Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-07-18
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DATE Fixed FOR
RECIPROCITY VOTE
VARIOUS FACTIONS AGREE TO
BALLOT ON PACT BIL ON
JULY e
SESSION WILL END AUGUST 2
SESSION WILL END AUGUST 7
Wsel Revision Bill 70 % Considered
July z7-psmoerats In Accord.
anos In Order TO End
Present Session.

washington. July l6.-An agree
ment to vote on the Canadian reel
procity bill on July ~ was reaches
By the leaders of the various faction
Of the senate.
The agreement ,hxes vote on tn
| house wool revision bill for July 70
free list bill Aug. 1, reapportionmen
bill Aug. and statehood on the LEG
islative day Of Aug. Z. Il II expectet
that the adjournment Of congress vii
Immediately follow the statehood
vote.
The agreement was formally offered
IN the senate by Republican Lsades
Penrose.
Senator Martin, Democratic leader
said Democrats favored the agreement
because Of the desire throughout the
country to, SEQ the present session ter
minated.
Senator Penrose advised Senator
Kenyon during the senate's discussion
Of the adjournment program that
though not Inclined to the voting
agreement the senate would be free
TO take up the campaign publicity bill
n II 90 desired. Many senators par.
ticipated in the discussion Of the
agreement In the senate chamber.
Tho charges made against DR.. Har.
veys W. Wiley. Of the bureau Of chem.
istsy, were taken up By the house
committee on expenditures in the dc.
partmsnt Of agriculture.
Il was declared that the committee
wanted TO know who wanted Dr..
Wiley fired and Why" Tho recon.
mendation that the pure food expert
DO dismissed and the reasons there
for. It IL said. will be thoroughly gone
into.
Letters and kilograms expressing
confidence in DR.. Harvey w. Wiley.
the pure food expert of the depart.
ment Of agriculture, and urging Pres
ident Taft to consider most carefully
the charges made against him By
the personnel board Of the department
and Endorsed by Attorney General
Wickersham. came pouring into the
White House from al over the coun.
try. Many Of the messages were from
personal friends of the president and
Of Dr. Wiley and still others from
organizations especially interested in
DR.. Wiley's work. Neither the White
House o1iciais nor DR.. Wiley had any.
thing further TO say today about the
case although 1t was up for discus
sion at the regular meeting of the
cabinet
An investigation Of pipe lines. the
rates. classiflcations and regulations.
was ordered by the interstate COM
merce commission. Informal com.
plants have been made to the COM
mission that certain pipe lines are be.
Ing operated in an unlawful manner
and to the prejudice of the interests OF
oil shippers
No date has been fixed for the be-
ginning Of the inquiry. but already the
commission. through its agents, has
acquired considerable Information re-
latins to the operation of the lines.
Pipe lines, 40 common carriers. are
subject to the provisions of the inter-
state commerce act. tits alleged that
the rates and. regulations Of many Of
them are discriminatory and unduly
preferential to certain shippers and
In direct violation Of the law.
The Controller Bay Inquiry.
Washington. July Is. = Testimony
to q thorough probing Of
the restoration OF the Controller bay
lands to entry and the claims repre-
ssnted BY Richard 8. Ryan, Of New
York. said to represent the Guggen.
helm mining syndicate in an effort
b monopolixe Alaskan coal fields, was
taken BY the house committee on OK.
psnditure in the interior department
The witnesses were Major J. B. Cav.
assistant to the chief engineer
Of the army. and Alfred H. Brooks. in
charge Of Alaskan mineral resources
for the United States government sur.
vsy. who told Of topography and coal
resources Of the Controller bay region.
and Of the permits already granted by
the war department there for trestles
and wharves. ETC.
Life Sentences for Mrs. Nsapolltano.
Ottawa. Ont. July 15.-The cabinet
committed to life imprisonment the
sentence Of death passed upon the
italian woman, Angelina Neapolitano
for the murder of her husband a
Bault Ste. Marie.
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