PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS

February 17.-The Senate passes the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation bill and the Cummins bill modifying criminal procedure, with particular reference to bringing indicted corporations to trial.

February 18-In the House, the administration's Injunction bill is introduced by Mr. Moon (Rep., Pa.); the measure providing for a reorganization of the Post-Office Department is introduced by Mr. Weeks (Rep., Mass.).

February 21.-In the Senate, Mr. Aldrich (Rep., R. I.), in the course of debate on the measure providing for a business-methods commission, states that it is possible to save $300,000,000 annually in Government expenses.... The House includes in the Urgent Deficiency bill an appropriation of $125,000 for the Immigration Commission.

February 22-The House passes the Indian appropriation bill ($8,250,000).

February 23-In the Senate, Mr. Beveridge (Rep., Ind.) speaks on conservation of Alaskan mineral resources....The House passes a bill defining the limits of the bankruptcy law and reducing the compensation of receivers.

February 24-In the Senate, Mr. Bailey (Dem., Tex.) speaks in opposition to the Postal Savings Bank bill; Mr. Depew (Rep., N. Y.) explains his measure changing the civil government of Hawaii....The House begins consideration of the Post-Office appropriation

bill.

February 28.-The Senate passes the bill creating a Government business-methods commission, to be composed of five members of each House.

March 2.-In the Senate, Mr. Gallinger (Rep., N. H.) introduces a bill for the incorporation of the Rockefeller Foundation under the laws of the District of Columbia....In the House, the bill apppropriating $500,000 a year for the purchase of embassy buildings abroad is defeated.

March 4-In the Senate, Mr. Root (Rep., N. Y.) speaks on the Postal Savings Bank bill, advocating the amendment permitting, in case of war or other exigency, the withdrawal of deposits from local banks and the investment of

same in Government bonds.

March 5-The Senate, by vote of 50 to 22, passes the Postal Savings Bank bill as amended. ....The House considers the Post-Office appropriation bill.

March 8-The Senate passes the Agricultural appropriation bill....The House passes the Post-Office appropriation bill.

March 9-The Senate passes a bill appropriating $12,000,000 for the erection in Washington of buildings for the departments of State, Justice, and Commerce and Labor.

March 10.-The Senate passes the Indian appropriation bill.

March 14-The House devotes the day to consideration of District of Columbia measures. March 15-In the Senate, debate is begun on the Administration's Interstate Commerce bill, Mr. Cummins (Rep., Ia.) speaking against the measure....The House passes the Legislative appropriation bill.

March 16. In the House, a combination of "insurgents" and Democrats overrules a decision by Speaker Cannon.

March 18-In the Senate, Mr. Cummins (Rep., Ia.) concludes a four-day speech in criticism of the Administration's Interstate Commerce bill.

March 19. In the House, after a two days' parliamentary contest, a combination of Republican "insurgents and Democrats, led by Mr. Norris (Rep, Neb.), by vote of 191 to 155, succeeds in ousting the Speaker from membership on the Committee on Rules and enlarging that body to ten members, to be chosen by party caucuses instead of appointed by the Speaker; a motion by Mr. Burleson (Dem., Tex.) to declare the Speakership vacant is defeated by a vote of 191 to 155.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT-AMERICAN

February 17-Secretary Ballinger withdraws from the public domain more than two million acres of coal lands in Wyoming and Montana. ....Senator Lodge (Rep., Mass) is made chairman of the Senate committee investigating the cost of living.

February 19.-The income-tax amendment to the federal constitution is approved by the South Carolina Senate, completing the ratification by that State.... Representatives of the Guggenheim-Morgan syndicate testify before the Senate Committee on Territories as to the immense value of Alaskan coal and copper deposits.

February 21-A special committee of the New York Legislature reports against direct nominations.

after a February 22.-The Mississippi Legislature, seven weeks' deadlock, elects Leroy Percy (Dem.) United States Senator to fill the unexpired term of the late A. J. McLaurin....

President Taft withdraws from the Senate the nominations for judges of the Court of Customs Appeals.

February 23-The Illinois Legislature sends to Governor Deneen for signature the second and final portion of the direct-primary bill.

