The Paonia progressive and the Paonia newspaper., 1911-08-03
WASHINGTON.

Britain and the United States and
France Will be signed In Washington
soon.
Because he does not believe in the
Senate's method OF taking testimony
in Investigations, Senator Bailey Of
Texas resigned from the committee on
privileges and elections. He made no
explanation TO the Senate and the res
ignation was accepted without COM
ment
With the fall OF President Simon's
government. inevitable. the revolution
airy crisis in Hayti has caused the Ma
Wy Department TO order the scout
cruiser Salem, one Of the swiftest
boats in the navy. to Pert Au Prince
to reinforce the American warships pa
trolling the coast.
Ground has been gained by the Dem
Iocratic-Progressiv Republican condi-
ton for broader tariff revision and il is
confidently predicted in both houses
that conference compromise bill. the
farmers free itst bill. and possibly the
cotton bill. with steel, sugar and 9th
er schedules. would be passed.
Reciprocity with Mexico. similar TO
Canadian reciprocity. is proposed in a
resolution introduced by Representa-
i've Burleson OF Texas, calling on
President Taft Immediately to start
negotiations with Mexico. looking to
free commerce between the two coun-
tries"
A favorable report from the Senate
public lands committee on mis- blu
granting the state OF Colorado an ad-
ditional million acres Of public lands
I for use under the Carey desert lana
act. was secured by Senator Guggen-
helm. who also secured the passage o:
the bill through the Senate.
! Out OF what had appeared to be
chaotic condition in the Senate there
suddenly arose a coalition of Demo
Gratis and insurgent Republicans which
bowled over the regular organization
and passed a compromise bill for the
revision Of the wooden tariff by as TO
80.
The electrical trust has submitted u
Attorney General Wickersham n decree
which IL is said they are willing -
have entered against the alleged com
hinatlon in the governments suit 70.
dissolution. The significance OF this
move is that the trust Is willing TO dis
solve without a fight
The federal government scored in
its effort to break up the alleged
wire trust" when thirty-seven men in
dicted withdrew the plea OF mot gull
ty" and accepted sentence without
trial. Judge Archibald, in the United
States court in New York. imposed
fines OF from $1,000 to si.700 in each
case.
Pass the House wool tariff revision
bill or enact no wool legislation at all,
is the slogan OF a strenuous fight be-
Ing made by House leaders among
their party associates in the Senate.
and the net results after a series of
conferences has been growth of SEN
timent among Democratic senators in
favor of this policy. which may mean
no wool legislation At this session.
The enlarged-homestead law per
mits the entry by one person of 32O
acres of government land in the arid
states which is not. in the under
standing of the government, suscepti-
BILE of irrigation. As under the origi-
nal i6O-acre homestead law. this land
can be acquired by the settler from
| Uncle Sam free of cost. on compliance
with the regulations requiring resi-
dence and cultivation.
A purported pooling agreement be
tween the Carnegie Steel Company
and ten other kindred concerns for a
percentage apportonment of the steel
output of the country-an admittedly
Illegal document supposedly long since
destroyed-stirred a recent meeting of
the House steel trust" investigating
committee. The original agreement
provided for the formation of the steel
plate association of the United States
and Notwithstanding that the agree
ment was burned and only came to
| light because Pennsylvania printer
n6d saved a copy from the flames. the
committee sought corroborative evil
dence that the steelplate association did
exist after the incireration of the tell
tale documents.