The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-02-19
NEWS Of THE WEEK
CONVERSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
A BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Other
Matters In Brief Form for All
Glasses Of Readers.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
Former Senator J. G. S. Blackburn
of Kentucky has been appointed a
member of the Lincoln memorial COM
mission by President Wilson, TO sue
ceed the late Senator Shelby NJ. Gull
lom of lllionois.
The house appropriation Of $780,
900 for artillery ammunition was IN
creased to $2,0O0,000 by the senate
appropriations committee. increases
in the bill by the senate committee
totaled $1,720,000.
The personnel of the federal re-
eerve board, to control the new cur
rency system, probably will be mace
known by March l. President Will
son is centering his attention on
group of men and is looking into their
qualifications.
Conditions that are Unsatisfactory
and require correction exist IN the
Carlisle Indian school, Carlisle, Pa.'
according to the congressional COM
mittee to investigate Indian affairs,
which has Just returned to Washing
ton from an inspection of the institu-
ton.
Cleaning up the national capital, as
one of the consequences OF President
Wilson's signing of the Kenyon red
light bill, has begun in earnest with
campaign for police supervision OF
moving picture shows, Chinese res
taurants, apartment houses and low
amusement resorts.
Federal regulation OF stock ex-
changes as proposed in the Owen bill,
under consideration by the senate
banking and currency committee is a
radical invasion of state rights, in an
opinion of officers Of the consolidated
stock exchange of New York who ap'
peared before the committee.
Shippers of sand and gravel pre-
scented their evidence to the inter
state commerce commission against
the S per cent increase rates asked by
the Eastern railroad. They told the
commission the rate increases would
mean serious loss to the sand anC
gravel men.
Government sanction of combina
lions of American products and manu-
facturers selling to foreign markets
to combat combinations OF foreign
buyers, was urged by John D. Ryan
president of the Amalgamated Cop
per company, before the house ju
dietary committee.
The provision favoring free passage
for American ships through the
Panama canal was injected into the
democratic platform without thu
knowledge of the majority of the reso
buttons committee at the Baltimore
convention, according to the assertion
of Representative Adamson of Georgi;
chairman of the interstate foreigl
commerce committee.
One of the tasks confronting tn
committees of congress is charge Q
the administration antitrust legisle
ton program is how far the admir-
istration shall go with the Regulation
or prohibition of holding companie!
Others are the perfection of the pent
ing interstate trade commission meas
ure and the drafting of a measur
giving the interstate commission al
thority to regulate railroad securities
A new code of the articles Of wa
has been passed by the senate. Th
military detention barracks syster
would be substituted for the presen
prison system for officers not ser
tended to the penitentiary The mil
tary prison at Fort Leavenwortl
kas., would be converted into Gel
trail military reformatory designed t
enable officers to earn restoration I
duty.