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Opening Session of Both Branch. es Was Brief, i | Republican Leaders Will Try to Confine the Work of the Short Session to Passage of the Money Bills. “ Washington, D, C.—Both houses of congress convened for the beginning of the second session of the sixtieth congress. Practically no business was transacted in either house, In the senate, ex-Governor Cummins of lowa took the oath of office, as the success of Senator Allison, as did Car roll S. Page of Vermont as the suec cessor of Senator siewart, In the house the seven members who were elected in November to succeed mem bers who have resigned were sworn in. They are Henry A, Barnhart, dem ocrat, who succeeds the late Mr. Brick, republican, from the” thirteenth Indiana district; Albert Estopinal, democrat, who succeeds the late Mr. Meyer, from the first Louisiana dis trict; Otto G. Foelker, republican, suc cessor to Mr, Dunwell, repyblican, in the third New York district; Frank E. -Gurnsey, republican, successor to Mr. Powers, republican, from the fourth Maine district; Eben M. Masters, re publican, successor to Mr, Parker, re publican from South Dakota at large; 0. C. Wilty, democrat, successor to his brother, A. A, Wiley, democrat, from the second Alabama district, and John P. Swasey, republican, successor to Mr, Littlefield, who resigned dur ing the last session from the second Maine district. The two houses appointed commit tees each to notify the other house and the president, that the two bodies are organized and prepared to go for ward with the business of the ses sion, The senate then adjourned for the day, out of respeet to the mem ory of Senator Allison, who died dur ing the recess. The house terminated its brief session with resolutions com memorative of the lives of Messrs. Parker, Wiley, Dunwell aud Powers, who have died since adjournment last May. Work of Congress Outlined. ¥ republican leaders retain their present views, the legislation of the #Session will include very little except the appropriation bills. These bills will carry in the aggregate about §sl,- 900,000,000, and the general opinion ds that in the time tnat will be al lowed the two houses will find that they can best serve the country by giving proper attention to these ap propriations, There will be a general effort to hold the appropriations down to the Jowest possible limit. It is generally understood that there will be a bill for the improvement of rivers and harbors, to carry not less than $25, 000,000 or $30,000,000. Provision must be made this year for the census of 1910, and this w.ll require not less than $10,000,0¢0. There will be other «exceptional demands, so that as it now looks, congress will do well if it suc «<eeds in holding the appropriations for the second session of the sixtieth gongress to thc dimensions of those «©f the first session. The house com mittee on appropriations alredy has begun its work on the sundry bills. The fact that the managers desire to restrict legislation will not prevent ©ther members of the senate and house from exerting their efforts in behalf of favorite measures. The first «ffort in this direction will be made in the senate, by Mr. Foraker, who will renew his attempt to have passed the bill authorizing the re-enlistment of the negro soldiers discharged with out honor on account of the Browns ville riot. This measure will be the special order for December 16, Sen ator Beveridge will make an effort to obtain early consideration for his child labor bill and Senator Carter of the postal savings bank bill, There also is a considerable ele ment in both houses favorable to such changes in the Sherman anti-trust law as will provide immunity for some of the combinations, like labor unions, which have been held to be in re straint of trade, and which it is con tended are not injurious. Many also desire the amendment of the inter state commerce law, so as to permit traffic agreements among the rail roads, and to eliminate the commod ities clause of the law, The labor in terests will continue their efforts in behalf of a modification of the in junction laws, There is, opposition, however, to all of these measures. The advocates of separate state haod for Arizona and New Mexico de clare they will. have the support of the president for their measures. There will, however, be an effort to pdss the measures over to the sixty first congress, | | " The president will recommend leg islation looking to the supervision of talegraph and telephone lines, Bllls will be offered bringing them within the jurisdiction of the interstate com merce commission, Ship subsidy also will receive attention, but the proba bility of action is