The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-06-12
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Happenings of the Week Briefly
Told--The Latest News
From the Capital

!. Secretary Knox wifi establish
scheol to put polish on diplomats.
The House is prepared to SIT al
summer, so as TO force a. downwar'
revision.
President Taft has sent nomina
Etion Of 4. P. Bryant for Surveyor o
the Port at New Orleans to the Sen
ate.
dVices from Honduras indicate
nQEninence ogs srevoIutionar outbreal
d cefba, and Paducak Has bean Or
dered to scene.
A severe blow to the proposel
lakes-to-the-gulf deep waterway pro
ject of the Board of Army Engineers
which is expected to recommend tt
Congress unfavorable action on the
matter of deepening the Mississippi
channel from st. Louis to the gulf:
President Taft has sent to the Sen.
ate the nomination of Luther Conant
Jr., of New York, to be Deputy Com.
missioner of Corporations in the De.
partment of Commerce and Labor
Mr.. Conant succeeds E. Dana Du.
rand, who recently was named as
Director of the Census.
Discussion of the tariff in Senate
developed very bitter debate, with
frequent personal remarks. First
Stone and Aldrich mixed on the Ger
man question; then Beyeridge and
Aldrich mixed on question Of sena-
torial courtesy to a sick brother (La
Follette).
The contract for construction OF
the concrete dry docks at the United
States Naval Station at Pearl Harbor
Hawaii, has been awarded to the
San Francisco Bridge Company for
$1,760,000. The lowest bidder was
C. M. Leach, of Boston, whose pro-
posal of s1,296,321 was rejected,
owing to an irregularity in the guar
antee check.
President Taft was visited by Sem
ators johnson, of Alabama, and Tall
aferro, of Florida, who requested a
pardon for w. S. Harland of Lock
port, Ala, who has been sentenced
to eighteen months in the Peniten-
tiary at Atlanta. Harland was tried
and convicted at Pensacola of the
peonage charge, and in addition to
his sentence was fined $4,000.
80 Praaidant Taft has appointed Viii
liam R Harr Of the District OF Co
iumbia, an assistant attorney gener-
al of the United States. Mr.. Harr,
who has been an attorney in the De-
partment of Justice for the past nine
years, succeeds to the place made va
cant by the resignation of Alfred w.
Cooley, who recently was appointed
to the Supreme Court in Arizona.
AS a result of return toward nor
NAL conditions, the exports of cot
ton goods to China are again on the
increase according to the Bureau of
Statistics. Exports Of cotton cloths
to China averaged in the fiscal years
1905 1906 4S6,0O0,000 yards per
annum; in 1907 and 1908 they aver
aged by 6S,0o0,O0o per annum, or
one-seventh as much as the average
of 1905-06.
TO bring the coffin containing the
body of William Penn, which now
reposes in a practically abandoned,
cemetery in Buckinghamshires~ En-
gland, to this country and have it
inferred on the banks of the Della
ware River is the object of a move
ment just launched in Congress. Rep
Palmer, of Pennsylvania,
is one of six members of the House
behind the plan. 1t is declared that,
Penn's distinguished ca
reer, his grave Is not appropriately
marked.
Making reply to the letter attack
made upon him Thursday by Sena-
tor Penrose because of his absence at
a session at which he was expected
to finish his uncompleted speech on
the cotton schedule of the tariff bill,
Senator La Toilette suggested that
the Senator from Pennsylvania might
render greater service If he would
account for the way he spends his
own time when absent from the Sem
ate. Mr.. La Toilette then complet-
ed his speech. Another night ses-
sion was held by the Senate.
Plans are being prepared by direc-
ton Of Colonel Goethals, of the Is
thmian Canal Commission, covering
the details of sanitary improvements
IN the cities of Panama and Colon
during the coming dry season, to
guard against yellow fever and pla-
que. For the improvements, Con-
gress at its last session appropriated
$4,000. They will include the ex-
tension, grading of streets, building
sewers and water mains. The work
will be undertaken first at Panama
because the districts in which the i'm
are to be made there are
closely occupied and would be hard
% sanitate in case of the introduc-
ion Of the plague.
Almost on the eve of his departure
or Europe later in the month, Sam
Tel Gompers called on President
Taft for a conference on labor mat
ers. Afterwards he said would re-
urn to this country in time either
o attend the. annual convention of
he American Federation of Labor
If 60 to Jail. II would rather at
end the Convention" he added.
Diplomats are taking an active