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Washington.

1. Wm. E. Humphrey (R.). Seattle.
2. 2W. W. McCredie (R.).. Vancouver.
3. Miles Poindexter (R.)...Spokane.
West Virginia.

1. W. P. Hubbard (R.)....Wheeling.
2. Geo. C. Sturgiss (R.)... Morgantown.
3. Jos. Holt Gaines (R.)... Charleston.
4. H. C. Woodyard (R.)...Spencer.
5. James A. Hughes (R.).. Huntington.
Wisconsin.

1. Henry A. Cooper (R.)... Racine.
2. John M. Nelson (R.).... Madison.
3. A. W. Kopp (R.)..

Platteville.

4. Wm. J. Cary (R.)....... Milwaukee.
5. W. H. Stafford (R.).... Milwaukee.
6. C. H. Weisse (D.). ..Sheboygan F'ls
7. John J. Esch (R.). .....La Crosse.
8. J. H. Davidson (R.). ...Oshkosh.
9. Gustav Kuestermann (R.)Green Bay.
10. E. A. Morse (R.)........ Antigo.
11. Irvine L. Lenroot (R.)..Superior.
Wyoming.

Frank W. Mondell (R.).. Newcastle.
DELEGATES.

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THE SIXTIETH CONGRESS.

ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE SECOND SESSION, DECEMBER 7, 1908, TO MARCH 4, 1909.

The Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Act, approved March 3, provided that after March 3, 1909, the compensation of President's Salary. the President of the United States shall be $75,000 per

Budget
Reforms.

annum.

The Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, approved March 3, provided that immediately upon the receipt of the regular annual estimates of appropriations needed for the various branches of the government it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to estimate as nearly as may be the revenues of the government for the ensuing fiscal year, and if the estimates for appropriations, including the estimated amount necessary to meet all continuing and permanent appropriations, shall exceed the estmated revenues the Secretary of the Treasury shall transmit the estimates to Congress as heretofore required by law, and at once transmit a detailed statement of all of said estimates to the President, to the end that he may, in giving Congress information of the state of the Union and in recommending to their consideration such measures as he may judge necessary, advise the Congress how in his judgment the estimated appropriations could with least injury to the public service be reduced so as to bring the appropriations within the estimated revenues, or, if such reduction be not in his judgment practicable without undue injury to the public service, that he may recommend to Congress such loans or new taxes as may be necessary to cover the deficiency.

An act, approved February 17, provided that section 4 of the act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive and judicial expenses of the government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908,! Salary of and for other purposes," approved February 26, 1907, fixing the anSecretary nual compensation of heads of executive departments, be repealed of State. in so far as the same relates to the annual compensation of the Secretary of State; and the annual compensation of the Secretary of State shall be at the rate of eight thousand dollars. On and after March 4, 1909, there shall be no emoluments attached to the office of Secretary of State other than those which by the law in force on the first day of May, 1904, belonged and were then attached to said office. This act took effect March 4, 1909.

The Naval Appropriation Act, approved March 3, authorized the construction of two first-class battleships to cost, exclusive of armor and armament, not exceeding six million dollars each, similar in all essential characIncrease of teristics to the battleship authorized by the act making approthe Navy. priations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908. It also authorized the construction of five torpedo-boat destroyers, to have the highest practicable speed, and to cost, exclusive of armament, 1F. R. Lassiter, (D.) died October 31, 1909. 2 Elected November 2, 1909, to fill vacancy caused by death of F. W. Cushman (R.)

not to exceed eight hundred thousand dollars each, and one fleet collier, of fourtee knots trial speed, when carrying not less than twelve thousand five hundred to of cargo and bunker coal, to cost not exceeding nine hundred thousand dollars. For submarines and three destroyers were also authorized.

