The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-08-14
FOR The BUSY MAN
NEWS EPlTOME THAT CAN SOON
&c COMPRISED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Home and Foreign Intelligence Con-
densed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
WASHINGTON.

The Cummins bill to punish impel
sonation of public men has been fav
SOrably reported.
The senate has confirmed the ap
continent of George Harold Todd O
New York to be assistant to the at
sorney general of the United States.
"EX-Governor John Lind of Mime
sofa has been sent to Mexico as the
. personal representative of the presi
dent to act in an advisory capacity
10 the embassy.
Senator Stone and Speaker Clark
called at the White House and recon-
mended to President Wilson the ap
pointment of H. P. Warden of Mex
leo, Mo-, as minister to Bolivia.
Senator Lewis has introduced a
resolution to authorize secretary OF
treasury to withdraw treasury privi'
leges from national banks which com.
pined to depress federal securities.
Keen interest has been aroused in
official circles by report, reaching
The State department, that Great Bri-
tain is contemplating esta blishing a
great naval base in the Bermuda is,
lands.
twenty-five to fifty million dollars
Of government funds will be deposited
In the national banks of the south
Adoo to facilitate the movement of
crops.
Chairman Flood of the foreign at.
fairs committee has favorably re-,
ported bill for separate legations
to Paraguay and Uruguay and ele.
walton of legation at Madrid to an
embassy.
The public lands committee have
reported favorably a bill by Senator
Sterling permitting minors over IS
years of age to file on a homestead,
the provision of the bill extending to
female as well as male minors.
Reductions in express rates which
will cost the company fully $2S,000,-
900 a year, approximately 16 per cent
Df their gross revenue, were ordered
by. the Interstate Commerce commits.
sion to become effective on or before
October Is, 1913.
Sweeping reductions in through
and class rates from Atlantic coast
points to Utmost all I"wa cities have
been ordered by the interstate com.
merce commission in its decisions of
what are to be known as the Miss
lssippi river and the interior Iowa
cities cases.
Heavy disbursements caused a de.
felt of $9,6S2,6S2 in the govern
ment's transactions during July, as
compared with a deficit of only $734,.
1854 for July, 1912. Total receipts for
the first month of the new fiscal year
were s60,231, 1874, while expenditures
reached s69,914,206.
Further to popularize the parcel
post system with the public, Post.
master Burleson has announced that
after August Is the weight limit on
packages would be placed at twenty
pounds Git is now eleven pounds) and
that sharp reduction in charges for
the transportation of packages would
be made.
Representative bankers of fifty
nine large cities in the agricultural
regions of the south, middle west and
Pacific coast have been invited by Sec
rotary D1cAdoo to come to Washing.
ton to confer with the Treasury de-
partment regarding the distribution
of the $50,0OO,000 of government
funds about to be deposited in the
national banks of those sections to
facilitate the marketing and movement
of the crops.
Investigation of the activities of
Martin M. Mullhall FOR the National
Association of Manufacturers will oc. |
cupy the attention of committees on
beth sides of the capitol tomorrow |
for the first time since the lobbyist"
made his startling charges a month
ago. The house investigating com.
mittee will begin its work with the
examination of Louis Seibold of the
New York World, who had much to
do with the turning over to that news
paper of the Mulhall correspondence
DOMESTIC.
Fly pests are said to cost the Unit
ed States $157,S0o,000 a year.
Leach Cross and Joe Rivers are
matched for twenty-round bout on
labor day at the Vernon arena at Los
Nine electric engines for the New
York Central will haul 1.OOO-tOn trains