The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-06-20
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WASHINGTON, D. c.-Representar
tive Underwood, majority leader OF
the house, by no means shares the
presidents optimism as to the sue
cess of the administration currency
revision program at this session of
after a long conference between the
president and Mr. Underwood on the
currency situation at the White House.
The opinion is growing among the
presidents close friends that he has
not determined to adopt the dogmatic
attitude toward the currency bill
which he assumed in pushing the free
wool and sugar schedules of the ia. if
bill At his regular conference with
the newspaper correspondents the
president expressed the wish that the
country should know that the bill
which he has decided to approve is
'sthe genuine result Of common cour-
Gill;" and that he personally has not
assumed all the responsibilities OF
drafting it. He said he had given
his attention to the main lines which
the bill should follow and had left
matters of phraseology and detail to
others whose advice he had had.
NEW YORK - Former President
William H. Taft has written COM
ment on the Minnesota railroad rate
decision handed down by the supreme.
court on Monday. Mr.. Taft finds the
decision in ultimate effect to be vic
tory for the railroads. The court,
while vindicating the position takea
by the state in the present case.
nevertheless, points the way for the
establishment of a superior federal
authority. He says the only recourse
of the interstate railroads which
chafed under state supervision is N
congress, which under this decision
has the power to make uniform laws
which will be effective even within
the borders Of the states themselves.
WASHIMGTON-The error in the
soundings of Cuban waters as indicat-
ed by charts of the photographic Of
flee were accepted by Secretary Of
the Navy Daniels as mitigating cir
cumstances in the court martial cases
of Captain R. G.. Smith and Lieuten-
ant w. W. Smyth of the battleship
Arkansas. Captain Smith, as the re-
sponsible officer in command of the
ship, was sentenced to loss of TWEEN
ty files and Lieutenant Smyth, acting
navigator to the loss of ten files
The sentence was reduced one-half
in each case. Both officers were or
dered restored to duty.
LAFAYETTE, IND. - More than
100 grain dealers and elevator
owners from the counties of Tippe-
canoe, Carroll, White, Montgomery,
Benton, Warren, Clinton, Fountain
and Newton met in Lafayette for the
purpose of discussing the bill passed
by the last legislature in reference to
storage of grain Under the new law
the elevators would be regulated by
the public utilities law and it was the
sense of the meeting that the eleva-
tors would no longer store grain for
the farmers.
LONDON, ENG. - The debate on
the second reading of the home rule
bill which was rejected by the house
of lords and will have to be passed
three times by the commons under
the parliament bill, was resumed.
After several addresses had been
delivered the division on the second
reading was taken. Mr. Balfour's
motion to reject the bill was defeated
by vote of 36S to 270. The bill was
then passed on it's second reading and
then referred to the committee of the
whole.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL. - Four men
three from Chicago-were killed
men-three from Chicago-were killed
at Riverton, seven and one-half miles
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