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The Commoner.
VOLUME 13, NUMBER 84
WASHINGTON NEWS
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An Old Point Comfort, Va dls-
atoh to tho New York World says:
Saluted with guns at Fortress Mon
roe, and oscortod by tho battleships
'Florida and Arkansas and three
destroyers, tho Brazilian battloship
!Mlnas Qoracs, with Dr. Lauro Mullor,
jmlhlstor of foreign affairs of Brazil,
,on board, anchored In tho Hampton
Roads at 5:30 o'clock on a' recent
afternoon. Dr. Mullor comes to re
pay tho friendly visit to Brazil of
ISonator Root when secretary of state.
iA distinguished party, Including
iSocrotary Bryan, Senator Root,
Assistant Socrotary Malone of tho
stato department and Assistant Sec
'rotary Roosevelt of tho navy depart
ment woro on hand to greet tho dis
tinguished visitor.
It Is announced that Eliliu Root
will not bo a candidate for re-election
to the senate.
; Porter Oharlton, tho young Ne
braskan, charged with tho murder
of his wife in Italy, must return to
tho scone of his crime for trial. Tho
suprome court so decided.
Tho Washington correspondent
for tho New York World says: Not
tho least interesting of tho activities
of tho new secretary of state at
Washington is horseback riding. So
ardent a devotee of tho sport is Mr.
Bryan that oven a heavy rain does
not dotor him from his morning ride
if his duties permit it. Often ho
starts out when the skies aro forbid
ding and returns drenched to the
skin, but with tho brodd smile that
indicates ho has onjoyod it. Mr.
Bryan is an expert horseman, and
early risers who have seen him start
"Iny ho Is a flno figure in tho saddle.
Mr. Bryan's favorite mount is Rex, a
thoroughbred, than whom tho secre
tary, even with his wealth" of inti
mates, has no warmer friend. And
Rex reciprocates his master's at
tachment, pricking up his ears when
ever ho approaches, and ho looks his
disappointment if his soft nose isn't
caressed before the heavy figure
swings into tho saddle.
The senate ordered a thorough in
vestigation of tho affairs of the St.
Louis and San Francisco railroad.
A special dispatch to tho Cincin
nati Enquirer says: A table pre
pared by the senate finance commit
tee, showing comparative figures
based on tho Underwood tariff bill
and tho present tariff law shows the
average ad valorem rate in the pro
posed law to be 32.99 per cent, as
against 43.64 per cont under the
Payne-Aldrich bill.
The estimated loss of revenue
through the augmented free list in
the Underwood bill would be $24,
718,329 on an import valuation of
$102,534,4GG. Revenue under the
proposed bill, exclusive of the income
tax, is estimated at $266,701,130, as
compared with $304,216,694 under
the present rates.
With the income tax revenue esti
mated at approximately $80,000,000
the total revenue under the proposed
bill would aggregate about $347,
000,000. In the sundries schedule, wherein
the democrats have added many ar
ticles not heretofore taxed or have
increased rates on luxuries, the ad
valorem equivalent shows an in
crease over the Payne-Aldrich rates
from 24.72 per cent to 33.26, .and
tho estimated revenue from this
schedule is raised from $27,000,000
to approximately $60,000,000.
Wool revenues, it is estimated,
will decrease from $27,000,000 to
$13,000,000. The sugar revenue
would decrease from $60,000,000 at
tho rate of $20,000,000 a year until
sugar goes on the free list in three
years.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
Armed with the plenary authority of
the legislative branch of the federal
government to inquire and report,
tho senate sub-committee appointed
to probe conditions in the West Vir
ginia coal strike left Washington for
the strike district. Senators Swanr
son, chairman; Martine, Shields,
Borah and Kenyon, a corps of clerks,
stenographers, deputy sergeants-at-arms
and a squad of newspaper men
filled a special car bound for Charles
ton, W. Va.
Cornelius J. Ford, of New Jersey,
lias been appointed public printer.
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Secretary 'Bryan and Secretary
Redfield have 'named Judge ,H. G.(
Ward, of New York; ex-tJoxernor
Montague, of Virginia; George
Denegre, of New Orleans, La., and
Edwin W. Smith, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
as delegates to the international con
ference oh the unification of mari
time laws at Brussels, probably next
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Following la an Associated Press
dispatch: How the government1
printing office and the postoffice de,-;
partment helped in. the fight against
free sugar, and, the congressional
frank sent tons of anti-free sugar
literature circulating throughout the
land, was brought out by the senate
lobby investigators.
