Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-08
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proved a rectangular design for special
issue Of stamps on June 1. commemorate
i've of the Alaska Y ukon-Pacific EXPOSE
ton The stamp bears a ribbon inscribed
Alaska ukonPa 1909" and a circle
frames the picture Of fur seal standing
on a cake of ice.
Attorney General Wickersham in an
orinion submitted to the secretary of the
treasury Wednesday holds that the ma
tional banks of the state of Kansas have
no right to participate in the assessment
and benefits from the bank depositors
guaranty fund under the provisions of
a recently enacted law by that state. up
on the same terms and conditions as APP
ply to state banks. The decision says
that only an act of Congress can con-
Ter such powers upon national banks.
Mrs. John A. Bremen of Boston has
been asked by Secretary of the Navy
Meyer to christen the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Joseph b. Smith. which is sched-
uled to he launched from Cramps ship
yards. Philadelphia, April 20. Mrs. Brem-
er is the nearest living relative of the
officer for whom the vessel is to be nam
ed. The Smith is one of the Is new de-
o'ioS Sio ouidih6 III LIZ navy dIu VIII
be equipped with turbine engines. 1t is
estimated she will have speed of o5.5
krCts.
Senator Gallinger has re-introduc"d
the bill providing for a separate build
ing for the supreme court of the Unit
cd States. The structure would be
situated just outside the Capitol
grounds Immediately north of the Con-
gressional Library building to which
1t is proposed the exterior architecture
of the supreme court building should
correspond. The total cost of the
building is fixed at $S,O0O,O00
Henry F. Green Wednesday tender
ed to President Taft his resignation as
a Civil Service commissioner. asking
that it be made effective on May /. 1t
had been reported for some time that
the first vacancy on the commission
would be filled by the appointment OF
James r. Williams, Jr. Of the District
of Columbia, and formerly a newspa-
per man. who acted as secretary to
National Chairman Hitchcock during
greater part of the Presidential CAM
paiRn- He is a native of South Caro-
lima Commissioner Green was appoint
ed from Minnesota, The President has
taken no action as yet in the matter.
The Senate committee on census held
meeting Tuesday at which some radical
changes were made in the House bill. An
examination of the bill by the legal au-
thorities in the department Of commerce
and labor had revealed the fact that as ii
passed the House the bill conferred al
most supreme authority on the director
Of the census, ignoring the organic act
which created the department of COM
merce and labor, and made the secretary
responsible for the work Of the census
bureau. When this was called to the at
tentlon OF the committee it promptly rec
tilted the error by incorporating in the
act part of the law creating the census
bureau Who was responsible for the
framing of the measure as it passed the
House is not clear.
HAVING approved q plan suggested
by number of welI-known women of
New York. among whom was the
daughter OF J. Pierpont Morgan. for
the establishment of an employees
lunch room in the New York navy
yards steps have been taken to make
it operative. The lunch room is to ne
located on the first floor of what is
known as building No. IA, and specifi-
cations inviting bids for putting it in
to shape have been issued by the
bureau of yards and docks. They will
be opened on April II, at WASHINGTON.
The estimated cost of the changes
necessary 70 be made so as to accom-
n"tdte the building for luncheon pur-
sidcr the idea splendid one and are
convinced that it will conduct to the
benefit of the men and the service.