Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-08-04
WASHINGTON.

Notice has been issued of the appoint
ment of Frederick w. Taylor of Colo
RADIO as director or agriculture for the
Philippine Islands.
BY vote of So to 81 the Senate
passed the Canadian reciprocity bill
without amendment. which settles
this question so far as the Congress
is concerned
More than two billion dollars in re
deemed bonds. representing the major
part of the governments Civil Wa
debt is being ted to the furnaces IN
the Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Steps toward recreating the Ameri
can Tobacco Company out of the ele-
ments now composing it. in harmony
with the decision of the Federal Su-
preme Court have been taken in New
York.
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.
President Taft has signed the reci
procity bill. Secretary of State Knox,
Secretary of Commerce aud Labor Ma
gel, Secretary to the President Lilies
and Representative Littleton, several
newspaper men and battery of pho
tographers witnessed the signing.
Because he does not believe in the
Senate's method of taking testimony
in Investigations. Senator Bailey of
Texas resigned from the committee on
privileges and elections. He made no
explanation to the Senate and the res
ignation was accepted without com
ment
With the fall of President Simons
government, inevitable. the revolution
airy crisis in Hayti has caused the ~
! Wy Department to order the scou,
cruiser Salem, one of the swiftest
boats in the navy, to Port Au Prince
to reinforce the American warships pa
/ trolling the coast.
Ground has been gained by the Dem
ocratic-Progressive Republican condi
! ton for broader tariff revision and it is
confidently predicted in both houses
that conference compromise bill. the
farmers free list bill. and possibly the
cotton bill, with steel, sugar and 9th
er schedules. would be passed.
A favorable report from the Senate
public lands committee on his bill
granting the state of Colorado an ad-
ditional million acres of public lands
for use under the Carey desert lana
act. was secured by Senator Guggen-
helm. who also secured the passage OF
the bill through the Senate.
Out of what had appeared to be a
chaotic condition in the Senate there
suddenly arose coalition of Demo
Gratis and insurgent Republicans which
bowled over the regular organization
and passed compromise bill Tor the
revision of the wooden tariff by 4S to
80.
The electrical trust has submitted to
Attorney General Wickersham a decree
which it is said they are willing To
have entered against the alleged com
bination in the governments suit for
dissolution. The significance of this
move is that the trust is willing to dis
solve without a fight.
The federal government scored in
its effort to break up the alleged
wire trust" when thirty-seven men in
dicted withdrew the plea OF mot gull
ty' and accepted sentence without
trial. Judge Archibald, in the United
States court in New York. imposed
fines of from $1,000 to s1,7O0 in each
case.
Pass the House wool tariff revision
bill or enact no wool legislation at ALL
is the slogan of a strenuous fight be-
ing made by House leaders among
their party associates in the Senate.
and the net results after a series of
conferences has been growth of sem
timent among Democratic senators in
favor Of this policy, which may mean
no wool legislation at this session.
A purported pooling agreement be-
tween the Carnegie Steel Company
and ten other kindred concerns for a
percentage apportionment of the steel
output of the country-an admittedly
illegal document supposedly long since
Observation-Disclosures a recent meeting OF
the House steel trust" investigating
committee. The original agreement
provided for the formation of the steel
plate association of the United States
and Notwithstanding that the agree
ment was burned and only came to
light because a Pennsylvania printer
had saved copy from the flames. the
committee sought corroborative evil
ldence that the steel plate association did
exist after the incireration of the tell
tale documents.
To explain the use OF lard" money
in the Lorimer election. heads of big
stock yards companies in Chicago will