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The Commoner,
VOLDMH 1. NUMBER 8
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President Taft submitted to con
&rcHB tho report of the employers'
liability commission, and tho pro
posed bills under tho report, tho
wholo forming what Is claimed to be
tho most advanced pleco of liability
legislation yot presented.
Provisions for tho establishment
of a genoral parcels post system will
bo Incorporated In the postoHlco ap
propriation bill, according to an
ngroement reached by the democratic
mcmbors of tho house committee on
poBtolIlces and postroads.
A dispatch to tho Louisville
Courier-Journal says: Alleged poli
tical activity of federal officeholders
In Kentucky and throughout tho
south, It Is announced, will bo tho
subject of Investigation by the fed
eral civil sorvlco commission.
In addition to calling Charles P.
Taft, brother of the president, the
commlttoo Investigating tho caso of
MaJ. Becchor B. Ray may havo a
subpoena Issued for former presi
dent Koosovolt.
Socrotary Wilson denied tho
authorship of a letter which had
boon widely circulated by ono of the
companies exploiting lands In tho
Florida ovorgladoB.
United States Senator Isaac
Stephenson, of Wisconsin, is not
entitled to his seat in the opinion of
flvo members of the senate com
mittee on privileges and elections
who filed a minority report with tho
senate
Senator Bradley, on his return
from Kentucky to Washington,
claimed to havo made doubly sure a
Taft delegation, and the selection of
John W. McCulloch as national re
publican committeeman.
President Taft sent the name of
Mahlon Pitnoy, of New JorBey, to
tho senate to bo associate justice of
too supremo court of tho United
States, to succeed tho late Justice
Harlan.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
Colombia virtually repudiated tho
action of its minister genoral,
Osplna, by sending through Ameri
can Minister Dubois, at Bogota, a
cordial invitation to Secretary of
State Knox to visit Colombian shores
on his present trip to tho republics
on tho Carribean sea. Tho invitation
was forwarded promptly to Secre-
S17!.. ox' who Is nbord the cruiser
Washington, on his way Bouth. With
him rests tho decision whether he
will change his itinerary to include
T T i , , 1,UI L OI ua"aeena. This,
it is said here, he undoubtedly will
do. Tho action of tho Colombian
r.oIP.,mce waa received with
satisfaction It closes a disagree
able incident. Minister Osplna, who
Is declared to havo been recalled be
cause -of his letter to tho state de
partment, protested against the pro
posed visit of Secretary Knox be
causo of the feeling in Colombia
against the United States, said to
be attributable to the acquisition by
zone. Acting Secretary of State
Huntington Wilson did not disguise
his appreciation of Columbia's de
cision to wolcomo his .chief.
TnHm?S.Qlat,ed PrGS3 MBPatch says:
intimations of a possible investiga
tion of Senator Dupont's elec fon
came out during a fight before the
senate judiciary committee a few
days ago over tho confirmation of
Cornelius 0. P. Smayne, who had
been nominated for United States
marshal of Delaware Democratic
Committeeman Saulsbury charged
bribery in tho election and S. nator
Dupont's name figured In the testi
mony. The fight ended abruptly
when President Taft withdrew
Swayne'B name. Senator Dupont,
when he heard tho reported Inten
tion of Senator Reed to ask for an
investigation of his election, said:
"The Swayno inquiry referred to the
election of 1904, two years before
I was elected to tho senate Mr.
Salisbury's statement was a personal
issue." Chairman Dillingham, of
the senate committee on privileges
and elections, said he had heard
nothing of any proposed Investiga
tion of Senator Dupont's election.
A Washington dispatch, carried
by the Associated Press says: For
tho first time since the insurgent re
publicans broke away from tho rotro-
lars in the fight on the petroleum
auiy in tne iJayno tariff bill In 1909
the republicans of the house pre
sented practically a Bolld front
against tho passage of a tariff re
vision bill. All Insurgents voted
with tho regular republican forces
against tho Underwood chemical
tariff, which was passed, however, by
a vote of 178 to 127.
The insurgents opposed the meas
ure on thft crnnnri tlmf It ..
vision upward Instead of downward.
ThlB bill has no support from
tho Independent voters In the house,
because It is a rank case of upward
revision," said Representative Victor
Murdock, of Kansas, a leader of tho
insurgents. "It would take scores
of articles from the free list and put
dutieB on them. It la in defensible."
Representative Theron Akin, of
Now York, who was elected to con
gress as an independent republican
voted for the measure, as did also
Mr. Hanna, of North Dakota, a regu
lar republican. Representative Bor-
ger, Of WiHCOnRln. cnnolM .
against it. ' m'
All democratic members of the
house voted for tho bill.
V1,"1 f, Passage of the chemical
revision bill by tho house another
democratic tariff measure was added
to the senate calendar. The steel
bill is pending in the senate, where
only a coalition of progressive 1
publicans and the democrats can
pass It.
The Intention of the senate finance
committee is to grant ample heSSS
i,?L X?"? Jn-to"t?d in the tariff
".0 doul uvur irom tne house.
The republican members of the
senate finance committee have had
but one conference. They have nnt
definitely outlined theWrtfT pr
The Illness of Senator La Pollette
has interfered seriously with the
formulation of a policy by the nrJ!
hom tZ r?ublican 2nSo6 ITo
hold the balance of power.
thnSt0mp.WashIngton Politicians say
CaHfnrnrrnnf ,Hiram Johnson of
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