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WHAT Wis DONE THIS WEEK
Short Mc|f|on|njj of Interesting Hap-
pen in|t pron, Day x0 Day
"froughout tho World.
The
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3HINGTON NEWS.
initiation of John Skolton
now HBKistant secretary of
;ry. to be controller of the
ind hb ex-offlclo member qf
1 reserve board, wuh con-
senute in executive Bee
Co-oji ^Jion among farmerH Instead
of comu||()ni that the farmer may
receivyM, whole of the conHumer's
dollar I i,|K product instead of :ir> to
45 i>> 'f-nt, as now is the case, is the
aim I bU1
Seiuii
government
i nui introduced Saturday by
■ Ilorah to create an "avricul-
turalf dtal," or clearing house, to bo
run 1 farmers under
cha nl or uubsidy.
^'Vnnte Saturday confirmed the
noUQivjon 0f Lewis T. Carpenter to
be c^,.lor 0f internal revenue for
;rlct of New Mexico. Oarpen-
i former Texan, resident for
vara at Dallas.
war department Saturday in a
t by Colonel Hurr,' act ink chief
entrineer corps, recomui' iided
ti '.ross that tho inland waterways
Florida to the mouth of the Rio
ink', including all the sections of
th'/tri-coantal canal of Texas, shall
b' iitcd Uereafter and finlsht>d as
oiifto ,'ft. Instead of con ini led as
"l fcsenl in sections.
fliorlty would be given the presl-
^ by a bill which passed the,senate
''By lo reserve natural townsltes
f'l the public domain and to suhdl-
St uch tracts into lots or villa sites
'ic sold at auction to tho highest
'jfer.
jostmnster General Burleson Frl-
I asked congress for deficiency ap-
dp'rlatioti3 of $ 1.800,000 l'or pay of
(Substitute, auxiliary and temporary
0* I'r• r> carriers employed to
'nn ! • ii<■ extraordinary demands of the
ei " hour law and the parcel post.
Governor Miller of Delaware, Mayor
Jmi"s W. Preston of Baltimore,
Mayor Frederick Donnelly of Trenton.
Representative .1. llaiuplon Moore ol
Pennsylvania and others tt ■ tifled Fri-
day before the house rivers and liar
bors commit tie, advocating a coastal
canal from Ucston, Mass., to Ueaufort,
N. C.
To prohibit railroads from leasing or
acqulrli'any Interest In competing
rail or water "ties, and pt rmit the a<
qulrement of noncompeting lin<*s only
when >uch acquisitions would Improve
service and reduce eost of operation,
a bill was introduced bv Senator Ken-
yon of Iowa Frtdny. h-sues of securi-
ties would he regulated by the inter-
Atate commerce conunlsslon.
Senator Sheppard reintroduced in
the senate Friday his resolution au-
thorizing a survey and examination of
thi1 Ilio Grande boni« ' of the ' nited
Stated to deicmlne ie advisability
of constructing a highway along the
border.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
There are .nteen radium springs in
Colorado, according to sin annoum e-
mont made Monday by Professor Uu
sell D. George, state geologist and pro-
fessor of geology In the University of
Colorado.
The Vclnaco end of tho V'elasco-An-
gletrin, Texas, public road Is being
rapidly put Into condition to be used.
Four bridges along Its route have al-
ready been constructed and a large
force of men are at work on the large
Oyster Creek bridge, restoring it to
its condition before the flood.
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The towns of Austin, Shiner and
Victoria, Texas, are the latest to be
accorded the maximum 15 per cent re-
duction In insurance rates as a result
of low loss records during the past
three years.
More than naif the national hanks In
the United States now have made
legal application for membership In
the new federal reserve system, ac-
cording to tho treasury department at
Washington.
There was a mutiny of prisoners
at the Oklahoma Suite penitentiary at
McAlester Monday, with the result
that seven persons were killed and
three wounded.
Mrs. Maud Malllngton Hooth, promi-
nently identified with prison reform
movement throughout the country, has
advised Governor Colquitt that her
visit to Texas has been deferred until
April.
Rescued from their Ice coated, sink-
ing ship after they had given up all
hope, the thirteen :nemhers of the
«.-re\\ of the five--ma-led schooner Full-
er Palmer Sunday arrived In Balti-
more, Md , aboard the Donaldson llni-
•teanicr Marina.
