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chairman of tlio house committee on
Insular affairs, Mr. Jones is the
author of a bill which would grant
the Filipinos full freedom within ten
years. In his statement Chairman
Jones asserts that no slavery exists
there except in the uncivilized por
tion of the islands. He also asserted
that Dean Worcester is the worst
enemy of the Filipinos; that there is
more slavery and peonage in the
United States than in the Philip
pines, in proportion to population,
and intimates that he will ask for
a congressional investigation of the
Worcester and Phipps charges.
Chairman Jones attacks the adminis
tration of the Philippine commission,
and said that the time was not far
distant when there will he such facts
laid before the American people re
garding the wasteful, if not criminal,
extravagance and the maladministra
tion of the Philippine government as
will shock and startle them. He
charged the republican officials with
venting their animus on the Filipino
people, and said that if it be true
that slavery actually exists there, it
is an eternal reproach and shame to
Governor Forbes, Commissioner
Worcester and their American as
sociates on the Philippine commis
sion. Chairman Jones also stated
that he understood that Dean Wor
cester had been employed by a so
ciety incorporated under the laws of
Delaware for the exploitation of the
Philippines, and that he was prob-1
ably on the way to the United States
to deliver lectures in which he would
depict the poor Filipinos as savages
utterly unfit to govern themselves.
"It is to bo hoped," he says, "that
under the new administration the
Philippine people will at least be
given a fair hearing before the
American people."
British ombassy, asked that the
quarantine be removed or modified.
The board asserts that the present
condition of the 1913 potato crop in
the United States is most promising.
In accordance with an announce
ment, made by Attorney General Mc
Reynolds in connection with the
Union Pacific-Southern Pacific dis
solution, a civil anti-trust suit will
soon be brought to compel the South
ern Pacific railroad to relinquish the
Central Pacific. The entire $80,000,
000 of Central Pacific stock is owned
by the Southern Pacific, and in the
view of the attorney general that is
a combination of competing lines and
a violation of tho Sherman law.
Senator Owen, of the senate bank
ing and currency committee, issued a
statement in which ho declared that
nono of the critics of tho adminis
tration currency bill had attacked
its vital features. "No witness at
the committee hearings has yet as
sailed the fundamental principles of
tho bill as wrong," said Senator
Owen. "They unanimously agree on
the importance of concentrating and
then making mobile tho reserves, on
providing an open market for com
mercial paper held by banks and pro
viding an elastic currency. Tho op
position to tho bill has been mainly
as to how much concentration of re
serves is necessary, how much capital
stocks shall be put in, how far the
banks shall have control or repre
sentation. No serious disputo is
made against the fundamentals of
the bill. Those who know tho merit
of the bill are naturally enthusiastic
and prophesy almost immediate ac
tion, but reasonable time must be
taken to enable those not familiar
with the subject matter to study it
out and be convinced that tho bill is
Invitations are now being prepared in its most perfect form."
at the state department for trans
mission to the naval powers of tho
world to insure the gathering of a
great international fleet at Hampton
Roads to celebrate the opening of the
Panama canal. It is expected that
the total number of vessels in the
fleet will surpass any international
naval force ever assembled.
Representative William Schley
Howard of Georgia presented a reso
lution in the house, September 22,
embodying a new and novel plan for
the disposition of the government 2
per cent bonds now outstanding as
security for national bank circula
tion. There are about $742,000,000
of these bonds. The Howard plan is
to issue them in small denomina
tions to depositors in the postal sav
ings bank system, thus distributing
the bonded indebtedness among the
masses of the people where, he as
serted, it belonged. As to the practi
cal details of his plan, Mr. Howard
said: ""I suggest that when a man
deposits money in the postal savings
bank he receive a government coupon
or obligation bearing two per cent
interest to repay his deposit. If he
deposits $7 he gets a $7 coupon bond
from his local postofilce, and so for
any amount. This bond is payable
on demand, at the treasury of the
United States, and can be cashed any
where in the world, thus affording the
same opportunity to the day laborer
who wants to save as to the million
aire who wants to invest."
As shown by reports to the United
States bureau of education, a wide
difference of opinion exists among
school men as to the extent to which
sex instruction should be given in
the public schools. Officials of the
bureau express the conviction that
the sex hygiene question is about
to assume great importance in many
school systems. The bureau declares
that while there are many teachers
and medical men who favor sex edu
cation in the schools, holding that
"the policy of silence and punishment
as practiced in the past has failed,
and that education rather than
punishment should be the remedy
for social evils," there are many, on
the other band, both among educat
ors and physicians, who see danger
in this instruction, holding that
"safety lies in diverting attention
from sex details."
