The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-01-30
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Secretary of War Stimson has ap-
proved the plans for reunion of the
Union and Confederate survivors of
the battle Of Gettysburg. The reunion
is to be held on the battlefield next
July in celebration Of the tiftieth an
niversary of the battle
After a secret session of the Pujo
committee in Washington it was de-
cided that the chairman and Samuel
Untermyer, the committees counsel,
must go to Palm Beach, Fla, after the
work of the committee in Washington
is concluded and there determine
whether or not it will be safe to ex-
anime William Rockefeller as to what
he knows about the copper corner.
John N WHY'S of Toledo, Ohio, has
purchased "The Praying Pilgrim" one
Of Rembrandt's greatest paintings.
The picture is valued at S250,0O0. The
canvas was bought at the sale of the
Maurice Kann collection in Paris.
Free meat" proposed by the house
Democrats at the last session of con-
gress, but blocked by presidential
veto, was indicated as part of the ex-
ira session of congress tariff revision
program at the hearing before the
house committee on ways and means.
"The United States either should
submit the Panama free toll question
to impartial arbitration or retire from
the position we have TAKEN" was the
declaration of Senator Root, in the
United States senate in a speech ia
voring repeal of the free toll provision
of the new Panama canal act.
The gunboat Wheeling has been or
dered to Vera Cruz, Mexico, to pro-
tect Americans in the critical situa-
ton which has arisen there
The attempt of the seven Usage In
dian councillors deposed by Secretary
Fisher to force their reinstatement by
mandamus proceedings failed when
the District of Columbia supreme court
dismissed their petition. The secre-
tary removed them for granting
lease to the Uncle Sam Oil company.
The Rockefeller Foundation incor-
poration bill passed the house at
Washington by a decisive majority,
although several attacks were made
on it and efforts we're made to adjourn
the session to delay action on the bill
With the declaration that this coun-
try had reached practically it's meat
production limit, Daniel J. Haley of
the United Master Butchers associa-
ton, urged the ways and means COM
mittee in Washington to take all du-
ties off meats, that the home produc-
ton could be reinforced by importa-
t1ons from Argentina or elsewhere
Following vigorous fight upon 1t, 4
led by Senator La Toilette, the confer
ence immigration bill was rejected by
the senate because of a clause which
1t was asserted would exclude a ma
Jority of Jewish immigrants from Rus
STA and Roumania. The bill went
back to conference, which will be ask
ed to eliminate the feature,
Regulation by the interstate COM
MERGE commission of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company,
and not the compulsory competitive |
provisions Of the Sherman antitrust
law, will be the means of solving in
large measure the so-called telephone
trust problem, according to Attorney
General Wickersham
Domestic
No matter what might have been
the motives behind the United States
Steel corporation when it absorbed
the Tennessee Coal &, Iron company
five years ago, Theodore Roosevelt. as
president, would have sanctioned the
deal, as he was dealing with a panic.
He so testified at resumption in
New York of the hearing in the gov
ernment's suit to dissolve the So
sailed steel trust.
Nine passengers were injured when
the Canadian Western express struck
a spreading rail and was ditched eight
miles west OF Wynard, Sask NJ ].
Johnson and his son, w. S. Johnson
Of 2437 South Emerson avenue, Min
neapolis, were among the injured.
The United States broke it's export
and import records in 1912. Imports
last year were valued at s1,817,622,340
as against 1882, 539, 100 in 1911, while
the 1912 exports were $2,399,995 ,937,
Or about $300,OO0,000 more than the
1911 racord.