The Lodge amendment to the Hepburn rate bill will, if adopted, include all pipe lines in the provisions of the Interstate Commerce law, and make these lines, whether owned by the Standard Oil Company or others, common carriers.
The Postmaster General states: "As nearly as can be estimated the cost of carrying a pound of seeds furnished by the Department of Agriculture for free distribution, varies from five to eight cents.
Next to the decision depriving corporations of the privilege of immunity for witnesses, handed down last week, the most important judicial event of recent weeks, says The Literary Digest, was the decision, given also last week, in the Chicago street car controversy.
Upon the recommendation of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Corporation of Harvard University and the Board of Overseers have voted concurrently to adopt a new plan for the administration of the degree of Bachelor of Science and the higher degrees in applied science, and for the better organization of the scientific school.
With the breaking up on March 4 of the tribal organization of the Five Civilized Tribes, the Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles, what is in reality the last chapter of the Indian's distinctive history on this continent began.
Secretary Root, in a letter to Representative Denby of Michigan, relative to the desire to have certain alleged abuses in the Congo Free State corrected by some international action, says, —
A most important and far-reaching decision, as far as the interstate commerce law is concerned, was delivered last week by the Supreme Court, when by an undivided bench it laid down the new principle that railroads cannot deal in the commodities which they haul over their lines.
The report of the Isthmian Canal Commission, recording its decision in favor of an eighty-five foot level lock canal, was submitted to Secretary Taft last week.
Secretary Shaw, though a firm advocate of civil service, in a public address favored a fixed term of six years for all Government employes in Washington doing routine work, after which period they shall be ineligible to reappointment.
The decision of the overseers of Harvard University means that football is prohibited and that no more contests can be held until radical reforms are made and evidence that the reform are effective is presented.
