The Dolores star., 1908-03-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of tn,
Past Seven Days.
esseresting Items Gathered From ell
Parts Of the Wor!d Condensed
Into Small Space FOR the Ben
eft Of Our Readers.
Conversational.

introduced bill providing for a tariff
commission. The body is to be com
posed OF nine members not more than
five from any one political party.
The American Federation of Labor's
statement Of grievances has been laid
before the senate.
sidy bill was passed by the senate
recently.
BY vote of 148 to lis the house
tabled the resolution calling upon the
president to supply the Information on
corporations collected by the bureau
of corporations.
Speaker Cannon and Vice President
Fairbanks are authority for the state
ment that a new employers liability
act will be passed at the present ses-
sion Of congress.
The conference of labor leaders at
Washington has presented to congress
a memorial and protest against the in
difference of that body to the interests
of the producers OF the country.
Senator LaFollette Of Wisconsin re-
sumed his speech in the senate on the
Aldrich bill recently, declaring that
the recent panic was helped along by
the big insurance companies whose
headquarters are in Wall street.
The pension bill. carrying an appro-
for one general pension agency at
Washington. has passed the house.
Before the house submarine investi-
eating committee Secretary of the
Navy Metcalf declared that no men,
ber of congress had attempted to in
huence his department in the matter
of furnishing submarine boats for the
navy
A bill to create national univer-
sity at Washington has been intro
duced in the house by Representative
Mckinley of Illinois.
The house and senate adjourned
for the day recently out of respect
for the memory of Senator Whyte Of
Maryland.
United States Senator William
Pinckney White Of Maryland, died re-
Gently at his home in Baltimore Of
erysipelas. He was "a years old.
Senator La Toilette delivered
speech in the senate on the Aldrich
bill in which he declared that the re-
cent financial panic was brought about
for political reasons by the Wall
street manipulators.
The senate committee on finance has
amended the Aldrich bill by eliminat-
ing railroad bonds as security for ma
tional bank note circulation.
Before the Lilley submarine boat
inquiry committee Lawrence Spear.
vice president of the Electric Boat
company of New Jersey, positively de-
tive Hobson to have him appointed
on the house naval affairs committee
as sworn to by Mr.. Hobson.
Miscellaneous.
The house committee on public
lands has made a favorable report
on the senate resolution authorizing
the attorney general to bring suit to
recover 100000 acres of land granted
to the California and Oregon Rail-
road company on condition that it be
sold to settlers at $3.50 per acre, a
condition with which the road refuses
to comply.
Following series of conferences
at the White House between the pres.
ident, members of congress and rep.
resentatives of business interests a
new legislative program is to be at.
tempted and will be urged upon con.
gress through special message from
the president.
At monster mass meetings held at
Canton the Chinese of that province
expressed great indignation respect
ing the governments action in yielding
to the Japanese demands in releasing
the Tatsu Maru andta boycott on Jap
anese goods was organized.
The death of Senator Bryan ol
Florida makes the seventh member ol
that body that has died since the ad
journment of the fiftyninth congress
March 4, a year ago.
While entering New York harbor the
Alta liner Kronprinz Wilhelm hat
hole ten feet in diameter torn in hel
stern by the steamer Crown of CASTLE
Nobody was injured.
The route of the New York to Pari!
race has been changed to include Lo,
| Angeles.
The profits for the American Tele
phone and Telegraph company for thu
past year were $23,479,000.
| Abe Hummel, the New York divorce
lawyer, has been released from SIM
Sing after serving year for suborna
tion of perjury.
Five indictments have been returne'
against A. C. Tisdell, whose privat
bank in Chicago failed several month";
I, ago.
| On his plea of guilty OF murderin
ex-Gov. Steunenberg, Harry Orchar
was sentenced to death by Judge Woo
at Caldwell, Idaho, with a recommer
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