The Monticellonian., 1908-04-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
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Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma tion, and Particulaly From the
 Great Southwest
CONGRESSIONAL.

With an adverse report, the house committee on judiciary Friday con demned the plan to have the United States government buy blocks of mountains from New England to Flor ida for gigantic forest reserve. Judge John J. Jenkins, chairman of the com pslttee, is the author of the report, which recommends no action on the project because the federal govern ment has no constitutional right to es tablish such reserve. Had the prof eet been consummated, 1t would have cost more than $1.000, 900 900. Such a forest reserve has been advocated by the governors of the states inter ested. by nearly 1000 commercial bodies and by majority of the mem bers of congress from the states that would have been affected.
 The Aldrich bill met it's doom in the house committee on banking and cur rency Friday when it was laid on the table Consideration was given by the committee to the Fowler currency bill, but no report was agreed upon.
 The senate in executive session Fri day afternoon ratified the treaty with Great Britain on fisheries in United States and Canadian waters. It also ratified the treaties of arbitration with Portugal and Norway; two Hague treaties, one affecting the recovery Of contract debts, the other concessson- ing the rights and duties of neutral powers, in naval war, and the extra dition treaty with San Marine.
 The senate Friday afternoon passed the Dverman anti-injunction bill, which prevents the issuance of tenn porary injunctions by any United States district judge restraining the operation of a state law in which it's eonstitutionality is involved, unless the application has been first heard and faverably acted upon by three fed eral judges. two of whom must be cir cult judges, and then only after ma iority vote The measure aims to prevent the recurrence of any such legal entanglements as brought about a crisis between North Carolina and the Southern railroad and those in other states year ago.
 The long existing controversy as to whether the United States navy should have submarine torpedo boats of the Holland type. as recommended by the committee on naval affairs, was settled in the house of representa- tives Thursday. when, after q lengthy and lively debate. the previso limit ing the secretary of the navy to pur- chase only boats of the Holland type was stricken out. The effect of this action was to give the secretary a free hand in the selection of submarine boats.
 The members haggled over almost every line of the three pages of the bill remaining to be disposed of, when the house met. but the principal ac- ton was that with regard to the sub marines humorous speech by MT. Williams. in which he had several friendly clashes with MT. Hobson (Ala) over warships and balloons. commanded the attention of the house for some time
 Provision for an enlarged homestead fin semi-arid states was made by the passage of the Smoot bill in the sen ate Wednesday. The amendments were adopted by which the bill applies only to Colorado, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Wash
 \ Mexico. It authorizes the taking of homesteads of 32O acres of arid non-mineral. non-irrisable lands.