Naval Militia Proposed for Interior.

Should the Navy Department decide to form at branch of the Naval Militia in the interior of the country, there is no doubt that it would increase interest in that region both in the Navy and merchant marine. In an editorial, the New York American says: "There is nothing absurd about the idea of Naval Militia in the interior of the country. There is no reason, for example, why a naval vessel of suitable draught should not be stationed as a school ship at St. Louis, making its regular cruises down the Mississippi to the sea, manned by naval militia. It is of the greatest importance that the Navy should be close to the people of the interior. Not only would the navigability of the great interior rivers be emphasized by the presence of light-draught sea-going war craft-a point very dear to the Western heart at this time-but the actual practical fact of Naval Militia proceeding from the inland cities to their ocean practice in their own vessels would be a novelty and a charm. By offering suitable vessels for this purpose the Navy Department could excite an interest in the Navy in the great Mississippi region not otherwise possible."

Phillipine Islands Sailing Directions.

We have received from the United States Department of Commerce and Labor the third edition of the Coast and Geodetic Survey bulletin for 1908. The information contained in this publication relates to the coasts of Samar and Leyte, and the east coast of Luzon. The work contains much valuable information gleaned from the Phillipine Islands Light-House Service and from masters of Phillipine Government vessels, United States Army transports, and the Mercantile Marine. The bulletin and its previous editions have been compiled in the office of the Coast and Geodetic Survey at Manila, and reflect great credit on the author, Capt. John C. Dow, who is a member of United Harbor No. 1, an 1 cousin to Capt. L. B. Dow. Brothers who are sailing in these waters and others interested may obtain these publications free of charge by applying to the Department of Commerce and Labor."

Government Tests Life-Saving Projectile.

To all who go down to the sea in ships the experiments being made by the United States Marine Board and representatives from the Navy, ordnance and lifesaving services with a new device for saving life in the case of shipwrecks cannot fail to be of great interest. It is a self-anchoring projectile, which is not dependent on human aid from the shore, so that any wrecked vessel can take care of herself and land her passengers and crew, even though she comes to grief many miles from the neighborhood of the friendly life-boat or coast-guard station. The projectile is a combination of a three-pronged anchor and a solid steel cylindrical shot, to which is affixed a rope two and a quarter inches in circumference, with a breaking -train of over two tons. This projectile is fired by an ordinary cannon, carrie 1 on the deck of the ship. In the tests made by the United States Government the projectiles which were fired were so firmly embedded in the ground that twenty men pulling at the rope failed to dislodge them. Along the rope thus fastened to the shore the breeches buoys are worked in the ordinary way.

Proposed Slack-water Dam.

Mr. O. L.. Frisbee, of Portsmouth, N. H., informs us that Mr. Alfred S. Black, President of the Tidal Water Company, at Rockland, Me., visited the site

of the proposed slack-water dam at Frankfort Island, Piscataqua River, on May 8, and was greatly pleased with the prospects for furnishing compressed air power. The proposed dam will be 2315 feet over all and will furnish 100,000 horse-power valued at $2,000,000, annually. It is said that it will provide as much tidal power to the valley of the Piscataqua as the Merrimack River furnishes water-power to that valley.

The Boston and Maine Railroad are interested in the proposed dam as they wish to use it for a road-bed for their trains to cross the river. The New Hampshire delegation in Congress are also favorable to it, so that the dam will be built in the near future and slackwater navigation for the port of Portsmouth, and power to run the manufactories of New Hampshire and Western Maine will be secured.

For Security of Life at Sea.

President Roosevelt has issued an executive order convening a board to examine the laws of the United States for the better security of the lives of passengers and crews on board vessels of the United States with a view to their revision. Such changes as public interest appears to require will be recommended.

The head of the Board is Captain Adolph Marix, United States Navy, Chairman of the Light-house Board, and Commander William Strother Smith, United States Navy, on duty in the Bureau of Steam Engineering, is one of the four members, his associates being Messrs. Charles Earl, solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor; E. T. Chamberlain, Commissioner of Navigation, and George Uhler, Supervising Inspector-General of the Steamboat Inspection Service.

Rescue Harbor Excursion.

