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CKL FORTIFICATIONS
Protection of P Annina Cciunl Is
Planned By Army Board.
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The Ccaal Will Fay the Excuses cl Its Own
Fortifications--Army Expert Board
Returns From Viait to Isthmus.
Washington, D. C—The Panama ca
nal will have to pay the expense of
its own fortifications. This appears
to be the opinion of the vanguard of
the array expert board which has just
arrived in Washington irom Panama
after a careful selection of the line of
the canal with special reference to
the selection of sites for the forts and
the determination of the extent of
the armament needed. The act of
1902, though much amended by sub
sequent legislation, would seem to
carry that inference and consequently
the cost of fortification will probably
be met .by the issuance of Panama
canal' bonds.
It is impossible at present to state
the cost of tuis work. In the first
place, while the commission has tenta
tively selected the sites for the de
fenses at both entrances of the canal
and at points along the line in the
interior where it is exposed to destruc
tive attack, such as the Gatun dam
and the great mira flores locks, much
of this land belongs to private parties
and its value must be assured before
it can be acquired.
General Murray, chief of artillery;
General Crozier, chief of ordnance;
General Marshall, chief of engineers,
and Captain Embyck, an expert artil
lery officer, are among those who re
turned to Washington and as soon as
the remainder of the commission, now
on the isthmus, has returned to this
city, an effort will be made to pre
pare the report, showing just what is
needed to provide for the complete
defense of the canal. Much heavy
ordnance, some of it composed of 14-
inch guns, probably will be required,
and as it takes a long time to make
these big guns and transport them
to the isthmus, put them in place and
erect the defensive earthworks and
concrete construction, it will be nec
essary to hasten the project in order
to insure its completion by the date
the canal will be opened in 1914 or
1915.
PINCKOT MEETS ROOSEVELT.
Former Chief Forrester and ex-Presi
dent Confer.
Porto Maurizio, Italy. —Mr. Roose
velt’s widely heralded meeting with
Gifford Pincliot, the deposed chief for
ester of the United States department
of agricutlure, occurred on the veran
da of Miss Carew's villa, overlooking
the blue waters of Porto Maurizio bay.
The interview proper took place in
the seclusion or the forest in the out
skirts of the town.
Mr. Pinchot, who came direct from
Copenhagen save for a six-hours’ stop
at Basle, Switzerland, had arrived at
the hotel rather tired after his long
journey, but he told the newspaper
men that he felt “like a fighting cock.”
He announced in advance that he
would have nothing to say regarding
his interview with “the chief.”
The greetings between the two men
were extremely cordial. These over,
Mr. Roosevelt returnd to his letters,
while Mr. Pinchot visited with Mrs.
Roosevelt. After luncheon Mr. Roose
velt, Mr. Pinchot, Mrs. Roosevelt and
her sister, Miss Carew, started out for
a walk. Soon the women were left
behind and the two men, forging
ahead, finally plunged into the forest.
It is understood that Mr. Roosevelt
gave Pipchot orders to administer the
deathblow to the “Back from Elba’
movement, although both, in the first
flurry of questioning, refused to re
fer to that phase of the situation.
Since Mr. Roosevelt emerged from the
wilds of the jungle, however, it was
apparent to those about him tuat the
“Back from Elba’’ movement as it
has been gaining headway in America,
is entirely distasteful to him.
POSTAL DEFICIT VANISHING.
Reduction of Over $5,000,000 in Six
Months.
Washington, D. C.—Basing his con
clusions on the auditor’s return of
postal receipts and expenditures of
for the first half of the fiscal year
and on returns for the third quarter
of the year, Postmaster General Hitch
cock predicted that the first of the
present administration would show a
decrease of over $10,000,000 i.i the
deficit of $17,480,000 handed down
from the preceding year. The deficit
for the first half of this year was $4,-
572 000 as against $10,285,000 for the
first half of last year, a reduction of
more than six millions in six months.
