Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1919-03-01
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
Departure from France of 100 offic-
ers and 10000 men of the army on
seven vessels, including the battleship
Michigan and cruiser Rochester, was
announced Saturday. by the war de-
partment. The ships are due at At
lantic ports between February 25 and
March 5.
By a vote of 172 to 1872 the house
Tuesday adopted a rule for immediate
consideration of a senate bill authorlz-
ing resumption of volunteer enlist
ment in the regular army.
Short-term notes, maturing IN from
one to five years, would be offered IN
the forthcoming victory liberty loan
campaign instead of long-term notes,
under a tentative agreement reached
Wednesday by the house ways and
means committee to fix the terms OF
the loan by legislation rather than to
give to Secretary Glass wide discre-
tionary powers to determine them, as
he has asked.
REIMBURSEMENT of 100000 dead
weight tons of cargo shipping from
the army service was sought Tuesday
by Chairman Hurley of the shipping
board. He told Secretary Daniels and
General March, chief of staff, that
$1OO, 100000 worth of commercial prod
ucts for export were blocking ter
minal facilities at American ports and
that the board was unable to supply
the ships for moving it.
Roger E. Simmons, who recently re-
turned from a mission to Russia tor
the bureau of commerce, Tuesday told
the senate committee investigating
lawless agitation in this country that
if the American and allied forces were
withdrawn from Northern Russia the
anarchists would engage in one OF the
bloodiest massacres the world has
ever seen.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
A 2,O0O-barrel oil we'll was brought
In at Hull, Texas, Friday.
General Luis Terrazas, former gov
ernor of Chihuahua, Mexico, and one
of the wealthiest men in Mexico prior
to the Mexican revolutions, suffered a
stroke of paralysis at his home at El
Paso, Texas, Friday.
Two hundred cotton growers or OK
lahoma decided at a conference at OK
Iahoma City Friday not to plant more
than half their cultivated acreage to
cotton this year. 1t also was decided
to carry this plan into the whole state.
Henry Palmer Caldwell, 70 years
old, for forty-one years grand keeper
of records and seal of the Knights of
Pythias, died at Chicago, ILL.,, Friday.
Oil leases are subject to taxation
and must be assessed by State and
county tax assessors, held Comptroller
H. B. Terrell on Friday. He has ac-
cordingly sent a notice to all State
and county assessors in Texas advis-
ing them to assess such leases. In as
sessing such leases the tax assessor
should give a description of the land
covered by each lease and indorse on
such assessments lease value only"
The comptroller says these oil leases
represent millions of dollars.
Governor Hobby of Texas Thursday
signed senate bill No. IA, which for
bids the operation of pool and billiard
halls fer profit, and under this law
these places must be closed on May l.
Lieutenant Benjamin Davis of Ply
mouth, Pa, attached to the medical
corps, and Ensign Paul Beck of New
York City, both members of the naval
reserve force, are under arrest at New
York awaiting court martial in con-
nection with charges of bribery and
graft in the Third Naval District.
That the farmers of the South surfer
a loss of approximately $75,000,000 an
nually due to deterioration of cotton
and improper methods of warehousing
was the declaration of F. C. Weinert,
state commissioner of markets and
warehouses, in an address before the
session of the Texas Farmers Union
at Houston, Texas, Wednesday.
Solicitor Howard, in behalf Of the
city of Houston, Tuesday filed suit
against the Southwestern Telegraph
and Telephone Company in the
eleventh district court of Houston,
Texas, asking for temporary injunc-
ton restraining the telephone COM
nanv from enforcing a so per cent in