The Columbus journal., 1911-03-01

The senate added $4,000 to thu
house pension bill.
There Is small hope for ship sub
sfdy at this session of congress.
Senate and house cosserees reaches
an agreement on the rivers and har
bors bill.
A new rule was adopted in the
house which stopped the filibustel
in short order.
Senator La Toilette wants an inves
! tigation Of the charge that secrets o.
the navy have been disclosed.
| Convicted officers of the Naval
Stores company have been granted Z
rehearing 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 a reduction in refrigerating
charges on citrus fruits from the
west.
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 d. 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 cities Of
Russia caused wheat prices in the
Chicago market to 60 a half cent
higher
Andrew Carnegie has offered to es-
tablish a 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
ed the contract for the construction
of the public building at Holdrege,
Neb., at $6S.325.
The Mark Twain library. built as a
memorial to Jean L. Clemens, daugh-
ter of the humorist. who was drown
ed at Stormfield, Dec. "a. 1909. was
formally dedicated.
Pleny Stokes. the 20-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 26.
The supreme court of the United
States granted to Arkansas the priv
ilege of filing a suit against Tennes
see to determine the exact boundary
between those two states.
After a lively debate, the Iowa
house. by a vote of SO to 80. 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
secretary of war to receive for in
struction at the West Point military
academy, two Chinese to be desig-
mated by that government. was passed
by the house.
The Tennessee house of represen-
tatives adopted a 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"
Two hundred and forty-eight rail-
way mail clerks at Syracuse. N. Y.
took a revolutionary step for govern
ment employees by affiliating with the
American Federation of Labor. re-.
ceiving a 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 r. Moisant 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.
An attempt to obtain consideration
for the bill to make Robert E. Peary
a rear admiral. failed. The house
was considering private bills when
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
the confirmation of the
agreement by means of an "annexa-
ton scare"