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President George S. Dcarborne, of
Uio American-Hawaiian Stoaraship
company, before the house cora
mitteo on interstate commorce, pro
posed tho establishment of a govern-mont-ownod
line of steamships
Ui rough the Panama canal, or the
admission of foreign ships to the
American coastwise trade under the
American flag.
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The sub-committee of Hie senate
committco on foreign relations
agreed to rocommend ratification of
tho general treaty negotiated by the
United States with other nations for
the protection of trademark and
other property rights of American
citizens.
Tho first provincial committee in
tho Philippines has instructed the
delegates of Pangasinan province to
vote against tho indorsement of
resident Tatt.
Senator Sutherland of Utah pro
posed a bill for a memorial amphi
theater in Arlington national cemetery.
Senator Kenyon of Iowa has de
clared in favor of Senator Cummins
for republican nomination for presi
dent. He said that tho Iowa vote
will eventually be thrown to Mr.
Taft and that Cummins will probably
bo the nominee for vice president.
Representative Cary of Wisconsin,
a republican, has introduced a bill
providing for government ownership
of tho telegraph lines.
Tho fourth assistant postmaster
general has made a report showing
that tho receipts from tho rural mail
routes for last year were $7,570,000
while tho expenditures run up to
$37,130,000, making a deficit of
about $30,000,000. There are at
present more than a million miles of
rural mail routes and the average
mileage per day for each carrier is
24.19 miles. During the past year
577 routes were added, making the
present total 41,05G.
Tho senate adopted a resolution
offered by Senator Hitchcock of Ne
braska asking by what authority of
law or treaty troops wero recently
sent to China.
A petition to dissolve the Ameri
can Telephone & Telegraph Co., on
the ground that it is a monopoly in
violation of the Sherman anti-trust
law, was presented to Attorney
General Wickersham.
Tho census bureau's cotton gin
ning report shows that up to January
1G more than 14,000,000 bales had
been ginned, which is nearly 3 000 -000
more bales than at the same
poriod a year ago.
President Farroll, of the United
btates Stool corporation, stated be
fore tho Stanley investigating com
mitteo that the steel corporation had
severed all relations with the Inter
national Harvester company five or
six years ago.
Senator Bradley has Introduced a
bill providing for tolls on foreign
ships passing through the Panama
canal.
A special dispatch to tho Louis-
rCrrIGr.;Journal says: HamSiy
reigned at the caucus of the house
democrats, which unanimously in
dorsed the Underwood metal sched
ule, providing for a reduction of the
tariff on "steel, iron, lead, zinc and
other metallic products from 30 to
00 per cent, and placing many of
tho most useful products of these
metals and the ores on tho free list.
The discussion lasted from 4:30
o'clock in the afternoon until nearly
8 o'clock, most of the timo being
consumed by Representative Oscar
W. Underwood and other members
of the ways and means committee
who explained the bill.
One amendment of a minor char
acter was ordered by the caucus.
This adds baling wire to the free
list. Mr. Underwood believed that
tho measure as originally drawn in
cluded this sort of wire, but he did
not object to making sure. Repre
sentative William R. Smith, of Texas,
wanted to put pig lead on the free
list, and Representative William
A. Cullop, of Indiana, wanted to do
the same with steel rails, which in
the Underwood bill are reduced from
about 15 to 10 per cent ad valorem.
Both of these amendments were de
feated overwhelmingly.
Representative John J. Fitzgerald,
of New York, chairman of the ap
propriations committee, offered his
resolution against the public build
ings bill, but the fight that was due
on this subject was postponed by a
recess of the caucus. It was stated
by several prominent members that
Mr. Fitzgerald, who is backed in
his desire for economy by Speaker
Clark and the other democratic
leaders, including Representative
Swager Sherley, will probably win
out.
Representative Jefferson Levy, of
New York, tried to get consideration
for a resolution to refer the Lind
bergh resolution for an Investiga
tion of the money trust to the com
mittee on banking and currency, tak
ing it away from the rules commit
tee, which is now considering it. He
failed.
