The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-01-31
Notes FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondence.)
No Mystery About Mssoon's Visit

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| Public works aggregating many mil
| lions of dollars are involved in the
| Governors S appearance here. Most i'm
! portant OF these is the McGivney and
! ROqueby contract for the sewerine and
| paying Of Havana, amounting 70 over
$4,000, 900. These contractors have
had all sorts OF trouble with the Gu
| ban government
Railroad casuaties.-There were
! more than $4,000 casualties on the rail
roads OF the United States in the
| three months ended Sept. 80, 1907, ac
cording 10 a bulletin just made public
! By the interstate commerce commits
/ sion. The exact figures were 1899
| killed and 1,724 injured. This shows
an Increase OF lj7 in the number Of
| killed and 305G in the number injured,
as compared with the number report
ed for the corresponding period OF
| 1906. The total number Of collisions
and derailments in the quarter under
review was 4279, of which 320 collis-
! ions and 222 deralments affected pas
! senger trains. The damage TO cars,
! engines and roadway by these acci-
/ dents amounted 10 s3,G05,69G. The
worst accident in the present record,
| causing the death OF 20 persons and
| injurng 33, is reported as the result
! Of collision between an eastbound
! passenger train and a wesluound
! freight train, due 10 an error in send
! ing or receiving by a train dispatcher.
Banks Cannot Cuarantee.-W. y.
Ridgely, comptroller of the currency,
= forwarded a letter the other day to
Governor Hoch of Kansas regarding
the right of national banks in a state
10 mutually guarantee the deposits in
other banks, on the plan provided for
in the law recently passed for the
state OF Oklahoma. The comptroller
! says. Il am inclined TO the opinion
! that national banks have no power TO
, appropriate any of their funds to the
guaranty Of deposits in other national
banks. The courts have held in sub
stance that national bank cannot
guarantee the payment of any obliga-
! ton by third party. The exception
TO the rule is that when a national
bank actually owns promissory notes
or other obligations, it may sell such
promssOry notes and may become an
indorser thereon, thus guaranteeing
payment by the makers of the notes.
| The rule is founded upon the nature
! Of the business in which a national
bank is authorized to engage. Accord
ing to the courts there is total lack
of power in a national bank thus to be-
come a surety for another"
Manual Training for Sodiers.-Rep-
resentative O'Connell of Massachu-
setts the other day introduced a reso-
luton calling on the secretary Of war
| for information as to what provisions,
| If any, are made for giving manual or
| technical training to enlisted men OF
| the army. IL no such provision is
made, Mr. O'Connells resolution re-
quests the secretary OF war to eX-
press an opinion as to the advisability
Of introducing such system of edu-
cation at army posts, and the cost OF
carrying out the scheme. Mr.. OCon-
nell believes il is time for the gov
ernment to take official action 10 pre-
| vent the enlisted men Of the army from
| falling into disrepute. He thinks if
proper trade and technical schools are
established At every fort every year
there will be turned out thousands Of
! young men capable of meeting the
conditions which nNuptnI In n
| industrial world, and who will make
valuable additions to the industrial de-
| velopment of the country. Such
schools will enable the soldiers 10
| leave the army skilled workmen. ready
| to compete at once with their fellow
citizens who have not been handicap
ped with five years service in the ar
my. Mr. O'Connell also feels that if
| schools of this kind are established in
| the army a better and different class
| OF men can be induced to enlist and
| that they will tend i'm very great de-
| gree TO prevent the large number Of
| desertions of the present.
Garfield Going Slow.-Secretary
| Garfield OF the interior department has
indicated TO members of the House
| appropriation committee that he is 60
| ing very slowly in the prosecution Of
| western land frauds. He found that
| inexperienced detectives. including Sc
| cret service men anti agents from the
| department of justice, had been pst
| TO work I'm ferreting out irregularities,
| and that they had made many errors
| and believes that the alleged Colorado
land frauds about which there has
| been great hullabaloo, are not based
on sufficient evidence to have warrant.
| ed prosecutions. The House is likely
TO make these views OF Secretary Gar
| field the foundation for an attack up
on the governments detective service
| generally. Members say big detec-
tive services have been built up IN
the departments OF the interior. of
justice and of commerce and labor.