remote,. There will be much discussion of the tariff in the cloak rooms, and the ways and means committee of the house will continue its efforts to a bill, but no measure will receive attention on the floor of elther house until after March 4, when the propos ‘ed special session will concentrate its efforts upon this omne subject. It is even probable that ‘action looking to a change in the print paper and wood pulp schedules will be postponed wi til the special session. Both houses will receive recommen dations from the congressional mon etary commission looking to changes in the laws regulating the supervis fon of national banks, and the pres ent indications are that some time leg islation for that purpose will be en acted, It 18 quite certain that the recent agreement between the United States and Japan will receive early consid eration in the senate, Already a num ber of senators have privately ex pressed disapproval of the fact that the compact was entered into without consulting the senate, | CERNER IN WEEAT. 20.900,000 Bushe!s, Biggest Deal on Record, May Bring $1.40. Chicago, Ill.—James A Pattem, the ¢orm king, with his partner, now con trols 30,000,000 bushels of wheat— more wheat than any one crowd of men over held in Chicago, the scene of the world’s biggest corn deals, and $1.40 wkeat is looked for on the board es trade as a result of the eo lossal deal, With Mr. Patten in the big ring are William I Bartlett, George W. Pat ten and Frank B. Frazer, 1t is big ger than the Joe Leiter deal when that young pilunger lost $9,000,000 just after the world's fair, It is bigger then the John W. Gates corner, in which millions were lost by the cor nerer four years ago, It is bigger at least by 5,000,000 bushels than any thing “Old Hutch” ever attempted And yet it is not a eorner. It is merely a colossal deal. The Bartlett- Patten bull ring is not endeavoring 1o buy all the grain in the market and create an artificial condition, as “Old Hutch” did when he forced wheat up to $2. Its purpose is merely to use to advantage what is believed to be a world-wide condition, and to have a large amount of wheat to sell when the price soars. In their opinion it will g 0 to $1.33 or $1.40, not as a re sult of purchase, but because of a combination of circumstances around the world over which no man can con trol. PLANS FOR BATTLESHIPS Are Reviewed by Admiral Capps in His Annual Report, Washington, D. C.—The annual re port of Admiral W. L. Capps, chief contractor of the navy, is very largely devoted to a review of the navy over the plans of the battleships North Da kota and Delaware, Admiral Capps disposes of various phases of criti cisms that have been made of the plans by declaring that the recommen.. dations for congress made by the Newport conference related only to minor details over which there nat urally would be differences of opinion and improvement from time to time. - Admiral Capps refers to the lack of adequate working facilities at many of the navy yards for ships under repair, and says this condition coutinues to embarrass the bureau and prevent the prempt and economical performance of work, ELECTION FRAUDS IN CHICAGO, Outrageous Repeating and Ballot Box Stuffing Charged by Grand Jury. Chicago, 111, — The ballots of men long residents of other cities, the bal lots of temporary absentees, the bal lots of the insane and even of the dead were cast in the primary elec tion of last August in Chicago.” “Re peaters” voted in platoons, with the connivance of willingly unseeing judges and elerks of election, and fraud, rampant to an extent hitherto unknown in a city never famous for the purity of its. political atmosphere, rendered the resultant party nomina tions morally worthless. These and other startling allega tions are made in the report of the special grand jury, which, after sev eral weeks of delving into charges growing out of Chicago’s first prima ries and returning sixty-one indict ments against two-score or more of politicians and others, adjourned, HONOR MEMORY OF CLEVELAND. Exercises Held by Association of Life Insurance Presidents, New York City——Notable exer cises in memory of the late Grover Cleveland, ex-president of the United States, constituted the opening ses sion in this city of the Association of Life Insurance Presidennts, of which he had been chairman during the year and a half between the time of its or ganization and his death, The program, which was brief, in cluded addresses by President Paul Morton of the Equitable Life Assur ance Society and Dr. John H. Finley, president of the College of the City of New York, and the reading of letters which had been received from former Vice President Stevens and Governor Hoke Smith and Hilary A. Herbert, members of Mr., Cleveland’s cabinet, Seventeen Dead in Storm. St. Johns, Newfoundiand.