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PAGE FOUR Summary of TLbents as They Happen Vatican Press Bureau a Failure. All the efforts recently made by the Vatican at Rome to establish a news bureau in connection with the furnishing of church news to the world at large have completely failed. Not one of the correspondents of foreign papers thought it worth while to wait for the information furnished by the Vatican press agent. Croker Coming. That good old fashioned, “safe, sane and conservative/’ “where did you get it?” democrat Richard Cioker is coming back to America to vote for William Jennings Bryan who, in his opinion, is the only man in the Democratic party who has a chance for the nomination. Beveridge on the Next Campaign. In a statement to the New York World, United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge fcaid that the issues of the next campaign will be whether the historic movement of the last five years shall continue. He said the statesmanship of President Roose velt will be attacked on the one hand by the extreme radica’s who used to destroy in order to cure, and on the other hand by extreme reactionaries who do not even admit the existence of any evils. Senator Beveridge’s inheritance tax would be a future certainty and that child labor, one of our most shameful evils, must be remedied bv a national law. •* 200 Per Cent Dividend. The Adams Express Company de clared a 200 per cent dividend last week. President Levi C. Weir of the company in a circular addressed to the stockholders, announced that $24,000,000 would be distributed. Refused to Thank Justice McKenna. The Western Federation of Miners at Denver defeated a proposed vote of thanks to Justice McKenna of the United States Supreme Court for his dissenting opinion, favoring Moyer, Haywocd and Pettibone in their appeal for habeas corp s. In debating the resolution, McKen na was denounced as a tool of the Southern Pacific Railroad and a ser vant of the corporations. The speaker said that there was al ways one member of the United States Supreme Court who would dis sent from a majority opinion against the laboring interest, simply as sop to the working man. Another declared that while McKenna might have been “right” on this decision, he “threw down the union man in his eight hour decision.” The proposed vote of thanks got only one vote. Only Four Committees. After consultations among the leading delegates to the Peace Con ference a tThe Hague, it was decided to recommend that only four commit tees be appointed to which shall be referred the subjects under four heads mentioned in the circular in vitation Russia sent to the powers in April. These topics are: Developing the scope and machin ery of The Hague Tribunal. Question? ot nava] warfare, in- WATSON'S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN eluding rights and obligations of neu trals. Supplying belligerents with coal and similar quasi munitions of war. Rules concerning right of asylum in neutral ports. Although some “pacifies” still in sist that the question of the limita tion of armaments must be raised in some form, the last chance of any Government coming forward to pro ]>ose to discuss it disappeared when it was learned that the Government of the United States thinks that the initiative belongs to Europe, not to America. M’ Calls Again in the Saddle. The M’Call family was again put in the saddle in the New York Life Insurance Company by the election of Darwin P. Kingsley, son-in-law of the late John A. McCall, as pres ident of the New York Life. Three Months* Trial. Federal Judge McPherson ordered all railroads in the state of Missouri to give the two cent rate a three months’ trial. Judge McPherson de clared that it was the only way to determine its reasonableness. Schmitz Insists He’s Still Mayor. Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco applied to Judge Lawlor for leave of absence from the county jail, be cause the “District Attorney is seeking to usurp his office and it is necessary for him to take steps to prevent it.” The application was denied. Schmitz then sent the fol lowing communication to the Board of Supervisors, who removed him from office: “Gentlemen: Seeing in th : s morning’s papers a statement to the effect that your honorable body at your meeting yesterday decreed that I was temporarily unable to per form my duties as Mayor, by rea son of my detention in the custody of the Sheriff of San Francisco, and therefore appointed James Gallagher as acting Mayor, I hereby notify you that I am not unable or unwill ing to perform the duties required of me as Mayor of the city and coun ty of San Francisco, but will contin ue to do so. “I also wish to notify you that any action taken by Mr. Gallagher in the capacity of acting Mayor will be null and void. I demand that you -send to my office all matters passed by your honorable, body, that I may have the opportunity of in specting them and of approving or disapproving them. “I further notify you that as far as this is possible, I intend to su pervise the work being done by the different departments, and in fact all such matters as may be neces sary for me as Mayor so to do.” Is It Possible? Judge Spencer, of Missouri, on! his return from Washington, made the following statement: “I think I am in a position to sav that Presi dent Roosevelt