Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-02-03

The ships now building are authorized
shall have been completed will ap-
proximate $77,000,000. These figures
are based on careful estimate by the
Board of Construction at the request
of the Secretary. The Secretary told
the House of the urgency Of the ap-
preparations for three new battleships
this year in order to maintain the
gradual increase Of the navy, which
had been raised by the general board
of which Admiral Gray is president.
He pointed to the fact that If these
ships were authorized this year no ap-
preparation would be necessary until
next year, as it requires about one
year to prepare the plans and let the
contract.
Commissioner of Corporations Gar
field appeared before the House Com
mittee on judiciary in favor of the
bill requiring all corporations engaged
in interstate commerce business to
make annual reports to the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. Mr..
Garfield said the requirement of the
bill would be very good and safe
guide for the collection of information
regarding corporations by the Govern
ment. cit will also afford to Con-
gress the information upon those con-
ditions concerning which the greatest
complaint has been made" he added.
1t was explained that under existing
legislation there was no way by which
the information regarding corpora
tions obtained by the Department of
Commerce and Labor shall be decided.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, in the case of the Lehman-Hig-
ginson Grocery Company and other
wholesale grocers in Wichita, Kan,
against the Santa Fe Railroad, decid-
ed that the rate Of forty-seven cents
on sugar from New Orleans to Wichi-
ia is unreasonable; that the present
differential of fifteen cents applied at
Wichita above Kansas City shipments
of sugar from the Atlantic seaboard
and New Orleans subjects Wichita to
unjust discrimination, and that such
differential should not be more than
eight cents per 100 pounds.
The conferences on the legislative,
executive and judicial bill reached an
agreement, and it was reported to
both houses. There were no differ
ences of Importance, the main eonten-
ton being for the provision of COM
~: eial eandltio1s. The Horse appro-
priated 100000 for special agents,
which was increased to $150,O00 by the
Senate, and the conferees agreed on
$125,000. It was also provided that
trade conditions abroad should be IN
vestigated by those agents instead of
both foreign and domestic, as provided
by the Senate.
There were sixteen speeches by as
many senators, including Senator
Hoar's colleague, Mr.. Lodge, and his
successor, Mr.. Crane, eulogizing SEN
ator Hoar. Mr.. German paid high
tribute to the dead senator's fairness
to the south in the period succeeding
the war, saying: "He was through
out it all a man of infinite compassion,
of comprehensive sympathies, OF no
BILE and unselfish impulses. He was
partisan without rancor, an antago-
mist without bitterness, friend with
out reservations and conditions, con-
oueror without vengeance, a loser
without resentment.
Representative Rodenberg OF Hi
nois introduced bill to prohibit the
confirming Of live stock in cars or on
ships sailing from one seaport to an
other for longer period than thirty
three consecutive hours during June,
July, August and September or more
than forty consecutive hours during
other months
The First National Bank OF Neder-
land. Texas, has been closed by the
Comptroller of the Currency, on the
receipt of a telegram from National
Rank Examiner Williams that the
Bank is insolvent, and upon informa-
tion from other sources that its draft
had been protested.
A Earlu Realization.