Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-07-01


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that the law is too Complicated tobe
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Following recommendations Of the
Secretary of the Interior, Franklin K.
Lane, the House Committee on Pub
lie Lands reported on June 16, bill
for conservation of water power still
remaining under Federal control. It
provides that all water power shall
be leased for no longer a term than
so years, and that these leases shall
leave with the government regulation
of services and prices. Leases may
be made to states, counties or mum.
cipalities as we'll as to private con-
Germs.
On the assurance of Greek repre-
sentatives that their purchase of the
battleships Mississippi and Idaho
would tend to preserve the peace be.
tween Turkey and Greece, and in
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Ambassador President Wilson de-
cided to sell the ships. The Senate
has already adopted the proposal,
and the House will be asked to con
cur. Turkey has made temperate
reply to the Greek protest against
the expulsion of Greeks from Asia
Minor, and has invited the powers to
send agents to Asia Minor to investi-
gate the charges.
What is said to be the terms of a
treaty with Nicaragua now before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
was published on June 20 by the Chi.
cago Tribune. It grants the United
States proprietary rights necessary
for construction of an inter-oceanic
canal, leases for 80 years, two Carib-
bean islands and base on the Gulf
of Fonseca, gives the United States
the right to veto any treaty with a
foreign power entered into by Nicar-
aqua and authorizes Intervention by
the United States in case of internal
trouble, rdiffculty with foreign
nation. In return the United States
agrees to pay Nicaragua 100000.
The United States Supreme Court on
June % upheld the right of the Inter
State Commerce Commission to estab.
lish zone system for rates. The de
cision also upholds the long and short
haul clause of the interstate com.
merce law. This decision reverses
the defunct court of commerce. In
connection with the recent decision
in the Shreveport case, in which rates
fixed by the Interstate Commerce
Commission in interstate shipments
were declared to prevail against con.
trary orders issued by state railroad
commissions, the decision just an.
nounced clears away considerable
doubt on questions that entered into
the discussion of the proposed in.
crease in freight rates. The Supreme
Court also upheld the law placing al
interstate pipe lines, except those of
the Uncle Sam Oil Company, under
control of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. Another decision con.
firms the Southern Pacific in posses,
sion of 100000 acres of oil lands in
California said to be worth 100000,
900. This decision was in reference tc
a suit brought by private individuals
against the company, and does not ap-
parently affect suit for possession
of the same lands being brought by
the government.
The Federal Sugar Refining Com.
pany of Philadelphia has issued a cir.
cular in which it speaks as follows
concerning the new tariff law: Three
months operation under the new tar.
if shows that the consumer is receiv
ing all the benefit of the Is per cent
deduction in the duty on sugar. Since
the new rates went into effect refin
ers' selling price has averaged 3.81e
cents per pound, as compared with
an average price for the last ten
years of 4.85 cents per pound. The
average in-bond price of 96 degree
test raw sugars for the same period
has been cents per pound. Reduc
ton in the duty, combined with the
fact that the worlds production this
year is the largest on record, is re-
sponsible for the prevailing low pric
es, but that the reduced tariff is di
rectly responsible for a large part of
the decline is shown by the following
comparison of prices between March
/ and June 1, 1914, with prices for
other years when the in-bond price
of raw sugars was on the same basis
The average price of refined sugar in
other years, when raw sugars were
selling in bond at 2.9 cents per pound,
as compared with 2.04 cents now, was
4.40 cents per pound in contrast with
1919 cents per pound during the last
three months. It is therefore, clear
that saving of .5S1 cent per pound
is being effected by the reduced duty,
which, figured on the amount Of sug-
ar consumed in the United States
last year, namely, r. 1884, 631, 800
pounds, would be equal to $48,714,708.
Seceders from the Western Fedora
ton of miners formed an Independent
organization at Butte on June 81, and
chose Mr.. Mcdonald for president.
The officials chosen are said to be
members Of the I. w. w The local
mine owners are under contract with
the Western Federation to employ
none but members of that organiza-
ton which, It is claimed, will debar
members Of the new organization
from employment.
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