The Colorado statesman., 1911-07-29
WASHINGTON.

Plenty of rain throughout the coun
try is prophesied by the Weather Bu-
reau.
President Simon of Hayti appears
| doomed to follow President DiaZ OF
Mexico, and give way to revolution
ary government, according to advices
reaching Washington.
BY vote of So to 81 the Senate
passed the Canadian reciprocity bill
without amendment, which settles
this question SO far as the Congress
is concerned.
More than two billion dollars in re-
deemed bonds, representing the major
part of the governments Civil War
debt is being fed to the furnaces In
the Bureau of Printing and Engraving
| The federal government scored in
| It's effort to break up the alleged
wire trust" when thirty-seven men in
dicted withdrew the plea OF mot gull
ty" and accepted sentence without
trial. Judge Archibald, in the United
States court in New York, imposed
fines of from $1,000 to $1,700 in each
case.
The United States Steel Corpora
tion in obtaining the Tennessee Coal
G. Iron Company and it's Southern orc
lands, "cinched" its monopoly OF the
ores of the American continent and
tied up available fields for independ-
ent concerns, according to Chairman
Stanley of the House steel trust" In
vestigating committee.
Pass the House wool tariff revision
bill or enact no wool legislation at all,
Is the slogan of strenuous fight be-
ing made by House leaders among
their party associates in the Senate,
and the net results after series OF
conferences has been growth OF SEN
timent among Democratic senators in
favor of this policy, which may mean
no wool legislation at this session.
There is no lodging the fact that
Congress is anxious to avoid the con-
sideration of all legislation at this
session except what it simply must
take up. Statehood for New Mexico
and Arizona, reapportionment, direct
elections of senators, Panama Canal
tolls, Panama Exposition matters.
army legislation, conservation legisla
ton, the control OF corporations, these
are some of the things which are clam
oring for attention and which seem
destined to go over.
A purported pooling agreement be-
tween the Carnegie Steel Company
and ten other kindred concerns for
percentage apportionment of the steel
output of the country-an admittedly
illegal document supposedly long since
destroyed-stirred a recent meeting OF
the House steel trust investigating
committee. The original agreement
provided for the formation of the steel
plate association of the United States
and Notwithstanding that the agree
ment was burned and only came to
light because a Pennsylvania printer
had saved a copy from the flames. the
committee sought corroborative evil
dence that the steelplate association did
exist after the incineration of the tell
tale documents.
To begin in the autumn of 1914.
when the big canal opens, Postmaster
General Hitchcock has ordered the es-
tablishment of a fast ocean mail serv-
ice between the principal ports on the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans and Pana-
ma and Colon.
The Standard Oil Company and the
tobacco trust and other bis corpora
tions are going to be split up into
number of separate and distinct parts,
without connection or monopoly pow
l. fg hn 6-
dress by Attorney General Wicker
sham.