Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-05-07

SERVICE. prohibiting Cliilu ldDOr III Tue
District of Columbia; authorizing the
Ways and Means Committee of the
House and the Finance Committee Of
the Senate to give hearings preliminary
| a sum sufficient TO enable the inland
waterways commission to continue the
work on which it started last year
A number of South Dakota Sioux In
dams from the Standing Rock reServa-
ton are in Washington urging action
by Congress on the bill to authorize the
sale of portion of the surplus and I'M
allotted lands of that reservation. The
Indians have called upon the members
Of the Indian committee of the senate,
which has fayorably reported the bill,
| and they have also had a conference
with President Roosevelt regarding the
measure. The pending bill sets no time
| for the opening of the reservation.
About 100000 acres are affected by the
| measure
AS a result of the first conviction
| under the pure food and drug law,
Robert n. Harper, president Of the
Washington chamber of Commerce,
formerly president Of the American Ma
| tional Bank. drug manufacturer and
one of the best known business men Of
| the city. was sentenced by Judge KIM
ball in the police court TO pay fine Of
$500 on one count and $500 on another
count of the indictment recently return
ed against him for manufacturing and
selling an alleged mislabeled pharma-
ceutical compound.
| The statistics of the Postoffice De-
partment indicate that the rural deliv-
cry system pays its way, notwithstand-
ing its very considerable cost. The
ratio Of deficit moves in a contrary di-
recton to the ratio of rural delivery
| expenditure. The fact appears to be
that the rural delivery has proven a
bringer-in of new revenue. There has
| tiiSo uVCil accomplished u olNih5 VI
$12,OO0,0OO through the closing of small
postoffices and the discontinuance of
star routes.
The new Federal forest bill for Min
nesOta, which Senator Clapp had
passed by the Senate, will open approx
imately 100000 acres of land in vicin-
| ity of Cass Lake for settlement The
opening, however, will not occur until
the spring of 1909, in May or June.
Under the provisions of the bill COM
mission of three members, one to be
named by the President, one by the
Secretary of the Interior. and one by
the Indians, is to appraise the timber
which is taken for forestry purposes.
President Roosevelt is going to have
series of conferences with the bust
ness men of the country, manufacture
ers, farmers, wage earners, railroad Off
Gals, bankers and merchants. He
wants to get in close touch with the
existing industrial conditions, and he
wants to know what the people of the
country think about the present situa-
ton.
The validity of the Elkins anti-rebate
law again was affirmed by the United
States Supreme Court in the decision
sustaining the conviction of the Ar
mour, Swift. Morris and Cudahy pack
ing houses for accepting rebates, and
of the Burlington Railroad for grant
ing them, each of the defendants hav-
ing been fined $1,000.
Mark II. Davis, of Shelby, Ohio, has
been appointed special agent of the
department of commerce and labor to
investigate markets abroad. with spec
ial reference to the export of Ameri-
can wheat and -four. The appointment
| was made upon the recommendation of
the Millers' National Federation.
President Roosevelt informed a dele,
| CATION of OklahOmans that he would
help them secure the removal of the
restrictions upon the sale of Indian
lands. but that each Indian must pre-
serve a homestead of good land, and
that the Reds must be given a square
\ deal.
Many members of Congress are now
urging an appropriation to purchase
homes for American legations in for
| eign capitals in order that it may not
be necessary to consider the wealth of
diplomats in making appointments.
| -
| President Roosevelt declined to al
low Secretary Loeb to appear before
| the senate committee on Indian affairs
with certain papers filed by Helen
Pierce Gray in, the Crow Greek Indian
| controversy.
Secretary Wilson is planning to dem,
| onstrate the manufacture of denatured
alcohol. He viii install a plant in one
| of the buildings of the department at
| Washington.
| -
! Owing to the large increase of the
business of the interstate commerce
commission, the clerical force has been
largely increased during the past year,
more than 100 clerks, stenographers
| aD6 oth.r off;ca assistants hpiup added
to the force.
|
The President has instructed Attor-
ney General Bonaparte to see that
Southern railroads obey the orders of
| the interstate commerce commission to
| furnish negroes as good cars as are
! furnished whites for the same money.