has decided that he cannot decline the nomination, if it is tendered him unanimously.” France on Verge of Internal War. The Government appears to have acted none too soon in determining to s.t the law in motion against the revolutionaries in the South of France. The Prefects report efforts to raise the populace, and three de partments —the Aude, the Herault and the Pyrenees Orientales—are apparently nearing the aggressive stage. z Advices from Narbonne, in the Aude, are that dynamite has been discovered on the railroads, in some cases the tracks have been removed, the telegraph wires have been cut and the villagers have been pulling up the pavements and collecting ma terials for barricades. The announcement of the inten tion of the Government to arrest the leaders of the wine-growers’ move ment was followed by a general ris ing of the countryside. The Wine-Growers’ Committee at Argelliers is still outwardly counsel ing “a strike with folded arms,” but the strikers are evidently out of their control. Prohibition Orator on Roosevelt. Dr. Daniel B. Turney in a speech delivered before the general confer ence of the Free Methodist Church at Greenville, HL, scored President Roosevelt as follows: “A President who carries a cigar ette in his mouth and a six-shooter in his pocket does not set a good example to the youth of the nation,” said Dr. Turney; “and that letter to Mr. Harriman, which he himself handed out, let us try to forget. “As Samson wist not when his stiength was departed, so our stren uous President seems in ignorance of having lost his popularity, but it has gone forever.” Loud applause and cries of “That’s so” greeted the utterance. Too Many “Good Citizens.” William Allen White, of Emporia, Kan., delivered the commencement address at Oberlin College, Ohio. In the course of it he said: “Too often our schools and col leges turn out nothing more consid erable than good citizens. Your good citizen obeys the laws, conforms to the amenities, worships whatever God there be, and lets it go at that. He does not get under the load of the world and lift. He is a dummy director who fails to realize that he is a partner in the injustices of this life. “He does not see that until he turns out to the caucuses and pri maries and conventions and mass meetings and makes his protest felt, the thieves that inhabit the Jericho road will keep right on assailing the weak, robbing the poor and threat ening the welfare of society. “One of the curses of this coun try is the large class of so-called ‘good citizens’ who, because they have book learning and well fitting clothes, are looked upon as leaders. Better is a government of stable boys following sincerely and serious ly the light God gives them than a council of ‘good citizens’ adoring yesterday and afraid of nothing so much as the dawn of tomorrow.” Telegraphers Win. Through the efforts of United States Labor Commissioner Charles P. Neill, who was sent to New York by President Roosevelt, the threat ened strike of 27,000 telegraphers throughout the United States and Canada has been averted. His suc cess adds another to President Roose velt’s long list of achievements of the same kind. The Western Union and the Pos tal granted the following demands: A 10 per cent increase in wages to all telegraphers in the employ of the Western Union and Postal Tele graph companies. The abolition of the sliding scale of wages. The putting of fixed salaries on all wires. That operators belonging to the un ion will not be discriminated against. The reinstatement of members dis charged without cause. The Telegraphers’ Union waived these demands: An eight-hour work day as against the present day of nine and nine and a half hours. That the company furnish type writers to operators. Japan Wants No Trouble. Japanese Ambassador Aoki had a long conference with Secretary of State Root last Friday. Viscount Aoki declared that he called merely to say goodby to Mr. Root, who leaves the city for the summer to mon ow. Earlier in the day the Viscount talked rather freely regarding the re lations between Japan and the United States. He said: “There is no ‘situation’ between Japan and the United States. The best of relations exist, and there is nothing of a diplomatic character under consideration. It is distress ing that there should be agitation ov er trifles which are purely of local import, if of import at all.” Duma Wrecked by Black Hundreds. It is believed that the late Russian duma was dissolved through a con spiracy inspired by the Black Hun dreds, perpetrators of so many mas sacres of Jews and its chief, A. V. Bobritcheff Pushkin, attorney-at-law and a bosom friend of all the Rus sian reastionaries. He was the au thor of the petition to the Czar pray ing for the dissolution of the first Duma. For this service he was ap pointed to a secret position in the Police Department. He is a rabid persecutor of the Jews and a tireless organizer of Jewish massacres. The Black Hundreds of which Bobritch eff Pushkin is the real leader is not a political organization with perma nent members. It has no definite purpose or program, except to incite riot for the purpose of the Govern ment. Its leaders, secretly hired by the Government, call themselves “true Russian patriots.” When they decide to hold a meet ing orders are given to the ordinary policemen to go through the cases