The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-01-29
FOR THE BUSY MAN
NEWS EPiToME THAT CAN SOON
BE COMPRISED.
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED
Home and Foreign Intelligence Con-
densed Into Two and Four
Line Paragraphs.
WASHINGTON.


WASHINGTON.
Senator Penrose introduced a reso
luton for commission OF seven TO
draw bill for a reorganization OF In
dian affairs.
Senator Overman introduced reso-
luton to require the president to con-
slider treaties with European powers
for the naturalization of the Philip
pine islands
Government regulation of all forms
of insurance companies was proposed
in a joint resolution for an amend
ment to the constitution introduced
by Senator Weeks.
The senate judiciary committee has
amended the workmen's compensation
bill to provide that it should not cur
tail the rights of railroad employees
under present laws.
In preparation for a gathering OF
the parliamentary union here in
September, 1915, the house foreign at
fairs committee practically agreed to
ask for an appropriation of $4,000.
individuals, whose net income from
March l., 1913, to December 81 1913,
"a.
turns of their annual income for the
year. according to regulation issued
by the Treasury department.
Senator Elihu Root urged Secre-
tary Bdyan to take steps to have The
Hague conference called to meet in
1915, according to the original pro-
gram. Secretary Bryan has taken the
subject under consideration.
President Wilson recently made
these nominations: Receivers OF pub
lie moneys. R. r. Turner of Oregon at
Roseburg, Ore; John w. Cloyd OF
Colorado at Sterling, Colo; George l..
Smith of Oregon at Portland, Ore.
Dispatches to the constitutionalist
agency here report the arrest of Will
liam Hansen at Victoria, Mex, by
General Carranza's forces on the
charge of being Huerta spy. Han
sen was at one time a United States
marshal in Texas.
When the Alaskan railway bill was
taken up the house Representative
Dies of Texas made a point of no
quorum. Speaker Clark, apparently
with his mind on the Mexican situa-
ton, recognized "Mr. Diaz," while the
house roared with laughter.
Construction by the federal govern
ment of five and six-foot continuous
inland waterway from Chotawhache
bay, Florida, to the Rio Grande in
Texas, at total estimated cost of 3d.
632,910, has been recommended to
congress by the war department.
Secretary Bryan and Ifr. Paul Rit-
ter, the Swiss minister, have agreed
on the terms of treaty providing for
the submission for investigation by an
international commission of five mem
bers, for period of at least one year,
all questions between the United
States and Switzerland which cannot
be settled by diplomacy.
The fight among house democrats
over the proposed exemption of 2,400
assistant postmasters from civil ser
vices as proposed in the postofice ap-
preparations bill took a new turn in
congress when Chairman Moon of the
postofice committee introduced a
special rule to include an annual $685.
100000 good roads appropriation in
the measure.
The senate naval affairs committee
has favorably reported bill authoriz-
ing Secretary Daniels to contract for
the use of drydocks at Hunters Point,
San Francisco, one of which shall be
capable of docking the largest vessel
that can be pessed through the locks
of the Panama canal, the right of the
government to the use of the docks in
time of war to be prior and para
mount