The Texas wheat crop In 1913
amounted to 13,fi50,0(Ki bushels, ac-
cording to the final estimate of thp"
crop reporting board of the t nited
States department of agriculture,
which bus just been made.
Ffforls of the border authorities to
round up the Mexican federal generals,
who fled from Ojlnuga, Mexico, before
the rebels entered, resulted Friday In
the arrest at Sanderson, Texas, of
General Jose Yoez Salazar, who was
taken from a train while en route to
join the federal garrison in Mexico,
opposite Eagle 1'asB, Texas.
The check in payment of the suit
settlement of the State of Texas
against the General Film Company for
violation of the anti trust law, amount-
ing io $25,000, was paid to the attor-
ney general Thursday by former At-
torney General Mghtfoot, attorney for
the film company.
The supreme court of Texas Thurs- j
day granted permission to the Adams I
fish market of Dallas to file a petition
for mandamus agaln.-t the state game
fish and oyster commissioner to pre
vent the commissioner front collecting
a tax of 1-lOc a pound on fish and lc i
barrel on oysters from wholesale deal
ers when same is secured beyond the
state.
An oil well was brought in at Sour
Lake, Texas, Tuesday, which is re-
ported to be flowing about ion barrel;-
per day.
Congressman James Curley was
chosen mayor of Boston, Mass., Tues-
day by a majority of 6,059 votes over
Thomas J. Kinney, president of tho
city council.
Governor Oswald West, Secretary
of State Ben Oleott and State Treas-
urer Thomas B. McKay were nominal-
ly arr< ■ ted at Portland, Ore., Tuesday
on warrants issued at the Instance of
Labor Commissioner O. I'. lloff to
test the eight-hour law ns affecting
employes of stnte institutions of
which the three state officers, aB a
board, have control.
•lore than 11,000 square miles of ter-
ritory was i;i mdated by the recent
floods of the Brazos, Guadalupe, Colo
rado, Trinity and San Jacinto river*
in Texas, and the property loss is
placed .it $8,500,000, according to an
estimate of Dr. B Bunnetneyer, direc-
tor of the weather bureau, from re-
ports received by him.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Serrano Indians, in the state of
Pueblo, Mexico, ^Iio boast that they
never have been conquered by any
ruler of Mexico, are again on the war-
path. t
Rebel leaders at Juarez Monday sent
word to Brigadier General S ott that
the;, feared tho federals when Interned
at Fori Blis would attempt to steal
across to the M< dean side and rejoin
the Huerta army. Thoy asked that
the refugees be removed further from
the border. General.Soilt replied that j
precautions bad been taken to prevent
the escape of any federals. The refu-
gees will be ■-•.uarde l night and day by
four infantry companies.
Dr Lillegaard. a missionary of the
American Lutheran mission, was
wounded in one arm on Jan. lti, during
the fighting In Kwang Chow, in the
province of Hon.in, China. Bandit.-, tin-
der the White Wolf, who has been de-
vastating the district, captured and
looted Kwang Chow on that date.
In the event General V< nustlano
Carranza, head of tho constitutional-
ists in Mexico, should meet death dur-
ing the southern campaign that he
has just launched or at any time be-
fore the trumplr of the constitutional-
ist cause, his successor its first chief
of the constitutionalist forces In Mex-
ico is to be chosen by the generals ot
the army who arc- In active service,
according to a decree issued by Gen-
eral Carurnza Monday.
Cherlf Pasha, who was the object a
few days ago of an alleged attempt
at assassination by young Turks, is
guarded day and night now by squads
of French policemen at Paris.
Dr. Frederick Rurllngham of Lon- j
don has made a hazardous descent of
the crater of Vesuvius, at Naples,
Italy, penetrating 150 feet into the ;
Interior, amid intense gas ami sulphur
fumes.
An American syndicate has offered
to the Turkish government a loan of
$120,000,000 on i mditlon that it shall
receive several important timber and
railroad concessions in Asia Minor.
A commission has been appointed
by the ministry of lht< Interior to in-
vestigate the Increase of leprosy in
France. The commission is composed
of members of the Academy of Medi-
cine and the CouncM of Hygiene at
Paris.
Be-'gars In Turkey have established
a trades union, with 4,000 members
and headquarters In Jerusal'm.
