The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1912-01-05
WASHINGTON.

mated the worlds gold production for
1911 at approximately 100000, 900. the
greatest in history.
President Taft probably will decide
next Tuesday upon the man to sue
coed 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
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
to 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 II labor condi-
tions are not improved, delegation of
social workers has urged President
Taft to create 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.
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 SEES
sion.
Weekend tourists who want to go
back to the folks with photographs
with 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 a 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 a consequent strus-
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 proven
ton of disasters in mines were dis
cussed by the leading scientists and
economists OF the United States In
the opening session of the American
Society for the Advancement OF
Science, and the thirty affiliated as
sociations holding conventions here.
For heroic conduct in the fight with
outlaws on the island of Basilan,
Philippines,'S September 24th, five Nom
bers of the gunboat Pampanga have
been awarded a medal of honor and a
gratuity of 800 by Secretary of the
Navy Meyer.
Secretary Mcclure of the National
Wool Growers Association, and other
representatives of the Western wool
growers in Washington, are express
ing the opinion that there will be no
legislation lowering the tariff on wool
during the present session of Con
gress.