Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-03-02

II the United States Is to hold its
own as embarrassing and wheat-prod-
uct manufacturing nation, every avail
able influence must be invoked, accord
ing to report made to the Department
of Commerce and Labor by one of it's
special agents, who has been studying
conditions in relation to -four and grain
shipments in Europe. The agent de-
clares that unless Americans make
what development they can in this mat
ter within the naxt ten years they will
find themselves behind in the race
The American milling industry, he
adds, needs legislation to help in ex-
tending market possibilities. 1t also
needs wisely directed care in the pro-
duction Of its raw material.
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Calling the enactment of the bill
''both wise and necessary" the House
committee on public lands has report
ed favorably on the bill authorizing
the Secretary of the Interior to have
surveys or retracements of public
lands made whenever he may deem it
essential after il Investigation. 1t was
formerly the practice to accept the
sworn statement of surveyors without
first examining the survey, and the
work was often carelessly DONE Be-
cause of the inability to define boun-
daries the government finds it difficult
to dispose of some of its public lands
without resurvey.
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In the Senate the report of the APP
preparations Committee on the opera
lions of the secret service was pre-
scented. 1t showed that from the 240
employees of the service under McKin-
ley the number had increased to over
1900 at presepz not counting the food
and meat INSPECTORS. The debate on
the floor of the Senate was critical
of the conduct of the bureau, and sew
eral Senators plainly contradicted the
statements made by the President.
Hemenway. who made the report, said
the statement that Congress had in any
way hampered the President in his
prosecutions of the land fraud twas
absolutely erroneous and wrong"
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The amendment to the legislative ex
ecutive and judicial bill inserted by
the Senate to raise the salary of the
President of the United States from
$4,000 to 100000 a year was reject
ed BY the House, along with the other
salary raises for the presiding officers
of Congress and Federal judges. The
bill was sent to a Conference Com
mittee. where all items in dispute were
adjusted except this of salary in
creases.
Three thousand Angora goats will
soon be doing yeoman service for I'm
Gle Sam by grazing mile after mile of
fire line through the bushy chappar-
rel growth of the Lasseen national
forest of California. A contract for
pressing this band of animals into gov
eminent service has been signed. The
novel experiment viii be undertaken
next spring. The goats win be given
two years to make good on the job.
II they come up to Uncle Sans exact
ing requirements they win be perma-
nently placed on the governments rolls
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President Roosevelt sent to Congress
a message urging the enactment of
laws to compel all vessels engaged in
ocean passenger traffic to be equipped
with the wireless telegraphic Instru-
aents for the protection of human life.
To that end he recounts the develop
ment of the wireless service. and its
successful adoption by the Navy De
partment. Bills for this purpose had
already been introduced