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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1907. is I t 1 t M 1 i I I 3 I t 3 s ; i- i Dec. 25 Christmas Day Are You Ready For It?i Our preparations For Christmas have been both Thorough and Complete and we now ask t" e pri vilege of Showing you A Beautiful Collection of Gifts sparkling with the Brightest and Most Original Production For the Holiday Season of 1907. (The Virtue of Reasonable Prices is never neglected. You will find it in connection with Best Quality and Genuine Merit through ut our Beautiful Stock. A. V- ALrUEN Phones Main 7", Min 3S71 Brnch Uniontown Phore Main 713 WILL HARLAN RETIRE Yeinerable Justice May Leave Supreme Bench. JURISTWIELDS GRACEFUL PEN May Have Decided to, Devote Remaining 1 Years to literature Friends Are Carious to Know Whether the Justice Will Retire or Not WASHINGTON", Dee. 5. I'p once more has cropped the rumor that John Marshall Harlan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is about to resign from the bench. The report gained circulation again this week en the occasion of the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the venerable jurist's ascension to his present place. It lacking in official confirmation, but it has more of tbe appearance oi truth than its predecessors. Justice Harlan white-haired but Iright-eyeuY erect and vigorous despite lie seventy-four year, is noncommittal. Be shook his head indulgently when ask ed pointedly if the current stories were true. "I ean only say that I have not yet determined what I shall do," he said. "I could have retired on full salary ou $ June 1, 1903. Xow and then the thought eomes to me that I should retire in order that I might do certain work which I cannot .well do while on the bench; but uriien I get close to a determination of the question it occurs to me that my life would be shortened and perhaps be come dreary if I should quit the work to iwhicb I have become accustomed and in the doing of which I am most happy. "So, you see, I am undecided in the matter. It may be that my judicial work may end only with my life, unless in the meantime I am informed by those near me and who have the riht to ad vise me that my duty is to give way to a younger man." The outside duties to which .Justice Harlan refers, an.W which enter so strongly into his consideration of poss ible retirement, have aroused the curi osity of his friends. It is known that the venerable jurist wields a graceful pen and he may have leanings toward round ing out his ripe career by entering the field of Literature. It is generally be lieved, however, that he contemplates rather the devotion of his remaining years to teaching the law, in which he is so deeply versed. For many years Justice Harlan has lecture,! regularly in the Department o: Law of the George Washington Univer sity. When the university reorganized its departments, creating the College of the Political Sciences, Justice Hai'lan con sented tp take the chair of American Constitutional Law. His colleague, Just ice David J. Brewer, also is a member of the faculty, occupying the chair of In ternational law. Justice Harlan has shown the great est interest in the development of em bryo Daniel Websters. His lectures have become a feature of the university law frud diplomatic courses, and, tain 0 shine, the aged jurist never disappoints Tils classes. His enthusiasm in the uni ver&ity work is pointed! out as one rca aon why he may be desirous of passing along to the coming generation of law yers the ripe knowledge he has gained on the Supreme Bench. Justice Harlan ascended the bench in 1877, when he was forty-four years of age. His appointment came as the di rect result of his actiou in the Ropubli can national convention of the preceding year. He was at the head of the Ken tucky delegation and at a critical period, in the proceedings he brought about the nomination of Hayes by causing the elimination of Rrisiow, switching his "de legation to the Haves' standard. Blaine, by reason of this, was defeated for the nomination br seventeen votes. Within a few months after the inau guration of president Hayes, the chief executive rewarded Mr. Harlan by bis appointment. He has been an honored and conspicuous member of the tribunal ever since. FINANCES IN GOOD SHAPE (Continued tfrora Pigs 1) what foreign articles his baggage con tained and immediately thereafter searching his baggage to see whether or not he told tbe truth under oath. The ivpartnicnt decided that these two fea tures could be eliminated with no detri ment to the revenues. A new system wa accordingly adopted which provided for the distribution of declarations to passengers in the early part of the voy age to this country, to be made out by them at their leisure. The declaration itself was revised and simplified. These declarations are now collected by some ntlfcer of the ship held responsible both by the steamship company and the de partment for seeinf that such a written