The bill providing for the incorporation of stock exchanges, and placing them under the supervision of the banking department, was passed in the New York Assembly, after a long debate, by a vote of 85 to 34.
What is believed to be the most ambitious expedition to the Amazon river ever undertaken started, from Philadelphia last week on the steam yacht Pennsylvania, to be gone three years.
Completion of detailed plans for the Sather Campanile, the beautiful granite tower that is to be erected soon where the University of California flagstaff now stands, has been authorized.
The federal government has filed a civil antitrust suit seeking the dissolution of the alleged attempted monopoly by the "Coates interests" of Great Britain of the thread trade of the United States, including that of the American Thread Company, itself a consolidation of fourteen American companies.
The Supreme Court's modification of the Sherman antitrust law to invoke "the rule of reason" in decisions upon restraints of trade, is attacked in a report presented to the Senate by the interstate commerce committee.
There will be no strike of firemen on the eastern railroads, for they have agreed to arbitrate under the Erdman act the controversy over wages and additional firemen with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.
Government ownership or control of telegraph lines is again recommended by Postmaster-General Hitchcock in his complete annual report transmitted to Congress.
Ratifications of the wireless telegraph treaty signed at London July 25, 1912, will, it is expected, be exchanged at the British capital within a few weeks by the thirty-one signatory powers.
Secretary of War Stimson has returned to the Senate committee on commerce the bill for the development of the water-power of the Connecticut river at Windsor Locks.
A decision holding that the Lake Shore & Southern, Chesapeake & Ohio, Hocking Valley, Toledo & Ohio Central, and the Kanawha & Michigan railroads have combined to violate the Sherman antitrust law, has been handed down by the United States circuit court.
