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WASHINGTON NEWS
The correspondent for the Louis-1 deavor to have the equivalent of a
le, Courier-Journal says: Repu&ii-1 ear's salary for tho late Justice
n members of congress who sent
emissary to Roosevelt to learn
presidential intentions, are said
have received a report that the
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' &.: fitly unanimous call, which he can
1"lmmt ignore.
It is said that Huntington Wilson,
w assistant secretary of state will
icceed Robert Bacon as ambassador
France.
Harlan appropriated by congress to
Mrs. Harlan.
PostraaBter General Hitchcock has
Biecommended the government owner-
tip of the telegraph lines as part of
ie postal service.
The fourth assistant postmaster
ll&neral makes a plea for the estab
lishment of parcels post delivery in
mis annual report to the postmaster
general.
A dispatch to the Louisville
Courier-Journal says: Following a
conference between President Taft
Rind Postmaster General Hitchcock
lover tne latters recommendation
that the- government take over con
trol of the telegraph lines, a state
ment was issued from the White
Blouse declaring the administration
not yet prepared to stand sponsor
lior the measure.
' A TTnHp.rl Rt.a.t.ps Kimrrmfi p.onrr. has
Sustained the employers' liability .
Law',reWcted''by-,'congress-in -1908 and
attacked through the courts in vari
ous parts of the country.
A special dispatch to tho Louis
ville Courier-Journal says: Secre
tary of the Navy Meyer is called upon
in a resolution favorablv renortod
by the house naval committee to re
port in full regarding expenditures
for steel plates, armor, machinery
or other forms of steel used in the
manufacture of war vessels during
the present fiscal year. Tho resolu
tion is a modified form ot one intro
duced recently by Representative A.
O. Stanley, chairman of the special
steel investigating committee. Its
purpose is to discover whether the
navy department has -complied with
a provision of the last naval appro
priation bill, placed therein nearly
a year ago on motion of Stanley, that
no steel shall be used on war ves
sels if bought from corporations
which have combined in restraint of
trade.
In the original resolution the Ken
tuckian asked specifically whether
any steel has been purchased from
the United States Steel corporation.
This reference, tho committee elimi
nated on the ground that it has not
been determined whether that cor
poration -is a combination in re
straint of trade. The secretary is,
therefore, td be requested to give a
full account of the purchase of steel
from whatever source.
hands of the gonate, and then
leaves tho foreign countries to
understand that the power vested in
the commission is a genuine one and
that we Intend to abide by it.
"I have no objection to tho resolu
tion of Senator Root in tho formal
ratifications. That is tho way tho
treaty ought to bo passed, and ought
to bo adopted so as to make it per
fectly plain that wo would not arbi
trate questions liko the Monroe doc
trine, state indebtedness and immi
gration." Senator Rayner added that tho
treaties did not mean an alliance
with Great Britain or any other
country.
"If they did," ho said, "I would
rather see tho treaties torn into
shreds than accepted. Tho day will
come when Germany will enter into
the compact, and when that occurs,
and tho United States ancU Great
Britain and Germany and Franco
sign and seal the covenant, tho era
of universal peace will dawn upon
tho world.
"Then tho earth will no longer
rock beneath the tread of battling
legions and naval armaments will
no longer patrol the waters of the
world in search for tho possessions
of unconquered races, and then,
under God's guidance, the dove of
peace will build its nest within tho
cannon's mouth."
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The house judiciary committee has
favorably reported tho Henry resolu
tion changing the date of the presi
dential Inauguration from March 4
to tho last Thursday in April and the
terms of representatives in congress
to begin the second Tuesday in
January instead of on March 4.
The United States senate in execu
tive session, after a lively d6bate,
decided by a vote of 58 to 8 to con
sider the arbitration treaties with
Great Britain and France in public
(Sessions.
Senator Lorimer, before the
senate committee investigating his
election to the senate, gave a detailed
history of his life, which he Btated
began as a bootblack in Chicago.
These changes would be effective
n,Hn, wna tniron hv ft. nnvni April, 1917, and January, 1918, re-
committee after Mr. Stanley had ap- uvt I?
