The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-06-10
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WASHINGTON, June 1o.-They are
going to celebrate the glorious Fourth
down in Panama. The canal commits
sion has decided to send to New York
for six hundred dollars worth OF real
Amerlcan.madeI Chinese fire crackers,
and they are going to burn enough !
red light to make the whole zone
blush. ii = lfsa3
Commissioner Blackburn suggested
the idea and all the other commits
sioners and everybody else who has
ever heard the Declaration OF indie
pendence read from the little 1pagoda
out In the school yard and listened
to the village orator discuss the des-
TIMES OF the nation with one hand
concealed in the "buZ?um'. of his
waistcoat and the other on the sweat
Il Ing water pitcher. was there to an
swer the call.
They are going to have as many
committees as were ever created back
in Gods country for a similar pa;
triotic function, and every Committee
is going to have everything on the
programme that was ever devised for
| the amusement and exaltation of 4
Fourth of Julycrowd, from red lemon.
ade to the evening concert by the COR
net band. ti ,,.3 ri
Now that the pressure for an early
report on the Price Of print paper AMI
wood pulp is past, the House commit
tee authorized to Investigate the pa
per industry will continue its work.
with the object Of making it the! most
complete inquiry into the manufac:
ture of paper that has ever been con-
Quoted. a..
4 Under the supervision OF Chairman
Mann. tRep. lll). at least one expert
each in the Bureau of Labor. the Cen
sus Office. the Forest Service, and the
Bureau OF Statistics will be put to
! work gathering information about the
cost OF labor and material, the de-
struction of the American supply OF
material for the manufacture OF pa
per, and numerous other phases of
} the problem about which the bureaus
were unable to reply satisfactorily
when the committee called upon 1t.
during the preliminary inquiry.
: To the State Department will be
! suggested formally the problem of me-
go,tatinE treaty with Great Brit
ain. on behalf of Canada. whereby the
. water power OF this country and the
spruce timber. from which paper is
J made, In Canada, may be utilized and
, conserved by each country to the NH.
tual advantage of the other. Re.
: quests will also be made that consu.
, lar agents in Norway and other Euro
. pean countries gather information
relative to the production OF wood
, suitable for the paper industry anil
: the manufacture OF paper IN Europe,
J During the summer, Representative
} Stafford. tRep. Wis.,. has been assign
: ell to the task of gathering informa
: tion about the paper industry in Wis
!. consin. He is empowered to take ties
timony in his discretion at the Wiscon
sin mills. 1
, Representative Bnnnon. (Rep. o.
will carry on similar work in Ohio
/. and West Virginia. no limitations be
! ing fixed on the nature of his tnvesti
r cations in that territory. He will
r probably hold formal hearings at sew
. eral mills. x
t Representative Ryan. fDem. N. "
another member of the committee
i will investigate the situation In the
! New York mills. while Representative
9 Sims, tDem.@ Tenn.). will study con
. litions In the South. and Representa-
tive Miller, tRep. Kans.). In the West
I Headquarters will be maintained fot
+ some time. at least, III Washington.
: The data that the committee gath
j ers will probably be used by the com
| mittee on Ways and Means when IL
. comes to revising the tariff in the Inst
8 session OF the Goth Congress. or the
first of the G1sr. 4
!. At the same time, but independent
~, the Department OF Agriculture will
: continue Its experiments with various
!, plants. in an effort to discover some
: thing that may be substituted for
} spruce wood in the manufacture i o,
; news print paper. IS 81 / ii
I Despite the popular notion OF q he
!. ponderosity and slow:-moving qualities
. Of the Supreme Court Of the United
" stntes, that tribunal achieved la note
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