The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-04-24
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inspection of the Panama Canal.
The Federal Government will al
andon the prosecution of the bee
trust on charges of accepting rebate
: The Senate and House conferee
reached an agreement on the censu
bill.
A committee Of Congressman wil
visit the Isthmus of Panama to in
spect the work on the canal.
President Taft is expected to fl
, the vacancy in the Federal Survey
orship at New Orleans next week.
The provisions of the Aldricl
tariff bill are so puzzling that tn
Treasury officials are unable to solv,
it.
President Taft favors an incom,
tax, but it is doubtful if bill viii
be passed at this session of Con
gress.
L. B. Horne, of Mississippi, Con
federate veteran, will carve ths
name of Jefferson Davis On Cabir
John Bridge at Washington.
The tariff bill was sent back tc
the House the oil amendment inser.
ted, and the bill returned to the
Senate.
Senator Baily, Of Texas, offered an
amendment to the tariff bill, plac-
ing a tax of per cent on incomes
over $4,000.
Secretary Meyer announced that
-e would send the battleship MIissis-
sippi up the Mississippi River to
Natehez, Miss
President Taft sent special mes
sage to Congress asking for tariff
legislation for the Philippine Is
lands.
Samuel Gompers announced that
he would sail for Europe on June
% to investigate the condition of
the labor class in England, Ger
many, France. Sweden and Italy.
Woodside Point is to be the Oys-
ter Bay of the new administration.
Official announcement was made
that President Taft had leased a
cottage in the vicinity of Beverly,
Mass, for his summer home
President Taft left for New York
Iand New Haven, the principal OBJ
ject of this, his second trip away
from the White House being to at
tend meeting of the Yale Corpora
ton, of which he is a member.
Seizure of the Carroll Springs
Distillery in Maryland for alleged
violations of the internal revenue
laws was ordered by Commissioner
Capers as the rusult of an investiga-
ton into charges of fraud.
The Democratic Senators contin-
ued their conference on the tariff
bill. The attendance was not large
and the meeting was devoted to an
exchange of opinions in the various
schedules of the Payne bill. There
was no effort to reach a general con-
clusion that would be binding on
any one.
His first opportunity to extend ex-
ecutive clemency to man under
sentence of death, President Taft
has felt compelled to allow to go
unheeded. After investigating the
facts in the case, he declined to in
terfere In the case of Joauqin Seq
rera, convicted of murder on the
Canal Zone, and the condemned man
must die on May z.
The heads of the Departments of
Justice, of the Interior and of Com
merce and Labor, together with
the men in charge of the various
bureaus under them, held in an i'm
portant conference in consonance
with President Taft's plan OF effect a
closer relationship among the de-
partments, particularly with respect
to cases involving alleged violations
of antitrust laws.
According to the tentative plans
of the Navy Department that is of
the Bureau of Navigation, the bat
tleship Mississippi will go up the
river about May Is. The officials
took pains to explain today that
the Mlssissfppiaus themselves will
have 60 settle all question as to the
presentation ceremonies as to time,
and that unless they agree other
wise, the ship will have to be at
Horn Island Pass about the time
heretofore agreed upon,
An interesting addition to the mil
litary records of the United States |
will be published by the govern
ment if bill just introduced by |
Representative Hull of Tennessee ,
becomes a law. 1t directs the Sec |
retary of War to prepare from the
military records in his possession
roster of all the armies engaged ir
the service of the United States in
all its wars, except the civil war. A
roster has already been issued Of
the men composing the armies of
that war.
Jas. J. Hill, the railroad magnate,
declared that if the country's de-
mand for a satisfactory revision of
the tariff were not needed, the elec-
torate would send to Congress two
years hence representatives wfs
would make a more violent revision.
President Taft accepted an invita-
ion extended by a joint delegation
the States of Pennsyl-
7ania and Virginia to attend and
speak at the unveiling of the monu-
nent erected at Fort Malone, near
Petersburg, Va. /