The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-10-02
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Chairman Knapp will go directly to
Seattle where he will join the other
commissioners.
Naturalization was refused to 2,067
aliens during the last fiscal year.
material increase over the rejection
of would-be United States citizens dur
ing the preceding year.
Commissioner Frank X. Lane, who
is in Chicago attending meeting Of
the demurrage committee of the Ma
tional Association OF Railway commits
Spokane this week.
Charles ]. Bell, former governor OF
Vermont, died of heart disease on a
train in the Grand Central station as
he was about to leave for Boston. He
served as chief magistrate of Vermont
from 1904 to 1906. In previous years
he held many offices OF minor impor-
tance. Governor Bell was born in
Weldon, VT, in 1845.
Inquiries are being made by the in
sular bureau of the War Department
regarding the report from Manila that
the little revenue cutter Sora had
been captured by Moro pirates and
her crew of fourteen murdered. No
official advices have been received
yet at the War Department. The Sora
is only a small craft which is used
in Philippine waters by the revenue
authorities.
To set at rest allegations which
have been made over the country re-
garding the source of the funds used
by the Roosevelt hunting expedition
in Africa, Secretary Walcott of the
Smithsonian Institution authorized the
statement that not cent OF the cost
comes from the funds of the instftu-
ton or from the United States gov
ernment. The secretary says the per-
sonal friends of Colonel Roosevelt.
whose names are not disclosed, have
provided the scientific party with suf-
ficient funds to carry on the exped1-
ton. The statement was issued in
view OF the numerous letters of in
auiry received by Secretary Walcott
concerning the source of the finan-
cling of the expedition.
On June 80 1914-the Aldrich-Vree-
land financial act will expire by linn
itation, and unless before that date
it is replaced by a wisely y-framed meas
ure of broad scope, the country will
again be in a perilious situation that
is commonly believed to have resulted
in the panic of 1907-08. There is
general realization of the necessity OF
LEGISLATION on this subject, but wide
difference of opinion as to form.
Speaker Cannon believes that mere
extension of the present laws, witt
perhaps a few amendments In details
will suffice. President Taft looks with
favor upon the proposition to create
great central bank and there are all
sorts of intermediate schemes. Pro
bablv that which commands the great
est support will be based upon the re-
Communications of the monetary COM
mission which has been quietly but
effectively at work for more than
wear gathering the material for the
construction OF the actual legislation.
Almost side by side with the bodies
of Generals Lawton and Writ. the
bodv of the late Lieut.. Gen. Henry c.
Corbin was buried in Arlington Ma
tional cemetery in the presence OF the
members of the distinguished officers
family and his close personal friends
Chairman Martin ]. Knapp of the
Interstate Commerce commission. ieft
for the Pacific coast, where the COM
| n,sion ia to hear . series Of important
caaes affecting the freight traffic OF
the entire country from The Atlantic
to the Pacific ssaboard.