The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-01-12
WILL PIPE OIL
ACROSS CANAL zone
SEC'Y TAFT GRANTS PRIVIL EGE
TO AN INDEPENDENT COM
PANY IN CALIFORNIA.
TAFT REPLIES TO
BIGELOW'S CHARGES

Are whipped IatO Line On state
hood BiIl-Senate Committee On
Foreign Relations Endorses
Lodges Consular Bill.
Washington, Jan. 12.-Secretary
Taft has signed a reyocable license
granting the Union Oil Co. Of Cali1or-
mia, an independent concern, permits
sion to build a pipe line across the
canal zone. The company also has
contract with the government OF rama
ma which permits the company to have
pipe line across its territory and an
outlet ON the Pacific side of the
| isthmus. IL pays the government OF
the canal zone $500 a month for the
privileges These funds will be used
for school purposes.
Taft ANSWERS HiSG.Ow.
Vashin gton, Iaa. I2.-PouiJnes
Bigelow, author, traveller and journal
list, is scored in a denunciatory letter
written by Secretary Taft TO President
Roosevelt, who asked the secretary ii
there was ,anE foundation for the
charges set forth in an article by Mr..
Bigelpw which appeared in the issue o
the Independent on January entitled
Our Mlsmanagement OF banana"
Secretary Taft's letter was made pub
lie Wednesday, together with state
meat by Chief Engineer SteFens OF the
isthmian canal commission. who il
now in Washington, and various 9th
er documents and letters tending TO
reiute the various charges made BIZ Mr..
Digelow. Mt. Taft says in one or two
places in his letter that ne charges
are not niue.
Indnrse Lodges Consular Ell.
The senate committee Un foreign re-
lations has concluded its consideration
OF Senator Lodges bill for the reor-
ganizati1nt of the consular service, and
authorised it's author 10 report it ia
wOrably ,as amended.
Deny They Are Whipped.
The house insurgents Indignantly
deny they are beaten or have been
whipped into line. Repr sentative Bah
cock of Wisconsin, the insurgent lead
ter, says there are AZ members pledged
no vote against the adoption of a rule
TO preventsan amendment TO the state
hood bill
for Graves of Confederate Dead.
One of the bills fayorably acted up
ON by the senate appropriates 100000
for apprnpriate marking of the graves
OF confeEierate soldiers who died in
northern prisons during the civil war.
~4jstemsN to aR Ex-SPeaker-
The hGlse, Wednesday, listened to a
awo-hours' address by the veteran !
statemRn, Mr.. Keller, of Ohio, an ex-
speaker, who returns to the house aft !
e. a retirement of 20 years
@Nersuneat and the Pre~id~Dt.
RepreseB tative Jesse Overstree1 of |
Indiana, secretary of the republican |
eG lGressicIzil campaign committee has
hiss intention, of retiring |
fIc u thgt committee, it is said, because
Of dEfiTeran0e with TIE president over
InGf.n patronage.
MeSlica1 staff Inadequate
Washington Jan. 12.-Pr E-aent
Roosevelt in "a brief speech TO dr. e
aus tAS fIACIlOdu 1SSO-
.iatiom. who called to witness the pres
ntat4cm Oh medal of honor to Capt
!. R ChMch IDr gailantry al Las
iuimas, sounded "a note of warning an
Lrcount of the inadequate meaicAl
service in the arnT,. He said If we wers
o go to war a calamity of appallins
proportions wculd very likely beiaE
'ur arms because the medica! staff o
lot large enough no care for more than
0 per cent of the present military .
trength of the ndnfGry. The blame
or such dfERzteE. he declared.
would be placed where it belonged
2aa the shoulders Uf the people ana
I tthe legislatures who do not m K
reysaratiCns for the fntEre and not t 9
he door of the men who happen to t
! anzihCrity when troubis comes. Il
The Ceudres-Wood COateAt.
Washington, ian. 12-The house |
ommittee on elections Thsrsday on
uded arguments in The conte ed
sction cases of Harris N. C-ldr '
spublicap. vs.. Ernst :. Nto7d, cent
at. of st. Louis, involving ales
ection frauds. S. I.arr!s AMI VI %
Taylor were heard on hshalf y
ouGrcy Wood. answering, argu-d h :
Nm case.