Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-02-19
EPITOME OF EVENTS
THAT PERTAIN TO
MANY SUBJECTS.
ARE SHORT But INTERESTING
Brief Mention Of What 10 Transpiring
In Various Sections Of Our Own
and Foreign Countries
WASHINGTON.

Nearly 100000 had been added to
the total OF the postoffice appropria-
ton bill as It passed the house when
the senate committee completed its
work on the measure.
without roll call the senate pass
ed bill to provide temporary meth
cd for the nomination and election
of senators in states that have not
legislated to carry out the Seven
teenth constitutional amendment for
The direct election OF senators.
The nomination OF Medical Inspec-
tor William G. BREASTED to be sur
geon general and chief of the bureau
Of medicine and surgery of the navy
department has been confirmed by
he senate.
A bill authorizing the secretary OF
he interior to set aside twenty acre
tracts on reclamation projects in
Montana for Fairgrounds and public
park purposes, has been passed by
the senate.
Secretary Lane has suggested to the
senate an appropriation of $1,000 for
Investigation into the practicability
Of government oil pipe line from
the mid.continent field of Oklahoma
70 the Gulf OF Mexico to supply fuel
oil for the navy.
Government sanction Of combina-
lions OF American products and manu-
facturers selling to foreign markets
to combat combinations Of foreign.
buyers. was urged by John d. Ryan.
president of the Amalgamated Cop
per company, before the honse ju-
dietary committee.
President Wilson will confer with
the senate commerce committee on
the trust legislation program in con-
eress. Republican members will join
the democrats in the meeting at the
White house. Perfection OF all the
tentative trust legislation will be dis
cussed with the president.
One of the tasks confronting the
committees of congress is charge of
the administration antitrust legisla-
tion program is how far the admin
istration shall go with tho regulation
or prohibition Of holding companies.
Others are the perfection OF the pend
ing interstate trade commission meas
ure and the drafting of a measure
giving the interstate commission au-
thority TO regulate railroad securities.
An emergency appropriation OF
100000 to fight hog cholera and $780,,
goo for Dourine, horse disease, dur
Ing, the comming summer, was press
ed on congress in favorable report
by chairman Lever OF the house com
mittee on agriculture. The commit
tee calculated the losses from these
diseases annually in this country at
100000. i.
An lHleIIOT department DlIl 10 pro-
vide for opening up the 200,000.000
odd acres of public lands in the Uni
ted States proper and as much again
In Alaska to grazing under national
system of leasing will be considered
at hearings before the house commit
tee beginning March g. Officers OF
the National Live Stock association,
the interior department officials and
others are expected to testify.
Horace White of New York and
Chairman of the Hughes stock ex-
change commission OF 1909, testified
before the senate banking committee
at a hearing on the owen bill to regu-
late stock exchanges that the New
York exchange had met the reforms
suggested by the commission in a
proper manner. He declared preent
laws were sufficient to regulate con.
duct OF exchanges, and that, in
his opinion, there had been great inn
provement in their practices during
the last few years.