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world. This enormous business has been gained and held by underselling everybody, treating
customers fairly, and doing as wo agree.
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or fit, send it back and we will replace it. Or we will send your money back, and pay transportation
Dotn ways, we consider no expense or euort too great; to avoid navmg one aissansnea customer.
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whole c6st of selling the same goods to 2,000 separate stores, scattered everywhere. The fiercest competition in America centers in the effort to get our
trade. Tho prices wo pay are never much above cost; and goods that we cannot buy low enough are made in factories of our own. Is it any wonder that
we can sell for about what common dealers pay? We get along with a fraction of tho profit charged by stores. We have no salesmen no selling expense
save our catalogue. A dealer must make several times as much on each article to pay his expenses and live. Our expense is but a small percentage when
spread ovor sales that amount to millions of dollars annually. Wo simply combine the buying and selling of two thousand average stores. We save the
wasteful methods that cost more than the merchandise, and we give the saving to you. This
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notified tho custom house authorities at
San Francisco not to allow any guns
to bo shipped from thlB country to
tho lnBiirKents in China.
Tho irrigation bill was reported to 1
tho houso April , 7. It has . beeu
amended so as to make it conform to
the views of the president and the
largo portion of tho country that
stood with him in opposition to its
first form.
Tho committee on foreign affalr3
announced that they will make a fav
orable report on tho Sulzer resolution,
calling for all Information in tho pos
session of tho administration with re
gard to tho alleged British camp at
Port Chalmotte, La.
Tho houso committee on banking
and currency has ordered a favorable
report on tho Fowler financial bill.
This moasuro provides that the govern
ment is "to maintain tho gold stand
ard, provide an elastic currency,
equalize tho rates of interest through
out tho country, and further amend
the national banking laws."
At a meeting of the senate commit
tee on the Philippines, much displeas
ure was expressed at Secretary's Root's
action withholding reports from those
islands which are considered very Im
portant. A resolution was adopted
calling upon the secretary of war to
report any and all information he may
have from General Chaffee.
On April 7 the houso passed the
umnese exclusion bill, after the adop
tion of several amendments. One of
these excludes all Chinese of mixed
blood and another prohibits the em
ployment of Chinese sailors on Amer
ican ships. The bill reenacts all the
existing exclusion laws and extends
them to the Philippines and other pos
sessions of the United States.
On March 15 the house adopted a
resolution calling upon the secretary
of war to give all information in his
possession in regard to the transport
service between San Francisco and the
Philippines. Secretary Root answered
April 8, showing that great corruption
existed In the service, and gives re
ports and facts to substantiate these
charges.
A recont dispatch from Manila an
nounces the arrest of the editor of
Freedom, a newspaper publication In
that city, in the charge of sedition, be
cause of certain articles printed In hl3
paper reflecting on the civil govern
ment there. A mass meeting was held
and it was resolved to send a cable
message to President Roosevelt in re
gard to the matter.
Tho now famous merger case involv
ing the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific railways, has been taken before
the United States supremo court for
trial. Former Attorney General Griggs
appeared for the railroads and ho de
nied all basis of action. The case was
brought by Attorney General Stratton
of the state of Washington and Is
practically tho same case that was re
cently tried in Minnesota,
The house passed the senate bill ex
tending the charters of national banks
twenty years on April 7, by a vote of
1x7 to 48. The debate on the measure
was brief, the democrats . being- taken
completely by surprise, and though
they made an attempt to filibuster
against the bill, It was not successful.
Mr. Fowler of New Jersey explained
that the bill would extend the charters
of 650 national banks, representing a
capital of $123,753,300.
The United States supremo court
through an opinion delivered bv Chtef
Justice Fuller, sustained the right of
Kansas in the irrigation controversy
between that state and Colorado. Tho
suit involved the right of Colorado to
appropriate the waters of the Arkan
sas river for purposes of irigatlon,
which right Kansas contested. This
decision is important in its bearing on
the irrigation bill now before the
house.
On April 10 the suppressed report
of Governor Gardener of the province
of Tayabas, Philippine islands, was
made public. This is the report re
ferred to by General Miles In his
correspondence with tho secretary of
war. According to this report tho
Americans are -charged with great
cruelty and abuse of tho Filipinos In
that province, and it Is pointed out
that unless better treatment is ac
corded the natives, .the last vestago of
loyalty to the United States will be
lost.
The revised house bill establishing
civil government in the Philippines
was perfected and reintroduced in the
committee by Chairman Cooper April
8, and this revised measure was pre
sented to the house April 11. This
bill differes from the senate measur9 .
In that it provides a complete form
of civil government to go into effect
when the war terminates. It further
provides that all legislative power
shall be vested in two houses, the
Philippine commission to be appointed
by the president and the Philippine as
sembly. The census is to bo taken
within thirty days after the promulga
tion of peace. Thereafter the islands
are to be divided into election districts
and, tho regular way of electing on a
branch of the legislature is provided. '
CUBAN RECIPROCITY.
The fight in tho house over the
Cuban reciprocity measure has come
to be a "catch as catch can" proposi
tion. The republicans are greatly
divided on the aiiGBtinn. nvho n
also division among the democrats,
but it is reported that when the meas
ure reaches the senate, the democrats
of that bpdy will present a united front
acting upon a well defined policy.
An Associated Press dispatch under,
date at Washington, April 10, saysri
The report of the house committee on
insular affairs on tho bill for the ad
ministration of civil affairs In the
Philippines was filed today Uy Chair
man Cpoper. . '
It says now is the opportune timt