The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-07-22
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be appointed in the Southern States.
Orville Wright failed to rise in his
efforts to make flight at Fort Myer.
Captain j. 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
Ioase 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
| meeting between Presidents Taft
and Diaz at Ell Paso, Tex.
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 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 5 per cent the ex-
listing 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 it
| through congress-
The president asserts for the first
time his authority as the tltular head
of his party. AS such he an
nounces his conviction that the party
platform meant revision down
ward and that, no other interpreta-
ton can be placed upon it.
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 l to 5 are the dates now looked
forward to.
Lieutenant Commander A. T. Long
of the Naval Intelligence Office in
| this city, was assigned to duty as
naval attache at the United States
embassies at RomeA and Vienna. He
will relieve Lieutenant Commander
R. R. Belknap, who will devote his
entire time TO naval affairs at Ber
| lin.
The conference over the matter
of bond legislation in the new tariff
bill was not held at the suggestion
of the secretary of the treasury. The
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 per cent
certificates.
The value of manufactures ex-
ported to Germany in the decade
ending June 80, 1909, aggregates
in round terms S500,G00,000 ac-
cording to a statement issued by the
Bureau Of Statistics. The term
manufacture" includes the two
/ groups under which the Bureau
classifies all products of American
consumption.
| Hereafter there will be no purely
ornamental places in the foreign SER
vice of the United States. While
this cannot be said to be new pol
Icy it is the declared intention OF
the present administration. and es-
pecially of the State Department
| that there shall be no deviation from
it. This rule will not be made to
apply only to the diplomatic service
/ but to the consular service of the
United States, from the highest to
/ the lowest.
The White House was stormed by
delegation of twenty-three Repub-
1ican congressman, who spent an
hour and half with the president.
telling him that their very political
| lives depended upon the protection
of raw materials. 1t. has become
pretty generally known about the