—Seven teen persons have perished in a storm which has lashed the Newfoundland coast for forty-eight hours. In all ten fishing vessels have gone ashore, most of them breaking into fragments on the rocks. The victims of the gale were members of the crows of three of these craft, Over 300 Fisherman Drown. Tokio, Japan.—Thirty-five Japanese fishing boats were caught in a ty phoon off Hatsu Island, in Kawatsu Bay, and wrecked, It is reported that 850 fishermen lost their lives, Glad Treaty Is Signed. Tokio, Japan.—News of the signing of the American-Japanese agreement was received here with glad acclaim. Crowds thronged about the newspaper bulletin boards and the announcement that Secretary Root and Ambassador Takahira had affixed their official sig natures to the document was greeted by enthusiastic cheers. Mrs. Wardell Dead. San Francisco, Cal—The wife of General Wardell, who was exiled In Arizona, dled here, The romantic attachment of General Wardell for his wife who was afflicted with lepro sy and his devotion in remaining at her side at the risk of his own life was commented on universally, Shippers of the South. Louisville, Ky.—Discusgion behind closed doors about an interstate com merce commission ruling on the sub. stitution of commodities was partici pated in here by a large body of rep resentative shippers from many parts of the south, None of the conferees would di vulge the nature of the proceedings, hut it was definitely stated by a prom inent rallroad authority that a plan of battle was arranged against the commission’s order, . . Gt PRESIDENTONSUFFRAGE Roosevelt Thinks Women Should Vote. Is not Enthusiastic. WOAN'S CHIEF FUNGTION New York City.—The attitude of President Roosevelt and of Secretary of State Elihu Root on the subject of woman suffrage was disclosed at a meeting under the auspices of the National League for the Civic Educa tion of Women, s The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of The Qutlook, in the course of an address in opposition to granting the rights to vote for women, read the fol lowing letier from President Roose velt, which he said he read with the president’s permission, although it was not “written for publication, ~ - “Personally, I believe in woman's suffrage,” says Mr. Roosevelt, at the outset of the letter, which is dated No vember 10, 1908, “but I am not an en thusiastic advocate of it because I do not regard it as a very important mat ter, I am unable to see that there has been any special improvement in the position of women in those states in the west that have adopted woman ‘suffrage as compared with those states ‘adjolning them that have not adopted it. I do not think that giving the women suffrage will produce any marked improvement in the condition of women, I do not believe that it will produce any of the evils feared, and [ am very certain that when wom en, as a whole, take any special in terest in the matter they will have the suffrage if they desire it, “But at present I think most of them are lukewarm; I find some activity for it, and some activity against it, I am, for the reasons above given, rath er what you would regard as luke warm or tepid in my support of it be-‘ cause, while I believe in it, I do not regard it as of very ruch import-‘ ance, | | _“I believe that man and woman should stand on an equality of right, but I do not believe that equality of right means identity of function; and I am more and more convinced that the great field, the indispensable field, for the usefulness of women is as the mother of the family, “It is her work in the household, in the home, her work in bearing and rearing the children, which is more importart than any man’s work, and it is that work which should be nor mally the woman’s special work, just as normally the man's work should be that of the breadwinner, the sup porter of the home, and, if necessary, the soldier who will fight for the home. “There are exceptions as regards both man and woman; but the full and perfect life, the life of highest happi ness and of highest usefulness to the state, is the life of the man and wom an who are husband and wife, who live in the partnership of love -and duty, the one earning enough to keep the home, the otw“agtmf the home and ‘the chi o, R “THEODORE ROOSEVELT."” \ LIQUOR TO DRY TERRITORY. Common Carriers Must Accept Ship- ments Tendered, Richmond, Va.