Following the dismissal ot the np-
peal of the four men, Lockett, Grlz-
zard, Gutwlrth and Silverman, who
were convicted at tho Old Bailey, in
London, England, of ste.tllm ami re-
ceiving Max Meyer's S.'No.OUO pearl
necklace, the rewards offered In con-
nection with the recovery of the gema
have been distributed
WILL NOT BE IDLE
CONGRESS TO ACT ON SEVERAL
MATTERS OK IMPORTANCE
THIS WINTER.
ALASKA RAILROAD BILL ONE
Public Health Service, Report on Lob-
by Inquiry and Suspension of Free
Canal Tolls Among the Other
Pending Subjects-
By GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington—Congress may not and
probably will not pass any very dras-
tic anti trust legislation this winter,
but nevertheless both houses will find
plenty to do with measures which,
while they are of less seeming Import-
ance than anti-trust bills, are matters
of cotydderable moment to the general
public. Therefore, while congress
may not do any tremendously big
things during the winter. It will man-
ago to keep busy.
When congress quit for the Christ-
mas recess the house had thren Impor-
tant matters of unllnlshed business
on Its calendar, tho Alaska railroad
bill, a joint resolution providing for
the appointment of a commission to
investigate and report a plan for na-
tional aid to vocational education; and
the District of Columbia appropriation
bill. The senate also had a special
order on the Alaska railroad hill ami
so it seems likely that this legislation
is practically certain to pass before
warm weather sets In.
After the Alaska railroad bill it
seems likely that tho Adamson bill to
create a public health service with
more extended powers than those now
lodged in the public health and marine
hospital services will he taken up for
consideration and very likely passed.
Other matters which may receive the
sanction of congress before the final
adjournment of the session are the
Booher bill relative to re trlctlug In-
terstate commerce In goods made by
convicts, and the Burnett bill regulat-
ing the Immigration of aliens Into the
United States.
Await Report on Lobby.
Tho lobby Investigation matter will
como before the house In a sharply
pertinent way before very long. The
members now are awaiting a report
from the judiciary committer on mat-
ters which may lead to action of some
kind In the case of Representative
James T McDermott of Chicago and
officers of the National Association of
Manufacturers in connection with the
Investigation of the charges which
were made when the Mulhall lobby
Inquiry was on
ft probably will bo remembered that.
In the report of the lobby committee
all the present members of congress
whose names were mentioned by wit-
nesses before the committee were
cleared of "lobbying blame" with the
exception of Representative McDer-
mott in his case the testimony was
laid before the house without any rec-
ommendation and It is taken for
granted apparently that the house will
take some action looking either to
the punishment or to the exoneration
of (his Illinois congressman whose
name was so frequently mentioned In
connect Inn with lobbying activities
In addition to bills already on the
calendar there are three other pieces
of legislation certain to come before
this congress which have not vet
reached the calendars of either house
The first of these Is the amendment
to the anti-trust law. which the presi-
dent will recommend to congress In
a special message.
Panama Canal Tolls Again.
The other measures are the La Foi
lette seamen's bill, which has already
passed the senate, and upon which
hearings have been held by the mer-
chant marine and fisheries committee
pf the house, and the Adamson reso-
lution, introduced In tho house just
before the Christmas recess, provid-
ing for the suspension for two years
of that provision In the Panama cnn.il
act which will give to American coast
wise vessels free tolls The senate
may add one more measure to this
list In the hill Introduced by Senator
Williams on tho closing day of the
rue-holiday session, providing for the
insurance of hank deposits
It Is expected that the Adamson
resolution will stnrt again the fight
over the tolls question which allrred
congress up a year ago. President
Wilson thus far has made no an-
nouncement of his leanings In this
matter and It seems likely that lie has
purposely kept from saying anything
about the Issue Involved because of
his desire to get the currency bill
out of the way before the other mat-
ter wus touched upen
As to Labor Legislation.
Labor legislation Is both pop ,'ar
md unpopular In the house of rep-
-esentatlves and the senate For
omi1 reason or other members and
senators think that If they vote for
Mich legislation as tl • labor leaders
as'.i, they will be sure to get the
support of labor at the poll* In
this respect therefore It may be said
that a chance to vote for labor leglsla
tlon Is popular, hut there are times
when representatives and senators are
so convinced the legislation asked Is
not eminently proper that they make
up their minds to vote against it and
by so doing they feel (hey may lose
votes, and therefore In this respect la
bor legislation at times may be said
to be unpopular.
