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WASHINGTON NEWS
Tho houso paesod tho army ap
propriation bill again, it being in
form similar to its paBsago last
February boforo tho sonato added
, tho amendments that caused the
president's veto.
Tho interstate commerce commis
( Bion extended tho territory in which
. allowances may bo paid by railroads
! to shippers for olovation of grain so
I as to talco in Missouri river cities and
J grain markets on tho" Mississippi and
onto rivers.
way of showing it, cut down tho ofll
gy and throw It Into tho Potomac
river.
Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker of Den
ver, former president of tho general
federation of Woman's clubs, died
at San Francisco as a result of an
operation.
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I vriuu iiuaiiy fi.uu,vuu,uuu in liio
casn drawer of tho Unltod States
treasury, ofllcials are of tho belief
that it will not bo necessary to issuo
bonds for construction work on tho
Panama canal for noarly a yoar.
Closing tho fiscal year of 1912
with a surplus of $36,335,830, tho
federal treasury now has a total of
$99,300,000 in its vaults.
' The passage of a sonato bill pro
1 hiblting intorsato shipment of prlze
, fight films was blocked in tho house
bocauso no quorum was presont.
Part of tho Amorican squadron
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waters has sailed for homo and tho
remainder will bo on its way soon.
President Taft and Mrs. Taft left
"Washington for Beverly, Mass.,
whoro they will open their summer
homo, Parramatta.
i' Tho stato department at Washing
l ton Issued a warning to tho public
mi that tho old Spanish swindle is out
, again in a now form.
An Associated Press dispatch,
dated Washington, July 6th, says:
, Conflicting stories are being told
of tho hanging In effigy of Wil
liam Jennings Bryan at Colonial
Beach, a summer resort near hero,
Wednesday night. The truth seems
to bo that the hanging was done by
cior man, .disappointed over the out
come of tho Baltimore convention.
Thf residents of Colonial Beach,
hovovor, resented the act and by
George M. Malby, member of -congress
from tho Twfcnty-slxth flow
York district, died at a hotel in Now
York City.
Senator Cummins has announced
that ho will support tho regular re
publican ticket. In other words he
will refuse to follow Roosevelt and
will stay by Mr. Taft.
Representative Norris of Nebraska
introduced a bill providing for a na
tional convention for each party on
tho fourth Monday in June in every
presidential year. The delegates to
this convention are to be elected at
primaries to bo held on tho first
Tuesday in May. Voters may ex
press a- first and second choice for
president and the candidate having
tho majority of tho first choice votes
becomes the nominee. It will not
bo necessary for the convention, to
take any action except on tho plat
form if one of the candidates re
ceived a majority first choice vote,
Otherwise tho convention would
nominate. This bill would not go
into effect until laws in conformity
to it had been passed by at least
twenty states.
Tho senate has passed a bill pro
viding for tho building of two
battleships.
A nation-wido movement originat
ing with Frank Harrison of Lincoln,
Neb., has taken on new forco at the
national capital, having for Its pur
pose tho withdrawal of both Taft
and Roosevelt. Petitions to that
end will be circulated generally
throughout k tho lw;untry.
Thirteen articles of lmpeachmont
have been presented against .Judge
Robert W. Archibald of the com
merce court.
of our country can como out of
either.
"Wo believe that the time has
como for a national progressive
movement a nation-wido move
ment on non-sectional lines, o
that the people may bo served in sin
cerity and truth by an administra
tion unfettered by obligation to con
flicting interests.
"Who belie vo in the Tight and
capacity of the people to rule them
selves and to effectively control
all the agencies of their government
and who hold that only through
social and industrial justice, thus
secured, can honest property find
permanent protection.
"Who believe that government by
the few tends to become and has in
fact become government by tho sor
did influences that control them.
"Who believe that only through
the movement proposed can we ob
tain in the nation and the several
states, the legislation demanded by
tho modern industrial evolution;
from legislation which shall favor
honest business and yet control the
great agencies of modern business so
as to insure their use in the interest
of the whole people.
"Who will promote at all times
the better and more equitable dif
fusion of prosperity, legislation
which shall promote the economic
well being of the honest farmer
wage earner, professional man, and
business man alike, but which shall
at the same time strike in effectual
fashion and competent to strike
at the roots of privilege in the world
of industry no less than the world
of politics.
"Who believe that only this type
of Wisconsin industrial evolution
will avert industrial revolution.
