Lower coast gazette., 1913-10-25

s'T "N1S AVA
ing on the question of giving con
gressional aid for the construction OF
a permanent leyee system to prevent
overflow along the Lower Mississippi
river. 1t is contemplated to make the
leyee bill distinct from the regular
omnibus rivers and harbors appro,
priation bill.
Figures given out by the Census
Bureau show the value of the differ
ent industries of the country and that
the printing and publishing industry
is sixth in the value Of its products.
The value of the printing and pub.
fishing output for the year 1909 was
$I37,87G,000. There were 31,455 print.
ing and publishing establishments.
There are 3SS,466 persons engaged in
the business including wage-earners,
salaried employees and proprietors
The annual payroll is $2GS,0S6,O0
Two thousand and six hundred daily
newspapers were published in 1909
five hundred and twenty Sunday pa
pers, 15,097 weeklies and 2,491 month.
les were published.
The subscriptions and sales of news.
papers amounted to $S4,438, 702 and the
advertising to $14S,55A392. The sub.
scriptions and sales Of magazines to,
yaled $5O,624,341, and the advertising
,5S,978,S53.
President Wilson is willing to nave
The currency bill amended by cutting
down the number of regional banks in
The system.
Democrats believe this concession
sill be the means of speeding up the
passage of the bills so as to have it
over with before the end of the ex.
IA session of Congress.
The President notified House Lead.
er Underwood of his willingness tc con.
slider a proposal for a recess of the
House because he believed basing his
oelief upon assurances from Democra.
tic members of the Senate committee,
hat the bill would be reported to the
Senate the first week in November
and passed during the present ses.
zion.
The President will not oppose the
amendment removing the secretary o.
agriculture and the comptroller of
The currency from the Federai Re,
serve Board. This amendment would
cave the Federal Reserve Board a
strictly. governmental institution com,
appointed by the President and to de.
vote their entire time to the work and
he seventh member to the secretary
u the treasury.
Victor Morewitz of New York, d.
maladies, contracted in the south. Cor.
nerce and a student of the currency
problem defended the administration
bill.
Colonel W. C. Gorgas, sanitation ex-
pert of the Panama Canal Zone, reach
ed New York Monday and hurried to
Baltimore where Col. Gaillard of the
Canal Commission is seriously i'll of
.naladies, contracted in the south Cor.
gas goes to South Africa o to in
spect sanitation in the mining dis
lricts of the Rand. Pneumonia has
killed a remarkable many of the mine
workers. the principal sufferers being
negroes.
Dr.. Sol. Fishel of New York inventor
If the baby incubator died a few hours
after being married. His bride disap-
feared.
All the nations of the world have
cen invited to send %battleships for
a trip through the Panama Canal
n 1915. The great international feet
will anchor in Hampton Roads. The
exact date will be made known in a
lew weeks.
A troop train of the Mobile and
Ohio railroad carrying two companies
If United States Coast Artillery was
wrecked near Stateline, Miss. Seven
teen were killed and more than a
score wounded. The engine and train
Croke through the trestle and fell to
the ground below. One of the com.
panies from Fort Morgan, near Mo-
bile and the other from Fort Barran.
as, near Pensacola, Fla.
President Wilson wants to make the
currency bill a non-partician measure
and accordingly has called into con-
sultation the Republican members OF
the Currency committee for the pur
pose Of hearing their views and ben.
citing by Republican wisdom as well
as by Democratic wisdom and zeal.
FOREIGN NEWS.
President Huerta of Mexico, has de
import duties effective October 18th
This increase added to the per cent
ordered last July makes the total ad
ministraion IS per cent. Business
feared bankruptcy as a result of the