Gilpin observer., 1912-01-04
WASHINGTON.

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mated the worlds gold production fol
1911 at approximately $780, 100000, the
greatest in history.
l. President Taft probably will decide
next Tuesday upon the man to sue
ceed the late Justice Harlan on the
Supreme Court bench.
Courses of aeronautics soon will be
established in American universities to
fit young men for the profession OF
flying and airship building.
For the next week President Taft
will work on a message to Congress
dealing with economy and efficiency
in the government departments.
Officials of the Department of Jus.
tice will keep a close watch on the
price of shoes during the next year in
consequence of reports that the cost
tc consumers will be materially in
creased.
The Greater Des Moines committee
has petitioned the Interstate Com
merce Commission to order a reduc-
ton in class freight rates between
Des Moines and points in Colorado
Wyoming and Utah.
Using the McNamaras as an illus.
tration of what might be expected
again in this country if labor condi-
tions are not improved, delegation of
social workers has urged President
Taft to create a labor commission"
Though. the Postoffice Department
handled an unprecedented amount of
holiday mail this year, thousands of
cards were thrown away because bear.
ing mica or tinsel ornaments. They
were mailed in unsealed envelopes
with penny stamps.
Members of the Interstate and For
eign Commerce Commission of the
House who have returned to Washing
ton from trip to the Panama canal,
expressed themselves as favoring toll
rates for passage through the canal
varying from so cents to 81 ton.
The spectacular contest over the
constituionality of the Indiana pure
food law of 1907 was transferred to
Washington when the fight was re-
newed in the Supreme Court of the
United States. The court is expected
to decide whether any state may enact
legislation regulating food brought in
to state from another. Sac
Senator Works of California will at
tempt to attach to the Sherwood pen
sion bill provision absolutely pro-
hibiting any special pension bills and
making ineligible for pension any per
son who attempts to get special legis-
lation. Senator Works hopes to stop
the flood of special pensions which
are passed by Congress at each ses-
sion.
Weekend tourists who want to go
back to the folks with photographs
with a real Washington. d. c., label
on them, showing President Taft in
the act of shaking them by the hands,
or in earnest conversation with them,
got an unexpected Christmas present
from Mr.. Taft. for the President has
put the official ban on these fake"
photographs.
The classification OF all the peoples
of the world in great international
census, giving each person number
in single world series, to the end
that the human race may be improved
by scientific marriage, was the plan
advocated by w. w. Hays, assistant
secretary of agriculture, in an address
before the American Breeders Asso-
citation, one of the organizations max
ing up the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
There was an over-production of
coal this year and consequent strug-
gle for trade which depressed prices,
is the opinion expressed by Edward w.
Parker, coal statistician for the
United States Geological Survey.
Subjects ranging from the origin Of
the American Indian to the preven.
tion Of disasters in mines were dis.
cussed by the leading scientists and
ecopomists of the United States in
the opening session of the American
Society for the Advancement OF
Science, and the thirty affiliated as.
sosiations holding conventions here.