The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-06-11

President Taft delivered an ad
dress at Byrn Nav College, Phila
delphia, Pa.
Secretary Meyer has ordered i'm.
provements at the New Orleans Ma
val Station.
Seventeen men were killed by 6
premature explosion of. powder a,
Morgan, Utah.
Twelve persons were injured in q
passenger wreck on the Southern
railway at Sycamore, Va.
1t is reported in Washington that
Secretary of War Dickinson will sue
ceed Moody on the Supreme Court
bench.
The Government of Peru has in
dicated it's purpose to withdraw its
army from the Ecuadorean frontier
on June 4.
The Republican insurgents in the
House will make another effort to
depose Speaker Cannon before the
House adjourns.
The city of Nanking, China, has
been posted with placards melting
the people to the destruction of for
eign life and property.
Captain Charles S Rolls, the Eng
lish aviator, flew across the Eng
lish Channel from Dover to San
Gate, France, and returned without
stopping.
Bills have been introduced in the
House changing the material of the
New Orleans postoffice, in course of
construction, from limestone to gran
ite Or marble.
The San Francisco exposition
boomers are bringing strong pressure
to bear on Congressman Rodenberg,
of Illinois, to induce him to. consent
to a favorable report on their bill.
The La Toilette amendment to the
railroad bill providing for the ascer-
-tainment Of physical valuation of
railroads as basis for fixing rates,
was rejected by the Senate by vote
of 25 to 80.
An appropriation of 100000 was
made by the House to enable the sec
retary Of agriculture to make an in
vestigation of methods of making
paper from various plants and woods.
By a vote of 81 to 50 the House
adopted an amendment to the sundry
civil bill providing that no money
appropriated for the enforcement of
the Sherman antitrust law should
be used for the prosecution of labor
organizations.
The United States, 1t was officially
declared, has no intention of in any
way intervening in Nicaragua or re-
cognizing either party to the contro-
versy until one faction or the other
has obtained full control of the gov
ernment by consent of the people.
The Burton amendment to the rail-
road bill to authorize the Interstate
Commerce Commission to fix the
minimum rates that may be charged
by railroads which compete with wa
ter routes, was adopted by the Sen
ate.
The Arbitration Tribunal before
which is to be tried the issue be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain growing out of conflicting in
terpretations of the Newfoundland
fisheries treaty of 1918 is in session
at The Hague.
One of the largest melons" ever
sliced for the delectation of stock
holders will be cut by the Singer
Manufacturing Company, which has
called meeting of directors on June
1S to declare a $30,000,000 stock
dividend for it's shareholders.
It was discovered that the govern
ment's Injunction against the West
ern trunk freight rate increase ap-
piled only to tariff A, 115, mention
ed in the bill, and did not cover the
increased rate on wool of 10 per cent,
which went into effect June 1.
An amendment to the railroad bill
offered by Senator Overman, regulat
ing the suspension Of state laws by
the issuance of injunctions in inter-
locutory proceedings in Federal
courts, was adopted by the Senate.
It prohibits such a course except af-
ter hearing by three judges.
There was a sensational break in
the cotton market in New York, with
trading more active and excited than
at any time since the series of drastic
declines which carried prices down
about three cents a pound last jan
uary. 1t was the last day of trading
in May contracts, business in that
delivery ending at midday.
The administration railroad bill
passed the Senate by vote of SO to
IL. It will now go to conference,
and the new law will go into effect
sixty days from the date it is ap-
proved by the president
Senators Hepburn and Gallinger
took Senator La Toilette to task for
offering amendments to bills, and af-
terwards, in public lectures, parad-
ing the records of Senators who OPP
posed his measures. La Toilette
heatedly said he intended to pursue
the same course In the future.