The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1909-12-30
NEWS FROM THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL
DOINGS OF CONGRESS AND
ITEMS OF INTEREST" +
PRESENT WEEK Is QUIET.
Interest Is Now Conferred in Com
ing Messages From President
Taft.

congress and with Washington de-
nuded of many statesmen, the ma
tional capital is very dull this week.
1t is not expected that there will be
any legislation affecting postal saw
ings banks, the interstate commerce
law or the Sherman antitrust act
during the present session. All in
terest is now conferred in coming
messages from President Taft which
will deal with the conservation Of
natural resources and amendments
to the antitrust law.
So far the president and the SEN
ate leaders have failed to agree on
a program.
The insurgents will blossom forth
in all their glory i'll January They
are expected to make capital of the
bars which congress has thrown in
the way of public relief measures,
and there will be some of the old
tirne pyrotechnics shortly after con-
gress again assemblies on January 4.
Railroad Conflict Seems to Impend.
Some members of the Interstate
Commerce Commission and many
railroad officials believe they can see
rapidly approaching one of the Sc
verest contests between labor and
capital in recent history This does
not necessarily mean that railroad
men generally are expecting big
strikes in the labor world 1t is
firmly believed by the railroad men
that this struggle will be begun by
the railroad labor organizations, will
rapidly spread to other lines of work
and may eventually result in COM
plete readjustment of industrial CON
ditiens.
What will be the result of the
position assumed by the railroads
none can answer. but the railroad
and financial worlds are rife with
speculation regarding the outcome.
In the end. it is generally believed,
the people at the ballotbox will have
to settle the question.
Cultivate Coal Lands.
Chairman Mondell, of the house
public lands committee. has intro
duced bill providing for the entry
of agricultural lands reported con-
tanning deposits of coal, reserving
to the government the right to dis
pose of the coal by sale or lease
Legislation of this nature has be-
come necessity on account of the
large area of lands classified as coal
lands which have an agricultural or
grazing value. =. -
Taft Approves Subsidy Bill.
A ship subsidy bill that can pass
congress and meet the approval Of
the president seems to be in sight
Congressman Humphrey, of Wash
ington, and members of the mer-
chant marine committee of the house
visited President Taft and laid be-
fore him bill introduced at the
last session with amendments that
have since been made The amend
ed bill met the approval of the presi-
dent.
Favor Local Dealers.
Secretary Ballinger has under way
a plan for recognizing the system
of purchasing supplies for the In
dian service, whereby local mer-
chants in the west will have oppor-
tunity Of bidding on these contracts,
4 privilege they have enjoyed to only
limited .xtcnt in times past Mer-
chants and dealers in the vicinity
of Indian schools will have a reason
able opportunity of furnishing sup
plies to at least the local institutions.
Counterfeit S. Silver Certificate
Its back more deceptive than the
face, and with pen and ink lines
c1everly substituted for the silk fibre
of genuine government paper, a
counterfeit fve-dollar silver certif-
cate has been discovered The new
fraud bears the Indian head and is
Of the 1899 series with check letter
20" and back plate No. ga.
Government to Save Birds.
Asking the government to act as
guardian to all the birds that flock
through the various states and ter
fitories, srortsmen, ornithologists
and agricultural authorities through
cut the country have joined the Ma
tional Association of Audubon So
cieties in urging congress to provide
federal protection for the nations
rapidly dying races of migratory
birds
Harbor Bill Next.
There is talk among the wise ones
in Washington that the leaders in
congress will suppress the river and
harbor bill, and postpone its pass
age until the short session next year.