The Lamar register., 1911-03-01
WASHINGTON.

The Supreme Court of the United
States found the mayor and certain
members OF the council of Clay Center.
Kan. guilty of contempt OF court 70,
destroying the subject matter of n It'll.
CATION before IL.
Representative Amos Lawrence Al
len. who succeeded the late Speaker
!, homas Ii. Reed as congressman from
the First district In Maine. is criti-
edlly III with pneumonia and Is not
expected to live.
Proposed advances In class freight
rates In official classification territory,
asgregating among all the railways in
the territory approximately $4,000
600 year. has been disapproved by
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
When the plans OF the two battle
ships to be appropriated for by this
fession OF Congress are submitted for
iinal approval. 1t will be recommend.
&c that the motive power be derived
hom fuel oil exclusively.
The text OF new treaty with japan.
designed TO replace that of 1894 ane
drawn with the special design of
eliminating the restrictions upon i'm
migration contracted in that treaty.
has been laid before the Senate by
President Taft.
The House completed the naval ap-
preparation bill and will pass IL. As
agreed to when read for amendment. IL
provides for two new battleships, two
fleet golfers. eight torpedo boat de-
stroyers and four submarine torpedo
boats.
Colorado. Washington. Idaho and
Oklahoma. the only states OF now rep
resented by memorial tablets in the
washington monument, are to be In.
vited to join their sister states in
thus honoring the memory of George
Washington at meeting of the Wash.
ington National Monument Society.
Arizona and New Mexico probably VIII
be invited TO participate.
novel hunting expedition will start
from New York for East Africa. in the
near future. The hunters intend to
capture wild animals alive and trans
port them to this country, turn them
loose in the arid plains OF the South
west and in the ranges of the Rockies,
where 1t is hoped they will breed
game for the sportsmen of future gen
erations.
Two resolutions asserting the exist
ence Of monopolistic control of the cof.
fee market by Brazilian producing
interest. and American and European
interested with them, and calling re-
spectively upon the president and the
attorney general to report whether
been instituted by the government,
have been introduced in Congress.
The new Japanese treaty of trade
and navigation was ratified after a
two hours executive session of the
Senate. While the apprehension OF
Western senators that the treaty
might let down the bars to coolie la
Dor was not entirely removed. these
senators contented themselves with
expressing their solicitude. They in
terposed no objection to ratification
The agricultural appropriation bill
has been reported to the Senate. 1t
carries s16.9SO,l96. an increase of
s256,6S5 over the amount of the bill
as it was passed by the House.
Representative Martin introduced
bill for the relief of the confederat-
ed bands OF Ute Indians of Colorado,
providing that Jurisdiction be con
ferred on the Court of Claims to rem
der final judgment on all claims of
the confederated Utes."
The House passed the Warren bills
previously passed in the Senate to
grant rights of way across the Fort
Russell. Wyo., military reservation to
the Colorado Railroad Company for
branch of the Colorado & Southern
branch of the Burlington system and
for Laramie county public road