—The supreme court of appeals affirmed the decision of the state corporation commission. in the case of the Portner Brewing Company against the Southern Express Compa ny. The effect of the decision is that while common carriers must receive shipments for delivery to parties in “dry territory,” wholesalers, brewers, distillers and manufacturers cannot avail themselves of that right, for by so doing it could be made possible for violators of the law compell com mon carriers to aid and abet violations on account of the consignees receiving the liquor when shipped in large quan tities and then selling It contrary to law, INLAND WATEEWAY ROUTE. This is the Purpose of the Convention at- New Orleans, New Orleans, La.—Between two and three hundred delegates gathered here in attendance upon the fourth anrual convention of the Interstate Waterways League, which has for its object the construction of an inland waterway from the Rio Grande to the Mississippl, It is planned to connect and dredge to sufficient length all of the rivers and bodies of water lylng just inside the Louisiana and Texas coasts, the route extending from Brownsville, Texas, to Donaldsonville, La, A gov ernment appropriation has resulted in a portion of the work belng completed already, and a further appropriation will be asked of congress. NIGAT RIDERS GRANTED BAIL. Sheriff Ordered to Release Them When Sufficient Bond is Made, Nashville, Tenn—Judge T, E. Mat thews deiivered his opinion on the writs of habeas corpus by which the eight alleged night riders now con fined in the Davidson county jail sought to obtain their release from custody, granting the relief asked, and fixing the amount of bail, . Four of the prisoners were granted bail in the sum of SIO,OOO, and four for half that amount each. The sher iff of Davidson county was ordered to turn over the prisoners to the sher. iff of Obion county and that official is directed to release the prigoners when a sufficient bond {8 made. DEFICIT OF $58,070,201, United States Treasurer Treat So States in Annual Report. Washington, D, C. — Charles H. Treat, treasurer of the United States, in his annual report, calls attention to the fact that owing to the disturh ed relations between the income and outgo of the government there was a deficiency last year of $58,070,201 as against surplus for the preceding year of $%4,236,686, and points out that the total revenues for 1903 exceeded any preceding filscal year except 1907, T 0 CHANGE POSTAL LAWS, Proposed To Eliminate Assistant Post master General. ‘Washington, D. C.—The four officcs of n‘g:i}stant postmaster general will be abolished, a director of posts, with Seven assistants, provided for, and the entire postal service of the United States, divided into fifteen separate‘ districts, if the bill providing for the revision of the postal laws which is being prepared by the joint postal in vestigation committee of congress, ap pointed two years ago, is passed by congress, 1t is claimed that a director of posts, appointed to hold office until remov ed for cause, and who shall receive a high salary, will tend to improve the service through a continuity of policies for the benefit of postal serv ice. By providing for seven assistants to the director of posts, the membors of the committee believe that the dis advantages due to frequent changes and the appointment of inexperienced men te the four offices of assistant postmaster general can be obviated. These assistant directors are, accord ing to the provisions of the bill, also to hold office during good behavior. The postmaster general would con tinue as the executive head of the de partment, Much information was gathered by the commission last year in an effort to find some means of improving the accounting system of the postal sevv ice. To perfect the system of man agement, provision for fifteen super intendents to have direct charge of the fifteen separate postal districis, which it is proposed to create, has been decided upon. According to the bill, each separate district would in a sense be a branch office In addition to these charges, many of which have to be recommended by Postmaster General Meyer, numerous minor alterations in the pcstal laws are included in the bill, The commis sion is composed of Senators Penrose, Pennsylvania, chairman; Dolliver, lowa and Clay, Georgia, and Repre sentatives Overstreet, Indiana; Gard ner, New Jersey; and Moon, Tennes see, ; GOAL MINE EXPLOSIONS. Demonstrated by Government Testing ~ Station at Pittsburg, Penn. Pittsburg, Pa.