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1 " ' y ,'iw wwwjy "w - The Commoner. APRIL 1, 1910 11 i fl Washington News Senator Hale has secured the in corporation of a provision in the legislative appropriation bill that in formation under the corporation tax law shall be made public only on the order of the president when he deems it for the public interest. Tho house passed a bill forbid ding proprietors of amusement places in the District of Columbia or 'the territories to deny admission to soldiers or sailors because p their uniform. The legislative, judicial and execu tive appropriation bill, as reported to the senate, carries $34,034,357, an increase of $197,562 over the bill as it passed the house. Two of President Taft's conserva tion measures were introduced in the house. One providing for clas sification of public lands was intro duced by Smith of California. Pickett of Iowa introduced one per mitting the president to withdraw lands from entry. The senate committee on appro priations has restored to the legisla tive appropriation bill the provision for automobiles for Speaker Cannon and Vice President Sherman. The bill abolishing the federal circuit courts has been favorably re ported to the house. The senate confirmed the nomina tion of William S. Kenyon of Iowa to be assistant to the attorney general. tA.n Associated Press dispatch says: " 'Squatters' on unsurveyed lands within the national forests, who have occupied their tracts continu ously since before the creation of the forest reserves and who have complied with the homestead law, have had their rights increased by an order which has just been issued by the secretary of agriculture. Such settlers can now acquire title, prior to survey to 160 acres, a full home stead entry, wherever possible. The object of the order is to provide for the listing of the full amount of land which the occupant would re ceive if he exercised his option of awaiting the government survey irre spective of whether or not the en tire area is cultivatable, and the land is not more valuable for its timber than for agriculture. In cases where less than 160 acres have been listed to a person who settled upon the land prior to the creation of the for est an additional area sufficient to complete the homestead entry will be allowed on application." The administration railroad bill introduced by Representative Town send of Michigan and largely amend ed in committee was ordered favor ably reported by the house commit tee on interstate commerce. The vote on the bill was on party lines. The republicans voted for it unani mously. Four democrats voted against it and two democrats voted present. There will be a minority report. Norris of Nebraska was permitted to preside over the house of repre sentatives ten minutes March 24. emburg; Montenegro; Montnaco; Andorra; San Marino; Liechten stein; Haiti; the Kwantunk terri tory; Weihawei; Kiaochow; German possessions in Samao; German New Guineau, Including tho in sular possessions of tho Carolines, Pelew and the Marianne islands; Marshall, Brown and Providence islands; Straits settlements, includ ing Keeting islands; the federated Malay states; Brunei and Sarawak; Hong Kong and Kowloon; Nyasa land; northern Nigeria protectorate (Lagos) ; Gold Coast colony, includ ing Ashanti; the colony and protec torate of Sirra Leone; tho colony and protectorate of Gambia; Fiji; Tonga and Turkish possessions in Africa. China, commercially the most important nation in the list, had a total trade with the world for the year 1908 of $436,258,000, of which the United States had $42, 295,000. Of this last amount the exports of the United States to China amount to $26,810,000 and the imports of the United States from China that year aggregated $15,485,000. The United States rank with other nations was fourth in exports to China and fifth in im ports. During that year the princi pal exports from the United States to China were mineral oils, $8,631, 000; cotton manufactures, $3,413, 000; copper manufactures, $3,231, 000; wheat flour $1,923,000; tobac co, $1,518,000; iron and steel, $1, 175,000; manufactures of wood, $1, 002,000. The statistics show that there was an increase in the im ports into the United States from China during the ten years ending in 1908, of 23.1 per cent, and an increase of exports to China during the same period of 123.6 per cent. Senator Owen of Oklahoma advo cated his bill for the creation of a new executive department to be de voted to the public health. He de clared that six hundred thousand lives annually were sacrificed in this country because of the lack of prop er attention to sanitation. Kansas (republicans) and Senator Gore of Oklahoma (democrat), re ported adversely to the pensions on tho grounds that Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Cleveland were both in comfort able financial circumstances and in no need of aid." David J. Brewer, associate justice of tho United States supremo court, died suddenly of apoplexy. It is reported that Representative Hinshaw, republican, of Nebraska will not bo a candidate for re-election. President Madrlz of Nicaragua has offered to give the United States every guarantee demanded for the safety of American lives and property if this government will formally recognize tho Madriz government. Secretary Knox insists that before recognition is extended, order in Nicaragua must be restored. A Washington dispatch carried by tho Associated Press says: "In ap preciation of the action of tho war department in recommending and of President Taft in granting a par don last year to John Joseph von Schiller, a grandson of poet Schiller, who for desertion, had been sen tenced to three years in the federal prison at Ft. Leavenworth, German admirers of the poet intend to pro duce here ono of his plays and do nate the proceeds to the national soldiers home in this city!" Representative Shackleford, demo crat of Missouri, made an attack up on Speaker Cannon in the house March 22. He said that Cannon must bo driven from power as the first onslaught on Cannonism. The committee on pensions recom mended the abolition of pension agencies. Some of the regulars, un der the lead of Dalzell, fought this recommendation. Norris, insurgent, championed it. The recommenda tion was approved by a vote of 76 to 94 and this will abolish eighteen pension agencies. The city of Des Moines, Iowa, lost its fight for a re-adjustment of freight rates from that city to points in western Minnesota and North and Smith Dakota throueh the decision of the interstate commerce commission. It is announced that the regular republicans will enter the Chautauqua list in the effort to defend the record of their party and make an attack upon insurgency. Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, democrat, of Pennsylvania, attacked the administration on the floor of the house. He praised Roosevelt. He said that the republican party had violated its pledges and was doomed. In a speech in the senate, Senator Clapp of Minnesota denounced the Taft railroad bill, calling it "abso lutely revolutionary." President Taft has issued procla mations declaring that the following named countries are entitled to the minimum rates of the Payne-Aldrich act: The empire of China, including all its dependencies; Oman, Afghan istan; Nepal; Bhutan; Johore; Lux- An anti-vaccination society, with Harry B. Bradford president has been organized at the national capital. A Washington dispatch to the Chi cago Record-Herald says: "It is cus tomary to pension widows of former presidents, and, while provisions have been made for Mrs. Mary Lord Har rison and Mrs. Frances F. Cleveland in the way of granting them franking privileges, etc., it was not until today that a serious move was made in the direction of placing them upon the pension rolls. The pension commit mittee of the senate, following the well-established precedent, voted each of them $5,000 a year, but not without encountering strong opposi tion A minority of the committee. S nSkota i Senator Curtis of Representative Sheppard of Texas, speaking in the house, combatted the Osier theory, and maintained that after tho age of forty years men and women not only were endowed with their best faculties, for scientific and professional work, but in the govern ment service were fully qualified in many instances for efficient service. General J. Warren Keifer of Ohio, who is in his seventy-fifth year and was formerly speaker of the house, frequently applauded his complimen tary references to the abilities of old men, and women. Tho military academy appropria tion bill carrying $1,856,649 has been passed by tho senate. "Copenhagen is the one place in the world where we should not send the proofs of an American explorer when those proofs have been attested in the United States," said Repre sentative J. Hampton Moore, of Penn sylvania, in the house during his ad vocacy of recognition of Commander Peary by congress for his discovery of the north pole. 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