Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-26


II Congressional Notes
President Wilson nominated Robert
Lansing of Waterfowl, n. " to be
counselor for the department of state,
succeeding John Bassett Moore. Cole
johnson Of Texas was nominated to
be solicitor. succeeding Joseph W.
Folk.
William v. King OF the Columbia
Knickerbocker Trust company of New
York told the house judiciary commit
tee that complete divorce of the rail-
roads and banks, as suggested in the
antitrust bills would bring disaster.
Members OF the house who are ac-
lively interested in trade unions made
plans for a contest before the Demo-
J cratic house caucus to force the judi
ciary committee to include in the adj
ministration antitrust bills a provi-
sion exempting labor unions from the
operations OF antitrust laws.
Woman suffrage came to the fore
in the senate again and a new resolu-
ton for a constitutional amendment
was proposed by Senator Shafroth to
take the place of that defeated re-
Gently.
1.-THE %onsensu OF opinion in the
senate" Senator Ashurst said. sis
that we should vote right away on the
resolution for a constitutional amend
ment to extend suffrage to m 1
think there will be little more delay
IN the matter"
1t was discovered that under a law,
which apparently has never been re-
pealed, the right Of the government to
charge tolls for the use of the Pan
anna canal might be successfully dis
puted in the courts.
The report by the senate commit
tee on immigration upon the immi-
grafton bill, which became public.
makes scant reference to the famous
~'literacy test" which brought about
the veto Of the Measure while Taft
was president and which ttreatans
the same result under Presiden. Will
son.
A federal motion picture commits
sion under the jurisdiction of the
United States bureau of education was
proposed in a bill by Senator Hoke
Smith.
After a vigorous defense by Senator
Lodge (Rep.) Of the governments ex-
penditures in caring for Mexican refu-
gees, the senate passed the urgent de-
ficiency bill, carrying a total of over
$4,000, 900, 100000 of which was
added by the senate appropriations
committee for the maintenance of the
refugee camps.
Secretary Bryan and Senior Calvo,
the Costa Rican minister, signed a
protocol extending for a period of five
years the provisions Of the special ar
bitratigl treaty between the United
States and Costa RIGA.
srN"r .I.H." IS F.
President Wilson, at a conference
with the house judiciary subcommit-
tee on trusts, put the stamp of admin
istration approval on the substance OF
the four bills to amend the antitrust
laws. which the committee submitted
in a practically final form.
Ambassador Pages explanation OF
his London speech touching on the
Monroe doctrine and the Panama
tolls repeal is satisfactory to PRESS
dent Wilson, who regards the incident
as closed SO far as the administration
is concerned.
The draft of a bill prohibiting inter.
locking directorates, as prepared by
Attorneys Thomas B. Harlan and Ma
rion G. Early of st. Louis, was sui.
mitted to the house committee on the
judiciary by Representative Dyer of
st. Louis, a member of the committee.
Members of the Congressional
Union for Woman Suffrage were
urged by Miss Alice Paul, in q speech.
to bring all possible pressure to bear
to delay action by the senate on the
proposed suffrage constitutional
amendment.
What a wretched pictured" re-
marked the visitor at the salon. Il
wonder how they ave. happened to
hang it," "Oh, the artist escaped
probably"
Postmaster-General Burleson APP
proved an amendment to the parcel
post regulations under which butter.
eggs, fruits, vegetables, poultry and
other articles in parcels, weighing
from 20 to so pounds, may be shipped
in the first and second zones in box
and crates similar to those ham
died by express companies.
Charged with having written a let
ter couched in Objectionable language
to President Wilson, Samuel Barr, 40
years old, of New Brunswick, N. T..
was arrested by postoffice inspectors
n committed to Jail by United
States Commissioner Stockton