The Port Gibson reveille., 1909-05-27
NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Happenings of the Week Briefly
Told--The Latest News
From the Capital

Benzoate of soda discussion is get
ting warm again.
Senator Aldrich is making some
progress in his fight against the in
come tax.
Work of restoring the name Of JEFF
ferson Davis to Cabin John Bridge
has been completed.
Secretary Of War Dickinson was
taken i'll at sea and had to leave Ha-
vana hurriedly for Washington.
Insurgents in the senate seem to
be getting some results by their per-
sistence.
Stockholders of the Union Pacific
Railroad are buying shares of the
Southern Pacific Railroad in order to
retain control of the property.
Washington real estate owners are
trying to hold up the government by
demanding exorbitant prices for their
property.
The income tax proposition is being
fought by Aldrich, who seeks to post
pone action and may crack the party
whip on it.
The senate heard debate on the
income tax by Mr.. Sutherland, while
Mr.. Smoot discussed the duty on
razors with much dramatic effect.
The house had lot of fun with
Mr.. Hollingsworth over editorial
comments in Louisiana and Missis-
sippi papers.
Mr.. Burleson has gotten through
resolution inquiring into the pur-
chase of the Tennessee Company by
the steel trust.
President Taft received a special
envoy from Nicaragua. who came to
settle the Emery claim, and talked to
him in plain language.
Senator Clay delivered a speech at
tacking the sugar trust and urging a
reduction in the duty on refined su-
gar. The senate has completed the
metal schedules.
A statute of the Rev. DR.. John
Witherspoon, one of the signers of
the Declaration of independence,
erected in this city by public sub
scription, was unveiled with impress
i've ceremonies.
Attorney-General Wickersham has
announced that a test law case will
be made out of the decision of Secre-
tary Wilson that it is violation of
the pure food law to use the bleach
ing process in making -four.
Presidential nominations of Will
liam Williams to be commissioner of
immigration of the port ofjNew York,
and. Walter f. Clark, to be governor
of Alaska, have been confirmed by
the senate.
The supreme court decided against
Pilot John Leech; sustained the court
of appeals in the Alabama rate case,
and against the Chicago Tribune in a
libel case of a woman whose picture
was printed in whisky ad.
Colored passengers paying the
same fare as white passengers can
not be legally Disseminated against
| in the way of accommodations, ae-
cording to a ruling of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Attorney-General Wickersham has
decided to suspend proceedings in the
Oklahoma land fraud cases until evi-
dence purporting to substantiate the
charges against the governments at
torneys has been received here and
investigated.
Mrs Taft probably will leave for
the summer capital at Beverly,
Mass, early in June, it was an
nounced, in the event 1t appears that
the president. will be detained in
Washington by the tariff until after
July /.
Imported automobiles, under the
new tariff law, must pay duty equal
to one-half their value, If the action
of the senate stands. The house pro-
vision for duty of As per cent ad
valorem was accepted as to bicycles
and automobiles.
1t is announced that the coalition
of democratic senators and progress
| i've republicans" has been broken, SO
far as the income tax question is con-
cerned, and that amendments on the
subject will be presented by both
Senators Bailey and Cummins. Both
of these amendments will provide for
fat rates of tax, but they differ on
some other important features, par
ticularly the proposed tax on corpo-
rations.
Senator Aldrich is making progress
in his efforts to sidetrack the. income
tax proposition and create dissen-
sions among it's advocates in both po-
litical parties. On this question the
senate S closely divided, the insur-
gents claiming to have seventeen
votes in sight for the amendment,
while the democrats appear to be
solid for it. Senator Aldrich, on the
other hand, does not concede a ma
jority against him on a straight
vote, and on the proposition to refer
the question to the judiciary commit
tee for an opinion he believes he can
get a comfortable majority,
Enthusiastic over his two days in
vasion of the south, President Taft
has returned to the White House,
conferred with the members of his
cabinet and received numerous call
ers.
The travelling public won victory