The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-12-31
NEWS FROM THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL
DOINGS OF CONGRESS AND
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
PRESENT WEEK is QUIET
Interest Is Now Conferred in Com
ing Messages From President
Taft.

ludCd u many statesmen, the ma
tional capital is very dull this week.
1t is not expected that there will be
any legislation affecting postal saw
ings banks, the interstate commerce
law or the Sherman antitrust act
during the present session. All in
terest is now conferred in coming
messages from President Taft which
will deal with the conservation Of
natural resources and amendments
to the antitrust law
So far the president and the SEN
ate leaders have failed to agree on
program.
The insurgents will blossom forth
in all their glory in January. They
are expected to make capital of the
bars which congress has thrown in
the way of public relief measures
and there will be some of the old
time pyrotechnics shortly after con
gress again assemblies on January a.
Railroad Conflict Seems to Impend.
Some members of the Interstate
railroad officials believe they can see
rapidly approaching one of the Sc
verest contests between labor and
capital in recent history This does
not necessarily mean that railroad
men generally are expecting big
strikes in the labor world. 1t is
firmly believed by the railroad men
that this struggle will be begun by
the railroad labor organizations, will
rapidly spread to other lines of work
and may eventually result in a com
plete readjustment of industrial CON
ditions
What will be the result of the
position assumed by the railroads
meme can answer, but the railroad
and financial worlds are rife with
speculation regarding the outcome.
In the end, it is generally believed,
the people at the ballotboX will have
to settle the question
Cultivate Coal Lands.
Chairman Mondcll of the house
public lands committee, has intro
duced bill providing for the entry
of agricultural lands reported con-
tanning deposits of coal, reserving
TO the government the right to dis
pose of the coal by sale or lease.
Legislation of this nature has be
come a necessity on account of the
large area of lands classified as coal
lands which have an agricultural or
grazing value.
Taft Approves Subsidy Bill.
A ship subsidy bill that can pass
congress and meet the approval of
the president seems to be in sight.
Congressman Humphrey, of Wash
ington, and members of the mer-
chant marine committee of the house
visited President Taft and laid be-
fore him a bill introduced at the
last session with amendments that
have since been made The amend
ed bill met the approval of the presi-
dent.
Favor Local Dealers.
Secretary Ballinger has under way
A plan for recognizing the system
of purchasing supplies for the In
dian service, whereby local mer-
chants in the west will have oppor-
tunitv of bidding on these contracts,
a privilege they have enjoyed to only
limited extent in times past. Mer
chants and dealers in the vicinity
of Indian schools will have a reason
able opportunity of furnishing sup
plies to at least the local institutions.
Counterfeit SIS Silver Certificate.
Its back more deceptive than the
face, and with pen and ink lines
cleverly substituted for the silk fibre
of genuine government paper, a
counterfeit hve-dollar silver certif-
cate has been discovered The new
fraud bears the Indian head and is
of the 1900 series with check letter
"D" and back plate No ga.
Government to Save Birds.
Asking the government to act as
guardian to all the birds that flock
through the various states and ter
ritorics, sportsmen, ornithologists
and agricultural authorities through
out the country have joined the Ma
tional Association of Audubon So
cieties in urging congress to provide
federal protection for the nations
rapidly dying races of migratory
birds
Harbor Bill Next.
There is talk among the wise ones
in Washington that the leaders in
congress will suppress the river and
Karbor bill, and postpone its pass
age until the short session next year.
II is also heard in capitol corridors
that the president will veto any river
and harbor bill that is sent him.