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othor false promise
1b tho weapon to be
employed. An effort
to stop this swind
ling by reliance
upon a criminal
court has proved In
effective. In some
Instances tho pen
alty being merely a
fine, thero was noth
ing to prevent- the
parties from contin
uing to conduct
their schemes ex
cept fear of subse
quent lines, These
they could easily af
ford to pay from tho
large revenues de
rived from tho business.
holiday recess. Secretary Daniels
said he had determined on this
course to avoid the possibility of em
barrassment to the American navy
in foreign service. Frequently, Mr.
Daniels explained, in a field which
reasonably should be dominated by
American influence, a foreign officer
might take first rank because of the
failure of the "United States to pro
vide a grade above that of rear ad
miral. The subject has been much
discussed in connection with the sit
uation in the Gulf of Mexico, where
an English naval officer, Rear Ad
miral ..Sir Christopher Craddock, out
ranks Rear Admiral Fletcher, com
manding the American squadron of
seven first-class battleships, and in
the event of the necessity of one offi
cer to assume command of the forces
in-the Mexican' gulf, the Englishman
would be expected, in view of the
special responsibility of the United
States, to waive his claim to prefer
ence. Secretary Daniels, however, is
anxious to obviate the possibility of
so delicate a situation' by obtaining
legislation creating a new grade.
The parcel post made $36,000,000
during the first twelve months of its
operation, according to the estimates
of the postoffice department experts.
The first year of its operation ended
December 31, 1913. During the first
six months of the service, notwith
standing its high rates and restricted
business, the parcel post made $14,
000,000. During the following six
months the parcel post traffic has
more than doubled in volume. Its
success from a financial standpoint
and as a retail package vehicle has
exceeded the expectations of the post
office department officials and of Rep
resentative David J. Lewis of Mary
land, the author of the parcel post
act.
Treasury officials believe that the
new tariff act will produce several
millions more annually than had. been
estimated by the tariff experts. The
treasury expected to see revenues fall
off about $45,000,000 a year, but re
ports for the first two months under
the new law now lead to the belief
that this was excessive. Some offi
cials predicted the falling off would
not amount to over $36,000i000,
which would give the government
$9,000,000 more than was counted
upon for 1914. The net balance in
the United States treasury general
fund December 31 was $11,854,317
and the grand total of assets in the
treasury $2,038,864,977.
Investigation of the "cold storage
trust" by the department of justice
has progressed so far officials are
confident they have found trails
which will eventually lead to prose
cutions in the courts under the Sher
man anti-trust act.
The foreign commerce of the
United States in. the calendar year
1913 approximated one and three
quarter billion of imports and two
and one-half billion of exports. The
exports for the first 11 months were
$2,251,000,000 and the estimates for
the full year $2,497,000,000. These
estimates would make the excess of
exports over imports approximately
$740,900,000, which is about $100,
000,000 in excess of the previous
year.
. Congressman I. S. Pepper, of the
Second Iowa district, died at Clinton,
Iowa, after an illness of several
months. Representative Pepper was
secretary of the democratic national
committee at Washington. He was
serving his second term in congress,
but previously had been for many
years secretary to Former Congress
man Martin J. Wade of Iowa.
Congressman David J. Lewis of
Maryland introduced a resolution on
December 20 directing the house
postoffice committee to report a bill
for government ownership of tele
graph and telephone lines.
President Wilson signed the Hetch
Hetchy bill on December 19. In sign
ing this bill the president issued a
statement in which he said that the
usefulness of the public domain was
not impaired by the bill, and the
public needs of the region were
served.
tion the president has kept in touch
with official business and has de
voted some time to the consideration
of the question of selecting tho men
who will head the new bank reserve
board, as well as the preparation of
a special message to congress on the
subject of the regulation of "big busi
ness." A notable event of his trip
was the meeting with Envoy John
Lind on board a United States war
ship in the Gulf of Mexico for the
purpose of conferring on the Mexican
situation.
The loss of $129,000,000 in two
years by the unsuspecting public
through swindling operations carried
on by the use of the United States
mails has stirred, ihe postal authori
ties to a drastic campaign against
fraudulent schemers. The whole
sale right of the' government's right
to deny the mailing "privilege td per
sons or firms whose operations may
be tainted with "get rich, quick" and
Tho Panama canal
will be in condition
to pass vessels all
tho way across the
isthmus within the
next 70 days unlesg
some unexpected ob
stacle is encount
ered, according to
the judgment of a
high canal official.
The only remaining
obstacles to prevent
the passage of ves
sels at the present
time are the Cu-
caracha slide, which
blocks the. cut at Culebra, and a few
additional slides of minor importance.
The woman's national democratic
league met In convention at Wash
ington January 7. More than 500
dele-gates representing every wom
an's organization affiliated with the
democratic party in the United States
were in attendance. Speaker Clark
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