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WASHINGTON NEWS
An Associated Press dispatch says:
Primary elections for tho selection
of fourth class postmasters are pro
vided for In an amendment to the
postofllco appropriation bill which
the senate committee on postofllces
added to that measure. Considera
tion of the measure was completed
by tho committee, but on account
of tho necessity of gathering infor
mation relating to some of the
changes, tho bill as amonded re
garding fourth class postmasters was
adopted as a result of a suggestion
by Senator Briatow of Kansas, al
though his original provision was
much modified. As agreed upon by
the committee, it will apply only to
fourth class offices, and it will bo
optional with the postohlce depart
ment as to whether tho system shall
bo put Into execution. 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. The
question of finding a suitablo loca
tion for tho chancory of tho embassy
has bocomo a serious one, owing to
the overcrowding of Paris.
America. The president in his mes
sage of vetb said that he disapproved
tho measure because it would lock
the doors of the United States
against the alien who could not road
some language or dialect.
Postmaster General Hirchcock has
renewed his recommendation that
tho government take over the tele
graph lines.
The right of Castro, former presi
dent of Venezuela, to remain in
America, which right was upheld by
the federal court held in New York,
will go to the United States supreme
court.
Tho house re-passed the Webb bill
to prohibit the shipment of intoxi
cating liquors into dry states and the
measure now goes to the president
for his decision.
The bill to provide $2,000,000 for
government participation in the
Panama-Pacific exposition was killed
for this session by the house.
President-elect Wilson stated that
he would announce the names of the
members of his cabinet March 4.
Sonator La Folletto has been elected
a member of tho republican steering
commltteo of the senato and republi
can leaders say this fixes him as a
regular republican.
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A special dispatch to the New
York World says: Rudolph Spreckles,
tho California millionaire, who
charges the secretary of the treasury
with having violated the law when,
acting under Treasury Order No. 5,
ho deposited custom reclpts in na
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sentative Carter Glass of Virginia,
chairman of tho sub-committee in
vestigating banking and currencv.
lur. oprecicies is trying to have a
congressional investigation into the
matter, but Mr. Glass, after his con
ference with Mr. Spreckles, said that
so far as ho is concerned no further
steps will bo taken, Mr. Glass deem
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tirely satisfactory. The Polndoxter
resolution calling upon Secretary
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reasons for issulnc tho nrrW na
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been attacked on tho ground that
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tion of government funds in New
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DYING HARD
National banks are chartered by
the United States government. They
have powers and privileges that are
denied to all other banks. Among
these powers is that of Issuing
money, which is an attribute of sov
ereignty itself.
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. It required years
of agitation and legislation to con
vince tho reluctant railroads that
they were affected with a public in-
usiubu nun luul mey couia nave no
honest secrets from the nubile.
It required years of agitation to
convince corporations that they were
not above the government that char
tered them.
Men like Mr. Baker think that a
national bank is a private affair.
Other men of his tvne lustllv nm.
claim that tho Stock Exchange is a
private affair. All of them exnloit
tho ancient theory that the public is
a new milch cow whose sole function
is to be exploded for individual
profit. But their day is done.
Mr. Baker is an interesting but not
an important relic of a dead past.
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