February 24.-President Taft announces that in order to redeem party pledges the present session of Congress ought to pass a savingsbank bill, amendments to the interstate commerce law, conservation measures, an anti-injunction bill, and a bill granting statehood to

Breshkovskaya is sentenced to exile in Siberia.

British naval estimates for 1910 show an increase of approximately $28,000,000....It is announced that the defalcations of M. Duez, liquidator of church property in France, may amount to $2,000,000.

March 11.-M. Jaures, the French Socialist leader, attacks the government in the Chamber of Deputies regarding the scandals in connection with the liquidation of church property.... Sharp debates occur in the German Reichstag and the Prussian Diet over the action of the police in recent Socialist demonstrations.

March 14.-Lord Rosebery presents a resolution in the British House of Lords that a peerage should not afford a right to a seat; Premier Asquith announces in the House of Commons that the budget will be introduced and disposed of before the spring recess.

March 15.-The French Chamber of Deputies, at the close of debate on the Duez scandal, votes confidence in the government....The German Reichstag agrees to the introduction of a measure making the Chancellor responsible to the Reichstag for the acts of the Emperor. .... The Prince Regent of China issues an edict to the effect that Parliament will not be established before 1915, the intervening time being necessary to educate the people to self-govern

ment.

March 16.-The Prussian Diet, by vote of 238 to 168, passes the government's suffrage bill.... The Association of British Chambers of Commerce adopts resolutions favoring tariff reform. March 18.-Socialists in Berlin parade in honor of the revolutionists of 1848.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

February 18-France threatens to seize Moroccan customs unless the proposed financial arrangements are carried out.

February 20.-England and France urge China to respect the wishes of Russia and Japan regarding the Chin-Chow and Aigun railway.

February 21. It is announced that the Sultan of Morocco has ratified the agreement with France.... Minimum tariff rates are granted to imports into the United States from Greece, Morocco, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, British and Portuguese Guiana, and Guatemala.

February 24-Professor Lammasch, of the University of Vienna, is chosen third arbitrator in the dispute between the United States and Venezuela growing out of the claim of the Orinoco Steamship Company against the latter country.

February 25. The Russian Government rejects Secretary Knox's Manchurian railway proposal by suggesting a different plan.

February 26.-The Austro-Hungarian Government grants most-favored-nation treatment to American imports.

February 28-China replies satisfactorily to the British inquiry regarding her policy in Tibet, saying that the interior administration will not be changed.

March 2-France accepts in principle Secretary Knox's proposal for the establishment of a permanent international court of arbitral justice....Russia submits to China a proposal for

the extension of the Kalgan Railroad with foreign capital as an alternative for the Aigun and Chin-Chow project....Yielding to pressure from Russia, Japan, and Great Britain, China revokes in part the decree prohibiting grain exports.

March 3-Minimum tariff rates under the Payne-Aldrich law are granted to imports into the United States from Austria-Hungary.... Secretary Knox makes public the personnel of the United States delegation to the fourth PanAmerican Conference at Buenos Aires in July.

March 4.-Russia formally rejects China's proposal for the construction of the AigunChin-Chow railway.

March 8.-A mob in Bogota, Colombia, stones the American legation and tries to wreck property of an American-owned street railway.

March 9.-The United States Government is unwilling to negotiate now, for purposes of convenience to Japan, a new treaty with that government, as the existing one does not expire for another year.

March 18.-Tariff differences between the United States and France are declared settled. .An agreement is signed at St. Petersburg which restores normal relations between Austria-Hungary and Russia....The Japanese lower house passes the bill which permits foreigners to own land only when the foreign government grants similar rights to Japanese.

March 19.-President Taft and Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada, speak on Canadian-American relations at a dinner in Albany, N. Y.

March 20.-Costa Rica and Panama have signed the protocol stating the facts on which Chief Justice Fuller will arbitrate their boundary differences....King Peter, of Servia, with his Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs, leaves Belgrade to visit the Russian Emperor.

OTHER OCCURRENCES OF THE MONTH

February 17. The voters of Cleveland approve a franchise to the Cleveland Railway Company whereby service is to be furnished, under control of the city, at cost plus 6 per cent. return to stockholders, the maximum fare being four cents.... Over 200 persons are injured in riots at Frankfort-on-Main following an attempt of the police to break up a Prussian suffrage demonstration.

