Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-03-08
Washington.


A valuable food resource of the ma,
-tion which so far has not been de
veloped is to be found in the mussel
beds which extend on the Atlantic
coast from Maine to North Carolisa
and on the Pacific coast from Wash.
ington to San Francisco. Irving a.
Field of the United States fisheries
laboratory of Woods Hole, Mass. in
a bulletin, says the natural beds OF
sea mussels are capable of supplying
wholesome food to thousands of per
sons at the expense of but little trou
I! Bile in collecting them.
In the retrospect the Sixty-frst con
gress, which has just expired by con
stitutiosal limitation, appears to have
been distinguished by three things !:
the revision of the tariff in the So
called Payne-Aldrich bill, which was
passed ct an extra session in the sum
mer of 1909; the large amount of i'm
portant legislation, mucn of it upon
the recommendation of President Taft
enacted at the regularsession of 1909
10. and the exceedingly small prod
uct Of the short session." so-called
now closed.
The question concerning the valid
:ty Of William Lorimer's title tc a
seat in the United States senate from
Illinois was decided in Lorimer's ia.
vor by the membership of the sen
ate itself. The vote was 46 TO 40.
Thirty-five Republicans and eleven
Democrats voted for Lor:mer. Seven.
teen Democrats and twenty-three Re
publicans voted against the Illlnot
sian.
The house of representatives gave
it's formal approval to the constitu.
-tion of New Mexico, advancing the
territory another step toward state.
hood. The constitution of Arizona
has not yet reached Washington, and
cannot be acted on until the next ses-
sion Of congress.
The house passed the bill recon-.
mended by Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh, providing that none of the
s290,000,O00 of Panama canal bonds
authorized in the Payne tariff law
shall be received as security for the
issue of circulating notes. The pur.
pose of the legislation, it is said, is
to protect the s7OO,OOO.OOO of 2 per
cent. United States bonds now out
standing from depreciation. The new
bonds are to bear rate Of 8 per
cent, but without the circulation priv
ilese.
The Borah resolution for tle pop
ular election of senators, with the
Sutherland amendment tackled on, fail
ed of passage in the senate. 1t lacked
four votes of securing the requisite
lwo-thirds majority. The vote was
"a for the resolution and 33 against
it,. Eight Southern Democrats voted
against it.
John Hays Hammond has been Sc
lected to represent President Taft as
special ambassador at the coronation
Of King George v.
The special committee of the house
appointed last summer to investigate
Senator Cores charges Of attempted
bribery in connection with ]. w. Nc.
Murray's Indian attorney contracts in
Oklahoma, made its final report to the
house. The majority Of the commit
tee finds that Jake L. .Hamon actually
did. about May 6, 1910, make an i'm
proper proposal to Senator Gore re.
srecting the McMurray contracts.
President Taft, by inference. was
charged with using mis- appointive
powers to intimidate the members oil
congress. The inferred charge was
made in a speech by Senator iona.
than Bourne of Oregon, and until re-.
cent trouble over an Oregon appoint
ment the intimate friend aud goifine
companion of the executive. The sur
prising thing was that, although all
of the senator's as an attack upon the
president. not word was uttered in
reply.
The magazine war" is ended. A
compromise has been reached and
President Taft and Senator Penrosc
chairman Of the postoffice and post
roads committee, agreed to it. The
rider to the postoftce appropriation
bill increasing the magazine rates
will be eliminated ana provision
substituted creating commission to
investigate the entire subject and re.
port to congress at the next session.
The magazine rider proposed to
increase the postage rates on the ad.
vertising sections of magazines from
the present rate OF, one cent u pound
to four cents polnd.
Ambassador O'Brien and Count Ko.
mura, the Japanese foreign secretary,
have exchanged congratulations on the
ratification of the treaty between the
United States and Japan. There are
not lacking evidences that the high.
est officials and entire press of this
country, as we'll as the general pub.
lie, are deeply stirred by the early
acceptance by the American govern.
ment of Japan's assurances that she
desires continuation of friendly re.
lations which have always existed and
by the confidence shown in the sin.
cerity of Japan's undertaking regard.
ing emigration.