The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1912-03-22

up house tariff bills.
:. Juarez, Mexico, is still an open por'
despite order of Madero.
Eight hundred thousand Brltlsi
coal miners have ceased work.
President Taft is preparing for a
extended speechmaking tour.
President Madero Of Mexico says
he has no thought of resigning.
Both houses Of congress interested
themselves in the Lawrence strike
situation.
There was a mutiny OF soldiers at
Picking. and the city was given over
to pillage and burning.
h trust platform Of Senator
CumminS was embodied in a bill he
introduced in the senate.
Senator Cummins offered il bill de-
signed to strengthen the antitrust
arm of the government.
Colonel Roosevelt that
he will accept the republican nomlna-
ton for the presidency.
Arizona occupies the distinction or
having no federal official since her ad-
mission to statehood.
The United States steel corpora
ito is described by an expert exam
iner as II of the bad trusts.
The Third Missouri district republi-
a convention split and elected both
Taft and Roosevelt delegates.
The department Of justice is inves-
tigating the moving picture business
to ascertain is there is a trust
Reduction of wages would result
from house steel tariff bill. labor rep
resentatiyes told finance committee.
Secretary Meyer says the United
States will socn sink to fourth place
as a naval power if congress is not
more liberal.
The day of the arrival Of Secretary
of State Knox in Nicaragua is to be
declared a public holiday throughout
the country.
Secretary Meyer was before the
house committee on naval affairs and
urged that the coal fields Of Alaska
be used by the government.
Senator Dupont of Delaware voiced
a flat denial of the charges against
him in the resolution introduced by
Senator Reed of Missouri.
Representatives of shoe manufacture
ers urged the department of justice to
stand by its civil criminal suits
against the United Shoe Machinery
company.
Senator P~oindeXter advocated be-
fore the interstate commerce commit
tee his bill for abolition of the United
States commerce court.
Government ownership Of express
properties and operation by PostOffice
department is provided in a bill Sen
ator Gardner will introduce.
gathered largely in the Philippines
and Central America, and valued at
$4,000, has left a local nursery in
San Mateo, Cal, for England.
Twenty years in the penitentiary
was the sentence imposed on Richard
Palmer, in criminal court at Des
Moines. for the theft of two chickens.
He confessed.
Governor Hiram Johnson of Califor-
MIA addressed Ohio's fourth constitu-
tional convention in advocacy of the
initiative, referendum and recall. He
made nc political references.
One hundred and seven govern
ment officials will lose free tele-
phones when the appropriation COM
mittee of the house reports the sup
ply bill.
An appropriation of $4,000 for the
protection of Valdez. Alaska, ard the
adjacent region from glacial floods
Vas recommended to the enate by
the commerce commission.
Samuel Untermeyer told the Inter
Commerce commission there
was open violation OF the antitrust
in the acquisition of smaller rail.
roads by certain large eastern sys-
tens.
The house began hearings on the
bill providing for increased federal
appropriations for the aid of the state
agricultural colleges. The bill con-
templates an initial appropriation OF
$500, 600.
Fifteen children of strikers at Law
Mass, arrived in Washington
and were met by Victor Berger of
the socialist representa-
i've. lueS CaiHe 10 TESTIFY DelOTe tne
house rules committee of The house.
a request from citizens of Ogden,
Utah, presented to President Taft by
Howell, urging the
government to investigate the strike
of the machinistS on the Hartman
was referred to the department
of justice.
Winfred T. Denison an assistant at.
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