"Who believe that wholesome
party government can come only if
tnere is wnoiesome party manage
ment in a spirit of service to the
whole country and who hold that the
commandment delivered at Sinai
'Thou shalt not steal applies to poli
tics as well as to business.
"To all in accord with these
views, a call is hereby issued by the
provisional committee under the
resolution of the mass meeting held
in Chicago on June 22 last to each
state to send a number of delegates
whose votes in the convention shall
count for as many votes as the stato
shall have representatives in con
gress, to meet in convention at Chi
cago on the fifth day of August,
1912, for the purpose of nominating
candidates to be supported for the
positions of president and vice
president of the United States."
- Among the names appended to th
call are:
Iowa, J. L. Steven; Kansas, Henry
J. Allen; Minnesota, Milton- D.
Purdy; North Dakota, A. Y. Moore.
Included in the list of. signers are
three democrats: Judge B. F. Lind
sey of Denver; Julian Harris of
Atlanta, son of tho late Joel Chand
ler Harris and John M. Parker of
New Orleans.
Among the well known newspaper
owners and editors are W. R. Nel
son, owner of the Kansas City Star;
Henry J. Allen of the Wichita
Beacon; B. A. VanValkenberg of tho
Philadelphia North American; Henry
L. Stoddard, editor of tho New York
Mail.
Among other men of note aro
President F. S. Luther of Trinity
college, Hartford, Conn.; Governor
Hiram W. Johnson of California;
Governor R. T. Vessey of South Da
kota; Governor Joseph Caroy of
Wyoming; ex-Governor William
Dawson of West Virginia; Former
Attorney General Charles J. Bona
parte, United States Senator Miles
Poindexter of Washington; Leslie
Coombs, Kentucky, formerly minis
ter to Peru and Gua,tamala; Con
gressman George Curry, a former
governor .of New Mexico and Miguel
Aotero, a leader of the Spaniards
there; State Treasurer George A.
Taylor of Tennessee; William Draper
Lewis, dean of the law school of the
University of Pennsylvania.
NOT SO DnrFIOULT
"How did he manage to escape
from the penitentiary? I-thought it
was well-nigh impossible."
"Well, he figured it out on scien
tific lines. Somebody smuggled him
a pair of trunks, and after he got
outside everybody thought he was
running a marathon." Kansas City
Journal.
ROpSBVBLT'S NATIONAL CON-
V
VENTION
Jho Roosevelt national conven
vontlon has been called to meet at
Chicago, August 5 th. Following is
an 'Associated Press dispatch:
New York, July 7. A call to the
pooplo of tho Unltod States who aro
, in sympathy with tho "national pro
gressive movement" to send dele
gates to a national convention to
open at Chicago August 5, was
given out today by United Statos
. Senator Dixon of Montana, the
, colonel's manager. Tho call Is signed
by 'members of tho committee chosen
at a meeting held in Chicago, and
also4 bore tho signatures of Roose
velt, followers in forty statos.
"Tho territories have no place in
the nation and will not be con
sidered" declared Senator Dixon in
commenting upon the signatures.
"As for tho missing eight states,
tho most of them probably will send
delegates, although they! have not
takdn part in tho call. ''Many, for
instance, postponed any 'definite no
tion" because there is now a strong
fight, on in tho primaries with tho
sympathy running strbng for tho
progressive movement. ' Delaware
North Carolina, Arkansas and Ne
vada probably will take part in the
convention. Mississippi and South
Carolina may possibly bo unrepre
sented. "The call, lays no rules as to- the
methods of choosing delegates, since
An All nfntn -mill 1 -. . . 1
vyvwi O..UIO wm uo expected to select
, wuioauucH uy us own parapnanelia.
The representation will be cut down
to just one-half of tho previous
conventions This was deomed ad
visable since this convention is to
bo notably a progressive body and
will certainly be composed of a class
of men altogether different from
those who usually attend conven-
"In all probability the convention
win adopt tho name national pro
gressivesfor the new party, but I
can not say definitely that will be
done. Thus far no issues have been
authoratively stated -and of course
the platform itself will have to be
decided upon by the delegates."
The text of tho call is "Tho people
of the United States without regard
to past differences, who, through re
peated betrayals realize that today
the power of the crooked political
bosses and of tho privileged classes
behind them is so strong in thp.fivo
old party organizations that no help
ful movement in the real interests
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