The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-06-10
News FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
What Our Lawmakers Are Do:
ing and Other Items OF
Importance.

changes made in the measures from
the form in which it was drafted by
Attorney General Wickersham after
numerous conferences at the White
House on the subject Of amending in
terstate commerce laws. All the Gin
surgents," who opposed many features
of the original bill, voted for it.
Through the elimination of the pool
ing and merging sections and by rea.
son of the adoption Of many amend
ments in the interest Of shippers, the
progressive Republicans claim sig.
nal victory and most of the Demo
Gratis express themselves as favorable
to the large portion OF the measure.
The bill places telegraph and tele-
phone lines under jurisdiction OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
The Commission is authorized to de-
termine the reasonableness of rates,
and penalty Is imposed Of from $500
to $4,000 against granting franks or
passes for the transmission of mes.
sages. Special night and press rates
are authorized.
Six States Ratify Income Tax.
| Six states thus far through their
Legislatures have ratified the income
tax amendment to the Constitution,
five have rejected 1t and two have
postponed action.
Friends of the income tax express
the fullest confidence that the amend
ment ultimately will be adopted, and
believe that one or two Of the States
now ON record against 1t will reverse
their attitude when new Legislatures
are chosen.
The six States that have voted to
ratify this amendment are Alabama
South Carolina, Illinois, Maryland
Kentucky and Mississippi. The
States voting adversely are New York
Rhode Island, Massachusetts. Virgins
and Louisiana, while Georgia and New
Jersey have postponed vote unit
the next session of their Legislatures
Land Grant Brief Filed.
After fourteen months of prepare
ton, B. D. Townsend. special prosecu
tor for the United States. has filed
brief containing the case of thu
United States in its suit against thu
Oregon C California Railroad Com
pany ct al, a suit by all odds the mos
important ever filed in Oregon, ant
one involving the ownership of abou
5000 900 acres of Oregon land valued
at between $45,OOO,OOO and s5O.O0O
900.
The suit of the Government Is t.
set aside the grants of 1866 and 1877
to the railroad, consisting of abou
$500, 900 acres of land, and to regain
possession of the 100000 acres o
unsold lands on the contention tina
the railroad company has fagrantl
violated the conditions of the grant
Borah's Bill Is Favored.
The conference committee in charg
of the Borah bill, extending the pre-
visions Of the enlarged homestead lay
to Idaho, has reached an agreemen
and will report the bill substantial
as it passed the Senate. Senator b
rah expects the report to be adopte
in the near future. AS agreed upon,
limited number OF nonresident hom
steads may be made In Idaho.
President Gets New Cow.
Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wi
consin has informed President Tia
that the new presidential COW th'
will furnish milk for the White Hous
will soon be in this city. The ne
COW will take the place of the late
mented "Mulsy" and her name
Pauline" Pauline Is some COW. |
cows go. She Is worth $4,000 on Il
hoof and 10 a full blooded Holstein.
state Department Acts.
The State Department has tax,
cognizance OF the Associated Pre-
dispatches from San Juan del Su
that William Pittham. the Americ'
captured BY the Madriz troops, wou
be tried by court martial. A telegra
TO the Madriz Government Is bell
sent, stating in effect that this Go
eminent expects fair and humal
treatment for Pittham.
Ceyion hespitais.