The Springfield herald., 1911-07-28
WASHINGTON.

Plenty of rain throughout the coun
try is prophesied by the Weather Bu-
reau.
! By vote of SO to 81 the Senate
passed the Canadian reciprocity bill
without amendment, which settles
this question so far as the Congress
Is concerned.
doomed to follow President Diaz OF
Mexico. and give way to revolution.
ary government, according to advices
reaching Washington.
More than two billion dollars In re
deemed bonds. representing the major
part OF the governments Civil Wa
debt is being fed to the furnaces in
the Bureau OF Printing and Engraving.
The House bill. amending the tariff
law to permit the return free of duty
of domestic animals temporarily ex-
ported. including pet dogs. was favor
ably reported to the Senate by the
committee on finance.
The most bitter fight waged by an
administration in many years will
come to close when the Canadian
reciprocity bill. an issue before two
sessions of Congress. will be passed
by the Senate by decisive vote
The woman credited with havins
first expressed the idea of a general
memorial day. Mrs. Sue Landon
Vaughn, is dead at the home of the
Eastern Star, Masonic order in
Washington, on which she was depend
ent
To begin in the autumn of 1914,
when the big canal opens. Postmaster
General Hitchcock has ordered the es-
tablishment of a fast ocean mail serv-
ice between the principal ports on the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans and Pana-
ma and Colon
The Standard Oil Company and the
tobacco trust and other big corpora
tions are going to be split up into a
number of separate and distinct parts,
without connection or monopoly pow
| er. This was the prediction in an ad-
dress by Attorney General Wicker
sham.
ia account of long drouth. Senator
Warren has introduced bill granting
,ersons who have made homestead en-
l.. in Wyoming, Colorado. Idaho.
| itah, Montana and other western
states. leave of absence from the date
the approval of the proposed act
It'll April Is, 1912.
The United States Steel Corpora.
lion in obtaining the Tennessee Coal
4 Iron Company and its Southern orc
lands. -cinched" its monopoly of tho
ores of the American continent AMI
lied up available fields for independ.
ent concerns, according to Chairman
Stanley of the House steel trust" in
vestigating committee.
lhere is no lodging the fact that
Congress Is anxious to avoid the con
Iteration of all legislation at this
session except what it simply mus
,ake up. Statehood for New Mexico
md Arizona, reapportionment. direc.
5lections of senators, Panama Canai
oils. Panama Exposition matters
irmy legislation, conservation legisla
ion. the control of corporations, thess
re some of the things which are clam
)ring for attention and which seem
destined to so over.
With only one little gunboat in the
waters of Hayti to safeguard Ameri-
can interests, threatened by formid-
able revolution that seems spreading
hourly. the Navy Department is max
ing a strenuous endeavor to rush adc
quate protection to the scene.
Louisiana planters and producers of
sugar are making determined stand
on the traiff before the House sugar
trust committee, declaring that re-
duction of sugar duties would ruin the
domestic production OF cane sugar and
that free sugar would annihilate both
the cane and bet sugar industries OF
the country.
At the request of American Ministe-
Furniss at Port Au Prince. the United
States will send another gunboat to
Haytien waters to protect Americans
and their interests now seriously
threatened by the revolution against
President Simon.
There will be introduced in the Sen
ate wool tariff revision bill by Sen.
ator Smoot of the Senate finance com
mittee. 1t will be presented as a sub
stitute for the House measure ana will
receive the support Of the regular Re-
publicans and the administration.