Ex-Senator David B. Hill, of New York, asks that his connection with the Equitable Life Assurance Society be investigated by the New York State Bar Association.
Three midshipmen are dismissed from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis for hazing.
The 200th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin is celebrated in Philadelphia and Boston.
Suits for $2,000,000 are filed by the city of Chicago against two street railway companies for running cars overcrowded with passengers.
January 18.—Poultney Bigelow refuses to answer questions about conditions as described by him in an article on the Isthmus of Panama, before members of the Senate Committee. He is arrested for contempt, but is later released.
Secretary Root states that the United States has no political interest in the Moroccan conference, but has a trade interest, and for that reason the United States is represented.
Senator Tillman’s resolution, calling for an investigation of the expulsion of Mrs. Minor Morris from the White House is tabled.
Secretary Taft advocates the construction of a direct cable connecting the United States with Panama. The Secretary declares this cable indispensable to the military control of the Gulf of Mexico in time of war.
Eighteen miners are killed by an explosion at Paint Creek, W. Va.
Congressman Sulzer, of New York, introduces a bill to increase the President’s salary to $100,000 and the Vice-President’s to $25,000 per year.