The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1897-05-14
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General News.

General News.
President Mckinley has accepted
the invitation to take part in the
Memorial Day exercises in New
York.
Captain Joseph King, who
claimed that he was 105 years old
on May 9Th, died at his home in
Lansingburg, New York, Monday.
The United States Supreme
Court has denied the petition for a
rehearing in the Trans Missouri
Freight Association case.
The Supreme Court of the United
States has rendered a decision in
the suit against the Bell Telephone
Company, which sustains the
validity of the Berliner patent. The
decision continues the existence of
the patent for nearly twelve years.
Governor Pingree, of Michigan,
has vetoed "the Anti Cigarette bill,
which makes boys under II years
of age liable to imprisonment for
smoking cigarettes.' The Gov
ernor says it is a parental, not a
State duty, to correct bad habits
in children.
The bill providing for taking
the twelfth census and contemplate
ing the establishment of a perman-
ent census bureau, was reported to
the Senate with favorable recon-
mendation Monday. The original
bill is modified so that the Director
of the Census is to receive $4,000
per year.
The Morgan Cuban resolution
was discussed in the United States
Senate Monday. Mr.. Hale of Maine,
and Mr.. White, of California, spoke
against the resolution, while Mr..
Turpie, of Indiana, supported it.
A bill was introduced in the
House Monday by Representative
Fowler, of New Jersey, for the crea-
ton of a Tariff Commission to in
vestigate Federal taxatien; to recon-
mend changes and to adjust in
equalities of existing law. The
bill provides for a Commission OF
seven members at a salary of $1,000
per annum, with a term of office
each of twenty-one years. The
Commission shall, under the terms
of the bill, make annual reports to
the President, and it is given power,
with the written approval of the
President, to suspend any tax on
imports in whole or in part.
The Secretary of the Treasury
has sent a communication to the
United States Senate, in reply to a
resolution of inquiry, recommend
ing that the tax on distilled spirits
be reduced to 80 cents q gallon.
He says the present rate has had
the effect of greatly increasing illicit
distilling.
A petition has been circulated in
the United States Senate asking fol-
the pardon of E. r. Chapman, the
recalcitrant witness in the Sugar
Trust investigation. 1t has been
signed by quite number of Sen
atOrs.
A resolution was introduced in
the Senate Wednesday by Mr..
Allen proposing that Mr.. Chapman
be brought to the bar of the Senate
to purge himself of oontumacy as a
prerequisite to pardon, The reso-
luton went over upon objections
from Messrs. Gallinger and Hoar.
| Senator Pettigrew has introduced
a bill authorizing the Postmaster
General to acquire for the United
States the invention of Professor
Crehore and Lieutenant Squire for
rapid telegraphing by alternating
currents, and also to construct a
line between Washington and New
York for the purpose of expert
menting with and perfecting the
use of rapid telegraphing.
Senator Teller ON Wednesday
introduced resolution requesting
the President to inform the Senate
"under what authority the pro-
posed sale of the Union Pacific
Railroad has been agreed on be-
tween the Executive and any com
bination of purchasers"
: Senator Aldrich said Wednes
day nothing had occurred to change
his determination to call up the