Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-01
THE WEEK
Epitome Of Events Ending July
4. 1911.

President Taft and his family left Wash
ington for Beverly. Mass. The federal
Treasury closed the fiscal year with a
surplus OF $33,OoO.0oo and 81 800 900. 600
cash in It's vaults The report of Herbert
Knox Smith, commissioner of corpora
tons, on his investigation Of the United
States Steel Corporation. was made pub
lie. Commissioner of the General Land
Office Fred bennett rejected all the Gun
ninsham land claims in Alaska, thus re-
serving to the government $50 acres OF
the most valuable coal lands in Alaska.
Secretary Fisher approved the decision.
The Senate defeated the Root amendment
to the Canadian reciprocity bill by an
Overwhelming vote: Senators Cummins.
Borah and Bristow spoke against reel
procity and attacked President Taft. The
House, with its contingent fund exhaust
ed. largely because of democratic ''invesei-
cations voted an emergency fund of
1850. to tide over until the beginning OF
the fiscal year. Joseph +. Smith. presi-
dent of the Mormon Church, was a wit
ness before the House sugar investigat ting
committee
The House committee investigating the
Day portrait voucher mystery recon-
mended that William Fl. Michael. consul
general at Calcutta, and Thomas Morri-
son. disbursing officer of the State De-
partment, be dismissed from the public
service Edward Hines of Chicago testi-
fled before the Lorimer committee, and
his contradictions of previous witnesses
led Senator Kenyon to suggest prosecu-
tons for perjury. Prof Philander p.
Claxton was appointed United States
commissioner of education by the Presi-
dent. Harvard University received ST.
100000 in gifts at it's 2T5th commence
ment. The application of Charles w.
Morse for release from Atlanta peniten-
tiary was denied. The New York federal
grand jury handed down indictments
against wire magnates and associations,
headed by Frank ]. Gould and Herbert l..
Satterlee, for alleged restraint of trade.
Imported furs worth S15O,O0D were seized
in New York. Mrs. Stella Hodge, who
confessed killing Emile Amann at War
rem, Pa, the crime for which ]. NJ. An
drews was convicted was lodged in the
four men injured in the collapse of a
building of the Buffalo water works.
Foreign Affairs.
King George issued a message Of thanks
to his subjects for their loyalty, I'M
stintedly expressed" during the corona
ton period. The Pilgrims Society of
London gave a dinner in honor of John
Hays Hammond, the special American
ambassador to the coronation Thousands
of British dock hands refused to handle
cargo on ships belonging to members of
the Shipping Federation; a protracted
struggle is expected verdict for $3.50.
900 was rendered in London against Ho-
ratio Bottomley, NJ. p, for obtaining sub
scriptions to stock issues under false pre-
lenses. a new French cabinet was con-
stituted j Pierpont Morgan was deco
rated by the kaiser with the grand cross
of the order of the Red Eagle in ac-
acknowledgement of a present made by the
financier of famous letter Of Martin
Luther. The battleship squadron COM
manded by Rear Admiral Badger left
Kiel. The king and queen and all mem
bers of the cabinet attended the closing
session of the Eucharistic Congress in
Madrid. Russia's first dreadnought was
launched at st. Petersburg. Upon repre-
sensations of the American embassy at
st. Petersburg the Russian government
issued orders that Jews who are buyers
be admitted to the fur fair at Tyumen.
John c. Ferguson. an American, was APP
pc nted adviser to the Chinese ministry
of communications.
District Affairs.
The District Commissioners issued a
safe and sane Fourth of July proclama-
ton Senator Gallinger reported the
recommendation of the Senate District
committee for the passage of the bill
which provides for trying out in the
courts the ownership of lands bordering
on the waterways in the District, which
the United States claims title to; it
also provides a new method of condem-
nation proceedings when land is to be
acquired by the government. Justice
Wright cited for alleged contempt of
court Samuel Gompers. John Mitchell and
Frank Morrison. to show cause July II.
Capt. James B. Allison, 18th United
States Infantry. detailed as inspector-in-
structor of the National Guard of the
n - r,1. 10 cd o. v,,s1f lilo
headquarters. Justice Gould directed the
committee of Frank Healy to pay the
claim of S3,941.15 made by the District
for the care of Healy for more than sew
enteen years in the Government Hospital
for the Insane. Charles w. Tabler,
sixty-eight years of age, committed sui
eide by inhaling Illuminating gas
Among those who died was William A.