Our best thanks are due to Capt. C. L. Warwick for his kind invitation to the grand excursion of Rescue Harbor No. 14 on Wednesday, July 1. The palatial steamer Annapolis will leave Pier 6, Light Street Wharf, Baltimore, for Cambridge, at 8 A. M. The proceeds of the excursion are to be devoted to the Widows' Fund of the members, and the MASTER, MATE AND PILOT trusts that the event will prove a bumper success, that the weather will be all that can be desired, and that every one will spend a most pleasant and enjoyable day.

New York Life-Saving Exposition.

An exposition for displaying life-saving apparatus is now being held at the McGraw Building, 231 West Thirty-ninth Street, New York City, under the auspices of the American Museum of Safety Devices an-1 Industrial Hygiene. The marine exhibits mostly consist of life-boats, rafts, buoys, belts, signalling equip ment and types of operating gear. Brothers visiting New York during June and July will find that a visit to the exhibition will amply repay them for their trouble.

Lusitania Again Smashes Records.

Since the article on the great Cunard liners Lusitania and Mauretania, which appears on page 20, was written, the Lusitania arrived in New York on May 22 with three new world's records to her credit. She has smashed the best previous figures over the long course by 3 hours and 38 minutes, making the trip in 4 days 20 hours and 22 minutes. The "Lusitania's best previous day's run was 627 miles, but on the third day out this trip she logged 632 miles. Her average for the entire run was 2483 knots, the daily runs on this yoyage being 622, 625, 632, 628 and 303 miles.

(770) MASSACHUSETTS Gloucester harbor - Tenpound Island ledge-Gas buoy established.-Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 17 (645) of 1908, further notice is given that on May 9, 1908, a red gas buoy, numbered 6 A and showing an intermittent red light every 10 seconds, thus, light 5 seconds, eclipsed 5 seconds, was established in 32 feet of water to mark the southwestern extremity of Tenpound Island ledge, Gloucester harbor, Massachusetts, on the following bearings:

Tenpound Island light-house, N. 41o E. true (NE. % E. mag.).

Easter Point light-house, S. 20° 20' E. true (S. 1⁄2 E. E'ly mag.).

Gloucester Harbor life-saving station, S. 64° 45′ W. true (W. by S. mag.).

On the same date Rock buoy No. 6 A, a spar, heretofore marking the ledge, was withdrawn.

(771) MASSACHUSETTS-Vineyard sound-Vineyard Haven approach-Great rock-Buoy to be established.— About May 20, 1908, a first-class red spar buoy, to be known as Great Rock buoy 2 A, will be established in 21 feet of water about 475 feet eastward of Great rock, Vineyard Haven approach, Vineyard sound, Massachusetts, on the following bearings:

East Chop light-house, S. 65o 30' E. true (SE. 34 E. mag.) Old Camp Meeting landing, southwest corner, S. 23° 15' E. true (S. by E. mag.).

Vineyard Haven wharf, S. 16o 15' W. true (SSW. 1⁄2 W. mag.).

(772) NEW JERSEY Sandy Hook light vessel-Characteristic of submarine bell.-Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 18 (689) of 1908, further notice is given that the characteristic of the submarine bell on Relief light vessel No. 16, which will relieve light vessel No. 51 about May 15, 1908, will be the number 22 sounded at regular intervals, thus, 2 strokes, silent interval 3 seconds, 2 strokes, silent interval 5 seconds.

773) DELAWARE RIVER-Tinicum Island and Fort Mifflin Bar Cut range lights to be changed.-About June 10, 1908, the Tinicum Island and Fort Mifflin Bar Cut range lights located on the southern bank of the Delaware River, near Billingsport, New Jersey, will be changed as follows:

Billingsport light, which is the front light for both ranges, will be moved 422 feet N. 9° W. true (N. % W. mag.) without change in characteristic or height and reestablished in a white, detached, square, framework tower with a rectangular lantern erected on a concrete base. The light in its new position will be visible from all points on the compass course between the Tinicum Island and Fort Mifflin Bar Cut range lines.

The new bearings of Tinicum Island range line will be S. 87° 48′ E. true (E. 34 S. S'ly mag.) and that of Fort Mifflin Bar Cut range line S. 53° 52' W. true (SW. by W. 3 W. W'ly mag.).

