The Penn's Grove record., 1910-06-10

The Ways and Means Committee in
solemn conclave debated for two
hours the adyisability of paying for a
dead horse, and finally agreed to re-
port a bill appropriate
A Valuable ing $1,000 for that pur-
Dead Horse. pose. 1t appears that a
constituent of Repre-
sentative Smith, of Texas, brought a
horse which he valued at $1,000 into
this country for exhibition purposes
and gave a bond to the Treasury De-
partment for the value of the animal,
in lieu of paying tariff thereon, said
horse to be deported within a year,
when the bond would be returned.
But the horse died. Then the i'm
porter was threatened with forfeiture
of the bond. He proposed to exhume
the dead equine and export him, but
the customs authorities decided that
this would not comply with the law,
and that he must forfeit the amount
of the bond. Under these circum-
stances the importer appealed to Rep
resentative Smith, and he in turn ap-
pealed to the Ways and Means Com
mittee, with the result that a bill
appropriating $1,000, to be paid to the
customs authorities in lieu of the
bond of MI. Smiths constituent, was
ordered favorably reported.
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The approval by both the Senate
and the House of the Navy Depart
ment's plans for enlarging the dry
docks at Brooklyn, Norfolk, Bremen
ton and Pearl Harbor
Battleship practically establishes a
Limits. limit for the size of bat
tleships. This limitation
will be approximately $50 feet
length, 100 feet beam and thirty feet
draft. 1t is assumed that 30,000-ton
ships will be built in the not distant
future, but it is expected that that
size will hardly be exceeded. The
new dry docks will have a beam of
10 feet, as will also the locks of the
Panama Canal. The latter are 1000
feet long, but the extreme limit of
the dry docks is 750-odd feet. OF
course, there are even now ccmpara-
lively few harbors with a depth of
thirty feet, and practically none, ex-
cept Puget Sound, with a greater
depth.
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Representative Dodds, of Michigan,
had passed a bill designed to restore
to the publications of fraternal or
ders, trades unions, ETC., the second
class mail privilege, OF
Fraternal which they were de-
Publications. prived by a recent rul-
ing of the Postofice
Department. The department ruled
that these publications wer not en-
titled to the second class mail privil-
eye if they contained advertising
matter which did not relate strictly
to the chief purpose for which the
paper or periodical vas published
Representatives of a number of these
publications have appeared before
the Postoffice Committee and de-
clared that if the ruling of the de
partment is not set aside they will tt
obliged to suspend publication.
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Senator Lodge secured the passage
Of the Red Cross bill which was in
troduced in the House by Represen'
tative DENLY and has been stanchly
advocated by Miss Mabe
Red Cross Beardman. This bill
Legislation. makes it unlawful fol
any n falsely to repre-
sent himself as a member or agent o.
the Red Cross or to use the emblem
of the Red Cross as a trademark OF
for advertising purposes unless sucf
person had so used the emblem priol
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provides that the endowment fund o.
the Red Cross shall be kept and in
vested under the management ant
control of a board of nine trustees
who shall be elected from time tt
time by the incorporators or theil
successors, etc. 1t is expected tina
this legislation will serve to proven
4 number of frauds which have beer
perpetrated through the unauthor
lied solicitation of funds for the Rel
Cross, and that it will further serve
to prevent the continued advertisins
Of all sorts of Red Cross articles ant
nostrums which have no right to thu
Endorsement the use of the emblem
implies.
Senator Dixon, for the Committee
on Conservation, of which he is chair
man, reported %favorably to the Sen
ate Senator Newlands' bill creating
a national conservation
National commission of fftee1
Conservation members, to be appoint
Commission. ed by the President ant
confirmed by the Sen
ate, such commissioners to serve
without pay and to investigate anc
report on all problems having to de
with the control of water resources
irrigation, municipal water supplies
the extraction of coal, gas and Other
minerals, the protection of the pub
lie domain for homeseekers and o.
the timber reserves, etc. The bill
further provides that the commission
shall make annual reports to the
President, who in turn shall sub
NIT such reports to Congress
for its guidance. There is ar
appropriation of $4,000 to carry out
its provisions. The adoption of this
bill would provide for an official con,
~servation commission which would
be under the control and direction oil
the President and would doubtless
supplant the somewhat irresponsible
organization now known as the Ma
tional Conservation Commission.