Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-06-01
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The Interstate Commerce Commits
zion has sent to Congress the third in
sta3lment of its report on railroad dis
examinations in the coal and oil traf-
&c, this one relating to coal only. 1t
tells of the merging of various Ohio
and West Virginia ca al 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, 100000 in revenue
from the income tax law during the
last fiscal year, that being the largest
analyses the various sources OF the
income tax and shows that the prin-
cipal lone 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??e ah
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 lower duty than was contained
in the original bill. and 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 az possible, electrical weigh
ing machines which register weights
automatically. This will throw out of
the service large number OF men en-
ployed as weighers.
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Secretary Bollinger, opposed to for
est conservation. and Secretary Wilson.
in favor of 1t, 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
merits of the controversy before he
finally decides it.
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Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, recently
elected president general of the Daugh-
tiers 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 tne 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 was born in 1886, pre-
scented him with an unusually large
dipper made of gourd from the Tar.
heel state.
The President has declared that he
favors an income tax only as a last
resort; that recourse in case of a de
ficiency under the new tariff act should
first be had to an inheritance and next
to corporation tax.
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Consular representatives will investi
gate and 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
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Secretary Dickinson of the war de
partment will visit st. Paul sometime
during the summer to make an in
spection of the military post at Fort
Smelling.