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PAGE FOUR Summary of Tbents as They Happen Sixtieth Congress Convenes. Sixty-second Congress convenes at Washington this week. Both Houses will convene and will continue indefi nitely. The President’s message will be received. This will consume the greater part of one day of the ses sion. The first real business will be the election of a speaker. Legislature of Oklahoma. Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 1. —The first Oklahoma legislature will meet to morrow. It will elect two United States senators, Messrs. Gore and Owen, already chosen by popular vote, who will present credential of appointment by Governor Haskell to the senate in Washington tomor row. Much legislation is necessary to set the machinery of the new state in complete operation. A month ago, it was expected that the legis lature would consider drastic rail road legislation but the railroads hav • ing accepted the two-cent rate on state and interstate passenger traf fic, the railroad proposition has de creased in importance. The first bill to be introduced in the senate will be one by Senator Graham of Marietta to provide for segregation of the white and negro races in railway trains and waiting rooms. —Constitution. State to Seek Speedy Trial. Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 1. —(Spe- cial.) —That the state will seek quick settlement of the jurisdiction in the injunctions granted against the state laws by the federal court at the in stance of the railroads seems well es tablished. Two ways are open to this point one by application for a writ of pro hibition to ascertain the rights the court, and the other by habeas corpus to release any man who may, be arrested in either case. The point of attack would be the theory that the United States has no right to en- Bkn criminal prosecution. r In both cases the application would go direct to the national supreme court, in the first place, by petition for* an estoppal order on the grouna of no authority, and in latter case the same idea, but reached in the way of habeas corpus, to release any man arrested for contempt in violating the order of the court. The advan tage of the plans lies in the possibil ity of their being acted upon in a short time. With the feeling that now exists it is regarded as very im portant that a decision be reached at the earliest possible moment. It is thought here tonight that one of those ideas will be adopted at the meeting of the governor and the state attorneys in Birmingham tomor row. An interesting report comes from Ozark, in Dale county, to the effect that when one of the deputy marshal? went to serve the order of the court last week one of the officers of the state court told him that if he did die would have him arrested. Cooler heads prevailed, however, and the officer served the papers without mo- lestation. This is the only case of resistance to the deputies reported. —Constitution. Factories Start Full Time Anew. New York, Nov. 25.—Recent re sumption of industrial activity in the eastern states tends to controvert the accounts of general depression which have gained circulation owing to clos ing down, partially or completely, by many concerns. The financial strin gency throughout the country had its natural reflection in partial suspen sion of operations in middle Atlantic centers, but fear of general indus trial depression has not been real ized. News was received tonight of the return to full time of some indus tries in the New England states and New York, and the hope is that with the general relaxation in the money market these conditions will be large ly increased and that the eastern manufacturing section will soon ex perience normal conditions. Troy reports the outlook is good for a busy year in the knit goods in dustry in Cohoes, one of the largest centers of that class of wmrk in the country. It is expected that knit ting factories there will be running full time by January 1. Information from Buffalo is 'that the Snow steam pump works has or dered its forces back on full time. The general manager, Elgood C. Luf kin, says the company has been obliged to restore the full schedule of working hours to keep up with its business. About 1,000 men are concerned. The National tube works at Syra cuse resumed operations, after a two weeks’ shutdown. President George Westinghouse de nied that the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company’s plants at Pittsburg would be closed down December 1. —Boston Herald. State to Make Bagging. Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 22. —A plau is on foot for the state to manufac ture its own cotton bagging instead of paying 11 1-2 cents per yard. Sev en yards are used in each bale, and Gov. Pindall estimates that an enor mous saving can be made by grow ing hemp and establishing a factory on the state convict farm in Lincoln county. The governor will at the next meet ing of the penitentiary board offer a resolution to establish such a factory, showing that the machinery can be purchased for $5,000. He also be lieves the board has full power to establish the factory without the necessity of waiting for the legisla ture’s action. “The price of bagging is entirely too high, caused by control of trusts,” says Gov. Pindall. The governor has spent much time on the farm recently, and this is one of the many reforms he advocates as a necessity. Hemp can be grown successfully by the convicts on the" farm, and he says the state should thus save many hundreds of dollars. WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. Local business men approve the sug gestion, and many look for the adop tion of the resolution by the board. —News Scimitar. * Roosevelt to Hunt Virginia Bear.' White Hall, Nov. 27. —A bear hunt to be headed by President Roose velt, aided by E. M. Brown, B. Gates Garth, 11. L. Garth, W. W. Driscoll, G. W. Brown, L. E. Powers, and a score of others will go to that famous hunting resort known as Black Rock Springs, on or about the first of De cember next. The party will have about fifty trained hounds for the hunt. Expert mountaineers will have charge of the drive, and Brother Bruin will have a close call if not captured. The President will take this trip after paying the Miller school a visit.