Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-02-12

COHIeTeUCe.
President Wilson favors an exhibit
by the Uniteo States government II
the exposition TO be held by tho repuJ.
lie of Panama this year celebrating
the opening of the canal.
The house passed the senate resoIy.
ton appointing former Senator los
seph c. s. Blackburn of Kentucky resi-.
dent commissioner of the Lincoln me,
mortal commission at a salary Of
$1,000 year.
United States Senator George T.
Oliver of Pennsylvania said he Il.
pected at the end of his present term
TO surrender his office and return 10
private life.
Secretary Wilson adversely report.
ed on the plan to place doctors and
nurses aboard all immigrant ships,
suggesting instead international 20.
operation.
Representative Moon of Tennessee
chairman of the postofflce committed,
reintroduced postoffice bill APPENDED
SO as to prohibit any rural free del.y.
cry carrier, after June 80 next from
receiving more than $1,000 year
salary.
The Burnett immigration bill pre-
scribing literacy test for applicants
for admission to the United States
was passed by the house by vote #
PAL to 1875. All proposed amendments
relating 10 the exclusion of Ass'iC
immigrants probably had been elMi.
mated.
BY majority of one vote-32 20 Il
Frank p. Glass of Alabama, editor
of the Birmingham News, lost MS
fight for seat in the United States
senate.
Divorce with the right to remarry
would be prohibited forever in the
United States and in all places under
the nations jurisdiction by an amend
ment to the federal constitution pro-
posed in the senate by Senator Rams
dell of Louisiana.
The nomination of Col. George W..
Goethals to be governor of the Pan
anna canal zone was confirmed b. the
senate. The appointment becomes ef'
fective April |, with President VIII
sons order creating a permanent civil
government for the canal zone.
The senate requested the interstate
commerce commission to investigate
charges that rebates have been re-
ceived from the railroads by the
United States Steel corporation.
That experts of the navy depart-
ment juggled thu statistics in the navy
year book for 1913 to make the navy
appear inferior to the German navy
and thereby set the United States
down from second to third place as a
naval power was charged by Repre-
sentative Witherspoon of Mississippi
member of the house naval affairs
committee.
Former Senator J. c. S. BlacEDurn'
of Kentucky was appointed a member
of the Lincoln Memorial commission
by President Wilson to succeed the
late Senator Shelby NJ. Cullom OF u
linois.
Lifting of the embargo on arms Tor
the constitutionalists as the best pos
sible solution OF the Mexican trouble
was proposed by President Wilson To
the senate committee on foreign reIa-
tons.
! Government regulation OF all forms
OF insurance companies was proposed
in a Joint resolution for an amehu.
ment to the constitution introGuceu
by Senator Weeks.
Radium was described to the house
| the medical world has discovered 'oF
cancer-the disease for which no
cause has been found and which me
experts before the committee laoe'tu
rebel against all the laws that gov
ern human issues.
| Senator William Hughes OF Ne"
Jersey told President wilson 'ua'
there was conspiracy among leao.
ing Democrats in New Jersey assiDs'
him (Hughes) which had been az
closed by a visit to Washington re-
Gently OF Edward Grosscup' chalr'n"N
of the Democratic state committee
Representative Hensley Of Mlssou,,
desires to stop the importation OF any
material, crude, partly or wholly pr
pared, or any goods, wares anu me
chandise which are the product u
.1n.tiat lahnr