February 18.-A severe earth shock occurs in Crete; a number of persons are killed by falling buildings....The Hudson County (N. J.) grand jury votes to indict the directors of the National Packing Company for conspiracy to raise prices.

February 19.-The employees of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company go on strike, demanding a recognition of their union and an increase in wages.

February 20.-Riots in every section of Philadelphia follow the attempt to operate streetcar lines....A violent storm through Great Britain causes damage to farm buildings, shipping, and telegraph and telephone systems.

February 21.-Clarence O. Pratt, the national organizer of street-railway employees, is arrested in Philadelphia, charged with inciting to riot.

February 23.-Eight directors of the Consoli

dated Milk Exchange are indicted by a grand jury in New York City for conspiring to fix the wholesale price of milk....The National City Bank, of Cambridge, Mass., closes its doors following the discovery of an embezzlement of $144,000.

February 24.-Two hundred members of the State police arrive in Philadelphia and assist in quelling disorder.

February 26.-With the arrival of ex-President Roosevelt and party at Gondokoro, on the Upper Nile, the Smithsonian African scientific expedition is practically ended. ....John J. Murphy, president of the Central Labor Union of Philadelphia, is arrested, charged with inciting rioting in the car strike.

March 1.-Manufactur

ers and farmers in Belgium suffer greatly from flooded rivers....The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company refuses to arbitrate its difference with striking employees....A referee affirms the right of the New York Central Railroad to run trains on Eleventh Avenue, New York City.... The Third Avenue Railroad, of New York City, is sold at auction for $26,000,000 to a reorganization committee of its bondholders.

March 2-Announcement is made of a proposed Rockefeller Foundation, to promote the well-being and advance the civilization of the peoples of the world, to disseminate knowledge, and to prevent and relieve suffering....A longstanding tax dispute between lighting companies and the city of New York, involving $7,000,000, is practically settled....More than a hundred persons are killed in the burying of two Great Northern trains by an avalanche in a gorge near Wellington, Wash....Thirty-seven men are killed by the explosion of a powder magazine in the Treadwell mine, near Juneau, Alaska.

March 4-Magistrate Furlong, of New York City, convicted of bribery, is sentenced to not less than one year in prison....Mayor Gaynor, of New York City, names a committee to welcome ex-President Roosevelt on his return from Africa....The New York City Board of Estimate favors granting a franchise for the proposed three-cent line across the new Manhattan Bridge and extending into the business centers of Manhattan and Brooklyn.

March 5-About 40,000 union men go on strike in Philadelphia in sympathy with streetcar employees....Henry Farman establishes at Mourmelon, France, a new record for aeroplane flight with two passengers, remaining in the air one hour and ten minutes....Ninety-two men are killed by an avalanche at Rogers Pass, British Columbia, while clearing the tracks of the

Canadian Pacific Railway after a small slide a few hours earlier.

March 6.-Mount Vesuvius is in continual eruption, lava flowing from new fissures....M. Rougier, in an aeroplane, flies out to sea near Monaco at a height of nearly 1000 feet.

cotton speculator, is mobbed by members of the March 11.1.-James A. Patten, the wheat and Cotton Exchange at Manchester, England.... The coal strike in New South Wales is officially declared off.

unveiled in the Capitol at Washington. March 12-A statue of John C. Calhoun is

March 14.-Ex-President Roosevelt is warmly welcomed at Khartum.

March 15.-Peace negotiations are declared ended by a committee of ten of the striking Philadelphia car men....Interstate Commerce Commissioner Knapp and Commissioner of Labor Neill are requested by the heads of Western railroads to arbitrate, under the Erdman act, the grievances of striking firemen.

March 16.-President Taft leaves Washington on a 2500-mile trip to Chicago, Albany, New Haven, New York, and other cities....Secretary Ballinger, in an address at St. Paul, states his views on conservation of natural resources. ....Barney Oldfield, at Daytona, Fla., drives an automobile a mile in 27.33 seconds, or at the rate of 131.72 miles an hour.

March 18.-Seven lives are lost and 500 houses destroyed by fire in Yokohama.... Announcement is made that the Chesapeake & Ohio has secured control of the Hocking Valley Railroad. ....The discovery of a fragment of a tablet believed to date back to 2100 B. C., containing an account of the Deluge, is announced in Philadelphia.... Major-Gen. Thomas H. Barry is appointed Superintendent of the West Point Military Academy.

