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WASHINGTON NEWS
r?. T.lvinsrRton Cornelius linn hnan
appointed sergeant-at-arma of the
United States senate, to succeed
Colonel Daniel M. Ransdell, de
ceased. Mr. Cornelius is a democrat,
and lias been assistant sergeant-at-arms
for the past year.
Former Senator Foraker says that
William R. Hearst paid several
thousand dollars to secure the For-aker-Archbald
record.
Mr. Taft, accompanied by Mrs.
Taft and a company, left for a visit
to the Panama canal.
A dispatch to tho New York
Herald says: Great Britain has pro
posed arbitration of the dispute over
the exemption of American coast
wise shipping from Panama canal
tolls. Those vho counted on Lon
don's calmly accepting America's in
terpretation of tho Hay-Pauncefote
treaty as meaning especial privileges
for the United States And they are
mistaken.
The British protest courteously
worded yet firm was made public
by the secretary of state, Mr. Knox.
It is in the form of a note from Sir
Edward Grey, secretary of state for
foreign affairs, to Mr. James Bryce,
British Asmassador to the United
States, and which Mr. Bryce was in
structed to read to the secretary of
state.
The British argument begins with
the assertion that if the canal had
been constructed under tho Clayton
Bulwer treaty of 1850 tolls on
American and British ships would
have been identical. Since the
United States, by the abrogation of
the Claytou-Bulwer treaty and the
conclusion of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty in its stead, recovered the in
dependent right to construct the
canal the point is made that Eng
land's compensation necessarily was
the assurance of equal treatment in
the matter of tolls.
Sir Edward Grey takes issue with
President Taft's argument that the
pledge of equal treatment of "all
nations" does not apply to the United
States, which under the Panama
canal act receives special advantages
through the exemption of coastwise
shipping from tolls. So far as other
features of the canal act are con
cerned the British note enters no
protest, but it paves the way for one.
A dispatch to the New York World
says: A bill to prevent the raising
of enormous campaign funds to con
trol elections was introduced in the
senate by Mr. Clapp, chairman of the
sub-committee that has for many
months been Investigating the mat
ter of campaign contributions. The
bill was referred to that committee.
The bill makes it unlawful for any
person, firm, corporation, associa
tion or committee or their agents to
send money or anything of value
from any state or territory to any
other state or territory, or to the
insular possessions, to be used or ex
pended for the nomination or elec
tion of a president, vice president,
senator or representative.
The prohibition is not applicable
to payments made by national com
mittees in executing a speaking cam
paign, the transportation and hotel
bills of speakers, or the distribution
of literature when so designated.
A penalty of not less than six
months nor more than one year's im
prisonment is provided for any per
son violating the prohibition.
"This bill is aimed to meet the
vice of gathering funds in large
centers and sending them to distant
Btates to influence presidential and
COnoreRfdminl i,v .. .. ..
tor ClTmn "if ons 8aia Sena"
Lor uiapp. it recognzes the con
tinuance of national committees tor
haudl ng all legitimate mattes con
nected with campaigns .. erB con
Mr. Clapp believes that the sub
committee of which ho is chairman
will mould the bill into an effecTive
measure for the prevent. and
punishment of campaign abuses.
A dispatch to tho Cincinnati En
quirer says: Letters and telegrams
by the thousands continue to pour in
upon Washington urging legislators
vot;,for or against tho Kenyon
bill, which under a special rule will
be called up before tho senato and
thus precipitate the bitterest liquor
contest ever fought out in congress.
The appeals to the legislators come
from persons in every walk of life
and living in practically every section
of the United States. Thoy are com
ing in clouds from merchants, minis
ters, druggists, doctors, brewers, dis
tillers and organizations, wet and
dry. It is seldom that such a degree
of interest in the fate of any measure
has been so manifestly displayed by
the country.
S"C,? I W treaty relation,,
nnVi WKU cnJyel that con-
ln; Naturally tho groat bunt
ness interests of both countries have
displayed the greatest anxiety to
know upon what footing they may
continue their operations after De
cember 31, but as far a tho Wash
ington government i concerned, It
has not been able to secure much enlightenment.
