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There is small hope for ship sub
| sidy at this session Of congress.
| Senate and house conferees reached
an agreement on the rivers and har.
bors bill.
A new rule was adopted in the
house which stopped the filibuster
| In short order
Senator La Toilette wants an inves-
tigation of the charge that secrets OF
the navy have been disclosed.
Convicted officers of the Naval
Stores company have been granted a
reheartng by the supreme court.
The supreme court of the United
States ruled that advertising could
not be exchanged for transportation.
The commerce commission has or
dered reduction in refrigerating
charges on citrus fruits from the
west. - xss
Word from New York states that
negotiations between the Bell and In.
dependent telephone companies have
| reopened.
The senate committee on foreign
relations decided to recommend to the
senate the ratification of the new
treaty with Japan
Joseph ID. Rockefeller. cousin Of j.
d, Rockefeller died at his home in
South Bend, Ind. Mr.. Rockefeller
was born in Pennsylvania
Rumors of the bubonic plague
spreading into the coast clues of
Russia caused wheat prices in the
Chicago market to so half cent
higher.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to es-
tablish hero fund Of 100000 in
Denmark. The foreign office already
has expressed its gratitude for the
proposed gift.
The King Lumber company, OF
Charlottesville, Va, has been award
cd the contract for the construction
of the public building at Holdrege,
Neb., at $685.
The Mark Twain library, built as a
memorial to Jean l.. Clemens, daugh-
ter of the humorist, who was drown
ed at stormfleld, Dec. "a, 1909, was
formally dedicated.
Pleny Stokes, the 2o-year-old Texas
box convicted of the murder of Dep
'uty Sheriff Wood, was sentenced to
be hanged at the Florence (Arizona)
prison on April &c.
The supreme court of the United
States granted to Arkansas the priv
see to determine the exact boundary
between those two states.
After a lively debate, the Iowa
house, BY vote of GO to 33, vote to
postpone the attempt to pass the Ore
gon primary plan bill over the gov
ernor's veto until March 8.
A joint resolution authorizing the
struction at the West Point military
academy, two Chinese to be desig
mated by that government, was passed
by the house.
Tic Tennessee house Of repTesen-
tatives adopted resolution urging
| President Taft to call an extra ses-
sion Of congress March 4, 1911, to
make an Immediate downward revi-
sion of the tariff on the necessaries
Of life.' es3
Two hundred and forty-eight rail-
way mail clerks at Syracuse, N. Y,
took a revolutionary step for govern
ment employees by aff1liating with the
American Federation of Labor, re-
ceiving charter and electing and
installing officers.
The Aeranautic society will under
take to raise money to erect a monu-
ment in Washington to the memory Of
Lieut.. Thos. Selfridge, Ralph John.
stone, John B. Noisant and Arch Hox-
sey, who lost their lives trying to
master the science of flying.
Marconi's patent covering the tun,
ing of both transmitters and receiv-
ers used in wireless telegraphy was
sustained by the British courts in a
suit brought by the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph company OF London against
| the British Radio-Telegraph and Tele-
phone company.
for the bill to make Robert f.. Peary
rear admiral. failed. The house
was considering private bills when
Representative Butler of Pennsyl-
vania, proposed that the Peary bill
be taken up. Representative Mann
blocked the attempt by a parliament
airy motion.
| Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. in the
last of his formal speeches in Chica-
go before the Union League club
banquet, warmly advocated the pro-
posed reciprocity trade agreement
with Canada and scored congressman
who. he said, were responsible for
hindering the confirmation Of the
agreement by means OF an 'annexa-
ton scare"