Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-30
Capital lettings.


Government receipts Thursday: From
internal revenue. s.12.l1o: customs. Sl,o3e.-
40: miscellaneous, $.in.6,5 Expenditures
SS00,0no
The President Thursday sent to tho
Senate the following nominations: Attor-
ncy Tor the District OF Oregon, William
-. Bristol; chief of the bureau of yards
and docks with the rank Of read ADM
raj, Civil Engineer Murdccai T. Endicott
Senator Alec and Rep. Burton of Della
ware Thursday talked with the President
and Sec. BOnaitrt" about naming TIL.
proposed great battlcshil Delaware ir-
stead of Constitution. rs heretofore sus-
gestcd Tn, President promised to give
the matter consideration
Director Walcott Of the geological sur
vey Thursday said that tho dispatch
Wednesday night from Casper, Nyo., al
l"gIns: that the Grcat dam ut .\l"uva and
the steel bridge across the North Platte
river, structures erected h* tho reclama-
tiun service. had been carried away by
flood on the ;. instant, was erroneous.
Members of the House committee on
patents Hro Of IL" opinrn that the pro-
sidcrcd 1t lcr%th by a special conference
in which many interests were represent
cd, Will not he IL shap" for consrcssion-
ii action at the present Se.5ion of Con-
Grcss.
Opposition To It." four r,n''rG bills pro-
hitting TIN sal cf cnnNictmadc goods
qua in other WAYS intended to c;irtail con-
Vict competition with labor. was made
h"tor" the House committee on labor
Thursday by i. T.. Thompson. Jr.. of New
York. who represented several contractors
having prison labor contracts. His argu-
m"nt was based on legal grounds.
An carly vot" in the Senate on the rail-
road rate bill is not AMONG the rrobabil-
tiles, according to Settlements made to
the President Thursday by senators.
Among those VINO discussed the subject
with him We're senators Cullom and Dill
lingham. Senator Dillingham; said it
wrrlld take time to consider proposed
amendments.
TIL Senat" committee on commerce
Thursday authorized a favorable report
on the nomination of James +. Stewart
to b" collector of customs for the dis
trrt Of Newport News. Va. This romina-
tiCn las been held up for = long time on
several charges. among them being one
that Stewart had done a number of things
that tended to disrupt The Republican
party.
Til" House COMMITTEES On merchant ma
rin" and fisheries Thursday authorized Il
favorable report on Senate bill rcicv.
ing motor fishing boats from the rigor
of the recent enactment requiring Il Ii
ccnsed engineer. The bill REQUIRES the
owner to be licensed but no examination
to obtain the license is necessary. TIL"
committee fixed Thursday next as the
date for hearings on the bill proposing to
grant American register to foreign wrt cilS
repaired in this country.
The Foster bill to permit Chinese Stu
dents, merchants and travellers to enter
this country WAS the subject of a he. NJ
ing Thursday by the House committee
on foreign affairs. John Flood secretary
OF the American ASiatic Society, placed
tcrs of the STANDARD Oil Co. in New York
showing that its business in China had
greatly suffered by reason Of the hoyrpt;
II showed that iE October. November aui
December, 1904, the oil company sold p
o32.TD cases of oil in China. During the
same months in 1908 the sales aggregated
$1,000 cases. In the Shanghai district tn"
business was entirely suspended during
the latter period.