The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-08-21
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.
INTELLIGENCE HERE GATHERED
COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
Includes What Is Goirg On AZ Wash.
ington and in Other Sections Of
the Country.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON.
Postal money order service witt
Austria has been suspended by The
postofice department..
The interstate commits
sion has cancelled its Suspension Of in.
creases IN ~westbound lake and raj
me rates.
No immediate action will be taken
BY the administration on the proposed
censorship of cables, az well as wire.
less stations in the United states.
Attorney General McReynoIds has
received word from New York that the
directors OF the New Haven railroad
have agreed to his terms for a peace
tul dissolution Of the system.
Secretary Daniels announced that
al the ships Of the Atlantic battle
fleet VIII be Withdrawn from Vera
Cruz and brought north by Septem.
Der /.
Proposed increases in new freight
rates on lumber from Arkansas and
other states to the east, ranging from
! to cents per hundred pounds, were
suspended by the interstate
commission pending investigation.
BECAUSE OF the heavy strain i'm
posed upon the small diplomatic staff
Of the State department by the Euro
pean war. Secretary Bryan has re.
tanned two experts to serve as special
counsel as long as the emergency ex-
lists.
Proposed new proportional class and
commodity rates on freight to and
from Mississippi river CROSSINGS, held
up since April, pending Investigation,
were again suspended by the Inter
state Commerce. commission until
February Is.
John Il. Lamb OF Terre Hante, Ind,
is foremost in President Wilson'S con
sfderation for ambassador to Mexico
when the situation there settles down
70 q point where recognition by the
United States can be considered.
! Complete revision IN the patent
laws 10 correct rnonopoIfstfe abuses is
put in q bill which was reported la the
house by Representative 0ldfeld or
the patent committee. The report
critieises the present patent laws and
says the revision would prevent de-
layed applications.
The senate has agreed to the cotton
futures bill, which the house already
had approved. The measure which
now goes 1 b the president, places a
tax Of two cents q pound on I'll cotton
sold for f4dk4n delivery except under
Contracts bnsed on the governments
standardization of cotton grades.
Favorable reports on three bills to
set aside the action OF the army
"pluckings board iii retiring Captains
John Fl. Gibbons, Frank X. Hiss and
John g. Leonard, were voted by the
house naval affairs committee. The
reports propose a general investiga-
ton Of the activities OF the 'splucxing
Board
The interstate commerce commis-
has issued a temporary order
perfnittiag the Minneapolis & ST.
Louis and the Illinois Central lines
u establish competitive rates on
-four with other railroads from
0rnaha to- Des Moines, Perry, Grand
Function, Gowrfe and Moonland. Ia.
Without regard to the long and short
clause.
Further emergency legislation IN I'M
iecessary according to President vii.
loint who has told members Or the new
edefai RESERVES board this banking
system Of the country would be organ-
5ef along safe lines. The president
Eeciared that business conditions
Mould BE- greatly BENEFITED BY the or.
'anizatHon Of the new currency system.
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