The Springfield herald., 1909-10-01
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Chairman Knapp will go directly to
Seattle where he will join the other
commissioners.
Naturalization was refused to 2.O67
aliens during the last fiscal year, a
material increase over the rejection
of would-be United States citizens dur
ing the preceding year.
II satisfactory arrangements in the
matter of salary can be made, Man
ager McAleer of the st. Louis Ameri-
can League team, will become man
ager of the Washington club next sea-
son.
Commissioner Frank K. Lane. who
is in Chicago attending meeting Of
the demurrage committee of the Ma
tional Association of Railway commits
sioners, will join the commission at
Spokane this week.
Where should the children OF the
sent to school?" is being discussed By
Indiana public school authorities and
the scholars at Fort Benjamin Earri-
son near Indianapolis. About twenty
children of the officers and privates
have been sent to the town school,
near the army post. The school is
overcrowded, and the state superin-
tendent OF public instruction thinks
the township taxes should not be eX-
tended to cover the expense of edu-
eating the children of the alien sol
diers. The state attorney general.
however, has given an opinion that
the army post children proper
ly should be sent to the school
in the township in which the
post is situated. 1t is possible a
test case In court will be instituted by
barring the soldiers children from the
school.
On June so 1914-the Aldrich-Vree
land financial act will expire by lin
itation, and unless before that date
IL is replaced by wisely framed meas
ure of broad scope. the country will
again be in a perilious situation that
is commonly believed to have resulted
in the panic of 19O7-OS. There is a
general realization of the necessity of
legislation on this subject, but vide
difference of opinion as to form.
Speaker Cannon believes that mere
extension of the present laws, with
perhaps a few amendments in details
will suffice. President Taft looks with
favor upon the proposition to create a
great central bank and there are all
sorts of intermediate schemes. Pro-
badly that which commands the great
est support will be based upon the re-
concentrations of the monetary com
mission which has been quietly but
effectively at work for more than a
year gathering the material for the
construction of the actual legislation.
Increases ranging from 25 to $50 per
cent are shown in the quantity of man
ufacturers' materials imported into the
United States in the seven months
ending with July. 1909, over the cor
responding period of the Immediately
preceding year. These figures, COM
piled by the bureau of statistics, re-
late to variety of articles in general
use by manufacturers.
during the Taft administration-even
during the first term-should there be
two of them.
Almost side by side with the bodies
of Generals Lawton and Writ, the
body of the late Lieut.. Gen. Henry c.
Corbin was buried in Arlington Ma
tional cemetery in the presence of the
members OF the distinguished officers
family and his close personal friends.
Chairman Martin ]. Knapp of the
Interstate Commerce commission. left
for the Pacific coast, where the com
mission is t6 hear series of important
cases affecting the freight traffic of
the entire country from the Atlantic
to the Pacific seahoard.