The Glenwood post., 1911-07-29
WASHINGTON.

Plenty of rain throughout the coun
try is prophesied by the Weather Blu
reau
By vote OF 53 to 81 the Senate
passed the Canadian reciprocity bill
without amendment, which settles
this question so far as the Congress
is concerned
President Simon of Hayti appears
doomed to follow President Diaz of
Mexico, and give way to revolution
AIRY 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 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
On account OF long drouth, Senator
| Warren has introduced a bill granting
persons who have made homestead en-
es in Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho
Utah, Montana and other western
states, leave of absence from the date
the approval of the proposed act
Until April Is, 1912.
The United States Steel Corpora.
tion in obtaining the Tennessee Coal
| O. IrNr nd i,-
lands, "cinched" its monopoly of the
ores of the American continent and
tied up available fields for independ-
ent concerns, according to Chairman
Stanley of the House steel trust" in
vestigating committee.
There is no lodging the fact that
Congress is anxious to avoid the con
sideraton of all legislation at this
session except what it simply must
and Arizona, reapportionment. direct
elections of senators, Panama Canal
tolls, Panama Exposition matters
army legislation, conservation legisla
ton, the control of corporations. these
are some of the things which are clam
oring for attention and which seem
destined to go 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 ade
quate protection to the scene.
Louisiana planters and producers OF
sugar are making a determined stand
on the traiff before the House sugar
trust committee. declaring that a 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
1.-THE country.