The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1910-01-19
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Representative Taylor of Colorado
has introduced bills to appropriate
500. 1000 each for federal buildings at
Montrose and Delta.
Representative Mondell has intro
duced bill authorizing the secretary
to johnson county. Wyoming. for poor
farm purposes.
Representative Rucker of Colorado
has introduced a bill to promote Cap
tain James Moynahan of Fairplay to
the rank of major on the retired list
OF the army.
Employees of express and sleeping
car companies are to be accorded the
same exemption from the anti-pass
provisions of the interstate commerce
act as are now accorded to railroad
employees and their families. according
to bill introduced by Senator Elkins.
The United States Supreme Court
has handed down a decision sustain
ing the power of the Interstate Com
tribution of railroad cars among coal
companies. The decision is regarded
by the government as most important
and II is expected to have bearing on
the rate cases still to be heard by the
court.
Representative Mondell, chairman
Of the house public lands committee.
has announced that he intends oppos-
ing the provisions of the measures
which have been framed by Secretary
Ballfnger to carry out the views Of
President Taft in regard to conserva-
ton, as he considers them entirely too
radical and certain to bring about
hardships in the West.
Drastic action looking toward the
suppression of the white slave" traf-
fic in the United States has been taken
by the House. A bill was passed. un-
der which. II adopted by the Senate.
provide transportation from one state
to another for any person who engage
in prostitution or other immoral
practice. The penalty is ten years
imprisonment and 5000 fine.
Senator Francis E. Warren left for
Washington without completing ar
rangements for the erection of a mod
ern hotel. the business which brought
him to Cheyenne during the holiday
recess of Congress. Senator Warren
seeks to enlist the aid OF other Chey
enne capitalists in a project to erect q
hotel which will be larger and better
than possessed by many towns Of the
same population.
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Fayetteville. Ark. has issued a com
plant against the Wells-Fargo com
pany. In which he asserts that the
carrying Of packages of four pounds
or less by express companies between
Interstate points Is unlawful. because
Congress has committed the carriage
of such packages to the mails and has
made it unlawful for any private ex
press to carry them.
President Taft has appointed Henry
s. Graves. director of the Yale Forest
school. as forester of the United States
to succeed Clifford Pinchot. He also
appointed Alfred F. Potter. at present
acting forester. as associate forester
The new forester and his associate are
both known as Pinchot men. Botf
have served under Mr.. Pinchot and
both are in sympathy with his policy
of administration.
Whether the thirteenth census OF
which the government intends Il
spend at least $13.Oo0.0O0. will give {
correct picture of the nation. depend.
as much on the people themselves a:
upon the enumerators, who number
$4,000. Director Durand makes thi.
declaration in his annual report. The
director says that any person or cor
poration may make returns and know
that when the results are published 4
will be impossible to identify then
with any individual. or set of men
The returns are not disclosed to any
one not employed in the census bu
reau.
statement issued by the postoffict
department of the gross receipts OF
fifty of the largest postoffices for De
cember, 1909. as compared with De
cember. 1908. shows the Denver re-
ceipts for December. 1909. to be SIZE.
1891 and for December, 1908. $1OS..
O7577. an increase of thirteen pei
cent.
1t is announced that the censu.
enumerators in the sparsely settled
sections of the West and Southwes
will be compensated on per diem
basis instead of per capita, the rate
of pay ranging from IS to Sc per day
The passing of the historic fourth
OF March as presidential Inaugural
tion date and the fixing OF the fourth
Thursday of April in its place is pro
vided for in a resolution ordered ia
vorably reported by the House com
mittee on the judiciary.
The department of Agriculture il
making fight against bleached flour
Its use is not defended by the bakers
but by the manufacturers of bleach
ing machinery. who are said to have
raised fund of 100000 to defeat the
governments contention as regards
Its injurious effects.