HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10043, 11 January 1909, Page 4

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

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(Peb Press Association.) Received January 10, at 4.30 p.m. New York, January 9. There is a bitter struggle between President Roosevelt and Congress. President Roosevelt intimated to the Senate that he was entitled to "direct members of the Cabinet to furnish information, inasmuch as the Cabinet was solely under President Roosevelt's control. President Roosevelt assumed the entire responsibility on the question of allowing the Steel Trust to purchase the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company's stock a year ago to prevent a panic. His opponents emphasised that this was the Trust' 6 only competitor, and thus had been absorbed. The Senate yesterday resolved, largely at Mr Culberson's instance, to instruct the Judiciary Committee to report whether President Roosevelt was authorised to permit the absorption. The House of Representatives, by 212 to 54, resolved to ignore any disrespectful communication from any 6onrce, and declared that President Roosevelt's language with regard to the secret service was unjustified and without basis in fact, and constituted a breach of the privileges of the House; therefore it laid on the table the obnoxious portion of the December message, also the message cabled on the sth, which was not a reply to the inquiry made by the House. Many Republican speakers condemned the language as a libel on the House. The Democrats demand a withdrawal and apology. The sensation of the day culminated by President Roosevelt publishing details of the investigation by the Post- Office inspectors and secret service agents of Mr Tillman's connection with an alleged land grab in Oregon. President Roosevelt declares that Mr Tillman used his influence as a Senator in the effort to force the Government to compel a railroad corporation to relinquish control of land grants from the United State Government, to enable him and his family and secretary to profit by the purchase of the land; also that he frequently used the franking privilege in the conduct- of his private business. Mr Tillman replies in open Senate on Monday.

Noctuiform, in the Ashton Hurdle race, fell and broke bis fetlock and had to be destroyed. The proprietor of a small restaurant at New Cross was fined 20s and Co6ts of a shilling for selling Australian wine as a Burgundy. The wholesale firm who supplied the liquor admitted that the bottles were labelled in error.

The Times' Xew York correspondentstates that the resolution is interpreted as a 6op to the Democrats rather than as a desire on the part of the leaders of the Senate to press the matter. London, January 9. Messrs J. Lyons and Co., the well-known caterers, deny that they are offering their Trafalgar Square house Bite to the Commonwealth Government for offices. They have no knowledge of the transaction. Messrs Benjamin -Morgan and Co., English trade commissioners, report stating that Australasian trade is flourishing, and the industrial future is full of promise. The Powers disagree regarding joint representation regretting Yuan-slu-kai's dismissal. Russia, and especially Japan, are the chief opponents.