Approx. position: Lat 39o 50' 51" N., Long. 75° 15' 11" W. The light shown at Tinicum Island Range Rear light station will be changed from fixed red to fixed white and will be provided with a fixed red sector of 11° 15' between the bearings S. 11° 28' E. true (S. 3 E. mag.) and S. 0° 13' E. true (S. 5 W. mag.). The western edge of this sector will cut the point of intersection of the Fort Mifflin Bar Cut range line and the compass course and indicates the point at which vessels bound down the river should change from the range line to the compass course S. 729 W. true (W. 7% S. Sly mag.).

The light shown at Fort Mifflin Bar Cut Range rear light station will be changed from fixed red to fixed white and will be provided with a fixed red sector of 100 between the bearings S. 45° 18' E. true (SE. 5% S. mag.) and S. 35° 18' E. true (SSE. 1⁄2 E. mag.). The northeastern edge of this sector will cut the point of intersection of the Tinicum Island range line and the compass course and indicate the point at which vessels bound up the river should change from the range line to the compass course N. 729 E. true (E. 78 N. N'ly mag.).

1908

(774) NORTH CAROLINA-Ocracoke Inlet - Swash light-Color changed.-Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 15 (565) of 1908, further notice is given that on May 1, 1908, Swash light, located in 6 feet of water on the northeastern side of Swash channel, Teachers Hole channel from Ocracoke Inlet into Pamlico Sound, and about 11⁄2 miles N. 320 W. true (NNW. 1⁄2 W. mag.) from Cockle Shoal light, was changed from fixed white to fixed red without other change.

Approx. position: Lat. 35° 07' 42" N., Long.76° 00' 30" W.

(779) LOUISIANA-Mississippi River-Cubit's gapShoal disappeared.-A recent survey of the lower Mississippi River made by the U. S. Army Engineers shows that the shoal on which the steamer J. L. Luckenbach grounded on December 18, 1907, has entirely disappeared, and that there is now a depth of 8 fathoms at mean low water at that point.

The removal of this shoal was probably largely due to the effect of sills placed at Cubit's gap and Pass a Loutre to divert the flow of water into Southwest pass.

Approx. position: Lat. 29° 11' 00" N., Long. 8o 15' 50" W.

(786) CALIFORNIA San Francisco light vessel No. 70 to be replaced by light buoy.-Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 18 (698) of 1908, further notice is given that about May 18, 1908, San Francisco light vessel No. 70, stationed about 34 miles outside the bar off the entrance to San Francisco harbor, 10% miles S. 72° 20' W. true (SW. 78 W. mag.) from Fort Point light-house and about 500 feet northward of the range line marked by Fort Point and Alcatraz lights, will be withdrawn from her station for repairs and the station will be temporarily marked by a gas buoy painted red, with light vessel moorings in black, and showing a fixed white light.

Approx. position: Lat. 37° 44' 56" N., Long. 122° 41′ 33′′ W.

(787) CALIFORNIA-Cape Mendocino-Blunt's Reef light vessel No. 83 Submarine fog bell established.-About May 23, 1908, a submarine fog signal bell will be established on board Blunt's Reef light vessel No. 83, stationed 17% miles S. 61° 20' W. true (SW. S. mag.) from Blunt's Reef, off the seacoast of California, and 41⁄2 miles S. 85° W. true (SW. by W. 78 W. W'ly mag.) from Cape Mendocino light-house. After the above date this bell will sound, during thick or foggy weather, the number 83 at regular intervals, thus, 8 strokes, silent intervals 3 seconds, 3 strokes, silent interval 51⁄2 seconds.

W.

Approx. position: Lat. 40° 26' 02" N., Long. 124° 30′ 18′′

(799) PHILIPPINE ISLANDS-Luzon-South coast -Tayabas Bay- Tayabas (Dumaca) River-Light to be discontinued.-Information has been received that the fixed red light exhibited at the mouth of the Tayabas (Dumaca) River, south coast of Luzon, will shortly be discontinued. Approximate position on C. S. chart No. 4267, latitude 13° 54' 10" N., longitude 121° 36' 00" E.

(800) PHILIPPINE ISLANDS-Luzon-Manila harbor-Wrecks located.-A recent examination of the bottom in the vicinity of the wreck shown on the chart about twothirds mile eastward of the opening between the two breakwaters at the entrance to Manila harbor has developed the fact that there are two wrecks covered by i4 and 16 feet of water, respectively, lying about 68 yards apart in a northwest and southeast magnetic direction. These wrecks are marked by a buoy painted red and black in horizontal bands, which should be given a berth of about 100 yards.

