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CANAL BILL COMPROMISE.
An agreement has been reached 'between
the House and Senate on the Panama
Canal administration "bill which
provides for: Freen 'passage for American
ships engaged in coastwise trade.?
American registry for American-owned
foreign-built ships engaged exclusively
in foreign trade.?No tariff on foreign
shipbuilding materials for use in this
country.?Trust-owned ships prohibited
from the canal.?Railroads prohibited
from owning competing waterway lines
operating "through the canal or elsewhere"
when such ownership is detrimental
to the public welfare.?Interstate
commerce commission authorized
to investigate control of water lines by
railroads and sanction it where it is
beneficial.?One man government for
Panaima Canal and zone.?'In dropping
out the Senate amendment giving free
passage to American ships engaged in
foreign trade, the conference committee
met the opposition of those who considered
this a direct violation of the
treaty with Great Britain.?The railroad
section of the '"bill is drastic in its term
and hroad in the powers it confers on
the interstate commerce commission. It
prohibits railroads after July 1, 1914,
from owning or controlling competing
steamer lines, "operating thorough the
Panama canal or elsewhere," and gives
to the interstate commerce commission
the powed to determine whether the railroad
and steamship lines aTe "competing
carriers," within the meaning of
law.
PENSION VAMPIRES CURTAILED.
The Senate has yielded to the demands
of the House for the abolition of
the pension agencies throughout the
United States and ipassed the $150,000,000
pension appropriation bill with a
provision for the abolishment of the
agencies January 31, 1913. The action
of the conference was the culmination of
a ftisniitn which has '/ialavpfl the nnv
merit of over $9,000,000 of pension payments
due civil war veterans on August
4. The House proposed that these agencies
be abolished December 31 of the
present year. This was the only provision
of the hill In dispute and Its settlement
was expected to end the deadlock
between the House and the Senate.
Under the Senate provision, the payment
of all pensions would, after the
date named, be made dlTectly from the
pension bureau at Washington. The
change would retire eighteen $.4,000 officials
and result In the retirement or the
removal to Washington of several hundred
district clerks. A saving of about
$250,000 In administration of the pension
laws would follow.
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In his speech of acceptance Mr.
Eugene Ohafln, Prohibition candidate for
President, defined the policies of his
party and in discussing the temperance
plank of the platform said: "The platform
well says that the liquor traffic 'Is
the most serious drain on the wealth
and resources of the nation.' lit takes
considerably inore than 100,000,000
bushels of grain each year to make
liquor for the United States. Nearly
1,000,000 men are engaged in making
and distributing liquor. They support
families of 4,000,000 more. To start
with, we have here an amy of 5,000,000
of nonprodncers?all consumers of
food, clothing and shelter, the necessaries
of life. As a Tesult of this traffic
more than 200,000 men are In Jails arj
penitentiaries?all consumers and nonproducers.
Then add to this army court
officials, policemen, employes and attendants
of poorhouses. jails, penitentiaries,
insane and' other hospitals for
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the dependent classes caused 'by th*
liquor traffic, and you will have an army
of nearly 10,000,000, who consume and
do not produce any of the necessaries
of Ufa Herein lies the cause of the
high cost of living. Destroy the liquor
traffic, let those 10,000,000 of consumers
become producers, and the problem is
solved, and there Is no other solution.
Charging it to the tariff and like legislation
is mere buncombe. The liquor
problem is the greatest economic problem
the world has ever faced. The
solution of the labor and capital question
is hound up In it. For the leaders
of all other parties to ignore this great
question In order to get the liquor vote
is a travesty on the word 'statesman.'
And especially Is this true when they
call themselves ^progressive.' Where
have they 'progressed' from and where
are they 'progressing' to?"
WOMAN SUFFRAGE GAINS.
"We are very much encouraged toy
the 71,000 votes which we polled," says
Mra. Catherine Waugh McCullough, of
Chicago, referring to the ballots cast in
favor of equal suffrage in the recent
primary in that city. "That is much
better than we could have done a yeaT
ago. In a few years Illinois will place
its name on the roll of States in which
women have the ballot on the same
terms as men." Probably she ts correct
in that judgment. Equal suffrage
was established in Wyoming in 1869, in
Colorado in 1893, in Utah and Idaho 1n
1896, in Washington in 1910 and in California
in 1911. This list is likely to receive
several additions this year. Next
November votes will he taken on woman
suffrage in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Kansas, Oregon and Nevada, tin
Oregon, Nevada and Wisconsin it: is
likely to win. A victory for the suffragists
in Wisconsin, Michigan or Ohio
would give great impetus to the movement.
and in one or more of these
States victory is probable. The women
tn the United States have been conducting
theiT canvass with skill. They
have avoided the violence of the militant
sect'on of their British sisters, and appealed
to reason Instead of force.
OUR FLEETS WILL PERFORM.
Plans for the mobilization of three
fleets of American warships at New
York, San Francisco and Manila to
comprise a new series of battle maneuvers
on a greater scale than ever before
attemptd by the United States, were
announced by the navy department
recently. The New York mobilization.
announced for October 14 or 15,
will bring together the greatest number
of war vessel8 In the history of the
country, 120 dreadnoughts, cruisers,
gunboats, torpedo boats, destroyers and
submarines. President Taft and Secretary
of the Navy Meyer will review
the fleet under the command of Admiral
Osterhaus. At San Francisco 40 vessels
will gather under command of Admiral
Southerland and 20 will be ordered
to form the fleet at Manila under
Admiral Nicholson. The dates for
thesp be in October.
KEEP OFF THE GRASS.