REHEARING FOR TRUSTS.,
Supreme Court Reassigns Standard
Oil and Tobacco Cases to Calendar.
Washington,- D. C. The united
State supreme court decided to give
a rehearing in the case of the Stand
ard Oil and Tobacco trust cases.
Chief Justice Fuller did not an
nounce any decision further man to
state that the case had been reassign
ed to the calendar. No reason was
given as to w r hy this action was taken,
but it is assumed that the death of
the late Justice Brewer was the cause
of the court's action.
The general opinion around the
court was that the arguments will
not take place until Justice Brewer s
successor is appointed.
TWO WARSHIPS AUTHORIZED.
House Passes Bill Providing For Construction
of hew Fighting Ships.
Washington, D. C.—By a decisive
vote uf bl 210 110, fourteen being
present and not young, the house au
thorized the construction of tv, o bat
tleships to cost st>,ot J,uiio each. rlnn
iy-t iree democrats voted for two bat
tleships and twenty-tour republicans
agamst the proposition.
This action was taken just prior to
the passage of the naval appropria
tion bill carrying SI2YUo7,bU2. this
amount is about $3,000,000 less than
was recommended by the navy de
partment. In addition to the battle
ships, the bill also provides for the
construction of two uect colliers and
four submarine boats.
As amended on motion of Mr. Fitz
gerald of New York, the two battle
ships and two fleet colliers must be
constructed by firms operating under
the eight-hour law.
The committee on naval affairs had
reported in favor of authorizing two
battleships. Mr. Tawney of Minne
sota, chairman of the appropriations
committee, offered an amendment pro
viding for only one battleship, while
Mr. Hobson proposed an amendment
providing for three. Mr. Hobson con
tended that three battleships would
give no increase, but would provide
only for the ordinary depreciation in
the naval forces. By an almost unan
imous vote the house rejected this
proposition.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE GROWING
Increasing Faster Than It Can Be
Cared For, Says Leader.
Washington, D. C. —Women suffrage
in the United States is growing laster
than the national American Women
Suffrage Association can take care of
it, declared Rev. Anna Howard Suaw,
president of the organization, who ar
rived in the national capital to attend
the annual convention of the associa
tion. She expressed herself as more
than pleased with the outlook.
“Everything in the coming conven
tion will be peaceful,” she asserted.
“I see by some of the paper,” she
added, with a smile, “that there will
be two warring factions and that there
will be hostilities between those who
favored militant method and those
who believe in a/ quiet, dignified cam
paign.
American women will not resort to
those methods used by the English
suffragettes, said Miss Shaw, unless
the men force them into it.
10 YEAR OLD MOTHER.
Dauqhter is Born to a 10-Year-O!d
# Girl.
Chicago, lll.— Officials of the juve
nile court began an investigation o f
the case of Annie Epps, ten years old
who gave birth to a girl baby at tin
co»nty hospital several days ago. 1
was reported that the young mothe’
and child were doing well.
“The young mothers’ age has beei
investigated and it has been found
absolutely true that she is just ten
years old,” a physician of the hospi
tal said. “She is one of the youngest
mothers known in this part of the
world.”
Stubbed His Toe on Diamonds.
New York City. —A chauffeur whose
name is withheld, stubbed his toe
against a small oblong package in
front of a Sixth avenue jewelry store
and, opening it, found a SIO,OOO dia
mond necklace, lie read the adver
tisements and he received from the
owner just half of its value as a re
ward for liis honesty—ss,ooo.
Begging Colleges Denounced.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y— At the closing
session of the Methodist Episcopal
Conference, Chancellor James R. Day
of Syracuse University, in an address
denounced the colleges and institu
tions founded by religious people tha
“groveled in the dust before the Car
negie Foundation and went back or
their founders in order to obtain pen
sions.”
Newsy Paragraphs.
