shall serve for the period of one year, three members for the period of two years and three members for the period of three years; three members of this committee to be representatives of labor, three to be representatives of capital, each chosen for distinguished services in the industrial world in promoting righteous industrial peace, and three members to represent the general public. Any vacancies which may occur in this committee shall be filled by selection and appointment in the manner prescribed for the original appointment of the committee, and when the committee has first been fully selected and appointed each member thereafter appointed shall serve for a period of three years or the unexpired portion of such term.

The industrial peace committee herein constituted shall arrange for an annual conference in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of representatives of labor and capital for the purpose of discussing industrial problems, with the view of arriving at a better understanding between employers and employes; it shall call special conferences in case of great industrial crises and at such other times as may be deemed advisable, and take such other steps as in its discretion will promote the general purposes of the foundation; subject, however, to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the trustees. The committee shall receive suggestions for the subjects to be discussed at the annual or other conferences and be charged with the conduct of the proceedings at such conferences. The committee shall also arrange for the publication of the results of the annual and special conferences.

All expenditures authorized by the trustees shall be paid exclusively from the accrued income and not from the principal of the foundation. The trustees herein named are authorized to hold real and personal estate in the District of Columbia to an amount not exceeding three million dollars, and to use and dispose of the same for the purposes of this foundation. The principal office of the foundation shall be located in the District of Columbia, but offices may be maintained and meetings of the trustees and committees may be held in other places, to be provided for in bylaws to be adopted from time to time by the trustees for the proper execution of the purposes of the foundation.

An act approved March 4 provided that for the purpose of aiding in the establishment and operation of such an agricultural bank in the Philippine Islands as the

Philippine
Agricultural
Bank.

general government thereof may hereafter specifically authorize the Philippine government is empowered to guarantee an income of not exceeding 4 per centum per annum upon cash capital actually invested by individuals or corporations in such agricultural bank: such guarantee shall be granted by an act of the Philippine Commission which

shall contain, among others, the following provisions:

1. The guarantee shall be made to a company organized under the laws of the Philippine Islands, with its principal office in Manila and with branches in such parts of the island as may be designated by the Philippine Commission.

2. The bank shall not grant loans except to those engaged in agriculture and with the sole purpose of assisting agriculture in the Philippine Islands.

3. No loan exceeding in amount $5,000 shall be made except upon the written authorization of the Secretary of Finance and Justice of the Philippine Islands.

4. Interest charged on loans shall not exceed 10 per centum per annum: Provided, That in no event shall the total annual contingent liability under the guarantees authorized by this act at any time exceed $200,000, and no such guarantee shall continue for a longer period than twenty-five years.

For the further security of the Philippine government said government shall provide by the aforesaid act proper rules, including those for determining the cash capital actually invested in such bank and the net income actually received on said capital so invested, and shall provide for supervision by said Philippine government, through the auditing and other appropriate bureaus thereof, of the conduct of the business of the bank.

The bank shall make such reports from time to time as to its receipts and expenditures in such form and substance and sworn to by such officials as may be prescribed by the Philippine government, and its books and accounts shall be at all times open to inspection by any authorized agent of the Philippine government.

Money paid by the Philippine government pursuant to the aforementioned guarantee shall be a liability of the bank to the Philippine government, and, as such, shall constitute a lien upon and be paid out of the annual net profits of the bank, subject only to the right of the stockholders to receive therefrom 4 per centum dividends per annum upon the bank's cash paid-up capital stock. No dividends above 4 per centum shall be paid, and no profits credited to the surplus fund, either during the period of the government's guarantee or subsequent thereto, until the Philippine government shall have been repaid in full all sums advanced to the bank under said guarantee.

Obligations of the bank to the Philippine government arising from advances made pursuant to the aforementioned guarantee and existing at the time when the bank shall go into liquidation shall constitute a lien on the bank's assets, subject only to the payment of the bank's legitimate debts and the repayment to the stockholders of the par value of the bank's duly authorized cash paid-up capital stock: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be interpreted as a guarantee on the part of the Philippine government to the stockholders of the bank of the par value of the bank's cash paid-up capital stock when the bank shall go into liquidation.

The bank shall not be permitted to hold real estate beyond that required for business premises: Provided, That the temporary acquisition of land as the result of foreclosure, or otherwise, on account of a debt shall be permitted on condition that land so acquired shall be sold within ten years from the date of acquisition,

and all said land not so alienated in good faith shall be forfeited to the Philippine government.