In Washington, ofllclnls In congress
and out of it recognlxe, no matter to
what puity they belong, that progres
slvlsm la the order of tho day in legis-
lation and tho progresslvlstn and hu-
manitarlaulsin frequently are Insep- j
arable. It took congress a long while I
to pass an eight-hour a duy lnbor law
All government work done by the gov-
ernment Itself was put on an eight
hxnir basis a long time ago, but It was
only recently that the federal eight-
hour law wus made to apply to gov-
ernment work contracted for by pri-
vate corporations.
It Is apparent that tho present ad-
ministration Is fully In sympathy not
only with the eight hour movement,
but with tho plea that eight hours
for work, eight hours for play and
eight hours for sleep constitute the
proper living day for man. Secretary
Hedfleld of tho department of com-
merce probably would not have ex- j
pressed himself so freely as ho has j
on the eight-hour matter If ho were |
not sure ot the sympathy of Ills chief.
Mr. Redfield's Position.
At a meeting of the American Asso-
ciation for Labor Legislation held re-
' cently Secretary Rodtteld said:
"I believe that when our factories
j are run so that the workmen go home
without being fatigued from overlong
hours, and not till then, will we be
able to compote successfully against
all comers In the markets of the i
world. 1 could not afford to employ In |
a factory men who are half sick, who
come to work after having had bad ;
breakfasts, who are partly poisoned.
They would bo economically unproflt- j
able. And yet fatigue 1h part polaou." j
Postal Service Efficient.
A high type of efficiency
claimed for the United States postal j
service by Uncle Sam's officials, ■
who are charged with the duty of Hb ad- j
ministration. It Is said that the single j
exception of Belgium, "where the traf-
fic conditions resemble those of state
rather than those of a country," the
United States stands at tho head of
all countries In operative efficiency.
Tills is said on the authority of Rep-
resentative Lewis of Maryland, author
of tho parcel iiost. act, who has been
digging Into the subject.
It Is known that Uncle Sam's letter
rate of postage Is enough to yield
1-3 per cent profit, and the postal
efficiency of this country Is attained In
spite of the high prices which must
be paid for imperial, stamps, paper,
etc., and the much higher wages which
are paid to American postal workmen
than to 'hose who do the same work
In Europe.
Steady Increase In the Service.
Since the year 1M6 not only has
tho number of pieces of mail. Includ-
ing poth domestic and foreign matter,
increased gradually, but tho number
of pieces handled by each post office
employe each year has Increased
This increase has been going on while
the average handling Individual bits
of mall has gone down
From 1S86 to 1912 "not only have
the units of service more tlian doubled
In size, but city and rural deliveries
have been added, thus virtually dou-
bling the quantity of the service. Thus
even If the cost per piece of mall
naturally hnd remained stationary It
would be shown clearly that tho cost
actually had gone down."
The number of pieces mailed In
the year ISSfi Including domestic and
foreign matter was 3.474,000,000, while
the number of employes was 122.6Uh
In that year the number of mail pieces
handled by each employe per annum
was 2S.313 The cost for tho average
mail, piece, reckoned In cents, was
1.44 Right years later, In 1S94, the
number of employes had Increased to
lRn,916, and the number of pieces of
mall hnd Jumped to 4.919,090.000. This
resulted In the number of mnll pieces
per employe per annum reaching the
figure of 2R.7I6, and tho cost per
average mail piece becoming, In cents,
1 H7
Average Cort Has Gone Down.
Ten years later, In 190j, th num-
! bor of pieces handled by each employe
during the year had Increased to 35,-
I 386. and the average cost per each )
mall piece had gone down to 1.53 In
i 1912 the average cost had gone down
' to 1.34; the number of employes, a
trifle below that of 1910, stood at
290,701; the estimated number of mall
pieces handled over 17,500,000,000, and
number of pieces handled by ench
employe during the year ronehed high
water with the figure GO,504.
The explanation (if this high degree
of efficiency is to be found, according
to Mr. Lewis. In the fact that tho low
postal rates have stimulated business
and have consequently almost nuto-
i matically forced complete utilization
of the plant. "Obviously," says Mr.
Lewis, "the amount of truffle will de.
petid on the rate."
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