Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-08-27
PORTO R|COLEG|sLA1URE
Will Consider Measures to Lease the
Government Telephone and Tel
egraph Lines to a Private
Corporation Political
Outlook Reviewed.
,Heraid Specially

throughout the country, will start the
week in Denver, where he will speak
Monday at the opening of the national
convention of Spanish war veterans.
From Denver he will proceed to Osa-
watomie. Kas., stopping there We'd
nesday to attend the dedication of
state park on the site OF the old Osa-
watomie battlefield. Kansas City will
entertain him Thursday and during
the remainder of the week he will be
the guest of Omaha, delivering public
speeches in both cities. He will re-
main over Sunday in Sioux Falls.
What promises to be one of the
greatest commercial battles in the
history of the United States will be
opened in Chicago Monday, when the
Interstate Commerce Commission be-
gins its inquiry into the propriety OF
the general advances in freight rates
recently announced by the western
transportation lines.
On Wednesday statue of the late
Thomas B. Reed, speaker of the ma
tional house of representatives. will
be unveiled in his home city of Port
land, Me-, with an grafton by Congress
man Mccall of Massachusetts,
A magnificent public welcome is
being prepared for Cardinal Vanutelli,
the papal legate to the Eueharistic
Congress in Montreal, who is due to
reach that city Friday accompanied
by numerous other delegates to the
congress rom rom All over iEHf8pg.
At Nelson, British Columbia, Sir
Wilfrid Laurier will hold a conference
with representative of the Portland
and Spokane chambers of commerce
to discuss an international project for
deepening the Columbia river, making
it navigable from the sea to West
Robson, B. C.
The special session of the Porto
Rican legislature, which Governor Col
ton has called to meet Tuesday, VIII
consider measures to lease the gov
eminent telephone and telegraph lines
to private corporation, to safeguard
the interests of the island in the i'm
portation of seeds and tree cuttings,
and to cede lands for the erection of
a million dollar hotel in San Juan.
On Saturday a notable celebration
of the 200th anniversary of the Church
of England in Canada will begin in
Halifax. Eminent ,churchmen from
all parts of Canada and from England
will take part.
The American group of delegates to
he conference of the disappointment
ary Union, which is to begin it's SEES
Sions in Brussels Monday, will pre-
sent several resolutions looking to-
ward the establishment of permanent
,eace between nations of the world.
A clash between the progressives
md standpatters Is likely to occur
When the republican party council of
Kansas meets in Topeka Tuesday to
a platform for the state
nd congressional campaigns. Other
'olitical events Of the week will in
lude the congressional primaries in
1aryland, the republican state con-
ention in Delaware, the democratic
tate convention in Georgia, and the
emocratic state primaries in South
arolina. In the latter contest be-
ween six aspirants for the governor
hip will be decided.
Included among other events and
lettings which will contribute to the
ews of the week will be the national
ncampment of the United Spanish
Ear Veterans at Denver, which will
ave Colonel Theodore Roosevelt as
S guest; the opening of the Ohio
alley Exposition at Cincinnati, the
lnual meeting Of the American Bar
ssociation in Chattanooga, the con-
ention of the Atlantic Deeper Water
avs Association in Providence, the
acific saengerfest in San Francisco,
e fourth international conference of
ate and local taxation in Milwaukee,
lie opening of the Dominion exhibit
on at st. John, N B., the conference
the International Union for Co
1eration in Solar Research at Mount
7ilson, Cal, and the opening Of a
rec days aviation meet near Boston
lder the auspices Of the aeronautic
ciety of Harvard University.