See (in this Volume) SCIENCE AND INVENTION. ATABEG-I-AZAM: Premier of Persia. His assassination. See (in this Volume) PERSIA: A. D. 1907 (JANUARY-SEPTEMBER). ATABEGS, ATABEKS. See (in this Volume) Persia: A. D. 1905-1906. ATCHINESE, Dutch hostilities with the. See (in this Volume) NETHERLANDS: A. D. 1904. ATHABASCA: Absorbed in the Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. See (in this Volume) CANADA: A. D. 1905. ATLANTA: A. D. 1906. Anti-Negro Riot. See (in this Volume) RACE PROBLEMS: UNITED STATES: A. D. 1906. ATWATER, Professor W. O. See (in this Volume) SCIENCE AND INVENTION, RECENT: CARNEGIE INSTITUTION. AUSGLEICH, Austro-Hungarian. See (in this Volume) AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: A. D. 1902-1903, and 1907. ----------AUSTRALIA: Start-------- AUSTRALIA: The Race Problem. Reasons for dread of Asiatic immigration. The demand for a white Australia. See (in this Volume) RACE PROBLEMS. AUSTRALIA: Woman Suffrage. See (in this Volume) ELECTIVE FRANCHISE: WOMAN SUFFRAGE. AUSTRALIA: Government ownership of railways. Disconnecting gauges in the several states. See (in this Volume) RAILWAYS: AUSTRALIA. AUSTRALIA: A. D. 1901-1902. The Tariff Question in the First Parliament of the Commonwealth. Issue between the Senate and the Representative Chamber. "The tariff originally proposed by the government was framed on lines of extreme protection, with special reference to the languishing industries of Victoria; it was inevitable that the opposition, mainly representing New South Wales, should fight tooth and nail to prevent its becoming law. The result of the struggle, which lasted almost without a serious interruption for nine months, has been a compromise which leaves the tariff of the commonwealth neither one thing nor the other. There can be little doubt that in debating power and political generalship the victory lay generally with the opposition; but after all the result, so far as it was a victory for the party of free trade, was due to the action of the Senate.