The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-24
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, No negro census enumerators wi
he appointed in the Southern Stats
4 Orville Wright failed to rise in h
4 efforts to make a flight at Fort Mye
i Captain J. c. Weaks has been al
pointed postmaster at Monroe, L,
n The Senate and House confere.
i On the tariff bill are making slo
Il progress.
III aLow-tariff Republicans ID III
i, House are threatening .resu
4 against the tariff bill. -
1 The conferees on the tariff BIZ
. have accepted the customs cou1
provision Of the senate.
Arrangements are being made 70
a meeting between Presidents Tat
and Diaz at Ell Paso, Tex.
A delegation of senators and reu
resentatives will visit the Hawaiia,
Islands after the adjournment O
congress.
The Prairie Oil and Gas Compan,
| was granted franchise to construc
| "a pipe line from Oklahoma to Bato,
T tRouge, La.
Congressman Gilmore of Louisi
II ana, voted for the bill appropriatin,
|, s25, for President Taft's travel
Il ing expenses.
Efforts are being made to secure
/ the fgurehead from the battleshi1
I. Louisiana for the state capitol a.
/ Baton Rouge.
President Taft informed dele
cation of Republican congressmer
jj..that he would firmly insist on tariff
4 revision downward.
!. President Taft has decided to an.
point Charles RI Crane, of the man
sufacturing firm of Crane & Co., OF
ischicago, as minister to China.
: Conferees on the tariff bill agreed
ITO accept the Senate's amendments
rincreasing about Is per cent the ex-
listing duties on wines, spirits and
] liquors.
President Taft continues daily to
receive invitations to visit cities that
were not included in the itinerary of
his Western and Southern trip, an
nounced several days ago.
The House conferees on the tariff
bill are not favorably disposed to-
ward President Taft's corporation
tax scheme, and the use of the party
whip will be necessary to get it
through congress.
The president asserts for the first
time his authority as the tltular head
of his party. AS such he an
nounces his conviction that the party
platform meant a revision down.
ward and that no other interpreta-
ton can be placed upon it.
Opinions differ as to the effect
of the statement on the possible
date of adjournment. There has
been much talk of an adjournment
by July "a. This possibility seems
to have been eliminated, and Au-
gust l to 5 are the dates now looked
forward to-
Lieutenant Commander A T. Long
of the Naval Intelligence Office in
this city, was assigned to duty as
naval attache at the United States
embassies at Rome and Vienna. He
will relieve Lieutenant Commander
R. r. Belknap, who will devote his
entire time to naval affairs at Ber-
lin.
The conference over the matter
of bond legislation in the new tariff
bill was not held at the suggestion
of the secretary of the treasury. The
bond resources of the Treasury De-
partment, are at present ample, in
cluding 'forty-tive millions of unis-
sued Panama bonds and one hun
dred millions of unissued per cent
certificates. y
The value of manufactures ex-
ported to Germany in the decade
ending June 80, 1909, aggregates
n round terms 100000, &C.
,oEding to statement issued by the
Bureau of Statistics. The term
manufactures" includes the two
groups under which the Bureau
classifies all products of American
factories, manufactures ready for
Hereafter there will be no purely
places in the foreign SER
vice of the United States. While
his cannot be said to be new pol
cy it is the declared Intention of
he present administration. and .es-
oecially of the State Department
hat there shall be no deviation from
t. This rule will not be made to
'pply only to the diplomatic service
,ut to the consular. service of the
United States, from the highest to
he lowest. !
The White House was stormed by :
delegation of twenty-three Repub-
lean congressman, who spent an l
lour and half with the president, {
elling him that their very political I
ives depended upon the protection
f raw materials. 1t has become {
retty generally known about the I
apital that the president has ex- |
ressed himself quite freely as IA ,
oring the free entry of hides, oil S
nd coal and material reductions ON s
lmber, etc. q
Friction has developed between
ariff bill conferees and President n
aft.
The Marine Hospital Service will
stablish leper station in the Ha- :
allan Islands.
The governments of Latin Amer I
and the large business interests r