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Summary of Ebents as They Happen
Schmitz Demands Salary.
Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco,
made a formal demand on Auditor
Horton for his salary for the month
of June and for the S3OO contingent
fund allowed the mayor’s office for
July. The letter contained a warn
ing against paying these or any
other sums on the order of James L.
Gallagher, the acting mayor, Schmitz
saying he would hold Horton and his
bondsmen responsible.
Auditor Horton has decided that
his only safe course is to refuse to
pay mayoral demands unless they
bear the signatures of both Schmitz
and Gallagher.
Ryan-Belmont Merger Unlawful.
“It is difficult to see how the mo
nopoly could be more complete. By
’it every street railroad and every
elevated and subway railroad in the
boroughs of Manhattan and the
Bronx are combined in one manage
ment and control. It is as absolute
a monopoly of the means of trans
portation of passengers in New York
as can be imagined. No man can
go up or down town in New York
without using one of those roads,
unless he walks or takes a carriage.”
These were the words used by
Judge Holt in the United States Cir
cuit Court in overruling a demurrer
of the Interborough Metropolitan
company in a suit brought by Daniel
W. Burrow, a stockholder of the
Metropolitan Securities Company, to
have the Ryan-Belmont traction
merger set aside on the ground that
it was illegal. Judge Holt’s decision
was a severe blow to the Interbor
ough combination.
Schmitz Gets Five Years.
Eugene Schmitz, recently deposed
as mayor of San Francisco, was sen
tenced to five yeais in San Quentin
prison. When sentence was pro
nounced by Judge Dunne the repre
sentatives of a delighted citizenship
cheered and applauded. Schmitz
created a scene in court by upbraid
ing Judge Dunne, trying to force the
judge to cease the scathing denun
ciation accompanying the sentence
against the prisoner.
The protests of Schmitz were met
with dignified contempt by Judge
Dunne in words that doubly impress
ed the braz n shamelessness of the
man before him. The Judge sternly
warned Metson, Schmitz’s counsel,
that another interruption would re
sult in his also going to jail.
Ellison Fired Out.
Mayor McClellan, of New York
City, made the long-expected change
in his cabinet by ejecting William
B. Ellison, corporation counsel,
friend of the Sullivans, and author
of the Tammany peace announcement
of six weeks ago, ami in his place
appointing Francis K. Pendleton to
succeed Mr. Ellison. James J. Mar
tin, the most able of Boss Murphy’s
opponents in Tammany Qal!, was ap
pointed city chamberlain to succeed
Patrick Keenan, deceased. Politic
ally these changes are highly signi
ficant, for they destroy what little
remained of the influence GBoss”
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
Murphy and “Big” Tim Sullivan
had in the mayor’s administration,
and bar* the way to political peace in
Tammany Hall.
Bacon Re-elected Senator.
The house and senate met in joint
session in the capitol at Atlanta and
consolidated the vote of the two
houses in the re-election of Senator
A ; 0. Bacon for a full term in the
United States Senate, dating from
March 4, 1907. After-Senator Bacon
had been declared duly elected, he
addressed the general assembly. His
address was in compliance with a
concurrent resolution of the house
and senate.
Talk of Hoke Smith for Senate.
The re-election of Hon. A. 0. Ba
con, the senior senator fiom Georgia,
to the United States Senate, has re
vived the talk as to the plans of
the newly elected governor, Hoke
Smith. Some politicians declare that
the governor is headed for the
United States Senate as sure “as
gun is iron.” WJiether or not the
governor will oppose Senator A. S.
Clay, when the time arrives, remains
to be seen.
Negroes Boost Foraker.
President RooseveL was censured
for h.s attitude toward the colored
race in the report of the committee
oi| “the state of the country,” which
was adopted by the New England
M. E. Conference at Boston. The
report was presented by the Rev.
R. C. Ranson.
“The discharge without honor of
a battalion of the Twenty-fifth In
fantry by President Roosevelt has
done more to arouse our just resent
ment and unite all elements of our
people than the act of any president
since emancipation,” the report says.
“The injustice done these men can
neither be laughed nor hissed fiom
public view; ridicule and persecution
of Senator Foraker for seeking to
establish the truth in this matter
will neither silence criticism nor dis
courage further investigation.
“The action of the president will
become a political issue in the next
national election, despite the politi
cians, if we can prove to the country
that no negro dispenser of political
subsidies can beguile us in placing
money above manhood.”
Dr. Thomas Injured.
Dr. Julian Thomas, the wealthy
aeronaut of New York City, in com
pany with two pretty girls, was se
riously injured by coming in collision
with a telegraph pole. Miss Frances
Hoss, one of the young women in
the auto with Dr. Thomas, had her
leg so badly smashed that it had to
be removed. Dr, Thomas will re
cover.
Prohibition Fight in Georgia.
The state prohibition fight is warm
ing up, and all over the state the
people are holding large meetings
urging the passage of the Covington-
Hardman bill. It is predicted that
the bill will be passed and that after
January 1, 1908, Georgia will take
her position on the “water wagon”
with the other prohibition states.
