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Summary of Ebents as They Happen
Roosevelt Dominates Federal Judi
ciary.
Policies of government suggested by
President Roosevelt and which will,
if enacted into statutory law, event
ually be tested as to their constitu
tionality by Federal Judges, include
among others the following proposi
tions :
1. The control of all railways or
other methods of transportation with
in individual State limitations as com
ing under the constitutional provision
retaining governmental control over
post roads.
2. The control of all trusts trans
gressing Federal laws through receiv
ers to be appointed by Federal
Judges.
3. The control of all individual
fortunes by the imposition of an in
come tax.
4. The control of all agencies em
ploying labor in so far as the liabil
ity of the employer is concerned by
the elimination of the plea of con
tributory negligence.
5. The control of all coal deposits
now on Government reservations to
be developed under license from
Washington.
6. The control of child labor.
7. The control of all realroads en
gaged in interstate commerce by
means of governmental regulation of
rates.
President Roosevelt, through ap
pointments made by him, domi
nates the Federal Judiciary to this
extent:
Supreme Court, three associate jus
tices, one-third of the membership.
Circuit Court, twelve of the twen
ty-nine judges, or 41.7 per cent.
District Court, forty-two of the
eighty judges, or 52.5 per cent.
By the end of his present term,
March 4, 1909, it will have been pos
sible for him to appoint:
Seven of the nine Justices of the
Supreme Court, nearly 78 per cent of
that tribunal.
Seventeen of the twenty-nine
Judges of the Circuit Court, or near
ly 59 per cent.
Forty-seven of the eighty Judges
of the District Court, or nearly 59
per cent.
Should he be elected for another
term, ending March 4, 1913, it will
be possible for him to appoint judges
as follows:
Eight of the nine Justices of th' 1
Supreme Court.
Twenty of the twenty-nine Judges
of the Circuit Court, or substantially
70 per cent of its membership.
Fifty-one of the eighty Judges of
the District Court, or substantially
70 per cent of its membership.
6,000 Voices Cry Graft.
Throughout the width and breadth
of the state of Pennsylvania will
ring the cry and warning, “Thou
shalt not steal,” during the com ng
state campaign.
Shouting this warning from plat
forms in 2,000 cities, towns and vil
lages in Pennsylvania on the same
day, 6,000 speakers will drive home
to the people of the state the lesson
of the Harrisburg capitol steal.
William J. Brennen, head of the
Rm* al Democracy, has the arrange-
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
ments in hand for one of the greatest
campaigns the state ever has known
in the coming fight for State Treas
urer. Brennen conceived the idea of
holding this gigantic meeting. While
the date has not been selected, it pos
sibly will be in August.
Texas After the Thread Trust.
Attorney-General Davidson said
that he is investigating the charge
that the Thread Trust is operating
in Texas in violation of the Anti-
Trust laws. If evidence can be ob
tained upon which to base a prose
cution suit for enormous penalties
will be filed and the trust’s agents
in Texas will be prosecuted criminal
ly. The price of thread in Texas has
gone up 40 per cent recently.
Patrick Still Plans for Freedom.
Lawyer Albert T. Patrick, under
going life sentence for the murder
of William March Rice, the Texas
multi-millionaire, broke his long si
lence in his cell in Sing Sing and
gave a statement to the press. He
said that he was innocent of the
charge and that he would soon renew
his legal fight for pardon. Patrick
since his confinement in the death
house has seen seventeen men taken
from adjoining cells to be electro
cuted.
Raises $50,000.
The twelfth annual convention of
the Christian and Missionary Al
liance of the district composed of
Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jer
sey, Delaware and the District of
Columbia, was ended at Rocky
Springs Park, Pa., 5,000 persons be
ing present. Almost $50,000 for the
cause was raised by the Rev. Dr. A.
B. Simpson, of New York, founder
and president.
French Language Barred.
Much indignation was caused at
Paris when information was received
from Strasburg that the Superior
Council of Public Instructions in
the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine
had issued an order suppressing the
teaching of French in all the cities
adjoining the French frontier, mak
ing the German language the official
language of the schools.
The Mayors of the several cities
and villages affected have issued a
joint protest, which they intend to
carry as high as the imperial throne.
The school authorities in the two
provinces justify their action by
claiming that since the German oc
cupation of the former French prov
inces many German families have set
tled in the industrial portion of the
territory adjoining the French fron
tier, and that in justice to them the
use of the German language in the
schools had to be enforced.
151 Drowned in Pacific.
The steamer Columbia, sailing from
San Francisco for Portland, was in
collision just after midnight on July
22 with the steam lumber schooner
“San Pedro.” The San Pedro
rammed the Columbia on the side,
causing her to fill and sink quickly,
drowning 151 passengers and mem
bers of the crew.
Face of Morgan Shocks London.
