The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-14
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The Ways and Means Committee in
solemn conclave debated for two
hours the advisability of paying for
dead horse, and finally agreed to re-
port bill appropriate
A Valuable ing $1,000 for that pur-
Dead Horse. pose. Tt appears that
constituent OF Repre-
sentative Smith, of Texas, brought a
horse which he valued at $1,000 into
this country for exhibition purposes
and gave 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 APP
pealed to the Ways and Means Com
mittee, with the result that bill
appropriating $1,000, to be paid to the
customs authorities In lieu of the
bond Of Mr. 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
locks at Brooklyn, Norfolk, Bremer-
ton and Pearl Harbor
Battleship practically establishes
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 80 ,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 beam of
Ito 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 compare
lively few harbors with depth of
thirty feet, and practically none, ex-
cept Puget Sound, with greater
depth.
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 recent rul-
ing of the Postoffice
Department. The department ruled
that these publications were 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 was published.
Representative 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 be
| 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 Mabel
Red Cross Boardman. This bill
Legislation. makes it unlawful for
any one falsely to repre-
| sent himself as member or agent OF
4 the Red Cross or to use the emblem
1 of the Red Gross as trademark or
! for advertising purposes unless such
| person had so used the emblem prior
| t. January S, 1905. The bill further
| provides that the endowment fund of
! the Red Cross shall be kept and in
/ vested under the management and
control of board of nine trustees,
! who shall be elected from time to
time by the incorporators or their
successors, etc. 1t is expected that
/ this legislation will serve to prevent
number of frauds which have been
\ perpetrated through the unauthor-
| lied solicitation of funds for the Red
! Cross, and that it will further serve
! to prevent the continued advertising
Of all sorts of Red Cross articles and
nostrums which have no right to the
Endorsement the use Of the emblem
implies.
Senator Dixon, for the Committee
on Conservation, of which he is chair
4 man, reported favorably to the Sem
ate Senator Newlands' bill creating
a national conservation
T. NAtiOudl COu ullSS4Ou u ullcCn
Conservation members, to be appoint
| Commission. ed by the President and
confirmed by the SEN
ate. such commissioners to serve
without pay and to Investigate and
report on all problems having to do
/ 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 of
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 an
appropriation of $50, 900 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 of
the President and would doubtless
supplant the somewhat irresponsible
organization now known as the Ma
tional Conservation Commission.