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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
6
Real estate ad offers three lots, 104 feet front each, in Cavitt Deer Park with shade trees and easy terms. Small payment, requisite for homes. Also notes a social joke about a woman removing her hat at theatre versus church.
President Elect Taft and Speaker Cannon met for an hour and a half and agreed Taft would meet the Republican members of the house committee on ways and means on Thursday afternoon. A statement will follow, with both sides saying nothing further until then. The meeting appeared to please Taft.
Washington December 9 House begins regular session with census bill consideration led by Burleson Texas who urges competitive exams for clerks. Slayden Texas offers an amendment on intermarriage census. Senate receives credentials for Williams Morey MeEnter Dillingham and others.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports 6182 5709 million pounds of cotton produced in 1908 09 excluding linters, about 12 920 000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight. State estimates list Virginia 13 000 North Carolina 619 000 South Carolina 1 118 000 Georgia 1 844 000 Florida 61 000 Alabama 1 723 000 Mississippi 1 360 000 Louisiana 472 000 Texas 3 917 000 Arkansas 1 009 000 Tennessee 340 000 Missouri 54 000 Oklahoma 640 000.
Washington December delegation from Texas votes to support a bond issue and continuing contracts for rivers and harbors. C. S. F. Holland elected chairman and named to the resolutions committee. Judge Holmar of Bay City chosen on credentials. District Engineer Waldrn's favorable report recommends two new locks and dams on the Brazos River with $300,000 for each dam.
Cape Haitien on December 9 reports a revolutionary outbreak in Port de Paix Hinche and Jean Babel with other smaller towns experiencing outbreaks.
Four suits were filed in the United States district court here by eastern banks against makers of notes discounted by P. J Kieran of the Fidelity Funding company of New York. The total, including protest fees, will reach nearly $60,000.
Mrs. H. D. Longstreet, widow of the Confederate General, was confirmed postmaster at Augusta Georgia, on December 9.
Edward J. Force of Louisville, Kentucky, died in Paris.
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