The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-02-28
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izing payment of $1,000 to American
injured by firing on the Mexican Dor
der.
The house refused by a vote of 213
to ia, to pass the Dillingham-Bur-
nett immigration bill over the presi-
dents veto.
The house money trust Investigate
Ing committee has begun considera-
ton of the financial regulation lesis-
it's report.
Secretary MacVeagh submitted to
President Taft his plan for the reor-
ganization of the customs service in
accordance with the authority grant
ed by congress-.
Senator Brown introduced amend
ments to the public building bill pro-
viding for the following public build
ings: Alliance, $125 5000; Wahoo.
s100, 900; Auburn, SOS, 900.
A bill to reduce the number of Of
fcers for each regiment of infantry,
cavalry and field artillery was intro
duced in the House by Chairman Hay
of the house military affairs commit
tee.
Secretary MacVeagh told the house
committee on Treasury department
expenditures that $35, 900, 900 in the
treasury above current liabilities was
a practicable working balanc and
that in emergencies it could be run
below that amount
Representative Webb of North Car
DINA has introduced a resolution re-
puesting the attorney general to fur
nish the public with information as to
why the criminal prosecution of i'm
porters of china from Limoges,
France, had been discontinued.
The largest pension bill ever re-
ported to congress, carrying appro-
priations a~ggregating $1S0,300, 900,
was passed by the house by a vote of
219 to 40, with an amendment which
will make necessary an additional ap-
preparation OF more than 81, 10000 0
Resolutions commencing the efforts
of Secretary of State Knox as chair
man of the governing board of the
Pan-American union for the last -four
years to further amity and friendship
between the United States and Latin
America were adopted unanimously
at a meeting of the governing board
Of the Pan-American union.
A coat of white paint applied to the
square reading desk from which
Woodrow Wilson will deliver his in
augural address March 4 constituted
one of the real finishing touches" to
the great temporary structure that
has gone up on the east front of the
capitol in preparation for Inaugural
ton.
Plain labelling of food packages with
the net weight and contents before
they are sold to the public is required
by a bill passed by the senate, which
already had passed in the house.
Slight changes made by the senate
will require a conference committee
of the two houses before the measure
Is sent to the president for signature.
The proposed 500, 100000 Rookie
Teller foundation for benevolent pur-
poses constitutes the safest DISPOSE
ton that can be made of that portion
of John D. Rockefeller's immense for
tune, is the conclusion expressed in a
majority report from the senate judic-
iary committee to the senate recon-
mending the passage Of the Rookie
Teller foundation bill.
Intervention of the United States
government to secure justice, or at
least q fair trial for fallen President
Madero Of Mexico, as announced by
Secretary Knox at the cabinet meet
ing was an unexpected development
of the State department policy in re
gard to that republic. Recently it was
announced that there was no intention
to depart from the policy Of nonin-
PREVENTION in the Mexican troubles.
Extravaganza in the present sys-
tenn of improving waterways and the
need of closer cooperation between
the states and the federal government
were emphasized in the senate in a
fight w certain provisions of the
annual river and harbor %appropria-
ton bill. Senator Nelson, chairman
of the senate committee, said better
results could be secured in waterway
Improvement II congress would appro-
pirate a lump sum and leave the de-
tails Of river improvement to a COM
mission Of army engineers.
GENERAL.
Postmaster General Hitchcock's an
nual report tentatively suggests reduc-
ton of some parcels post rates and
Increasing the limit Of weight beyond
eleven pounds.
Ye Ho Ma La, empress dowager Of
China, is dead. She was the widow
q Emperor Kwangsu. who died No
vember 13, 1908.
Hurried preparations are being
ma1e In Mexico City tor the flight of
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