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PAGE FOUR Summary of 'Ebents as They Happen Senator Morgan Dead. Senator John Tyler Morgan, of Alabama, one of the South's greatest statesmen, died at Washington, D. C. last Tuesday night. The body was removed to the senator’s late home in Selma, Ala., and was buried from there last Saturday. Attending the funeral were many prominent men of the nation, including A ice-presi dent Fairbanks, Governor Comer, of Alabama, Senator Pettus, Senator Overman, of North Carolina, Repre sentatives Gillespie, of Texas, Moon, of Tennessee, and Bartlett, of Geor gia, the justices of the state supreme courts, the members of the federal courts and scores of mourning offi cials and citizens. In the death of Senator Morgan the nation has lost no ordinary man. Year after year, since his entrance into the senate three decades ago, he set an example of high statesmanship, of loyalty and patriotism, of abs »lute fidelity to right and justice, of pure and blame less private life. When he died it was one of the Old Guard who left us. Year after year he pushed on ward toward the goal, with no thought of pecuniary recompense, but with the sole purpose of serving his country and his people faithfully and well. Ever ready to advance the best interests of the people, indepen dent, of incorruptible honesty, Sena tor Morgan’s life was not lived in vain, and his record will go far to ward offsetting the baser manifes tations of our national existence. To Black List Texas. At a meeting of the Ass ciation of Life Insurance Presidents, it was de cided that every life insurance Com pany will close up all of their branch offices in Texas and cease doing busi ness in that state after July 1. Twen ty-eight companies are represented in the Association, including the Equita ble, Mutual and New York Life. As Hill Sees It. James J. Hill came back to New York City after a trip through the Northwest. Mr. Hill was asked to express his views on the railioad situation. He said: “I believe that the government will eventually be forced to lend its cred it to the railroads in order to finance their necessities. The demands of the public are becoming more in<i - tent all the time. It will insist that the railroads shall lay certain rai’s and add more cars. The railroads will add that they cannot, that their credit is exhausted; then the govern ment will have to step in and supply this deficiency. The situation might even ually lead to government owner* ship of railroads. If such a thing comes to pass it will mean the end of republican government.” “This is no mere theory,” he add ed, “but an actual condition. The country is growing very rapidly. The railroads have fallen behind this tre mendous impulse of deveh prn'mt. Their credit has been greatly injured* They cannot finance a recovery. What will be the result? Who knows? “In a letter to Gov. Johnson last WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN January I estimated that $1,100,000,- 000 a year for five years would be necessary to-put the railroads in shape to move the traffic of the coun try. The railroads have raised some thing like $800,000,000 •during the last seven or eight months, but most of this has not gone to increase fa cilities. It has been used to pay off old bills. It is no easier now for i ail roads to get money than a few months ago. In the western cities, to my knowledge, $5,000 lots of short term notes of the Eastern roads have been peddled around on a G 1-2 to 7 1-2 per cent basis. The railroads cannot increase their facilities under these c mditions. “During the last spring and win ter there have been more breakages of steel rails than ever before. The fact is that there has been too much prosperity. People are trying to make too much money. Steel plants are working too hard and trying to do too much. “It is a fact that the old rails made when times were s'ower hold out the best. I do not believe this theory that the evil could be remedied by the exclusive use of the open hearth rail. It is our experience that the open-hearth rails are more fran gible than the Bessemer rails. “I believe a little slowing down will do good all around. The pace has been too rapid. Caution and care have been cut out of the modern dic tionary. Everything has been going at breakneck speed. It is time to put on the brakes.” Schmitz Guilty. Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz, of San Francisco, was found guilty of ex tortion. When the jury reported their verdict, Schmitz sat unmoved. Schmitz is the first to be convicted in the anti-graft campaign inaugurated several months ago. It was on the testimony of his former “boss” and confidential adviser, “Abe Reuf,” that the jury decided that the mayor shared in the blackmail collected from the French restaurant keepers. Orchard Corroborated. In the Haywood trial at Boise, Idaho, the court admitted as a de claration from Steve Adams a tel egram sent to Haywood, thus link ing Steve Ada ms as a conspirator with Haywood. The telegram read: “W. D. Haywood, Denver, Col.: “I am in tionble. Send me $75 at once. STEVE ADAMS.” Former Governor Peabody testi fied that he siw Orchard in Canon City at the time Orchard said that he went there for the purpose of killing the Governor. For Better Steel Rails. The United States Steel Corpor ation has accepted the suggestion that a meeting b ; held between the makers of steel rails and the rep resentatives of the big railroads who buy them, to arrive a' some under standing regarding the turning out of better steel rai’s. At the meet ing the railmakers will insist that the railroads agree to accept a more costly rail. E. 11. Harriman, it is reported, will be asked to attend. Tolstoi Calls it Hypocrisy. Count Tolstoi, in a message to the New York World, sneers at the com ing Hague Peace Conference. His cable read: “TULA, Province of Tula, Russia. —The peace question was fully re solved 1,900 yeais ago. “Matthew 5: 43-44. “The Hague Peace Conference is only a disgusting manifestation of Christian hypocrisy.