Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-05-28
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The Interstate COLlllelCe Solihhi
sion has sent to Congress the third In
stallment of its report on railroad dis
ordinations in the coal and oil traf-
fc, his one relating to Goa only. IL
tells of the merging of various ONO
and West Virginia coal companies and
of their control by the Trunk Line
syndicate. The commission found that
the syndicate tended to discourage the
DEVELOPMENT of other mines not con-
nected with its companies. thus re-
tanning so far as possible a monopoly
of the field.
Charles NJ. Pepper. special agent OF
the Department Of Commerce and La
Dor, who has been studying the fiscal
systems of Europe, reports that Great
Britain raised S165, 600. 900 in revenue
from the income tax law during the
last fiscal year that being the largest
single source of revenue. Mr.. Pepper
analyses the various sources OF the
income tax and shows that the prln-
cipal one is the corporations and large
business and professional interests, the
next being the owners of houses and
lands.
The new Philippine tariff bill as
amended by the ways and means com
mittee, has been presented to the
House, has been shrdluoial-hfpif??eah
House. AS amended petroleum and its
products are placed on the free list, to
which hides are also added. Light
steel rails for tramways are provided
with a lower duty thar was contained
in the original bill, n a lower rate
is placed on sugar-making machinery,
which was assessed a duty equal to
that on other machinery.
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The Treasury Department has de-
cided to do away with the present sys,
TEN of customs weighers. In view OF
the fraudulent practices Of the sugar
trust %weighers. as disclosed in the re-
cent trial at New York. and to install,
as soon as possible, electrical weigh
ing machines which register weights
automatically. This will throw out of
ployed as weighers.
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Secretary Bollinger. opposed to for.
est conservation. and Secretary Wilson.
in favor of it, have argued their diff.
ferences before the President. and the
entire cabinet. The President expects
to ask Attorney General Wickersham
and the other legal lights of the cabi-
net to file written opinions on the
r1aritc Of tho cnntrnVarcv hafOra he
finally decides it.
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, recently
elected president general of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution. has
written to President Taft rendering
the government for certain research
and lecture work the use of the hand
some marble home of the Daughters.
now about completed.
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A delegation of women operatives
from Pennsylvania who went to Wash
ington to urge higher rates of duty on
hosiery called upon the President and
were cordially received. although the
President did not in any way commit
himself to their side of the question.
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Speaker Cannon recently celebrated
his 73d birthday. The Republican
members from North Carolina. where
the speaker vas born in 1886, pre-
sented him with an unusually large
dipper made of a gourd from the Tar
heel state.
The President has declared that he
favors an income tax only as a last
resort: hat recourse in case of a de-
ficiency under the new tariff act should
first be had to an inheritance and next
to a corporation tax.
Consular representatives will investi-
gate n report to the state depart
ment on the story that the crew of the
whaling ship Carrie K. Knowles. sup
posed to have been lost at sea five
years ago, are prisoners in Venezuela.
Secretary Dickinson of the war de-
partment will visit St. Paul sometime
during the summer to make an in
Of the military post at Fort I
Smelling. '.... ........ 49,. .
a Sign OF Prosperity.
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