Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1914 — Order your rubber stamp today from The Republican. [ARTICLE]

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A bill to give Col. George W. Goethals, builder of the Panama canal, the rank of major-general, has been introduced by Chairman Hay of the house committee on military affairs. Y • Five hundred thousand dollars to pay for the maintenance of Mexican soldiers and refugees interned in the United States has been added by the senate committee to the urgent deficiency appropriation hill. Samuel Gompers has written the Ft. Wayne federation that a member of a union in affiliation with the American Federation of Labor has a right to belong to a military company, and says that this right must not he questioned. Enrico Caruso’s salary has been raised to $3,000 a night in his new contract, which will go into effect >fter next season. With the possible exception of Adelina Patti, no singer ever has gathered in such astonishing rewards: