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completed. Provisions tor me aiiyumi.
mnnt for more than 100 surveyors are
contained in the bill.
The Joint statehood bill was passed
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vide for the adrclwion to statehood
of the state of Oklahoma, to be com
posed of Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory, and Kef,' Mexico, according to
the proent boundaries, vith Arizona
eliminated.
The suit brought by Warren B. Wil
son, a Chicago lawyer, who sued for
an injunction to restrain the secretary
of tho treasury from paying the repub
lic of Panama any of the amount of
money provided for under the treaty
of the United States with -Panama, has
been decided against him. air. Wilson
alleges that tho Panama Canal act
was unconstitutional, that the United
States was without right to acquire
foreign territory, and that he brought
the suit on his own initiative.
Owing to a report of a $27,000 short
age in the funds of the postofHco at
Koloa, Hawaii, Acting Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General Conrad, has
removed Manuol A. Rego from the
postmastershlp at that place and des
ignated Louis Kamuaum in nis steau.
John Goodnow, consul general at
Shanghai called at the state depart
ment on Feb. 7 and announced that
he wished to resign. His successor ha3
not yet been named.
Secretary of the Navy Morton has
written a letter to Paymaster General
G. H. T. Harris, chief of the bureau
of supplies and accounts, informing
him that although his retirement will
occur on March 10, it is the wish of
the department that he retain his posi
tion for at least a year after that date.
This request is made in recognition of
hi3 excellent service.
The president has signed the Phil
ippine railroad bill which authorizes
railway construction in the islands and
confers on the Philippine government
the authority to guarantee bonds to
the extent of four per cent of 30,000,-000.
An Associated Press dispatch dated
Washington, D. C, Feb. 7, says: "Sec
retary Morton has announced the
award of the contract for the armor
as follows: To the Bethlehem Steel
company, the armor for one battle
ship and one armored cruiser, 5.6GG
tons ana all bolts and nuts, ninety
four tons. To the Carnegie Steel com
pany, the armor for one armored cruis
er, 2,1C2 tons. In announcing the
award it is stated that, while the Mld
valo Steel company has submitted
trial plates that have successfully with
stood the required ballistic test, it has
not yet commenced the regular produc
tion of armor in quantity, and the
bureau of ordnance does not deem
that the production of the trial plate3
submitted is such a guarantee that
the company can produce suitable
armor in the quantities required as
would warrant at this time in award
ing to that company a contract for
armor."
The incorporators of tho AmnrUn
National Red Cross met at the state
department in Washington. About
two dozen persons were present, but
Miss Clara Barton was a notable ab
sentee. Secretary Taft called the in
corporators to order. A temporary
organization was effected through the
selection of John W. Foster as tempor
ary presiding officer and Lieutenant
John W. Crawford, Admiral Dewey's
aid, as secretary.
President Roosevelt has sent a mes
sage to congress recommending, the
appointment of a board of surveys to
superintend national surveys and
explorations in the Philippine archi
pelago. He estimates thr.t it will re
quire eight or ten years to complete
the work and recommends that appro
priations be made from time to time
to pay the expenses.
.The river and harbor bill is nearly
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The Washington correspondent for
the S't. Louis Republic, under date of
February 7, says: The feature of the
debate In the house today on the
freight rate bill was the speech of
Mr. McCall of Massachusetts, who, in
opposition to the proposed legislation,
declared that it was not to be imagined
that the Supreme Court would stand
between the government and it3 vic
tim, following that utterance up with
tho statement that the courts usually
reflected the policy of the party iu
power. -The views of the speakers as
to legislation needed were many and
varied, but with the exception of Mr.
McCall and Mr. Sibley of Pennsylvania
all were agreed that the time had ar
rived for the granting of relief. The
names of William J. Bryan and Presi
dent Roosevelt figured nrominentlv in
the discussion, the allegation being
made from the democratic side of the
chamber that the president, in his re
cent message to congress on the sub
ject of rate legislation, only reiterated
the views of Mr. Bryan and the declar
ations of the democratic party in three
platforms. In accordance with the rule
adopted yesterday, the committee to
day in committee of the whole, con
vened one hour earlier than usual,
me exclusive business for the day be
ing debate on the bills regulating
freight rates. Mr. Richardson of Ala
bama continued his speech begun yes
terday. He dismissed the legal points
involved. It was, he said, in the fed
eral courts that the railroads get their
protection. Tne special court proposed
by the Townsend bill he characterized
at a fifth wheel in the judicial wagon,
with no necessity for it except to em-
uarrass tne movement for equalizing
rates. Mr. Richardson denied that the
Davey bill embodied any of the pro
visions of tho so-called Hearst bill
iur. uainey (Illinois) vigorously as
serted that it would not have hurt the
uavuy uiu .it tne democrats had in
corporated in it every provision of the
Hearst bill, because it represented "the
present progressive and radical ten
dency of the democratic party in the
United States." Mr. Adamson (Geor
g a) took issue with the statement of
Mr. Grosvenor yesterday, and said all
the world would give the democrats
credit for forcing action, whether they
claimed it or not. If the republicans
?!? notcomPlete the legislation now
he predicted that the country would
damn them for trifling with sc im
portant a matter and preventing no
Won. 'Both parties want IthSVw
'The president now wants it. The man
who ought to have been president for
years wants it. All who wish to hi
president want it and even the ran
road presidents want it, and are in
vad ng the capitol, white house and
public press to make known their an
xlety ' Hq urged his colleagues not
tion to pass 'some kind' of a bill only
but to pass the substitute of the min
ority. Mr. Shackleford of Missouri said the
words of President Roosevelt, in his
message on the subject, were bold ones,
spoken in behalf of the people, but
they were but a reiteration of the sent
iments of Mr. Bryan and of the declar
ations in three democratic platforms.
Mr. Shackleford then referred to the
recent remarks of Mr. Williams of
Mississippi, the minority leader, that
the democrats would 'toe-mark' the
president on this question. It was not,
he said, with some emphasis, a ques
tion of toe-marking the president. 'It
is a question of marching shoulder to
shoulder with the president, so long
as he is toe-marking the declarations
of the three last democratic platforms
It also was a question with the demo
crats of President Roosevelt 'marching
shoulder to shoulder" with the great
NToVirnclrnn whn Imfi rnkPn the lead
in this great question.' He urged his
colleagues not to lag behind 'even the
president,' who had asked for a correc
tion of all the abuses. 'And so,' he
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congress like a bombshell, he asserted,
the house would have Hat for twenty
years to come without action upon it
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dent when we are not including or in
corporating within our bill one-third
of the remedies he has demanded.'
Mr. Shackleford referred to the re
cent conference at the White .House
of the president with several railroad
presidents and expressed it as nis be
lief that when the Townsend bill he
came a law, and it was found that the
railroad presidents were favorable to
it, President Roosevelt would feel that
he had authority to remove every man
of the interstate commerce commission
and appoint an entirely new body.
The first voice raised against rate
legislation was that of Mr. McCall of
Massachusetts, who maintained that it
was incompatible with tlie fundamental
principles o private property. The
granting of authority to the interstate
commerce commission to fix rates, he
said, wa3 crossing the line between reg
ulation and confiscation in a -manner
that outraged the most patent princi
ples of justice, and he inquired if
anyone could imagine a more ideal
method for the destruction or private
property and one more likely to cor
rupt the American people. The powers
vested by the bill, he said, were too
vast and dangerous to be wielded by
any political "government and were
likely to lead to the destruction of
cities, and to government ownership of
railroads over the pathway of confis
cation. The very air, he said, vibrated
with the demands of an aroused pub
lic appetite. 'But who imagines,' he
inquired, 'that the supreme court of
the United States will stand between
tne national government and its vic
tim?' He declared immediately after
wards that unfortunately there was a
disposition on the part of the courts to
uphold the policy of the party in
power. Despairing that the railroads
would get the protection to which they
were entitled, Mr. McCall said that if
the lid of this Pandora's box should
be removed evervthini? wnniri nc,
from it but hope. He declared it would-
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