The end of the usurious "loan trust," which has made millions by forcing poor people to pay extortionate interest on money their necessities compelled them to borrow, is in sight in New York state.
The movement for the transfer of water-power sites from the Government to the several states and territories has taken concrete shape in a bill introduced by Senator Smoot, which provides for the leasing of power sites by the states and does not permit their sale under any conditions.
Sworn statements and other documentary evidence intended to support the charges made against the United States Steel Corporation by the American Federation of Labor, have been presented to Attorney-general Wickersham.
Gifford Pinchot, in an address before an audience of twenty-five hundred people in Carnegie Hall, New York, last week, said: "There is a vigorous, well-organized, clear-cut opposition to the movement of conservation, as it was defined by Mr.
Construction of the entire tri-borough subway system of Greater New York with city money was agreed upon last week by the board of estimate and the public service commission as the transit program to be worked out by the new administration.
Representatives of the Farmers' Union appeared before the House committee on agriculture last week to urge the enactment into law of a bill which will put an end to cotton "futures" in the cotton exchanges.
A horticulturist has been engaged by the educational authorities of the Canal Zone to give instruction in gardening in the schools for colored children.
Some time ago a fire insurance exchange was formed in New Jersey, its membership including all the fire insurance companies of consequence and their representatives, and an agreement was entered into which provided that rates should be fixed for the entire territory covered by the exchange; that these rates should be binding upon all members, and that only brokers who had obrained the certificate of the exchange could do business with the companies in question on the regular brokerage basis.
