The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-11-25

sionally. many times as often as four |
times a day, his callers bank up in
such numbers in the reception rooms |
of the executive offices that he has to |
cave his private office and shake
hands with them as they pass him in
what seems to be a ceaseless stream. |
This is but the incidents OF the day. In |
addition to this he has to keep up his
correspondence, consult members of
the House and Senate on the tariff
question and political appointments,
keep his eye on the patronage situation
throughout the country and solve ques-
tions of the greatest import in state |
craft. The President earns his salary
more fully than any man in the gov
service.
The Governors of all the States OF
the Union, with the exception of four
Connecticut, Georgia, Washington and
Wyoming-are heartily in favor of
changing the date for the inauguration
of the President of the United States
from March 4 to the last Thursday in
April. AS members of a national COM |
mittee they intend to exercise all their
influence at the coming session of
Congress to have a constitutions
amendment submitted. Commissioner
Mcfarland of the District of Columbia
as president of the organization has
collected a large amoun of material,
including photographs of Washington
on the last Inauguration, a comparison
of the weather here on March 4 and
-. tha lact FrI,.rJ,x- ~ Anvil tho
death roll of victims who have been
sacrificed to the severe weather and
other material which will, it is thought,
make a great impression not only upon
Congress but upon the public general
ly.
Secretary of the Interior Bailinger
i'm an interview replied to critics o n
corning his revocation of the Garfield
order which withdrew from settlement
1900, 900 acres and the substitution of
a 800, 000-acre withdrawal. He insists
that this change was promotive of the
conservation policy. The former order
had been an emergency measure with
out taking time to find where the pow
err sites were actually located. Later
investigation had shown that much of
the land did not contain any power
sites.
Another increase in the freight rates
on lemons from the Pacific coast to
points in the Middle West is an
nounced by the interstate commerce
commission. About the middle of Oc-
tober the Western carriers gave notice
of an increase in lemon rates from CAL
ifornia 20 all points in Minnesota. the
Dakotas and adjacent territory. The
tariffs which have just been filed in
crease the rate in the same proportion
to practically every point in the Uni
ted States.
President Taft's message to Congress
at the coming session will be a recon-
mendation for a radical change in the
Sherman antitrust act, and a revision
of the Hepburn railroad rate law. 1t
will be found that the Presidents pro-
posed legislation regulation of corpora
lions is dear to his heart, and 1t will
be urged on the lawmakers in such a
manner as to indicate that Mr.. Taft is
very much in earnest and will insist
upon action before adjournment.
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The seal of secrecy has been put by
the department heads at Washington
on all government officials in New
York connected with the investigation
and prosecution of the gigantic
frauds. This order followed the recent
conference at the Waldorf Astoria Ho-
tel between Franklin MacVeagh, Sec
rotary of the Treasury, and Collector
Loeb, United States District Attorney
Wise and Special Prosecutors Stimson,
Denison and w. Wickham Smith.
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Col. George r. Cotton of Illinois. for
merly collector of ustom at Manila,
was inaugurated as Governor of Porto
Rico, succeeding Regis H.. Post, resign
ed. The address of Gov. Cotton assert
ed that complete self-government
would ultimately come to the island
under the Stars and Stripes. He ex-
pressed the opinion that Porto Ricans
should have the privilege of becoming
American citizens.
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Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh
came to New York to confer with Col
lector Loeb and the federal prosecutor
i'm regard to the status of the Custom
House employees who have turned
States evidence. The secretary decid-
ed to sustain Loeb i'm his promise of
immunity to these men, although they
were elf-confessed criminals, and to
let them remain in the service.
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Officials of the Indian bureau are de-
lighted over the information that an
agreement has been entered into by
of the Minnesota Liquor
Dealers Association not to do business
with retailers who sell to the Indian
wards of the government.
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All of the original "V. ID. b." Lir-
coin pennies have passed entirely into
the hands of the public. There were
1928, 900 of these pennies coined. and
not one of them is left i'm the treasury
or sub-treasuries.
According to a report by the 18TH
milan canal commission the greatest
amount of concrete aid in a single day
at Gatun locks was placed on Sunday,
Oct. "a, when 1,034 cubic yards were
added to the 33,24S cubic yards that
a been placed up to the close of
work on Oct. %.
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| Lieut.. Frank p. Lahm. who gained
| international fame by winning the
| James Gordon Bennett cup in Europe
i'm 1906 for the longest flight in a diri-
gible balloon, has been relieved from
l detail in the signal corps and ordered
TO report to his cavalry regiment.
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Approximately $1,000, 900 in back
l taxes alleged to be due the State I'M