An act, it shall be The Opium Traffic.

approved February 9, provided that after the first day of April, 190 unlawful to import into the United States opium in any form or ar preparation or derivative thereof: Provided, That opium an preparations and derivatives thereof, other than smoking opium opium prepared for smoking, may be imported for medicinal pu poses only, under regulations which the Secretary of the Treasu is hereby authorized to prescribe, and when so imported shall be subject to duties which are now or may hereafter be imposed by law. If any person she fraudulently or knowingly import or bring into the United States, or assist in doing, any opium or any preparation or derivative thereof contrary to law, shall receive, conceal, buy, sell, or in any manner facilitate the transportatio concealment, or sale of such opium or preparation or derivative thereof after in portation, knowing the same to have been imported contrary to law, such opiu or preparation or derivative thereof shall be forfeited and shall be destroyed, a the offender shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars nor le than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for any time not exceeding two years, both. Whenever, on trial for a violation of this section, the defendant is shown have, or to have had, possession of such opium or preparation or derivative there such possession shall be deemed sufficient evidence to authorize conviction unle the defendant shall explain the possession to the satisfaction of the jury.

An act, approved February 15, amended section 714 of the Revised Statutes as to read: "When any judge of any court of the United States appointed hold his office during good behavior resigns his office, after havi Pensions of held a commission or commissions as judge of any such court courts at least ten years continuously, and having attained the a of seventy years, he shall, during the residue of his natural f receive the salary which is payable at the time of his retireme for the office that he held at a time ten years before his resignation.”

Federal
Judges.

A joint resolution, approved March 3, requested the President to renew neg tiations with the government of Russia to secure, by treaty or otherwise, uniforml of treatment and protection to American citizens holding pas Passports in ports duly issued by the authorities of the United States, in ord Russia. that all American citizens shall have equal freedom of travel a sojourn in such country without regard to race, creed or religio faith, including a provision that the honoring or viséing of passports when duly i sued and held by citizens of the United States shall not be withheld because or account of the race, creed or religious faith of their holders.

An act, approved February 27, amended the third paragraph of the seven section of the act entitled "An Act temporarily to provide for the administrati of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, a Philippine for other purposes," approved July 1, 1902, to read as fc Legislature. lows: "Sec. 7-The legislature shall hold annual sessions, cor mencing on the first Monday of February in each year and continuing not exceedi ninety days thereafter (Sundays and holidays not included) and the first meeti of the legislature shall be held upon the call of the governor within ninety days aft the first election: Provided, That the Philippine Legislature after its first mee ing as herein provided may by law fix a date other than the first Monday of Febr ary in each year for the commencement of its annual sessions: And provided fu ther, That if at the termination of any session the appropriations necessary for t support of government shall not have been made, an amount equal to the sur appropriated in the last appropriation bills for such purposes shall be deemed to appropriated; and until the legislature shall act in such behalf the treasurer ma with the advice of the governor, make the payments necessary for the purpos aforesaid."

House

The River and Harbor Appropriation Act, approved March 3, created a comm sion known as the National Waterways Commission, composed of members of t Sixtieth Congress who shall be members of the Sixty-first Congre Waterways as well, as follows: Five members of the Senate, to be appoint Commission. by the presiding officer thereof; seven members of the Representatives, to be appointed by the Speaker. It shall be t duty of this commission to investigate questions pertaining to water transportati and the improvement of waterways, and to recommend to Congress action up these subjects. The term of the commission shall expire on March 4, 1911. T commission shall report from time to time to Congress, and shall at the conclusi of its labors submit a final report: Provided, That a preliminary report shall made not later than January 1, 1910, which report, with all other reports, sh embrace such material and information obtained in the course of the investigati as shall be of value; also the conclusions reached by said commission on the sever subjects investigated.

Among the other acts and joint resolutions approved were the following: A propriating $800,000 for the relief of citizens of Italy; to impose a tax upon alcoho

compounds coming from Porto Rico; for the organization of the Miscellaneous. militia in the District of Columbia; to amend an act entitled "An Act to establish the Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Peace; providing for the purchase of a site and the erection of a new immigration station thereon at the city of Boston, Mass.; relating to injured employes on the Isthmian Canal; relating to the use, control and ownership of lands in the Canal Zone. Isthmus of Panama; to create a joint committee to consider the revision and codification of the laws of the United States; to rearrange and reconstruct the Hall of the House of Representatives; to accept the gift of Constitution Island, in the Hudson River, New York; to provide for an enlarged homestead; to codify, revise and amend the penal laws of the United States; to amend section 86 of an act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii; to provide additional judges and for other judicial purposes; to provide for the appointment of one additional district judge for the Western District of Washington and one additional district judge for the District of Oregon; providing an additional district judge for the Southern District of New York; providing an additional district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania; to amend the laws of the United States relating to the registration of trade-marks; to promote the administration of justice In the Navy; to declare and enforce the forfeiture provided by section four of the Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1875, entitled "An Act granting to railroads the right of way through the public lands of the United States; to amend Section one of the Passenger act of 1882 relating to the carriage of steerage passengers to and from foreign countries; amending and consolidating the acts respecting copyright.

