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PAGE FOUR 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. (Continued on Page 12.) /