A picture of J. P. Morgan, the
American Trust magnate, now seen
as an advertisement on all the board
ings of London, to attract visitors to
the Business Exhibition at Olympia,
has shocked London by its hideous
and brutal features. One of the Lon
don dailies, “The Daily Mirror,” has
this to say:
“The first thing that strikes a
fresh arrival in London at the pres
ent time is a hideous face on all the
boardings—features contorted with
greed, forehead corrugated with wor
ry-furrows, eyes bulging out as if in
an attempt to hypnotize the passer
by.
“At first you think it must be de
signed to advertise the life of some
notorious criminal, or a patent nerve
tonic, or a new pill, the idea being
that any one who in the least resem
bles the poster needs medicine very
badly, indeed.
“These guesses, however, are quite
wrong. It is really an advertisement
of the Business Exhibition at Olym
pia—and a very clever advertisement
too, for it insists upon being looked
at. But it is a gross libel upon the
English business man.
“The impression left by the face
of this ugly fellow is that all his
thoughts and energies are devoted to
money-making. It is a cruel face. •
It is a criminal face. It is the face
of a man who would stick at nothing
to make his business go. It is also
a face which proclaims a narrow
mind, heedless, in its constant preoc
cupation, of all the interest and won
der and beauty of the world.
“There are men of business like
that. In the United States there are
many of them. They pile up large
fortunes which their frivolous wives
spend during their lifetime and their
spendthrift sons dissipate after their
deaths. ’ ’
Sees a National Peril in Packing Fed
eral Courts.
Gen. Roger A. Pryor, retired from
the Supreme Court bench of New
York City, highly respected by all
persons and full of years and expe
rience, views with disapproval the
system of appointment to the Feder
al bench, making it possible for the
Executive to so select the judges as
to cause the courts to reflect his in
dividual opinions in their decisions.
“I have the highest respect and
admiration for Mr. Roosevelt as a
man,’’ said Gen. Pryor. “I have
known him for many years, my ac
quaintance dating from long before
he held public office. I admire his
honesty, his ability and his personal
ity; but I cannot help feeling that
there is a public menace in the sys
tem which permits a President to
select men for the various Federal
courts who reflect his opinions.
“There may come a day when a
President is not honest and conscien
tious, but is selfish and ambitious.
It is easy to see the danger to the
Constitution which such a man might
bring about. Thomas Jefferson, that
long-sighted patriot, foresaw this
very situation.
* * Now, Jefferson believed that the
Supreme Court judges ought to be
elected and that their terms ought to
be not more than six years. I agree
with Mr. Jefferson. The Constitu
tion intended to make the judges
independent, but the instrument fails
in this. An appointed judge can’t
help being biased in favor of the ap
pointing power, especially if he has
all his life entertained the opinions
of the Executive.
“I believe the ideal system is that
now in force in the State of New
York, where the judiciary is elected
and the judges come up for election
from time to time.”
Negro Blood “Tainted.”
Negroes in Louisiana want laws
against the intermingling of white
and negro blood. At a state conven
tion held at Shreveport, La., the Un
ited Brotherhood of Friends and the
Temple of the Sisters of the Myste
rious Ten, attended by five hundred
delegates representing a membership
of ten thousand, resolutions were
adopted denouncing negro women who
became intimate with white men.
A committee was named to present
a memorial to the next Legislature
asking for the enactment of a pro
hibitory statute, the contention being
that the “African blood is rapidly
becoming tainted.”
Church in Politics.
Growing tired of the failure of the
city to keep the streets clean in his
parish, the Rev. Father Caesar Tom
asewaski, pastor of St. Stanlaus
Polish Catholic Church, at Pittsburg,
Pa., says that he and his parishion
ers will nominate men for council
who will do their duty to their con
stituents. The priest has 10,000
members in his congregation, repre
senting 1,500 families, and he says
he will engage all of them in political
work. He severely censures the
Health Bureau. He avers that de
cayed vegetables, and dead animals
are allowed to remain in the streets
to the detriment of the public health.
Women in Meat Riots.
As a protest against the rise in
meat prices, thousands of Jewish wo
men mobbed the kosher butcher shops
in the southern section of Philadel
phia. The agitation over the increase
in meat prices had continued for the
past few weeks and reached a cli
max last Wednesday night when in
three halls mass meetings were held.
Inflammatory speakers addressed one
meeting after another and early next
morning groups of women armed
with pitchers and buckets of kero
sene and acids took positions before
the shops of meat being sold. Two
butcher shops were wrecked and
twenty tons of meat was spoiled with
kerosene.
Protest From Tariff League.
Resolutions condemning the tariff
agreement with Germany were adopt
ed by the board of managers and the
executive committee of the American
Protective Tariff League at 339
Broadway, New York City. The
agreement is criticised as “contrary
to law, contrary to the policy of pro
tection, injurious to American labor,
unfair to the honest American im
porter who buys in the foreign mar-