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"'klflGS MOUNTAIN HERALD, KING3 MOUNTAIN,' N. 0. SUMMARY OF WORK 0F'B4TH CONGRESS . . .- ., , .; RECORD Of CONSTRUCTIVE LEA (ELATION , BY. CONGRESS IS GREATEST IN HISTORY. MANY IMPORTANT MEASURES Total of Appropriation! $1,626,431,209 With Additional Contract Amount ing to 1231,945,278. Ittma Ara Ensumerated. Soma Big Bills. Washington, D. C A record of con structive legislation, improving the advantage! of the peopla all along the line I that of the 64th Congress which has Just ended. The total of tho appropriations, specifically made, Is $1,626,439,209.63. .in addition to this congress has au thorised contracts to be entered into obligating appropriations In the fu ture Of S231.946.276.20. These con tracts Include 1226466,326.20 for na val and coast defense purposes, while the remainder, 16,678,960 Is for or dinary objects of Government. The appropriations for military and naval purposes and for additional sea coast defenses alone amount to $686, 709,823.09. This sum, with the con tracts authorised, brings the total for preparedness to $910,976,148.29. How ever, there Is still more to be added to the preparedness. Congress has authorized 90 additional war vessels to be constructed In the next three years, which will cost $295,000,000 ad ditional when they are comploted and In commission. This brings the grand total for the preparedness legislation of this congress to $1,206,976,148.29. The appropriations are distributed as follows for preparedness: Army appropriation act, $267,596, 630.10. Naval appropriation act, $313,300, 666.84. Fortification appropriation act, $26, 747.550. Military Aoademy act, $1,225,043.57. Sundry civil appropriation art: Armories and arsenals, $4,683,496; military posts, $1,616,000; military surveys, $36,000; Panama Canal for tifications, $4,535,000. Deficiency appropriations, military and naval establishments $46,770. 648.58; National Guard camps, $200, 000; nitrate plant, $200,000,000. Investigations have been started to ascertain where the nitrate plants are to be located. The plan contemplated when this provision was accepted by cuiigress was to place the plants at convenient sections of the country where they would supply the needs of agriculture with fertilizer, easily dis tributed, and also be ready tor uuse In time of wor in the manufacture of munitions. One of the plants will be in the south. New government activities will be looked' upon in the future among the notable achievement" of the r finest session of the sixty-fourth congress. For these a total of $73,719,700 Is appropriated, to be used as follows: To encourage, develop and create a naval auxiliary and naval reserve and a merchant marine, $60,100,000; federal aid In the construction of good roads, $6,000,000; establishment of federal farm loan banks, $6,206. 000; federal employes' compensation commission, $550,000; tariff commis sion, $300.000 ; construction of rail roads In Alaska to develop Its coal fields, $8,247,620; expenses of collecting the income tax, $1,828,000; federal trade commission, $444,080; eight hour day commission, $60,000. Included in the legislation of the session Joat closed are the following Items: Reorganization of the army. Vast Increases In the navy and for tifications. A government controlled merchant marine. Exclusion of products of child la bor from Interstate commerce. . A system of rural credits, assuring the farmer of his ability to borrow money upon his asset at 6 per cent. Adequate compensation for work men injured in government employ ment - ; : ' A fuller measure of Independence for the Philippines., .. . An eight-hour day on the railroads. Eighty-five million dollars tor good roads.1 - Established- official grain standards applicable to grain shipped In Inter state or foreign commerce. .' A uniform system of Bills of lading. ' Amended the federal reserve act to make it more generally applicable, i A tariff commission.' ' - - Levies upon dyeetuffs. . Retaliation for unfair . trade meth ods by foreign countries. ' Government armor plate plant..': ?' !. Increased Interest-bearing account in postal savings banks from1 $500 to $1,000. - . v. . . ? Created a sub-committee of the commerce committees to investigate railway problems. ; ' ;,. ' .