THE SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS.

ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE FIRST SESSION, MARCH 15 TO AUGUST 5, 1909.

The Senate on July 5 passed unanimously, and the House of Representatives on July 12, by 317 votes to 14, a joint resolution submitting to the legislatures of the states a proposed new article to the Constitution, as folIncome Tax lows: Amendment. "Article XVI.-The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

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An act, approved August 5, revised the tariff laws of the United States. provided that on and after August 6, 1909, except as otherwise specially provided Tariff Revision of 1909.

for, there shall be levied upon all articles when imported from any foreign country into the United States or into any of its possessions (except the Philippine Islands and the islands of Guam and Tutuila) the rates of duty which are by the schedules and paragraphs of the dutiable list of this section prescribed, namely:

DUTIABLE LIST.
SCHEDULE A.

1. Acids: Acetic or pyroligneous acid, not exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, three-fourths of one cent per pound; exceeding the specific gravity of one and forty-seven one-thousandths, Chemicals, Oils, two cents per pound; acetic anhydrid, two and one-half cents and Paints. per pound, boracic acid, three cents per pound; chromic acid, two cents per pound; citric acid, seven cents per pound; lactic acid, containing not over forty per centum by weight of actual lactic acid, two cents per pound; containing over forty per centum by weight of actual lactic acid, three cents per pound; oxalic acid, two cents per pound; salicylic acid, five cents per pound; sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol not specially provided for in this section, onefourth of one cent per pound; tannic acid or tannin, thirty-five cents per pound; gallic acid, eight cents per pound; tartaric acid, five cents per pound; all other acids not specially provided for in this section, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

2. Alcoholic compounds, including all articles consisting of vegetable, animal or mineral objects immersed or placed in, or saturated with alcohol, not specially provided for in this section, sixty cents per pound and twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

3. Alkalies, alkaloids, distilled oils, essential oils, expressed oils, rendered oils, and all combinations of the foregoing, and all chemical compounds, mixtures and salts, and all greases not specially provided for in this section, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; chemical compounds, mixtures and salts containing alcohol or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, and not specially provided for in this section, fifty-five cents per pound, but in no case shall any of the foregoing pay less than twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

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4. Alumina, hydrate of, or refined bauxite, containing not more than sixty-four per centum of alumina, four-tenths of one cent per pound; containing more than sixty-four per centum of alumina, six-tenths of one cent per pound. Alum, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake, containing not more than fifteen per centum of alumina and more than three-fifths of one per centum of iron oxide, one-fourth of one cent per pound; alum, alum cake, patent alum, sul Gla phate of alumina, and aluminous cake, containing more than fifteen per centum of alumina, or not more than three-tenths of one per centum of iron oxide, three eighths of one cent per pound.

5. Ammonia, carbonate of, one and one-half cents per pound; muriate of, o sal ammoniac, three-fourths of one cent per pound; liquid anhydrous, five cent per pound.

6. Argols or crude tartar or wine lees crude, five per centum ad valorem tartars and lees crystals, or partly refined argols, containing not more than ninety per centum of bitartrate of potash, and tartrate of soda or potassa, o Argols. Rochelle salts, three cents per pound; containing more than ninety per centum of bitartrate of potash, four cents per pound; cream of tartar and patent tartar, five cents per pound. 7. Blacking of all kinds, twenty-five per centum ad valorem; all creams and preparations for cleaning or polishing boots and shoes, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

8. Bleaching powder, or chloride of lime, one-fifth of one cent per pound. 9. Blue vitriol or sulphate of copper, one-fourth of one cent per pound. 10. Charcoal in any form, not specially provided for in this act, bone char suitable for use in decolorizing sugars, and blood char, twenty per centum ada valorem.

