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The custom in England for two or three hundred years past has been for the House of Commons to arrange all matters of taxation. The House of Lords has always concurred with the Commons. But during the past week the House of Lords has voted to reject the budget. This has brought on a crisis. The king has prorogued Parlia ment giving it a recess till January 15. In the meantime there is to be a referendum to the people of this question. Later advices are to the effect that the king has dissolved the Parliament and called for a new election of members. If, in these elections the Liberals shall prevail, the House of Lords will be in danger of final dissolution. There is much feeling in England in favor of abolishing the upper House altogether. In Nicaragua the revolution has so far succeeded that the United States has officially recognized the insurgents. The ambassador of President Zelaya at Washington has received his pass ports, and half a dozen vessels of war, with 3,000 marines, have been dispatched to the ports of Nicaragua. Our government is re ported to have issued orders to prevent the escape of Zelaya by sea, and to have demanded that he be put on trial for murder, in the execution of two Americans, Cannon and Groce. A Possible Canal Route from the Atlantic to the Pacific lies through Nicaragua. It is a longer route than the Panama canal, but it utilizes a lake and a river, so as to make a canal practicable. The pa-, pers intimate that both Germany and Japan had their eye upon this tract, with a view of the possibility of a rival Inter oceanic canal. How much this fact is influencing our government in inducing such prompt action in Nicaragua will appear in due time. At Home. A Very Serious Strike of Railroad Switchmen is reported as existing on the various railroads in the Northwest, beI tween St Paul, Minn., and the Pacific Ocean. Passenger trains are running as usual, but there is almost an absolute | stoppage of freight traffic. This means | suffering to the whole community for want of coal; suffering also for want of flour and meat; the stoppage of all fac| tories and mills for want of supplies, and emorcea idleness (and consequent suffering) for all their operatives. The demand of the Switchmen is for increased pay. The suffering entailed upon the community at large outweighs a thousand times the question of the wages to be paid to one set of employes. Th^ welfare of the community ought to be considered. The Value of Deep Waterways is the | subject of a recent article by Mr. F. A. JTH. December 8, 1909. Thompson, of Richmond, Ind. He is secretary of the National Rivers and Harbor Congress. He notes the fact that transportation of freight by rail costs on an average of seven mills per ton per mile. But that freight rates by water on the Great Lakes is less than one mill per ton per mile. This is because there is a steady and reliable depth of water on the Lakes from one end of the season to the other. The argument is that if'a uniform depth of water, all the year round, can be secured on our western rivers, a like economy of freight rates would follow. One Dollar spent in freight, according to Mr. Thompson will haul a ton by horse power, four miles. On the railways of this country from 125 to 200 miles; on the Erie Canal, 666 miles; on Certain European canals 1,000 miles; on the Great Lakes, 2,500 miles. The Sioux St. Marie Canal was opened in 1855. The saving by freighting on the Lakes since that time is estimated by him at five thousand million dollars. Population Follows Cheap Freights. Mr. Thompson says that in 1800 the population of the eight principal cities on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers was larger by 218,000 than the largest eight cities on the Lakes. But now the eight Lake cities exceed the eight river cities by 1,334,000. He argues that a uniform depth of water in the rivers would now do a like work for the cities on our rivers. 1 ? \/ 1- rsiM... av - m s _ _ i ncn w win vny iiit: i auimaay leaders are reported as making out a list of appointments, which Mayor Gaynor will be asked to make. The mayor resents the effort to dictate to him and will have none of it. A Happy Temperance Decision. In Bowling Green, Ky., the county court acting under the "Merchants" and "Druggists'" provision, issued a saloon license to Chas Ewing, who was not a merchant. The court of Appeals decides that the license is invalid; that the county court must, in such cases, exercise its discretion in refusing license. The Sugar Trust Frauds. Trials are now progressing in New York of those who were involved in the false weighing in the New York Custom House. Several men of prominence, heads of departments in the trust,'are on trial. The pressure of a secret spring in the scales it attested on oath. It diminished the apparent weight of dutiable packages. The Tariff on Wood Pulp is causing trouble. In the sixtieth Congress Representative Mann, chairman of an investigating committee, reported in favor of reducing imports on printing paper from six dollars per ton to two dollars, and of admitting wood pulp free. But Congress fixed the tariff on paper at four dollars per ton, and provided a tax on pulp from' any locality, which should charge an ex port tax or its equivalent. Canada resents this action. The Province of Ontario has forbidden the exportation of pulp and the Province of Quebec has ordered a stumpage charge on pulp wood amounting to 25 cents a cord. These movements threaten a tariff war, unless the United States shall recede from its action on wood pulp and printing paper.