The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-06-10
NEWS NOTES

George Willis, of Shelbyville, was
sworn In as clerk of the Helm Census
Committee at Washington.
Chief Engineer George W. Goethals
says anything that floats can pass
through the Panama Canal when il is
completed.
The Kentucky Press Association visit
ed Frankfort and Lexington on its way
to Olympian Springs where the annual
meeting will begin today.
Lawrence Reno, Collector of the
Greensboro district, has wired Senator
Bradley not to oppose the confirma ton
of Josh Griffith, his successor.
Democrats of Winchester held pre-
ferable primary for city offices. ID. T.
Mattack securing the nomination for
Mayor over j. A. Hughes, the in
cumbent.
During his preliminary hearing, Wal
ter Foster, wanted in Columbus, Miss,
for swallowing walked out of a Bir-
mingham, Ala, courtroom and made his
escaped
Emily Wilding Dawson, the mi itan /
suffragette who was injured when she
tried TO stop King Georges horse in the
English Derby, died at the Epson Hos
pital.
That the Oil and Tobacco Trusts have
not been actually dissolved to meet the
requirements of the antitrust statutes
is the opinion of Attorney General Nc
Reynolds.
An immediate trial of the 10 mine
workers union officers indicted at
Charleston, W. Va, on charges of viola.
ting the Sherman antitrust law will be
asked by the Government.
Government experts estimate the 1913
wheat crop at 744,u00,00 bushels, of
which 1872 600. 900 will be winter wheat.
Under favorable conditions the yield
will reach the record harvest of 1901.
Rev. G. A. Briggs, for 40years teach
er in Union Theological Seminary, New
York, died OF pneumonia. He was the
principal in the famous heresy trial con-
Quoted by the Presbyterian Assem- bly,
years ago.
A tract of land two miles long AMI a
mile wide in the Shenandoah Valley,
near Winchester. Va. has been leased
by the Government as a drill ground on
which to try out the proposed new cav
airy organization pan.
The power of the States to fix reason
able interstate rates on interstate rail-
roads, until such time rs Congress shall
choose to regulate these rates, was up
held by the Supreme Court OF the United
States Court in the Minnesota freight
and passenger-rate cases.
That President Wilson and the secret
Democratic party caucus comes nearest
to exerting IAN undue influence" of
anything the Lobby Investigating Com
mittee will find, was the declaration of
Senator Townsend, Republican who said
that the lobby stat ement" that started
the investigation was coercing Sena-
tors.
A table prepared by the Senate FL
nance ommitlee showing comparative
figures based on the Underwood Tariff
Bill and the present law Indicate the av-
erage ad valorem rate to be 81 80 per
cent. in the proposed law, as against
AZ GA in the present law.
The Kentucky rate case, which is ex-
pected to be decided TODAY, will be de-
cided favorably to the Stale was the
opinion given by Interstate Commerce
Commissioner McChord. who was author
of the Kentucky law. after he read the
Supreme Court decision in the Min
nesota rate case.
That the railroads, twenty-five of
which he represents. do not maintain a
lobby in Washington, but presents their
arguments before committees. was the
statement made yesterday by former
Senator Faulkner, of Virginia, before
the Senate Lobby Investigating Com
mittee.