The Merchant Marine Com nission, whose establishment was authorized by Congress as a substitute for the passage of a subsidy act, will probably present a bill to Congress the first day of the December session embodying its recommendations.
An American engineer, with a party of young college graduates, has made discoveries about the Panama Canal which make it possible to solve the baffling problem of the Chagres River freshets by diverting the stream to the Pacific coast.
After experiments covering a period of twenty-eight months, the United States naval "liquid fuel" board announces that it regards the engineering and mechanical features of the liquid fuel problem practically and satisfactorily solved.
The great Packers' Strike, which began July 12, involved almost seventy-five thousand men in various cities, and has cost in round numbers, to the packers in damage, lost business to the railroads, and to the men in wages about fourteen million dollars, was declared off on the 8th.
Boston University has issued a circular inviting opinions on the proposal to hold an international conference for the purpose of adopting a "universal alphabet" by which to indicate the pronunciation of words in the leading European languages.
Because of the great increase in the appropriations for rural delivery, post-office officials say that the idea of one-cent letter postage in the United States must be put aside for many years.
The Porte has addressed a formal note to the American legation at Constantinople confirming its undertaking to accord equal treatment to American schools and kindred institutions as granted to the most favored nation, "subject to the accomplishment of the usual departmental formalities.
Three important recommendations will be embodied in the forthcoming report of the Commissioner General of Immigration, as follows: That a law be enacted requiring medical inspection of emigrants at points of embarkation in Europe: that the Chinese Exclusion Act be strengthened by the assignment of American officials to duty at American consulates in China, empowered to examine the certificates of all persons who desire to visit the United States: that appropriations be made for the erection of additional buildings and providing better facilities for the reception of immigrants at Ellis Island, New York.
