The Springfield herald., 1910-03-25
NEWS FROM WARRINGTON.

The white slave" bill will become
law as soon as signed by the presi-
dent
A protocol bearing upon the bound
ary differences between Costa Rico
and Panama has been signed.
President Taft has proclaimed that
France is entitled to the minimum tar
iff rates under the Payne-Aldrich law.
A number of changes will be made
in the railroad bill. This announce
ment after a conference of Senate
leaders with Secretary Wickersham.
Denver postoffice bids were opened
Tuesday There were eighteen. 1t 10
believed Colorado marble will be used.
The lowest bid for this material was
$l,362,1S2.
President Taft on TuesIay sent a
special message to Congress urging
the adoption of measures for the pro.
lection of seals on the islands OF st.
Paul and st. George.
A naval board of inquiry is at work
at the Charlestown navy yard investi-
eating the theft of $4,000 from the pay
masters safe on board the United
States gunboat Castlne.
By a vote of 191 to 1856 the Demo
Gratis and insurgents on Saturday
adopted the Norris resolution TO reor-
ganize the House committee on rules.
increasing the number from five to ten
and making the speaker ineligible to
har y,
The House committe on naval af-
fairs has favorably reported bill ap-
propriating 100000 to raise the wreck
of the battleship Maine in Havana har-
Dor. The action was taken on the
statement of the navy department that
the wreck was menace to naviga-
ton.
The Navy Department has ordered
the taking over from the contractors
the new big battleshiss the Delaware
and the North DAKOTA, sister ships of
10000 tons each. The Delaware will
be commissioned at Norfolk, April
4th, and the North Dakota at Boston.
two days later.
The proposal to have Congress re-
ward Commander Peary for his discov-
cry of the North pole met with an
other set back in the House committee
on naval affairs Tuesday and incident
ly Representative Englebright of Cal
ifornia, his principal advocate in the
committee, was badly outvoted.
According to close friends of Miss
Agnes p. Gerard. the Daughters of the
4 al .bn
discharged for alleged insubordination
by Mrs. Matthew T. Scott. the presi-
dent general, Miss Gerard will soon
institute suit for SANDER against Mrs.
Scott and sue for 100000 damages.
Thomas l.. Hisgen, the Independence
party candidate for president in 1908,
has filed with United States Senator
Crane of Massachusetts protest
against the federal incorporation of
the proposed Rockefeller foundation.
In his protest he asks for permission
to appear before the Senate and state
his reasons for opposing the incorpor-
alton. Hisgen claims the Rockefeller
will have greater powers
than the government which is asked to
create it.
An invitation will be extended at
Chicago for > holding of the 1913
TenI,- conclave in Denver,
and, it is thought. will be accepted.
ARMY staff officers in Washington
exert influence because they attend
pink teas and dance with the girls"
declared Representative Sulzer of New |
York in the House. in suggesting that |
opposition in the House to the Senate |
to the army appropriation |
bill bestowing the rank of major gen
eral ON several officers of the line. had
its origin with staff officers. The
House rejected the amendment.
Senor Murguindo, Uruguayan con
sui general, died Wednesday.
Satisfied that the present methods
Of operating its smelters by the Ana
,onda Copper Mining Company are not
only destructive of the surrounding ma
.ural forests, but unnecessary. Attorn
ey General Wickersham has caused
bill in equity to be filed at Helena,
Mont, against the company. The bill
asks for a permanent injunction to
compel the company to operate its
plant at Anaconda in such a manner
Is to end the destruction complained
II.