Show v v UT UTAH AM SOlONS FIGHT TO SAVE ASSAY OffiCE Two Senators Will Demand t Appropriation for Salt Lake Plant Plant Smoot Smoot Prepares An 4 Amendment H He Will Offer UNDERSTOOD BORAH WILL PUT UP BATTLE FOR BOISE BOISE- General Congressional Investigation Investigation Investigation gation of Cannery Industry Is Proposed in Resolution Submitted by Allen of Ohio t- t t I Smoot to Offer Amendment i I Special to j r W Washington lice Dec l U. O. Senator a j Smoot has lias prepared an nit amendment I l to to the thc legislative tv judicial nn anti and l exec 1 t I iii c lye appropriation lull bill he I will offer ill the Senate I tomorrow J I providing pro for the continuance of t I f United States Sates assay office l' l at t Salt I I Lake It 11 is is 15 nn el that Senator i Borah of Ida Idaho will rill also offer aaI all aa I i I amendment to continue the tite assay assay t of office office- tied at Boise I A A. strong trong fight ill v I be be made in ill the Senate I by both hoth j Senators Smoot anti and Sutherland t against t the le plan pIon to tJ abolish the Salt SailI I Lake office J a 1 WASHINGTON Dec a- a Carr im t appropriations n aggregating 10 l. for fOl tile llio operation i ol or- tin do jj d great t departments ts of I th he lie go eru government during during- the u next fiscal year the f legislative legis laive executive and judicial appropriation appropriation bill Jill was passed pa cd h by hv the House today tolay Just st before the vote o c was taken c Gillett of or made an nn unsuccessful effort to have i interred ed an a appropriation of 5 1500 for the maintenance of the commerce court His motion was voted down sr 89 to 33 The movement to have hn the tue government govern govern- m ment acquire the tho home of or Thomas Jefferson rec received hed a setback setback set set- back toda today when the louse Houde by a vote vota of ot to 41 oil refuted refused to adopt a u. special rule rulo providing for Cor or consideration of the tho Senate resolution authorizing tho the ap appointment ap- ap of or a committee to lo Inquire Into tho the wisdom an and cost of or purchasing tho ho property from irom it Its present owner Representative Lev Levy of New York Representative un s Saunders ors of ot Virginia lnla and others denounced denounce the movement declaring It was an attempt to take Representative Levy's Levys property from him bin when ho he had hind announced publicly It was not for tor sale at ot an any price Representative R Henry of or Texas in instatement a. a statement tonight ht gave notice that the fight ht had Just begun and that If It necessary necessary essary Monticello would be acquired for the government through condemnation tion proceedings Cunning Inquiry A general congressional con In IntI Investigation tI of time tile canning Industry of or tho the count country was propose proposed toda today In a resolution by Representative Allen of Ohio The resolution resolution res res- sets forth that conditions In certain canneries aI are filthy that di diseased din dis eased cosed worl workers rs are aie employed In th these 8 particular canneries and also that women women wom worn en and young oung children aro are employed under tinder adverse conditions Aimed nt at Hunker Bunkers Each senator an and representative would bo be called upon to file tHe a statement statement state state- i I ment showing sho the pecuniary Interest j I Continued on Page c 3 Column 1 UTAH SENATORS I STRIVE E TO SAVE ASSAY OFFICE OFFICEr r Continued from Page 1 1 of t himself or family In any banking 5 loaning loaning- or brokerage business under a n nJ J resolution Introduced today b by Representative Lindbergh of or Minnesota Tho The resolution says tho the Senate committee com corn on finance and the House com- com on banking and nd currency have memberships m mostly mos mos' rondo made up u of or bankers bank bank- bankers ers ers and bankers bankers' lawyers lawers ers n and d controlled controlled con trolled trolle 1 b by those directly personally and financially Interested In that class of oC Jl legislation and that to Uto to a greater creator or orless orless less Jess extent man many other senators and r representatives ore are similarly Interest e ed 1 Committee e. e A joint congressional Inauguration committee would bo be authorized b by a n. resolution adopted b by tho the Senate toda today nt at the Instance of Senator Overman of ot North Carolina providing for the ap appointment ap- ap of ot three members member of tho the Senate and the same number from the louse House of ot Representatives to make the thene ne necessary arran arrangements for the Inauguration inauguration g of President-elect President Wilson The resolution has not been acted upon by bythe bythe bytho the tho House t Propose Patent Office R Reform torm Radical changes In patent office procedure procedure procedure pro pro- wore recommended to Congress today toda In a special report b by the economy economy econ econ- omy and nd efficiency commission transmitted transmitted transmitted trans trans- by President Taft Tat Tho The principal principal pal al recommendations were I. I Limitation upon the tho life lite of a patent to nineteen years cars from the date te of ot BpI ap- ap application I exclusive of ot two which years iff it Jt may be In litigation an Increase e from 15 to 20 O for tor the filing WinE fee feo change In procedure to permit an In Inventor Inventor inventor In- In to appeal from the augmented board of examiners In chief directly to tho thu court of ot appeals of the thc District of Columbia Instead of or through h the tho commissioner commissioner commissioner com com- missioner of ot patents tents and Increases In I salaries and nd force Corce amounting to I a a. year car The commission was not authorized 5 to to report on the proposal for tor a court or of patent appeals |