-)' ' ;. $ome important measures failed to pass. '' They wilt be disposed of at the next session. Among them are the following: ' ' 1 ; . Conservation bills, Including those relating to ell lands, water power, sad coal lands. Women suffrage. Prohibition la the District of, Oo TpubMsJ... Nationwide prohibition. e ALL HASTEN FOR HOI ANXIOUS FOR REST OR PART IN THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN WORK. PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT Gives Notice Remainder of Railroad Program Will Be Pressed Next Ses sion, Three Other Important Meas ures Go Over, Washington. Adjournment of Con greea was quickly followed by s gen eral exodus of members hastening homeward for rest or the national political campaign. While the closing saw the adminis tration legislative program mainly completed some things wait to be continued at the winter session notably the remainder of the president's pro gram of railroad legislation which was partially enacted to prevent the threat. ened strike. In a formal statement President Wilton speaking of the work of Congress, gave notice that the re mainder of the railroad program would be pressed at the new session. The president's statement was ae follows: "A very remarkable session of Con gress bae Just closed, full, as all re oent sessions of the Congress have been of helpful and humaneleglslation which constitutes contributions of cap ital Importance to the defence, the eco nomic progress and the wholesome life of the country. "It Is to be regretted that the see slon could not have continued long enough to complete the program re cently projected with regard to the ac- oommodnttlon of labor disputes be tween the railways and the employee, but it was not feasible in the circum stances to continue the session any longer and therefore only the most Im mediately pressing parts of the pro gram could be completed. "The rest, it is agreed, has merely been, postponed until It can be more maturely deliberated and perfected I have every reason to believe that It is the purpose of the leaders of the two houses Immediately upon the re assembling of Congress to undertake this additional legislation It Is evl dont that the country should be re Moved of the aniietv which must have been created by recont events with re gard to the future accommodation of such disputes." The Immigration bill, the corrupt practices bill and the bill to permit combinations of American exporters to meet foreign competition abroad went overl. The closing hours of Congress were remarkably quiet. Only the presence of the president in his room, near the Senate chamber, served to attract In terest to what otherwise would have been an uneventful ending of an event ful Congrss. EKidllS' SESSION " .:, ,-..2! il'opyriglil.i RU830-RUMANIAN FORCES IN GREAT BATTLE WITH FOE Lateat Country to Enter European War Scene of Chief Conflict Now Raging. London. Rumania , which entered the European war less than two weeks ago, now hi the scene of a great bat tle between Russo-Rumanian forces and armies of the Central Powers. The soutren port of Dobrudja or eastern Rumania, has become a fighting ground md the opnoslng armies are engaged from the Black Sea to the Danube along a front of about 70 miles. Bulgarian and Turkish troops ar riving along the Black Sea coast have occupied BaKjik and two other sea ports, Sofia re porta, and the fortress ot Dobrltch or Baz&rd jik, CO miles southeast of Bucharest has been taken by a combined Bulgar-Oerman force. The Rumanians continue their of fensive In eastern Transylvania and ikso have occupied the important town of Orsova on the Danube, above the Iron Gate. Advancing from Csik Szereda in Thansylvenla north of Kronstadt, the Rumanians , are driv ing westward and Vienna admits the withdrawal of Austrian forces before ittaclrs against Hergttta. BAKER8 WOULD QUIT MAKING S-CENT LOAF Chicago. Recommendations to all takers of the United States that the S-cent loaf of bread be abandoned and the 10-cent loaf standardized, were nade after considerable discussion at he closing eeseion of the executive -ommlttee of the National Association )f Master Bakers. They urged that the commendations be put Into effect im mediately. Economic Waste Incident x the manufacture of the S-cent loaf as emphasized as a reason. MINORITY LEADER MANN PAYS TRIBUTE TO KITCHIN Washlngton,-Wth the dose of the Irst session of the Sixty-fourth Oon- bs Reprejrtative Kitchln round- td out his first experience as floor lead ir. He was complimented by Mlnorl- :y .Leader Mann In a speech. "It was latural," said Mr. Mann, "to see the Majority Leader develop and grow In lis position." . Mr. Kitchln immediate- y after adjournment stepped across the aisle and grasped the band of Mr; Ktna ,. FRENCH MAKE BIG GAINS DRIVE MEN FURTHER INTO GER MAN LINE ALONG 80MME RIVER. Berlin Admits Loss of Clery In Gsla ela Russians Have Taken About 6,000 Prisoners Fighting Near Lem berg. London. While their compatriots were buey north of, the Somme ward ing off German , counter-attacks or en gaged In artillery duels, the French, south of the River, drove their men farther Into the German lines for note worthy gains. In stubborn fighting over a front of four miles below Vermandovlllers and Chilly the Germans have been forced to give up the northern portion of Vermandovlllers; while the French have occupied the outskirts of the railway Junction town of Chaulnes to Roye, between Chaulnes and Chilly. To the north, operations of the French with Barleux, and ultimately Peronrie as their objective, also met with success. Southeast of Belloy-en-Santerre further German trenches