THE LATE LOUIS KLOPSCH

(Mr. Klopsch, as publisher of the Christian Her ald, collected and disbursed large funds for famine relief in India and was active in many other philanthropic enterprises)

March 19-President Taft and Governor Hughes, of New York, address the anti-tuberculosis conference at Albany....A mob of 5000 peasants stone a train in Thessaly, Greece; troops are called out and a number of the rioters are killed or wounded.

March 20.-United States Senator Penrose forces the Philadelphia traction interests to make certain concessions to the strikers; the unions continue to reject all terms offered.

OBITUARY

February 17.-Major.-Gen. St. Clair A. Mulholland, U. S. A., retired, 71.... Henry Ulke, who painted many portraits of Presidents and Cabinet officers, 89.

February 19-Neil Burgess, who played in "The County Fair" throughout the country for many years, 59....Count Udo von StolbergWernigerode, president of the German Reichstag, 70.

February 21.-Edward A. Bowser, formerly professor of mathematics at Rutgers College, 65....Clay Clement, the actor and playwright, 46....Boutros Pasha Ghali, Egyptian premier. February 22.-Arthur Fraser Walter, at one time proprietor of the London Times, 64.... W. Edward Heimendahl, the musical director and composer, 52.

February 23.-Dr. Edward H. Merrell, formerly president of Ripon College, Wisconsin, 75....Amos Emerson Dolbear, former professor of physics at Tufts College and an inventor

of telegraph and telephone appliances, 73.... Mme. Vera Kommissarzhevskaya, the Russian

actress.

February 24-John Anderson, editor and publisher of the Chicago Skandinaven, 74.

February 25-Mrs. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, the first editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, 58. ...Hamdi Bey, director of the Turkish Imperial Museum.

February 28.-Edward W. Very, an ordnance expert and inventor of night signals, 60.... Rufus J. Lackland, the St. Louis banker, 90.

March 1.-José Domingo de Obaldia, President of Panama, 65.

March 2.-Joseph L. Sossnitz, the Jewish scientist and author, 73....Count Goetz von Seckendorff, at one time Grand Master of the German Court, 68.

March 5-Louis James, the Shakespearian actor, 68.

March 6.-Thomas Collier Platt, ex-United States Senator and for many years Republican leader of the State of New York, 76.

March 7.-Louis Klopsch, editor of the Christian Herald and collector and distributor of large funds for relief of destitution in foreign countries, 58.... Dr. Harry W. Jayne, an authority on coal-tar products, 52.

March 8.-Robert Graham, founder of the Church Temperance Society, 82....Jacob SchaeKing, Bishop of Lincoln (England), 81. fer, the billiard expert, 54.... Rt. Rev. Edward

March 9.-Dr. William M. Gray, an authority on X-ray treatment, 57.... David A. Munro, for many years an editor of the North Ameri can Review, 65.

March 10.-Dr. Carl Lueger, the anti-Jewish leader and mayor of Vienna, 66.... Col. Alexander R. Chisolm, a Confederate veteran, 75.

March 11.-Dr. Eben Alexander, former Minister to Greece and dean of the University of North Carolina, 59.... Congressman James Breck Perkins, of New York, 62.

March 12.-Bishop Henry W. Spellmeyer, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 62....James O'Connor, M.P., the Irish Nationalist, 74.

March 13-Brig.-Gen. Luther P. Bradley, U. S. A., retired, 88....Timothy Harrington, M.P., at one time Lord Mayor of Dublin, 59.

March 14-Orville James Victor, editor and author of histories of the Civil War period, 83.

March 15.-Herbert Railton, the English artist in black and white, 53....James Martin, of New Jersey, a well-known newspaper man, 47.

March 16.-Morris H. Morgan, professor of classical philology at Harvard University, 51 ....Dr. Wharton Sinkler, the nerve specialist of Philadelphia, 63.... Commodore William G. Hovgaard, the Danish Arctic explorer, who was for several years professor of naval architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ....Tom Browne, the English comic artist, 38.

Maurice Hutin, former president of the French Panama Canal Company.

March 18.-Rev. Carr Waller Pritchett, a well-known educator and astronomer, 87.... Giovanni Lamperti, a prominent singing teacher of Berlin, 70.