ITEMS OF INTEREST March 23, 1907 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The elections for the first Philippine Assembly, which is to convene in September, will be held July 30. The Assembly will consist of eighty-one members, apportioned on the basis of one delegate for each ninety thousand persons, and provision is made to increase this number to a total of one hundred. It will, in a general way, correspond to the American House of Representatives, while the Philippine Commission will correspond to the United States Senate, and the acts of the Assembly must secure the approval of the Commission before they become laws.

In a letter to Secretary Garfield, President Roosevelt has directed modification of the orders, issued under his direction last year, withdrawing certain lands from coal entry. In conformity to the President's directions about twenty-eight million acres of coal land will be immediately opened with other lands to be opened as rapidly as the geological survey can make the proper examinations.

The wireless station at Point Loma, Cal., on a recent Sunday night caught the Navy Yard at Pensacola, Fla. At the moment when Pensacola was taking a message from Washington, D. C., the operator at Point Loma caught Washington and also a wireless message from the battleship Connecticut, then on the Atlantic Ocean, which was communicating with Washington from New York harbor.

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