A comprehensive plan of leasing and future purchase of official residences for American ambassadors and ministers in foreign capitals has been presented to the Senate in a bill by Senator Bacon.
Referendum on the subject of a permanent tariff commission is very shortly to be taken by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States from its constituent bodies all over the country, so that the vote will be received during the early part of the extra session of Congress.
The bill providing for the incorporation of stock exchanges, and placing them under the supervision of the banking department, was passed in the New York Assembly, after a long debate, by a vote of 85 to 34.
What is believed to be the most ambitious expedition to the Amazon river ever undertaken started, from Philadelphia last week on the steam yacht Pennsylvania, to be gone three years.
Completion of detailed plans for the Sather Campanile, the beautiful granite tower that is to be erected soon where the University of California flagstaff now stands, has been authorized.
The federal government has filed a civil antitrust suit seeking the dissolution of the alleged attempted monopoly by the "Coates interests" of Great Britain of the thread trade of the United States, including that of the American Thread Company, itself a consolidation of fourteen American companies.
The Supreme Court's modification of the Sherman antitrust law to invoke "the rule of reason" in decisions upon restraints of trade, is attacked in a report presented to the Senate by the interstate commerce committee.
There will be no strike of firemen on the eastern railroads, for they have agreed to arbitrate under the Erdman act the controversy over wages and additional firemen with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.
Government ownership or control of telegraph lines is again recommended by Postmaster-General Hitchcock in his complete annual report transmitted to Congress.
Ratifications of the wireless telegraph treaty signed at London July 25, 1912, will, it is expected, be exchanged at the British capital within a few weeks by the thirty-one signatory powers.
