The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-19
NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondence.)

OF the collapse OF An apartment house
under construction here recently and
through Secretary Loeb has requested
District Attorney Baker TO Investigate
the accident and see that whoever
was responsible for 1t, especially the
contractors or district building inspec-
tor, be prosecuted TO the utmost limit
OF the law" The district attorney
has promised 10 present the matter i'm
mediately 10 the grand jury IL circum-
stances warrant II.
Beginning Of vacation-President
Roosevelt and his family will leave
Washington for Oyster Bay June 20.
Contrary TO her regular custom, Mrs.
Roosevelt will not precede the presi.
dent to their summer home this year
unless the heat becomes 30 great that
an earlier removal is found neces
sary. The horses will be shipped TO
oyster Bay several days before the
president leaves and corps Of ser.
wants will 20 up to have everything
in readiness for the reception OF the
president and his family. The days
following the adjournment Of con.
gress will be given up 10 picnicking
about Washington by the younger
members OF the family, while the
president is putting his official bust.
ness in shape.
For Pan-American Congress-Presi
deit Roosevelt has invited nine promi-
nent scientists 10 represent the United
states government at the Pan-Ameri-
can scientific congress to be held in
Santiago, Chill, in December. They
are: w. H. Holmes, chief of the bu-
reau of American Ethnology, Smith
sOnian Institution; Col. William e..
Gorgas, u. S. A, chief sanitary officer
OF the iSthmidn canal commission;
Prof. Bernard Moses, University OF
California; Prof. William Benjamin
Smith, Tulane University Of Louisi-
ana; Prof Paul S. Reinsch, Universi-
~ Of Wisconsin: Prof H. s. Rowe,
University OF Pennsylvania; Prof Will
liam X. Shepherd, Columbia Uni
cersity; Prof Archibald Coolidge, Har-
ward; Prof. Tram Bingham, Yale.
To Protect New England Ports
The coast defence forts around Bos-
ton and other New England ports may
be equipped with new plan for con-
trolling searchlightS. An invitation de-
signed for this purpose was tested
recently at New York by Gen. Murray,
chief of artillery, and several other of
fcers. This device is simple consist
ing Of small lever and motor hav-
ing electrical connection with the
searchlights. The device may be To-
Gated at one point in harbor and
control the searchlights In all forts sur
rounding the harbor 1t will work at
n distance OF six miles, according TO
It's inventor. The method seems very
simple, Gen. Murray says, it being
possible to turn 60-inch searchlight
weighing two tons in any direction,
merely by pressing a small lever with
the fingers of one hand The coast ar.
ullery has experimental with several
devices for controlling searchlghts,
but the latest is claimed TO be the best.
Suggestions Being Prepared.-Prep-
arations are being made by the treas.
ury department for the prompt carry.
ing into effect of the various provi-
sions OF the new currency law. A list
of all national banks arranged by
states, showing the capital and sur
plus OF each, is being prepared by the
controller of the currency for use by
ha ,n
with any applications that may be re-
ceived from banks for the formation
OF national currency associations, pro-
vided for by the new law. Deputy
Controller OF the Currency r. =. Kane.
in answer to an inquiry as to what was
being done toward preparing recon.
mendations for amendments TO the
national banking laws for submission
10 the national monetary commission,
stated that such amendments will be
recommended as experience in the
practical administration OF the laws
have shown TO be necessary. The ma
tional bank act has worked very sat
isfactorily and successfully, he stated,
and no radical change in the laws is
deemed necessary. There are a mum.
Der OF provisions, however, which need
amendment, SO as TO make their
terms more explicit or definite.
A Warning to Panama.-in language
that cannot be mistaken. the exact text
Of which was made public few days
ago by the war department, the presi.
dent and Sec. Taft have notified the
Panama government that elections in
that Republican government must be
conducted fairly. The circumstances
attending this warning were given out
for publication as IL in preparation
for active intervention on the part
OF the United States by the use OF
whatever force shall be necessary TO
make IL effective. Secretary Taft in
a letter delivered TO President Amador
in person and dated May Il, suggests
that two years ago. when charges of
fraud wara pnadp CONCERNING tho cpp.