The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-05-22
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policy will result in a general shake
up in the Navy Department.
A statement prepared by Senator
Culberson, Democratic leader in the
senate, shows that the Aldrich bill
revises the tariff upward.
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special envoy appoa..ta5 tIs ~ ! !
Emery claim, has arrived at WASH
| ington.
| Congressman Samuel L. Gilmore
| will re-argue the Belt Railroad case
in the Court of Appeals at New Or
| leans.
James ]. Hill visited the White
House in an optimistic mood, tell
ing the President that the outlook
was good in all directions.
The gunboat Dubuque has been or
| dered to New Orleans for the pur-
pose of giving her crew shore lib
erty
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has asked Congress for an ap-
preparation for the valuation of rail-
| roads.
Commander B. w. Hodges has been
designated to succeed Admiral Sing
er as commandant of the New Or
leans Naval Station.
The battleship Mississippi has been
ordered to proceed to Pensacola, Fla,
for coal, after the vessel returns
from Natchez.
Export duties on certain articles
are provided for revenue raising pur-
poses in the Philippine tariff bill,
which was reported to the HOUSE by
the Ways and Means Committee.
Speaker Cannon is of the opinion
that it will take temperature Of
from 96 to 100 degrees in the
shade to get the tariff bill put of
the senate.
Nominations sent to the Senate by
the President included the names of
Oscar S. Straus, as Ambassador to
Turkey, and w. W. Rockhill as Am
bassador to Russia.
Senator Cummins was tfrwarted in
his effort to amend the tariff bill
by reducing the duty on round iron,
the Senate voting to sustain the
Finance Committee by vote of AZ
to So.
Speeches by Senators Paynter, of
Kentucky, urging the removal of the
duty on leaf tobacco, and Crawford,
of South Dakota, arguing for the re-
moval of the tariff on iron ore, oil,
lumber and coal, featured the session
of the Senate Wednesday.
Consideration of the PHILIPPINE
tariff bill consumed the greater part |
of the day in the House, the meas
ure coming in for general criticise- !
ment from Representatives Harrison,
of New York, and Underwood, of |
Alabama.
Victory for the line has resulted !
from the long pending controversy |
between the line and staff Of the
Navy by the appointment by Presf- /
dent Taft of Lieutenant Commander
Hutch I. Cone to be Chief of the Blu.
reau of Steam Engineering.
The Senate upheld by a vote of A
to 35 the recommendation of it's
Finance Committee by declining to
reduce by quarter of a cent
pound the duty on pig lead, thereby
indicating the majority's voting
strength on important tariff sched-
ules.
President Taft's prowess as a golf
player was completely overshadowed
by the performance of Vice Presi-
dent Sherman's son, Thomas, who
defeated Walter ]. travis, the for
mer amateur champion, in the quail
flying round of the Chevy Chase
President Taft and w. J. Travis,
former International and national
golf champion, were victorious In
their match with General Clarence
Edwards and F. Ogden Horstmann
on the Chevy Chase links by a score !.
Of / up, the President practically as
suring the triumph of his pair by
spectacular drive to the last hole.
Uncle" Joe Cannon, Speaker of
The House, hale and useful at 13.
pIayfully shook his fist in the face
Of DR.. Osler at the National Tuber-
eulosis Convention in session in
Washington, at which both were
speakers, and openly repudiated the
atter's well known old age doc
trine
President Taft continues to follow
his avowed policy of selecting those
ne considers to be the best men to
ill important Federal Offices, ire
,pective of their political faith. He
has sent to the Senate the non,ina-
ion of Henry Groves Connor, al
Democrat, to be United States Judge
or the Eastern District of North
Carolina.
Oyerwork while clerk at the
White House during the last-ad-
ninistration is said to have resulted
IN the physical breakdown which
aused Thomas H. Netherland, aged
Is, to commit suicide by shooting.
Urging Congress to take away
rom Porto Ricans the political pow
r which has inspired them to put
personal ambition above patriot
sm,' President Taft sent a special
Message to Congress recommending |
he amendment of the Foraker act
nder which the island is governed.