The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-02-05
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TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
A Carefully Digested and CONDENSED
Compilation of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON NEWS.

III LlO SlCCIlOil VI thC al
at Sherman. The original amount was
$4,000.
Mr.. Beall has introduced a bill in
Congress looking to the enlargement
of the postoffice building at Dallas.
The bill provides for the purchase of
additional ground east of the present
building.
AS soon as he could get the floor
Friday, Representative Rainey, of IL
linois, read to the House the telegram
which re received from Charles P.
Taft, in which the brother of the Pres
ident-elect denied that he had ever
had any business association with
William Nelson Cromwell or any in
terest at any time in the Isthmus of
Panama. ......
Charging that William Nelson Crom-
well, Roger l.. Farnham, Charles P
Taft and others are parties to the
most infamous railroad proposition
ever submitted to any government
and that they are being permitted
not only to rob the Republic of Pan
anna, but indirectly the Treasury of
the United States" Representative
Rainey of Illinois Tuesday, in Wash
ington, directed the searchlight of pub
licity upon affairs in the Canal zone
in startling speech in support of his
resolution providing for an investiga
ton by congress of the Panama canal
purchase.
1t was reported Tuesday that the
subcommittee of the senate judiciary
committee in Washington, which, in
obedience to the Culberson resolution,
Is investigating the circumstances Of
the absorption of the Tennessee Coal
and Iron company by the United States
Steel corporation, has concluded that
the task Is one of such magnitude as
should be turned over to the full COM
mittee.
Compulsory installation OF wireless
telegraphy equipment on all ocean-go-
ing steamships carrying passengers is
provided in bill introduced in the
house of representatives in Washing
ton, Tuesday, by Congressman Burke
of Pittsburg.
There is a rumor in Washington
that President Roosevelt has request.
ed Judge Peter S. Grosscup to resign
Judge Grosscup, it will be recalled, is
the presiding judge of the circuit court
OF appeals which reserved the decision
of Judge Lands in the Standard Oil
case.
The postal savings and the omni,
bus claims bills were before the Sen.
ate Monday, for discussion and amend
ment, but no substantial progress was
made on either measure. Amendment
was made to the saving bank BILL linn
iting to $500 the amount of the de-
posts of any one person and fixing the
rate of interest to be paid at 2 pei
cent.
The house committee on territories
in congress, it is expected, will report
bill giving statehood to New Mexico
and Arizona. The house will pass it
according to the present plans, and
then the bill will enter Senator Bev
eridge's committee on territories
whence it won't emerge during this
session of congress.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN NEWS
The proposed six-round bout be
tween Joe Cans and Young Erne
scheduled at Philadelphia for Feb. 10
has been called off, owing to the i'll
ness of Cans.
What promises to to be a revolution
In train dispatching will be inaugu
rated by the Rock Island. 1t is pro
posed to use the telephone instead o
telegraph lines.
Dirt was broken Thursday gradin,
the interurban line between Mt. Pleas
ant and Red Mineral Springs, one mil,
} southeast Of town.
} One of the most attractive feature
/ Of the Fort Worth stock show las
: year was the horse show under tn
I management of w. w. Galbreath. TIL
horse show will be repeated this yea
on a larger scale and with many add
/ ed premiums.
For the purpose of selecting a sui
, able site for three-story building t
, be erected by the labor unions of tn
city committee was appointed at
, meeting of the Trades Assembly FIR
day night, at Fort Worth.
Citizens in mass meeting assemble
Monday night pledged bonus of SIT
600 to be given the railroad compan
to build from Tolar to Lipan.
n Weather Observer Lands of Fol
a Worth has asked for bids on built
r ing to be erected in Abilene, Texa
c in which the weather bureau will b
d established.
u There are 14,235,451 Roman Gait
olics in the United States, accordin
to the advance sheets of the 1910
Wiltzius official Catholic director,