Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-30
Studies inn the Scriptures,
WEEK ENDING JAN. 80, 1909.

President Roosevelt created commits
sion of reorganization Of the Navy De-
partment, with Paul Morton as chairman
at the same time that Secretary New
berry announced his new plan of reor-
President sent to the Senate the papers
In the sugar trust and the SegaI refinery
in Philadelphia; the President opened the
conference on dependent children at the
White House. Secretary Root resigned
from the cabinet: Robert Bacon was
sworn into Office as Secretary of State.
Gov. Magoon called upon the United
States to raise the wreck of the battle
ship Maine in Havana harbor. Senator
Hales resolution for a naval inquiry was
passed; special committee decided that
the Senate could not demand from the
President evidence regarding the steel
merger. The Senate passed the omnibus
ella ms. Mr.. Rainey of Illinois at
tackled Mr.. Taft Mr. Cromwell and others
connected with the Panama canal pur-
chase: the speech Of Representative Will
lett OF New York. attacking the President,
was expunged from the Record. Printing
of census material by private firms was
authorized by the House. The United
States government brought suit to re-
cover S53.2SS acres of land in Oregon
Presfdent-elect Taft sailed from Charles
ton for Panama. The steamer Florida
tucket shoal. causing her to sink; all the
passengers were safely landed after
being transferred to the Baltic. The
Chesapeake and Ohio railway passed into
the control of syndicate headed by
Edwin Hawley. The Pennsylvania rail-
road ordered ZOO new steel freight cars.
Ne| York Italians acted as an escort of
honor for the bodies of Consul Cheney and
his wife, who were killed at Messina.
Foreign Affairs.
Emperor William celebrated his fiftieth
birthday: socialists clamoring for univer-
sal suffrage attempted to reach the en-
peror in Berlin, but We're dispersed by the
police. The Prussian diet, in Berlin. re-
5ected various electoral reform measures
in behalf of which the socialists had been
making street demonstrations. Ex-Pres-
dent Castro of Venezuela said at Berlin
that he wanted TO play no leading role in
Venezuela. out sought only retirement and
peace. A boisterous crowd gathered at
Carpentras, France, to see the second in
country since the law allowing the use of
the guiliotine was revived Benoit-Con-
slant Coquelin, the comedian, died sud-
IDENTIFY at Pont-aux-Dames. France. The
a new Polish province, to be attached to
Russia proper. The damage by earth
quake. fire and flood at Messina and Reg
gio was estimated at s273. 100000. Maj.
Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez was lnaugurated
president of the Cuban republic at Ha-
vana. Chile and Peru discontinued diplo-
matte relations. the latter country declin-
ing to permit a monument to soldiers
killed in 1879.
In the District.
President Roosevelt reappointed Henry
L. West Commissioner of the District of
Columbia for another term. A bill to
regulate the ownership of deadly weapons
was introduced in the House. By a vote
of 1872 to f.; the House passed the reso-
luton authorizing the use of the pension
Office for the inaugural ball. Both houses
passed the bill providing for the erec-
ton OF southwest substation. The Com
missioners adopted a regulation governing
taximeters. Rev. Alfred Harding was
consecrated Bishop Of Washinfton. Henry
P. Blair. first assistant corporation coun-
sci, resigned. The Washington poultry
and pigeon show was held. A committee
Of the Washington Heights Church was
appointed to meet a sim lar committee of
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church to discuss union of the two
congregations. Charles Triepel. a West
ern High School boy, was drowned while
skating. Mark p. Ashford was knocked
down by horse and died from the re-
suit OF his injuries. William Walton,
fifty years of age, committed suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor