Connecticut western news., 1910-06-09
CANAL COMM SS.ONERS
 WILL VISIT EUROPE
Plan Careful Study of Foreign
 Waterway Terminals.

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 New York's, state barge canal termi- | nal commission is preparing an itine rary for trip that will be crowded with inspection of canals and harbor terminals during a period of five weeks in the five countries of conti- mental Europe where their develop ment is most pronounced and where the most valuable information and suggestions can be obtained useful to the state of New York in the progress sive development of it's own canals and their necessary terminals. It is now almost generally conceded that the most efficient and economical use of the barge canals, upon which $1O8,OO0,000 is now being expended, will in large degree depend upon the extent to which frequent, adequate and well equipped terminals are provided places where canal freight can be con- veniently received and shipped. New York's legislature recently pro- vided that the commissioners should make an examination of terminal facil- tties in other states and in other coun- tries before filing their report next year. The necessary funds have been provided, and, the governor having ap- , proved, three of the commissioners will sail for England on June 2S on the North German Lloyd steamship Kron- prinz Wilhelm, landing in Plymouth on July and leaving Hamburg for oh Ar1Cr iY1cr Aun weeks stay in Europe the commission CTS will inspect harbor terminals in England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Austria, The barge canal terminal commission is composed of four state officers whose regular and ordinary duties are confined almost wholly to the canals of New York state. They are Frank M. Williams, state engineer and sur veyor; Frederick c. Stevens, superin- tendent of public works; Edward A. Bond, chairman canal advisory board of engineers, and Harvey J. Donald son, special examiner and appraiser of canal lands. State Engineer Williams is chairman. MT. Stevens will not be able to make the trip.
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 The senate at Wash
 EnA- ington passed the ad
 NEWS ministration railroad HAPPENINGS. hill thns anding . con test between the insurgents and Re publican regulars which had run on for almost three months. Not an in- surgent voted against the bill, which went through by division of 30 to 12, and all who voted against the bill were Democrats. T In a letter made public by his busi- ness agent in Cincinnati, Congress- man Nick Longworth from Ohio de- clares that he is not candidate for the Republican nomination for gov ernor and that under no circumstances would he accept the nomination if it were rendered him by the Republican state convention to be held at Colum- bus, saying that he preferred to re- main in congress.
 Richard Parr, special agent of the treasury department, the man who fer reted out the American Sugar Refining eompany's frauds, will come into a fortune from the government for his work. He may get $700,O0O, according to AttorneA General Wickersham, who decided that Mr. Parr was entitled to a percentage of the total amount of money refunded by the trust for short weighing.
 l. The senate at Washington by a vote of 32 to % rejected an amendment of- fered by Senator La Toilette of Wis eonsin making ineligible as judges of the commerce court any person who held relations as an officer or employee of any common carrier or who holds stock or bonds or has any pecuniary interest in such common carriers prop erty.
 Uncle Sam seems to have cornered the Panama hat market, for govern ment agents have seized more than $1O,OOOOO0 worth of Panama hats in New York on the allegation that when they were imported they were under valued for thespurpose of evading a large portion of the duty.
 President Taft started out on short swing around the commencement cir cult His first speech will be made at Bryn Mawr, where his daughter is a student, and at Ohio Northern uni versity, Ada, O. From Ada the presi- dent goes to Detroit, Jackson and Mon- roe, Mich.
 President Taft nominated William D. Crum of South Carolina to be minister resident and consul general at Monro- via. Liberia. Crum is the negro whose appointment by MT. Roosevelt as col lector of the port of Charleston, s. C., raised such a storm of protest in the south.
 Announcement was made from the White House of the appointment of Charles D. Norton of Chicago, at pres ent assistant secretary of the treasury to be private secretary to President Taft. succeeding Fred W. Carpenter, who was appointed minister to Moroc-
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