Secretary of War Stimson has returned to the Senate committee on commerce the bill for the development of the water-power of the Connecticut river at Windsor Locks.
A decision holding that the Lake Shore & Southern, Chesapeake & Ohio, Hocking Valley, Toledo & Ohio Central, and the Kanawha & Michigan railroads have combined to violate the Sherman antitrust law, has been handed down by the United States circuit court.
The complaint in the long–expected suit of the federal government against the Southern Pacific railroad, involving title to two hundred and fifty million dollars' worth of supposed mineral–bearing lands in Fresno county, has been filed at Los Angeles, Cal.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock has apportioned among sixteen hundred post-offices having city delivery, three hundred thousand dollars of the parcels-post appropriation, to be used for equipment for the delivery of parcels-post business.
The initiative and the recall of judicial decisions, as amendments to the federal constitution, are proposed by Senator Bristow in resolutions laid before the Senate.
Political campaign material transmitted free through the mails accounted, according to post-office department records, for the difference between a postal surplus and a postal deficit for the last fiscal year ending June 30.
The United States geological survey has just issued the first sheet of the international map of the world, including Rhode Island and portions of New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Nova Scotia.
Revolutionary changes in procedure in equity cases in federal courts throughout the United States are effected in revised rules promulgated last week by the supreme court of the United States.