Another Race Riot.
A race riot, in which 5,000 Whites
and blacks pngaged, waged for two
hours on San Juan Hill, New York
City. It is thought one man was
killed; a score of persons injured,
eight being taken to Roosevelt Hos
pital. The riot was started in West
Sixty-first street by two boys, one
black, the other white, who quar
relled over a gofne of maps.
The mother of the negro lad saw
the fight and spilled a pailful of
dirty water on the head of the white
boy from her window. The white
bey fled, yelling that he had been at
tacked by negroes. There is bad
blood between the whites and blacks
of San Juan Hill, and this was the
signal for battle.
Women and boys assisted the men
in the fight that followed. While the
mob fought in the street, a dozen
negroes took positions on fire-es
capes and poured a fusillade of shots
into the crowd recklessly.
Ninety policemen were hurried to
San Juan Hill. The rioters stopped
their fight long enough to beat off the
police. A call was then sent for the
reseives of three precincts and two
hundred policemen •came from differ
ent stations. The pol : ee* ere divid
ed up into squads; a tacked the riot
ers from all sides and finally drove
them into their homes.
On the roof of No. 235 West Sixty
first street, James Adams, a negro,
was captured in the act of tearing
a chimney to pieces to provide him
self with missies. The chimneys on
all the roofs were
There were many broken heads
mended in various hospitals.
Rockefeller Gives Advice.
After having been discharged by
Judge Landis, John D. Rockefeller
gave some advice to the newspaper
reporters who met him at the Lake
Shore station, Chicago. He said:
“Do right; do right; always do
right. Be honest and conscientious.
Compel the confidence of men in you.
Make them have confidence in you,
both because of your integrity and
your ability. That is the capital I
had when I started with SSO. That
will bring success.”
Mr. Rockefeller said that “Com
binations of capital are to the advan
tage of all the people,” and that
the country is more prosperous be
cause all the interests are combined.
Any action on the part of the gov
ernment which would tend toward
the dissolution of big corporations
like the Standard Oil Company would
be a national calamity.
“Take your own city, for example.
I can remember when I first came to
Chicago it was a place of some 40,-
000 inhabitants.’ Look at it now.
The work of a few years is simply
marvelous. Do you think that any
one man or any one inteiest did this!
It is the work of the great interess
of the country, backed up, as they
have to be in order to be successful,
by the whole people.
“I will show you where combina
tion of interests is to the advantage
of every one concerned. Not many
years ago a friend of mine in Pitts-
burg was forced to go through the
bankruptcy courts because the poor
fellow was trying to sell steel rails
at $l2O to $l3O per ton and make a
profit. Even at that figure he was
not turning out very good steel
rails. Then mriny interests, capital
and labor, combined, and Mr. Carne
gie was able to make a fortune out
of selling much better steel rails for
S2B per ton.”
No More Trust Goods in Texas.
The most drastic anti-trust act en
acted in any state went into effect
last week in Texas. It provides, in
substance, that any person who rep
resents as agent or sells goods made
by a trust or combine shall be deem
ed guilty of a felony and, upon trial
and conviction, shall be punished by
confinement in the penitentiary for
from two years to ten years. Its
provisions apply to all merchants
who sell trust-made goods and all
persons who may be directly in the
employ of such concerns in Texas.
It is announced by Attorney-Gen
eral R. V. Davidson and his assis
tant, J. P. Lightfoot, that they in
tend to enforce the law to the let
ter. The bill was drawn by Mr.
Lightfoot and his particular object
was to use it as an instrument to
drive every trust and unlawful com
bination out of Texas.
Will Roosevelt Act 4 ?
Special Attorney Kellogg is at
Oyster Bay with the report of the
Interstate Commerce Commission on
the Harriman case, endeavoring to
persuade the President that the Har
riman case should be prosecuted.
The position of Kellogg and those
who agree with him is:
That the Union Pacific and South
ern Pacific railroads are competing
roads by means of steamship lines
from New Orleans to New York.
That railroad competition has been
absolutely terminated in a territory
equal to one-third of the United
States, which is dominated by the
various combinations arranged by
Mr. Harriman.
That Harriman’s contracts with
the Rock Island, the Southern Pa
cific, the Santa Fe, the Illinois Cen
tral and the San Pedro railroads are
in violation of the anti-trust act, and
it is recommended that the attorney
general proceed against them.
That the purchase of the shares
of one railroad by another is a bad
practice that ought to be stopped
by law.
That there should be an effective
law to prevent inflation of securities
like that in the Alton re-organiza
tion.
That the profits of the great rail
ioads of the Far West are being used
to buy stocks and control systems in
the East instead of in bu Iding more
roads for the development of the
West.
It was agreed to bring a suit
against Harriman in New York for
refusing to answer questions regard
ing the stock transactions of the Al
ton road. There has been a long de
lay in bringing this suit, but none of
the officials will explain the reason
for it.