The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1912-07-26
NEWS NOTES.

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in his vacation time involved the Senate
in bitter controversy. 1t began when
Senator Bristow, ignoring the defeat OF
his resolution directed at Mr.. Bryan IS
action, insisted upon being heard in
severe criticism Of the Cabinet officer.
Before the debate ended, charges and
counter-charges between Senators on the
two sides of the chamber had brought
the Senate to high pitch OF excitement.
Twenty-one deaths from heat were re-
ported over the Central West Friday,
twelve of them in Louisville. A few
places found some relief during the day.
st. Louis reported three deaths and
three prostrations and Knoxville six
prostrations. Six deaths were reported
from Indiana.
That the proposal Of protectorate
over Nicaragua is to merely carry out the
announced attitude of the Administra-
ton to guarantee the independence of
Central American States is the belief
expressed by members of the Senate.
The Republicans have served notice
on the Democrats of the Senate that
there will be no unnecessary delays in
considering the tariff bill and that they
will contine their fight to amendments
without efforts to delay final vote.
A memorial censuring Secretary of
the Navy Daniels, alleging that he in
spired the demolition of the Socialist
and Industrial Workers of the World
headquarters at Seattle, was adopted by
the Radical Socialists at Seattle.
Complications, it is predicted, will arise
over the installation of the direct election
of United States Senators through the
failure of State Legislatures to take &C
ton on laws under the new constitution
al amendment
The War Department and the Ma
tional Guard Association have agreed
upon the outline of bill designed to
make the organized militia available for
immediate service in any part of the
world.
Members of the House Appropriations
Committee claim Virginia land owners
are asking an exorbitant price for a
sandy stretch of land at Cape Henry,
where it isplanned to build "a, 900, 900
fort.
A large number of nominations for
consular offices, including many turned
down when presented by President Taft,
will be sent to the Senate in the course
of few days by President Wilson.
Andrew Carnegie has transferred
$40, 900, 900 in Steel Corporation bonds
to the Carnegie Dunfermline Trust in
England, the income to be devoted to
charity and other benefactions.
Exports of American manufactures
have increased from $46S, 900, 900 in
1908 to 81, 200, 900, 900 in the fiscal year
Just ended, while exports of foodstuffs
were $50, 1000, 900 each year.
A limit on the amount to be sent by
Senators and Representatives on tele-
grams at public expense probably will
result from Senator Bristow's attack on
Senator Ashurst, it is said.
The laws of Hamurabi, who ruled in
Babylon, 1000 years ago, pertaining to
bankruptcy, have been deciphered from
a tablet at the University of Pennsly-
vania
By means of human chain a young
Canadian was saved from the Niagara
River within fifteen feet of the brink of
the American falls.
Charged with attempting to extort
81 900 from wealthy society girl, w.
L. Cummings, 20 years old, was arrest.
ed in Salt Lake City.
The general trend of business is in the
right direction, with optimistic views
say Dun's and Bradstreet's
weekly reports.
Gov. McCreary will review the grand
parade of the Kentucky guardsmen now
at Middesboro.
McCorkle Case Continued.
TiptonYille. Tenn. July q Circuit