THE STATES

CALIFORNIA: A new crater broke out on the east slope of Mount Lassen, which is in violent eruption. Mount Lassen, in the extreme northern part of California, is the only active volcano in any of the states. It became active in 1914.

INDIANA: Governor McCray announced that he would pocket-veto a bill passed by the Assembly, providing a bonus of $10 for each month of service for veterans of the World War or the war with Spain.

NEW YORK: The International Flower Show opened on March 12 with exhibits not only from the United States, but South America, the Philippines, Borneo, Central America, the South Seas, and the East Indies.

PENNSYLVANIA: Governor Pinchot wrote to Governor Smith of New York, asking that the suit before the United States Supreme Court to annul the Federal Water Power Law be withdrawn. New York wants a monopoly on the water power developed within its boundaries (notably at Niagara Falls). Governor Pinchot suggests that Pennsylvania and other states have their quota of the Niagara power.

SOUTH CAROLINA. Both branches of the Legislature passed a bill granting pensions to former slaves who served the State and their masters in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

UTAH: Just before the closing of the legislature Governor Charles R. Mabey signed a new tobacco law which permits the sale of cigarettes, formerly prohibited, in the state.

VIRGINIA: Fort Myer, historic army post across the Potomac from Washington, was threatened with destruction in a fire which caused $110,000 damage.

WISCONSIN: The senate by a vote of 26 to 4 defeated a Socialist bill to abolish the Wisconsin National Guard. Two weeks ago the lower house passed a similar bill by an overwhelming vote.

ALASKA: Governor Scott C. Bone in opening the Territorial Legislature at Juneau censured D. A. Sutherland, Alaska's delegate to Congress, who inserted a charge in The Congressional Record that the Alaskan fisheries had been turned over to a fish trust.