Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-04-17
State Democratic Leader
Put on Board of
Appraisers.
NAMED BY PRESIDENT
Wilson COnSuItS Senators Ken.
yOn and CumminS Before
Announcing Selection.

Washington, D. c., April 17.-Jerry
E. Sullivan, democratic leader il
Iowa, has been selected for appoint
ment to the board Of United States
general appraisers at New York. Sena
tors Kenyon ana Cummins were con
suited by the president about the pros
pective appointment.
William w. Roper OF Philadelphia
former Princeton football coach aud
a democrat, has been selected for ap
pratser of customs at Philadelphia.
The president consulted Senators Pen.
rose and Oliver about the appointment
Henry Clay Breckenridge OF Ken.
lucky has been selected assistant sec.
retary of war. The president consult
ed Senators James and Bradley.
To be assistant attorney general be
fore the court OF claims, Samuel H
Thompson, Jr, of Colorado.
The nominations of Sullivan, Roper
and Breckenridge together with that
Of Robert Wooley of Virginia, to be
auditor of the interior department,
and Herbert Manson to be collector
of internal revenue for the second dis.
tr!ct of Wisconsin, were later sent to
the senate.
RULE OF REASON HIT.
Chairman Henry of the rules com.
mittee introduced a bill today TO
amend the Sherman law to define pre-
c;sely what acts constitute a trust,
monopoly or conspiracy to restrain
trade, with punishment as felonies
ranging from two to ten years. The
act would exempt members OF or
CARNATIONS or associations not for
profit and without capital or agr1cul-
tural products or live stock in hands
OF producers or raisers." Henry ex-
planned the amendment was aimed at
the supreme courts rule of reason
DR.. Friedrich friedman would be
licensed to practice medicine in Wash
ington without having to undergo the
usual examination for aliens by a bill
irtI oduced today by Senator Hughes.
WANT TARIFF HEARINGS.
The action of the democrats of the
house in considering the new tariff
bill behind closed doors was denounc-
ed by republican leaders In the senate
today as unfair to the public and the
business interests affected. A demand
for hearings was made by Townsend.
PenrOse and others, who declared the
business interests and labor interests
were sending thousands Of protests
against the bill demanding an oppor-
tunity to be heard as soon as the meas
ure reached the senate.
FREE WOOL UPHELD.
The democratic caucus voted de.
cisively late yesterday to support the
wool schedule of the Underwood tar
iff bill, placing raw wool on the free
list after Representative Underwood
had made a stirring appeal for the
support Of the caucus. BY a vote of
1870 TO AZ an amendment offered by
Representative Dies of Texas to place
raw wool on the dutiable list was re,
Ijected. Representative Dies amend.
ment proposed to place duty of Is
per cent ad valorem on raw wool he
and other champions OF dutiable wool
insisting that this was the Judgment
of the ways and means committee be
fore President Wilson saw the bill and
suggested change.
Majority Leader Underwood in wind
ing up the discussion warmly defend
ed both the committee and the presi-
dent. He declared that the president
had right to make suggestions 10 CON
gress relating TO the tariff, but that
the bill as a whole met with the chief
executives approval when he first read
it as it came from the committee.