The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-04-08

.LETIN, APRIL 8, 1911
Canada has been renewed and only
minor details Of the arrangement are
J still to be determined The members
of the conference will probably meet
again in the course of the summer.
i Last week the suffragists had their
! day in court, and once more the sena-
tors of the state Of Minnesota voted
down woman's suffrage, The vote was
80 for the measure and 80 against.
Two votes were lacking to pass the
bill. The bill, introduced by Senator
10. O. Sageng, provided for constitu-
tional amendment to grant women the
right of suffrage. Introduced early in
the session, the bill has had a pre-
carious journey through the mazes of
Legislation. It was all but defeated in
the committee on elections, but on
Feb. "a was reported out with re-
commentator to pass. 1t had been on
the general orders for weeks, being
passed over day after day because
Senator Sageng considered that the
psychological moment had not ar
rived. Once it barely escaped indie
finite postponement, but skillful diplo-
macy on the part of the friends of the
bill saved it.
1 While those back of the building of
the proposed electric interurban line
from Mankato to St. Peter, the per-
manent survey for which is under way,
intend that the line shall run to the
twin cities eventually, it is not in
tended to follow down the Minnesota
valley and parallel the Omaha road
It will leave the valley at st. Peter
and strike across the country through
Norseland, New Sweden and other
towns to Willmar, and thence to the
cities. This would tap a large terri
tory which has no roads at present.
DR.. Francisco Bertrand is now Pro
visional President of Honduras, in &C
cordance with the peace agreement re-
Gently negotiated between the Gov
eminent and revolutionary forces of
the republic. The ceremonies of his
I Inauguration according to a telegram
received by the State Department
from American Minister McCreery at
! Tegucigalpa, were conducted in the
presence of the diplomatic corps and
the national Congress. General Da-
villa, the retiring President, delivered
cordial address, and his successor
responded in a similar vein.
The diversion of European emigra-
ton from the United States to Canada
is said to be seriously affecting the
Atlantic steamship lines. The Red
Star has given up to the American
Canada Line two of their emigrant
and cargo steamers, the Cortland and
the Samland. These vessels hereto
fore in the Antwerp-New York service
are now to be operated from Rotter-
dam to Canadian ports. There are
now 1900 emigrants bound for Canada
held up at Antwerp by lack of trans
portation facilities. There is a pro-
portionate decrease in the emigration
to the United States
The decision of the United States
Court UNFOLDING the injunction against
the Oklahoma two-cent-passenge
law and holding that law to be con-
fiscatory, was so distorted in some of
the advices purporting to describe the
decision that the impression was gath
cred that the decision was a defeat in
stead of a victory, for the railroads.
Some even went so far as to argue
that this decision seems to foreshadow
defeat for the Union Pacific in the
Governments anti-merger suit against
the Hartman lines. AS a matter OF
! fact, the decision upheld the conten-
ton of the railroads and sustained the
three-cent passenger fare now charged
in Oklahoma In other particulars also
it was favorable to the railroads. The
application of the two-cent law passed
by the Oklahoma Legislature was held
up by the Injunction granted by the
lower court, and the decision confirms
the right of the railroads in that State
to charge the three-cent rate which the
State sought to reduce to two cents.
1t is rumored that if Congress pas
ses the Canadian reciprocity law
Canadian railroads are to invade the
United States, and have planned new
routes from the east and west. The
Grand Trunk is credited with scheme
of constructing line from Rennie,
Man., south to New Ulm, Mimi, there
to connect with lines, which would
probably be leased, to Chicago, the
whole giving a Chicago-Winnipeg line
said to be shorter than any that could
be devised over lines already con-
structed. The Canadian Pacific is said
to contemplate putting on through
Toronto to Winnipeg train, by way Of