An act approved March 2 provided that section 5 of the act entitled "An act to authorize the registration of trade marks used in commerce with foreign nations or among the several states or with Indian tribes, and to protect the Trade Mark same, approved February 20, 1905, be, and is hereby, amended to Registration. read as follows:

"Sec. 5. That no mark by which the goods of the owner of the mark may be distinguished from other goods of the same class shall be refused registration as a trade mark on account of the nature of such mark unless such mark

Consists of or comprises immoral or scandalous matter.

"(a) (b) Consists of or comprises the flag or coat of arms or other insignia of the United States, or any simulation thereof, or of any state or municipality, or of any foreign nation, or of any design or picture that has been or may hereafter be adopted by any fraternal society as its emblem: Provided, That trade marks which are identical with a registered or known trade mark owned and in use by another and appropriated to merchandise of the same descriptive properties, or which so nearly resemble a registered or known trade mark owned and in use by another and appropriated to merchandise of the same descriptive properties as to be likely to cause confusion or mistake in the mind of the public, or to deceive purchasers, shall not be registered: Provided, That no mark which consists merely in the name of an individual, firm, corporation or association, not written, printed, impressed or woven in some particular or distinctive manner or in association with a portrait of the individual or merely in words or devices which are descriptive of the goods with which they are used, or of the character or quality of such goods, or merely a geographical name or term, shall be registered under the terms of this act: Provided further, That no portrait of a living individual may be registered as a trade mark except by the consent of such individual, evidenced by an instrument in writing: And provided further, That nothing herein shall prevent the registration of any mark used by the applicant or his predecessors, or by those from whom title to the mark is derived, in commerce with foreign nations or among the several states, or with Indian tribes, which was in actual and exclusive use as a trade mark of the applicant or his predecessors from whom he derived title for ten years next preceding the passage of this act."

Section 6 of said act was amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 6. That on the filing of an application for registration of a trade mark which complies with the requirements of this act, and the payment of the fees herein provided for, the Commissioner of Patents shall cause an examination thereof to be made; and if on such examination it shall appear that the applicant is entitled to have his trade mark registered under the provisions of this act the Commissioner shall cause the mark to be published at least once in the Official Gazette of the Patent Office. Any person who believes he would be damaged by the registration of a mark may oppose the same by filing notice of opposition, stating the grounds therefor, in the Patent Office within thirty days after the publication of the mark sought to be registered, which said notice of opposition shall be verified by the person filing the same before one of the officers mentioned in section 2 of this act. An opposition may be filed by a duly authorized attorney, but said opposition shall be null and void unless verified by the opposer within a reasonable time after such filing. If no notice of opposition is filed within said time the Commissioner shall issue a certificate of registration therefor, as hereinafter provided for. If on examination an application is refused the Commissioner shall notify the applicant, giving him his reasons therefor."

An act approved March 2, 1907, provided that a writ of error may be taken by and on behalf of the United States from the district or circuit courts direct to the Supreme Court of the United States in all criminal cases, in the following instances, to wit:

Appeals in Criminal Cases. From a decision or judgment quashing, setting aside, or sustaining a demurrer to, any indictment, or any count thereof, where such decision or judgment is based upon the invalidity or construction of the statute upon which the indictment is founded.

From a decision arresting a judgment of conviction for insufficiency of the indictment, where such decision is based upon the invalidity or construction of the statute upon which the indictment is founded.

From the decision or judgment sustaining a special plea in bar, when the defendant has not been put in jeopardy.

The writ of error in all such cases shall be taken within thirty days after the decision or judgment has been rendered and shall be diligently prosecuted and shall have precedence over all other cases. Pending the prosecution and determination of the writ of error in the foregoing instances the defendant shall be admitted to bail on his own recognizance: Provided, That no writ of error shall be taken by or allowed the United States in any case where there has been a verdict in favor of the defendant.

An act approved January 26, 1907, provided that it shall be unlawful for any national bank or any corporation organized by authority of any laws of Congress to

Corporation Contributions in Politics.

make a money contribution in connection with any election to any political office. It shall also be unlawful for any corporation whatever to make a money contribution in connection with any election at which Presidential and Vice-Presidential electors or a Representa

tive in Congress is to be voted for or any election by any State Legislature of a United States Senator. Every corporation which shall make any contribution in violation of the foregoing provisions shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $5,000, and every officer or director of any corporation who shall consent to any contribution by the corporation in violation of the foregoing provisions shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not exceeding $1,000 and not less than $250, or by imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Section 4 of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation act, approved February 26, provided that on and after March 4, 1907, the compensation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Vice-President of the United Congress and States and the heads of executive departments who are members Cabinet Salaries. of the President's Cabinet shall be at the rate of $12,000 per annum each, and the compensation of Senators, Representatives in Congress, Delegates from Territories and Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico shall be at the rate of $7,500 per annum each.

