A bill has been introduced in Congress by the chairman of the public lands committee, providing for leasing of Alaska coal lands, designed as the basis of conservation legislation and to prevent coal land monopoly.
An annual appropriation of twenty million dollars for five years to improve the post roads and rural delivery routes of the government was urged in the Senate by Mr.
The Postal Telegraph-Cable Company, one of the principal subsidiaries of the Mackay Companies, with its millions of money and its thousands of miles of long distance telephone and telegraph lines, has formally declared a policy of general affiliation with the independent telephone companies of the country.
A general investigation of the United States army by a joint committee of Congress is proposed in a resolution introduced in the House by Representative Julius Kahn of California.
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.
The rule of a railroad limiting its liability to a certain stated sum where a passenger loses baggage carried on his ticket, has been upset by the appellate division of the New York supreme court.
Experiments by the postoffice department for the last ten weeks show that the government can effect an immense saving by shipping a large part of its second-class mail matter by freight cars rather than in mail cars, as heretofore.
The contest over probably the richest coal lands in the world was transferred to the supreme court of the United Sates when the government docketed an appeal from the order of the federal court of Washington quashing the so-called "Stracey group" indictment.
The Democrats of the House will investigate the entire sugar industry in the United States, according to a decision reached last week by the committee on rules, which was called together to consider the resolution introduced by Representative Hardwick of Georgia, calling for an investigation of the American Sugar Refining Company.
