The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1914-04-16
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COVERS WIDE AREA.
GREATER OR LESSER IMPORT
includes What Is Going On at Wash.
inuson and In Other Sections OF
the Country.

the Country.
WASHINGTON.
large holders OF alternate sections OF
land who, it is contended, are drain
lug the oil supply. 1t is temporary
measure pending comprehensive ma
tlonal leasing legislation.
President Wilson's nomination OF
James McNaliy Of Pennsylvania to be
consul Al Nuremberg, Baervarla, was
refused confirmation in the senate by
a vote OF Is TO "a, after prolonged
debate,
Southern senators have indicated
their intention to make vigorous
fight against confirmation OF the reap
poiGtment of Robert H. Terrell, ne
gro, as the municipal judge Of the Dis
trct of Columbia.
A bill to promote and retire Cap
tain II. r. Drake, Philippine scouts,
who had undergone fifteen surgical
operations. and is crippled for life
from over-eXposure to X-rays, was
favorably reported by the house mill
tary committee.
The house public lands committee
has authorized Chairman Ferris to
favorably report a bill for the temp
nrarr relief of the independent oil
men on claims in California. The bill
empowers the secretary OF the in
terror to make working agreement by
which the locators may go on pump
ing oil, to meet the competition Of the
bill to regulate lobbying in the
house Was introduced by Representa-
tive Floyd OF Arkansas for the judi
ciary committee. 1t would require
every legislative council and agent en-
piCyed by any person, corporation or
association to promote or defeat leg
islation to register and to render an
account of all money expended by
him in sub capacity.
III support OF MS resolution 10 ill.,
vestigation that coal trust, acting
through the Southern Railway, dis
eliminates against south Atlantic
ports, Senator Tillman has read in
the senate and printed in the record
letter from B. l.. Dulaney, coal
operator of Bristol, Tenn, charging
a secret rate making and urging an
iryoctjoo4jon of Contbarp Railway f,
nancing in the interest OF security
holders.
Great Lakes packet boat lines, in
dependent of the railroads, are max
ing, according to testimony submitted
to the interstate commerce commits
sion, good profit on shipments, al
though they carry less tonnage than
the lines under railroad control. The
intimation Of witnesses for the shipper
were that the rail lines We're ''starv-
ing" their boat lines through expen
sive management and the continuance
of out of date methods of operation to
divert traffic to the rail lines.
Formal consideration of the admin
istraticn bill to repeal the tolls eXemp
ton provision of the Panama cana
act will begin on the senate side o
the capitol, with hearings before the
inter-oceanc canals committee, tt
continue fifteen days. Senators who
have introduced substitute measure!
will be heard first and they will BIZ
follow I'd by representatives OF com
marcial organizations Of Pacific coas
and gulf states, who have asked ar
opportunity to present their views.
DOMESTIC.
/ record breaking winter whea
crop is III prospect this year, the De
p-rtr.ent of Agriculture estimating
IN a conservative basis that The yielt
may exceed 551 100000 bushels Thu
condition OF the crop April /, wa
95U per cent OF a normal or l1.5 pc
cen better than the average April
c0ndi len for the last ten years
Rec lamentations that the rura
eaAuaI teacher be employed for lif
c. during GOOD behavior and that eac
J. furnished with a house and plot {
land for his own and experiments
uaes were made by p. P. ClaXto1
Iaited States commissioner OF educ
ton, at a session at Louisville Of tn
Conference for Education in the sout
Five hundred city police and d
tectiVes swept from all sides into
mob Of men and women in Tnic
square, New York, when union al
non-union labor opposed one anoth
at mass meetings,
T. H. Musgrove, a wealthy plante
was shot tc death near Blythevill
Ark, and John Walker, a 16-year-o
youth, whose father Musgrove w
charged with having killed tiite'