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majority of the United States Supreme Court Joined in an opinion that the Oklahoma law proviso, permitting railrods to furnish sleeping, dining, and chair car accommadations only to the white race, was unconstitutional, but they did not so decree, because of imperfections in the petition on which the case reached the courts.
Construction of wooden passenger-cars for the railways of the United States has practically ceased, according to the report made at the annual convention of the National Association of Railway Commissioners recently by the committee on rails and equipment, of which C.
In an advance statement from his annual report Secretary Lane calls attention to the fact that since March 4, 1913, settlers have made entry on nearly twenty million acres of public lands, an area equal to that of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey combined.
There was completed at Chicago last week that twelve million dollar home of the Continental and Commercial National Bank, said to be in some respects the largest bank in the world, and in point of deposits the second largest bank in the United States.
The parcel post service between the producers in the rural communities and the consumers in the cities has been declared to be a great success by the post-office department, and its rapid extension, until it shall embrace all of the most important urban centers of the country, has been determined upon.
The Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association convention, recently in session in New York city, protested against the stopping of work on those Hudson river improvements which are to connect New York city with the barge canal system at Troy, and which are to provide suitable connection from the barge canal to Canada.
