The Springfield herald., 1911-08-11
WASHINGTON.

A woman, Miss Margaret Kelley, Is
now in actual charge of the mints of
the United States.
The condition of the growing cot
ton crop of the United States July
25th was S9.1 of normal.
The millionth patent issued by the
United States has been announced by
Commissioner OF Patents Moore.
The Senate. by a vote of 4s to 80,
passed the Farmers Free List bill,
after the measure had been slightly
changed from the form in which 1t
| passed the House.
A pension of 81 a week for every
| man and woman more than 60 years of
age is provided for in a bill by Repre-
| sentative Victor l.. Berger. He is the
Socialist member from Wisconsin.
| Mr.. Taft is expected to send the ar
bitration treaty between the United
States and Great Britain, and probably
the treaty with France. to the Senate
before the special session adjourned.
Final arrangements have been made
for signing the treaty.
Bearing an Initiative and referen-
dun feature to safeguard against ger
| rymandering in number of states the
Congressional reapportionment bill
passed the Senate. 1t fixes the future
House membership at 433-with two
more when Arizona and New Mexico
attain statehood-instead of the pres
ent 391.
Members of Congress from the
West, insurgents a5 well as regulars,
who are opposed to revision of the
wool tariff at this time, are becoming
convinced that Senator La Toilette
does not intend that the Presiden.
shall have an opportunity to carry in
to effect his intention to veto wool
bill framed in advance of the tariff
board report.
The secretary of the interior has
submitted to the Public Lands com,
mittee of the House favorable re-
port and recommendation for the pass
age of the House bill granting home
stead entrymen under the Uncompah.
gre reclamation project in Colorado
leave of absence from their entries un-
til water is furnished from the govern
ment canals for the irrigation of the
lands embraced in these entries.
To his story of how he claims he
was bribed to vote for Lorimer,
Charles A. White, former member OF
the Illinois Legislature, added for the
benefit of the Senate Lorimer COM
mittee that he believed every one of
the fifty-three Democrats who voted
for Lorimer did so for money con-
sideration. He added that he thought
some of the Republicans who voted
President Taft has sent to the Sen
ate the general arbitration treaties be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain and the United States and
France, signed for this government in
Washington today and signed in Paris
for the government of France.
Through the nations guest, Admiral
Count Togo, at a dinner in the White
House in honor of the Japanese naval
hero, an invitation was extended
Japan to join the United States, Great
Britain and France in the great world
movement of international peace.
The Warren bill. granting leave of
absence to homesteaders has been
amended by adding to the districts
previously authorized the Hugo. La
mar and Glenwood Springs districts in
Colorado, and the Clayton, Fort Sum-
ner, Las Cruces, Tucumcali. Roswell
and Santa Fe in New Mexico.
In order to guard against the pass.
age of the La Underwood
wool bill over the expected veto of the
President, the Republican managers
are urging all absentee Republican
senators to return to the capital i'm
mediately