Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-10


Saturday, by Senator Hoke Smith
Senator Smith will not attempt to Sc
cure action on the amendment at the
present session, but will re- introduce
it in the special session and press il as
part of any currency revision plan.
Present Taft. Saturday, signed Con-
gresham Curiey's bill to refund duties
collected on parts and accessories of
embroidery lace making and other
machines before Jan. /, 1911. The bill
passed the House and Senate, last
week Mr.. Curley said, Saturday. that
a considerable portion of the $4,000 to
be refunded would go to Massachusetts
importers
President Taft has called a special
meeting of his cabinet, for Monday
morning. The matter which will be
discussed, at this meeting, will be the
fiscal budget as prepared by the
Cleveland Commission. The budget
form of making up the estimates for
the appropriations for the various ex-
ecutive departments is radically diff
ferent from the system now in use
Before it can be adopted it must have
the approval of Congress.
Minor Meriweather, Jr, who as a
midshipman from Louisiana at the
Naval Academy in 1906, was the cen
ter of a haZing affair and a fist fight
iii which a plebe named Branch re-
ceiyed fatal injuries, would be permit
ted to enter the pay corps of the navy,
under bill passed, Saturday, by the
Senate. A court martial sentenced
Meriweather 10 dismissal. President
Roosevelt pardoned him, and later he
resigned because of defective eye
sight. The affair created Sensation
at the time
Senators Watson and Chiffon of West
Virginia are completely exonerated of the
charge of corruption in connection with
elections two years ago, in report de-
eided upon, Saturday, by the Senate cleo
ton committee. The only charge was
traceable to the assertion by Delegate
l.. j. Shock of the West Virginia Legis-
lature that he had been paid slvyo and
promised more if he would vote for the
two senators. He has retracted the
charge, and with that retraction 1.-THE en-
tire accusation falls to the ground said
Chairman Dillingham;, Saturday, explain
Housewives who visited the center mar
ket, Saturday morning, at Washington
uttered cries OF disHGay on discovering
that spring lamb OF the crop of 1918 was
retailing at one dollar Il pound. This
would make a leg of lamb cost from six
to eight dollars and the price is said to
be the highest ever recorded at this time
of the year. The trimmings that gen.
orally accompany the succulent spring
lamb. mint and green peas, retailed at
10 cents a bunch and Is cents a quart re-
spectively. Prices of nearly all commodi-
ties are advancing and dealers regard the
outlook for any decrease in the immedi.
ate future as not encouraging.
The closing chapter of the quarrel in
the marine corps two years ago, which
resulted in the transfer from Washing
ton to the Philippines and to California
of two of the officers involved. was writ
ten, Saturday. when Sec Meyer ordered
Col. F. L. Denny to return to W ashington
from San Francisco and resume his duties
as quartermaster at marine headquarters
But coupled with this announcement was
the statement that Col. Denny had been
unable to take the >regulation naval phys
ical exercise on account of heart trouble.
wherefore he has been ordered before a
retiring board upon his arrival in Wash
ington.
Sec. MacVeagh, Saturday. ordered the
engraving of the plates for the new 81
treasury notes. 1t will require IS months
to put into circulation this new paper
money, which will be only two-thirds the
size of existing currency. The secretary
gave his unqualified approval to the de-
sign for the face of the note produced by
treasury officials, and the design for the
back created by Kenyon Cox the New
York artist Mr.. Cox's design also was
approved by the Fine Arts Commission
Simplicity is the characteristic of both
designs. The back of all denominations
will be the same. A vignette of Washing
ton will adorn the face of the 81 bill. and
the treasury department is now drawing
the designs for the faces of the other
denominations
To avoid a prolonged struggle over
the question of national and state con-
troll Of nom navigable waters, and at
the same time to protect the scenery
70 ~" St'i't ans, eiie wal department.
probably will recommend to Congress
an extension for another term of five
years of the provisions of the Burton
act regulating the diversion OF water
from the falls for power purposes. An
army board has concluded that exist
ing regulations must be perpetuated.
The Burton act expires by limitation,
March 4. 1t is possible to prevent fur
Their diversions of water under the
terms of the existing treaty with Great
Britain, but that convention is so de-
f1cient in the necessary machinery to
make it effective that the next secre-
tary of war will be obliged to exercise
some arbitrary powers to protect the
falls unless the additional Legislation is
enacted.