The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-06-20
TO CELEBRATE
In PANAMA
-
Canal Commission Sends for
Fire Crackers
AND WILL BURNED LIGHT
What the Supreme Court Has Accom-
pIished at It's Recent Session
Fight for Senator Cores
Eyesight.
AND WILL BURN RED LIGHT


to celebrate the glorious Fourth down
in Panama, The canal commission has
decided to send to New York for sis
hundred dollars worth Of real American.
made Chinese fire crackers, and they ar,
going TO burn enough red light to max,
the whole zone blush.
Commissioner Blackburn suggested thu
idea and all the other commissioner
and everybody else who has ever hearc
the DECLARATION OF Independence read
from the little pagoda out in the school.
yard and listened to the village orator
discuss the destinies Of the nation with
one hand concealed in the 'buzzum" of
his waistcoast and the other on the
sweating water pitcher, was there 10
answer the call
They are going to have as many com
mittees as were ever created back in
Gods country for similar patriotic
function, and every committee is going
TO have everything 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
wood pulp is past, the House committee
authorized to investigate the paper in
dustry will continue its work, with the
object OF making it the most complete
inquiry into the Manufacture of paper
that has ever been conducted.
Under the supervision of Chairman
Mann rep. Ill.,, at least one expert
each in the Bureau OF Labor. the Census
Office, the Forest Service, and the Bu.
reau OF Statistics win be put to work
gathering information about the cost Of
labor and material, the distraction OF the
American supply of material for the
manufacture of paper and numerous
other phases Of the problem about which
the bureaus were unable to reply salts
factorily wnen the committee called
upon it. during the preliminary inquiry.
To the state department will be sug.
gested formally the problem of negotiat-
ing treaty with Great Britain, on be-
half Of Canada, whereby the water pow
er Of this country and Che spruce timber,
from which paper Is made. In Canada.
may be utilized and conserved by each
country to the mutual advantage of the
other. Requests will also he made that
consular agents in Norway and other
European countries gather information
relative to the production of wood suit.
able for the paper industry and the man.
txfa - s,as<.- -, If.,erv.s
During the summer, Rep. Stafford
tRep Wis.l has been assigned to the
task Of gathering information about the
paper industry in Wisconsin He is en-
powered to take testimony in his dis
erection at the Wisconsin mills.
Rep. Bannon Rep 0.l will carry on
similar work in Ohio and West Vir.
ginia, no limitations being fixed on the
nature Of his investigations Ia that ter
ritory. He viii probably hold formal
hearings at several mills
Rep Ryan dem. n. I.l, another mem
Der Of the committee, will investigate
the situation in the New York mills.
while Rep Sims tDem Tenn1, will
study conditions in the South, and Rep.
Miller tRep. Kans.l, in the West
Headquarters will be maintained for
some time, at least, in Washington.
The data that the committe gathers
win probably be used by the committee
on ways and means when it comes to re
vising the tariff in the last session Of
the Goth Congress, Or the first OF the
8lst.
At the same time, but independently,
the department Of agriculture win con
tinpe its experiments with various
plants, in an effort to discover some
thing that may be substituted for spruce