The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-20
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Happenings of the Week Briefly
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j. NJ. Dickinson, has taken tn
oath of office as Secretary of War.
The Republican members. Of tn
House held caacIs Saturday right
The Republicans are keeping tn
new tariff bill a carefully-guarde
secret. .
Ex-President Roosevelt is said t
be meddl1ng in the fight over tn
Houaa rules.
s speak Eanncn Is whipping ii
Republicans into line in the figh
over the House snIes.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee will, it is said. reduce tn
tariff on lumber and hides one-hal1
President Taft and Postmaste
General Hitchcock will shortly tax
up the question Of Southern patron
age.
The threatened coalition between
Republican insurgents and Demo
Gratis is causing House leaders mucl
worry: :s-ts,'-
The State Department has indorset
the contentious of Costa in tn,
boundary dispute between that coun
try and Panama.
The Wyoming and the Arkansas
are the names selected for the tw.
monster 26,000-ton battleship re
Gently authorized by Congress.
Speaker Cannon is expected to pun
ish the Democratic leaders in thu
House for lining up with the Repub
ican insurgents in the fight over the
rules.
The United States treasury is con
fronted by a big deficit. and eitae1
the issuance of bonds or war taxes
will be, necessary to provide funds tt
pay bills.
President Taft has proposed a
compromise in the fight over the
House rules. He has suggested the
appointment of committee to revise
the rules.
s. Representative Oscar Underwood
escorted a delegation of Alabama
lawyers to the White house to pro-
test against the appointment of Oscar
r. Hundley to the Federal Bench.
The order of the Secretary of the
Navy, given at the direction of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, abolishing the Navy
.ysrds~at Pensacola Ella. and Nos
Orleans, La, was revoked by Secre-
tary Meyer.
The supporters of Speaker Can
non and the House insurgents car
ried their troubles to the White
House and held conferences with
President Taft. The President was
:. Jessie NJ. Smith, Auditor of. the
Interstate Commerce Commission
for twenty years and a native of
Ala, died suddenly of
heart failure at Georgetown Univer-
sity Hospital.
Renewed activity in the country's
is shown in figures
by the Bureau of Statistics,
comparing imports of manufacturers
materials during January last with
those of the two preceding Januaries.
Marines may not be assigned to
duty to battleships and armored
cruisers despite the recent provisions
Of Congress that money appropriated
for maintenance of the marine corps
must not be used unless the marines
are aborad the warskip.
The Department of Agriculture es-
timated that the quantity of wheat
in farmers hands March 1 was about
21.6 per cent, equivalent to 1861
900 bushels of last years crop, and
corn 1913 per cent, euualing 1,047,-
t63, ,Q00 bushels of last years crop.
Three hundred thousand erstwhile
Ottoman subjects now living in the
United States have petitioned Kaisim
Bey, Turkish ambassador to the Unit
I'd States to urge. that Munji Bey
Consul in New York city, be deposed
or conduct which is termed by them
grating"
The deluge of. bills introduced at
.he opening of each session of Con-
yress and as great for the special
session, which will began Monday. as
or the regular sessions, despite the
prospect that little legislation other
han the tariff bill will receive con-
ideration.
Action amounting practically to
he breaking off the diplomatic rela-
ions with Nicaragua was taken by
he State Department when it or
Tered Secretary of Legation Gregory,
n charge of affairs at Managua, to
.eturn home, leaving the legation in
,harge of the Consul, who will have
ID diplomatic capacity.
The Court of Appeals of the Dis
rict of Columbia modified and af
irmed the opinion of Justice Gould,
If the Supreme Court of the Dis
rict, enjoining the American Fedora
ion of Labor, Samuel Gompers and
,ther defendants from publishing in
he I'VE don't patronize" and Range
Company of st. Louis.
Through an attempt to codify and
evise the laws affecting the jurisdic-
ion and practices of the Federal
court, Congress may be brought face
o face during the special session
With the necessity of considering the
proposed anti-injunction bills and the
.qually troublesome question of con-
Iict between Federal and State courts
: The new tariff bill will impose a
az of cents a pound on coffee. Inns