Lower coast gazette., 1913-12-20
NATIONAL NEWS.

NATIONAL NEWS.
Lieut.-Gov. Bilbo, of Mississippi,
and Mississippi State Senator Hobbs
are on trial at Vicksburg on charges
Of considering a bride for their influ-
ence towards creating a new Missis-
sippi county.
Governor Brewer, while in Vicks-
burg last Sunday, expressed the hope
that the case would be tried on the
facts and not in newspapers or by POI
! litical hurrah.
Two Vicksburg National Park Ho-
tel employees will be State witnesses
to prove that Stephen Castleman. the
new county man, paid Senator Hobbs
money.
The State will try to prove a Cas-
tleman-Bilbo bribe-accepting' tele-
phone conversation.
Bilbo and Hobbs will make the usu-
al MISUNDERSTANDING Bilbo de-
tense.
Indications point to Gov. Brewer
trial prominence.
Prophets predict a five or six
weeks trial.
On December Is Administration
currency bill forces, by a vote of 40
to 35, tabled Nebraska Senator Hitch.
cocks section 2 substitute, proposing
four publicly owned stock regional
banks, with an allowable increase to
eight.
Senator Reed delivered a Owen Bill
defense speech in answer to New York
Republican Senator Roots currency
bill attack.
Republican National Committee
chairman, Charles D. Hilles. spoke at
his dinner to the Republican National
Committeeman. This conference is
not a council of despair" he said. Re
publicans have every reason to feel
hopeful" He called the conference
abnormal, but directed by the execu.
tive committee and warranted by con
ditions. He called the conferences
attention to five important matters
for committee decision, involving rec
IGNITION of State method of choosing
convention delegates laws, minimizing
the number of convention seats con
tests, automatic committeeman tenure
termination, with successors election
the creation of a new contest tribu
nal and a basis Of representation
change.
Texas pecan growers receive" ap
proximately 100000 for ninety car
loads, aggregating 100000 pounds Of
pecans, this years Texas crop.
The Missouri, Oklahoma & Gull
Railroad has been placed in the hands
of a receiver through a suit brough'
by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, O
Philadelphia.
Congress passed a bill giving $14,
900, an Isthmian Canal Commissioners
annual salary, to Mrs. Gaillard, widow
of the patriotic Panama Canal martyr
Lieut. Colonel Gaillard.
New York police discovered an &C
tual system whereby minor criminals
sentenced to short terms, have hire(
prison term substitutes and have
themselves walked the New Yorl
streets as free men.
Congressman Tribble, of Georgia, in
troduced a bill to abolish the pluckins
board which each year arbitrarily put
a certain number of naval officers OF
the retired list.
The Bureau Of Mines reports rapit
depletion of radium- bearing minera
deposits by w%asteful foreign markets
benefited exploitation.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, suffra
gette, was arrested in a London rail
way station, while returning from
Paris.
The New York Federal Distric
Court fined Eugene Scales, of Texas
Frank Hayne and William Brown, 0
New Orleans; Morriss Rothschild, o
Mississippi, and Col. Robert Thomr
son, of New York. $4,000 each, on
charge of ~cornering the cotton crop 0
1909.
President Wilson is recovering fror
a severe cold, due TO the President
exposure to cold wind at theme,
York Army-Navy football game.t
If the currency bill is passed by tn
Senate before Christmas, Congress
will be given a holiday recess. Pres.
dent Wilson will take a vacation. Hi
private physician is Investigating int
the Gulf Coast climate and quiet &C
vantages.
FOREIGN NEWS.
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