(See Notice to Mariners No. 7 (274) of 1908.)

(775) SOUTH CAROLINA-Charleston light vesselColor of lights.-When Relief light vessel No. 53 replaces Charleston light vessel No. 34 about June 1, 1908, she will show, the same as light vessel No. 34, a fixed white reflector light at the head of each of her two masts and not fixed red, as previously stated.

(See Notice to Mariners No. 19 (690) of 1908.)

Passenger-Boatman, hadn't we better bail the boat out? She's half full of water.

Irish Boatman-Och, niver mind, sor. Sure she'll run over when she's quite full.

A tar bought two tarts from a Tartar.

Said the tar to the Tartar: "Too tart are These tarts. Now, a tart

Made out of cream o'tart—”

But "Ta-ta!" to the tar said the Tartar.

"Where is your son, Zeke?" asked the windmill agent. "Over the brine," drawled the old farmer in the brasstipped boots.

"Ah, indeed! Over the ocean, eh?"

“No; down in Jason's general store sitting on a herring keg. You'll find him there all day playing checkers."

The doctor bent over the dying man and took his hand. "I'm afraid the end is approaching," he said. "Your circulation is at a low ebb."

With a herculean effort, the man sat up in bed. "You're a liar!" he shouted. "It went up to 80,000 last week, and I can show you the books to prove it!" And the Great Editor fell dead.

'Twas not the parting from a mother That made him look so "down"; 'Twas not the parting from a brother That gave his face that frown. Not even the parting from his lover, That made him in dark despair; 'Twas just because he couldn't discover The parting in his hair. -J. M.

There was truth in the advertisement that a young man answered one day. The advertisement said: "How to win the girl you love. Full and explicit directions sent in sealed, plain envelope on receipt of $1.". This young man, who loved a girl madly and hopelessly, sent on a dollar, and the answer came to him by return mail. It read: "How to win the girl you love -Get $1,000,000 and let her look at it."

The story of the Scotsman who, seeing a compatriot struggling in the water, went and made application for the drowning man's situation, to be informed that it had already been given to the man who had pushed the other into the water. has its echo in many a public man's experience President Roosevelt, who receives a vast number of applications for appointments, had one from a man saying: "I hear that the American Consul has perished at Martinique. In presenting my application for the vacancy thus caused, I am actuated by a desire to get in ahead of those loathsome creatures, the office-seekers!"

"Peary," said a geographer of Chicago, "never started on one of his exploring expeditions without receiving by mail and express all sorts of packages from cranks-cowhide underwear, tea tablets, medicated boots and what not "Peary once told me that George Ade, a few days before the start of his last trip, wired him to expect an important package by express. The package came. It was labelled. To be opened at the furthest point north' "Peary opened it at once, however. It was a small keg. inscribed:

***Axle grease for the pole." "

A nautical correspondent says there is a good joke going the rounds of a certain institution where shipmasters and officers foregather. He says that the captain of a steamer trading to the Southern States, who is a strict temperance man, had reason to reproach the chief officer for having "got over the line" while in habor. The incident having been repeated, the skipper made an entry in the log: "Mr. chief officer, was under the influence of drink today." The officer remonstrated, and said the entry would seriously injure him. But his commander was obdurate, and said, "It is a line entry, and must stand" A few days later when it was the chief officer's duty to enter up the log, he wrote. "The captain was sober to-day." It would appear from our correspondent that "the old man" became very vexed, and the only answer he could obtain to a string of variegated interrogations was "The entry is a line one, and it must stand."

Nothing to do but work,
Nothing to eat but food,
Nothing to wear but clothes
To keep one from going nude.

Nothing to breathe but air,

Quick as a flash 'tis gone; Nowhere to fall but off,

Nowhere to stand but on.

Nothing to comb but hair, Nowhere to sleep but in bed, Nothing to weep but tears,

Nothing to bury but dead Nothing to sing but songs, Ah, well, alas' alack' Nowhere to go but out,

Nowhere to come but back.

