Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-05
WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 5, 10

| PRESIDENT Id1t appointed CHdrleS r.
Stokes, surgeon general Of the navy. The
| President held a conference with state
republican leaders on the political situa-
/ ton in Ohio. Kansas lost the suit in the
| Supreme Court to compel the Pullman
Company to pay school tax on its capt.
talization. The interstate commerce COM
mission ruled that in railroad tariffs the
| lowest rate is the legal rate. Concessions
| by the United States and Germany averted
threatened tariff war, and negotiations
were concluded which exchange American
minimum rates for the entire and unqual-
flied minimum list of Germany. The army
appropriation and the urgent deficiency
! bills were passed by the Senate, also
measure providing that principal and in
! terest on United States bonds shall be
payable in gold coin; the Senate discussed
the postal savings bank bill and the pro-
posed investigation of the cost of living.
w. Z. Purcell succeeded as senator F.
l.. Thompson of North Dakota, who sud
denly resigned. The House passed the
| agricultural appropriation bill: demo-
Gratis in the House charged that republic
cans were planning to use the census emu
merators for partisan purposes. The New
! York delegation in the House. at eau
Gus, adopted resolutions pledging support to
President Taft's legislative program. Louis
1 r. CLAWS was cross-examined by the Bal
| linger-Pinchot investigating committee.
Fisk & Robinson, New York bond deal
ers. failed with big liabilities. The Mex
| lean National Packing Company. a New
Jersey corporation. failed, with 1000 600
liabilities. Mrs w. Gould Brokaw got her
divorce and S1joOO year alimony. The
steamer Kentucky went down off Hat
eras. but the crew was taken off by the
| Mallory liner Alamo.
Foreign Affairs.
| The British elections were concluded.
the liberals securing just one more seat
| than the unionsts in the next house OF
F! commons. but holding considerable ma
lority with the aid of laborites. The law
yers of the Sackvile-W West claimant aban-
doned the case and he said he would act
as his own attorney. The waters of the
Seine fell steadily and relief work was
! systema TIED a quarter or million OF
people in Paris and vicinity were fed and
clothed The trial of Cardinal Lucon at
Rheims on the charge of attempting TO
cripple the public schools through an
episcopal letter was finished, the court
| reserying decision. Chancellor Won Beth
mann-Hollweg sharply rebuked the Pan
Germans for their attack on the foreign
Off A bill to establish government
potash monopoly was introduced In the
| German reichstag. Police seized papers
Maulioff, former chief of Russian secret
| police i'm Paris. A new ministry was
| formed in Christiania. Sweden. with M.
konow as premier. Chile signed the pro-
toco allowing King Edward VII to arbi-
| trate the Alsop claim The new bill, de-
signed TO suppress the dissemination of
| anarchstic literature in India, was intro
duced in the imperial council. An imperial
] edict issued at Picking refused to grant the
petition of representatives of the provin-
cial assemblies asking for the early es-
tablishment Of parliament. twenty
Japanese settlers were murdered IN an
uprising in South Phongan, Korea. An
explosion in a Mexican coal mine killed
| sixty-eight people or more. A dispatch
from Managla said That the lnsurSeht
gunboat Omotepe shelled GreytoWn, but
/ was disabled by fire from the shore bat
teries after setting nine houses on fire.
In the District.
The Commissioners approved the model
insurance bill" The Senate District COM
mittee voted to make an adverse report
on a bill proposing to give the excise
/ hoard power to issue licenses to sell liquor
on steamboats, in District waters. Steps
! were taken by all patriotic organizations
in Washington to prevent the proposed
elimination of old clerks from the depart
ment service or their demotion. The thir-
| teenth annual meeting of the Audubon
Society was held. Opposition developed
among the allopathic and homeopathic
| physicians to the proposed bill to give
full medical license to osteopathic prac-
titioners The street railway companies
submitted their annual reports to Con-
| gress District inspectors found out that
one COW out Of every four has tubercu-
losis. Fourteen Washington organizations
Joined in the meat boycott. Four indict-
ments, charging the use of the mails in a
| scheme to defraud We're returned by the
| al
Campbell Griffin Halstead, broker. p cad
ed not guilty to charge of embezZle-
ment Mrs. Grace Gilmore committed sui
eide by taking poison. Among those who
died were Representative Lowering. DIR.
Walker S. Caughy, DIR. Joseph T. How
ard, James J. Sheehy, Edward H. Downs
and A. NJ Salmon.