Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-06-06
NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD

is probable. to be called early next
month.
Attorney General Knox is busily en-
gagged on an opinion as to whether the
Spooner bill gives the president the
right to impose duties on goods com
ing in from the Philippines or going
there. If the opinion is not favorable
congress will be called together.
The senators and representatives
are now scattered to the four quar-
ters of the earth. Speaker Hender-
son is in Europe. Some of the SEN
ators have gone to the Philippines.
the capitol building Is all torn up and
an extra session will cause general in
convenience.
1t is said the president is not in ia
vor of it except as an extremative.
WASHINGTON. June 3.-The pres
ident cabinet and all members of
congress who are here oppose the idea
of an extra session. and 1t. is believed
n way will be found to avoid the ne
cessity.
The promise to give the Philippines
civil government and the collection of
imposts is the difficulty. With civi!
government obstacles would ocur in
the eyes of the law as to how to col
lect imports and still fulfill the prom
ises to the Philippines. The supreme
court will not decide the customs suit
from Manila until October. Legisla-
tion in advance of the decision is un-
safe.
WASHINGTON. June 3.-Oficial
notices have just been issued by the
state department setting forth the
status of naturalized Americans in
the various European states.
A German, who emigrates before he
is y or before he has been actually
=. cafed upon to appear before the mill
tary authorities. may after n resi-
dence in the United States of five
years and after due naturalization re-
turn to Germany on visit. but his
right to remain is denied. and he may
be expelled on the ground that he
left Germany merely to evade militia
ry service.
French citizen naturalized abroad
without the consent of his government
when still subject to military service
is held to be amenable to French
military laws and liable to punish
ment. In Russia person above the
age of 10 cannot ask permission to be
come citizen of foreign country
unless he has acquitted his military
obligations. A Russian who becomes
Il citizen Of another country without
imperial consent is liable under Rus.
sian law to the loss of all his civil
rights and perpetual Punishment
Naturalized Americans OF Russian
birth of the Jewish race are not al
lowed to Enter Russia except by spe.
cial permission.
Turkey denies the right OF Turk
10 become a citizen of any other coun-
try without the authority OF the gov
ernment, and Persia observes simi
lar policy. Italy holds that naturali'
cation of an Italian subject in aforeigr
country is no bar to liability to militia
ry service. Naturaiized American
citizens visiting other European states
with the exception of Great Britain
are liable to arrest and Imprisonment
',Dr expulsion for failure to perform
military service
DALLAS, Texas, June 3.-The annu
al small grain estimate, which covers
all Texas. is as follows:
The small grain crop of the state
will not exceed one-fourth of last
Years yield. The acreage in wheat
and oats is less and the conditions
rs per cent below the average of May
1900. The yield is cut short owing
to the early spring drouth. and to the
ravage of the aphis or green bug
The damage by the pest, although
amounting to total losses In many
fields in choice grain counties, is
slight compared with the general dam.
age due 70 the want of moisture ear
Iy in the growing season. The re-
ports cover 164 couuties, los of which
were free of the insect pest, while all
the counties reported suffering for
want OF moisture.
The pest appeared in numbers In
early April, multiplied rapidly, were
rapacious of appetite, and gluttonous
without apparent satiation, repletion
or surfeit, and began to disappear in
furries in May. When the bugs at
tanned the aerial stage they rose in
body from the ravaged field, took
flight remained on the wing for hours,
and drifted with the wind. During
storms they sought safety near the
! DOT of the wheat or oat blades. The
farms Intervening between the points
of ascent and descent sustained no
insect damage, but suffered from the
drouth. The drouth preceded the ad-
vent of the aephis, the forty counties
reporting green bugs also chronicling
an early spring drouth.
The Texas acreage in corn is large
ly Increased. Primarily the area
was larger than last year, which has
been added to by planting per cent
age of the wheat and oat acreage in
corn where the small grain crop is a
total failure. The present condition
= of corn is good, and with the seasona-
BILE rains usual in June in central,
north. northeast and northwest Texas.
the yield will be up to the average per
takinp tho state as whole. The