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Summary of 'EArents as They Happen
WILL BE PROSECUTED.
By direction of congress, the inter
state commerce commission has in
vestigated the charges that the bit
uminous coal carrying roads had en
tered into an agreement to divide pro
portionately the shipments of coal
over their lines, that the roads owned
the mines and that they had agreed to
maintain freight rates on coal. The
commission has submitted to the de
partment of justice all the evidence it
has secured and the great eastern
railroads will be prosecuted for vio
lating the Sherman anti-trust law.
The department of justice will pro
ceed immediately against the Penn
sylvania railroad, the Baltimore and
Ohio the Chesapeake and Ohio, the
Philadelphia and Reading, the Sea
board Air Line, the Atlantic Coast
Line, the Norfolk and Western, and
the Beech Creek railway, leased by
the New York Central and Hudson
River railroad. If the Government
is successful in its prosecution, fines
aggregating more than a million dol
lars will be imposed, as the agree
ment between the lines has been in
effect ten years, and each violation of
the law constitutes a separate offense.
BRYAN AT RICHMOND.
William Jennings Bryan in a speech
delivered at the City Auditorium,
Richmond, prodded the trusts, Pres
ident Roosevelt and John D. Rockefel
len, whose money he referred to as
“tainted.”
MORGAN ACCUSED OF CONSPIR
ACY.
A petition opposing the confirma
tion of the sale of the Toledo Railway
and Terminal Company was filed in
the United States Circuit Court at To
ledo, Ohio, by the Ohio Saving Bank
and Trust Company. It alleges that
J. P. Morgan and his allies in bank
ing and railroad circles conspired at
the time the road was sold and that a
committee representing the bond
holders bought the road at the upset
price of $2,00,000, and that the cred
itors were prevented from bidding in
the road by a prearranged plan by
Morgan.
THE POPE PLEASED.
Queen Victoria of Spain has re
pented of her decision to let her baby
be reared by a nurse especially se
elected acocrding to the royal custom,
and now insists that she should rear
her own child Alfoncito. Because of
her conversion to the Church of Rome,
the Pope will present her with the
Golden Rose, a token of the Papal re
gard for any of the great ladies of the
land who have done some useful ser
vice to the church. Her conversion
to the Church of Rome and her faith
fulness to the duties she has under
taken when leaving the Church of her
ancestors, has rendered a signal ser
vice to the church, thereby earning
for her this beautiful emblem, con
sisting of a bunch of roses, wrought
out of solid gold, placed in a golden
vase.
QUITE NATURAL.
After President Roosevelt’s speech
at Indianapolis, a New York World
correspondent interviewed Henry H.
Rogers, the Standard Oil magnate,
who was at the Hotel DuParo, Vichy,
Paris. Mr. Rogers appeared to be
very much surprised at what Pres
ident Roosevelt actually said, and
stated that he was content to leave to
the courts for settlement the consti
tutional discovery revealed by Presi-
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
dent Roosevelt in his Indianapolis
speech. It is the belief of Mr.
Rogers that the lawyers of the great.
American railroads will have some
thing to say before Mr. Roosevelt will
be permitted to bring all common car
riers under the control and supervis
ion of the Federal Government on the
theory that such authority is granted
by the Constitution in the provision
for the establishment and mainten
ance of post roads'.
RUSSIAN REVOLTS.
The fourth squadron of hussars
of the Czar’s guard, stationed at Tsar
skoe-Selo, Russia, to which place the
imperial family had just removed, re
volted against the strict discipline re
cently instituted by a new command
er. The ring-leaders have been
turned over to a courtmartial.
MORE PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER.
Philander Chase Knox has received
the unanimous indorsement of the Re
publican State convention assembled
in convention at Harrisburg, Pa.,
for President.
He was eulogized as a man of mark
ed ability and qualified in all ways
to carry out the policies initiated by
Theodore Roosevelt. It is believed
that this indorsement of Senator
Knox by the Pennsylvania Republi
cans will be the first serious opposi
tion Roosevelt will encounter in his
plan of making Taft his residuary
legatee.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
Jacob Phinizy, President of the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany, after reading President Roose
velt’s Indianapolis speech, gave out
the following statement:
“If President Roosevelt is properly
quoted in his Indianapolis speech he
certainly advocates absolute control
upon the part of the government of
the railroads. lam a strong believer
in proper regulation by the Govern
ment, but if they want absolute con
trol they should buy the railroads,
paying for them a fair and equitable
price. It would be a bad idea for the
President to advocate in this connec
tion the regulation of labor upon the
part of the government.”
SAFE AND SANE MAN WANTED.
Senator Rayner, of Maryland, in a
statement to the New York World,
expressed his opinion that the hour
for Democracy to triumph has arrived.
He believed that country to be in a
state of unrest under Republican rule,
saying its leaders have gone too far.
He believed in nominating a sound,
conservative man, to eliminate Gov
ernment ownership of railroads and
the initiative and referendum, and
thinks the issues for 1908 will be the
Tariff Reform, Executive Unsurpation
and the Reserved Rights of the
States.
TO PROSESCUTE FRENCH GOV
ERNMENT.
The recent action of the French
Government, which appointed a spe
cial administrator to supervise the
disbursement of the funds belonging
to the French establishments in the
city of Rome, has caused retaliation
on the part of the Vatican authorities,
and there is much probability that a
lawsuit will be instituted in the Ital
ian courts against the French gov
ernment for the restitution to the Vat
ican administration of at least a part
of the property, which is worth sev
eral million dollars.
JUSTICE GAYNOR HOPEFUL.