With only four votes against It the
U. S. Senate has passed the Lodge resolution
notifying the nations of the world
of the position of this country relative
to encroachments upon the continents
of America by foreign powers. The
United States will not "see without
grave concern," said the Senate, "any
naval or military site pass Into contrpl
of a foreign corporation, when such possession
might threaten the communica
tlons or the safety of the United States."
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The resolution arose from the reported
attempt of a Japanese syndioate to get
land about Magdalena Bay. In the form
finally adopted by the Senate, It declares
against the acquisition of any
threatening location, by a foreign corporation
"which 'has such a relation to
another government not American, as to
give that government practical power of
control for naval or military purposes."
"This resolution," declared Senator
Lodge, "is In the Interest of peace. It
is always desirable to let the position of
cce cuuniry De Known Derorenana in order
to avoid the necessity of urging a
friendly power to withdraw when withdrawal
would be embarrassing. The
opening of the Panama Canal gives the
question of Magdalena Bay and the Galapagos
Islands an importance not hitherto
held." Senator Lodge insisted that
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it necessary for theUnited States to
make clear its opposition to the acquisition
of land by any foreign power, either
directly or through commercial corporaLions,
at any point where It might
threaten the safety of this country.
COURTESY OR DIPLOMACY, WHICH?
By request of the President, Secretary
Knox is en route to Japan on a mission
which combines schemes of courtesy and
diplomacy. President Taft states in his
announcement of the Knox special mission
that it was decided to "mark the
cordial relations that "have existed between
the United States and Japan from
the time of Admiral Perry and Townsend
Harris continuously through the
long reign of the late Bmperor." Behind
this general statement, it is well
understood that here is a host of considerations
which are largely responsible
for the President's decision to send
his Secretary of State half way around
the world. These considerations are
wholly aside from the fitness of sending
a special envoy to Japan at the close
of the reign of the Emperor, wtio
brought his country Into the full light
of the Western World. They are quite
apart, too, from the fact of President
Taft's real personal regard for the late
Emperor. Among other things, it is
hoped that Mr. Knox's visit will serve
to heal whatever "sting Japan has found
in the Magdalena Bay incident and its
resultant, the I>odge resolution," and
in the recent agitation in this country
over the manner in which Japan has
conducted the trial of several Korean
Christians accused of conspiracy. The'
Knox mission will have an even greater
significance in. connection with the FaT
Eastern situation as a whole. No one
believes Mr. Knox is going to negotiate
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with Japan, affecting the interests of
that country and the United States in
the Far East, or even endeavor to bring
about a mutual agreement between She
governments. It is certain, however, that
his mission will serve and is intended to
serve notice to the rest of the world that
the United States is taking more than an,
academic and theoretical Interest In the
Far East, notably China. Other powerrf
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of international courtesy a manifestation
of the fact that the Untted
States 1b ready to enforce its words on
the Far Eastern question with deeds.
AMERICAN-GERMAN PACT FAVORED.
The recent suggestion of an American
German alliance for the protection of
mutual interests In the Far East, as
against the special Interests of England,
Russia and Japan, meets with much
favor In semi-official circles in Berlin. A
high diplomat, who for obvious reasons
is not named, said on this subject:
"There already exists between the
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United States and Germany an agreement
that Is tantamount to an unwritten
alliance for Joint action and mutual
Interests in the Far East, and along the I
lines of which the two nations have I
been working since an exchange of diplomatic
notes in Washington. There are
many reasons why the United States and
uermany should stand shoulder to
shoulder in the Far East, and progressive
Germans would welcome anything
that would bring closer the political relations
of the two countries aa they may
stand alone in the Far East as against
the grouping of other interests." It was
learned in official circles that in a narrow
sense the open-door policy as upheld
by England, Russia and Japan only
applies to China proper, and is interpreted
as excluding Manchuria and Mongolia.
It is believed that it is in regard
to these two countries that Russia and
Japan made their recent agreement It
Is stated in semi-official circles in Berlin
that Germany will not respond to
the efforts of the London newspapers to
work up a general protest by the commercial
powers against the action of the
United States as to the tolls to be charg
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a matter of time." said an official who
Is In close touch with the German government,
"until England, wish her many
possessions, will clash with United
States Interests and will find that the
American people do not always do what
England wants. While the drumming up
of the colonies to come to the assistance
of the mother country In the matter of
her navy is ostensibly because of the
German danger, England also has an
eye on the American danger." This
official added that while England, under
a special treaty, might have the Tight
to protest as to the Panama tolls. Germany
would not enter into any such
movement, and 'besides,, America might
properly resent any pressure that might
be brought to bear.
DHIV1S AO A rVKE^ASTfiH.
As an incldeht of his present visit to
Australia, in an address delivered at a
banquet given by the Melbourne Chamber
of Commerce Ambassador Bryce
pointed out that the population of the
cities of the United States was increasing
at such a rapid rate that H would
not be long before all the wheat produced
In the States would be required
for home consumption. America would
then cease to export wheat, and Australia
should be able to secure a portion
of this trade. Mr. Bryce went on to
refer to the probability of a substantial
reduction in tbe American tariff. One
of the first commodities affected was
likely to be wool, and if, as he expected,
a substantial reduction was made in
the duty on this, a large Increase would
follow in the export of Australian wool
to the United States.
BOULEYARD FARM.
Incomes of $40,000 a year from a
municipal farm is contemplated by Wil
Ham F. Vahlberg, city park superintendent
of Oklahoma. He proposes to piece
In cultivation 400 acres along Grand
Boulevard, an automobile highway 20
miles long that completely circles the city
and which was completed recently at a
cost of about $40,000. He expects returns
to the city of about $100 an acre.
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