Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-12-13
CAPITAL JOTTINGS.

Gov.-elect Hughes Of New York, who
was guest of the President at the
White House over night. returned to
| New York Wednesday.
Government receipts Wednesday,:
From internal revenue, $1.0O5,O6G; GUS
| toms. $1.715,SS0; miscellaneous, $780,
pa. Expenditures, s1,55O.00O.
President Roosevelt Wednesday APP
proved Senate bill providing for use
of certified checks to secure compliance
with proposals and contracts for naval
supplies. This is the first act Of the
present Congress to become law.
The French government has notified
| the government OF the United States
| through Ambassador Jusserand that
Henry White. the recently appointed
ambassador to France, is persona gra-
| ia.
Mrs. Roosevelt received the members
of the diplomatic corps and their FAM
lilies Wednesday. Mrs. LongwOrth and
Miss Hagner. Mrs. Roosevelts sec
rotary. assisted in the dining room and
Captain Mccoy OF the Presidents staff
presented the guests.
lkotScNtll Il.tS utclltu u
send to Congress Tuesday next the re-
port made by Secretary Metcalf of the
department of commerce and labor into
the alleged discrimination against the
japanese in San Francisco in the mat
ter of schools and in other ways.
The Congo Free State resolution in
PRODUCED by Senator Lodge was taken
up Wednesday by the Senate commit
tee on foreign relations. Senator Nor
gan read Il long letter reciting alleged
brutalitieS in Congo country. Discus
sion of the resolution will be continued
till next meeting.
Hearings on free seed distribution be-
gan before the House committee on
| agriculture Wednesday, G. +. Wood of
Louisville. representing the American
Seed Trade Association. and &. +.
Moule and W. Alice Burpee Of Phil
adelphia. spoke in opposition to the
distribution.
Christmas boxes and parcels for the
enlisted mon of the navy serving in
Cuban waters will be delivered with
out cost if they are addressed in charge
of the depot puartermaster at New
port News, Va. They should be mark
ed "Christmas package" Similar ar
rangements were recently made for the
Philippine service.
John VI. Perrin OF indianapolis appear
| cd b. fore The House committee on bank
| ing and currency Wednesday in support
| Of the American Bankers Association
| credit currency measure. He urged the
| necessity for SEQ. 100000 more in bank
notes and explained the predicament of
bankers at crop-moving time as 4 result
of great demand for money.
Senator Morgan Wednesday took &C
| ton amounting to dismissal of Thomas
| G.. Garrett, secretary to the committee
| on public health and national quaran-
| tines, Of which the senator is chairman.
| The dismissal is the result of Il charge
| that Mr. Garrett has engaged in the rro-
| motion of the interests of Belgium in the
| administration o: affairs i'm the Congo
| Free State.
a resolution was laid before the Sem
| ate Wednesday at the request OF Sen
| ator Gearin, giving it as the consensus
| Of opinion Of the Senate that negotia-
| tons be entered into with Japan def
| nitely to define the rights of each cOun-
| try under the existing treaty with a
view to securing such modification of
this treaty as will absolutely prohibit
the entrance into the United States OF
Japanese coolie laborers. No action was
taken on the resolution.
The Senate Wednesday agreed to a res
olution presented by Senator Gallinger,
directing the secretary of war to in
form the Senate details of experiments
with a cholera virus by Army Surgeon
Strong at Manila. Inquiry is made
whether such experiments resulted in
the death of 10 or more persons; whether
these persons We're previously notified of
the possible fatal character Of the cpl
demic; whether any of these persons were
natives Of the United States and by what
authority and who is responsible for the
| experiments.