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cause or the discharged negro solu1eT~ Senator Foraker made n careful analy- sis of the testimony taken in the inyes- tigation of the shooting up of Browns vile, Tex, Aug. 13 and 14, 1906, and an argument fin favor of the re-enllst- ment of the colored soldiers of the Twenty-fifth United States infantry He reviewed the incidents preceding the senate investigation and said the soldiers gave their evidence with such straightforward frankness and with such manifest truthfuness that, in his opinion, nothing remains to show their complete vindication except only the discovery of the real culprits." Sena- tors Borah Qda.) aud Warner (Mo) made speeches defending the presi- dents action.
 Following the receipt of many in- quirles in regard to the labelling of bran, seeds and medicinal mixtures for stock and poultry, the Washington board of food and drug inspection has announced a ruling on the proper label ing of these foods and mixtures. The ruling states that foods containing jim son seed or other poisonous weed seeds will be considered adulterated. 1t Is ruled that cattle food" and poultry food" can only be used in labelling foods that are not mixed with condi- mental or medicinal substances. The latter substances must be labeled as continental foods or medicines.
 Despite President Rooseyelt's special message to congress asking appropria- lions for four new huttleshlps the house voted for only two. The mes sage was a brief but vigorous conten- tion for the rapid development of the, navy China was held up as an exam pie of the peace at any price" doctrine and L. C,elt Britain as having the naval policy to be emulated. 1t was contend ed that the result of the last Hague conference made 1t plain that the na- tions would not for some time if ever agree on a plan of limitation of naval armament. The naval appropriation bill was passed.
 A suggestion that the income of the fund of $1.0o0,000 established In 1901 by the will of Thomas Thompson of New York for the benefit of needy seamstresses of Rhinebeck, N. Y., and Brattleboro, Vt, be applied to the re- lief of such women in all towns and cities in New England except Boston was made by Judge Hammond in the Massachusetts supreme court. 1t was stated that the income from the fund far exceeded the needs of seamstresscs of the two towns originally named.
 The third domestic difficulty in the Gould family to attract notoriety with in n month came to light when it was learned that Frank ]. Gould. youngest son of Jay Gould, and his wife had sep arated and that papers had been serv- ed in a suit looking to legal parting. This situation is the continuation of the difficulties between Mir Gould and his beautiful wife, which have been hinted at for two years. He Is thirty-one years old, and Mrs. Gould is twenty four. They have two daughters.
 The house committee on banking and currency voted to table the financial bill offered by Representative Vree- land (N. Y.) as substitute for the Aldrich bill, which has also been tl- bled, and decided to report favorably the bill recently introduced by Chair man Fowler providing for currency commission to consist of forty-three members-eleven members of the sem ate, eleven members of the house and twenty-one others, who must be citi- zens of the United States.
 A hearing was given by the house library committee on the bill introduc- ed by MT. Madden of Illinois author izing the expenditure of $100,000 to- ward the building on the farm in Ken lucky where Abraham Lincoln was born of "a national patriotic shrine, which shall consist of memorial hall costing not more than $250.00o of which $150,000 shall be supplied by the Lincoln Farm association of New York" .. .s
 The first step in proceedings looking to the release of Harry K. Thaw. from the State Asylum For the Criminal In- sane at Matteawan was taken when James G. Graham of Newburg, N. Y.. appeared as Thaw's counsel before Justice Morschauser at White Plains and obtained an order directing the superintendent of the asylum to permit Thaw to sign an application for writ of habeas corpus.
 Holding that 1t was not the intent of the law to throw obstacles in the way of man who might wish to change his allegiance from one party to an- other, the appellate division in New York city denied m application to have the name of Stephen J. Duffy stricken from the Republican primarr rolls of the Fifteenth assembly district merely because Duffy had enrolled as a Demo crat In the previous primaries.
 Secretary Taft denied reports that he intends to resign from the cabinet soon after congress adjourns. He will re- main in the cabinet until after the Re publican national convention, and If he is nominated he will resign. Accord ing to some reports, the man who will succeed Secretary Taft will be Robert Bacon, assistant secretary of state and one of President Roosevclts intimate