—Coal operators, mine owners, enginers, practical miners, scientists and mational and state of ficials here for the meeiing of tte American mininig congress ,participat ed in the formal dedication of the federal government’s laboratory and lesting station, recently ostablisied in this eity. A series of tests in an artifieial mine, in which conditions of real mines are reproduced so far as possible, showing the results from va rious explosives and from so-called safety agencies, was the most inter esting feature of the ceremony, The first test was with safety pow der, fireclay and bituminous coal dust, ‘the latter placed on shelves represent. ing ledges in real mines. The powder was iguited for the blast and did not exnlode the dust, ~n RN _i'There was a terrific éxplos on during {bo_fourth test, when 1.1 pounds of la. ¢ “Ter and ‘twenty pounds of road dus ‘_“‘”‘%@ - dust) were used. *The recoil was strong and the flames covered the full length of the artificlal mine, The test proved the combination to be exceedingly danger ous, At this point, experts of the station appeared wearing the Draeger oxygen apparatus, including metal and glass hoods, chemical chamber and air bag, designed to render breathing normal, or nearly so, while the operator is surrounded by the most deadly gas ard vana - The men hurried into the gallery, still filled with the fumes of the explosion and apparently were not affected by any of the gases. This device is designed particularly for rescue work, and was used with good results at Marianna, - DETEGTIVES CAUSE RIOT. Fired Over Heads of Strikers and Were Attacked by Mob, Perth Amboy, N, J.—When drink orazed detectives employed to guard the strike-breaking employes "of the National Fire Proofing company, fired their pistols over the heads of a gath ering mob about the stockade of the plant, the word went out that strikers and their sympathizers were being murdered, and in a short time men and women were rioting and blood was flowing frecly, Great excitement prevailed following the shooting, No one was struck by bullets and the only wouhds were made by flylng bricks and clubs, Emperor of China Crowned. Pekin, China.—The coronation of Pu Y 1 the 3-year-old emperor of Chp na, succesgor of the late Kuang Hsu, took place at the imperial palaco. The new ruler was given the name of Hsu en Tung, 24 Bridges Destroyed. Cleveland, O.—Twenty-four bridges just finished or In course of construc tion by the National Erectors’ asgoci ation, otherwise called the bridge trugt, have been destroyed Ly dyna mite during the last year and the or ganization announced its determine tion to find and punish the dynamit ers. A reward of SI,OOO hag been of fered, Trial of the Coopers, Nashville, Tenn.—On application by the defense, the trial of Colonel Dun can B. Cooper, Robin Cooper and ex- Sheriff Johin D. Sharp, indicted for the murder of former United States Sen ator B. W, Carmack, has been post poned until the January term of court, Conservation Commisslon, Washingten, D, C—" Land” was the subject discussed at the last session of the mational conservation commis #lon. = Assistant Attorney General Woodruff of the departmont of the interior read a report, which declared that the facts regarding timber lands show a decided tendency towards monopoly, It was asserted that there are elghty million acres of swamp lands 10 the United States which can be reclalmed at a profit and that two fitths of the country i 3 a desert, Aged FPresident of Republic Driven From Port-au-Prince. Alexis Wrapped in Flag of France to Awe Mob. Assassination Pre vented by Soldiers. Port-au-Prince, Haitl, — President Nord Alexis has been deposed and is now safe on beard the French train ing ship Duguay Trouin, and Port-au- Prince is in the hands of the revolu tionists, General Antoine Simon, the leader of the insurgents, is marching up the peninsula with an army of 5,- 000, and a new president, General Le gitime has ben proclaimed. At the last moment President Alexis yielded to the urging of those about him and decided to take refuge aboard the French warship, Thousands had gathered at the palace early in the day, and they had surged around the entrances threatening to tear down the walls to drive out the president and his loyal followers, and heaping curses on the head of the aged man, 8o serious was the situation that the French minister, M. Carteron, and other foreign representatives, togeth er with members of a specially ap pointed committee, forced themselves ‘upon the president, who finally con sented to withdraw, Shouts greeted " him as he stepped form the palace ’and into a carriage which had been provided. M. Carteron, carrying the French tri-color, sat beside him and threw the colors of the flag over the shoulders .of the deposed president to protect him, All along the route the people shouted, jeered and cursed at the fallen president, but when the landing stage was reached the mob lost all restraint. Infuriated women broke through the cordon of troops and shrieked the coarsest insults into the face of the president, who strove bravely to ap pear undismayed. They