The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-05-16
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Washington.
The house has passed the Under
wood Tariff bill, including the income
tax provision, practically as recon-
mended by the majority Of the ways
and means committee. The final
vote on the measure was 2S1 to 1879.
Five Democrats voted with the Re
publicans and Progressives against
the bill. The senate will take up
consideration of the bill at once, but
it is said that final vote will not
be reached in that body before Au-
gust /.
Currency legislation will he taken
up by the house about June l, &C
cording to an announcement made by
the Democratic floor leader, Repre-
sentative Underwood.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
has forbidden any treasury records
to be shown to anyone outside the
department, congressman included,
without his written permission.
Postmaster General Burleson has
announced that it was the purpose of
President Wilson and himself to take
into the classified service all post
masters of the second and third
classes. Fourth class Offices have al
ready been covered by executive or
der.
The Democratic majority in the
house overcome all opposition to the
free list in the tariff bill and approved
the schedules as recommended by the
ways and means committee.
No public hearings on the Tariff Re-
vision bill are to be held by the SEN
ate finance committee, according to
Senator Simmons, the chairman Of
the committee.
Domestic items.
The war aeroplane alleged to have
been purchased in Los Angeles for
use by the state troops in Sonora
rebellion, was captured by a deputy
United States marshal near Tucson,
Arizona. Two men who were in charge
of the machine were taken into Gus
tody.
The plant of the Great Western
Manufacturing Company at Leaven-
worth, Kan, one of the largest stove
plants in the country, has been Sc
riously damaged by fire. Many valu-
able patterns we're destroyed.
Somebody substituted paper for a
package of 14S $500 bills which had
been shipped by express from Wash
ington, D. c., to Oakland, Cal. Spe-
cial agents clear across the continent
are working on the case.
Four Fort Worth, Tex, newspaper
reporters were sent to Jail by a. dis
trict judge because of their refusal
to divulge the source of their infor-
nation regarding a graft and bribery
story.
BY orderNof the attorney general the
cases against Eugene V. Debs, for.
merly Socialist candidate for presi-
dent, and ]. l. Sheppard and Fred
Warren, publishers of the Appeal to
Reason, have been dismissed in the
federal court at Fort Scott, Kansas.
H. c. Baseler, paying teller of the
Third National Bank of st. Louis, is
reported to be short $4,000 in his ac-
counts. Baseler is the man whose
vigilance caused the unearthing of
the details Of the theft of 100000 in
currency at Havana, Cuba.
A man believed to be H. G. Holley
OF St Joseph attempted to commit
suicide by stabbing himself on a San
ia Fe train at Topeka. He was taken
to a local hospital.
The government is preparing to
seize $4,000 head of cattle grazing
in the forest reserve in the Choctaw
Nation in eastern Oklahoma for non.
payment of the annual grazing tax of
81 per head
A bill has been introduced in the
California legislature providing a
penalty for any person destroying any
article Of food in order to boost
prices.
Two women and a man were drown.
ed in the Ohio river at Cincinnati
when the skiff in which they we're
rowing was upset.
Cornelius Monan, a policeman, and
William Kaiser, a 14-year-old boy.
were killed in an attempt to rescue
boy who had become entangled in
fallen trolley wire at Rock Island,
III.
The American Printing Company
has posted notices that their aevan