The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19

WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER.
Items Of Interest Reported From The
Nations Capitol.

S Washington, D. c., Oct. 14.-Car
t tain j. F. Ellison, of Cincinnati, O.
secretary and treasurer Of the Ma
tional Rivers and Harbors Congress
; will open his Office shortly in thi
; city, preparatory to the coming con
! vention which is to be held in Wash
ington early in December. 1'hi
! convention will in all probability b.
. the last with which Captain Ellison
will be connected in an official ca
pacity, as he plans to tender hi!
resignation to become head of tht
navigation department Of the Port
of Para Company which has head
quarters in Paris and New York
Captain Ellison will be in command
Of the company's fleet Of forty new
steel steamers which will open ul
the Amazon river as it has never
been, develop the greatest rubber
producing fields and put the State
Of Bolivia on the map commercially
There is every reason to believe that
the forthcoming convention Of the
National Rivers and Harbors Con
gress will be the most important
ever held by this great organization
Of waterway enthusiasts and will
very materially impress upon the
nations legislators the Importance
of enacting annual river and harbor
bills to the end that some Of the
projects now under construction
may be pushed to completion within
designated spaces of time.
Something like thirty thousand
miners are expected to be in Pitts
burg on the last day Of this month,
the greatest gathering Of diggers
and delivers in the earth that ever
met in one place in this country,
when President Taft visits that city
on his way back to the national cap
itol from his western trip. A nota-
BILE feature of the occasion will be
demonstration under the auspices of
the United States Bureau OF Mines,
the American Red Cross and the
Pittsburg Coal Operators Associa-
ton.
Considerable discussion was in
dulged in by delegates to the Ger
man-American Alliance meeting here
the past week, and showing in its
personnel fine body of substantial
American citizens, concerning pro-
hibition and kindred questions. The
organization adopted resolution to
the effect that prohibition is an in
reference with personal liberty, and
discussing the evil of intemperance,
declared that the most efficacious
means of combating it was the cul-
tivation of the anti-treating habit.
Members pledged themselves to
wear buttons so declaring them
selves. St. Louis gets the next con-
vention.
DR.. Harvey Wiley, chief of the
chemistry bureau, department Of
agriculture, is back on his job in
Washington, apparently with highly
agreeable remembrances of his re-
cent vacation and vindication. His
next appearance in public will be at
Louisville, KY, where he is to make
an address in which he will devote
attention to the important part
American women may play in the
enforcement Of pure food laws. His
charming and sympathetic wife has
pronounced herself publicly
and forcefu!ly for women's move
ment against unclean grocery and
meat shops.
The death of Cornelius N. Bliss,
of New York, removes one OF the
veterans of service with the Nation
al Republican Committee. Mr.. Bliss
served as treasurer of the committee
in the campaigns Of 1888 and 1892.
The Oldest member in length Of ser
vice and in years is General Powell
CLAYTON, of Arkansas, the next in
length of service being former SEN
ator Nathan Bay Scott, Of West Vir-
ginia.
With the beginning Of the October
term of the Supreme Court and
few of the department chiefs re-
turning from their summer resorts,
the national capital is resuming its
wonted animation and the hotels are
registering guests from all parts of
the country.
A farmer can haul no heavier load
TO market than he can get over the
4 ,,;ooo Of road on his route |