The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-18
General News.
WHAT THE DISPATCHES TELL.
The Facts Boiled Down and Presented in
Convenient Form for Busy


exclusion law by the United States.
Ex-Governor John P. Altgeld, of
Illinois, who had been prominent in
politics for many years, died of
paralysis last week.
Attorney General Knox has fled
suit in the United States Circuit
Court at st. Paul, Mimi, to break
the Northwestern Railroad merger.
The United States has presented
a note to Turkey insisting that the
brigands who held Miss Ellen M.
Stone a prisoner should be captured.
Efforts T being made to arrange
a compromise between the Republi.
can factions of the House of Repre-
sentatives on the question of reoi.
procity with Cuba.
President R~oosevelt's trip to the
Charleston Exposition has been de-
ferred until the second week in April.
This date will probably be final and
arrangements will be made accord
ingly.
VIM. G. Mccormick, of Los An
geles, has telegraphed to Senator
Thomas Kerns, of Utah, that he will
accept the position of Secretary of
the Interior in President Roosevelt's
cabinet should a vacancy OCCUR
through the resignation of Secretary
Hitchcock.
William A. Rodenburg of Illinois
has rendered to President Roosevelt
his resignation as United States
Civil Service Commissioner to take
effect at the pleasure of the Presi-
dent. The President will doubtless
accept the resignation, and appoint
some more jealous advocate of civil
service to succeed Rodenberg.
Representative Crumpacker, of
Indiana, has introduced a resolution
authorizing the Speaker to appoint a
special committee of thirteen mem
bers to investigate the suffrage laws
of the several States, and whether
the right of suffrage is in any way
abridged or denied. A somewhat
similar resolution was agreed upon
by a House Republican caucus at
which a majority of members was
not present, bet no action was taken
on it by the House Committee on
Rules.
The bill to classify the rural free
delivery service and place the BAR
riers'under the contract system, which
had been debated in the House for
over a week, was passed Monday,
but in a form that completely
changed the purpose for which it
was framed. Before it was passed,
the bill was altered radically by it's
opponents. All the provisions rela-
ting to the placing of carriers under
the contract system we're stricken out
and the salary system was not only
continued, but the maximum salary
of carriers was increased from $500
to $500 per annum.
The third change in the Cabinet of
President Roosevelt occurred Mon
day when Secretary of the Navy
Long submitted his resignation in a
graceful letter, it being accepted in
one equally felioitous by the Presi-
dent. The change was made com,
plete by the selection of Representa-
tive Henry Moody, of the Sixth Con
gressional District Of Massachusetts
as Mr.. Longs Mr.. Moody
will assume charge of the Navy De
partment May 1st. This change has
been expected for a long time. Mr..
Long had intended to retire at the
beginning of the late President Nc
Kinley' g second term.
France has raised the question of
building an international monument
to one of the really great men of
America, Commodore M F Maury.
Professor Bergeret declares that
Maury's charts "out ocean distance
in two" and are saving in the cost
of cesn transportation 300, 900, 600
francs a year. Suppose then Amer
loan trade has received one fifth of
the benefit, Professor Bergeret cal
culates that one per cent of the saw
ing involved would mean a fonr mil
lion dollar memorial from America
alone. There is really no reason
why this generation should not build
the sepuloher of such a prophet wen
if he was ~persecUted by the fathers
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