Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
WASHINGTON.

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the treasury, left Iowa without launch
ing his presidential boom.
Secretary Root again impressed on
the Japanese the necessity Of regulat-
ing emigration to the United States.
The Ohio state central committees
vote revealed the great strength Of
Secretary Taft in his race for the
White house.
The monthly statement of govern
ment receipts and expenditures shows
that for December, 1907, the receipts
were $47,283,82O and the expenditures
$55,818,873.
The dawn of the new year found the
business world optimistic and the fl
nancial sky brighter; traces of the
financial scare are rapidly disappear
ing.
The First National bank of Mingo
Junction, O., which closed it's doors
Nov. 9, 1907, was authorized by the
controller Of the currency to reopen
for business.
The president has signed procla-
nation creating the Verde National
forest in Arizona, with an area of
721, 78O acres, located in Maricopa and
Yavapai counties.
Gen. Bell, chief of staff, has directed
the establishment at Manila of forti-
fication board whose duty it shall be
to consider the question Of the loca-
ton of defensive works.
The secretary of war has been ad-
vised by Gov. Magoon that the secre-
tary Of the advisory law commission
has delivered the complete project for
an electoral law for Cuba.
Modem Crawford of the coast ar
tilIery has been promoted to be a
brigadier general in the army to fill
the vacancy caused by the recent re-
tirement Of Gen. c. S. Smith.
Word has been received of the death
in San Francisco of Mrs. c. NJ. Lane,
mother of Franklin M. Lane, a mem
Der Of the interstate commerce COM
mission. Mrs. Lane was 20 years Of
age.
Rear Admiral Bert Ross, who has
been retired, is to be retained as COM
mandant Of the great lakes naval
training station. Admiral Ross con-
nection with the work dates from its
inception, and he is thoroughly famil-
lar with all it's details.
After an absence of eight months
Senior Don Luis Felipe Carlo has REL
turned to Washington in the capacity
of minister from Ecuador. Carlo was
recalled to Quito in order temporarily
to assume the duties of minister of
foreign affairs.
Second Lieutenant John P. Thomp-
son of the marine corps has been al
lowed to resign. Thompson was tried
by court martial on charges of conduct
unbecoming an officer and gentleman.
He was found guilty, but was given
the alternative of res1gntng.
An order has been issued at the
navy department providing that en-
listed men of the marine corps regu-
larly detailed as signal men are to re-
ceive the same compensation in addi-
ton to their monthly pay as is now al
lowed the enlisted men in the navy.
A petition for a writ CT certiorari in
the case of the United States against
the Burlington road. in which the COM
pany was prosecuted and fined S15,00Oi
for granting rebates to packing
houses of Kansas City, Kas., was
fled in the Supreme court of the
United States.
In the supreme court Justice Gould
dismissed the petition of Conrad H.
Syme, a taxpayer of the District of Co
lumbia, who sought to restrain the
Grant memorial commission from
erecting a statue of Gen. Grant in the
United States botanic gardens in this
city upon the plea that certain historic
trees would be destroyed thereby.
The semi-annua) provisional state
ment issued by the director of the
mint shows that there has been a
gain in the stock OF gold and silver
.coins in the United States since June
30. 1907. of s11S.6S65oS. as follows:
Gold coin. Sos. 507.732; silver coin. So
1876 The total stock of god and
silver coin in the United States on
Jan L. 1908. was s2.146.156.979.