Evening star., 1911-01-28
THE WEEK
EpitOme Of Evehts EndlnE Janu.
ary %, 1911.

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President Taft sent to Congress al Ca
madam reciprocity agreement with a.
message urging its prompt approval. The
President addressed the delegates of the
Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ Of America, commencing its mis-
sion as team work for better human
ity. BY direction of the President Rear
Admiral Edward B. Barry, former COM
mander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, re-
signed from the navy. The United States
Supreme Court dismissed the boycott
suit of the Bucks Stove Company
against the American Federation of
Labor on the ground that it had been
settled out of court: the Virginia debt
case was again argued before the court.
The organization of the Progressive Re-
publican League was announced. The
United states government rendered its
good offices to bring about friendly
settlement of the territorial dispute be-
tween Haiti and Santo Domingo. The
Senate passed the Indian appropriation
bill and the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill, The House
passed the post office appropriation bill.
The ways and means committee of the
House reported a compromise bill to
create permanent tariff revision board.
The omnibus claims bill, appropriating
$50, 100000 to pay French spoliation and
other claims, was killed in the House.
An inquiry into the delay in printing
the Ballinger-Pinchot report was ordered
by the House. Philip 0. Parmalee, in a
Wright biplane at San Francisco, broke
the American endurance record, flying
three hours and thirty-nine minutes. An
unnamed New York financier gave $780,
COO to the George Washington Memo
rial Association. Gov Baldwin Of Con-
nacfionf rooo6ad from hiS announced
pose of bringing suit against Theodore
Roosevelt. A jury in the United States
circuit court at New Orleans returned
verdict of guilty against the leaders in
the dock strike. James j. Gallagher.
assailant of Mayor Gaynor of New York,
began twelve-year sentence in the New
Jersey state prison for an assault on
William r. Edwards. Fitzhugh Coyle
Goldsborough. an artist. formerly OF this
city, fatally shot David Graham Phillips.
the author, in New York city, and COM
mitted suicide.
Foreign.
The French Geographical Society re-
fused to honor Capt. Peary before he has
submitted proofs of the discovery Of the
pole Mime. Marie Curie, who. with her
husband, the late Prof. Pierre Curie, dis
covered radium. was defeated in Paris
Sciences by Edouard Branly. Roger
Somner took up six passengers in a bi-
plane at Douzy, Ardennes. France, estab-
fishing a new worlds record for total
weight lifted and cross-country flight.
Emperor William Of Germany celebrated
his fifty-second birthday. Police dis
persed q crowd demanding work which
gathered near Berlin. Turkish commits
sioners purchased two vessels from the
r e~r@ e. kHA sad
transports. King Frederick OF Denmark
dined at the American legation in Copen-
hagen. The health Of the czarina Is
again causing anxiety; plans are being
made for long visit to Nauheim. China.
under Russian pressure. took measures TO
check the plague beginning to threaten
many districts in Asia. Honduran troops.
numbering 500 defeated 200 revolution
lists, pursuing the latter toward Salvador.
Mexican insurrectos massacred 115 feder-
al soldiers in a mountain trap near Ojin-
aga. Sir Charles Wentworth Dixie and
Capt. Charles Barr. noted American
yachtsmen, died in England.
District.
Formal charges against District COM
missioners Rudolph and Johnston by
Representative William S. Bennet OF New
York were made on the floor OF the
House during consideration Of the District
bill, Mr.. Bennet declaring that not only
have the Commissioners been repeatedly
guilty 6f violating the law by permitting
a lower assessment to be levied against
rich people than is levied against poor
people, but that he had called the atten-
ton of the President to one specific vio-
lation Of statutory law by Messrs.
Rudolph and Johnston within the last six
weeks. The Commissioners. denied the
charges The District of Columbia COM
mittee was denied its day in the House
and the post Office appropriation bill was
taken up in place of the school teachers
retirement bill. Commissioner Johnston
turned over to Commissioner Judson and
the engineer department the entire street
cleaning service; James M. Wood. super
intendent of street cleaning, was removed
from Office and ]. w. Paxton was appoint
coo gallons of water q day are leaking
through holes in the aqueduct at Cabin
John bridge, threatening that structure
as we'll as the water supply of the entire
city. Senor Joaquin d. Casasus. the spe-
cial ambassador Of Mexico, arrived in this
city to extend the thanks Of Mexico and
participate in that cOuntry's centennial
The National Merchant Marine Congress
concluded its convention by adopting
strong resolutions in favor Of the upbuild
ing of American ocean carriers. Justice
Wright imposed the maximum penalty
of fifteen year in tthe penitentiary on
James Anderson, colored, convicted of
manslaughter. The following persons
committed suicide: Miss Lille A. Ohlandt
by gas; James T. Armstrong and Joseph
Hooper. by shooting. Among those who
died were Robert p. Emerson, Patrick II.
Sheehy and Thomas p. Woodward.