The federal government closed the fiscal year Saturday, June 29, with a surplus of thirty-two million dollars, according to estimates based on incomplete returns from the various sources of revenue the country over.
Julius Kruttschnitt, vice-president and director of maintenance and operation of all the Harriman lines, has announced a comprehensive plan to secure greater safety and protection for the men of the system, with special reference to the industrial department of the road's work.
Arbuckle Brothers have written a letter to Senator O'Gorman asking him to help pass a Senate bill placing sugar on the free list and saying that the present tariff costs the people of the United States between one hundred and one hundred and fifty million dollars a year, while it enriches the Havemeyers, the Mormon church, the American Sugar Refining Company, and speculators in the common stock of the American Beet Sugar Company.
By a vote of one hundred and forty-seven to one hundred and twenty-six the House of Representatives reaffirmed its decision that no toll should be charged American vessels engaged in coastwise trade for passage through the Panama canal.
The federal government has filed a civil antitrust suit against the Aluminum Company of America which will be the basis for an agreed decree designed to restrain the so-called aluminum trust from monopolizing the manufacture of aluminum and its products, including cooking utensils.
The House committee on interstate and foreign commerce is expected to report favorably the Goeke bill providing for the government acquisition of the express companies and the establishment of a parcels express.
