The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1908-04-30
WASHINGTON

Secretary Taft will leave the Unit
ed States for Panama on April 80,
spending three weeks on the journey
and at the isthmus, and returning by
May. 90 The cruiser Prairie will
probably be placed at his disposal for
the journey. According to the pres
ent arrangements, he will sail from
the port of Charleston, S. G.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution authorized the national
board of management to make nego-
tiations to secure funds, by means
of a loan or bond issue, necessary
for the completion of Continental
Hall.
The House Committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia reported to the
House a bill prohibiting labor in
shops, stores and factories by chill
dren less than IA years old.
The National Academy of Sciences
accepted DR.. Ira Remsen's invitation
to hold its next meeting at Johns
Hopkins University, in Baltimore.
The Senate Committee on the Judi
ciary gave a hearing on the National
Civic Federation Bill to amend the
Sherman Antitrust Laws.
Members of the House were urged
to use their efforts to secure the
removal Of the tariff from print pa
per and wood pulp.
A fraud order was issued against
the st. Paul, Minneapolis and Seattle
Railway Company, incorporated in
South Dakota.
Milton ID. Purdy, assistant attor-
ney-general, was nominated by the
President to be United States Judge
at Minneapolis.
A court of inquiry has been ap-
pointed to determine the responsible
ity for the accident to the cruiser
Tacoma.
Rear Admiral Samuel w. Very was
retired and Capt. William S. Cowles
was promoted to a rear admiral
The bill to create an inland water
way commission was considered by
the subcommittee of the Senate.
The President signed the bill for
the reorganization of the medical de-
partment of the Army.
Plans have been recommended for
bonding the memorial hall of the
National Society OF the Daughters of
the American Revolution TO raise
enough money to complete the build
ing.
1t was declared in the House that
II is constitutional for the national
government to acquire land in the
States for forest reserves when such
acquisition is an aid to navigation.
A bill providing for the erection
of a monument at Abingdon, Va, to
the memory of Gen. William Camp
bell, King Mountain hero, was
passed by the Senate.
Papers are being prepared at the
Department of Justice for the prose-
cution, under the Antitrust Law, of
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad.
Formal orders we're issued placing
Rear Admiral c. M. Thomas in com
mand of the Atlantic feet on May
Immediately after the review at
San Francisco.
The pension appropriation bill re-
ported to the Senate carries $1G3,-
053,000, an increase of = 2.1S4,000
over the amount appror:.-t2i by the
House.
The President signed the employ.
ers' liability bill. Attorney General
Bonaparte having declared the meas.
ure, in his opinion, constitutional.
A government employers liability
bill was introduced by Representa-.
tive Jones, of Washington.
! General arbitration treaties Will
Great Britain and Spain were ratified
| by the Senate.
The President nominated Brigadiel
General Thomas II. Barry TO be 6
major general.
Col. Charles A. Boynton, of Wash
ington. was decorated by the Emper
or of Japan.