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WASHINGTON NEWS.

WASHINGTON NEWS.
Soldier relief legislation with
,-obable provision for a cash bonus
-ds for which would be raised by
.o,es or luxury taxes, was provided
,-.a.v nv the house ways and means
.aumittee by vote of 16 to 6. Details
:, tho hill to be recommended will be
worked out by subcommittee to be
appointed.
uampson Gary of Tyler, Texas, was
r.dav nominated by the president to
No minister to Switzerland to fill a
vacancy.
reduction of $715, 100000 in the
.o,;onal debt-more than double the
amount by which the debt was lower
"A during any previous month-was
.ccomplished during March, the treas
WV reported Saturday. The national
daht now stands at $24,698,000,000
The whole railroad wage contro-
versy was placed before President Will
.on Friday for the third time since
roiroad labor filed it's demands for a
general increase in wages last sum-
mer. In letter to the president, B.
n Jewell, chairman of the railway
committee which constitutes the la
hor marty on the railroad wage board,
said he regretted very much ito ad-
wise YOU of our failure to obtain any
beneficial results from these confer
ences
President Wilson will spend the
summer at Hoods Hole. Mass, where
the summer White House will be
established on the estate Of Charles
R. Crane, the Chicago business man
recently appointed minister to China
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
A 50O0-barrel gusher was brought in
at West Columbia, Texas, Friday by
the Humble Oil and Refining Com
many. The well later made 5000 bar
rels. The oil is of high gravity and
was struck at a depth of 5000 feet.
The well is known as the No. Ba-
shara'
In a pitched battle between four |
American customs inspectors and a |
band of seven Mexican smugglers, |
which took place six miles south of |
Bruni, or forty miles southeast of La
redo, Texas, Friday, three of the Mex
lean smugglers were killed and four
others made their escape, while none
If the American officers were injured
The U. S. supreme court Thursday
took hand in the boundary contro.
versy between Texas and Oklahoma,
Involving the Red River oil lands,
and issued two injunctions to remain
In effect pending final decision of
proceedings instituted by Oklahoma.
The first prohibits Texas from issuing
permits affecting the contested lands.
Under the second both states are en-
loined from removal of oil or gas well
machinery. Jacob NJ Dickinson of
Chicago, former secretary Of war,
was appointed receiver to take pos
session Of the lands and machinery
within Is days and to report to the
rourt as to development of the lands.
In raid In the Trinity River bot
tom, near the Houston County line,
Friday, Sheriff McInnis and Deputies
Norris and Stafford of Palestine, Tex
rs, assisted by officers from Crockett,
two sixteen-gallon stills and ten gal
ons of whiskey were taken and five
white men and six negroes taken to
rocket and placed in jail One of
he men arrested said that the output
averaged about twelve gallons a day
md 1t sold for $24 gallon at the
IT'LL. He said men came all the way
rom Dallas, Houston and other points
or the whiskey and took turns wait
ng for it to be trickled out.
Ellis Searles, speaking in behalf of
ne United Mine Workers of America,
y New York, Friday, declared that
ne " per cent wage increase just 8
ranted bituminous mine workers does :
OF justify the price increases of Csc
9 sl5O ton which operators have {
hnounced will have to be made He :
dded that the increase in cost of !
reduction could not exceed Acc to |
Vc ton and disclaimed RESPONSE {
llty on the part of the workers for I
ne proposed price advance.
A 40-mile gale and rain swept over '
outhwest Texas Wednesday night c
oing considerable damage to growing {
'ops, but supplying moisture, which G
as Deem greatly needed to bring up t
o''on and other seeds in the ground. b
Inc live socialistic members of the s
'a'e assembly-Louis Waldman and {
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