11. Borax, two cents per pound; borates of lime, soda, or other borate mater rial not otherwise provided for in this section, two cenis per pound.

12. Camphor, refined, and synthetic camphor, six cents per pound.

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13. Chalk, when ground, bolted, precipitated naturally or artificially, o otherwise prepared, whether in the form of cubes, blocks, sticks or disks, o o otherwise, including tailors', billiard, red or French chalk, one cent per pound manufactures of chalk not specially provided for in this section, twenty-five pele centum ad valorem.

14. Chloroform, ten cents per pound.

15. Coal-tar dyes or colors, not specially provided for in this section, thirty per centum ad valorem; all other products or preparations of coal tar, not colon or dyes and not medicinal, not specially provided for in this section, twenty per centum ad valorem.

16. Cobalt, oxide of, twenty-five cents per pound.

17. Collodion and all compounds of pyroxylin or of other cellulose esters whether known as celluloid or by any other name, forty cents per pound; if in blocks, sheets, rods, tubes, or other forms, not polished, wholly or partly, and not made up into finished or partly finished articles, forty-five cents per pound if polished, wholly or partly, or if in finished or partly finished articles, excep moving picture films, on which collodion or any compound of pyroxylin or 1 other cellulose esters, by whatever name known, is the component material of chief value, sixty-five cents per pound and thirty per centum ad valorem.

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18. Coloring for brandy, wine, beer, or other liquors, fifty per centum a 19. Copperas or sulphate of iron. fifteen hundredths of one cent per pound 20. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous roots. excrescences, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, dried insects, grains, gums and gum resin, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, nutgalls, roots, stems Non-Alcoholic spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), seeds of Drugs. morbid growth, weeds, and woods used expressly for dyeing o tanning; any of the foregoing which are natural and uncom pounded drugs and not edible, and not specially provided for in this section, but which are advanced in value or condition by any process or treatment whatever beyond that essential to the proper packing of the drugs and the prevention of decay or deterioration pending manufacture, one-fourth of one cent per pound and in addition thereto ten per centum ad valorem: Provided. That no article containing alcohol, or in the preparation of which alcohol is used, shall be classified for duty under this paragraph.

21. Ethers: Sulphuric, eight cents per pound; spirits of nitrous ether, twenty cents per pound; fruit ethers, oils or essences, one dollar per pound; ethers of all kinds not specially provided for in this section, fifty cents per pound; ethyl chlo ride, thirty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That no article of this paragraph shall pay a less rate of duty than twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

22. Extracts and decoctions of logwood and other dyewoods, and extracts of bark, such as are commonly used for dyeing or tanning, not specially provided for in this section, seven-eighths of one cent per pound; extract of nutgalls, aqueous, one-fourth of one cent per pound and ten per centum ad valorem; extract of Persian berries, twenty per centum ad valorem; chlorophyll, twenty per centum ad valorem; extracts of quebracho, not exceeding in density twenty-eight degrees Baume, one-half of one cent per pound; exceeding in density twenty-eight degrees Baume, three-fourths of one cent per pound; extracts of hemlock bark, one-half of one cent per pound; extracts of sumac, and of woods other than dyewoods, not specially provided for in this section, five-eighths of one cent per pound; all extracts of vegetable origin suit

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able for dyeing, coloring, staining or tanning, not containing alcohol and not medicinal, and not specially provided for in this section, fifteen per centum ad valorem.

23. Gelatin, glue, isinglass or fish glue, including agar-agar or Japanese isinglass, and all fish bladders and fish sounds other than crude or dried or salted for preservation only, valued at not above ten cents per pound, Gelatins and Glues. two and one-half cents per pound; valued at above ten cents per pound and not above thirty-five cents per pound, twentyfive per centum ad valorem; valued above thirty-five cents per pound, fifteen cents per pound and twenty per centum ad valorem; gelatin in sheets, emulsions, and all manufactures of gelatin, or of which gelatin is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this section, thirty-five per centum ad valorem; glue size, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

24. Glycerin, crude, not purified, one cent per pound; refined, three cents per pound.

25. Indigo extracts or pastes, three-fourths of one cent per pound; indigo, carmined, ten cents per pound.

26. Ink and ink powders, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.

27. Iodine, resublimed, twenty cents per pound.

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Iodoform, seventy-five cents per pound.

