Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-08
WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 8, 1906

| Congress convened on Monday: Presi-
| dent Roosevelt sent his message to both
| Houses on Tuesday; he recommended a
| graduated inheritance tax, graded in
| come tax. federal control of marriage and
| divorce that Japanese be allowed to be-
come American citizens, denounced the
| California discrimination against the Jap
anese and declared his purpose to employ
| the full military and civil powers of the
United States to insure their treaty
rights and recommended compulsory ar
| bitration and currency reform. Secretary
| Taft made public full report on the dis
charge of the negro troops and a defense
! of the Presidents action. Both houses adj
! Journed early on account of deaths of
| members in the recess. The Presidents
references to the Japanese question evoked
! a storm OF protest on the part of Califor-
mans. Senator Rayner introduced a reso-
luton declaring that the federal govern
ment had no right to interfere with the
exclusion Of Japanese from the San Fran
cisco schools. Resolutions introduced by
Senators Penrose and Foraker, calling on
the President and the Secretary of War to
send to the Senate information the dis
charge of members of the 25th Infantry,
were adopted. President Roosevelt in a
special message to Congress asked for au
thority to dismiss without court-martial
any officer whom he deems unworthy to
remain in the service. The bill permit
estate passed the House by vote of IL
to 5T. The House defeated the pilotage
bill, 164 to no. The United States Su-
preme Court decided the extradition cases
of Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone, officers
of the Western Federation of Miners,
against the labor leaders 1t was an
sador to Italy. would succeed Mr.. Robert
Mccormick as ambassador to France, Mr..
Mccormick retiring from the service, and
Mr. Lloyd Griscom. now ambassador to
Brazil, succeeding Mr.. White at Rome.
Estimates for the Naval Academy for the
fiscal year 1908 were submitted. The an
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that the surplus of the United States for
the past fiscal year amounted to $25,669,-
800 w. w. Finley was elected president
of the Southern Railway Company, sue
| ceeding the late Samuel Spencer. Rev.
Algernon S. Crapsey was formally deposed
from the ministry for heresy by oI Bishop
n Y, Chester Gillette was found guilty
of murder in the first degree in killing his
former fiancee Grace Brown. A Russian
prisoner, who escaped from Siberia in
barrel of sauerkraut. arrived in San Fran
cisco. A boiler in shoe factory in West
Lynn. Mass, exploded, causing more than
$500, 900 damage.
Foreign.
Investigators who returned to ST Peters
burg from the famine districts reported
that 10000, 600 persons were facing starva-
ton as a result of crop failure. Rear Ad-
miral Nebogatoff and seventy-eight of his
officers were put on trial in ST. Petersburg
for surrendering to the Japanese. The edu-
cation bill passed the third reading in the
house of lords. The keel plates for bat
tleship even more powerful than the Dread
nought were laid at Portsmouth The
French chamber of deputies unanimously
ratified the Algeciras convention after a
vote of confidence in the government;
Count Boni de Castellane made a speech
and half the deputies left the chamber
when he assembled the tribune. c. c. Govt
ant, a member of the French senate, was
hill Cadn he w
of moving train. King Alfonso approved
the formation of new liberal cabinet. The
condition of the Shah of Persia was said
to be so serious that the Crown Prince was
summoned to take his fathers place. Presi-
dent Alfaro of Ecuador appointed a new
cabinet The japanese and Paris press
lauded those parts of Roosevelt's message
dealing with the japanese on the Pacific
coast A welcome to Japanese immigrants
was extended by Mexico. The Yudin col
lection of books, eighty thousand In num-
Der, on Russia and Siberia was secured at
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, for the Library of
Congress at Washington. Three note books
of the poet Shelley, containing unpublished
manuscript were sold at auction In London
for S15, 600.
In the District.
The Commissioners presented their an
| nual report to Congress. Secretary Shaw,
in his report to Congress. recommended
that the Commissioners estimates of SILL
7S1, 60 should be reduced by $500, 296 65,
Representative Kline of Pennsylvania in
troduced in the House a bill providing for
two delegates to Congress from the Dis
trct of Columbia. Senator Hepburn in
troduced bill appropriating S1O,0O0.0O0 for
| purchase by the government of the land on
the south side of the avenue. Colored citi-
zens presented memorial to Congress pro-
testing against acts of the board of educa-
ton Henry Fairfield Osborn was elected
secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,
succeeding the late Professor Langley.
The national rivers and harbors congress
! held their annual meeting. The American
National Red Cross Society held their an
nual meeting in the Gardiner Hubbard me-
mortal building. The Retail Grocers' Pro-
tective Association inaugurated their sec