Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-09-18
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
sss4rE.-L,GEMcE HERE GATHERED
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
includes What 10 Going On at Wash.
inaton and In Other Sections of
the Country.
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WASHINGTON.
Administration officials are con
WINGED that Mexico City authorities
have no effective plan of their "
TO bring about peace in Mexico and
that the situation there is drifting.
The bill passed by the house adj
hitting free OF duty ali foreign goods
for exhibit at the P~anama-Paciflc e&-
position In San Francisco in 1915 has
also been passed by the senate.
A counteryailing duty on dried or
candied fruits and comhed wool or
tops from Australia. equivalent to the
bounty granted 20 those products py
the Austrian government, has been
ordered by the treasury.
An official from TIE reclamation
service will soon visit southwestern
Nebraska to investigate and report
upon the feasibility of improving the
water supply for irrigation purposes
This is the assurance given to Rep"
resentative Barton, vino has been
working ON the matter,
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David Lamar, conspicuous figure In
the senate lobby investigation and
now under indictment In New York
for impersonating members OF Oh
gress, was arrested by order of Attor-
ney General McReynolds. He was
released on $4,000 bonds.
President Bordas, of the Dominican
republic has cabIed the legation here
that the revolution was confined to
the cities of Puerto Plata, Samana
and Moca; that 1t was not general In
the northern part of the country, and
that he had taken personal command
OF his troops.
AS the climax of the vigorous re-
publican condemnation OF democratic
legislative methods which has marked
the currency debate, Representative
Sidney Anderson of Minnesota, on
the floor of the house, resigned as a
member Of the powerful ways and
means committee.
Former Representative James e.
Watson OF Indiana. before the house
lobby commission made a gen
erai denial of Martin Muihall's gen.
eral charge that he was one oil the
active friends OF the national associa-
ton OF manufacturers in congress for
many years.
Congressman Towner OF the Eighth
iowa district has classified forty
eight letters recsiyed from bankers
In his district who have written him
respecting the proposed currency bill.
Two OF them are in favor, three are
noncommittal and forty-three are
against 1t.
Chicago police reports that a So
called s.biaek book containing evil
dence OF Chinese and opium Snug
Cling OF traffic in white slaves had
been seized in a Chinese restaurant
IN that city were denounced by the
bureau OF immigration as "the purest
fabrication"
Democratic c~onferees OF the senate
and house have made rapid progress
on the tariff bill approving the earth.
enware and glass schedules with
slight changes the sugar schedule
with Its free sugar provision and the
date for the new rates extended TO
March j. 1914, the tobacco schedules
with the exception of the proposed ba.
mana tax and the countervailing duty
on wheat.
DOMESTIC.
Philadelphia proposes to spend 3d..
100000 in the erection of school build.
tngs TO meet immediate needs.
Women strike sympathizers at
Calumet, Mich, have organized an
auxiliary to the Western Federation
Of Miners. They plan a vigorous
campaign In behalf OF the strikers.
Representative johnson of Washing.
ton has introduced d resolution re.
guessing the president to negotiate
with British and Canadian govern,
ments for railway connections be.
tween the United States and Alaska
The number of scholars enrolled
Al the West Point schools on the op
ening day was $50, an increase OF one
over last year. OF this number nine
tystwo are pupils Of the high school.
Representative Timothy D. Sulf
var, who disappeared from his broth
er,s home at Williams Bridge, Sep
fember 1, Is still missing Report.
that he wal in Il saritarsum at Brew
ster, N. Is. under the care OF q New
Fork physician, were declared by til,
physician 10 be unfounded
Falcon and Hope islands Of til,
Friendly Tonga group III the Soul
Pacific have disappeared from view
With them several hundred native
end few white me also has disar
peared.
CloHer ~co-operation between I'll
government and settlers III the ii
claimatipn ~ many sections OF It'll
ssSnrl6 west was the keynote of al DC
dyess Secretary pf the Inferio
Fr&nkEnn Lane, before the NTH III
noaa cppferaaaee governors now !