To prevent the introduction Into
the United States of a dangerous
potato disease known as potato wart,
canker or black scab, the federal hor
ticultural board has decided to con
tinue indefinitely the quarantine
against potato importations from the
British Isles, Germany, Austria-Hungary,
Newfoundland and the two
Frenoh Islands at the mouth of the
St. Lawrence river. Tho London
bureau of agriculture, through the
President Wilson made a special
trip from the White House to Prince
ton, September 23, where he took
part in the New Jersey primary by
voting for Governor Fielder, who
was chosen as the democratic nomi
nee for governor at tho coming fall
election. This was the president's
first visit to Princeton since his de
parture for the inauguration on
March 3.
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Ex-Senator Obadiah Gardner of
Maine was appointed a member of
tho international boundary commis
sion in place of General Frank
Streeter.
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Tabulations by the postofilce de
partment show that approximately
one in every 400 inhabitants is era
ployed by the postal service- On
June 30 last, there were 68,021 post
masters, 15,415 assistant Postmast
ers and postofflco' clerks, 1,454 watch
men, messengers and laborers, and
30 920 city letter carriers. Other
I employees railway mail cierKs,
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rural carriers and department em
ployes make tho total number
about a quarter of a million. This
makes the postofilce department the
largest business department of the
government.
Approximately 600,000 persons, j
iirlMi Inmmno MTU'ltlP ffOni $3,000 i
to $100,000 a year and upward, will
contribute to mo iuu,vuu,vuu
vnnviu ravonttn flint it Ib estimated
will be derived from tho income tax.
Representative Cordoll Hull of Ten
nessee, father of the income tax
legislation, states that more than
$100,000,000 in government rev
enues would come to tho government
through the operation of its pro
visions. He says "the largest yield
of our tariff taxes has barely ex
ceeded $330,000,000, whilo our in
ternal and other taxes have been
less. This comparison indicates the
great importance from tho revenue
standpoint of this new method of
taxation. Tho displacement of $100,
000,000 treasury receipts from tariff
taxes by a like amount from Income
taxes in effect relieves the people of
$500,000,000 of tariff taxation as
past laws havt operated, for tho
reason that tho domestic manufac
turers have been accustomed, on the
average, to collect $4 to $5 from the
consumer for every dollar that has
reached the United States treasury."
A mmliiH of $10,000,000 tO $16."
000,000 over current needs of tho
eovernment will bo provided by tho
new tariff law in the opinion of Sena
tor Simmons, chairman of the joint
conference committee which reported
the completed democratic tariff bill
to tho house and senate for agree
ment. Secretary of War Garrison disap
proved Chicago's entire plan for the
extension of tho park system along
tho lake front, on the ground that
it might halt tho commercial de
velopment of the port.
Investigations of retail prices in
forty cities of the United States,
conducted by experts of the bureau
of labor, show that tho cost of living
on Juno 15 of the present year was
approximately 60 per cent higher
than the average between 1890 and
1900; more than 3 per cent higher
than it was a year ago, and nearly
"15 per cent higher than it was too
years ago. At that time prices show
virtually the same level as last No
vember, when the high records of tho
last quarter century wero reached.
Fourteen articles of food were in
vestigated, and compared with the
average prices between 1890 and
1900. Everyone except sugar showed
a marked advance. Bacon, which led
tho soaring, went up 128.5 par cunt.
Former Governor Alva Adams of
Colorado was appointed by Presi
dent Wilson as head of a commission
to investigate conditions in Austral
asia and report to congress, and for
the purpose of issuing a formal invi
tation to tho countries of the anti
podes to attend and be well repre
sented at tho Panama-Pacific exposi
tion in 1915. Tho commission will
look into tho oneratlon of tho land
laws of Australia and New Zealand,
tho taxing systems, government
ownership of railroads and other
utilities, municipal ownership, bank
ing and credit systems and arbitra
tion. At tho antipodes experiments
In taxation, government ownership
and labor disputes wero undertaken
so long ago that they have now
passed tho experimental stages and
something definite can bo learned
regarding them. Whether all or any
of them will bo suitable to this re
public Is a question the commission
will seek to determine.
Gabe E. Parker, a Choctaw Indian,
of Academy, Okla., the first man of
his race to bo registrar of the treas
ury, was appointed to this position by
President Wilson. Ills signature will
appear on all tho currency, and ho
declared ho regarded his appoint
ment as a signal recognition of tho
red men.
THE END OF A IiONOTPULl.
-From tho Evening News (NeiVark,
K. J.)
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