The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-06-18
news NOTES FROM WASHINGTON
Happenings of the Week Briefly
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From the Capital

Iuc I1tllIOdu UNI.
The postal savings bank bill was
passed by the House.
Speaker Cannon will take the
stump and defy his enemies.
The Senate adopted the conference
report on the rivers and harbors
bill.
The Maya Indian insurgents in
Yueatan were defeated by Mexican
troops.
The American delegation to the
Pan-American Conference started for
Buenos Ayres.
The House committee on foreign
affairs took no action on the Pana-
ma Canal Exposition.
Senators Newlands and Burton al
tackled the rivers and .harbors bill in
speeches in the Senate.
The House passed a bill increasin g
the salary of United States Marshal
Lcisel, of New Orleans, from $4,000
to $4,000.
AS the result of political deal be-
tween Republicans and Democrat t
faction, Tennessee will probably go
Republican next fall.
Mrs. Mary Scott Castle, an Ameri-
can actress, was murdered in Italy.
Her body was placed in a trunk
and thrown into lake.
President Taft flatly refused to re-
move a regiment of negro soldiers
from Seattle, Wash, in response to a
request Of citizens of Seattle.
A government collier to cost not
more than s1,000,000 will be built
on the Pacific coast, in such navy
yard as the. secrtary of the navy may
designate.
Senator McEnery had an item of
$4,000 placed in the naval appro-
priation bill for the construction of
a power plant at the New Orleans
Naval Station.
The California delegation is bring
ing strong pressure on the House for
eign affairs committee to report the
San Francisco exposition bill at the
present session.
The members of the Senate and
House exposition committees have
been invited to visit New Orleans
and the Isthmus of Panama during
the coming fall.
The conference report on the riv-
ers and harbors bill was adopted by
the House. Liberal provision is
made for the Atchafalaya River and
other Louisiana streams.
Naval Constructors Thomas G..
Roberts, formerly stationed at New
Orleans, was given severe grillin3
by the House committee which is in
vestigating the ship subsidy scandal.
The San Francisco boomers again
attempted to secure action on their
exposition resolution at the meeting
of the House foreign affairs COM
mittee but they have thus far failed.
President Taft refused to receive
Congressman Francis Burton Harri-
son of New York, because Harrison
criticised Taft and Wickersham's :
course in the Ballinger-Pinchot scan
dal.
The Canadian Government has in
desire to take up as early as posi-
BILE the subject of the negotiation OF
trade treaty with the United
States.
The Federal grand jury at Wash
ington returned an indictment
against the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, charging it with for
ty-two violations of the bucket-shop
law of March 1, 1909.
The House again refused to agree
to an amendment to the legislature
executive and judicial appropriation
bill making appropriations for au
tomobiles for the vice president and
speaker of the House.
Representative Francis Burton
Harrison, of New York, who was
snubbed by President Taft at the
White House, said that so far as he
was concerned the incident was clos
ed, and that he did not bear any
personal resentment.
Splendid prospects for fruit in
New England and the Pacific coast
states almost counterbalance the
poor showing of the central states,
according to report made public by
the Department of Agriculture on
general crop growth.
Senate leaders. told President Taft
that there was no chance of passing
through the Senate the provision in
the House railroad bill providing for
supervision of the issuance of stocks
and bonds by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
The total imports under the Payne
tariff law for the nine months ended
April 80 were valued at $3.50, ,771,-
1873, of which 1873 per cent were
free. The duties collected amounted
to s252,15O,S14. The average ad
valorem duty on the total imports
was 1901.
President Taft is anxious for Con-
gress to adjourn by July 1.
According to official dispatches
from Managua, Nicaragua, president
Madriz has been dispatching re-en-
forcements, ammunition, mules and
hospital stores to Greyton.
The House bill authorizing the
disposal of the surface of coal lands