Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-04-02

JuSIC6 OdtASi L. WIlSuI VI Tie us
trict supreme court, was indicted by
the grand jury on a charge OF crimi-
nal libel.
After the senate had passed a bill
to regulate trading in cotton futures,
Senator Kenyon, who, with others,
had misunderstood an amendment to
legalize pooling operations, moved for
a reconsideration and paved the way
for reopeuing the fight on the meas
ure.
The Bill to restore Capt. Templin
M. Potts to the active list of the navy
and promote him to be a rear admiral
was killed by the senate naval affairs
committee. Capt. Potts was "pluckeds
on the eve of his promotion, and sew
eral naval officers of note testified
that his case was an exceptional one.
A bill proposing to lease or sell to
the Republic Coal company, a subsidi7
airy Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul railroad, reserved coal rights on
approximately 1000 acres of Montana
lands was beaten in the senate by a
vote of % for and q against. The
measure has been under discussion
for three days.
Plans for concluding the congress
sional investigation of conditions in
the Michigan copper strike district
were made by the subcommittee Of
the house mines committee.
The senate lobby committee
changed its plans at the last moment
and postponed further inquiry into
the alleged activities Of c. w. De
knight, a Washington lawyer, in con
nection with the passage of the Pan
anna tolls law.
A new treaty has been signed be-
tween the United States and Vene-
zuela, by which all questions not
capable of settlement by diplomacy
shall be submitted to investigation by
an International commission for at
least n year. 1t is the fourteenth
of Secretary Bryan's peace treaties.
President Wilson made known
again, in response to an inquiry, that
he felt no particular interest in the
stock exchange legislation pending in
the senate.
Investigations of various sorts COZ
Quoted by the United States senate
between Feb. 8, 1910, and March 13,
1914, cost the government $163 ,514.72.
In its bill providing for the .ex.
penditures of the postoffice depart.
ment for the next fiscal year no pro
vision has been made to compensate
the railroads for carrying the parcel
post, although the bill is based on
estimates that the parcel post will
handle 600, 600, 900 packages during
the year, yielding a revenue OF
$685. 900 to the postoffice depart.
Rent.
1t is anticipated that Franklin P.
Lane, secretary of interior, will ap-
point a commission of three civil en-.
gineers to locate the route for the
governments railroad in Alaska or to
make a general survey.
Wages of farm laborers have In.
creased more rapidly than those OF
the city workman during the last 20
years, a department of agriculture in
vestigation has revealed. During the
last year the pay Of the farm hands
increased az per cent. The increase
has been IL per cent in the last four
years and Sc per cent since 1906.
The Only Time.
Wife-"Do you love me still, dear?"
Hub-"Why, yes;: but you're never
still"
Secretary Bryan, who was before
the foreign relations committee, was
told in effect that he could not hope
to have the committee report favor
ably for ratification the Danish arbi.
tration treaty unless it was materially
modified.
Trust legislation again was consid.
cred by the senate committee on in.
terstate commerce and it was an
nounced later that regulations of hold
ing companies was the only feature
upon which agreement had not been
reached.
With the opponents Of the Panama
tolls bill filibustering on the rivers
and harbors appropriation bill In or.
der to gain time, the fight In the
house resulting from President VIII.
sons appeal for quick passage Of the
repeal easur has become bitter in
the extreme.
After four hours Of debate, the
house adjourned without having taken
final action on the ley bill providing
pensions for widows and minor chill
dren of veterans of The war with
Spain and the Philippine insurrection.