The Nevada County picayune., 1906-12-14
Bellamy Storer, former ambassa-

Bellamy Storer, former ambassa- dor to Vienna, and who was removed by tbe president for alleged interfer- ence with foreign politics, and also, it is stated, because Mr. Storer at- tempted to exert influence at the Vatican, has come out in pamphlet attacking the position of the prcsi- dent in making the removal. He mailed copy of the pamphlet to the president, cabinet members and 10 prominent senators and represcn- tatives, Mir. Roosevelt, througs a letter to Secretary Root. in which he says Mir. Storcr and Mrs. Store-, The statements they allege me to have made were not made.'
 The annual report of Conmis- sioner of Corporations James R. Garfield dcyotes special attention to the investigation of the transporta- tion of oil and the operations of the Standard Oil company. The ship pers of oil advise the bureau" aavs Mr. Garfield, "tha. for the first time ln many years they are now rapidly obtaining equality of treatment from the transportation companies"
 France seems to be facing an alarming religious crisis. The ~c- ports of the popes eleyenth-hour re- jection of the governments final proaer, under which Catholic woY- ship could be continued under th4 common law turned out to be true, and the deadlock now is apparently complete.
 F. II. Hartman has determined. 1t is stated, to set aside the sum of $l0,000,000 for the improvement of the Los Angeles (Cal. ) Pacific rail- way system.
 Reliable information received at Rome from Constantinople describes the sultan of Turkey again danger ously i'll with an affection of the bladder.
 A number of sampans (sma9 ha.. bor boats) belonging to the Japa- nese cruiser Chitose, were caught in a squall at Tollio, while returning from a trip. A number of the boat, were overturned and 60 men were drowned.
 The house, by a vote of no to I64, defeated the bill of Representa- i've Littlefeld cf Maine, removing di-erjminations against American sailing vessels in the coasting trade,
 The house passed the bill authoe- Hing the secretary of the treasury to duplicate gold certificates in lieu of dies lost or destroyed, and the bill recommending the national banking laws. permitting national banking associations to make loans on real es- tate as security and limiting the amount of such loans.
 Senator Flint has introduced d bill providing for an exhibition at Les Angeles, Cal, in 1915, to cele- brate the completion of the Panama canal. The bill provides for gov ernment aid of $1O,000,O00, pro- yidcd the exhibition company fur nishes an equal amount.
 The president sent special mes sage to congress urging legislation giving the executive authority upon his own initiative and responsibility to remove any officer whom he thinks unworthy to remain in the service.
 The attorneys for the Standard OH Go. of Ohio have filed in the eoart of common pleas at Findlay, O., motions to quash the indictments against John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil Co. of Ohio and oth- CTS. alleging that the indictments are 50 ung ain as to leave the de- fcndants unable 10 ascertain the character of the charges against tAen
 For more than a year efforts have been made to get the ratification of d treaty giving Cuba sovereignty over the Isle of Pines, where American capitalists have made heavy invest monts. This was so bitterly op- posed by Senators Penrose, Morgan and others that an agreement was