Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-07-23
news NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
happenings of the Week Briefly
Told--The Latest News
From the Capital

No negro census enumerators will
be appointed in the Southern States.
Orville Wright failed to rise in his
efforts to make flight at Fort Myer.
Captain ]. C. Weaks has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Monroe. La.
The Senate and House conferees
on the tariff bill are making slow
progress.
Low-tariff Republicans In the
House are threatening revolt
against the tariff bill.
The conferees on the tariff bill
have accepted the customs court
provision Of the senate.
Arrangements are being made for
a meeting between Presidents Taft
and Diaz at El Paso, Tex.
A delegation of senators and rep
resentatives will visit the Hawaiian
Islands after the adjournment of
congress.
The Prairie Oil and Gas Company
was granted a franchise to construct
a pipe line from Oklahoma to Baton
Rouge, La.
CONGRESSMAN Gilmore of Louisi-
ana, voted for the bill appropriating
$4,000 for President Taft's travel
ing expenses.
Efforts are being made to secure
the figurehead from the battleship
Louisiana for the state capitol at
Baton Rouge.
President Taft informed a dele
cation of Republican congressman
that he would firmly insist on tariff
revision downward.
President Taft has decided to ap-
point Charles R. Crane. Of the man
ufacturing firm of Crane & Co., of
Chicago, as minister to China.
Conferees on the tariff bill agreed
to accept the Senate's amendments
increasing about 15 per cent the ex-
isting duties on wines, spirits and
| liquors.
President Taft continues daily to
receive invitations to visit cities that
were not included in the itinerary OF
his Western and Southern trip, an
nounced several days ago.
The House conferees on the tariff
bill are not favorably disposed to-
ward President Taft's corporation
tax scheme, and the use of the party
whip will be necessary to get II
through congress.
The president asserts for the first
time his authority as the titular head
of his party. AS such he an
nounces his conviction that the party
| platform meant a revision down
ward aud that no other interpreta'
ton can be placed upon 1t.
Opinions differ as to the effect
of the statement on the possible
date of adjournment. There has
been much talk of an adjournment
by July "a. This possibility seems
to have been eliminated,' and Au
gust / to are the dates now looked
forward to.
Lieutenant Commander A. T. Lons
of the Naval Intelligence Office II
this city, was assigned to duty al
naval attache at the United State!
embassies at Rome and Vienna. HI
will relieve Lieutenant Commander
R. r. Belknap, who will devote hi
entire time to naval affairs at Ber
lin.
The conference over the matte
Of bond legislation in the new tariff
bill was not held at the suggestion
of the secretary of the treasury. Th'
bond resources of the Treasury De
partment are at present ample, In
Guiding forty-five millions of unis
sued Panama bonds and one hun
dred millions of unissued 3 per cen
certificates.
The value of manufactures ex
ported to Germany in the decad
ending June 80, 1909, aggregate
in round terms $500,000,000 &C
cording to a statement issued by tn
Bureau of Statistics. The tern
manufactures" includes the tw
groups under which the Burea1
classifies all products Of America
factories, manufactures ready 70
consumption"
Hereafter there will be no purel
ornamental places in the foreign ser
vice of the United States. Will
this cannot be said to be new pol
Icy II is the declared intention Q
the present administration, and es
pecially Of the State Department
that there shall be no deviation fror
1t. This rule will not be made t
apply only to the diplomatic servic
but to the consular service Of tn
United States, from the highest {
the lowest.
The White House was stormed b
a delegation Of twenty-three Reput
lican congressman, who spent a
hour and a half with the presiden
telling him that their very politics
lives depended upon the protectio
of raw materials. 1t has becom
pretty generally known about th
capital that the president has el
pressed himself quite freely as I;
voring the free entry of hides, o
, and coal and material reductions O
lumber. etc.