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Choice lands lor allalta, grain, grasses, fruits, regetaUes,
stock and poultry, close to big eastern markets. Fertile
10 acre (adjoining) tracts of land suitable lor imultry, truck
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peared before it earlier In the day
and urged a favorable report on his
resolution. Later he expressed him
self as entirely satisfied with the
resolution which it was decided to
report. He said it was the informa
tion he was after, and he would not
quibble about the form of tho request.
The committee on rules of the na
if tional house began consideration of
the nronosed investigation into the
m ni-nnllnA mnnrxir eV TrlTi or r n A "h n T
vester trusts.
The late Associate Justice John
Marshall Harlan, of the supreme
court of the United States, left an
estate of $14,000, of which $7,200
was in life insurance.
Representative Rouse of Kentucky
will insist in congress upon better
working conditions for railway mail
clerics.
Tho correspondent for the Louis
ville Courier-Journal says: A poll
of the United States senate made by
a senator who is supporting the gen
eral arbitration treaties was reported
as follows: For treaties unamended
or amended in some acceptable way,
sixty; fourteen against; one still
open to slight doubt; the remainder
doubtful.
Tho state department at Washing
ton has served notice on President
Gomez that the United States will in
tervene in Cuba if further attempts
are made by the veteran organization
to nullify the law prohibiting inter
ference of the military in political
affairs in Cuba.
Representative Sherley will .en-
Senator Rayner of Maryland de
livered a strong speech in the senate
in favor of the peace treaties Sena
tor Rayner contended that after the
proposed joint high commission had
determined to submit a controversy
to arbitration it would be perfectly
useless to give the senate the right
to reverse the commission's action.
He declared to the qonate that the
treaties would become a mockery
and a farce if such a resolution, per
mitting arbitrators to decide a case
and then giving the defendant the
right to reverse it If the award did
not suit, were written into the ratifi
cations as proposed by Senator
Lodge. '
"What is the use," he asked, "of
having the high commission, of pay
ing the enormous expense and of in
vesting it with the power that it has,
if its judgment is not going to
amount to anything whatever on the
face of the earth, and if the
senate shall have the right to set it
aside whenever it suits them? To
me, the whole complicated system of
the treaty is absurd if you propose
to- tack a proposition of this sort
to it.
"If the state department has
changed its mind and it appears
that it has then let us rewrite the
treaty and be frank with each other
and strike out the clause in the
treaty which gives the commission
the right to determine whether it
shall send a controversy to arbitra
tion. I am for the treaties as they
stand. I am perfectly willing to
abide by the decision of the joint
hi eh commission. But I am not
willing to enact a comedy like this
which places the wnoie power m me
Th Henry resolution would pro
vide for extension of the term of the
president and vice president elected
in 1912 to the last Thursday of
April, 1917.
Congress would convene annually
on the second Tuesday in January.
This would leave the biennial elec
tions in November except in Oregon,
in June, and in Maine and Vermont,
in September.
OAIiL FOR DEMOCRATIC NA
TIONAL CONVENTION
The official call for tho democratic
national convention to bo held at
Baltimore on June 25 was issued by
Norman B. Mack, chairman, and
Urey Woodson, secretary of tho
democratic national committee. Tho
basis of representation and tho
method of naming delegates is out
lined as follows:
"Delegates and alternates from
each 'state of the union shall be
chosen to the number of two dele
gates for every senator and two
delegates for every representative
from tho states respectively in the
congress of the United States under
the congressonal reapportionment of
the district based upon the census of
1910. Tho District of Columbia,
Alaska, the Philippines, Hawaii and
Porto Rico aro each allowed six dele
gates. "In tho choice of delegates and
alternates, the democratic state or
territorial committee may, if not
otherwise decided provide for the
direct election of such delegates or
alternates If, in the opinion of the
respective committees, it is deemed
desirable and possible to do so with
proper and. sufficient safeguards.
Where such provision is not made
and where the laws do not provide
specifically the manner of such
choice, then the delegates and alter
nates to said national convention
shall be chosen in the manner that
governed the choice of delegates to
the last democratic national convention."
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