ITEMS OF INTEREST July 10, 1909 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

A permanent international court of arbitral justice and the limitation of armaments, two subjects left undisposed of by the second Hague conference, are to be taken up by two commissions, if a concurrent resolution, introduced by Representative Bartholdt of Missouri, is enacted into law. Under the resolution each commission is to consist of three members at $7,500 per annum each, and are to be appointed by the President. The President is requested to ask all the Powers represented at The Hague conference to take similar action, with a view to obtaining a joint recommendation on these points prior to the next conference.

The contract has been awarded by the Navy Department to the San Francisco Bridge Company for the construction at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, of what will be the largest dry dock in the world. The masonry and cement portion of the dock alone will cost $1,670,000. Plans have been drawn for a complete system of defense for the harbor, and the construction of these defenses and of the dock will proceed simultaneously.

Application has been made by District Attorney Lamb of Jackson, Miss., for a perpetual injunction restraining the Standard Oil Company from operating in Mississippi and seeking to collect $11,000,000 penalties for the alleged violation of the anti-trust law. The hearing, it is understood, will take place during the November term of the chancery court.

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