Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-24

Wednesday at Rome, approved the
British proposition to raise the weight
of letters to one ounce. Madrid was
selected for the next congress.
w. F.. Switzler, chief of the bureau
of statistics during President oieHe
lands first administration, is seriously
i'll at his home at Columbia. Mo, ana
physicians say he cannot recover. lie
is Sc years old
| By n party vote the House com
mitee on ways and means wednesday
refused to take 10 for consideration or
| to lay on the table the Williams reso-
! luton reducing to 100 per cent. an 'dl
| if schedules in excess of that rate
The President has formally accepted
| the resignation of Horace A. Iaylor as
| assistant secretary of the treasury 10
! take effect June 80, the close OF the MS
| cal year. Mr.. Taylor will soon therea1-
| ter leave for a tour of the world MI
! Taylor will be succeeded by }. H. Ed
| wards, now secretary to Sec. ShaW'
| whose appointment and commentator
by the Senate have already been an
nounced.
The denatured alcoholic bill was
Wednesday ordered reported favorably
by the Senate committee on hnance.
There We're numerous amendments
made to the bill, largely intended to
prevent q reduction of the internal rev.
ienGeS by reason of the act. Provision
was made that it shall go INTO effect
Jan. l. 1897. instead of within three
months after the passage of the meas
ure. No limitation was passed upon
the size or capacity of the stills at
which denatured alcohol is to be manu-
featured.
A general court martial has been or
dered for the trial of capt. Perry
Garst. commanding the battlesliI
Rhode Island, for grounding that shiT
May on York Spit. The court will
meet on board the Rhode Island in
Hampton Roads May IS The same
courtmartial also will try Lieut.. Com
mander Edward II. Witherspoon, the
navigator of the Rhode Island, held
Jointly responsible with Capt. Garst fol
the grounding. The trials We're ordered
upon the recommendation Of the court
Of inquiry.
Clarence Roylln. manager of the Odett'
Tyler Co. playing at the BelascO Theatre
at WASHINGTON was arrested WedneeSda!
night on the charge of disorderly con
| duct as a result of an alteration Will
| the coachman of President Roosevelt
i carriage. The stamping of the horses
disturbed the performance and Mr. Boy
, kin instructed the Coachnan to drive ;
little distance away. The coacftman re
? fused to change his location. Mr. Boykii
, then dragged the coachman from his sea
and they were engaged in a struggle
= when the police arrived and placed Mi
Boykin under arrest Neither Presiden
Roosevelt nor Mrs. Roosevelt were in at
9 tendance at the theatre, the carriage be
: ing used by guests.
! See. Taft appeared before the Senat'
2 committee on finance "Wednesday ant
urged that Congress give to the Pana
ma Canal commission authority to pur
chase two steel dredges in the foreign
market and to take action authorizing
the purchase abroad of othc
supplies when it is found tina
,rines for supplies of do
a meStic manufacture are eXtOrtlonatf
The committee authorizes the reporting
: of the following resolution: That puf
p chases of material and equipment 70
. use in the construction of the Panama
= lcanal shall be restricted to articles o
domestic production and manufacture
: unless The. President shall in any cas-
= idcem the bids or tenders therefor to
: extortionate or unreasonable