The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-09-02
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WASHINGTON.


publicans and the regular republicans
will have their own programs for tariff
revision legislation when congress re-
convenes in December. This much
was made clear Thursday. All three
elements in the senate will be engaged
in a great battle on the general sub
Ject OF revision, the most important
feature Of the contemplated work of
the regular session. Much of the
trend of the fight will depend upon
the report of the tariff board and the
recommendations of the president in
connection with that report.
President Taft will decide if the gov
eminent, under the terms of the Ma
tional bank act, can permit National
banks to own interests in other bank
ing institutions. Attorney General
Wickersham and Secretary Mac
Veagh have disagreed on the question,
which was raised by the attorney gen.
erals investigation of the relation Of
the National City bank of New York
to the National City company. AS a
result all the papers in the case were
sent to the president for his decision.
The estimates of the United States
army tor the next fiscal year, it was
announced Wednesday, would in the
aggregate be about the same as the
amount appropriated by congress for
the military establishment during the
current year, which was $94,210,400.
During the extra session of con-
gress there were thirty-five presi-
Dental nominations which failed of
confirmation by the senate and three
nominations were rejected. The un-
confirmed nominations include John
Birdie for collector of customs at Pam
lico, N. c., and thirty-one postmasters.
Champ Clark, speaker of the house
of representatives in review of the
work of the first session of the Sixty
second congress, declared the demo-
cratic party set good example for
democrats everywhere and that the
party had redeemed every promise it
had made in the campaign of 1910
when the democrats wrested control
from the republicans
Chairman Fitzgerald of the house
IN ro-s0~-
ing the work of the extra session,
Tuesday stated that the appropria-
tions of congress during the extra ses-
sion aggregated $301.005. He declared
that no session of congress has even
run for SO long period and appro-
Mr. Eit7OorQ16 do
clared that more than 100000 had
been saved during the session by abol-
ishing sinecures and cutting off graf
uities heretofore granted congression-
al employees, and that further retrench-
ment was planned for the next ses'
sion.
DOMESTIC.
William Lee, % years old, confessed
Sunday that he murdered his father,
Richard Lee, his mother and younger
brother, Clarence, and then set fire to
the house in the hope of concealing
the crime, at Bonneville. Ind early
Thursday morning. In verbal and
written statements to Sheriff Davis,
Lee, in the Jail, said his motive was
anger because his parents would not
consent to his marriage with Nina
Taylor OF Newburg, which he had
planned for Thursday evening, and
would not give him money with which
to begin housekeeping When the con-
fession was made public officers start
ed with Lee in an automobile for the
State reformatory at Jeffersonville to
prevent possible mob violence.
Twenty-Five persons were killed and
more than sixty injured Saturday
when a moving picture film exploded
in the Cannonsburg, Pa. opera house.
ediately following the flash of the
film someone shouted fire There was
a rush for the exit and in a moment
there was a writhing, screaming mass
of humanity ten feet high in the mar
row stairway leading to the entrance
OF the theater.
Postmaster General Hitchcock des-
ignated Monday fifty more postoffices
of the first class as postal savings
among which are the
following: Montgomery, Ala; Texar-
kama, Ark; Athens, Ga: Paducah.
Ky: Shreveport. La; Jackson, Miss;
N. c.; Guthrie. Okla;
S. c.; Bristol, Tenn; Aus
tin, Texas, and Petersburg. Va.
Rains this week over the greater
part of the country from the Mis-
sissippi valley to the Atlantic coast
and to the southwest are predicted
in a bulletin of the weather bureau.
Strong winds are forecast for off the
Atlantic coast in connection with the
disturbance now off the South At
antic coast.
The Seatoard and Gulf Steamship
company, which inaugurated its Balti
nore-G Galveston service on August Il
With the sailing of the steamer D. N.
d,ckenback from Baltimore, will use
Port Bolivar as its southern terminus.
Determined, he says, he cheat
erm OF imprisonment, Charles Hop
,er of Chicago, who On Saturday MUIR
Tered Daisy Watts, better known as
trace Lyons OF Chicago, by throwing
Ter off a steamer into Lake Michigan,
las absolutely refused to touch food
II drink offered him in his cell in the |
ounty jail at Grand Haven.
By the narrow majority OF one vote, |!
he senate Saturday found ". H. Gray, |
he Houston lawyer, guilty of con-
empt because he refused to answer
uestions propounded by the senate /
INVESTIGATING committee and was sen.
enced to "A hours in Jail.