Show 1 i BO c f COAST BATTERY BATTERY ro o DEFEND mm HAWAII HAWAI i Is Is d Ile Nearer and Dearer to United States Than I Philippines C ARK BRINGS THE LAUGH I St l lc Out lilt Part latt In lit ut Itc JC CI Ballon Scheme Scheme- Objectionable l tn I I 11 Iro ilO Koo htoo e C I aidi ashington Jan Jun Ilie he The lh ii it afternoon without question lun a nd ad pled tue thi amendment 31 reported by lh th Ii committee to the lie and COI ular bill 11 which takes from rout rom time thc Pi Indent the lie power to raise the tho rank of or to meet any In eases In 1 ru IJ by foreign 1 gov- gov a An n amendment offered l h by hlll Lu Lodge e providing a sliding wage sc lC c for Cut consular clerks was adopted It J ro that thai after afler July 1 clerks sIt sh 11 I receive OO per year for three ye e S 'S and amid secure an nn increase yearly arly of or C until the reaches 1 1 00 ho ito fortification appropriation lull bill w V patted passed after the thc a adoption of the lie UI am Increasing from front to tu the appropriation for a co st sl laHer battery at Hawaii Senator enato Hac BaC Ba- Ba c coi In Iii charge chare of time Iho bill explained lh th ii t the Lime Increase was given l CI to Hawaii Hawai b ause it was was' vas nearer learel an and dearer loth to lo th It United States an and that thal the comm coin coin- m In tee ce deemed H It wise to tu divorce tJi orco it itI i I fi fr m rim the Ito Philippines enatO ChaiR Clarl the Montana million- million al e almot sen seni the lie senate Into cont con- con t sl s when in lit asking consideration o of oh his Imis bill 11 providing for fur an nit o of the Blackfoot reservation ho lie cx- cx hI ined there never ha had been an any ob- ob Jo je hurt lon lo to it I except that it lund had been heen e C ocd in iii tho ti last congress 1 by th the Pi I He Ic explained bed laughingly lh l the provision pru objected to by the tho President had hod been een eliminated in lit th time the present IJ measure Tho The bill bi was wal then passed f resolution n offered by Ly Senator C Cand Cla Clay aid and calling upon th the tho Interstate commerce com coin mores merce mec commission tot for results of Its ils In Investigation Iii Iii- 11 into the block si signal te to e mand also certain information bearin bearing bearing bear bear- in ing thereon was adopted Senator Idge c completed his child labor speech af after r holding the Moor hoot almost three hours The ho question of the thc constItutional power of congress contress con con- gress tress to Jc legislate a against articles o uC of commerce ma made e b by ht was forth made the old uil question queston and no progress |