The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-04-25
NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Bill Passed Requiring Presi-
Candidates to Expose
Their Accounts.

after a short debate marked by bitter
democratic attacks upon Colonel
Roosevelt and President Taft.
The bill would require each candi-
date for the presidency or vice-presi-
dency to file with the secretary of the
United States, both before and after
primaries, nominating conventions
and general elections, "full correct
itemized statements of all money and
things Of value received by him or by
any one for him with his knowledge
and consent" The names of all per-
sons who contributed more than 500
to his fund and a statement of all
promises and pledges of offices made
by him with the names of the persons
involved.
The bill would require further that
managers of political committees or
voluntary organizations supporting
the campaigns of candidates and all
persons working in behalf of such can
didates, file with the secretary similar
statements.
The measure received no opposition
on it's final vote. 1t cares a penalty
of $4,000 or three years Imprisonment.
Senate Passes immigration Bill
An immigration bill, with the edu-
cation test, passed the senate. The
test adopted requires that every male
immigrant must read and write, and
makes that provision applicable to i'm.
migrants from Canada and other coun-
tries of the western hemisphere, who
are exempted by the original bill. Re-
ligious refugees would be exempted.
An amendment to provide for the de-
portation of aliens conspiring to over
throw other governments was passed.
This was said to apply especially to
mexican agitators. The Chinese
exclusion law is incorporated in the
general bill The immigrant head tax
is increased from 81 to SIS.
Sparrows Eat Alfalfa WeevIs
Western growers of alfalfa, threat
ened with the destruction of their
crops through the alfalfa weevil, will
rejoice to learn that the common spar
row is the arch enemy of this pest.
Heretofore the sparrow has been re-
garded as the rat of the feathery king
dom-useless vermin whose only mis-
sion was to destroy and without re-
deeming quality. Now the Biological
Survey, as result of experiments con-
Quoted in Utah, Colorado and Wyo-
ming last summer; announces that the
only bird found with an appetite for
the alfalfa weevil was the much-de-
spised sparrow.
The government has not been idle
in combating this pest. and does not
intend to depend on the sparrow ex-
clusively An Italian parasite which
destroys the weevi1 is being brought
to this country.
Regulation tof Ocean Liners Proposed
Regulation of transatlantic liners to
prevent a repetition of the Titanic dis
aster is aimed at in a resolution intro
duced in the senate, upon which the
senate foreign committee ordered a
favorable report.
The resolution provides that the
president of the United States shall
negotiate with other maritime powers
an agreement regulating sea lanes to
be used by the big liners, and for the
establishment of a uniform equipment
aboard the vessels and for their sys-
tematic inspection.
Postmaster General Hitchcock has
addressed a communication to the
chairman of the house postoffice COM
mittee, recommending that provision
be inserted in the pending postoffice
appropriation bill, authorizing the pay
ing Of $4,000. the maximum amount
prescribed by law, for payment to the
relatives of railway mail clerks killed
while on duty, and to the families of
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lost their lives on the ill fated Titanic.
National Capital Brevities
For shielding their embezzling
clerks, number of federal judges
will shortly face impeachment pro-
ceedings in the house of representa-
tives.
One thousand postoffices of the
fourth class have been designated
postal savings repositories by Post
master General Hitchcock, to begin
the transaction of business May 1.
At the present time all postoffices do
ing a postal savings business are pres
idential offices.
The house public lands committee
Aas favorably reported the Ranker bill
authorizing the secretary of the inter-
ior to exchange vacant public lands
for state school lands which lie within
any Indian, military, national forest
Or other reservation upon application
of any state.