—TOLSTOl. ’’ Count Tolstoi’s message to The World was in reply to its cable: “The New York World would be greatly indebted for an expression from you on the aims and outlook of the coming Peace Conference at The Hague.” The, verses quoted in the reply read: “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. “But I say unto you. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, d > good to them that hate yon, and pray for them which despitefully us? you, and persecute you.’’ Harriman Ousted. Moore Brothers, who dominate the Rock Island, served notice on E. 11. Harriman that they intended to can cel the agreement by which the Un ion Pacific and Rock Island alter nately manage the Chicago & Alton. They served notice on Harriman to the effect that they would make a determined fight to get sole posses sion of that property at the next meeting of the stockholders, on Fri day. June 14, there was a semi-offi cial announcement made by the Harri man side that the Chicago & Alton “agreement had been abrogated by “•mutual consent.” That Harriman should surrender so qt ickly came as a surprise to the Moore party, and they are not altogether satisfied that there may not be some hitch or some Harriman trickery behind the seem ing surrender. It is well known that Harriman never gives- up anything in the shape of a railroad, once he has got a grip on i', with out the bitterest kind of a fight. It was the Harriman financing of the Chicago & Alton which brought the little railroad into disrepute, fol lowing the disclosures before the In terstate Commerce Commiss on. It was shown that Harriman had increased the debts of the Chicago & Alton by $80,640,218, and that of this huge sum only $22,500,00) had been spent for improvements, betterments and extensions of the road. The purposes for which the remaining $37,000,000 were used were clouded in impenetrable mys t cry. Duma Abolished. Emperor Nicholas affixed his sig nature last Sunday morning to an imperial ukase abolishing the present duma, and ordering that the election of its successors he held under the new (‘lection law, which provides against the submergence of the educated clashes by the uneducated masses. This breach of the constitution is justified by the great law of necessi ty, the advisers of the emperor hold ing it impossible under present con ditions to secure a parliament capa ble of co-operating harmoniously with the crown to rescue Russia from anarchy and revolution. The dissolution of the duma aris ing directly out of the refusal of that body to consent to the demand made upon it by Premier Stolypin that it permit the arrest of a num ber of its members on the charge of conspiring against the throne of the empire, does not come as a surpris?. Irish Resolve to Fight Liberals. The Irish Nationalist party has de cided to fight the English govern ment, both in the house and in the contingencies and stern measures will be used to punish the Liberals for failing to give Ireland a broader measure of Home Rule than was con tained in the rejected Irish Council Bill. Jno. E. Redmond, in behalf of the Irish Party,* issued a statement advising the Irish people how to best obtain the goal. The statement con cludes : “Another proof has been afforded that Home Rule cannot be won by a policy of conciliation alone. It can be won only by hard fighting, vigorous agitation in Ireland, an active, pledg bound, disciplined party in the House of Commons, a thorough organization of the Irish vote in Great Britain, and its use, absolutely independent of English party interests, to push forward the cause of Home Rule by taking every opportunity and every means that offer in Ireland an*d in Great Britain to force upon public attention the grievances Ireland has suffered and the ruinous effects of British rule in that country. If the Irish people show themselves earn est on these lines, whatever govern ment may be in power will find her self at an early date coerced into introducing a bill for the better gov ernment of Ireland very different from that recently rejected.” Roosevelt to Attack Harriman. Developments since the conference at the White House last Friday night which the president, Attorney- General Bonaparte, Secretaries Root, Taft, Cortelyou and Garfield, Inter state Commerce Commissioners Knapp and Lane, and United Slates Attorney Kellogg, of Si. Paul, par ticipated, make it probable that the government will begin ptroceediing's U’d >r the Sh-rman Anti-Trust Act against E. 11. Harriman and his as sociates for violations of the law in connection with the Chicago & Alton Railroad deal, the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific transactions, and, perhaps, in connection with the Sou thern Pacific and San Pedro traffic agreement. Gov. Hughes Vetoes 2-Ccnt Rate Bill. Gov. Hughes, of New York, vetoed the Baldwin bill providing for a flat rate of two cents a mile on all rail roads in the state not, less than 150 miles in length. By so doing he won the applause of the “conservatives.” He declared that the railroad prob-