The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-06-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.

going to celebrate the glorious
Fourth down in Panama. The
canal commission has decided to
send to New York for six hundred
dollars worth of real Americana
made Chinese fire crackers, and
they are going to burn enough red
light to make the whole zone
blush.
Commissioner Blackburn suggest
ed the idea and all the other COM
missioners and everybody else who
has ever heard the Declaration of
Independence read from the little
pagoda out in the school yard and
listened to the village orator dis
cuss the destinies OF the nation
with one hand concealed in the
"buzzum' of his waistcoat and the
other on the sweating water pitch
Ter, was there to answer the call.
They are going to have as many
committees as were ever created
back in Gods country for a SINH
lar patriotic function, and every
committee Is going to have every
thing on the program that was
ever devised for the amusement and
exaltation Of a Fourth of July
crowd, from red lemonade to the
evening concert by the Cornet band.
Now that the pressure for an
early report on the price OF print
paper and wool pulp is past, the
House Committee authorized to
investigate the paper industry will
continue its work. with the object
lof making 1t the most complete
inquiry into the Manufacture OF
paper that has ever been conducted.
Under the supervision OF Chair
man Mann, (Rep. ILL., at least one
expert each dn the Bureau OF
Labor, the Census Office, the Forest
Service and the Bureau of Statis-
tics will be put to work gathering
information about the cost of labor
and material, the destruction OF the
American supply of material for
the manufacturer of paper and
numerous other phases OF the
problem about which the bureaus
were unable to reply satisfactorily
when the committee called upon it,
during the preliminary inquiry.
To the State Department will be
suggested formally the problem of
negotiating a treaty. with Great
Britain, on behalf OF Canada where
by the water power of this coun-
try and the spruce amber, from
which paper is nnad In Canada,
may be utilized and CONSERVED by
each country to the mutual adyan-
tage OF the other. Requests will also
be made that consular agents of
Norway and other European coun-
tribes gather information relative TO
the production of wood suitable for
the paper industry and the manu-
facture OF paper in Europe.
During the summer, Rep. Stat
ford, (Rep. Wis., has been assigned
to the task OF gathering informa-
tion about the paper industry in
Wisconsin. He Is empowered to
take testimony In his discretion at
tho Wisconsin mills.
Rep, Bannon, (Rep. o. wifi carry
on similar work In Ohio and
West Virginia no limitations being
fixed on the nature sof his inves-
legations In that territory. He will
probably hold formal hearings at
several mills. tu,
Rep. Ryan, (Dem. N. W another
member OF THE committee will in
yestigate the situation in the New
York mills while Rep. Sims. Dem.
Tenn,) will study conditions in
the South and Rep. Miller, (Rep.
Kans) In the West.
Headquarters will be maintained
for some time, at least In Wash
ington.
Inc data that the committee
gathers will probably be used by
the Committee on Ways and Means
when 1t comes to revising the tar
an In the last session OF the Goth
congress or the first of the 61st
Al the same time but independ-
entity the Department of Agrcul-
ture will continue its experiments
with various plants in an effort 10
discover something that NAV he
substituted for spruce wood in the
manufacture of news print paper.
Despite the popular notion OF the
ponderosity and slow-moving quail
tiles of the Supreme Court of the
United States that tribunal achieved
a noteworthy record during the
term just closed, as follows:
WHAT 1T DECIDED THIS TERM:
LaFollette Employers' Liability
law unconstitutional.
Greater Pittsburg law constitu-
tional
Federal courts have limited pow-
er only to punish conspiracy to pre-
vent negroes from workin,e