The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-03-11
Washington

Washington
| President Wilson has abandoned
his trip to San Francisco to attend
the Panama-Pacif1c exposition, at least
for the present, on account of the Eu-
ropean war situation. He says ne
feels it his duty to remain in Washing
| ton on the job during the grave crisis
in International affairs. The pres1-
dents determination has been highly
praised as an act of much patriotism
Vice President Marshall has accepted
| the presidents invitation to go to San
Francisco to be the chief executives
| personal representative at the exposi-
ton.
| Senator Gore Of Oklahoma, the first
chairman of the new federal rural
credits commission, has announced
| the other members, who comprise Sen
| ator Hoke Smith of Georgia, Senator
| Owen Of Oklahoma Dem.), Senator
Hollis of New Hampshire (Dem.), Sen
ator Nelson of Minnesota (Rep), Con-
gresham Lever of South Carolina
| Dem.), Congressman Moss OF India
ma Dem.), Congressman Hawley OF
Oregon (Rep), Congressman Glass of
Virginia Dem.), Congressman Phelan
of Massachusetts, (Dem.), and Con-
gresham Hay of Virginia (Dem.).
Congressman Joseph T. Johnston of
| Spartanburg, S. c., has been appoint
ed by President Wilson as federal
judge of the new United States bench
in South Carolina created by the last
congress.
the greatest and most eventual con-
gress since the adoption of the Amer
lean Constitution, came to close
on Thursday noon, March 4.
President Wilson has been voted the
power to preserve the neutrality of
the United States and the enforcement
Of the Monroe doctrine in the absence
of congress being in session by joint
congressional resolution introduced by
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin.
President Wilson and his cabinet
| held prolonged conference
in discussion of the English blockade
of Germany. The president declared
England was openly and defiantly in
terfering with the rights of the Unit
ed States on the high seas and that 1t
must be stopped. The situation be-
tween the nations is graver today than
ever before.
President Wilson has signed the
pensions appropriation bill which calls
for $164,000,O0O.
The rural credits reform legisla-
| ton, which was one of the Baltimore
platform pledges, has been redeemed
| by the Wilson administration just be-
fore the adjournment of the present
congress. The house passed the farm
| loan law by vote of 237 to 80 votes.
| The amendment offered by Senator
McCumber Of North Dakota in the up
per house was voted down in the low.
er branch and the Bulkley-Hollis plan
was adopted as originally intended.
| In addition to the tariff, currency, ship
tolls and other great measures put
through by the Wilson administration,
| this is one Of the important bits OF
legislation that will make the pres
| ent term memorable.
Congress has passed an act incorpo-
rating the Ellen Arson Wilson Memo
rial Home Association for the District
of Columbia, which is the permanent
memorial to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
and will be in the nature of dwelling
houses for families in the tenement
districts Of the Capital City.
Domestic
| The lower house of the Oklahoma
legislature at Oklahoma City has i'm
peached two state officials, State Cor
poration Commissioner Watson and
Insurance Commissioner WEIGH on
charges of accepting money from rail-
road officials, riding on free transport
tation and charging mileage and ex-
pense accounts to the state. The two
officials will now be tried by the state
senate.
| The minstrel comedian, known as
Honey Boy" Evans, died just as the
curtain fell on performance at Bir-
bingham, Ala.
| Over one hundred and sixty-five men
we're entombed in a West Virginia
coal mine by mine explosion at Hin
| ton, w. Va.
| President Wilson mas ordered a
probe of the alleged passport frauds,
which have grown out Of the Stegler
| incident.
| Another Pittsburg millionaire
| springs into the divorce court lime
light in the person of Edward B. AL
sop, one Of the steel magnates, 80
years old, who seeks separation from
his youthful Southern wife, Mrs Effie
Pope Alsop, aged %, formerly Geor.
gia girl. Desertion is the plaintiffs
charge The case has caused wide
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