Nothing to see but sights,

Nothing to quench but thirst, Nothing to have but what we've got, Thus thro' life we are cursed

Nothing to strike but a gait;

Everything moves that goes, Nothing at all but common sense Can ever withstand these woes.

date of March 18, 1908, which referred to H. R. Bill 16987 and Senate Bill 5787, was taken up, and after careful consideration we have instructed the National Secretary to communicate with California Harbor No. 15, giving them the information that when said bill was before the House for its first hearing Brother Dow, Brother Silva, Andrew Furesseth, and others appeared, and at the other three hearings Brother Pruett, Brother Dow and Brother Warwick appeared, and found that all owners' interests throughout the United States were at these hearings, the outcome of which eventually was that H. R. Bill 225 was reported favorably out of the Committee and passed the House. The bill as it passed the House was not agreeable to your Committee by any means, and they at once wrote a letter of protest to the Vice-President of the United States and Senators Knox and Frye, placing ourselves on record as being opposed to H. R. Bill 225 in its present form, and by the Congressional Record of March 24, 1908,

L. B. DOW Counsel

I. P. GRACE 1st Vice Pres.

A. R. MACKEY 3rd Vice Pres.

District, in case of a vacancy in that office, was unanimously endorsed on January 24, 1908, by the Grand Jarbor. Copies of this resolution have already been sent to G H. Wellington, National Second Vice-President, with the sig nature of the National Executive Committee and the seal affixed.

NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., March 26, 1908. Meeting of the National Executive Committee convened at 10 A. M. in Room 104, State Street. Present:-John H. Pruett, National President; L. B. Dow, National Counsel, and C. L. Warwick, National Secretary.

Letter from the Deeper Water Harbor Association of Portsmouth, N. H., and Kittery, Me., advising us of the bill which has been introduced by Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire, with the view to surveying Portsmouth

Harbor for improvements and the building of a dam at the entrance to Great Bay, was presented to the National Executive Committee, and the National Secretary was instructed to carry out the order of the National Convention passed on January 23, 1908, that whenever this bill was presented to Congress we should send our unanimous endorsement of the same to Senator Jacob H. Gallinger, of New Hampshire, Congressman Amos L. Allen of Maine, and Congressman Cyrus A. Sulloway of New Hampshire, and copy of endorsement to O. L. Frisbee, M. A., of Portsmouth, N. H., and Atlantic Harbor No. 77.

March 27, 1908.

National Executive Committee met in Room 104, 21 State Street, at 10 A. M. to-day, preparing manuscript for the amended Constitution and By-Laws. Adjourned at 3.00 P M.

At 5.30 P. M. sailed on steamer Providence, bound for Boston, Mass., and Portland, Me., on the Van Schaick pardon case and the Eastern S. S. question, by request of Casco Harbor No. 75.

Went into Executive Session at 8 P. M. in Room 242 on board the steamer Providence of the Fall River Line, correcting the manuscript of the amended Constitution and By-Laws, and considering other matters.

The matter of the renting of the new room for the National Office, on the eighth floor of the Cheseborough Building, 21 State Street, in conjunction with United Harbor No 1, was taken up, and a letter of explanation from United Harbor No. 1 is as follows:

"NEW YORK, 4th March, 1908. "Captain John H. Pruett, National President,

"American Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots, "No. 423 49th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. "Dear Sir and Brother:-Pursuant to the directions of this Harbor (regular Voyage of 20th February, 1908), I respectfully advise you that the Executive Committee of the Grand Harbor, composed of John C. Silva, N. L. Cullin, Luther B. Dow and Benj. F Perkins, in connection with a committee of United Harbor No. 1, made an agreement to change from the present office quarters up to the eighth floor of the Battery Park Building to a suite of rooms, United Harbor No. 1 agreeing to pay $1.270 per year and the Grand Harbor to pay $480 per year, payable monthly in advance, and that the room which the Grand Harbor is paying for is to be for the exclusive use of the Grand Harbor Officers. This lease was signed as per the orders of United Harbor No 1, and the Grand Executive Committee, on 11th day of January, 1908, to take effect on the 1st day of May, 1908. The lease is for a term of three years from 1st day of May, 1908. The agreement between the Grand Executive Committee and the Committee of United Harbor No. 1 was made the 8th day of January, 1908, and was made for very good reasons that the present office quarters were too small and too dark. and with insufficient air, and for these reasons the busi ness of United Harbor No 1, or the business of the Grand Harbor, especially, to be transacted with the dif ferent owners and superintendents and the visiting brothers from subordinate Harbors could not be transacted satisfactorily.

