Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-02-19

reported an amendment to prevent
further changes in rates or extension
OF the parcel post without congress.
sional authority.
The senate committee on postof.
nces and post roads agreed to report
the postoffice appropriation bill car
rying appropriations Of 10000, 900,
the largest total for any postoffice ap.
preparation bill in the history of the
country.
Charles Nagel, secretary OF com.
merce and labor in the Taft cabinet,
before special investigating board,
headed by William c. Redfield, secre
tary of commerce, vigorously denied
the charges of mismanagement of the
lighthouse service during his regime
Favorable action on the bill of Sen.
ator Bryan of Florida, to create the
grade of viceadmiral in the navy and
provide for six officers of that rank,
WAS taken in the senate naval affairs
committee. Its passage by the senate
seems assured.
A bill authorizing the secretary OF
the interior to set aside 20.acre tracts
on reclamation proiects in Montana
for Fairgrounds and public park pur.
poses was passed by the senate.
Josephus Daniels, secretary of the
navy, will recommend to congress the
passage of bill to reinstate in the
marine corps Lieut.. Col. Constantine
Marrast Perkins, who he has become
convinced was forced out of the sery.
ice by military cabal.
Representative Hinebaugh Of lii
nois has introduced a bill appropriat.
ing S125,000 for the remodeling and
enlargement of the postoffice building
at Rockford, Ill.
Another fiscal agent may be ap-
pointed in London by the present ad.
ministration because of the disclos.
ures affecting Speyer & Co.'S flota
ton OF securities OF the ST. Louis &c
San Francisco railroad.
Representative Ferris of Oklahoma
has introduced bill authorizing the
secretary of the interior to sell to the
state of Oklahoma at s1.25 an acre all
unsurveyed islands or remnants of
land within the bed of the Arkansas
river within the boundaries of the
state.
Immediate release of all munitions
OF war under seizure in Texas, New
Mexico and Arizona, except those
needed as evidence against violators
of the neutrality laws, was ordered by
the department of justice.
That the pending bill to create an
interstate trade commission, the first
OF the measures drafted for the admin.
istratlon antitrust legislative pro-
gram, is far from complete was deter.
mined by members OF the senate inter
state commerce committee at a long
conference.
Secretary Wilson adversely report
ed on the plan to place doctors and
nurses aboard all immigrant ships,
suggesting instead international CO
operation.
President Wilson favors an exhibit
by the United States government at
the exposition 10 be held by the repub- +,
lie of Panama this year celebrating
the opening of the canal.
The house passed the senate resolu- |
ton appointing former Senator Jo-
seph c. S. Blackburn Of Kentucky resi- |
dent commissioner OF the Lincoln ME- |
mortal commission at a salary of !
$4,000 year.
Plans to purchase discarded Ameri- |
can army rifles and resell them to |
Mexican constitutionalists fell through |
when Secretary OF War Garrison de, |
lined to modify the existing regula. |
lon forbidding the sale TO any indi /
Adual of army rifles or ammunition.
Representative Moon of Tennessee,
hartman OF the postoffice committee,
elntroduced a postoffice bill amended
o as TO prohibit any rural free dellv.
ry carrier, after June 80 next, from
eceiYing more than $1,000 a yeS
,alary.