The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-04-17

the tariff bill.
The House passed the Payne tariff
bill by a vote of 217 to 161.
Hides are on tho free list as the
tariff bill passed the House.
The House adopted Pujo's rice am
endment to the Payne tariff bill.
The House refused to place lum-
Der on the free list in Payne bill.
The President nominated w. J..
Behan to be Postmaster at New Or
sscretafy Meyer ,,Exfne ons :
plan to reorganize the NV svrs-.- --
ment.
Several members of Congress are
planning Il trip to Panama this
spring.
The House voted to place tea and
coffee on the free list in the Payne
tariff bill.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, former
Secretary of the Interior, died at
| Washington.
Ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louis
lana, is opposed to President Taft's
Southern policy.
Captain Graham L. Johnson, of
Alabama, has been appointed mill
tary aide to President Taft.
The indications are that Presi-
dent Taft will not appoint Hundley
Federal Judge in Alabama.
Insurgent Republicans combined
with the Democrats in the House
and reduced the tariff on oil.
The sugar interests are lining up
for fight in the Senate on the Phil
ippine provision of the tariff bill.
DR.. Charles H. English, of Wash
ington, obtained judgment of $11,-
900 against Ex-Queen Liliouklani,
of Hawaii.
An effort is being made to have
the widow of the late Senate E. W.
Carmack appointed Postmistress at
Columbia, Tenn.
The United States Supreme Court
decided that Federal courts have no
jurisdiction in the South Carolina
Dispensary litigation.
A serious state of affairs exists in
Porto Rico on account of the dead
lock between the Executive Council
and the House of Delegates.
The House overwhelmingly adopt
ed the Forney amendment to the
Payne tariff bill striking out the pro-
vision for a countervailing duty on
leather.
The Tawney amendment to reduce
the duty on all lumber included in
paragraph 1877 of the tariff bill, ex-
cept finished lumber, was defeated
in the House.
The sugar interests have at last
become active, and an effort will he
made to induce the Senate to chanse
the Philippine sugar provision of
the tiff bill.
The date of the presentation of
the silver service to the battleship
Mississippi has been changed from
May Is to June 1. The presentation
will occur at Horn Island.
President Taft accepted an invi-
tation to attend a celebration of the
one hundred and twentieth anniver-
sarfy of the first Inauguration of
George Washington at Alexandria,
Va, April 20.
The Louisiana delegation in the
rule On the Payne tariff bill. Estopi-
nal, Broussard, Pujo and Wickliffe
voted with the Republicans, and
Ransdell and Watkins lined up with
the Democrats.
Ambassador Jusserand conferred
with Secretary Knox regarding the
presence of former President Castro
on the Island of Martinique. 1t is
understood the French Government
desires he shall leave by the next
steamer touching there, although it
will not insist on this If it will en-
danger his health.
Prospects are said to be excellent
for settling the dispute between the
United States and Nicaragua grow
ing out of the Emory timber-cut-
ting concession without resort to
forcible measures. A special COM
missioner will start to compromise
the case, failing in which the mat
ter is to be arbitrated.
Propos; Is were opened at the Of
fee of the engineer in charge of the
Washington Aqueduct for restoring
the name of Jefferson Davis to the
stone tablet on Cabin John Bridge,
from which it was expunged in Pres
ident Lincoln's administration. The
name is to be restored in accord
ance with orders given by President
Roosevelt.
For a Federal officeholder to be
delegate to any convention called to
nominate a candidate for President
other elective United States officer,
is made misdemeanor by bill in
troduced by Representative Richard
son of Alabama.
Senator Gallinger has re-introduc-
ed the bill providing for $S,000,000
for a separate building for the Su-
preme Court, to be situated outside
the capitol grounds and Immediately
northeof the congressional library.
Just what motive is behind the
Chinese naturalization law just pro-
mulgated in Peking, whose practical
effect is to prohibit natives acqulr-
ing citizenship is not fully under
stood, no official information touch
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