Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-03-28

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| Information comes from highly
| creditable source that the administra-
| ton has about decided upon a striking
| change in its financial policy. The ac-
ton, if taken. will reverse former Sec
rotary Shaw in one particular and may
! eliminate certain railroad bonds from
the position they now occupy as gilt
| edged securities. There is an impress
| sion here that it may have been an in
| tinlatiOn of what was TO come that sent
J. Z. Morgan across the Atlantic before
he had time to put the finishing touches
to the conference which he tried to ar
| range between President Roosevelt and
leading railroad presidents. Foreign
| capital. which is heavily invested in
American railroad enterprises. gives ev-
cry evidence of extreme SenSitiveness
over the present agitation. Former Sec
rotary Shaw. in his efforts to establish
an elastic currency, permitted banks TO
place with the treasury railroad and
other bonds to the amount they desired,
conditional upon the government bonds
so released being made the basis for
increased circulation. 1t is said the
present head of the Treasury Depart
melt considers such a method of
finance is unsatisfactory, not conducive
| to financial stability and not in conso-
nance with the general policies of the
| government.
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Many persons think that the censuses
are compilations of figures for the de-
light of statisticians. But all workers
for special classes and special sorts
of legislation know that a good census
| is the foundation of work. To provide
proper education for the blind and the
deaf it is necessary first to have Il full
registry of them. To know how to pre-
vent and punish crime we must list and
classify our criminals. 1t is next to i'm
| possible to legislate, even to think in
diligently, about divorce until we have
| divorce statistics. These are examples
of the kind of census that we still lack.
| There are only three States in the
Union that have begun to make prop
er registry of the blind, only nine that
| publish divorce statistics. In time every
State will have an adequate working
census of every class and kind of per-
son that needs public help, and the na-
tional census will combine and codify
| the State censuses.
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The Board of United States General
| Appraisers has many curious and inter-
| esting questions to decide in regard to
| the classification of imported articles,
and the rate of duty which they must
pay One of the latest decisions is that
| the flag of the United States is not a
| toy. A japanese firm of importers in
| Chicago had brought in a consignment
G. silk flags, each an inch and a half
| long. and asked that they be admitted
| at So per cent ad valorem. The ap-
| praisers, however, decided that the
flags must pay duty of 80 per cent, as
manufactures of silk. "We do not
| think they said, that the American
! flag, however diminutive, is CONNER
| cially, commonly or nationally regarded
as Il plaything for children and we
find that the flags in dispute are not
toys"
President Roosevelt issued an order
| barring from the United States the
Japanese and Korean laborers, skilled
and unskilled, who had received pass
ports to go to Mexico, Hawaii and Can
ada, and who have heretofore used
that means of entering this country.
| COincident with this order the PreSi-
dent has directed the dismissal of the
two suits filed in San Francisco with
a view to testing the treaty rights of
| japanese cl.ildren to enter the white
schools. This was in his pursuance of
| his agreement to take such action
when the San Francisco school board
rescinded its original resolution eX-
Guiding children from the schools. This
| the board has done.
The attendance at prayers in the
United States Senate is not large. but
it always includes Senators Plat and
| Depew. who usually sit together and
withdraw before the business of the
| day begins. Sometimes there are only
| five or six who assemble to hear DIR.
Hale's invocation. Upon Il recent occa-
sion there were seven, and a curious
observer made a memorandum Of their
names. In addition to the always de-
vout Platt and Depew there were Perk-
ms of California. SmOot of Utah, Dick
of Ohio, McCreary of Kentucky, and
Clark of Montana.
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| Pursuant to the enactment of the new
| immigration law containing the Japa-
nese exclusion provision Secretary Root
cabled Gov. Carter at Honolulu to no.
| tify agents of steamship companies that
Japanese laborers in Hawaii, with pass
ports only for the islands, would not be
allowed to proceed to the United States
mainland
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The new rules governing the admis-
sibility of post cards to the mails re-
quire conformity in weight and size
to those printed by the government.
The cards must not be folded, and the
use of mica, glass, tinsei. metal and
similar substances is forbidden unless
the cards be enclosed in envelopes.
The cards may be of any color or COM
bination of colOrs which does not inter-
fere with the legibility of the adj