J. Sehorley, mayor of Kenosha,
Wis., introduced a new feature into
Kenosha politics when he distributed
five thousand bars of toilet soap as a
means of calling attention to his can
didacy for re-election. The soap is
ordinary toilet size, and on one side
of the white bar, in raised letters, is
“Purity Soap,” while on the reverse
side is a picture of the mayor and the
inscription, “A clean administration.”
The mayor recently came out with a
declaration for a cleaner city.
Mail orders for seats to the grand
opera performances that are to be
produced at the Atlanta Auditorium
armory during the first week in May
are pouring into the office of the
treasurer of the Atlanta Music Festi
val in a steady stream. Reservations
for individual performances will open
on April 18. Seats may be bought at
from $5 to $1 each, according to loca
tion. There is not a seat ha the audi
torium that is not desirable.
Dr. James G. Cumming, director oi
the Pasteur institute of the Univer
sity of Michigan, announced the dis
covery of a new method for the treat
ment of hydrophobia. The new treat
ment, Dr. Cumming says, eliminates
many of the dangers attending the
former methods and shortens the time
of treatment by one week. Dr. Cum
ming uses a virus prepared from the
spinal tissues of a rabid animal. This
is injected into the atient. The virus
is said to have been used in several
cases recently with marked success.
Memories of the cooking of his
“old mammy” induced J. R. Bingham
cf Carrollton, Miss., to give $5,000 for
founding a cooking school for ne
groes at Augusta. Ga. “The ‘new’
negro can't cook,” says Mr. Bingham.
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THE POLITICAL ETNA IS AGAIN ACTIVE “
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DEATH OF JUSTICE BREWER MAY ALTER
RESULT OF BIG TRUST LAWSUITS
Whether Standard Oil, Tobacco and Corporation Tax Cases Must Be Rear
gued For Benefit of New Member Depends Upon Existing Status Be
fore Supreme Court—Decisions May Be Delayed Until Fall.
Washington, D. C.—Three impor
tant causes now awaiting determina
tion by the United States Supreme
Court may he entirely changed in
. their progress and final results in
consequence of Justice Brewer’s sud
den death. These are the Standard
Oil, Tobacco and corporation tax
cases. This litigation may bo af
fected by Justice Brewer’s demise in
two ways:
1. A rehearing of oral arguments
may bo required in ono or all of the
cases.
2. Delay in reaching a final deci
sion may follow because of the part
taken by the late Justice in moulding
the conclusions arrived at by the
Court —if that stage was passed.
Under no circumstances will it ho
necessary to institute new proceed
ings or bring any of the cases now
pending through all the processes of
the lower courts. The Department
of Justice will be, in no way affected
by the present situation. It is one
with which the Supreme Court alone
can deal. The surviving members
must determine for themselves
whether a rehearing of arguments
is necessary in one or more of the
cases. Such conclusions will depend
entirely on the status of the various
suits.
It is the supposedly invariable cus
tom of the Supreme Court to as
semble on the Saturday following the
termination of verbal arguments in
any specified case. A vote is then
taken and some justice is designated
to formulate the final opinion of the
court. This procedure is believed
to have been followed" in the Stand
ard Oil, tobacco and corporation tax
cases, more than one Saturday having
elapsed since the final argument in
the cause last heard.
If the court divided evenly in the
Standard Oil case, Justice Brewer
voting against sustaining the Govern
ment’s contention, a rehearing would
not be required, as the Government
would win with a divided court; if
Justice Brewer voted in favor of the
Government, a rehearing would he
essential. If the vote stood 5 to 3,
either for the Government or the
Standard Oil Company, there would
be no necessity for a rehearing unless
Justice Brewer’s vote was such as to
remove the Government’s possible
chance of getting the decision by a
divided court.
The tobacco cases are different in
many respects from that of the Stand
ard Oil. The decision of the lower
court was mixed, and both the Gov
ernment and the Tobacco Trust took
appeals. It is not considered prob
able that Justice Brewer s vote could
have been such as to render essen
tial a rehearing c£ arguments in
these cases.