were captured and most of the village to Berny-en-Santerre fell Into French hands. Paris says the number of prisoners taken apparently was large. Berlin admits the loss of Clery which lies a short distance northwest of Peronne. In Galicia on the front of the ZIota Lipa and Dniester Rivers the Rus sians have driven the Teutonic Allies from fortified positions' and have tak en 4,500 prisoners, among them about 2,000 Germans. Berlin concedes a vic tory to the Russians In this region. Violent fighting continues around Brzeany, southeast of Lemberg. but here Berlin says the Russians have suffered heavy losses and have made no advance. Russian attacks near Sborow, northern Galicia, and In Vol- hynla, also failed, according to Berlin. BIG REVENUE BILL PASSES ADMINISTRATION MEASURE DE SIGNED TO RAISE $205,000,000 ANNUALLY. 8UFFRAGE BODY WILL CONTINUE DUAL CAMPAIGN Vote Support In 8eeklng Both National and State Legislation. Atlantic City, N. J. The National Woman Suffrage Association by an overwhelming vote decided to con tinue its present policy of working for equal rights through both National and State legislation. The vote was taken after a long debate and no soon er had the applause that greeted the announcement of the action taken ceased than a resolution was present ed which threatens to open again the whole question. Virtually all the speakers declared for strict neutrality in the presidential campaign and to continue the non partisan efforts of the association to bring about equal suffrage throughout the United States. Women from every state in the Union are attending the forty-eighth annual convention of the association which was called two months In ad vance of its regular meeting because) of the national political campaign. COFFIN GIVES CLUE ' TO WRECKED ZEPPELIN London. The number of the Zeppe lin wrecked In the recent aerial at tack on London was disclosed for the first time at the funeral of the victim In the Inscription on the coffin contain' lng the body of the commander. The airship was the L-21. The only coffin marked was that of the commander and K bore these words: "An unknown German officer killed1 while commanding the L-21, September 2, ' 1916. . ' ' MEXICAN-AMERICAN -.V ' " i COMMISSIONERS MEET. New York. The formal opening' of the discussion of the relations be tween Mexico and the United States by commissioners appointed by each Government, brought an exchange of credentials, general talk over the situation and a - recess until Friday to permit' Luis Cabrera, head of the Mexican party, to attend to personal business In Boston. Secretary Lane was boat to the party aboard the m-esfdential vacht Taxes Inheritances and War Muni tions, Creates Tariff Commission, Puts Protective Duty on Dyestuff Vote In Sonata Was 42 to 16. Washington. The Administration revenue bill, designed to raise $206, 000,000 annually from taxes on Inheri tances and war munitions and from Increases in the Income tax, creating a tariff commission; establishing a protective tariff on dyeetuffs; provid ing for protection of American firms from "dumping" at the end of the war and giving the Presidsnt authority to take drastic retaliatory steps against Allied Interference with American trade, was passed by the Senate. The vote was 42 to 16. Five Republican Senators, Cummlngs, Kenyon, LaFol- le'te, Norris and Clapp voted for the bin. Fights Tariff Commission. The Senate was In session until after midnight. It practically had completed the bill earlier but toward midnight Senator Underwood moved to strike out the section which would create a tariff commission and began a last fight against this provision which already had been agred to. Tjy a Vote of 65 to 5 the Senate re jected Senator Underwood's motion, thus retaining the tariff commission section of the bill. Senators who voted to eliminate It were Bankhead, Hardwlck, Shields, Underwood and Vardaman. A motion by Senator Penrose to send the bill back to the Finance Committee with Instructions that it report a measure to raise revenues by a protective tariff and with special provisions for Industrie! defense was rejected by a vote of 39 to 21. Sen ator LaFollette was the only Repub lican to vote no.- To Increase Government revenue the bill provides for doubling the normal tax and Increasing the sur taxes on incomes; au inheritance tax; a net profit tax on manufacturers of munitions of war, a license tax on stock of corporations capitalized at more than $99,000; excise tax on beer, wines and liquors and miscel laneous, stamp taxes.. The bill also creates a United States tariff commission of six members whose salaries shall be $7,500 a year despite an effort made to increase tl.em to $10,000; provides for Increas ed tariff duties on dyeetuffs to en courage their manufacture In this country and makes provision to safe guard against dumping of foreign made goods after the European war Into American markets. . Webb's Bill at Issue. Drastic amendments