Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-08-16
WASHINGTON.

gust 10.
The present high cost of beef and
other meats may cause congression-
al investigation of the so-called beef
trust.
The trial of Judge Archibald of the
United States Commerce Court on i'm
peachment proceedings is set for De-
cember 3.
This years grain crop in the United
States will be far in excess of last
years yield, as estimated by the De-
partment of Agriculture.
The fight to pass the $150,000,000
pension appropriation bill was lost by
one vote in the Senate and the meas
ure was sent back to the House for
further conference.
The bar of the Supreme Court of the
United States has been asked to con-
tribute 100000 for the relief of the
widow and daughters of the late As
sociate Justice John NJ. Harlan.
By vote of A to IL the Senate re-
fused to strike from the Panama canal
bill the provision exempting American
ships from payment of tolls for pass
age through the Panama canal.
President Taft has accepted the res
ignation of Federal Judge Hanford of
Seattle, rendered while Judge Han
ford's conduct on the bench was being
investigated by congressional COM
mittee.
Representative Mondell of Wyoming
introduced a bill to appropriate 5000.
900 for the United States to pay its
share of the cost of exterminating the
predatory wild animals on the forest
reserves of the West.
Investigation of the loss of life, in
juries and damages sustained by
American citizens in the Madero revo-
luton in Mexico in 1911, would be or
dered by resolution submitted in the
House by Representative Smith CT
Texas
A congressional recall of judges
of the inferior courts of the United
States is proposed in constitutional
amendment which Representative HUI
of Tennessee, offered in the House.
and which was referred to the judiciary
committee.
Evidence of the growing anxiety of
the administration, because of the rev.
olutionary movement in Nicaragua,
was shown when orders were given
the gunboat Tacoma at Guantanamo.
Cuba. to proceed forthwith for Blue.
fields. Nicaragua.
AT the request of shippers and rail-
roads that ;he Interstate Commerce
Commission modify in some particu.
lars its recent orders respecting trans.
portation of wool from the West and
Northwest to eastern destinations, the
commission ordered a rehearing of the
cases, to be held in Denver Septem.
ber 1G.
Secretary Fisher has plan to a'Iot
government coal lands to cities, which
in turn may operate them under Ger.
tain regulations to supply municipal
needs, as well as those of citizens. As
first step to the plan, Secretary
Fisher has recommended that Con.
gress pass a bill granting 6i0 acres
of coal land to the city of Grand
Junction, Colo. and meanwhile the In
terror Department has withdrawn
from entry the land the city desires.
Cities in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah,
Montana, Idaho and other public land
states west of the Missouri river
would be most vitally affected by
Secretary Fishers plan.
For the second time within a year
President Taft has vetoed a bill TO
revise the wool tariff-schedule tx" of
the Payne-Aldrich law. The President
returned to Congress the bill evolved
as a compromise between the House
and the Senate. holding that its low
rates would bring disaster to home in
dustry. He appealed to Congress not
to adjourn until it had enacted meas
ure to Substantially reduce unneces-
sary existing duties" without Destroy
ing protection for the wool industry
in the United States. The Presidents
disapproval of the wool bill is to be
followed with similar vetoes of the
steel bill and the cotton bill. The su-
gar bill is likely to be vetoed. as is
the excise tax bill, the latter probably
on the ground that the President be.
lieves it unconstitutional.