Reorganizing the Artillery

An act approved January 25 reorganized the artillery of the United States army. It provided that the artillery of the United States army shall consist of the chief of artillery, the coast artillery and the field artillery. The coast artillery and the field artillery shall be organized as hereinafter specified, and the artillery shall belong to the line of the army: Provided, That of the Army. on and after July 1, 1908, the chief of artillery shall cease to exercise supervision over the field artillery and shall thereafter be designated as the chief of coast artillery. The chief of artillery or chief of coast artillery shall be an additional member of the General Staff corps, and his other duties shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War.

When a vacancy occurs in the office of the chief of artillery or chief of coast artillery the President may appoint to such vacancy, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an officer selected from the coast artillery, who shall serve for a period of four years unless reappointed for further, periods of four years; and any officer who shall hereafter serve as chief of artillery or chief of coast artillery shall, when retired, be retired with the rank, pay and allowances authorized by law for a brigadier general on the retired list. The position vacated by an officer appointed chief of artillery or chief of coast artillery shall be filled by promotion in that arm according to existing law, but the officer thus appointed shall continue in the same lineal position in his arm which he would have held if he had not been so appointed, and shall be an additional number in the grade from which he was appointed or to which he may be promoted: Provided, That there shall not be at any time in the coast artillery more than one additional officer by reason of the appointment of a chief of artillery or chief of coast artillery and the relief of an officer from such duty.

The coast artillery is the artillery charged with the care and use of the fixed and movable elements of land and coast fortifications, including the submarine mine and torpedo defences. The field artillery is the artillery which accompanies an army in the field, and includes light artillery, horse artillery, siege artillery and mountain artillery. The coast artillery shall constitute a corps and shall consist of one chief of coast artillery with the rank, pay and allowances of a brigadier general, as provided in section 1 of this act; 14 colonels, 14 lieutenant colonels, 42 majors, 210 captains, 210 first lieutenants and 210 second lieutenants; and the captains and lieutenants provided for in this section not required for duty with companies shall be available for duty as staff officers of the various coast artillery commands and for such other details as may be authorized by law and regulations; 21 sergeants major, with the rank, pay and allowances of regimental sergeants major of infantry; 26 master electricians, 60 engineers, 74 electrician sergeants, first class; 74 electrician sergeants, second class; 42 sergeants major, with the rank, pay and allowances of battalion sergeants major of infantry; 42 master gunners, 60 firemen, 170 companies and 14 bands, organized as now provided for by law for artillery corps bands.

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Each company of coast artillery shall consist of 1 captain, 1 first lieutenant, second lieutenant, 1 first sergeant, 1 quartermaster sergeant, 2 cooks, mechanics, 2 musicians and such number of sergeants, corporals and privates as may be fixed by the President in accordance with the requirements of the service to which it may be assigned: Provided, That the total number of sergeants and corporals in the coast artillery, so fixed, shall not exceed 1,360 and 2,040, respectively, and that the total enlisted strength of the coast artillery, as provided under this act, shall not exceed 19,147, exclusive of master electricians, electrician sergeants, first class, and electrician sergeants, second class.

The field artillery shall consist of six regiments, each organized as follows: One colonel, 1 lieutenant colonel, 2 majors, 11 captains, 13 first lieutenants and 13 second lieutenants, 2 veterinarians, 1 sergeant major, 1 quartermaster sergeant, 1 commissary sergeant, 2 battalion sergeants major, 2 battalion quartermaster sergeants, 2 color sergeants, 1 band and 6 batteries organized into two. battalions of three batteries each. Of the officers herein provided the captains and lieutenants not required for duty with batteries shall be available for detail as regimental and battalion staff officers and for such other details as may be authorized by law and regulations. Battalion adjutants shall be detailed from the captains, and battalion quartermasters and commissaries from lieutenants. Each field artillery band shall be organized as provided by law for cavalry bands: Provided, That the President in his discretion inay increase by nine mounted orderlies the regimental strength herein authorized.

