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PAGE FOUR 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.