—Richmond Journal. THE POPULIST CONFERENCE ISSUES ADDRESS. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 26, 1907. The People’s Party, in national conference, again calls the attention of the country to the need of a scien tific system of money, issued direct by the Government, as intended by the constitution, without the inter vention of banks of issue. The na tion is now in the midst of one of those recurrent but unnecessary financial panics, which result from a faulty system of currency. The blind folly of leaving the nation’s money, hence its business and industry, at the mercy of a few speculative gam blers was never so apparent as at this moment. They are those who have created the trouble from which we are now suffering. They are those who are cornering the people’s cur rency to use in stock gambling, and are thus holding it from the legiti mate channels of trade. Sixteen years ago, the People’s Party, in its first national convention pointed out these defects in our finan cial system and their remedies. Through good and evil report we ’ have never swerved from the advo cacy of those fundamental truths. We have believed them, and still believe them, necessar to the salvation of the country. Money, land and transpor tation —these constituted the original trinity of reform held aloft by the people’s convention at Omaha. An adequate currency issued direct by the government and not redeemable in any other kind of money; land held for actual settlers and not sub ject to speculation and alien owner ship; railroads and telegraphs owned and operated by the government. To these three cardinal principles were added direct legislation through the initiative and referendum; the recad and proportional representation; popular election of the president and vice-president, senators and federal judges; postal savings banks and the parcels post; and the right of la bor to organize, to demand a shorter day and to insist on a fair and just share of the products of its own toil. These principles are justly known as populistic for the reason that, in the main, they were first placed in a po- x litical platform and first introduced to political discussion, by the Peo ple’s Party in 1892. Still more fundamental and basic than these details, however, was the real and recognized mission of pop ulism. It was to war against the monopoly and to uphold the original spirit of liberty, democracy and the Americanism of the fathers that the People’s Party was bom. If to promote principle constitutes success, then no party in American history has been more triumphant. Today no party dares go before the people that does not reflect some of the spirit and advocate some of the truths of Populism. The literature of the nation in magazines and else where, is filled with our ideas and is carrying forward our battle. And whether consciously or unconsciously the majority of American voters to day are standing on our platform. Ours has been a victory unique in political history. When other par ties seemed to take up some of our ideas this deception lost to us for the time our par ty success, our press and almost our organization. Our patriotism and unselfishness made this possible. In the result we have proved once more that he who loses his life for the sake of truth shall find it again. Ours has not been the success of numbers, of shouting or of noise. The glamor of place, of office, or of the world’s acceptance, we have not courted or received. But, after all, these constitute only the shell of success. We have what is better, its substance in the rapid progress of our principles. Nor do we rejoice in this through any narrow spirit of partyism. Party without principle is only a name. Party slavery is the curse of the na tion. Through whomsoever the good may come, it is enjoyed alike by the brotherhood of all the people. The seed sowing of the past has not been in vain. The truths of the Omaha platform now mould the thought of the nation. The reform work of to day was made possible by the sacri fices, the devotion, and the loyalty to principle of the Old Guard. The advanced position of the leading fig ures of the older parties is the re sult of Populistic teachings. We heartily welcome these distinguished converts, and can but wish that they had shown more persistence in fol lowing the reform road to the end, and had displayed more stability in advocating our principles in the face of party opposition. Truth is higher than faction. Country is more than party. In the hour of crisis the real ly great leader will follow the right, regardless of the effects on himself and without weakening in the face of blind partisan clamor. We rejoice in the organization of the Independence League, which is overthrowing bossism and trust rule in their most formidable strong holds. We are cheered by the tem perance wave sweeping over the country, which can but make for happier homes and cleaner politics.