The Springfield herald., 1911-08-04
WASHINGTON.


Philippine Islands.
The call has been issued by the Ma
tional Conservation Congress for Its
third meeting to be held in Kansas
City, September 20, 26 and ~.
The general arbitration treaty be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain and the United States and
France will he signed in Washington
soon.
Because he does not believe in the
Senate's method OF taking testimony
in Investigations, Senator Bailey of
Texas resigned from the committee on
privileges and elections. He made no
explanation to the Senate and the res
ignation was accepted without COM
ment
With the fall of President Simon's
government, inevitable, the revolution
AIRY crisis in Hayti has caused the Ma.
Wy Department to order the scout
cruiser Salem, one Of the swiftest
boats in the navy. to Port An Prince
to reinforce the American warships pa
trolling the coast.
| Ground has been gained by the Dem
ocratic- Progressive Republican condi
tion for broader tariff revision and 1t Ia
confidently predicted in both houses
that conference compromise bill. the
farmers free list bill. and possibly the
cotton bill. with steel. sugar and 9th
er schedules, would be passed.
| Reciprocity with Mexico, similar to
Canadian reciprocity. is proposed in n
resolution introduced by Representa-
| i've Burleson OF Texas. calling on
President Taft Immediately to start
negotiations with Mexico, looking To
free commerce between the two coun-
tries"
! A favorable report from the Senate
public lands committee on his bill
granting the state OF Colorado an adj
ditional million acres of public lands
for use under the Carey desert lanG
act, was secured by Senator Guggen-
helm, who also secured the passage o..
the bill through the Senate.
Out of what had appeared to be a
chaotic condition in the Senate there
suddenly arose coalition of Demo
Gratis and insurgent Republicans which
bowled over the regular organization
and passed compromise bill for the
revision Of the wooden tariff by iS to
80.
The electrical trust has submitted to
Attorney General Wickersham decree
which it is said they are willing to
have entered against the alleged com
bination in the governments suit foE
dissolution. The Significance of this
move is that the trust is willing to dis
solve without fight
The federal government scored in
Its effort to break up the alleged
"wire trust" when thirtyseven 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 s1,700 in each
case.
Pass the House wool tariff revision
bill or enact no wool legislation at all,
is the slogan OF a strenuous tight be-
ing made by House leaders among
their party associates in the Senate,
and the net results after series of
timent among Democratic senators In
favor of this policy, which may mean
no wool Legislation at this session.
The enlarged-homestead law per
mits the entry by one person of 32o
acres of government land in the arid
states which is not, in the under
standing of the government, snscepti
tle of irrigation. AS under the origi
nal l60-acre homestead law, this land
can be acquired by the settler from
Cncle Sam free of cost, on compliance
with the regulations requiring resi-
dence and cultivation.
purported pooling agreement be
tween the Carnegie Steel Company
ind ten other kindred concerns for A
percentage apportionment of the steel
utput Of the country-an admittedly
illegal document supposedly long since
destroyed-stirred recent meeting OF
be House "sleel trust Investigating
committee. The original agreement
provided for the formation of the steel
plate association OF the United States
and notwithstanding that the agree
inent was burned dhu Only CAiue "
light because a PENNSYLVANIA printer
had saved copy from the flames, the
committee sought corroboratfve evil
dence that the steel plate association did
exist after the incarceration of the tell
tale % cuments.
| In a special message to the Sena-e
| President Taft shoulders full respon-
sibility for opening for settlement and
development 12,S00 acres of the Gu
| gach national forest reserve in Alaska
an incident which has come to be
known as the Controller Bay Affair -
That through oral agreements steel
| manufacturers now keep up prices ana
avoid obstructive competition just as
effectively as they did under the iron
clad contract of the American Steel
late Association, was admitted by A,
f. Huston, president of the Luken5
Iron & Steel Company.
Steps toward recreating the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company out of the ele-
ments now composing it. In harmony
with the decision of the Federal Su-