to the bill striking at the Allied blacklisting of American merchants, discrimination against American commerce, interfer ence with American malls and em bargoes on American trade were In corporated In the bill to arm the President with retaliatory weapons. These amendments have created con sternation among diplomatic .repres entatives of the Allied Powers In Washington who assert that it finally Snacted as now seems certain, they rould constitute a non-lntercousa act When Senator Lewis of Illinois, submitted the bill as an amendment he was promptly assured by Senator LaFolh tie that it would provlke pro longed discussion, it pressed. Sena tor Lewis thereupon withdrew the amendment, announcing that It would be pressed as a separate measnre, having already passed the house early In the'December session.'" : ' t '," ; ', Retaliation Against Britain,' : ; " Amendments designed to ? prOvgde means of retaliation against ''Great Britain for embargoes on American goods, 'the trade blacklist and inter ference with the malls, were agreed to without roll calls and were unop posed In debate. ' ' " 1 V : The bill creates a tariff commis sion, recommended by President Wil son to consist ' of six members, not mAre than three of whom shall be' of odv political party, the first members ' to be appointed for terms of I, 4, 6, 10' and 11 years, respectively, to be designated by the President - EMERGENCY REVENUE BILL CONFERENCE AGREEMENT IB ' APPROVED. ' ' ' ' OWEN BILL IS SET ASIDE Purchase of Danish West Indies For $2,000,000 Was Ratified by Senate Both Houses Hold Protraoted ' Night Session. Washington) Congress adjourned Friday morning at 10 o'clock. After nine months devoted to legislation both houses held protrated sessions Thursday night to wind up their of fairs by approving the contermt. agreement on the emergency revenue bill to raise approximately $200,000, 000. desired by the Administration to meet the extraordinary appropria tions for national defense and the Mexican emergency. The last aproprlatlon measure, the general deficiency bill, was adopted by both houses while waiting tor the conference report on the revenue bill, and the senate ratified the Danish treaty to provide for purchase of the Danish West Indies tor $25,000,000. The Owen corrupt practices bill to limit campaign expenditures and the immigration bill which President Wll sin had announced he would veto If passed, were put aside and will bbe taken up and pressed to a vote early In the December session. The revenue bill as It went to Pres ident Wilson for approval contained drastic provisions empowering the President to retaliate against foreign Interference with American com merce, creates a non-partisan tariff commission, Increases the duties on dyestuff s to encourage their manu facture In the United States, provides means to prevent dumping of cheap foreign-made goods Into American markets after the war and provides for Income, . Inheritance, munitions, corporation stock, liquor and miscel laneous Internal revenue taxes. QOMPERS AND BURLESON ATTACKED BY 8HERMAN. Senator In Bitter Partisan ' Speech Wages Political War on Labor Chief and Postmaster General. Washington. Senator Sherman re newed his attack on President Sam uel Gompers of the American Feder ation of Labor, during debate on the Owen rrupt practice bill In the senate, declaring the labor leader and Postmaster General Burleson were the two most prominent figures on the Democratic side of the Presiden tial campaign. Mr. Gompers, he said, was to deliver the 2,000,000 labor votes , to the Democrats while Mr. Burleson used the postmasters of the country "to fry fat" for It. i Senator Sherman quoted from a Texas newspaper of 1909 to show that Mr. Burleson then was part owner of a ranch where hundreds of convict laborers were employed. In 1911, he said, the foreman of the ranch was tried for causing the death of a negro convict who had been whipped, but was acquitted and In 1913 was appointed postmaster at Longview, Texas. "It," continued Senator 1 Sherman, "there is any tainted money in this country as Mr. Bryan has hinted, it certainly is to be found in the posses sion of the Postmaster General of the present Administration." ; AUSTRIAN8, MENACED BY RUMANIANS, WITHDRAW, Vienna, via London. Austrian troops have withdrawn before threat ening Rumanian envelopment to the heights west of Olah Toplltra, south of Dorna Watra and 20 miles west Of the Rumanian border, says the offi cial statement Issued at the Auttro Hungarlan headquarters. On the Russian front the Austrian troops be tween the ZIota Lipa and the Dnujter River also have been withdrawn. HENRY FORD SUES PAPER FOR $1,000,000 DAMAGES. Chl-ago. Suit for 11,000,000 was filed by Henry Ford, the Detroit man ufacturer, against The Chicago Trib une in United States District Court here. Mr. Ford asks for personal damages as compen'jtlor for an edi torial in The Tribune, which, It Is charged, called Ford an "anarchist.' The bill charges that The Tribune "sought to bring the plaintiff Into public hatred, c6h tempt, ridicule and financial injury," by the editorial. FARMERS WIN FIGHT ON SECRET FERTILIZER TRADE. 