The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-07-14
WANT PtstAl BasHs
Large Number of Applica-
tions From All Over the
Country Pouring into
Postoffice Depart.
ment.


ceives the Congratuiation Of Ills
Many Friends, and They Expect
Even Greater Honors for Him-A
Feather in the Cap of Congress
man Norehead-Drainage of the
Southern Swamp Lands-Referee
Machine Slips a Cog-Have Prom
ised Offices They Can't Deliver.
Especial TO The Caucasian)
Washington, d. c.. July IL, 1910.
4 large number of applications
for the establishment OF postal saw
ings banks at various post-offices
over the country are pouring in az
the Post-Ofice Department. When
the people once see and appreciate
the benefits that will come to the
masses generally through postal saw
ings banks they will be as popular
A member of the Senate Commit
tee on Post-Offices and Post Roads,
commenting upon the great number
Of applications already received by
the Post-Office Department for estab-
fishing postal savings banks, OBJ
served that it was rather a remark
able coincidence that the first bill
ever reported by the Senate Commit
tee on Post-Offices and Post Roads in
favor Of postal savings banks was a
bill introduced and championed by
former Senator Butler, of North Car
olina, and that it was the same
Senator who championed and put
through the law establishing the
great system of free rural delivery.
This Senator observed that he was
a member of the Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads at the time
that Senator Butler put through
both of these measures, and that it
was the State of North Carolina
that deserved entirely the credit for
one of these great reforms and de-
served the credit for initiating the
other.
Assistant Attorney General Settle
Here.
Hon. Thomas Settle, of Asheville,
who has just been appointed Assis-
tant Attorney-General, whose duties
will be the enforcement of the new
railroad rate law passed by. the last
Congress, reached the capital yester-
day and was receiving the congratu-
lations of his many friends here in
all of the downtown hotel lobbies
1t was remarked by a number that
Settle never looked in finer trim, and
that he was sure to make a brilliant
record in this new and important po-
sition under the Attorney-General
1t was further remarked by some of
his friends that they believed that
he would make such a record that
he would soon be promoted to serve
as a Judge on the Commerce Court
before which he is now to represent
the people as Government counsel.
It was also remarked that the Sc
curing Of this important appoint
ment by North Carolina was a great
feather in the cap Of Congressman
John NJ. Morehead, and that Settle
would be sure to make Morehead
proud of his victory.
The Drainage of Southern Swamp
Land.
A Western Senator to-day, just be-
fore taking his train for his home
State, in giving an interview, stated
that the West was delighted to have
secured the twenty million dollar
additional appropriation for the ir-
rigation of the arid lands of the
West, and dilated at some length on
how much this would mean for the
growth and wealth of the great
Western country.
In conclusion, he observed that it
would not be long before Congress
would put through the bill intro
duced by Congressman Morehead at
this session to do the same thing for
the South that has already been
into operation a project to drain the
immense area of fertile swamp land
in all the Southern States.
He admitted that there was as
much, if not more, land in the South
capable of being drained, as there is
in the West capable of being irri-
gated, and admitted further that the
drainage of the swamp lands of the
South would be worth more to the
country even than the great irriga-
tion projects of the West
Reduction of Freight Rates in North
Carolina.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has declared that a number of
the through freight rates across
North Carolina and from North Car
olina points to outside points were