Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-02-05

exhibit in the District of Columbia OF
the resources of the states was re-
ported favorably to the senate from
the committee on industrial exhibit
tons by Senator Mayors of Montana.
To hasten the physical valuation of
railroads, the interstate commerce
commission asked congress to appro-
pirate $2,000,0O0 for continuing the
work next year.
After months of quiet investigation
the department OF justice has con-
cluded 1t has sufficient grounds for
suit to dissolve, under the Sherman
antitrust act, the American Smelling
and Refining company, the so.called
smelling trust.
The Republicans lost one vote and
the Democrats gained one when this
senate, SO to 10, adopted a resolution
reported by the committee on privt
leges and elections seating Blair Lee,
Democrat, as senator from Maryland,
OF succeed William p. Jackson, a Re
publican.
Perfection OF the interstate trade
commission bill, introduced in the sen.
ate and house last week as the first of
the antitrust legislative measures of
the administration, was begun by the
senate committee on interstate com.
merce.
Representative Rainey of Illinois In.
troduced a bill providing for a tax OF
81 per horsepower from all water
power companies generating cleo.
trical energy from plants in navigable
streams.
-Four battleships, instead of the two
recommended by Secretary Daniels,
were urged upon the house naval com.
mittee by Rear Admiral c. L. Vree-
land Of the navy general board, speak
ing for Admiral Dewey, who was III
and unable TO appear.
According to Carter B. Keen, direc.
tor of the postal savings system, APP
proximately s4O,OOO,0OO that hereto
fore has been for the most part bid.
den away and kept out of the chan
nels of trade is on deposit with the
government.
A delegation representing the Ma
tional One-Cent Postage association,
headed by Charles William Burrows
OF Cleveland, o., president of the as
ISOLATION. urged President Wilson,
Postmaster-GenerGl Burleson and
members of congress to favor 1-cent
letter rates.
The report of the attendance OF the
Philippines public schools shows that
during the school year 1928 there
were graduated from the primary
course 10,9%S boys and 4.1O2 girls,
from the intermediate course 2,S43
boys and 1,052 girls, and from the sec.
ondary course 2S4 boys and So girls.
Financial operations which included
acquisition of lines through syndi.
Gates which profited to the extent of
more than $S,O00,0O0, some of which
were pocketed by the roads own of.
ficers, are cited as among the under
lying causes for the insolvency OF the
st. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
company, in report to the senate by
the interstate commerce commission
on the Frisco lines receivership.
Lifting of the embargo on arms for
the constitutionalists as the best pos.
sible solution of the Mexican trouble
was proposed by President Wilson to
the senate committee on foreign rela-
lions.
Government regulation of all forms
OF insurance companies was proposed
in joint resolution for an amend
ment to the constitution introduced
by Senator Weeks.
Radium was described to the house
committee on mines as the only cure
the medical world has discovered for
cancer-the disease for which no
cause has been found and which the
experts before the committee labeled
rebel against all the laws that gov.
ern human issues.
Senator William Hughes OF New
Jersey told President Wilson that
there was a conspiracy among lead
ing Democrats in New Jersey against
him (Hughes) which had been dis.
closed by visit to Washington re
Gently OF Edward Grosscup, chairman
OF the Democratic state committee.
Representative Hensley OF Missouri
desires to stop the importation of any
material, crude, partly or wholly pre-