ITEMS OF INTEREST May 11, 1907 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The first annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, which followed the first annual Peace and Arbitration Congress, was held at Washington, and was really a continuation of the sessions of the Peace Congress. The subjects for discussion included the development of international law; the second Hague Conference; rights of foreigners in the United States in case of conflict between Federal treaties and State laws; immunity from capture during war of non-offending private property upon the high seas; contraband of war; the transference of prize cases from municipal courts to an international court, and the forcible collection of contract debts.

A summary of the appropriations made at the last session of Congress shows a grand total of $920,798,143.80. The appropriations by acts are as follows: Agricultural, $9,447,290; army, $78,634,582.75; diplomatic and consular, $3,092,333.72; District of Columbia, $10,440,598.63; fortification, $6,898,011; Indian, $10,125,076.15; legislative, $32,126,333.80; Military Academy, $1,929,703.42; naval, $98,958,507.50; pension, $146,143,000; post office, $212,091,193; rivers and harbors, $37,108,083; sundry civil appropriation act, $110,769,211.30; deficiency appropriation act, $12,408,998.91; miscellaneous appropriations, $738,900.62; permanent appropriations, $149,886,320.

The Secretary of Agriculture in a recent address said, among other things: "For years the department has been distributing camphor tree seed, and thousands of trees are now growing throughout the South and in the Pacific Coast States. Two years ago a serious effort was made to develop the manufacture of camphor from these trees, By improvements in manufacturing processes satisfactory results have been accomplished, and a large manufacturing concern is now building up a camphor grove of two thousand acres in Florida, from which it hopes to make its camphor. This firm uses more than $500,000 worth of camphor every year."

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