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Show STILL DISCUSS I RECIPROCITY I H Not Known Definitely When I Congress Will Adjourn, EICHT HUNDREDP. 0. BANKS I LEADVILLE HAS LARGEST DEPOS- H IT OF $61,897, ROME, GA., H SMALLEST, $10. H Washington, July S. (Special). H Tho Houso ot Hcprescntatlvcs Is still BBfl "marking time" .waiting upon tho com- H ntlttce ou wnyH and mentis to report BBJ u bill reducing tho cotton schedule, pBE the committee having begun consider- BBfll ntlon ot tho moasuro the moment tho BBBJ woolen schedule was sont to tho sen- -ilHfl nto. Conditions In tho upper branch ot BBfl Congress contlnuo chaotic although fBBj tho defeat ot tho amondmont offered BBBJ by Senator Hoot, to tho Canadian re- BBJ clproclty pact, Insures Its passage BBfl when the ttmo comes to voto, by an IBB exceedingly large majority, by some IBB placed ns high as forty. The bill will BBfl not bo changed In either form or ver- IBB blagc, tho deslro of Senator Penrose, BBfl chairman of tho powerful committee BBfl on financo bolng to put it through BBfl the Somite without tho changing ot BBfl an "1" or the crossing of n "tl." This HBj is President Tuft's deslro and ho has BBfl been so outspoken In IiIb opposition BBfl to any amendment to tho bill thnt M many legislators have come to see M the wisdom of the suggestion and aro B falling In 'behind the president and M aro marching with him to victory, , M What will become of tho so-called fanner's free bill and tho bill amend- H Ing Schedule "K" known as tho wool- M en schedule Is wholly guess work. flflBJ Senator Penrose wants to vote on ! these bills but cortnln of the progres- B slvo, Republicans aro unalterably op- BBJ posed to the bills as they came from ' B tho House and they will fight the M proposition of a vote to the last B ditch, Notice haying been served on BBJ tho progressive Republicans by the ! Democrats In the Senate, that they cannot expect any aid or comfort from IBB ,them. In view of their attitude on re- BBfl clproclty, tho progressives seem to be HB hopelessly divided nnd close-ohsorv- B Ing newspaper men, who have been HbVJ playing the game of politics for years B In Washington, see the disintegration BBJ of the Insurgent wing of the Ilepubll- B can party not very far ahead. Should M a vote be taken on Canadian rcclproc- M Ity by the mlddlo or the last week M of July thore aro those who believe JfeBJ that Congress coulti get away by tho 'fl mlddlo of August with' votes on the BBfl farmer's free list nnd woolen sched- BBfl ulo bills. Should the senate, however, BBJ get into n tangle Congress might run M nil summer, tho extra session lapping BH over Into the rcgulnr session whlcli'be- BBJ gins on the first Monday In Decern- ! ber which falls onvtho fourth this H year. At this time It Is utterly lm- H possible to tell when Congress will BIB "fold its tents like tho Arabs and 99 silently steal away." EH For tho next few days Uoverly, ffjfl Mass., will be tho summor capital ot QM this "great and glorious republic," IflUl the president nnd his family having jBI gono to their summor home in tho old fl9f bay state on Friday. President Taft EilS will "commute" betweon Beverly and PP Washington for tho "week ends" jfjjjgfl whilu Congress Is In Beeston nnd after H he gets tho National legislature off !' his hands will settle down to dally H golf playing until Uo stars, ononis flftl "swing around tho circle" in the fall. Gov. H. l Noel, of Mississippi, writ- BBfl Ing to Secretary Ellison ot tho Na- il Continued on Paje 3. ' HflB .BBfl x,"v JBBHB j f Still Discuss t ' Reciprocity n (Continued from Pago 1) tlonal Rivers' and Harbors Conpross, jg commending tlio work of that dsso- elation Inoxclttng a lively Interest In wntorwny development says: "I bo-Hove bo-Hove In a fixed government policy In-trusted In-trusted to a nonpnrtlsnn board. In tills way a permanent system of Improve inrnt could bo plunned and executed. A flblftlng.syBtcin, changing with each 'congress ennrot result In a porma-wont porma-wont and lieneflclnl public policy." j Since the establishment of tho post- 1 ! savings system 800 postofflces havo i ' 4 liecn designated to lecolvo savings I , .and 850 .banks applying to bo made j s" Jeposltorles havo had tholr securities III approved 'by tho board of trustees for L ' tho system. Tho postofflccs thus far i' designated are of the Bccoml class. ft The postmaster general will soon ilea lgnatc ono first class otflco for each state to recolvo deposits. Tho main consideration In tho selection of tho offlco for this designation will bo tho sl?e of tho buslnoss In money orders for foreign destinations, one of tho principal reasons for the, establishment establish-ment of tho system being to persundo foreign-born worklngmen to keep tholr money on deposit In this country. coun-try. Tho business of tho postal savings offices 'first established ono for each stato was largest up to May 31 in the western 'mining towns, such as I.eailvlIIc, Cojo., Anaconda, Mont.. 0 lobe, Ariz., nnd Carson City, Nov. Lendvlllo's total deposits wore C1.897. Tho smallest deposits wcro at Rome, Cn., $10 being tho total. |
