid sharp exchanges among Littlefield Jenkins Papker Hubbard Townsend Madison and Sterling as the conference weighed notices hearings and bond provisions.
Speaker Cannon visited the White House yesterday morning at Roosevelt’s invitation. He stated there had been no recent verbal communication with the President regarding the four battlehip proposition and declined to discuss private conversations from the meeting.
The House District Committee heard final on prohibition for the District of Columbia and will recommend no change in liquor laws this session. Samuel DeNedrey, secretary of Central Labor Union, opposed altering existing laws, citing prohibition failures in Maine and Tennessee where it did not prevent liquor sales.
Conferees report on fortifications and coast defenses approve numerous funding increases for seacoast cannon fire control mines and related works. An amendment calls for an investigation into fortifications to protect San Pedro Harbor and nearby cities, with Senate amendments on Philippine appropriations rejected by conferees and not expended in Subig Bay or Mongapo.
A fragment lists lawmakers including Senator Dillingham of Vermont Representatives Bede and Campbell with towns Minnesota Kansas Michigan New York and Kentucky figures H W Backus Littaure Standish Townsend and Hitchcock plus others from Washington and New Jersey.
The annual gathering ends with banquet in Birmingham Alabama as the next meeting site. Officers elected include President J P Caldwell of Charlotte and Vice President Col Rufus N Rhodes of Birmingham. Executive committee members and new resolutions urge passage of wood pulp print paper and support forest reserve bills.
The conference report on the street railway bill was called up by Chairman Smith late yesterday. A recess until tonight was moved by Representative Payne and the bill then went over. Tennessee conferee Representative Sims opposes the report and plans a fight today with broad support from district streetcar riders. John W Hayes, Knights of Labor general master workman, praises Sims and the district labor consensus.
The special committee on wood pulp and print paper did not complete its report this session. Hearings will continue with Western paper manufacturers to be heard today. Testimony covered higher pulp wood costs and wage increases, and arguments against removing the wood pulp tariff. Census data show pulp wood consumption by 258 mills rose to 3,962,860 cords in the year ending December 31.
The Senate Committee on Forest Re lations voted to report favorably two treaties with Japan for the protection of American trademarks patents and copyrights in Manchuria and Korea and for Japanese protection in the United States. Secretary Root attended and explained the conventions. The treaties were signed at the State Department Wednesday by Assistant Secretary Bacon and Ambassador Takahira. Other measures ordered favorably reported include a general arbitration pact with Denmark and a wreckage salvage and prisoner transfer accord with Great Britain in Canadian waters.
Trem. Representative Tawney led opposition to the Senate amendment in the House appropriations bill for a southeast Treasury site to house departments of State Justice and Commerce and Labor. The House voted 28 to 2 to insist on rejecting the amendments, amid debate over spending about $2,000 for the Pennsylvania Avenue project and prior public-buildings expenditures in Washington.
Senate directs War Department to open a public use road along the south bank of the Anacostia River. The 90 foot wide thoroughfare would start near Gle n doro Manor and run west of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to pass near the Government Hospital for the Insane and through Barry Farm, with a 67 foot width in that section.
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