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DOMESTIC.
Anti Japanese Legislation Stopped: It
has been announced that Assemblyman
Drew, who introduced the bills prohibiting
ownership of land by Japanese, is
willing to accede to the wishes expressed
in President Roosevelt's letter to Governor
Gillette, and will modify his bill.
The president's letter is said to have
Averted a crisis.
The President's Increase of Salary Questioned:
The house of representative^ last
"week took issue with the senate in its action
in increasing the salaries of the
president, vice president, speaker of the
house, justices of the supreme court and
others by voting to disagree with the
amendment. The speaker announced the
following representatives as conferees on
the matter: Bingham of Pennsylvania,
Gillette, of Massachusetts, Livingston, oi
Georgia.
William H. Taft left Augusta, Ga., od
-January 23, for Charleston, S. C., from
where he sailed for Panama the following
Monday. His departure, althougf
early, was witnesed by a large number
of persons who came to the station to
say their farewells, and as the special
train moved out a cheer of good-will was
given for the distinguished guest who has
become so generally popular with the
residents of Augusta. Mr. Taft was accompanied
to Charleston by Mr. John
Hays Hammond, besides his assist
ant secretary, Wendall Missheler, the
secret service men and newspaper correspondents.
He was joined in Charleston
by Mrs. Taft, who went with him tq
Panama.
Undervaluation of Imports: A provision
makiner tho valuation of imnnrio Jo.
pendent upon the wholesale price of the
specific commodity in this country will
be inserted in the new tariff bill, to
check, as much as possible, the constant
undervaluations which are being made
under the present system. According
to statistics submitted to the ways and
means committee, the government has
been defrauded out of many thousands
of dollars from undervaluation.
The President Upheld: President
(Roosevelt has been upheld in directing
Attorney General Bonaparte to decline
to give the senate information regarding
action relative to the purchase of the
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by
the steel trust. This is the decision
reached by the special senate judiciary
committee appointed to investigate the
question. The Judiciary committee is
very much embarrassed by the situation,
but will go ahead with the matter, finally
making a report to the senate. There
is now talk of subpenaing Judge E. H.
Gary or H. T. Frick to secure the merger
information denied by the president.
?nw w r own mau^ui dicu. 1L1 IUC
presence of a brilliant assemblage that
packed the historic hall of the house of
representatives, in which Tennessee's
governors, from Andrew Johnson on
down, have taken the oath of office, Governor
M. R. Patterson, January 27 at
noon, delivered his inaugural address
and took the oaiu of office, being sworn
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in by Chief Justice Beard, of the supreme
court. Governor Patterson referred
to the Carmack tragedy in his ad
dress and declared that his silence under
a load of calumny had been misconstrued.
The Farmers' Union Warehouse: Tlij
executive committee of the Mississippi
division of the Farmers' Union met at
Jackson, Miss., last week and approved
the charter of the $1,000,000 warehouse
company organized to take over the one
hundred local Farmers' Union warehouses
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