Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-29
Washington News.

The department OF commerce and
labor reports that the trade of the
United States with its noncontiguOus
colonies or territories during the lis
cal year Just ended amounted to about
S1l9,000,000 which is contrasted with
the $35,000,000 total in 1897. The larg
est gain was i'm the Philippine trade,
where the tariff law extended the
privilege of some free interchange.
Two important crop report will be
Issued by the crop reporting board
Of the department Of agriculture dur.
ing the next month. The first will be
that showing the condition of the cot
ton crop on July 25. This report will
be issued Tuesday, August 2. The
other, to be issued I ;Eday, August &,
will be a summary OF the conditions Of
the principal crops on August /.
Building operations in one hundred
and twenty-eight cities of the United
States during the calendar year 1909,
represented expenditures close to a
billion dollars-or to be exact, ac-
cording to statistics compiled by the
United States Geological survey.
1930,52O,713. That result is taken TO
be one of the principal indications
that during 1909 the country recover
ed from the financial panic Of 1917
and 1908 for the building record for
1905 was beaten ten per cent.
The interstate commerce commit
tee decided that rates on yellow pine
lumber and products in Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Missouri and otaa
southern states to points reached by
the lines of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Roilroad company, the
Union Pacific Railroad company, and
aialiated lines, in western Nebraska,
are unreasonable. The commission
has prescribed reasonable rates for
the future.
President Taft and his administra-
ton we're severely arraigned by the
negro clergy Of Washington at meet.
ing Of the Independent league. They
charged President Taft with estan-
lishing the most pernicious precedent
th6t ever excited race hatred and
With selling out the negro's rights for
. mess of "'possum." They declared
the appointment of negroes to high
federal places was only modest way
Of buying them and keeping down agi-
tAtion against the republicans.
Out of a total of one hundred per-
cons designated by the state depart
mont ofilcials to appear before them
10 stand examinations for consular
ships, only eighty-two had answered
the summons up to June 80 and OF
this number the south showed the lar
ger percentage of applications in thir-
yseven from that section of the
country being represented. An impet.
- IN the south of federal patronage
ID noted, 1t is stated.
4 preliminary summary OF the twen-
ty-eecond annual statistical report OF
the Interstate commerce commission
vas issued covering the fiscal year
ended June 80, 1909. 1t shows that
there was total single track railway
mileage In the United States of 1885,
oe8 miles, an increase over the pre-
vtous year of 3,215 miles. More than
one hundred miles increase is indi-
Gated In the state of Arkansas, Mis-
eissippi. Texas, Virginia and several
others. The total number of employees
On the payrolls of the steam railroads
Of the country was 1,502,S2S, an in
crease OF 66,54S over the previous
year. The par value of railroad prop
erty was $17.4S7. 7.S6S,935.