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In that event elections and when such elections aro held It Is mado obligatory upon tho department to appoint the person rocoiving tho highest number of votos among the patrons of any given postofllco. Congress formally declared Wood row Wilson elected president and Thomas Marshall vice president. A dispatch to the Louisville Courier-Journal says: Upon the failuro of enginomen and railroad managers to agree upon a method of arbitrating differences, government officials were asked to avert by medi ation the threatened strike of 34, 000 firemen. A cablegram from Paris, carried by tho Associated Press, says: The United States embassy in Franco Is about to bo turned into tho streets. Tho landlord of tho house in which tho embassy offices are situated on the Avenue Kleber, and whore they havo been located for fifteen years, has given notice that the placo must bo vacated on April 15, as he Intends to transform It Into a hotel. 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Congress could, this very day, re peal the act under which these banks were created and send every one of them into liquidation. It could by a single law destroy all those privileges under which the First National bank, for example, has made $80,000,000 In profits on an original investment of $500,000. Yet George F. Baker, president of that bank, tells a committee of con gress that "this committee has no more right to my list of bank securi ties than the public has to my tailor bill." Ho tells this committee that "it's none of congress's business how many banks are controlled by a na tional bank." He tells this com mitteo that there Is no reason for the surrender of certain syndicates to congress, and that "as to the partners in interest, it is a purely prlvato affair." Ho tells this committee that by a securities company organized by the First National bank is "purely a personal, private transaction." The old order dies hard and it fights to tho last. 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