tried to hurl themselves upon Alexis, and fought with hands and feet the soldiers, - A space finaly was clear ed and Nord Alexis was hurried aboard a skiff in tow of a steam launch, his suite tumbling in after him. As the launch drew away three Haitien gunboats and the French and American warships in the harbor fired a salute, One of the leaders charged that the American minister, H. W. Furniss,was encouraging the president to resist, and he iscued the following proclama tion: “Citizens: The danger is supreme; we risk our independence if we do not take goed care, The old man would have given up already were it not for the advice of a diplomat who is pre paring for our annexation. A clash ig expected, and this diplomat wishes to precipitate one in order to have a pretext for colonizing us. Let us, therefore, be docile, yet not supine.” The flags of the nations are flying over the doors and from the windows of the homes of the foreign residents, for, notwithstandin~ their exhibitions of hostility against their fallen presi dent, the Hatiens sve in dread of the landing of forces from the warships, They especially fear ‘-~ men of tho United States cruisers Tacoma and Des Moines, whose reputation for put ting down riot and disorder have gone before them, General Canal is doing everything possible to maintain order, CHINA THANKS UNITED STATES. For Remission of $14,000,000 of the Boxer Indemnity, Washington, D. C.—“ Long may your excellency enjoy good health and hap piness, May the American people be blessed with prosperity and peace. These are our heartfelt wishes.” The above are the sentiments ex pressed in a letter from the late em peror of China tc President Roose velt, presented to him by Ton Shoa Yi, the special Chinese ambassador, thanking the United States for the remission of $14,000,000 of the {ndem nity guaranteed by China for damages resulting from the Boxer rebellion, MILLIONS PAID BY U. §. For Transmitting Franked Matter Through the Mails, Washington, D, C.—The cost to the government during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1908, by reason of the transmission free through the mailg of departmental and congressionai franked matter was $42,544,047, ac cording to the annual report of the third assistant postmaster general, This figure includes the matter car ried by the postoffice department for itself, and the postal service, Added to this is $57,000,000 for uncompensat ed sgervice in the handling and trans porting of gecond clags matter of pub lishers of newspapers and periodicals, TO CURB KAISER WILLIAM, Bocialists Want Chancellor Held Re. sponsible for Ruler's Words, Berlin, Germany.-—Three geparate and distinct propositions to curb the power of the kalser and incidentally to secure to the Gerian people a real constitutional government weie cffer. ed to the reichstag. The Boclalists suggested that the kalger be deprived of all power to declare war without the consent of both the federal coun cil and the relchluf, also making the chancellor who falls in his duty or should permit the kalser to involve any nation in a position of discredit is llable to prosecution in the criminal courts, . - j NO LIQUOR IN OKLAHOMA. State Dispensary System Abolished by Vote of the People, Guthrie, Okla.~—~Governor Haskell has issued a proclamation declaring that the sfate dispensary system had been abolished by the vote at the re. cent election, which leaves the eciti zens of Oklahoma without any lawful means to purchase inside the state liquor for medicinal purposes, This situation will continue until the leg islature provides for the gale of liquor for medicinal purposes, LATE NEWS NOTES, Generai. Three men, armed with revolvers, held up a Third avenue surface car im New York City and robbed the con ductor, One highwayman forced the moterman to keep the car moving at the point of a pistol, while the oth er two seized the conductor and fore ed him to turn over his money, They then escaped, A wireless station in San Francis co reports having overheard in the last fortnight e~~- maccages which are belleved to have been sent from some station in Japan, To confirm the local company's belief that mes sages have come, the Japan and Hon olulu avireless station is said to have heard the same message, The Jap enese station is over 6,000 miles from this ecity, and should the signals have originated in Japan it breaks the wire less record by over three thousand miles, A. 8. Trude, a millionaire attorney and “skyscraper” owner, will leave Chicago soon for a seven months’ Robinson Crusoe existence on an un inhabited island, He will pitch a tent on Matiagorda island, in the Gulf of Mexico, south of the mainland of Texas. The island is merely a sand