Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-05-28
news NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Happenings of the Week Briefly
Told--The Latest News
From the Capital

Benzoate of soda discussion is get
ting warm again.
Senator Aldrich is making some
progress in his fight against the in
come tax.
Work of restoring the name of JEFF
ferson Davis to Cabin John Bridge
has been completed.
Secretary of War Dickinson was
taken i'll at sea and had to leave Ha-
vana hurriedly for Washington.
Insurgents in the senate seem to
be getting some results by their per-
sistence.
Stockholders of the Union Pacific
Railroad are buying shares Of the
Southern Pacific Railroad in order to
retain control of the property.
Washington real estate owners are
trying to hold up the government by
demanding exorbitant prices for their
property.
The income tax proposition is being
fought by Aldrich, who seeks to post
pone action and may crack the party
whip on it.
The senate heard a debate on the
income tax by Mr.. Sutherland, while
Mr.. Smoot discussed the duty on
razors with much dramatic effect.
The house had a lot of fun with
Mr. Hollingsworth over editorial
comments in Louisiana and Missis-
sippi papers.
Mr.. Burleson has gotten through a
resolution inquiring into the pur-
chase of the Tennessee Company by
the steel trust.
President Taft received a special
envoy from Nicaragua, who came to
settle the Emery claim, and talked to
him in plain language.
Senator Clay delivered a speech at
tacking the sugar trust and urging a
reduction in the duty on refned su-
gar. The senate has completed the
metal schedules.
A statute of the Rev. DR.. John
Witherspoon, one of the signers OF
the Declaration of Independence
erected in this city by public sub
scription, was unveiled with impress
i've ceremonies.
Attorney-General Wickersham has
announced that a test law case VIII
be made out of the decision OF Secre-
tary Wilson that 1t is violation OF
the pure food law to use the bleach
ing process in making flour.
Presidential nominations of VIII
liam Williams to be commissioner ol
immigration of the port of New York
and Walter +. Clark, to be governor
of Alaska, have been confirmed by
the senate.
Enthusiastic over his two days in
vasion of the south, President Tar
has returned to the White House
conferred with the members of hi:
cabinet and received numerous call
ers.
The supreme court decided agains
Pilot John Leech; sustained the cour
of appeals in the Alabama rate case
and against the Chicago Tribune In
libel case of a woman whose picture
was printed in a whisky ad.
Colored passengers paying TN
same fare as white passengers can
not be legally Disseminated agains
in the way of accommodations, &C
cording to a ruling of the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
Attorney-General Wickersham ha
decided to suspend proceedings In tn
Oklahoma land fraud cases until evl
dence purporting to substantiate tn
charges against the governments al
torneys has been received here an
investigated.
Mrs. Taft probably will leave 10
the summer capital" at Beveri!
Mass, early in June, 1t was al
nounced, in the event 1t appears tina
. the president will be detained ]
Washington by the tariff until afte
| July 1.
, Imported automobiles, under tf
r new tariff law, must pay duty equ'
| to one-half their value, II the actio
: of the senate stands. The house pr
, vision for a duty of 45 per cent
valorem was accepted as to bicycle
and automobiles.
The travelling public won victor
D in the Portland gateway case py
a decision rendered by the lntersta
v Commerce Commission, requirlr
:. railroads to sell through tickets 0
. tween Seattle and other points In u
t Pacific northwest and eastern poin
via Portland, Ore.
It is announced that the coaiiti'
of democratic senators and "progres
i've republicans" has been broken
far as the income tax question Is co
: cerned. and that amendments on q
8 subject will be presented by DO
: Senators Bailey and Cummins. 30
of these amendments will provide
fat rates of tax. but they diner
> some other important features, p'
. | .;a,,.rlv tho nroDosed tax on corr