The iron and steel schedule was
explained by Representative Under
wood in an extended speech. Though
it was apparent that many members
aJr?rf-t P f Cing Steel rail3 n the
Zl iiati .U Was argTIed tha Pend-
ng the investigation of the steel
trust by a house committee, such
action might be misconstrued
Representatives Rucker, Taylor
2!1JS"U2' 9oldo,' made a
lb;,UUB eu,OIt to nave the proposed
An"V?,,load and zinc Creased
All of them declared they were
Pledged to their constituents fo?
higher tariffs than those proposed on
these items, but their efforts were
unavailing. The proposed duty on
lead In the bill is 25 per cent, zinc
n blocks 15 per cent, and zinc o?e
is placed on the free list. Represent
tatives Rucker and Taylor aXd to
pfedgaebS1Ved frm their
The bill making, general reduc
tions of from 30 to 50 per cent from
the Payne-Aldrich bill will be inX?
duced in the house and brought un
for discussion within a few daya. P
lOW Annr;1na!;eid PrGSS fol
lows. Demanding an investifrnHmi
and TOT12? exFditu?eVse8ing19O0?
Texas in nJ? Culbrson, 0f
xexas, in the senate made swoni
charges of corruption agaS thf
republican committee tovUilt fl
?hnf r ln"ctly he charged
hoof fr,Ign ambassadorshipE T wire
bestowed as a reward for camnnf
ehXd "Xt an? aars
JSS&t 25f conrd thu
money in politics. SQ of
Mr. Culberson's address wno ,.
In anttcipntlon of m ? unf avorabl? re!
port by the committee on contingent
expenses on his resolution providing
for an investigation. He said that
tho limitations of the proposed in
quiry to 1904 should not be con
strued as a confession that there had
not been improper practices beforo
that period.
Referring especially to the cam
paign of 1908, Mr. Culberson said
that the contributions to the demo
cratic fund had been made by 74,000
persons with $5,000 as the largest,
while those of the republican fund
were made by 123,330 persons, with
Charles P. Taft, brother of the re
publican presidential candidate, at
their head with a donation of $110,
000. Among the contributors men
tioned were Ambassadors Reid and
Kerens and Minister Larz Anderson.
In the course of his speech Mr.
Culberson referred to the fact that
George B. Cortelyou in the 1904
campaign had held the position of
chairman of the republican national
committee while he was secretary of
commorce and labor, and intimated
that Mr. Cortelyou had taken advan
tage of the secrets of corporations
whose affairs might be investigated
under the federal law, to procure
money for the campaign.
"It has been estimated," he said,
"that the enormous and unconscion
able sum of $11,000,000 was raised
and probably expended that year by
the committee of which Cortelyou
was chairman. The very size and
audacity of this fund, If approxi
mately correct, smacks of extortion,
profligacy and corruption. Who
contributed, and where did it come
from?"
Mr. Culberson declared there
should be an inquiry to answer these
questions.
He went into some detail regard
ing the newspaper charges that the
late E. H. Harriman had raised the
fund of $260,000 to which he him
self had contributed $50,000 in sup
port of the republican ticket in the
campaign of 1904. He declared that
within the past few weeks an effort
had been made to clear up this
charge and added: "This attempt
to unload upon the dead the oblo
quy of this disgraceful transaction
which is said to have changed 50,
000 votes in the city of New York
alone, may be significant in several
ways. It may be the common and
ordinary case of malefactors waiting
for the absconding or death of wit
nesses, or it may presage a political
movement of national consequence
and magnitude."
Contending that his resolution did
Soback of 1904, Mr. Culberson
said this was due to the necessity of
fixing a limit and was not because of
the fact that money had not been
corruptly used prior to that time. . In
this connection he said:
"Men high in party councils, one
op them afterwards attaining the
vice presidency and then the presi
dency, laughed and rejoiced in 1880
around tho banquet board that soap'
was potential to elections. It is well
remembered how James B. Foster,
president of the republican league in
1888, would have fried the fat out
of special and protected interests to
force campaign contributions. Honest
E? Pr.aiwlic len wl11 never cease
h eLall tht stmme an(l mortifica-
J?a!?J?? organized into blocks
of five in the election in Indiana in
hntLyiear' t Nor bave campaign am
bassadors been only recently meas
ured by fat contributions, for the
public revolt against Von Alen and
weWo
In response to questions from
said that the figures regardlnc cam-
oPn i?elvfnr T had ?ta
i r? y. from nwspaper reports Ho
added his conviction' that they w2a
fairly well authenticated, buex-
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