The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-01-15
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The American Federation of Labor
through a committee headed b,
Samuel Gompers, James o'Connel
and other union leaders, carried it.
hight against the United States Stee
Corporation to President Taft. Tht
committee presented formal paper
in which they set forth fourteen diff
ferent charges of illegality agains
an immediate investigation of the
the Steel Corporation and asked fol
trust. 49,.
An investigation of the salmo1
canning industry, as a result of com
plants that many Of the such ar.
abranded, has been started by the De
partment OF Agriculture. Salmon
Gamers asked the government to
take up a charge that low-grade can
neries engaged in unlawful competi
tion by putting up as salmon man.
fish that are not salmon at all.
Though he was reelected to the
Sixty-frst Congress in November
1908. Representative Legare, Of
South Carolina, presented himself be
fore the speakers desk to be sworn IL
Friday, more than one year late. Mr.
Legare~has been ill since the latter
part of the Sixtieth Congress.
:: A very. comfortable rivers and har
bors appropriation bill, carrying up:
wards Of s30,0O0,000 for new and
continuing operations" Chairman
Alexander, of the House committee
on rivers and harbors, emphatically
stated will be reported to the House
early in February.
The first of the automatic sugar.
weighing scales which the Treasury
Department contemplates introducing
at New. York Is now ready for q
test at Boston, where the factory is
located. If the tests are satisfactory
they promptly will be installed on the
New York docks.
The Democrats and Republican in
surgents in the House caught Speak
er Cannon's supporters mapping and
adopted a motion placing the ap-
pointment of the Ba1linger-Pincho
investigating committee in the hands
Of. the House.
The Senate referred to the COM
mittee on public lands the joint re-
solution for investigation of the In
terror Department and the Bureau of
Forestry.
!. President Taft sent to the Senate
the nomination Of Captain Charles p.
Everett, Of the navy, to be rear ad-
miral
The insurgent Republicans in the
Senate declare that they will not be
bought with Federal patronage by
Taft.
RESOLUTIONS were introduced in
the Senate and House providing for
an investigation Of the Ballinger-
Pinchot controversy.
The message of Governor Hughes
of New York, opposing the Federal
income tax, Is attracting considerable
attention in Congress.
President Madrfz, of Nicaragua,
has given Luis F. Corea power to
peace terms with the in
surgents. =: --
The House adopted the joint reso-
luton providing for an investigation
by Congress of the Interior Depart
ment and the Forestry Bureau.
The prospects are good for the pas
sage Of rivers and harbors bill dur
ing the present session of Congress.
It is stated at Washington that ".
T. Bryan will not be a candidate for
United States senator in Nebraska.
Congressmen Mann and Townsend
have introduced railroad rate regula-
ton bill in the House:
clifford Pinchot was removed from
his office. as forester by President
Taft.
The Mississippi lumber trust case
has reached the United States Sup
RENE Court.
Efforts to secure 'warships for the
New. Orleans Carnival have failed.
Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives were anxious for an in
vestigation of the high cost of liv-
ing.
Colonel James Gordon took the
oath as United States senator from
Mississippi.
The appointment of negro census
in the South Is causing
President Taft favors pensions for
aged employees of the Federal Gov
ernment.
:..Three men were killed and nine.
injured by an explosion in a cereal.
mill at Buffalo, n, Y.
sThe president sent to the Senate
the nominations of the members OF
the new Custom Court:
The Federal Supreme Court sus-
tanned Governor Haskell in the Prai-
rie Oil and Gas case from Oklahoma.
Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, will
head the Ballinger-Pinchot 1nvesti-
eating committee.
The President decided to combine
his interstate commerce and. anti
trust recommendation ~intos .-oae
message to congress. - :.
Col. Gordon was not sworn in as
United States Senator from Missis-
sippi, but would be today, It was