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An Associated Press dispatch,
under date of September 16, says:
"Socrotary Bryan's peace plan for
tho settlement of international diffi
culties through the force of sober
second thought and tho good offices
of an impartial commission was re
ceived with acclaim at the recent
mooting of the intor-parliamontary
union at Tho Hague, according to
Senator Burton, one of tho American
delegates who has just returned to
Washington. 'The Bryan plan,' said
tho sonator, 'was received better
than almost anything that was talked
over. Tho only objection to the pro
posal seemed to bo that during tho
period provided for an investigation
of grievances by a commission, tho
countries involved shall make no
addition to their war department.
Several nations did not seem to like
that provision, but it is not a vital
part of the plan.' The Bryan plan
only was talked over at The Hague.
Its adoption depends upon tho coun
tries of the world invited to enter
into it by tho secretary."
Byron R. Newton, private secre
tary to Secretary of tho Treasury
McAdoo, was named by President
Wilson as assistant secretary of the
treasury. Mr. Newton succeeds
Sherman Allen and will have charge
of the revenue cutter, internal
revenue and life saving services and
of public, buildings. Mr. Newton has
long been an active newspaper man,
boginning as a reporter in Buffalo.
During the Spanish-American war ho
was correspondent for a New York
paper in Cuba.
The postoffice department has an
nounced that merchants who ship
goods that have not been ordered
by parcel post "C. O. D." will be in
vestigated by the department. All
charges on such packages must be
prepaid. John C. Koons, chairman
of Postmaster-General Burleson's
committee on the parcel post, says
that easy money operators and con
fidence men can not use the C. O. D.
feature of tho parcel post.
expenses to gross earnings was C9.30
per cent, against 69.16 per cent the
year before. Net operating revenue
was $938,577,866, an Increase of
$84,574,363. The tax bill amounted
to $124,356,024 against $16,119,
026 for tho previous year. The
operating profit equaled $3,678 per
mile of line to compare with a simi-
bill were: Bell- (Cal.), Hinebaugh,
Woodruff, Kelly, La'fferty, Lind
bergh, MacDonald, Manahan, Mur
dock, Nolan, Norton, Rupley, Thom
son (111.), Stephens (Cal.). A final
fight on an amendment reaffirming
the present financial policy of a gold
standard caused some defections
'from the democratic side. Repre
sentative Wingo of Arkansas de
manded a record vote on the so
called gold standard amendment, and
on a division 165 democrats, and re
publicans voted for it and forty-five
democrats voted against it. A roll
call was ordered and 'he vote was
changed to 298 in favor of the
lot. nmlU f $2 Hfin nor mlln thn nro
vious fiscal year. After deducting amendment to sixty-nine against it.
taxes and adding in ne net revenue
of outside operations tho final re
sult was a cler profit of $815,600,
972, a gain of $77,541,332 over the
previous fiscal year. With the large
operating profit, tho country system
of railroads earned 6 per cent on a
capitalization of nearly $13,600,-000,000.
A cablegram received by the de
partment of agriculture from the in
ternational institute of agriculture at
Rome gives tho following prelimi
nary estimates on the world's grain
crop from the coming harvest:
Wheat, 3,300,000,000 bushels; corn,
2,766,000,000 bushels; oats, 3,426,
000,000 bushols.
Representative Britten of Illinois,
Introduced a bill in the house ap
propriating $400,000 to enlarge the
naval torpedo plant at Newport, R, I.,
so that a sufficient number of tor
pedoes could be manufactured to
moet the needs of the navy in time
of war.
Dean Henry Wade Rogers, for the
last ten years the head of Yale law
school, has been selected by Presi
dent Wilson and Attorney-General
McReynolds as United States judge
of the second federal circuit, com
prising the states of New York, Ver
mont and Connecticut. Dean Rogers
is a democrat.
