Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-26
WEEK ENDING MARCH 20. 1910.

President Taft signed proclamations
granting minimum tariff rates to
number OF countries, China being the
principal onA The tariff conference be-
tween President Taft and Minister
Fielding Of Canada did not result In
dennite conclusion. The Senate passed
the legislative. executive and judicial
appropriation bill, and the Dixon bill,
relating to sealing in the Pacific. In
the House the Loud bill. providing for
the raising of the Maine, and the Hob
son bill. To prevent discrimination
against the United States uniform. were
preparation bill. The republican and
democratic caucus selections for MEM
oers or the new committee on rules
ls Gbr %'t9 Pnc an sailed for
dent Roosevelt. The National Packing
Company. better known as the beef
were indicted by the grand jury in Chi
cago. and suit was brought to dissolve
the trust. A grand jury at Plttspurg
saft
many took advantage Of pledged I'M
munity by confessing. Three men, IN
Guiding the one who started the trouble.
were killed in battle on a. Baltimore
and Ohio train at Wilmington, Del
Fourteen persons were burned to death
in fire which destroyed the building
Of the Fish Furniture Company, In
Wabash avenue, Chicago.
Foreign Affairs.
Premier Asquith introduced resolutions
in the house providing that the lords
should have no power over financial
measures, that any bill which has passed
the commons in three successive sessions
CHI hoo Ia bat tho duration
of parliament should be limited to five
years. The lords, by vote of 115 to II,
passed the last of the Lord Rosebery
resolutions, that peerage does not
necessarily afford the right to sit In the
upper house. The French senate passed
the workingmen's pension bill. The
chamber of deputies in Paris passed
bill transferring the liquidation of re-
ligious orders to the department of public
domain, and ordering receivers to furnish
Dupuy. minister of commerce, introduced
bill in the chamber of deputies legaliz-
ing the French side of the American
tariff agreement. Emperor William paid
prolonged visit to the American art ak
hibition at the Rayal Academy at Ber
lin. NJ Guchkoff outlined the powers of
the duma In accord with the views of
Premier StolSpin. The Italian cabinet re
signed, owing to its inability to carry the
ship subsidy bill. Ex-Presdent Roosevelt
ed visits with the khediye. Mount Etna is
in eruption and serveral villages are
threatened The new Chinese minister of
war expects to introduce compulsory mill
tary service. giving the empire the great
est force In the world.
In the District.
The District Commissioners reported to
Congress adversely on the Olcott BILL to
place crossing policemen on the same
plane Of pay as members of the regular
force. Clarence r. Wilson was nomi-
mated for United States attorney and
George P. Hoover for police judge.
Health Officer Woodward recommended
distinct departure in methods of teaching
weak and anemic children by providing a
roof garden school on top Of the new
Strong John Thompson building. Mrs.
herbert J. Slocum. wife Of Mai. s1ocum
of the 7th Cavalry. U. s. A, was killed
and Maj. Gen. j. Franklin Bell badly in
jured in an automobile accident Wis
consin avenue road above Georgetown.
Among those who died were f G. Davis,
M. j. Brown and Robert v. Belt.