bar, devoid of vegetation., It has nev er been inhabited and nobody claims ownerthip of it except the govern ment, and he has obtained a permit from the authorities to live there in his tent from December 10 to July 15. W. C. Brown, known in the little town of Dallas, Ore., a 8 “Uncle Billy,” entertained seventy-six widows at a banquet. The number included all the widows in his town and the imme diate vicinity. It was strictly an in vitation affair and if any were omit ted it was by advertence. “Uncle Billy” is a widower and is looking for a wife, He is 84 vears old and cele brated the event by inviting those whom he thought possible candidates for that position. The oldest of his guests was 91 and the youngest 25. i Experiments that have been going -on at Berlin, Germany, for some time have shown that it is almost impos sible for dirigible balloons to escape from the fire of field pleces and rifies on the ground by going to high alti tudes, The greatest height the air ships can attain with safety will leave them in range of special cannon with which the experiments are being -made, It is the opinion of experts that dirigible balloons will have to }roly solely upen their own speed to ~escape the fire of a properly equipped enemy, B, H. Hardaway of Columbus, Ga., has been awarded the contract by the Southern Power ecompany of Char lotte, N. C,, to build a dam ninety feet high on the Broad river near Blacks burg, 8. C. The dam will be one thousand one hundred feet long and its construction, and the building of the power house, which contract was also awarded to Mr. Hardaway, will represent an expenditure o f about $1,000,000. The dam will davelop 20, 000 horsepower, which will be used by South Carolina and North Carolina industries. Mr. Hardaway recently received a contract to build a $500,- 000 lock for the United States govern | ment on the Black Warrior river in ‘Alabama, 9 President Roosevelt has ordered his hunting shoes. They really are boots reaching almost to the knes ond the measurements by which they are to be made are the most complete that have ever ben made, Several weeks ago, at the request of the pres ident, a Brockton, Mass., firm sent one of its most expert men to Wash ington to take the measurements of the president’s feet, Orders were glv en for four pairs of boots. Each of the president’s feet was carefully megsured., In all nearly fifty meas urements were taken, From them plaster casts will be made of the president’s feet and legs and the boots will be built on them, The shoes will have an extra-double sole into which the upper will be sewed with waterproof stitches, Washington The monthly statement of the direc tor of the mints shows that during November, 1908, the coinage at the mints of the United States amounted to $8,817,210 as follows: Gold, $7,- 993,740; silver, $820,000; minor coins, $3,470. There were also coined 3,475, 000 pieces for the Philippine islands. It was announced at the headquar ters of the Southern railway that the new uniform bill of lading approved by the interstate commerce commis gion would be put into use on January 1 next, Notice to this effect has been gent out to all agents of the road, toe gether with the information that an cffort is being made by interests rep regenting the water and rail routes to bring about some modification in the terms of the commission’s bill, necessary to its application to water and rail traffic and to meet certain local conditions, Secretary Wilson has stated that his department was gaining control of the foot and mouth disease among the cattle of Maryland, New York, Michl gan and Pennsylvania, but that the department would permit no lexity in the quarantine against these states until the disease had been checked. More than a thousand cattle, he said, had already been slain, Herbert I, Satterloe of New York who was offered the position of agsis tant gecretary of the navy to succeed Mr. Newberry, who has heen elevated to be head of the department, has notified the president of his accep tance of the appointment., Mr, New berry was sworn In and participated in the cabinet meeting, He was ac companied to the white house by Mr. Metcalf, his predecessor .. In a decision rendered by Commis sioner Lane, In the interstate com merce commission, in the case of T. M. Kehoe & Co., against the Nash ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Rail wap company and others, it was de clared that the commission would not impose on a carrier the duty of telegraphing to the consignor in the event that the shipment is refused by the coneignee or the latter cannot be found, The present practice of the carrlers in regard to this matter is held to be reasonably expeditious,