"If there is any further information that you desire, please advise and I will respond at once

"Fraternally,

"WILLIAM E Dow, "Secretary."

UNITED HARBOR No. 1: Exhibit 1-Which asks that same law that governs the licensed officers of steam vessels shall be so amended as to apply to sail vessels over fifteen gross tons After careful thought we believe that by giving our attention to H. R. Bill 15657. introduced by Congressman Hayes of California, we may bring about the object sought for

Exhibits 2 and 3--In re "amendment of 1144 RS and to H. R 4771" - As the National Organization endorsed a resolution that had for its object the opposition of this entire bill, we have followed the instructions of the National body.

Exhibit 4 Laid over for further consideration Exhibit 5--In re “H. R. 4774": We believe that HR 15657 entirely covers this matter.

Exhibit 6 In re "first class pilot as an assistant to licensed masters on all ferryboats in New York Harbor" As we are in possession of information that a digest has been offered the President of the United States and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to the end that ferryboats shall only be navigated by licensed masters, and if

the Secretary of Commerce and Labor so decides that it will bring about the obiect sought for, we do not deem it wise to take any further action in this matter at this time. Exhibit 7-In re "inspection of towing lights by night and the whistle when steam is un": As this was entirely covered in the digest offered by Prof. Chas. Sprague Smith to the President of the United States, we do not believe that there is anything further we can do at this time. Exhibit 8-In re "towing lights": We have tabled this for further consideration.

Exhibit 9-In re "range lights": We have tabled this for further consideration.

Exhibits 10A, 10B, 10C, 10D-In re these four exhibits, as there is nothing to say where they came from, there being no signature upon the same and no seal affixed, we do not deem we have any right to take any action.

Exhibit 11- In re "inspection of foreign yachts": We do not deem it wise to take any action.

Exhibit 12- In re "medal to Brother Parkinson": This matter be tabled for further consideration.

Exhibit 13-In re “hours of duty for coastwise officers": Tabled for further consideration.

ENTERPRISE HARBOR No. 2:

Exhibit 14-In re "patrol boat, Delaware River": As we have information that Congressman Bennett is about to introduce a bill that will cover so much of the Exhibit as refers to patrol boats, we do not believe that any action on our part is necessary at this time, but so much of this Exhibit as refers to searchlights, we believe all that is necessary at this time is to make a complaint to the United States Local Inspectors as to the misuse of searchlights.

Exhibit 15-In re "hours of duty for single crews": Laid aside for further consideration.

MARINERS' HARBOR No. 3:

Exhibit 16-In re "suspension of license": As the National Counsel has talked this matter over with the Secretary of Commerce and Labor and the Board of Supervising Inspectors, and has given us the information that they are not in favor of any action at this time, we do not believe that any further action should be taken until 1900. at the National Convention, when we propose to again take the matter up.

VOLUNTEER HARBOR No. 4:

Exhibit 17 -In re "licensed officers on ferryboats": Laid aside for further consideration.

Exhibit 18-In re "vessels over five tons, propelled by machinery, shall be under the inspection laws”: This is covered by digest offered by Prof. Chas. Sprague Smith to the President of the United States.

RESCUE HARBOR No. 141

Exhibit 19 In re "Sec 4426 R S": This petition is covered by digest offered by Prof Chas Sprague Smith to the President of the United States.

Exhibit 20 In re "re-lighting Potomac River". We understand a bill has been introduced for these measures, and will do all we can to have this bill passed.

California. Harbor No 15:

Fxhibit 21 In re "Sec 4110 R S"- I aid over for further consideration

Fxhibit 22 In re “Sec 1138 R_S"- This subject was taken care of by a bill being drawn January 23, 1908, and introduced January 28, 1908, by Congressman Haves of California in the House of Representatives Exhibit 21 In re "certificate of competency being granted instead of a license” Although we are thoroughly in sympathy with this Fxhibit, we have taken into careful consideration other matters that are before Congress, and we do not believe that anything could be accomplished before the convening of the next Congress

CRESCENT CITY HAPPOR No 18

Exhibit 21 In re "number of hours a licensed officer shall be on duty fixed by Tw" Being a part of several bills and having in each case failed, we will lay it aside for further consideration