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The Commoner.
VOLUME 11, NUMBER 3
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of development, where are model farms and prosper
ous farmers.
Average yields : Com, 40 to 75 bushels per acre;
cotton one-half to one bale per acre; alfalfa, seven to
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per acre; other crops in proportion.
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1911
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State
Officials of the postofflce depart
ment aro reticent about discussing
the opinion given August 81 by At
torney General Carmody of New
York to the effect that postal savings
bank deposits are subject to taxation.
This is the first time that the ques
tion has been brought to the atten
tion of the department and it is felt
that Mr. Carmody has raised an im
portant isslie. No one was found
willing to dispute his contention.
The act establishing postal savings
depositories is silent on the ques
tion of taxation of moneys so de
posited, but provides that the bonds
issued in lieu of surrendered de
posits "shall be exempt from all
taxes or duties of the United States
as woll as from taxation in any form
by or under state, municipal or
local authority."
representatives have been filed as yet
under the new law. With many sug
gestions coming forth as to what tho
intent of congress was in passing tho
law, it is reported that the secretary
of the senate will refer the law to the
attorney general for an opinion as
to the secretary's duty under tho
enactment.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
designated Washington as a postal
savings bank. An effort will be made
to have the bank here at the capi
tal regarded as a model for others
throughout the United States.
A new six pound gun, equipped
with especially adapted explosive
projectiles and schrapnel shells to
demolish aeroplanes and balloons in
battles has been perfected by tho
United States army. It can bo ele
vated at any angle and possesses a
maximum effective range of 7 miles.
A total production of 12,918,200
bales of cotton as the final yield this
year is indicated by the department
of agriculture officials on condition of
growing crop on August 25, which
the crop reporting board from re
ports from its correspondents and
agents throughout the cotton belt
estimated that 73.2 per cent ought
I to be normal.
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An Associated Press dispatch from
Washington says: Primary election
expense statements for Senators Mar
tin and Swanson of Virginia, the first
to be filed under the new publicity
law that Went into effect August 19,
reuuutiu uio omce 01 secretary xien-
Inet Aug. 30. In the absence of Sec
retary Bennett, officials of his office
The two battleships authorized by
the last naval act probably will bo
28,500 tons displacement, or the
biggest war vessels in the world. The
largest ships so far designed are the
New York and Texas, with a dis
placement of 27,000 tons each, and it
became known only recently that the
navy department contemplates ex
ceeding their size. The new ships
will have heavier armor than ever
before put on a battleship, which ac
counts for their increased displace
ment. The armament of the new
vessels will be the same as the New
York and Texas with a main battery
of ten fourteen-inch guns. With this
approach to a 30,000 ton battleship
the naval ordnance experts are con
sidering the question of a sixteen-
inch gun. It will require a 35,000
ton battleship to withstand the ter
rific recoil from a main battery of
ten sixteen-inch guns.
declined to make them public. Fol
lowing this declination, examination
of the new publicity law resulted in
the startling .disclosure that .in the
account presumed to be most 'drastic
there is no requirement for publicity
of the individual statements filed by
candidates for the senate or the
house of representatives. The law
requires the filing of individual ex
pense statements and has apparently
left to the discretion of the senate
secretary or the clerk of the house,
as the case may be, to decide whether
these statements shall be given to
the public. The publicity law of 1910
required that the expenses of cam
paign committees "shall be a part
of a public record" in the office of
the clerk of the house and "shall be
open to public inspection." The
statements received from Senators
Martin and Swanson will ho for-
waTded to Secretary Bennett in Now
York. What construction he will
place upon the new law is not known.
It was generally understood here
during the preparation of tho new
law, amending the act of 1910 that
the amendments were designed to
give actual publicity to the individual
expenses of candidates for the senate
or the house of representatives. Much
surprise waB expressed when it was
realized that the law was enfarely
silent on making these private ex
pense statements public. Tho lnw
requires that expenditures by com
mittees in tho election of represen
tatives shall be a part of the nuhlio.
record of the house. South Trimble,
me ui tuo nouso or representatives,
said he would construe the law as
permitting publicity of Individual ex
pense accounts If the case should
come before him. No expense state
ments in contests for the house of
A Washington dispatch says that
ambassadors and ministers of tho
American foreign service have been
instructed by the state department
to submit estimates for construction
or purchase by the United States of
homes for them in every foreign
capital of the world. This is in ac
cordance with recent authority
granted by congress providing for
embassies and legations in order to
relieve the diplomats of the enor
mous expense of rent, which in some
cases exceeds their salaries. Con
gress limited the cost of any embassy
or legation to $150,000. State de
partment officials believe that this
will be inadequate to afford abodes
in keeping with the dignity of the
nation, especially in the largo capi
tals, where it is believed an appro
priation of $150,000 or $300,000
will be needed. With the $150,000
limitation it is thought the policy of
erection or purchasing American le
gations can be inaugurated in some
of the small Central or South Ameri
can countries.
The center of population of the
United States was announced by the
director of the census bureau to be
in the western part of the city oi
Bloomington, Monroe county, Indi
ana. This is eight miles farther
west than the location announced
July 17, when Director Durand
placed it at 5' miles south oi
Unionville, in the same county. Ten
years ago the center of population
was bIx miles southeast of Columbus,
Ind., thirty-nine miles east of its new
location.
Following is an Associated Press
dispatch: An outline of tho pro
gram of legislation for the postal
service which Postmaster General
Hitchcock will ask the congress to
follow during the regular session w
begin in December was indicated wr
Mr. Hitchcock recently. In hifl w
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