Items of Interest February 21, 1901 Issue

Items of Interest

The appropriation bills that have passed Congress and those that are still pending call for unprecedented sums of money, and it seemed likely that the present Congress would make a record for extravagance before its adjournment on March 4, that would astonish the world. Now leading Republican Senators are beginning to revolt. Senator Hale of Maine entered a protest last week, and it was ignored. Then Senator Lodge of Massachusetts came to Senator Hale's support and raised his voice for economy. The effect will probably be to check the lavish expenditures to some extent.

The ceremony of counting the electoral votes for President and Vice President took place in the Hall of the House of Representatives at one o'clock, February 13, at a joint session of the Senate and House. The method of counting the vote is prescribed with great detail by the statute, and was followed literally. Great crowds thronged the galleries to witness the interesting spectacle.

The most radical anti-cigarette measure yet proposed is now under consideration in the Minnesota Legislature. This bill makes it a misdemeanor to use tobacco in this form, bars merchants from bringing cigarettes into the State, makes giving away cigarettes an equally grave offence, and even prohibits the sale of the papers used in rolling cigarettes.

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