statement is received for each passenger, and then handed over to the customs officers on the arrival of the ship at port. In this way the pas-enger makes out his own statement, without haste and with out being required to make oath of any character. Amend Banking Laws. It might be regarded as worth while to consider the effect of amending the laws so that the country might be di vided into geographical 01' commercial sections, with provision for the reten tion with each section of a larger pro portion of the bank reserves required to be held again-t deposits in the national banks of such section. The result of this would be, taking present conditions, that the banks in the three central re serve cities would lose a considerable amount, and this amount would be trans ferred to banks in the reserve cities located in the different sections and would necessarily be held by them as cash. This addition to the available and a?tusl cash in banks outside of the cen tral i-;ervc cities would constitute an element of strength, iwhich, in times of stress, might aid materially in diminish ing 1 he violence of financial disturbances. Such a provision of law as this would not affect in any way the depositing by national banks of their unemployed capi tal, ciiit'de of their reserves, wherever they coi h! best use it. Emergency Measures. During the summer the gradual in creasing rate of interest charged for call money, .time money, and discounts of commereia' bills indicated' a progressive diminution in the amount of available cash. Accordingly, it was decided August 23, 1907, to make each week substantial deposits in the different sections of the country, with the particular object of facilitating the fall movement of the crops. In his announcement of this plan the Secretary of the Treasury said: "This action is taken to meet the commercial and Industrial needs of tho country at this season atuH is believed to be preferable to waiting until a time of acute stringency, when the only alter native would be a large general deposit. The latter policy the Swvtttry de-ires to supersede by one which, sluvll have a its ultimate object the adjustment of the .peiHitiona of the Treasury Department, a$ rapidly as may be practicable under existing law, In such maimer As iliall preclude their being til any sen a dls turbing factor in the business world," These distribution vr continued weekly until the aggregate amount of f2rt,K,tHH bad been so distributed. Not withholding this men suit', there was 1 constantly inereaslug stringency In the monetary centers, which culminated In the forced suspensions of several ira portant institutions. Prior to this crisis the shipments of currency to the west by eastern banks for crop -nun-1 tig purposes had been in- slgnftcant. There had been no important shipments of gold abroad, so the mone tary stnngwcy seemed to be hic, in large measure, to the hoarding of funds by owners thereof who bad become ap prvhcitsive of their financial safety. A the crisis approached the Department adopted the strongest measures to give material assistance. Within four day there was transferred fm the Treasury to the bunks the sum of 13.000,000. CONFESSION Detective Listens to the Story o Train Robbers. ROBS GREAT NORTHERN TRAIN John Worthington, Last of Trio Who Robbed the Oriental Limited of Nearly $50,000 Tells of H1 Complicity in the Crime. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3. Peter F. Roller, who is said to have been an agent of Secret Service Agent Win. J. Burns and is now held here on a charge of larceny, has secured a confession from John Worthington of complicity in the robbery of the Oreat Northern troin in Montana, several months ago in .which between $.O,O0O and fiiO.000 in coin anl currency was stolen. The confession is n the hands of the local police, held on instructions from Roller in the hope that he mav obtain a portion of the reward offered for the capture of the train robbers. Roller secured the confession from Worthington while the two were to gether in the city prison at Portland, Roller at the time being en route to thi ity in custody of Detective Richard McSorley of the local police force. Worthington has been held in the jail for some time, suspected of complicity iu the train robbery. Three men were engaged in the crime, two of whom wert captured with incriminating evidence, and the confession of Worthington run the last of the trio to earth. The train robliery to which Worthington confessed was a darii.g one. Three men, two of whom are now in jail in Montana, where Worthington is shortly to be taken, compelled the engineer to run ahead with the engine and then they blew open with dvtiamite the safe in which the treasure was being transported. The railroad ompany and express company offered large rewards for their arrest mid it is share of this Roller1 hopes to secures because of the confession he wormed out of Worthington. Yona Must . 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