In a statement detailing the reduction of $11,600,000 last year in the postal deficit, Postmaster–General Hitchcock shows that $2,900,000 of the sum represents economies in postoffice management, and nearly $1,000,000 a more businesslike handling of city delivery service.
A great exposition of the manufacturing and other industries of New England is to be conducted by the Boston Chamber of Commerce in Mechanics Building in October, 1911.
A new form of declaration blank has been sent to the various steamship lines to be forwarded to the steamship agencies abroad, there to be distributed to passengers leaving for the United States.
The Christian Unity Foundation has just been incorporated by twenty-four men, all members of the Protestant Episcopal church, twelve lay and twelve clerical, with the avowed intention of welding all Christian denominations into one organic religious body.
Official care of the Charles River Basin, lying mostly between Boston and Cambridge, has passed from the Charles River Basin commission to the Metropolitan Park commission.
The House, before adjournment, by a vote of 130 to 111, passed the Appalachian forest till so that it could go to the Senate and become the unfinished business to be considered immediately after Congress convenes next December.
Among the important measures enacted by the present session of Congress are: The railroad rate bill, which gives the Government control through the interstate commerce commission of railroad rates, their classification and regulation, and of telegraph and telephone companies; a committee to investigate the "watering" of railroad stock and the feasibility of supervision of railroad securities; creation of two new states, Arizona and New Mexico; legislation to conserve natural resources; an appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the tariff commission; a twenty-million-dollar bond issue for completion of irrigation projects; publicity of campaign contributions; further restrictions on immigration; protection of seal fisheries; an appropriation of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the geological urvey for the study of stream capacities and power sites; two hundred and fifty thousand dollars granted to the department of justice for the prosecution of violations of the Sherman anti-trust law.
Charging that the chairman and other members of the committee on the judiciary were "receiving gifts, franks, employment, and compensation of great and pecuniary value" from railroads, to the extent of disqualifying them to pass upon the bill to prohibit congressmen and judges from receiving such gifts from railroads or other corporations, Representative Randell of Texas brought before the House a privileged resolution to remove the measure reffered to from the committee on judiciary and to have it immediately reported back to the House.
Owing largely to the presence of only seven of the nine members on the bench, thirty cases heard at the term of the United States supreme court just ended must be reargued next term.
The measure providing for the acceptance by New York State of the splendid gift of one million dollars and ten thousand acres of land along the Hudson river for park purposes, offered by Mrs.
