ITEMS OF INTEREST June 24, 1911 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The House sub-committee on post office and post roads has taken up for consideration the Lewis bill, which provides for condemning and purchasing the express companies and adding them to the postal system, and establishing a complete system for the quick transport of packages and the eatable products of the farm and truck garden, etc. At their last conference in Washington the representatives of the business men of the country and of the Granges asked Congress to establish such a system, and representative of these interests were present at the hearing before the committee.

The Episcopal cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York city has so far cost three million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the ten million dollars it is expected to cost when completed. It is to be 520 feet in length, 296 feet across the transepts, and its spire will rise 425 feet; dimensions that rank with the greatest in the world. The temporary auditorium just opened will seat two thousand, but the completed building will seat eight to ten thousand.

With a view to insuring the widest publicity of all the expenditures of candidates for Congress, the Senate committee on privileges and elections is considering amendments to the House till on this subject which will vastly broaden the proposed law. Much difficulty is being experienced in finding terms which will express the committee's purpose in making it applicable to the varying forms of primary as well as regular elections.

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