Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-08-15
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WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
The Cummins bill to punish imper
eonation of public men has been fav
yorably reported.
The senate has confirmed the ap
pointment of George Harold Todd Of
New York to be assistant to the at
torney 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
to 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
fco, 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
bined to depress federal securities.
Keen interest has been aroused in
official circles by report, reaching
the State department, that Great Bril-
tain is contemplating establishing 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
and west at once by Secret ry Nc
Adoo to facilitate the movement OF
crops.
Chairman Flood of the foreign al
fairs committee has favorably re-
ported a bill for separate legations
to Paraguay and Uruguay and ele
walton of legation at Madrid to On
embassy.
The public lands committee have
reported favorably bill by Senator
Sterling permitting minors over IL
years of age to file on a homestead
the provision of the bill extending te
female as we'll as male minors.
Reductions in express rates which
will cost the company fully $4,000,
900 year, approximately 16 per cent
of 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 almost all iowa cities have
been ordered by the interstate COM
merce commission in it's decisions OF
what are to be known as the Miss
issippi river and the interior Iowa
cities cases.
Heavy disbursements caused a de-
ficit of $9,682,682 in the govern
ment's transactions during July, as
compared with a deficit of only 1884,
1884 for July, 1912. Total receipts for
the first month of the new fiscal year
were $6O,231.524, while expenditures
reached $69,914,206
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 a 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 McAdoo to come to Washing
ton to confer with the Treasury de-
partment regarding the distribution
of the $5O,OO0,O00 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 &C.
cupy the attention of committees on
both sides of the capitol tomorrow
for the first time since the lobbyist"
made his startling charges month
ago. The house Investigating COM
mittee will begin it's 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.