Each battery of field artillery shall consist of 1 captain, 2 first lieutenants, 2 sec

ond lieutenants, 1 first sergeant, 1 quartermaster sergeant, 1 stable sergeant, 1 chief mechanic, 6 sergeants, 12 corporals, 4 mechanics, 3 cooks, 2 musicians and 102 privates, the commissioned officers to be assigned from among those hereinbefore authorized for the regiment: Provided, That the President in his discretion may increase the number of sergeants in any battery of field artillery to 8, the number of corporals to 16, the number of mechanics to 7, the number of musicians to 3 and the number of privates to 149: Provided further, That nothing contained in this act shall increase the total number of enlisted men in the line of the army, together with the native scouts, as authorized by section 36 of the act of Congress approved February 2, 1901, entitled "An act to increase the efficiency of the permanent military establishment of the United States."

On and after the approval of this act the coast artillery and the field artillery shall be permanently separated, the separation to be effected as follows:

All officers in the present artillery corps shall remain on one list as regards promotion until sufficient promotions shall have been made to provide in each grade,

Artillery
Promotions.

together with the officers remaining therein, the total number of officers of the grade provided for in this act for the coast and field artillery combined. After such promotion they shall in each grade be assigned by the President to the coast artillery or to the field artillery, according to special aptitude and qualifications, such assignments to be permanent; and all officers promoted or appointed in the artillery thereafter shall be commissioned as officers of the coast artillery or the field artillery, as the case may be, and shall be promoted by seniority in their own branch, subject to the provisions of the laws governing promotion in the army at large.

All vacancies created or caused by this act which can be filled by promotion of officers now in the artillery corps shall be filled by promotion according to seniority, subject to examination as now prescribed by law. Of the vacancies created or caused by this act which cannot be filled by promotion of officers now in the artillery corps one-fifth in each branch shall be filled in each fiscal year until the total number of officers herein provided for shall have been attained. The vacancies remaining in the grade of second lieutenant shall be filled by appointment in the following order: First, of graduates of the United States Military Academy; second, of enlisted men whose fitness for advancement shall have been determined by competitive examination; third, of candidates from civil life; and all such appointments shall be made in accordance with the provisions of existing law.

The regimental and battalion non-commissioned staff officers herein authorized for regiments of field artillery shall have the pay and allowances of corresponding grades in the cavalry; the battalion quartermaster sergeant shall have the pay and allowances of sergeant major, junior grade, of the artillery corps; the chief mechanic the pay and allowances of sergeant, and the mechanics of field artillery the pay and allowances of artificers of field artillery; engineer, $65 a month and allowances of ordnance sergeant; electrician sergeant, first class, $45 a month and allowances of ordnance sergeant; electrician sergeant, second class, $35 a month and allowances of ordnance sergeant; master gunner, the pay and allowances of ordnance sergeant; fireman, $30 a month and allowances of ordnance sergeant; and that the rates Ol pay of all other enlisted men of the coast and the field artillery shall be as now provided by law: Provided, That casemate electricians, observers, first class, anc plotters shall receive $9 a month in addition to their pay; that chief planters, chief loaders, observers, second class, gun commanders and gun pointers shall receive $7 a month in addition to their pay, and that first class gunners shall receive $2 a month and second class gunners $1 a month in addition to their pay: Provided further, That the number of casemate electricians shall not exceed 44; that the number of observers, first class, shall not exceed 170; that the number of plotters shal not exceed 170; that the number of chief planters shall not exceed 44; that the number of chief loaders shall not exceed 44; that the number of observers, second class, shall not exceed 170; that the number of gun commanders shall not exceed 378, and that the number of gun pointers shall not exceed 378: And provided further, That no enlisted man shall receive under this section more than one addition to his pay.

In addition to the chaplains now authorized for the artillery corps the President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and subject to the laws governing appointment of chaplains in the army, one chaplain for each regiment of field artillery and two for the coast artillery, with the rank, pay allowances now authorized by law for chaplains in the army.

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An act approved on March 2, 1907, provided that from and after July 1, 1907, when in addition to the stamps required to transmit any letter or package of mai

Special Delivery with Ordinary Stamps.

matter through the mails there shall be attached to the envelope or covering 10 cents' worth of ordinary stamps of any denomination, with the words "special delivery" or their equivalent written or printed on the envelope or covering, under such regulations as the Postmaster General may prescribe, the said package shall be handled, transmitted and delivered in all respects as though it bore a regulation "special delivery" stamp.

Retirements

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An act approved March 2 provided that when an enlisted man shall have served thirty years either in the army, navy or marine corps, or in all, he shall, upon making application to the President, be placed on the retired list, with 75 per cent of the pay and allowances he may then be in receipt of, and that said allowances shall be as follows: Nine dollars and fifty cents a month in lieu of rations and clothing and $6 25 a month in lieu of quarters, fuel ard light; provided, that in

for

Enlisted Men.

computing the necessary thirty years' time all service in the army, navy and marine corps shall be credited.

