Items of Interest April 29, 1905 Issue

Items of Interest

Secretary Taft and Senor Guitterez have reached an agreement to arbitrate the outstanding issue respecting the sale to the Philippine Government of the Dominican Friars' lands, amounting to about 160,000 acres, involving eight Haciendas, valued at about $2,500,000, which amount has been on deposit in New York for more than a year awaiting an agreement between the principals as to the titles to the lands. The basis of the agreement is that title to the five tracts, concerning which there has been little controversy, shall be conveyed at once to the Philippine Government and the lands paid for, while the title of the three remaining tracts shall be submitted to the arbitration of Chief Justice Arellano and Associate Justice Willard of the Philippine Supreme Court.

The Panama Canal Commission has accepted the bid of the American Locomotive Works Company for twenty-four 85-ton locomotives, at $12,350 each, to be delivered July 1. It is estimated that the big steam shovels will dig more earth than the locomotives can remove, and the rate of progress will consequently depend on the capacity of the latter. These locomotives are guaranteed to haul five hundred net tons over a one and one-fourth per cent gradient, the heaviest on the line of the canal. This is about three times the hauling capacity of the small locomotives now engaged in the work.

In an opinion by Justice Peckham last week the Supreme Court of the United States holds to be unconstitutional the New York State law making ten hours a day's work and sixty hours a week's work bakeries in that States. Harlan, White, Day, and Holmes dissented, and Justice Harlan declared that no more important decision had been rendered in the last century. The opinion was handed down on the ground that the law interferes with the free exercise of rights of contract between individuals.

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