Washington people generally wore
interested in the following dispatch
from Princeton, N. J.: Tho days of
public receptions in the big east
room of the "White House are num
bered, and in tho next administration
people will not be received at the
executive mansion merely for the
purpose of shaking hands or gazing
in curiosity at the president. President-elect
Wilson declared that he
saw no use in spending time just to
receive people who had no public
business to transact.
Outside of the needless physical
strain of receiving hundreds of per
sons when the president was en
deavoring to use his energies for
more important purposes, Wilson
said he did not believe in incessant
receptions to tourists and the numer
ous societies that come annually to
Washington. He also indicated that
he would not attend many of the ban
quets that national societies of vari
ous kinds hold in Washington and
to which the president is invited.
Wilson said his open-door policy
would be preserved at the White
House, so far as it was physically
possible, and that he intended to
have the doors of the executive
offices thrown wide open, so that the
president would be accessible at all
times, but only to those "who have
business to transact."
President Taft has pardoned
John H. Hall, formerly United
States district attorney at Portland,
Ore Hall was convicted in June,
1909, of conspiracy in connection
with the unlawful fencing of public
, . n,.n rtrpenn. Tho nardon
is based "on the finding of Hall inno
cent. President Taft has decided to ac
cept the offer of the Kent profes
sorship at Yale university. The po
sition pays $5,000 a year.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
rpllp termination of the nussian
treaty abrogated by congress because
nf Rususia's attitude upon the pass-
T "for" he fl -time in eighty
tionS Hhnut an agreement to gov-
United Stales b""!' friendly
?eerHh0an0o?"er,enatTon . the
ANOTHER MHICGEK "DISSOLVED"
The Harriman-Union-Paclfic mer
ger has been "dissolved!" Suppress
ing an inclination to mirth, we
shall seriously consider what this
promises.
The court says this dissolution
follows along the same lines as in
the case of tho Northern Securities
company. Good! The Northern
Securities case was a dissolution
which did not dissolve. Tho action
never was intended to dissolve the
merger between the Burlington, tho
Northern Pacific and tho Groat
Northern. It was a fake from tho
beginning. It was a "moot" cape.
The bill drawn by tho attorney
general, at that time Philander Knox,
did not ask for a dissolution of that
merger. It asked only that tho
court pass on tho theoretical ques
tion whether a holding company was
a lawful Instrument for maintaining
a perpetual combination.
The bill took direct notico of the
fact that these railroads wore held
together in common interest by the
issue of bonds covering both proper
ties. Those bonds were not attacked.
Tho court was not asked for permis
sion to sell or pay up these bonds
or in anv way to dissolve this ltea
mont holding these properties as a
unit. The attorney general's peti
tion was satisfied by a recall of the
stock certificates in their place to
the original holders, marked with the
names of the two principal proper
ties. That was over ton years ago, and
the union between these groat rail
road properties has continued and
they have been administered as a
nonoompeting unit.
Hurrah for the Northern Securi
ties case!
The supreme court also announces
that its mandate is to bo carried out
hv the circuit court of tho district of
Utah. We remember how tho su
preme court turned over the chore of
cnrrvlner out its mnndnte in the To
bacco and Standard Oil cases to the
circuit court of the district of New
York: and we remember what hap
pened. Cleveland (O.) Press.
ALCOHOLISM IX FKANCfi
Attempts to suppress absinthe
drinking in France, however well in
tentioned, are rendered wholly fruit
less by reason of tho high proportion
of drinking resorts to population.
Deputy Joseph Keinner, writing In
the Parig Revue, states there are in
France one drinking place for every
eighty-two inhabitants, while the
proportion in England is one to 430,
in Sweden one to 5,000, and Norway
and Canada one to every 9,000 in
habitants. M. Reinach points out
ii.- Pfnnin ia n ennntrv in which
alcohol is taxed the least. While
America imposes a duty of ?G0 a
hectoliter and England $98, the
French excise claims only $44. He
declares the most deadly enemy of
the drunkard to be absinthe, of
which France consumes more than
all tho rest of the world put to
gether, and he recalls that in 1903
the Academy of Medicine unanimous
ly voted for the total suppression of
all drinks composed of alcohol and
natural and artificial essences. But
nothing came of it beca.se the poli
tical power of the interest involved
renders legislative action abortive.
The French senate, however, has
Klven tentative approval of a bill to
prohibit the manufacture and sale of
absinthe. Omaha Bee.
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