Truman G. Palmer, Washington
representative ot the United States!
beet 'sugar industry, was on tho
stand the entire day and the subject
of a sweeping cross-examination,'
testified that more than 1,500,000
copies of arguments, in behalf of
beet sugar had been turned out by
the government printing office, made
public documents by order of con
gress and had ridden on the franks
of senators and representatives to
the ends of the country, postage
free. "Sugar at a Glance," prepared
by him, he said, had attained a cir
culation of. 320,000 copies under the
frank of Senator Lodge. "Report
ofthe Finance Committee," by the
same senator, had beaten the pamph
let by 80,000 copies.
Tho franks of Senator Smoot;
former Senators Curtis and Dick and
the late Representative Malby; for
mer Representative Pickett and Rep
resentative Martin- had swelled the
total to more than a million and a
half. The printing of some of this
number had been paid for by the
beet sugar people, the "witness said,
but the free postage had saved them
about $28,000. Mr. Palmer deT
veloped that "Free Sugar 'at a Sec
ond Glance," which he intimated was
inspired by the Federal, Sugar Re
fining company, and which was an
atgument in behalf of free sugar,
aiso naa oeen printed as a public
document and circulated under the
franking privileges. He did not say,
nor did tho committee ask, whose
frank was so used.
a eilKotnnt'tal !.. .
of the Norfolk navy yard, bo lit
put it in condition for the const?
tion of first order battleships. Prao"
tically nothing of that kind has been
done in the Norfolk yard since the
old days, afterward known as the
San Marcos, which burned over
twenty years ago. Thero must bo a
great enlargement of the plant and
launching slips to carry out Secre
tary Daniels' plans.
In an address before the women's
national democratic league, Speaker
Clark said he. didn't believe there
was a single man in the house whoso
vote could be changed or influenced
by the usejof money.
Laws requiring health certifier! ton
of applicants for marriage licenses
were advocated at a conference of
prominent society women and socio
logical workers at Washington.
President Wileon sent to tho
senate the following nominations:
Minister ,to Cuba William Gon
zales of South Carolina.
Minister to Nicaragua Benjamin
L. Jefferson of Colorado.
Minister to Costa Rica Edward
J. Salee of North Carolina.
Assistant; treasurer of the United
States at St. Louis William D. Van
diver. , t ,
Collector of internal revenue for
Oregon Milton A. Miller.
Register of! the land office at Doug
las, Wyo. Wade H. Fowler.
Receiver of Dubllc monevs Otto
R1. Meyers at Dickinson, N. D.; Harry
Li. uanay at Jttapia Uity, s. d.
Mr. Jefferson lives at Steamboat
Spring, Colo., is a physician and is
now registrar of the Colorado state
land board and was for several years
state senator. He and the president
are, friends, ., ,"
William F. Gonzales is editor of
the Columbia, S. C, State and the
son of Ambrose Jose Gonzales, a
distinguished Cuban patriot.
Major Hale, was formerly demo
cratic state chairman in North Caro
lina and was once consul at Man
chester, England. He has been active
in North Carolina politics and is a
close friend of Mr. Bryan.
The woman suffrage committee of
the United States senate has recom
mended the submission of a constitu
tional amendment providing for
votes for women.
Addrew, THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nebraska
Following is an Associated Press
dispatch: Secretary Daniels de
clared he had been impressed with
the possibilities of tho navy. He
said he was convinced that provision
had been made for the construction
of another great ship building plant
with cranes and erecting shops so
that at least two battleships of tho
first order might be under construc
tion at the same time. That ho
thinks, can bo done, without enlarg
ing tho limits of the yard.' Tho
secretary also intends to recommend
A Washington dispatch, dated
June 16, says: Without varying a
dot from the principles laid down
last week in the Minnesota rate case,
the supreme court of the United
States today upheld state railroad
rate regulation in Missouri, Ar
kansas and West Virginia; maxi
mum freight rate laws in Missouri
and Arkansas and freight rates out
of Portland in the Oregon cases.
The only exception to the sweeping
approval of stato statutes was in tho
case of several weaker roads in Mis
souri. Tho Kentucky - case was not de
cided. It involves an attack upon
state rates from' river points to in
land distillery cities, and involves
in addition, an attack on the consti
tutionality Of the McChord act en
abling tho state railroad commis
sion to fix reasonable rates on inJra"
state business. A decision in tma
case may bo forthcoming when the
court meets again in October.
Justice Hughes announced the de
cision in the rate case today as he
did in tho Minnesota cases a weeic
airn KTU Bvnf flift TlMnf. WAS ralSBO.
that tho state laws interfered with
interstate commerce the justice re
ferred to his Minnesota rate de
cision. He disappointed many who
believed the court might In some
way modify that decision.
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