The inquiry conducted by the Bureau of Corporations under authority of a resolution of Congress, into the operations of the socalled Beef Trust, has been completed, and the report of Commissioner Garfield will soon be filed with President Roosevelt for transmission to Congress.
It is stated that the Armstrong Committee, which has been investigating insurance matters in New York State, will, among its recommendations, include the following:—
The differences between the United States and Panama, which made necessary the visit of Secretary of War Taft to the Isthmus, have been settled by the issuance of an executive order signed by Secretary Taft for President Roosevelt and assented to in a letter by President Amador of Panama.
The Rhodes scholars at Oxford University assembled Thanksgiving Day for a dinner, at which Henry White, Secretary of the American Embassy, responded to the toast "The Day We Celebrate.
The Italian Foreign Office has informed United States Ambassador Meyer that Italy is quite favorable to the conclusion of an arbitration treaty with the United States, and will empower Ambassador Mayor des Planches to sign it in Washington.
