Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-31

was Gc-lirl .Gn:issipn ami then began
I to harangUr cro"d regarding her
ItIcatmcnt After speaking a little she
Voluntarily retired.
| The House "Wednesday adopted a res
| olusion with sundry amendment call
ing upon the postmaster general for a
| statement of Il number of pounds AMI
the amount Of cash received for second
class mail matter annually from July
| l, 1871 to June so, 1906.
Col. Colt lost one vote on the 18th
ballot in joint session of the Rhode Is
land Legislature "Wednesday for United
States senator, owing to the absence of
! Representative RaylesLevis, of New
| Shoreham, who is i'll. The vote re-
suited: Goddard 40, Colt 81, Wetmore
81 and Utter 1.
Senator Revelidge Wednesday asked
Sena tor Proctor, chairman Of the COM
mittee on agriculture, when a report
| might be expected on the bill placing
the cost of meat inspection on the
hackers. Mr.. Proctor said he had nm
Gerstood it to be the intention to in
corporate the inspection bill in the ag-
ricultural appropriation bill as an
| action was desired. the committee
would meet soon and take up the Ques-
ton.
Governor Guild announced Wednes-
| day at Boston that he had prepared an
address to the President and Congress
urging immediate and favorable con-
Sideration of the action OF the recent
business mems conference in Washing
ton which recommended changes in the
tariff The governor states that it Is
IineXpedient to ask for the adoption o.
| a tariff resolution by the Legislature
but he hopes that members of that
body wifi sign the address. that the
state may act on the matter without
regard to political parties.
President Roosevelt was Wednesday
asked by Il delegation representing
Italian Irish and Jewish societies OF
| Massa chusctts to recommend 10 Con-
gress legislation providing for the APP
pointment 70 a commission Of publicistS
| to study and report on the relation OF
Immigration to the various needs ana
institutions OF the United States. The
members of the delegation expressed
the oDinion that the sentiment Of the
country was too little ascertained to
allow Congress at present to take ac-
ton which would fairly represent aver
age opinion.
The immigrant bureau "Wednesday
received q long report from commas
sioncr North at San Francisco rccltlnS
he circumstances attending the landinS
Of about SEQ japanese immigrants on IN"
steamship Alamada and Korea last
week. He believes that practlcally All
the Japanese arriving on the two YES
sells were recruited in Japan by the
so-called immigration societies 1of
work in the Hawaiian islands and al
ter remaining there for Il time to come
to the United States. strict SurVel'-
lance Will be had over thoS" believed
to be contract laborers and if evidence
can be found suhstantiating this belief
they will Ee deported.
a public hearing was held NcdnfS-
dav before the Senate committee on
the Philippines i'll support of the plan
of the Philippine commission to induce
capital to go into the islands to be en-
ploycd as loans on agricultural lands,
and providing a government guaranty
Of per cent. on such investments
There were heard in support Of the
proposition Prof. +. ". Kemmerer OF
Cornell University. Prof. Jeremiah
jerks, financial expert employed by the
war department. and Former Governor
Henry W. Ide of the Philippines. Gov
Idc showed that without the proposed
government guaranty there is hesl-
tcncy on the part of capital to go into
The islands and said that farmers
therefore are III the hands Of usurers
Attorney General Bonaparte. Sc.
Taft and Gen. Allen, chief signal Of
tic.r Of the army, had a conference
Wednesday. at the department of JUS
tice with attorneys of the Central South
American Telegraph Co. in regard 10
the laying of a cable from sandy Hook,
n. J., to Guantanamo and thence 10
Colon and across the Isthmus of Pan
anna connecting with the Pacific cable
lines. The purpose Of the government
is to secure Il cable. the terminal OF
which shall be under the control Of thu
United States. The necessity for such
control in time of war is apparent. 1t is
said that an agreement was reached
with the cable company which will be
Immediately put in the form OF con-
tract. 1t is also understood that the
as those with the Pacific Cable 90.
The first examination for the con-
sular service under the new rules laid
down by Sec. Root has been fixed for
March next. 50 far scarcely than half
a dozen persons have been designated
for the examination, though it is eX-
pected that more than twice that num- |
Der of vacancies in the consular ser
vice will exist by the date named. The |
trouble as already indicated lies in the |
difficulty of finding applicants proper |
~ equipped technically with the neccs- |
sary knowledge of two or more Ian |
guages and at the same time possess |
ing an acquaintance with business |
methods likely to make them good con- |
suIs. 1t is probable that some changes |
may be made in the scheme for exam
indtiors already laid down before the |
applicants are actually called before |
the examiners at the state department. |
The mill Of tho Economic Gold EN- |
traction Co. at Victor. Col, was destroy |
On ~ fire Wednesday. The uIaut cnet |