The additional urgent deficiency act, approved February 9, 1907, provided that for the purpose of aiding in the payment of the cost of the construction, completion and

Aid to

Jamestown
Exposition.

opening of the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition on Hampton Roads, Virginia, on April 26, 1907, the sum of $1,000,000 is appropriated, the said sum to be paid to the Jamestown Exposition Company on the request of the president of said company in amounts as follows: Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars on the passage of this act, $250,000 during the month of January, $200,000 during the month of February, $200,000 during the month of March and $100,000 during the month of April, 1907. To insure the application of all said money to the purposes for which the same is appropriated the Secretary of the Treasury shall appoint a suitable person or persons, whose duty it shall be to supervise the disbursement of the same when paid, as herein provided, and to make a full and complete report thereof to him as he may require; provided, that the amount hereby appropriated when paid to the Jamestown Exposition Company, as herein provided, shall constitute an indebtedness of the said company to the government of the United States and shall be repaid by said company to the Treasury of the United States. For the of purpose of protecting the government and insuring the repayment of said sum $1,000,000 the government shall have the first lien on the gross receipts of said exposition company from all paid admissions to the grounds of said exposition and from all money received from concessions after the opening of said exposition.

Before any part of this appropriation is paid, as herein before provided, the said Jamestown Exposition Company shall execute, to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury, an instrument in writing giving and securing to the government a first lien on its said gross receipts, and said exposition company shall at the same time guarantee to the said government, under suitable penalties, that the said gross receipts are then entirely free from liens, mortgages or other incumbrances, and that it will not pledge or in any way incumber or dispose of the said receipts so as to injure or affect the right of the government to first receive therefrom the amount to be returned to the Treasury, as herein provided. The Jamestown Exposition Company shall repay into the Treasury of the United States the said sum of $1,000,000, as follows: On May 31, 1907, said Jamestown Exposition Company shall report to the Secretary of the Treasury in detail the total amount of all said gross receipts received by said company from April 26 to May 31, both inclusive, and 40 per cent of such receipts shall at the same time be paid to the Secretary of the Treasury, and thereafter, during said exposition and until the sum of $1,000,000 shall have been fully paid, as herein provided, a like detailed report of said gross receipts shall be made by said Jamestown Exposition Company on the fifteenth day and the last day of each month, respectively, and at the same time 40 per cent of said gross receipts shall be paid by the said company to said Secretary of the Treasury; provided, that from and after July 15, 1907, and until the said sum of $1,000,000 shall have been fully paid, each of the said payments on the fifteenth and the last day of each and every month, respectively, shall not be less than $100,000; provided, that if at any time after said exposition company has received the amount hereby appropriated it makes default in the application or in the repayment of said sum, or any part thereof, as herein required, then and in that case the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, by his agents and representatives, by him selected and appointed, to collect, receive and control all the said gross receipts until the full sum of said $1,000,000 has been collected and repaid into the Treasury of the United States, as herein provided, and shall have access to and control of all books of accounts and contracts of said company. The Secretary of the Treasury shall in such case first pay out of the money so collected such operating expenses as in his judgment and discretion are necessary and appropriate. In accepting the amount hereby appropriated the said Jamestown Exposition Company shall be taken and held to agree to all the terms and conditions on which the same is made and upon which the same is to be repaid into the Treasury of the United States.

April 26, 1907, is fixed as the date for the opening of said celebration inaugurated by the act of Congress approved March 3, 1905, and November 30, 1907, is fixed as the date for the closing of the said celebration, and said dates shall apply to the participation of the United States and foreign countries in said celebration and in said exposition, as provided for by the acts of Congress approved March 3, 1905, and June 30, 1906.

Miscellaneous.

Among the other acts and joint resolutions passed were the following: Incorporating the National German-American Alliance; providing for a United States judge for the Northern Judicial District of Alabama; incorporating the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America; to amend the act approved August 19, 1890, entitled "An act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea"; to amend the laws governing labor or improvements on mining claims in Alaska; to amend section 4,446 of the Revised Statutes, relating to licensed masters, mates, engineers and pilots; to authorize the receivers of public moneys for land districts to deposit with the Treasurer of the United States certain sums embraced in their accounts of unearned fees and unofficial moneys; to provide for the establishment of an immigration station at Galveston, Tex.. and the erection in said city, on a site to be selected for said station, of a public building; to provide for the establishment of an immigration station