Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-02-12

gram, is far from complete was deter
mined by members of the senate inter-
state commerce committee at a long
conference.
President Wilson favors an exhibit
by the United States government at
the exposition to be held by the repdb-
lie of Panama this year celebrating
the opening of the canal.
The house passed the senate resolu-
ton appointing former Senator Jo-
seph G.. s. Blackburn of Kentucky resi-
dent commissioner of the Lincoln me-
mortal commission at a salary of
5000 a year.
United States Senator George 7.
Oliver Of Pennsylvania said he ex-
pected at the end of his present term
to surrender his office and return to
private life.
Secretary Wilson adversely report
ed on the plan to place doctors and
nurses aboard all immigrant ships,
suggesting instead international Co
operation.
Representative Moon Of Tennessee,
chairman of the ~postoffice committee,
reintroduced a p~ostoffice bill amended
so as to prohibit any rural free deliv-
cry carrier, after June 80 next. from
receiving more than $1,000 a year
salary.
The Burnett immigration bill pre-
scribing a literacy test for applicants
for admission to the United States
was passed by the house by a vote of
PAL to 1875. All proposed amendments
relating to the exclusion of Asiatic
immigrants probably had been elimi-
mated.
By a majority of one vote-32 to 81
Prank P. Glass of Alabama, editor
of the Birmingham News, lost his
fight for a seat in the United States
senate.
Divorce with the right to remarry
would be prohibited forever in the
United States and in all places under
the nations jurisdiction by an amend
ment to the federal constitution pro
posed in the senate by Senator Rams
dell Of Louisiana.
The nomination of Col. George w.
Goethals to be governor of the Pan
ama canal zone was confirmed by the
senate. The appointment becomes eff
fective April l, with President Will
sons order creating a permanent civil
government for the canal zone.
The senate requested the interstate
commerce commission to investigate
charges that rebates have been re-
ceived from the railroads by the
United States Steel corporation.
That experts of the navy depart
ment juggled the statistics in the navy
year book for 1918 to make the navy
appear inferior to the German navy
and thereby set the United States
down from second to third place as a
naval power was charged by Repre-
sentative Witherspoon of Mississippi,
member of the house naval affairs
committee.
Former Senator J. G. S. Blackburn
of Kentucky was appointed a member
of the Lincoln Memorial commission
by President Wilson to succeed the
late Senator Shelby M. Cullom. of H.
linois.
Lifting of the embargo on arms for
the constitutionalists as the best pos
sible solution of the Mexican trouble
was proposed by President Wilson to
the senate committee on foreign rela-
lions.
Government regulation Of all forms
of insurance companies was proposed
in a joint resolution for an amend
ment to the constitution introduced
by Senator Weekg.
Radium was described to sAa house
committee on mines as the only cure
the medical world has discovered for
%cancer-the disease for which no
cause has been found and which the
experts before the committee labeled
a rebel against all the laws that gov.
ern human issues.
Senator William Hughes OF New
Jersey told President Wilson that
there was a conspiracy among lead
ing Democrats in New Jersey against
him (Hughes) which had been dis
closed by a visit to Washington re-
Gently Of Edward Grosscup, chairman
of the Democratic state committee.
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Representative Hensley Of Missouri
desires to stop the importation OF any
material, crude, partly or wholly pre-
pared, or any goods, ware and MGR
chandise which are the product Of
foreign convict labor.
A telegram, signed by IA members
Of the Progressive party OF Houghton.
Mich, including several county com
mitteemen, was sent to Congressman
Macdonald at Washington, demanding
that he retract the statement attrib-
uted to him that the constitutional
righs Of citizens and laws are over.
thrown In this district"
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