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Washington News
President Taft has approved with
out comment Attorney General
Wickersham's opinion to the effect
that thero is no provision of law hy
which tho statue o General Robert
B. Leo in confederate uniform can
bo removed from Statuary hall in tho
capital at Washington.
A Washington dispatch to the Chi
cago Record-Herald says: "Postal
savings banks will be established
October 1 by the board of trustees,
provided they accept tho recommend
ations of the special department com
mittee of experts appointed in an ad
visory capacity. The experts have
decided that a number of second and
third class postofllces throughout the
country should bo selected for the
introduction of postal savings banks,
and that the' banks should be opened
on the date named. The board of
trustees will hold another meeting
early in August, after tho return of
Postmaster General Hitchcock from
abroad, when the recommendations
of the committee will be indorsed. It
will be strongly arged that the banks
be not established at this time in
offices of the first class. The commit
tee deems it desirable that so far as
possible each of the forty-seven states
be given-an experimental bank. To
date over 300 postmasters have re
quested that they be permitted to
open postal savings banks, and 644
banks have asked that they be desig
nated as depositories for postal
funds."
enumeration districts, is 1,651,951,
as compared with 1,414,177 accord
ing to the special census of 1907,
showing an increase since 1907 of
15.8 per cent. The population of
tho state was made public because
of tho fact that there is to bo held
in tho.Btato next month an election
in which the question of negro suf
frage is paramount. The figures
show the total negro population of
the state to bo 138,456, as compared
with 112,160 in 1907. In 1907 tho
negro population constituted 7.9 per
cent of the total and the percentage
for 1910 is 8.4 per cent. The three
districts lacking in the total figures,
the census director announced, would
affect the total population by less
than five thousand. Oklahoma will
be entitled certainly to one more
congressman and probably two more
representatives in congress, the exact
number depending entirely upon the
basis of apportionment.
Rear Admiral James Albert Hawks
retired, of Bristol, Penn., formerly
director of the navy, died in Wash
ington, aged 69 years.
A cablegram from Manila tells
this story: "The supreme court has
decided that' Governor General
Forbes has the power to deport ob
noxious aliens from tho archipelago
and has granted a writ of prohibi
tion against the lower court which
assumed jurisdiction in the cases of
a (dozen Chinese who were deported
last August and returned here in
March and began suits against Gov
ernor General Forbes and others
connected with their deportation. It
is possible now that the case will
go to Washington."
The census directory has an
nounced that the total population of
the state of Oklahoma, lacking three
The question, "what is whiskey?"
Is up again. An Associated Press
dispatch says: "Under an order
just received by Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue Cabell, for enforce
ment of pending litigation, collectors
are instructed not to brand as
whisky any distillate from molasses.
Instead, distillates from molasses
produced at 160 degrees of proof
and over withdrawn from distillery
premises at proof lower than.. 110.
degrees, may be marked as dilute
neutral spirits, dilute spirits," ' dilute
colognet spirits, dilute alcohol . or
other true description, and if with
drawn at 10Q degrees proof as proof
spirits. Molasses distillate niay be
used for mixing grain distillate and,
if the latter sufficiently dominates,
the mixture may be branded as
'whisky, a blend.' If it does not
dominate, the mixture may be brand
ed 'whisky, a compound,' or as imi
tation whisky, as rectified spirits or
dilutes of spirits, etc. The circular
suspends ports of the old orders,
particularly as to duties of govern
ment officers on the premises of rectifiers."
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The world missionary conference
provides a field for the study of na
tional characteristics. The seven
minutes' rule reveals men. The
Britisher begins by apologizing that
ne can not say much in seven min
utes, and he so enlarges upon it that
the seven minutes are over before
ho says anything. But the Ameri
can, with his characteristic direct
ness and vividness, begins at once
with "In the first place I want to
say this" and he plunges at once
into the midst. And in seven min
utes ho gets at the heart of t.h1m?a.
But thiB is only a general rule
wnicn tne exceptions prove!
Today Bishop Gore submitted the
report on education in relation to
the Christianization of the national
life, and he did so in a manner
which commended itself to a crowd
ed assembly. This noted controver
sialist cooed as gently as any suck
ing dove. As the bishop enlarged
on the fruits of nrocress in the mis
sion fields, ho claimed all of them
as the fruit of the "incomparable
value of Christian education." It
was a great sight to see Bishop Gore
shocked! He raised Indignant hands
to heaven as he denounced the folly
of teaching the native evangelists
and teachers of India the thirty-nine
Articles and the Westminster Con
fessipn of Faith documents which,
breathe the atmosphere of bitter con
troversies and not of Christian love.
When the bishop ended, Mr. Mott,
with characteristic directness, recom
mended the speakers to face the
clock. By so doing they would bo
heard, and there would, be .manifest
other advantages. "Every man who
can possibly make his points In less
than seven minutes will win distinc
tion today." If you don't strike oil
in twenty minutes, you better cease
boring, was the advice of old. Mr.
Mott has reduced the twenty minutes
to seven. Sir Andrew -Fraser told
the conference of the only way in
which the cry of India for education
could be met. It could be met ,by
the churches only and the policy of
grants-in-aid provided by the govern
ment, uniy oy tins state endowment
of Christianity could Christianity
meet the demand. The conference
cheered enthusiastically the closing
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