The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1910-04-08

feathers, wings or birds as personal
decorations was passed by the New
Jersey lower house by vote Of thir-
| ty-three to eleven. 1t is said that
Governor Fort stands ready to sign
the bill if passed by the state senate.
| A steady increase in the wholesale
| price of meat has ne.essitated an ad-
! vance of about 2 cents pound all
around by the retail butchers. 1t is
generally conceded that meat phices
are higher than ever before since the
| civil war, and that they will go still
| higher.
Washington.
w. J. White, Inspector of the Do
minion government Offices in the
United States, has compiled details
of this years movement of Americ-
cans into the Canadian western prov
inces "On the train crossing into
| Canada at North Portal" h. said,
the American settlers had in cash
or checks, $225,000: In a single day
which l spent at st. Paul the settlers
passing through to Canada in twenty
| four hours represented total capital
| of more than $1,000,000. Statistics
SdCuSI GU IcCSuJ years SuOW
| that these immigrants enrich Canada
at the rate of about $1,000 per capl-
| ia. The total number of settlers en-
tering Canada from the United States
in the eleven months ended March |
was S6,48S. For the corresponding Pc
riod of the previous fiscal year, the
figures were 50,650."
1--WE are handing out today in 60
per cent Of the cases, patents that
are almost worthless, in whole or in
part" was the declaration made by
Commissioner of Patents Moore, at
hearing before the house committee
on patents, as shown by the report of
the hearing just issued. mo other
country does that" he added.
Representative Spight of MISSISSIPPI
pi in the house replied to remarks
that had been inserted in the Con-
gressional Record by Representative
Hollingsworth of Ohio in criticism Of
the silver service bearing the picture
of jefferson Davis, presented to the
battleship Mississippi by the people
of Mississippi Mr.. Spight reminded
the house of the fact that the civil
war was over and general good feel
sections of theco untry known as the
north and south.
A special agent of the department
of commerce and labor, who was sent
to study the cost of living lroblem
in England, reports considerable diff
ference between prices in that coun-
try and in the majority of cities here.
Figures taken from three laboring dis
tricts of London show that food and
lodgings for a man, wife and two chill
dren come at a minimum of 1874
per week. He compares this with the
average of the working classes. $7.25
to 1915. The report says further that
taxicab drivers getting from SIS to
$40 a week, are the best paid workers
in London. The best paid policeman
gets only $10.33, letter carriers $3.50
and in the engineering trades the
maximum of wage is a little over $40.
Labor unions and charitable societies
reported that in the past five years
workmen ready to work had not been
able to get employment more than
65 to Is per cent of the time.
Judge H. S. Cowan of Fort Worth,
Texas, attorney for the American
tie Raisers' association, told the SEN
ate committee on the high cost of liv-
ing that the people of the United
States need never expect to get
cheaper beef. He asserted that con-
ditions are such that prices will not
fall He assigned as a cause the in
creased cost of production of feed
and equipment, wages, the advance
in land values and the fact that large
ranches, where formerly many head
of cattle grazed, are being cut up
into small farms. He also said that
the lure of the city is attracting
young men which made it difficult for
farmers and cattle rasers to get la
Dor. He opposed any reduction in
meat duties, which he declared would
result in an influx of Mexican cattle
to the great injury of the cattle rails
ers IN the United States.
During the discussion of the naval
bill Representative Hobson Of Ala
bama excited interest in declaring
that the United States would have to
provide for five battleships annually
for ten years to regain the place the
country occupied among the naval
powers in 1905 If the country was
to keep pace with other nations in
naval advancement, he said, six new !
battleships a year would be neces-
Sary.
That the interstate character of in
terstate shipments of liquor shall
cease upon arrival within the bound
airy of the state to which consignment
has been made is the essential fea-
ture of bills introduced in the senate
by Senator Curtis, and in the house
by Representative Miller of Kansas. |