The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1911-04-20
HAPPENINGS
Of A WEEK
Latest News Told
in Briefest and
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Washington

Washington
In line with the Democratic caucus
action of the national house, Chairman
Underwood of the committee on ways
and means introduced a bill to carry
into effect the Canadian reciprocity
agreement and another to place on the
free list about 100 articles now duti-
able under the Payne-Aldrich law.
These include farm implements, meats
and other foodstuffs, rough lumber and
boots and Shoes
Minority Leader Mann has an.
nounced the Republican assignments
to committees. Every leading pro-
gressive or "insurgent" was given an
important committee The national
house elected the committees, both
Democratic and Republican members,
without change or objection.
Reciprocity with Canada and a
farmers free list, 1t was decided at
the Democratic caucus, will be the
legislation taken up in the order
named by the present house Of repre-
sentatives. The wooden and cotton
schedules, according to present indi-
cations, will follow.
The circumstantial story published
to the effect that the American troops
We're assembled on the Mexican Dor
der line because of the discovery by
Ambassador Wilson of an alleged Sc
cret treaty between Mexico and Japan,
is denied most emphatically by men,
bers of congress who are In close
touch with President Taft on the Mex
lean situation. i~,i|&IMN6
Domestic
A heavy wind storm, attaining the
velocity of tornado in some sections
and accompanied by rain, hail and
lightning, swept over western Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Oklahoma, killing
thirteen persons, practically Destroy
Ing Whiting, Kan, and Big Heart,
Okla, injuring almost hundred per-
sons, wrecking scores of buildings and
putting almost every telephone and
telegraph wire in the territory out of
commission.
pointment of Curtis Guild, Jr., former
governor of Massachusetts, as ambas-
.ador to Russia to succeed Ambassador
w. w. Rockhill, who goes to Con-
stantinople as ambassador.
Five hundred miles of carpet was
shipped by New York firm to San
Francisco on a special freight train
Of sixty cars. The shipment weighs
100000 pounds, and is worth $1,000
700.
Gen. Frederick D. Grant has de-
:ided not to attend the coronation as
he military representative of this
government. Maj. Gen. A. w. Greeley,
retired, has been selected in General
Grants place and will attend.
w. s. Kenyon, now an assistant at |
sorney general of the United States,
was elected to fill the seat in the SEN
|
than P. Dolliver, by the Iowa legisla-
ture. The ended a deadlock which |
existed since the beginning of the ses-
sion and is a victory for the Progress
sives.
Pierre Prier won distinction in the |
world of aviation by flight from Lon
ion to Paris Without stop. He is the
first to perform the feat. The flyer |
made the journey of 300 miles, cross
Ing the channel, in monoplane.
Michael Smith Link, former mem.
Der of the Illinois legislature, who
was one of the representatives In.
volved by Charles A. White in his con-
fession in the Lorimer election scan-
dal, was found dead in a bathtub at
his country home near Mitchell, Ill.
His death was due to heart disease.
Lieut.. H. E. Honeywell of the Mis-.
souri, National Guard has started on a
balloon trip from San Antonio. Tex
He and companion hope to reach
Canada establishing worlds record.
The United States boundary COM
mission, which is to reestablish the
boundary line between Texas and New
Mexico, will leave Monahan, Tex, on
April Is, for the southeast corner of
New Mexico, where it will begin its
work.
Subpoenas were issued for the ap-
pearance of about a dozen midship.
men of the naval academy before the
grand jury as witnesses to tell what
they know pertaining to the sale OF
intoxicating liquors to midshipmen hv