29. Licorice, extracts of, in paste rolls or other forms, two and one-half cents per pound.

30. Chicle, ten cents per pound.

31. Magnesia and carbonate of, medicinal, three cents per pound; calcined, medicinal, seven cents per pound; sulphate of, or Epsom salts, one-fifth of one cent per pound.

32. Alizarin assistant, sulpho-ricinoleic acid, and ricinoleic acid, and soaps containing castor oil, any of the foregoing in whatever form, in the manufacture of which fifty per centum or more of castor oil is used, thirty cents per gallon; in the manufacture of which less than fifty per centum of castor oil is used, fifteen cents per gallon; all other alizarin assistants and all soluble greases used in processes of softening, dyeing or finishing, not specially provided for in this section, thirty per pentum ad valorem.

33. Castor oil, thirty-five cents per gallon.

34. Cod-liver oil, fifteen cents per gallon.

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Flaxseed, linseed, and poppy-seed oil, raw, boiled, or oxidized, fifteen cents per gallon of seven and one-half pounds weight.

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Fusel oil, or amylic alcohol, one-fourth of one cent per pound.

37. Hemp-seed oil, ten cents per gallon; rape-seed oil, ten cents per gallon. 38. Olive oil, not specially provided for in this section, forty cents per gallon; n bottles, jars, kegs, tins, or other packages, containing less than five gallons each, ifty cents per gallon.

39. Peppermint oil, twenty-five cents per pound.

40. Seal, herring, whale, and other fish oil, including sod oil, not specially proided in this section, eight cents per gallon.

41. Opium, crude or unmanufactured, and not adulterated, containing nine per entum and over of morphia, one dollar and fifty cents per pound; opium of the same composition, dried, powdered, or otherwise advanced beyond the piums. condition of crude or unmanufactured, two dollars per pound; morphia or morphine, sulphate of, and all alkaloids of opium, and salts and sters thereof, one dollar and fifty cents per ounce; cocaine, ecgonine and all salts and erivatives of the same, one dollar and fifty cents per ounce, and coca leaves five cents er pound; aqueous extract of opium, for medicinal uses, and tincture of, as laudanum, nd other liquid perparations of opium, not specially provided for in this section, forty er centum ad valorem; opium containing less than nine per centum of morphia, six ollars per pound; but preparations of opium deposited in bonded warehouses shall not e removed therefrom without payment of duties, and such duties shall not be refunded: rovided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to repeal or in any anner impair or affect the provisions of an act entitled "An act to prohibit the imortation and use of opium for other than medicinal purposes,' approved February Irth, nineteen hundred and nine.

42. Baryta, sulphate of, or barytes, including barytes earth, unmanufactured, one ollar and fifty cents per ton; manufactured, five dollars and twenty-five cents per ton. 43. Blues, such as Berlin, Prussian, Chinese, and all others, containing ferrocyanide t iron, in pulp, dry or ground in or mixed with oil or water, eight cents per pound. 44. Blanc-fixe, or artificial sulphate of barytes, and satin white, or artificial sulhate of lime, one-half of one cent per pound.

45. Black, made from bone, ivory, or vegetable substance, by whatever name nown, including boneblack and lampblack, dry or ground in oil or water, twenty-five er centum ad valorem.

46. Chrome yellow, chrome green, and all other chromium colors in the manufactre of which lead and bichromate of potash or soda are used, in pulp, dry, or ground in r mixed with oil or water, four and three-eighths cents per pound.

47. Ochre and ochery earths, sienna and sienna earths, and umber and umber arths, not specially provided for in this section, when crude or not powdered, washed r pulverized, one-eighth of one cent per pound; if powdered, washed or pulverized, ree-eighths of one cent per pound; if ground in oil or water, one cent per pound. 48. Orange mineral, three and one-fourth cents per pound. 49. Red lead, two and five-eighths cents per pound.

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