'Washhigtih. "Independent" firms Iri the fertilizer Industry, actually operated- by1 larger concerns, or the so called ''fertilizer trust," will hereafter be fully Identified with the parent In terests, according to a report made public by the Federal. Trade, Commis sion, which has been Investigating the fertiliser; situation, ' The report says the companies concerned have agreed to show their various rela tionships on their contalnara. ' v TEUTONIC ALLIES : TAKE FORI If, i .Yi,.-,. BULGARIAN AND GERMAN FORCE CAPTURE OLD FORTRESS IU j . - " ISTRAI ON DANUBE, " RUSSIANS SUFFER BIG LOSS Rumanians Advance Against Aus trian! Russians Fall In Attmpt t Break Through Austrian Lines. Southeast of Lsmburg. London. Continuing their advance In Western Dobrudja, the German and Bulgarian forces have captured the old Bulgarian fortress of SIHstrai, which lies on the Eastern bank of the Dan ube about 25 miles east of Bucharest, the capital of Rumania and about an equal distance south of Constansa Bucharest railway line. The capture) of the fortress Is announced by tha Berlin war office which asserts that the Rumanians and Russians fighting In Dobrudja apparently have suffered very considerable losses during ths last few days. In the Banat.North of Orsova. however, the Rumanians advanced against the Austrian! compelled the Austrian right wing after R had push ed them back two and a half miles, to withdraw to Rs former position under a strong counter-attack. Attempts by the Rumanians to advance against heights West of Cfk Ssereda were re pulsed. In Southern Bukowlna near the Junction of the Hungarian and Ru manian borders the Germans are in contact with the Rumanians. Attempts by the Russians to break through the Austrian lines Southeast of Lemberg, near Hallcza, failed ac cording to Vienna with heavy losses. The Vienna statement mentions the gallantry of the Turkish forces fight ing with the Auetrlane In this region. GEN. BLI83 TO AS3I8T BORDER COMMISSION . Secretary Baker Grants Request to Permit Army Officers to Explain Military Conditions. Washington Secretary Baker grant ed the request of the American-Mexican coralasion to have Maj. Gen. Task er H. Bliss, assistant chief of staff, go to New London, Conn., to give the commissioners information that he has gathered first-hand concerning the military situation along the Interna tional border. The general Is regarded as one of the army's most competent authorities on Mexican questions. As assistant chief of staff he has more to do with the administration of military opera tions along the border than any other officer except Major General Funston and recently he completed a personal Inspection of ail the border patrol mi litia camp. Pressure from political and business quarters Is being brought to bear upon Secretary Baker and administration officials generally to withdraw Na tional Guard organizations from the border. Members of Congress, busi ness houses and friends and relatives of guardsmen have deluged the de partment tha last few days with quests for the release of the militia. GERMAN CASUALTIES THUS FAR 8,375,000 London. German casualties In the war during the month of August ac cording to a compilation here from the German casualty lists, totaled 240,900. This brings the German total since the beginning of the war, as compiled from the same sources to 3.375,000. These figures include all the German nationalities, but do not Include the naral a-d colonial casualties. The detailed figures for the month, of August follows: 1 Killed, 42.100; prisoners, 1,800; missing, 42,900; wounded, 153,500 to tal 240,900. Detailed figures for the period of the war to the end of August, 1916: Killed 8.12.000; prisoners, 165,000; mfosing, 234.000; wounded, 2.144,000. Total 3,376,000. BRITISH TR00P8 ENGAGED IN HEAVIEST OF FIGHTING London. British troops have been engaged In the heaviest kind of fight ing along a 3 1-2 mile front on the . Somme, extending from High wood to ' Leuze wood and have captured Glnchy, which lies almost directly north of Combles, and all Hie ground between -Olnchy and Lease wood. On a front of more than 'a quarter mile the Brit ish gained 300 yards east of High wood and Jiortheaet of Pozleres captured $00 fards of German trendies. . ' ' ' ,' FARMERS ARE URGED ' TO HOLD THEIR COTTON ' Ft Worth. Texas. Henry ,,N. Pope,' head of the Association of Farmers'' Union presidents, iesued a etatement'lr i'-rln all farmers to hold their cotton t iur iwsmy cenu, aecianng that, tills price woulu be reached beforfrwanree- ent crop is picked. If a generic dlnr plan is. not In nracttcs ev farmers.. President Pone flatlV 1 ed recent press reports, stating t 4e association fixed 11 eimtaK uiv uiiiuiinuu 49
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