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without further legal proceedings.
With the $31O,OOO,OOO postoffice ap,
preparation bill the senate committee
reported an amendment to prevent
further changes in rates or extension
of the parcel post without congress,
sional authority.
The senate committee on postof
fices and post roads agreed to report
the postoffice appropriation bill car.
rying appropriations Of $4,000, 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 tho
lighthouse service during his regime
Favorable action on the bill of Sen,
ator Bryan of Florida, to create the
grade of vice-admiral in the navy and
provide for six officers of that rank,
was taken in the senate naval affair.
committee. Its passage by the senate
seems assured
A bill authorizing the secretary oi
the interior to set aside 2O-acre tracts
on reclamation projects 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 seru
ice by military cabal.
Representative Hinebaugh of I'LL
nois has introduced a bill appropriate
ing S125,000 for the remodeling and
enlargement of the postoffice building
at Rockford, I'll.
Another fiscal agent may be ap
pointed in London by the present adj
ministration because of the disclos
ures affecting Speyer & Co.'S flota
ton of securities of the st. Louis &
San Francisco railroad.
Representative Ferris of Oklahoma
has introduced a bill authorizing the
secretary of the interior to sell to the
state of Oklahoma at $1.25 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
istration antitrust legislative pro,
gram, is far from complete was deter
mined by members of the senate inter
state commerce committee at 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 to 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 oi
! $4,000 year.
Plans to purchase discarded Ameri
can army rifles and resell them to
Mexican constitution lists fell through
when Secretary of Garrison de
clined to modify THO Ixisting regula
zion forbidding the sale to any indi
yidual of army rifles or ammunition
Representative Moon OF Tennessee
chairman OF the postoffice committee
reintroduced a postoffice bill amended
so as to prohibit any rural free deliv
cry carrier, after June 80 next, from
receiving more than $1,000 yea
salary.