The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-02-06
EP|T0ME OF EVENTS
PARAGRAPHS THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT BUT INTERESTING
Brief Mention Of What Is T~ransplrino
In Various Sections Of Our Own
and Foreign Countries


WASHINGTON.
The house mines committee made
preliminary arrangements for taking
testimony in the field in the Michi-
al and Colorado strike investiga'
tions.
Secretary Daniels told the house ma
val committee that the government
should develop its own oil supplies
for ~battleships. He favored a $780,
600 appropriation for locating and de-
yeloping an oil plant.
Colonel William c. Gorgas, the
man who drove disease out of the
Panama canal zone, has been con-
lirmed by the senate as surgeon OF
the army to succeed the late Gen.
George H. Torney.
Cooperation by farmers In killing
on the chinch bug, a pest which, it
is estimated, has done $3.50, 00O. 900
worth OF damage to crops in this
country during the past sixteen years,
Is recommended by the department
OF agriculture
Arbitration Of all questions includ-
Ing those involving national honor, Is
proposed in a treaty, the terms OF
which were agreed upon by Secretary
Bryan and C%onstantin Brnn, the
Danish minister. 1t is expected the
new treaty will be signed in the near
future.
Renewals of sixteen general arbi-
tration treaties with foreign nations
were considered by the senate foreign
relations committee without action
and will be again discussed. Presi.
dent Wilson has urged that all the
treaties be ratified by the senate as
soon Is possible.
Requests have been mailed from the
treasury department to national
banks and state banks and trust com.
panies which have signified their in
tention to join the federal reserve
banking system asking for an indica-
ton OF preference as to the location
Of the reserve banks to serve Their
districts.
In deciding not to recommend to
try Of large areas of lands in Colo
RADIO and Utah containing deposits OF
oil bearing bituminous shale, Secre-
tary Lane announced his belief that
private enterprise should be unhamp-
cred in finding q way for developing
these
Senator Shafroth OF Colorado is
pressing the senate judiciary commit
tee for favorable action on his resolu.
ton to amend the constitution so as tc
make tho date Of the converting OF
congress the first Monday In January
instead OF March 4, and to have the
term OF the president begin the third
Monday in Jan. instead Of March 4.
The battleships Virginia, Rhode Is
land, Nebraska and Georgia have
moved from Vera Cruz to Tampico
and the battleships Connecticut and
Kansas have moved to Vera Cruz
Rear Admiral Fletcher commanding
the squadron, made no comment re
porting the changes to the navy de
partment. and oficials say they were
without significance.
Before the house commerce com
mittee Louis d. Brandeis. dicussina
the interstate trade commission bill
declared Tor ! uniform system Of &C
counting fof 800 corporations which
would come under the commission
H thought It might possibly take
twenty years. He also urged that
Nccnceelment breeds euspicion," anc
fheA every corporation should lay
IT. cards face up"
ooMgoTle.
Because Of the unusually mile
woather some Of the Pennsylvania an.
1hrAcite coal producing companies are
nroetly reducing their output.
David Rose. > democrat. and Joseph
Garden, : republican. Chicago politi
~ workers. wsre found guilty Of
fran1 Ia the election Of 1912. They
wofD charged with marking ballots tc
bo4s0t 0tate's Attorney Maclay
Hoyne and Leland Rapp. candidate
a. clerkship.
onairmAn Padgett Of the house m
aAk-- go 4-k--A..>>S