Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-09-11
EP|T0ME OF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention of What is TransplrIna
In Various Sections of Our Own
and Foreign Countries.
SHINGT

WASHINGTON.
The house passed the Hetch Hetchy
reservoir bill, granting San Francisco
use Of the Hetch Hetchy basin.
The foreign relations committee re-
ported nomination Of Henry Morgen-
thau as ambassador to Turkey.
The house has passed the senate
bill to raise the American legation in
Spain to the rank of an ambassador,
to receive $17,500.
President Wilson has sent to the
senate the nomination Of Kirk E. Bay
ter to be receiver OF public moneys at
Belle Fourche, S, D..
Senator Cummins haa introduced
an amendment to place 10 per cent
on stocks, bonds, cotton and agricul-
tural products sales.
The president has submitted the
nominations OF Joseph E. Willard as
ambassador TO Spain and John Ewing
as minister to Honduras.
Representative ~Lindbergh has pro-
posed all amendment to the currency
bill to permit federal reserve banks
to operate on SO per cent of their re-
CURED $5,000,000 capital paid.
Secretary Bryan has selected DR..
Edwin NJ. Borchard, law librarian OF
congress, as one of the assistant So
iicitors of the State, d, o%artment, sue
ceeding Edwin H. Hart, resigned.
Representative Johnson Of Washing
ton has introduced a resolution re-
puesting the president to negotiate
with British and Canadian govern
ments for railway connections be-
tween the United States and Alaska.
Representative Levy has introduced
O bill to require railroads to install
automatic train stops and a resolu-
tion to direct the attorney general to
suspend further proceedings in disso-
luton suit against the United States
Steel corporation.
A resolution to direct the senate
banking committee to withhold final
action on the administration currency
bill until the December session of
congress was introduced by Senator
Weeks OF Massachusetts (republican.)
President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan have adopted the attitude that
the elimination Of Victoriano Huerta
from the presidential race in Mexico
is assured and that the first step 10
ward the establishment of peace in
Mexico has been accomplished
Chile may decline to participate In
the Panama-Pacifc exposition, accord.
ing to q report TO the state depart;
ment from Henry p. Fletcher, Ameri
can minister in Santiago, who writes
the Chilean congress has adjourned
without appropriating the $500, 600
asked for by authorities for the exht
bition.
Representative Kinkead OF New
Jersey, by way of proving his asser.
ton that American beef is sold cheap
or in Europe than in this country,
read a letter to the house from Rev.
J. J. Lawrence of Ringhamton, N. Y,
saying In England recently he bought
American and Argentine beef at
prices almost 80 per cent lower than
the prevailing American prices
DOMESTIC.
The city OF Los Angeles has FLU
minated signs indicating the names
Ell streets, which are turned on and
or by clockWerlr mechanism.
.
Frederick Moelier. a shoemaker,
confessed to the ST Louis police
that he was one of the two bandits
who killed Stephen Lukos, a saloon
keeper.
Farley Drew Caminetti, son the com.
missioner general of immigration was
found Of guilty IN one count of the
Indictment charging him with viola
ton Of the Mann white slave traffic
act.
N. r. Remington, chief natnraliza
tion officer at st. Louis, ruled that
candidates for America citizenship.
who. left the United States to fight In
the Balkan war,Smust wait 1--WE full
years after their return before they
can be ~naturaltzed.
The National Association Of Lette,
Carriers chose Omaha as the site al
their next convention In 1915. The
vote stood: Omaha 9lS, Dallas, TEX,
484; Dayton. OFFS When the re-
suit WAS announced the workers for
pailas extended their congratulations
70 Omaha.
George s. LOTUS president OF the
Progressive Republican league, sinca
Its formation several years ago. has
rendered his resignation at d meeting
NJ the executive committee Of tie
.a1eague.
Mrs. John Kelly Of Portland MAS
killed and d half dozen persons were
seriously Injured at Oswego, Ore.
when q load Of siahwood fell from i
4 of 4 passing freight train ana
falsod saeron;dsof paopie who were Of
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