The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-03-27
notes FROM WASHINGTON
Especial Correspondence
Liquor Traffic Bills Held t,o-pv

the Senate Committee on the iudic.
| iary has declared unconstitutional all
of the bills intended To remove fed.
eral bassers against states exercising
control of their police powers for the
regulation Of the liquor traffic. Hear
! ings on these measures have been
held covering almost the entire pres
ent session. and the bills were adyo-
Gated by representatives OF practical
| ly all OF the states where there is a
strong prohibition sentiment.
| Metcaf to Investigate.-Secreta
| Metcalf intends conducting an inves-
| tigation OF his own into the question
Of the waterline armor belt Of the bat
| tleships, which some critics of the
navy have declared TO be too low for
safety. He will call on Admiral Ev-
ans for data showing the draft OF the
| battleships respecting the armor belt
during their target practice at Magda.
| lena bay. He will supplement this re-
| port with some observations OF his
own when he reaches San Francisco
| to review the fleets there.
Or. Wiley May Resisn.-Dr. H. w.
| Wiley, chief Of the bureau Of chem-
| istry OF the department Of agricul-
| ture, and foe Of adulterations i'm foods
and drugs, Is reported TO he serious
ly considering resigning frcm office.
The manufacturers affected adversely
by the official rulings have long been
suspected of being I'm CONSPIRACY 10
n,
ed with Secretary Wilson. and later
were taken 10 the President Dr. Wi
ley's friends say he always has rem
dered his decisions with a view 10 pro-
tecting the public first and the manu-
facturers aitcrward.
Indians Visit president-Several
Indians from the ShOshone rcserva.
tion i'm Wyoming were received by
the President a few days ago Scna-
tor Warren introduced them and old
Little Wolf, chief of the tribe. gave
Mr.. Roosevelt a stone pipe and to-
hacco pouch decorated with beads and
porcupine quills. Little Wolf is a
very old man, probably near the cen
tury mark, though some of his tribes
men think he is nearer 2OO. as ne was
an old man when some Of the other
veterans Of the. tribe were papOOses
In return for the pipe and tobacco
pouch the Prcsidcn- save his photo
graph to Little Wolf.
To Create National UniVersity-A
bill to create a national university at
Washington was offered recently by
Representative Mckinley of Illinois.
The measure is the one advocated by
the National Association OF state I'm
iversity Presidents and was injrOduc-
ed at their request The measure al
SO has the indOr&emru, Of the Nation
al Educational association, Elmer r.
Brown, United States commissioner
of education, and other well-luown ed
ucators II calls for an initial appro-
priation of half a million dollars i'm or
der TO set the creative machinery for
the university i'm motion. The bill
does not contemplate Dhc mcorpora.
tion of school, hut the creation of
university by the federal govern
ment which is to be a department OF
lHt government.
Young Man Who Does Thinss.-A
number of men TO whom the Presi-
dent happened to take a fancy have
been sent on missions i'm various di-
rections. One day last summer
young man from Iowa. Mr. j. c. Wei
liver, was n visitor TO the White House
Offices. He is an emphatic. outspok-
en young man. In the course of
conversation the President exclaimed:
IL would like to know somebody that
can tell me about the appraisal of rail
roads" II know all about that. Mr.
President" exclaimed the young To-
wan. Just the man | want TO see"
was the reply Gene back here
"Wednesday and | viii talk with YOU"
The young lowau, who had been liv-
ing i'm Washington year or TWO. re-
turned of ccursc, and he talked with
the President for long while. \
few weeks later he quietly disappear
ed from Washington. After a month
or two an American visiter at a Swiss
consulate cut the trail of Mr. Wclliver.
who by the Presidents authority was
ON three months tour OF Europe. in
terrogating divers officials over there.
and making IL plain to them just what
President Roosevelt did and did not
believe regarding railroad problems.
lifesaVers VIM Representative
Lowering of Massachusetts last week
called up in th~house. ana had pass.
ed, his bill TO increase the efficiency
of the livesaving service. This nc.
tion marked the elimination of 10
years work on Mr.. Coverings part
I'm behalf OF the ltesaverS Every
congress he has introduced his bill.
but has not been able 10 secure it's
enactment II is expected that the
bill will be passed by the senate soon.
Senator Frye has II in charge there
and he has assured Mr.. Lowering that