The same is true of the corpora
tion tax cases. The Government
would not win by a divided court
and there seems to be no chance by
which the vote of Justice Brewer
could affect the result in such a way
as to make a rehearing necessary.
In some quarters it is not believed
that the court took a vote on the
Saturday following the Standard Oil
and corporation tax cases, and that
the matter of decision is still open.
Attorney - General Wickevsham
said:
“I see but one possibility of Jus
tice Brewer’s death causing a rehear
ing in the Standard Oil and Tobacco
Trust cases. The matter would lie
entirely at the discretion of the
court. If the court stood four to
four on a proposition, it is probable
that a rehearing would be ordered
rather than allow the death of a«
member to decide the case. The
court might consider that justice to
the country and to the litigants
would be served better b: awaiting
the appointment of a successor and
holding a rehearing for his benefit.
That is the only possibility of the
cases being reopened.”
—Cartoon by Enright, in the New York Globe,
A peculiar situation exists in re
gard to the Standard Oil case. The
.suit was instituted ur.-der Justice
Moody’s direction during his service
as Attorney-General. Should the
Court wait for the President to ap
point another Justice, even then only
eight members of the court could act
on the case by reason of this elimina
tion of Justice Moody. Four would
then constitute a majority for the
Government, as It would now for
both the Government and for the
Standard Oil if decided by a bench
of seven, duo to the death of Justice
Brewer.
These most familiar with opinions
heretofore rendered by the Supremo
Court predict that Justices Harlan,
Day, McKenna and Burton will hold
for the Government in the Standard
Oil and Tobacco cases. Chief Justice
Fuller and Justice White are regard
ed as likely to lie adverse. The atti
tude of Justice Holmes is one which
causes much conjecture.
As the most conservative member
of the Supreme Bench it is believed
Justice Brewer would have aligned
himself with those antagonistic to
the Government’s contention in those
cases. It is regarded that the cause
of Government prosecutions against
corporations has been materially
strengthened by the death of Justice
Brewer.
As Justice Brewer advanced in
years he became more conservative.
In matters that appertained to the
extension of the regulatory power
of the Government, in matters that
related to the broadening of the Fed
eral authority, the tendency of Jus
tice Brewer was to bo highly con
servative. This was especially true
of his later decisions.
The views entertained by Justice
Brewer regarding great aggregations
of capital, as indicated by various
public utterances, were in part:
“The evils have been in the re
bates, the granting of special privil
eges that gave unfair advantages in
competition and in the manipulations
of stocks and bonds by those in con
trol.
“When private capital is used to
perform public service, it should be
made subject to the same publicity.”
Washington, D. C. —Justice Brew?
e.* will be remembered for many
notable utterances.
“We stand like a mythological
Hercules, the giant of the nations,
and if we do not have his club, we
have the ‘big stick’ of Theodore
Roosevelt,” he said in a sneech de
livered at Baltimore in 1908. In the
same speech he said:
“We are manifesting a fondness
for military and naval prowess.
“We want the biggest yachts, the
most expensive and swiftest trains.
“Our grov/th is developing a habit
of extravagance. We have been most
unwisely discounting the future.
Debt-paving has become almost a for
gotten duty.
“Do I err when I say that size is
one of the obvious facts in our ma
terial life? Is it strange that at
every county fair we look for the
largest steer, tlie fattest hog, the
biggest potato and the longest ear
of corn? Is it any wonder we pay
prizes for the family with the most
children, point with pride to the
mother with twins and triplets and,
then, for fear we shall not grow fast
enough, welcome each year to our
shores 1,000,000 immigrants? On
all sides is a vision of greatness.
Magnitude impresses us in every di
rection.”
Mr. Brewer at Atlantic City said:
“I believe that an all-wise Provi
dence had a hand in the rise of this
great country to a world power that
is able to dictate peace instead of war
throughout the world. America is in
a position to promote the brother
hood of man, and the most powerful
influences of public opinion are tend
ing in that direction.”
