The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-06-18
NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
House Accepts Senate Amend
ment Reserying Hay.Paunce.
tote Treaty Rights.

III Washington.-The long fight in cor
ii gress over canal tolls ended when tn
mousse, after brief debate and with
out the formality of conference. ac
II copied by vote of ZIG to II the sen
ate amendment specifically reservin,
all rights the United States may hav.
under the Hay-Pauncefote treaty O,
otherwise.
Before ending the contest by con
curing in the senate amendment, the
mouse voted down, ia to 10S, propo
sal advanced by Representative Moss,
OF West Virginia, to attach to the re-
peal flat declaration of the right of
the United States to exempt it's yes.
sells from tolls, and of the sovereignty
OF the United States over the Canal
Zone.
Income Tax Below Estimates.
Estimates by Secretary McAdoo in.
Dictated that the government income
Tor the fiscal year ending June 80 will
exceed ordinary expenses by about
$SO,OOO,OO0. That is about $4,000, 900
less than last years surplus. Income
tax returns have fallen far below or.
lginal estimates and failed to offset
the expected decrease in tariff re-
ceipts under the new law, but the GUS
tom houses turned in about $21, 900 900
more than it was figured they would
Whatever surplus there is for the
year will be absorbed by Panama
canal payments, as it was last year.
Secretary McAdoo estimated that
this years ordinary receipts would az.
gregate $733,000,000 and the total or
binary disbursements $7O3, 0OO, 900. To-
tai receipts for the last fiscal year
were $723,7S2,921. with ordinary dis
bursements of s6ss.69s,6s2.
Wilson Will Open Canal Formally.
President Wilson will leave Wash
ington on March s, 1915, for Panama,
TO attend formal opening ceremonies
Of the Panama canal at a date to be
determined later The president will
cave the capital the day after con-
sress goes out of session. He will ,
make the journey to Panama on the /,
'attleship New York. The date of the
ormal opening ceremony for the canal
vii be decided before the president
caves here and the exercises will take
lace soon after he reaches there. /.
On the old battleship Oregon. which
worldwide attention on her ;,
amous run around the Horn just be- r
ore the Spanish War, the president !.
18th members of his cabinet will :.
lake the first official passage through .
le canal, and then proceed to the =
anama-P Pacific Exposition at San
Treaty Signing Nears.
Secretary Bryan for the United "a
tates and Ambassadors Jusserand
I'd Spring-Rice for France and Great
ritain will soon sign on the same day su
ace treaties modelled after those al LIZ
ady signed by Secretary Bryan with ha
nations. The signing of these trea- in
IS awaits only the approval of the I'll
'itish treaty by the British self-goy- Sc
ming colonies. L.
The Anglo-American and the Fran.
American treaties will in a general re,
y follow similar pact already sign a
by Secretary Bryan with The Meth. tio
ands. They provide that all Ques- vo,
ms arising between the United sh,
ltes and the respective European hill
wers which cannot be settled by d. Lee
macy shall be submitted for inves- OOO
alton for period of at least a year. by
an international commission of five sur
mbers. During the investigation =
tilities would not be entered into. ;e
the finding of the commission mo,
lid not be binding. 1au,
ecretary Bryan and Minister Bryn how
e agreed upon the terms of a simi. 40
treaty between the United States eral
Norway, which will be signed at con
state department within a few Tho
o How
National Capital Brevities. T
eace treaties will soon be signed ing
the United States, Great Britain mai
France, after plans suggested by ficie
-etary of State Bryan. 600,
ction on the Hobson national pro- not
ton amendment has been post find
I'd by the house rules committee
July L.
immunity of members of congress w