Current Mention

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Apr 26, 1906

— A new union station to cost $10,000,000 is to be built in Mexico City for the railways centering there, and $60,000,000 is to be expended for new railway lines and improvements in that country.

— It is announced that The Hague peace congress which had been called to meet next summer, has been postponed to next October, to suit the convenience of the United States, which is soon to participate in a Pan-American congress.

— The final arguments to decide the question whether Senator-elect Reed Smoot, of Utah, is entitled to a seat in Congress, have been made before the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections. The indications are that Mr. Smoot will be excluded from the Senate.

— Announcement is made of an association to be formed at Columbus, Ohio, May 1, 2, for the purpose of securing a more stringent enforcement of the Sunday law in that State. It is stated that “the formation of the organization is in the hands of Protestant clergymen of the State.”

— Dr. Seale Harris, professor of medicine in the University of Alabama, is authority for the statement that the negro race is dying off in the South through the prevalence of tuberculosis among that class, and that the death-rate among the Southern negroes now exceeds the birth-rate.

— There is a disagreement between Russia and China over certain concessions held by Russia in Manchuria which the Chinese declare were never rightfully obtained. Russia wants the Chinese government to ratify the concessions, but the Chinese, it is stated, are bent on resisting everything in the nature of foreign aggression.