Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-05-03
Washington.

The Houston bill, which passed the
house, leaves to the legislatures OF
the different states the power to re-
arrange the congressional districts in
their respective states on the new
population basis Of one member for
each 211,S77 of inhabitants.
Americans are doing more for the
children of Guam and the Philippine
Islands than for those in the South.
ern mountain districts of this country
declared Miss Martha S. Gielow of
Washington at the International Con.
gress on Child Welfare here. She
said children in the Southern noun.
tains were often compelled to walk
seven miles to school. More than
four million American children, she
said. were being brought up without
educational facilities of any sort.
After declaration that annexation ia
the desired end of the Democrats in
pushing reciprocity and speech by
a new member, revealing rumors of
a tariff fight in congress featured the
debate on the free list bill. Mr.. Prince
oil Illinois (Rep.) sounded the annexa,
tion note. President Taft's speech in
New York furnished his text. He
said the pouring of Americans into
the Canadian northwest and the at.
titude of the Democratic party could
mean nothing else than annexation.
Attorney General Wickersham will
appeal to the Supreme court to sus.
tain the so-called corner counts" in
the governments indictments of Su.
gene c. Scales, James A. Patten, Viii.
liam P Brown, Frank B. Hayne and
Robert NJ. Thompson, charged with
leading the May cotton corner of 1910
on the New York cotton exchange.
Judge Noyes, in the United States
circuit court for the southern district
of New York, sustained all of the
counts of the Indictment except those
charging a corner to fix the price Of
raw cotton. He condemned the prac-
tice unreservedly, but held it did not
come within the jurisdiction of the
law upon which the indictments were
based Attorney General Wicker
sham's appeal is from that part of
the decision.
Speaker Clark does not agree with
Senator Root that congress is likely
to adjourn by June 1. At the white
house where he said he had talked
"neighborhood gossip with Mr.. Taft,
Mr.. Clark declared that nobody in the
world knew how long congress would
be here. Il know as much about 1t
as Senator Root, and he knows as
much about it as l do" said Mr.
Clark. Il have attended two special
sessions of congress called to revise
the tariff which lasted into August.
There you are.'
Under the reapportionment bill,
which for the second time passed the
house of representatives, the size of
that body is increased to 433 mem.
bers, giving Georgia one additional
member. The measure goes to the
senate to try its fate there. At the
last session the senate failed to ap.
prove the increase in the size of the
lower branch of congress. What it
will do this time is somewhat prob
lematical, but the strong hope is en-
tertained that the senate will permit
the house membership to have it's
way in this regard.
The reported declaration of Ramon
Corral, vice president Of Mexico, that
Americans were fomenting trouble in
his country to force Intervention, has
encountered the disfavor of the Unit
ed States government. The state de-
partment has called the matter to
the attention of Mexico to establish
officially wheher the interview with
the vice president, in which the state.
ments are said to have been made,
was authentic. The question will be
taken up by Ambassador Wilson at
Mexico City, and he will demand an
answer.