Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1911-06-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST
NEWS THAT is NEWS, WHEN IT
rs NEWS, FOR ALL.
OOINGS OF DAY and WEEK
Happenings the Wide World Over Of
important Events Condensed to
Good Reading.
WASHINGTON.


The senate Friday passed the
Bourne resolution authorizing an in
vestigation of the postal system of the
United States and to determine what
changes are necessary in the present
methods. The Investigation is to be
made by the senate committee on
postoffices and post roads, with es-
pecial attention to the possible estab-
lishment of a parcels post
The house democrats who favor free
wool entered upon carefully worked
out plan to "set the party right be-
fore the country as to its position on
free raw materials" as these mem
bers explain their plan. For this pur-
pose they propose to have the general
debate on the wool bill close with
series of speeches in favor of free
raw materials and especially in favor
of free wool. These speeches will
amount almost to criticism of the
pending bill, because it leaves a duty
OF 20 per cent ad valorem on wool, al
though throughout there is to be ap-
proval of the measure as whole as
being a great forward step and an i'm
measurable improvement over the
Payne-Aldrich bill.
Representative Galloway Saturday
appointed Thurman Randle of Gran
bury, a graduate of Carlisle institute
of Arlington, Texas, as principal for
the existing vacancy at West Point
Military academy.
The determination of the senate
finance committee to push through
the Canadian reciprocity bill with all
possible speed and the confidence of
the senate leaders that there is clear
majority in favor of the bill without
amendment, was made plain Friday
when Chairman Penrose, of the COM
intttcc forced the bAh into ita second
't-aAna het2ret.tne nenate ana .xlnRr
The story OF the birth of the Meet
sugar industry in America, it's trials
and temptations ever since, and how
the Oxnard Bros. were enriched by
more than half million dollars profit
through "the little transaction" Of
selling their cane sugar refinery in
Brooklyn to the first sugar trust in
1887, were the features of the testi-
mony that Henry T. Oxnard gave Sat
urday to the house sugar investigating
committee
Woman's suffrage joined in support
Of the parcels post in advocacy of the
Sulzer bill Friday before the house
committee on postoffices and post
roads Miss Emma M. Gillette of New
York declared the cause of woman's
suffrage needed the parcels post, and
she praised the postoffice department
as the only government department
that is close to the people.
Representative Hughes of New Jer-
sey delivered the only speech made
in the house Friday on the bill to re-
wise the wooden schedule, other mat
tiers occupying most of the session.
Mr.. Hughes spoke in favor of the bill.
A fund of $4,000 to purchase a sill
yer service to present Mrs. Taft on
her silver wedding anniversary at the
White House on Monday was sub
scribed by members of the house of
representatives Friday.
The Lorimer investigating commit
tee of the senate Friday appointed
John Marble of Washington and John
j. Healey of Chicago as counsel. Mr..
Marble for years has been attorney
for the interstate commerce commits
sion,- while Mr.. Healey, former states
attorney for Cook county, Illinois,
served as counsel for the Helm com
mittee of the Illinois senate in its
Lorimer inquiry.