Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-02-12

That the Inauguration of William Howard Taft as President will be con.
in the past is made evident by the action of the inaugural committee in u.
of the city several times in excess o the largest appropriations granted here.
w %01 no nor 5m"" f t Pmrpo nmnt' on o tn sret m nsorattons. J it w main voted unmt
mous1y appropriate $4,000, a against $500 four years age, for the work,
committee on illumination, on The recommendation n of c n@dt an ernn on H.
pare favoraby with anything of its kind eve shown in this country or
abroad.
The report from ranom" is that the engineers who accompanied Mr. Mr.;
not be change in the canal plans. Such a report Will please please the s eountry:
inc inc 4 ne route For the troublesome chagres river, the construction Of locks
on the Pacific side and the digging of al enormous hitch through the cueDra
region, one whose cost is indefinite and whose SNORING up Up when he 81 sea s ee
level canal is to the lay mind the connecting stias, of two % oceans vn with nnna a SPADE aha
favored the sealevel plan.
The fight over the question Of permitting the use IF benzoate of soda a
a means n of food pr tmss ntiset" which 1hnn1 has nd been cnts soi rSem on t wn Ttvel o9 me ass
ricutural Department, has now been decided against Wiley BY the board Of
Johns Hopkins, Chittenden of Yale and several others, has decided against
already suspended the order prohibiting is ue in foods, thus indicating that
he will sustain the report Of the referees. Dr.: Wiley says that it is simply a
the discussion 1t the conference n hi IA of dependent children, opened
200 delegates present that the child should be kept in its home whenever
possible, and that the breaking If a home should o be permitted nt ao only for n1ra re,
exists in the home, State aid should be given and where children are left
their children in the home: It vas also ss agreed sed. that to the State should inspect
In the House, Representative Boutel of Illinois, by unanimous consent,
spoke in high praise praise of 1.-THE the her heroic lsn part played ate tb by 4 me MtleI eavto opet thst te
tiHS " Oh ~ Amin" t"""A
under most trying conditions and sent message which saved hundreds Of
that here are heroes or every emergency, and that in human life n 20 danger
is so great u m Jack Binns is ready to face r"'
With the avowed object of trying to determine how much Of the money
annually appropriated by Congress is wasted in the maintenance Of Useless
IVY yards n in other ways President Roosevelt las created special om-
mission to make such n inquiry into the entire Navy Department. The
members include those already serving al a Consulting Board-Mahan, Moody
pete surprise tic Secretary Newbewy. and it is understood to be the gauntlet
to Senator Hale o the question of more batt1eships.
The subcommittee OF the Senate Committee o N judiciary. which was
charged with the absorption of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Company by the
trust, has asked the FULL committee to assam 4 Ill responsibility and
to summon the millionaire steel magnats % testify, Chairman Gary, II. C.
Frick, C. NJ. Schwob, G. W. Perkins and others. Perkins was called before
the committee. .
Speaking at the dinner to Vice President-cect Sherman at Washington
President Roosevelt explained why. he had intervene with Ill lis force to
nreyentt the antJapanese legislation in California, although he said be knew
vas nothing in the constitution % give thu President authority to set
himself ID against the action of a State Legislature. Still he had felt NJ
to 10 what he could to arouse the whole country ITO a discussion which
would force rational settlement in California. Secretary Root also spoke
the sam ven. ..1s
Another effect If he Republic disaster vas the Introduction of a bill
bv congressman Burke If Pennsylvania requiring all vessels carrying fifty
refuse clearance to vessels not o equipped aud admission to foreign ships
not having the apparatus #.#g