All voting 'no" were democrats. The
progressives offerel a motion to re
commit the bill to the committee
with instructions to incorporate a
provision to prohibit interlocking
directorates In national banks. After
much parliamentary jockeying the
progressive leader, Mr. Murdock,
forced a roll call on this motion,
disclosing a vote of 266 to 100
against it
A tentative plan for restoring to
the status of recruits those enlisted
men of the army who are prisoners
at military prisons has received the
approval of Secretary of War Garri
son. Tne aim is to segregate felons
and misdemeanants from prisoners
who are under sentence on purely
technical offenses, to organize, the
latter into companies and battalions
and place them under military train
ing and discipline. Those "who are
eligible will not be compelled to work
with prisoners found guilty of
felonies, they will be housed In sepa
rate buildings and have a separate
mess, besides other privileges. This
movement is in line with the ad
vanced ideas of prison reform. It is
stated that at the Ft. Leavenworth;
Kans., prison there will probably be
two battalions of four companies
each of such prisoners.
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DISSOLVING THE PARTNERSHIP
-Macauley in tho New York "World.
the position of solicitor for the de
partment of state to former Governor
Joseph v Folk of Missouri and it
has been accepted by him. He was
not an aspirant for the place, but tho
office was tendered him because of
his fitness for the position. The
position is of special importance at
this time, when the administration
is dealing with questions affectiug
the Latin-American republics."
Tho railroads of tho United States
had tho groatctt twelve months in
their history in the fiscal year end
ing Juno 30, last, as shown by a
summary issued September 25 by the
. interstate commerce commission.
The figures are for all companies re
porting $1,000,000 or more gross
and cover the operating results of
221,749 miles of lino. Taking the
railroads as if one system, their gross
receipts from operation passed for
the first time the three billion dollar
point, or $3,057,163,763, an increase
of $288,139,910 over tho previous
fiscal year. Earnings per mile were
$13,787 against $12,605. Operating
costs did increase, but to a very small
degree. For tho fiscal year, the pro
portion of operating and maintenance
The administration currency bill
passed the house of representatives
September 18 in virtually its original
form, by a vote of 286 to 84. TwentyT
four republicans and fourteen pro
gressives joined with the democrats
in voting for tho bill. Only three
democrats voted against it. With
this overwhelming indorsement be
hind it the measure was sent to the
senate. There it was referred to the
banking and currency committee.
Tho thr.ee democrats who voted
against the bill on its passage were
Calloway (Texas), Witherspoon
(Miss.), and Elder .La.) The re
publicans voting for the bill were,
Baltz, Brown, Jary, Cooper, Cramp
ton Dillon, Esch, Farre, Fess, Frear,
Haugon, Helgesen Kent, Lenroot,
Linquist, Mapes, McLaughlin, Nel
son, Porter, Samuel Smith, J. M. C.
Smith, Smith (Minn.), StaSord,
Young (N. D.) Two progressives
Representatives Temple and Walters
voted against the bill. The four
teen progressives who voted for the
A press dispatch says that Repre
sentative Hinebaugh of Illinois,
chairman of the progressive congres
sional committee, brought to the con
ference of progressive members of
the house a message from Colonel
Roosevelt, indorsing the plans of the
house progressives for the next con
gressional campaign and renewing
his declaration that no amalgamation
of the progressives with the republi
can party would be considered.
The senate confirmed the nomina
tion of Preston M. Goodwin of Okla
homa to be minister to Venezuela.
Representative William A. Jones
of Virginia issued a statement in
which he challenged the charges of
wholesale slavery in the Philippines,
made by Dean Conant Worcester,
secretary of the interior for the in
sular government of the Philippines,
and also reiterated in a report from
W. M. Phipps, auditor of the islands,
sent to the war department. As
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announced the purchase by the post
office department of 41 automobiles
to be used in the collection and de
livery of parcel post matter. Twenty
of these machines are powerful
trucks, designed and constructed
especially for the needs of the parcel
post service in the large cities.
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The Mann bill for tho creation of
a bureau of labor safety to serve as
a great federal clearing house for
the dissemination of safety plans and
devices of all kinds will be reported
favorably by the house committee on
labor early next winter, it is stated.
The bill contemplates tho creation
of this new bureau as part of the new
department of labor. Secretary of
Labor Wilson recommended the pas
sage of the bill.
President Wilson has named
Joseph W. Folk, former governor of
Missouri, as solicitor of the state de
partment, succeeding J. Ruben Clark,
resigned. Tho solicitorship pays a
salary of ?5,000 a year. Secretary
Bryan, in announcing the nomination
on September 18, gave out this state
ment: "The .president has offered
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