The new South-news., 1909-06-12

Happenings OF the Week Briefly
JoId--Jhc Latest Nr~s
From the Capital

revision.
President TAFT has sent nomins-
ton of l.. =. Bryant for Surveyor Of
the Port at New Orleans to the Sen
ate.
AdvIccs from Honduras indicate
imminencc Of revolutionary outbreak
az Ceiba. and paducah has been or
derei to scene.
A severe blow to the proposed
laket-to-fhe-gulf deep waterway pro-
ject of the Board Of Army Engineers.
which Is expected 10 recommend to
Congress unfayorable action on the
matter OF deepening the Mississippi
channel from 81. Louis to the gulf.
President Taft has sent to the Sen
ate the nomination Of Luther Conant
Jr.. OF New York. 20 be Deputy Com
missioner Of Corporations In the De-
parfmcnt Of Commerce and Labor
.r COnsnt succeeds +. Dana Du-
rand. who recently was named as
Director OF the Census.
Discus lon cf the tarin in Senate
developed very bitter debate. with
frequent personal remarks First
Stone and Aldrich mixed on the Ger
man question. then Boycridge and
Aldrich mixed on question of sena-
torlal courtesy to sick brother (l.a
Foiiette).
The contract for construction OF
the concrete dry docks at the United
states Naval Station at Pearl Harbor
Hawaii has been awarded 70 the
san Francisco Bridge Company for
S1.760.000. The lowest bidder was
/ G. NJ. Leach, OF Boston. whose pro-
posal OF s1.296.32i was rejected
owing TO an irregularlty In the guar
antec check.
President Taft was visited by Sen.
ators Johnson. OF Alabama. and Tall
alerro. OF Florida, who requested n
! pardon for w s. Hsrland OF Lock-
port. Ala, who has been sentenced
10 eighteen months in the Penitcn-
/ tiary at Atlanta. iIarland was tried
and convicted AT Pensacola of the
/ peonage charge. and in addition to
his sentence was fined $4,000.
President Taft has appointed Will
liam Il. Harr. Of the District of Co
lumbla. an assistant attorney gener-
al of the United States. MIR. Harr.
who has been an attorney In the De-
/ Lsrtmon, OF Justice for the past nine
years. succeers ,,c the place made va
cant by the resignation = Sltred w.
Cooley. who reAcntiy was ssssain,sd
to the supreme' Court in Arizona.
As result of return toward nor
NAL conditions. the exports OF cot
ton goods 10 China are again on the
Increase accordiYg to the Bureau OF
Statistics. Expd Is of cotton cloths
to China averaged in the fiscal years
1905 1906 4ss.tOo.ooo yards per
annum; in 1907 and 1908 they aver
aged by 6s.oo0.o00 per annum. or
one-seventh as much as the average
OF 1905-06.
To bring the conn containing the
body OF William Penn, which now
reposes In a practically abandoned.
cemetery in Buckinghamshire En-
gland, to this county and have II
inferred on the banks of the Della
ware River Is the object OF move
ment Just launched In Congress. Rep
resentative Palmer. OF Pennsylvania,
ia one OF six members OF the House
behind the plan. II " declared that.
considering Penns distinguished ca
recr. his grave Is not appropriately
marked.
Making reply to the letter attack
made upon him Thursday by Sena-
tor Penrose because OF his absence at
a session at which he was expected
TO finish his uncompieted speech on
the cotton schedule OF the tariff bill.
Senator La Toilette suggested that
the Senator from Pennsylvania might
render greater service II he would
account for the way he spends his
own time when absent from the Sem
ate Mr.. La Toilette then complet-
ed his speech. Another night ses-
sion was held by the Senate.
Plans are being prepared by direc-
tion OF Colonel Goethals. of the Is
thmian Canal Commission, covering
the details of sanitary improvements
In the cities of Panama and Colon
during the coming dry season. TO
guard against yellow fever and pla-
sue For the improvements. Con-
sress at its last session appropriated
$4,000. They viii include the ex-
tension. grading OF streets. building
sewers and water mains. The work
viii be undertaken frst at Panama
because the districts in which the inn
provements are 10 be made there are
closely occupied and would be hard
10 sanitate In case II the introduce
tion of the plague.
Almost on the eve Of his departure