Justice William T. Gaynor, of New
York, expressed the opinion that this
country has just entered upon the pe
riod of its greatest glory. He said
we are better equipped for progress
than any generation that ever lived.
Judge Gaynor further said:
“Our public highways, for instance,
namely, our steam railroad highways,
have been unlawfully used for more
than a generation and are still being
used to carry the freight of a few at
rates much lower than their competi
tors have to pay, that they are thereby
enabled to undersell such competitors,
drive them out of business, and estab
lish monopolies in themselves. This
rate favoritism over the public
highways has been the mother of
all the monopolies —or trusts, as some
people prefer to call them, instead of
sticking to the good hard word monop
olies. But a man comes along to the
chief rulership of the nation who
voices the growing evils of the nation
that such a wrongful use of our high
ways shall be destroyed, and it will
be destroyed. And so all our abuses
will be dealt with. Everything comes
right in the maturity of God’s time.
We sometimes have to wait for the
man and the time, but both come.
"It is a great error to suppose that
there is any hostility to honestly
acquired wealth in this country. There
is none. It is as great an error to
suppose that there is any hostility to
railroads in the public mind. There
is absolutely none. To construe an
intention on the part of the people of
this country, voiced by President
Roosevelt, to stop the unlawful use of
the public highways of the country,
open by the very law of their being,
to every one on exactly the same
terms, to enrich a few at the expense
of many, by favoritism in ferighr
rates, as an attack on the railroads or
business interests, is a perversion of
the truth too plain to deceive any in
telligent mind.”
IRISH BILL KILLED.
The Irish council bill was dropped
by the English Government with scant
ceremony. Premier Campbell-Banner
man rose and stated the Cabinet’s
views regarding the measure. He
said:
“I believe that the Irish people
would have done well to give the de
tails of the measure greater attention
than appears to have been the case at
the recent convention. But, in view
of the announcement of the leader of
the Irish party in the House of Com
mons that he would abide by the de
cision of the convention, and in view
of the unanimous decision of the con
vention to reject the bill, the Gov
ernment cannot, of course, go any fur
ther with it.”
THE HAYWOOD JURY.
Almost three weeks were consumed
in completing the jury to try William
D. Haywood, the secretary of the
Western Federation of Miners. It
consists of the following men:
Thomas B. Goss, 65 years old, Dem
ocrat; lived in Boise 26 years; retired
real estate dealer; belongs to Masonic
order and Christian church.
Finley Mcßean, 52, ranches, born in
Scotland; in this country 26 * years;
Republican; no church.
Samuel D. Gilman, 50, rancher; sol
dier in Philippines; 15 years in Idaho;
Republican; Christian church.
Dan Clark, 31, ranchman; Odd Fel
low; Democrat; no church.
George Powell, 58, farmer; Dem
ocrat; no church.
O. V. Sebern, 52, ranchman; only
two years in the State, former stock
man in Wyoming, and sat on jury
which hung Outlaw Tom Horn in
Cheyenne; Democrat; no church.
H. F. Messecar, 52, Republican; no
church.
Lee Scrivener, 60, ranchman; for
mer sheriff in Kansas; Republican;
Methodist.
L. A. Robertson, 71, builder and con
tractor; born in Scotland; Republi
can; Methodist.
Levi Smith, 53, laborer and farmer;
Republican; no church.
A. P. Burnes, 52; former grocer, and
former member of Carpenters’ Union;
Republican; no church.
Samuel T. Russell, 68, rancher; Pro
hibitionist; Congregational church.
ROOSEVELT AND HARVARD.
Roosevelt never will be the head of
Harvard, so declared Dr. Henry Pick
ering Walcott, senior member of the
Harvard Corporation, in reply to the
President’s reported utterance to a
delegation of Harvard men at Lans
ing, Mich., where he said, “In a year
or eleven months I expect to be an
active member of the organization.”
Dr. Walcott said, “President Roose
velt is one of the most loyal of Har
vard men and, of course, very friend
ly to the college, but there is no pos
sibility of his ever becoming Presi
dent of the University.” He hopes
President Eliot will remain for many
years yet, and that he should not vote
for President Roosevelt’s selection to
head the Harvard faculty, because, “in
the first place, he is not what you
would call an academic man.”
THE HAYWOOD TRIAL.
Harry Orchard, otherwise Alfred
Horsley, the man of blood and bombs,
was sworn and took the witness stand
to tell his story. The fate of Hay
wood, the secretary-treasurer of the
Western Federation of Miners, de
pends upon the credence which the
jury gives the man who is believed to
be devoid of conscience or morals.
He appeared on the stand frightened,
trembling and ashen. When he took
the oath he was near collapse. He
could hardly speak. In a low voice
he told a halting, disconnected nar
rative of destruction of life and prop
erty by explosions, sawed off shot
guns, railroad wrecking, killing from
ambush, poison, plotting and wanton
murder. He involved Haywood from
the time of the Cripple Creek strike
in 1903.
STATES TO FIGHT RAILROADS.
Governor Johnson and Attorney
General Young, of Minnesota, will
issue an invitation to the Governors of
fourteen States, where the railroads
are attacking the rate reductions
made by the Legislatures, to join
hands in defense of the laws and the
people as against the railroad inter
ests. On the result in the State of
Minnesota all State laws controling
common carriers will have to stand or
fall.
MORE PROSPERITY.
Throughout the entire cotton mill
district in northern New England, an
advance In wages averaging five per
cent went Into effect. This upward
wage movement benefits nearly 200,-
000 operatives in the six New England
States.
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