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receiving tomb to await transfer to
the McKinley monument when it is
finished in September.
A committee of seventy-five, com
prising the most influential business
men, merchants and manufacturers of
San Francisco, will be created. The
committee is to be representative of
those elements in the community
whose interests are most vitally at
stake. It is hoped that it will be
able to take a firm stand in the pres
ent crisis and bring overwhelming in
fluence to bear against the forces of
disorder.
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In a speech delivered at Indianap
olis, President Roosevelt declared that
all railroads must be under the con
trol and supervision of the Federal
government. He said a careful watch
that securities are not inflated is
necessary and that the interests of
honest railroad men are best served
when all common carriers are made
to toe the mark.
The State Railroad Commission has
reduced passenger rates in Georgia
from 3 cents to a sliding scale of
from 2 to 2 1-2 cents a mile.
The International Cotton Conference
was opened in Vienna, with more than
250 delegates present. The delegates
were received by Emperor Francis
Joseph at the Hofburg.
Rebels have captured Wongkong, in
the Vping district of the Chinchu Pre
fecture, China. All the civil and mili
tary officials of the town were killed
and their headquarters were burned.
After a recess of three days, the
trial of William D. Haywood, charged
with the murder of former Governor
Frank Steunenberg, was resumed.
Ten jurors have been secured and it
is believed that early this week the
taking of testimony will begin.
Mayor McClellan vetoed the Public
Utilities Bill. His reasons for doing
so are as follows:
First —That the bill is an invasion
of the city’s right to attend to its own
affairs.
Second—That it places in the hands
of a partisan commission the most
tremendous power ever given into the
hands of a similar body, and that this
power will be used by some dishonest
governor for the purpose of political
intrigue.
The mayor’s idea is that the com
mission will be used as a machine to
extort campaign funds from the rail
roads and lighting companies.
“There is no provision,” writes the
mayor, “that the commission shall be
bi-partisan or non-partisan, and all
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members may be of the same political
party. What may be, will be. And if
this bill becomes a law we shall, in the
near future, see these commissions
composed entirely of political parti
sans, with great consequent injury to
the state and to the properties af
fected.
“The power to regulate rates and
fares may be used to destroy. Under
given conditions, when party feeling
is intense and the presidency, the gov
ernorship or the legislature is at stake,
it will be used to influence, coerce
and to secure the money with which
to corrupt the electorate.
“To my suggestions the legislature
has seen fit to pay no attention, and
has passed, instead, an act so utterly
destructive of the principle of home
rule as to leave me, as mayor of the
City of New York, no possible course
except to disapprove the bill as it
stands.”
Tn the case of the state of Texas vs.
the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, a
branch of the Standard Oil, the
jury returned a verdict of guilty
against the corporation, assessing pen
alties aggregating $1,600,000 and de
barring it from doing further busi
ness in the state.
A bronze statue of Alexander Ham
ilton, who founded the city of Patter
son, N. J., was unveiled there on the
City Hall plaza, in the presence of a
vast crowd. The statue was unveiled
by Miss Mary Schuyler Hamilton,
daughter of Col. J. C. Hamilton and
a great-great-grand-daughter of Alex
ander Hamilton.
The land agitation in the congested
districts of Ireland is taking the form
of a crusade against the holders of
grazing farms on the lease system,
and is developing with great rapidity
and intensity. Reports come daily of
large bands of peasants destroying
gates and fences and clearing the
grazing ranches of cattle, which they
drive back over miles of country to
the owners’ farms.
SHAFT TO DAV’S IS UNVEILED AT
RICHMOND.
(The Atlanta Georgian.)
Richmond, Va., June 3. —This was
Jefferson Davis day in Richmond. At
2 o’clock the monument to the only
president of the Confederacy was un
veiled and not only in Richmond, but
generally throughout the South, the
request of General Stephen D. Lee.
commander-in-chief of the United Con
federate Veterans, the wheels of in
dustry were stopped and the whole
South for five minutes did honor to
Mr. Davis.
Unveiling Ceremonies.
The ceremonies were opened with
prayer by the Rev. J. William Jones.
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of Richmond, chaplain-general. The
first address was by Governor Claude
A. Swanson, of Virginia, and he was
followed by Mayor Carlton McCarthy,
of Richmond, who introduced General
Evans as orator of the day.
General Evans’ Address.
General Evans began his address
with a tribute to the women of the
South, through whose efforts the
statue to Mr. Davis has been erected.
Taking up, then, the influences which
had moulded the life of the future
president of the Confederacy, the
speaker traced his lineage from Eng
lish ancestors who migrated to Amer
ica two generations before his birth,
settling in the South. His father
and grandfather, on his father’s side,
had fought in the Revolutionary war
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and three older brothers had borne
arms in the War of 1812. Mr. Davis
was appointed to the National Mili
tary Academy by President Monroe,
graduated in 1828, receiving appoint
ment as lieutenant. At once he was
assigned to arduous service in the
great Western country, to protect set
tlers against Indian incursions and
attacks. After a service of seven
years, during which he “won fame
which his country gladly gave him then
and should not forget now,” Mr. Davis
returned to his Mississippi home, from
which he was sent immediately to
congress. Two years later the Mexican
war theratened and resigning his place
in congress, he led a regiment of Mis
sissippi rifles. He rendered brilliant
service at Monterey and Buena Vista