Heppner gazette., April 02, 1908, Image 7

CERTAIN LAWS
MUST BE PASSED
Roosevelt Names Them In Message
lo Congress.
HELD FOR MURDER,
President Points Out Glaring Defects
In Sherman's Anti-trust Law
Would Legalize Unions, But For
bid Both the Boycott and the
Blacklist.
Washington, March 26. Insisting
that certain important measures should
be passed by the present oongress, Pres
ident Roosevelt sent a special message
to both houses yesterday.
The message in part follows:
Chlid labor should be prohibited
Al I i 1.L - -it . .
luruuKiiuui uie nauon. At least a
model child labor bill should be passed
for the District of Columbia.
1 renew my recommendation for the
immediate re-enactment of an employ
erg' liability law, drawn to conform to
the recent decision of the Supreme
court. Within the limits indicated by
the court the law should be made thor
ough and comprehensive, and the pro
tection ' it affords should affect every
class of employe to which the power of
the congress can extend. In addition
to a liability law protecting the em
ployes of common carriers the govern
ment should show its faith by enacting
a lurther Jaw giving compensation to
, its own employes for injury or death
incurred in its service.
I also urge that action be taken along
the line of the recommendations I have
already made concerning injunctions in
labor disputes. No temporary restrain
ing order should be issued by any court
without noticce and the petition for a
permanent injunction upon which such
temporary injunction has been issued
should be heard by the court issuing
the same within a reasonable time
eay not to exceed a week or thereabout.
I again call attention to the urgent
need of amending the interstate com
merce law and especially the anti-trust
law, along the lines indicated in my
last message. The interstate commerce
law should be amended so as to give
railroads the right to make traffic
agreements, subject to these agree
ments being approved by the Interstate
Commere commission and published
in all details.
In addition to the reasons I have al
ready urged on your attentionit has
now beome important that there should
be an amendment of the anti-trust
law because of the uncertainty as to
how this law affects combinations
among laboring men and farmers, if the
combination has any tendency to re
strict interstate commerce. All of
these combinations, if and while exist
ing for and engaged in the promotion
of innocent and proper purposes, should
be recognized as legal, as I have repeat
edly pointed out.
The time has come when we should
prepare for a revision of the tariff.
This should be, and indeed muEt be.
preceded by careful investigation. It
is peculiarly the province of the house
of representatives to originate a tariff
bill and to determine upon its terms;
and this I fully realize, yet it seems to
me that before the close of this session
provision should be made for collecting
full material which will enable tb
congress elected next fall to act imme
diately after it comes into existence.
Ample provision should be made for
a permanent waterway 'commission
with whatever power is required to
make it effective. The congress should
realize in fullest fashion the fact that
the subject of the conservation of our
natural resources with which this com
mission deals is literally vital for the
future of the nation.
Numerous bills granting water power
lights on navigable streams have been
introduce!. None of them gives the
government the right to make a reason
able charge for the valuable privilege
granted. Nor is any definite time limit
set, as should always be done in such
cases, and I shall be obliged therefore,
In accordance with the policy stated in
a recent message, to veto any water
power bill which does not provide for
a time limit and the collection of a just
and reasonable charge.
Formal Charge Filed Against Slayer
of Stevens,
San Francisco, March 27. In. Whan
Chang and Mlftg Wun Chun, the Co
rean patriots who elected to kill Dur
ham W. Stevens for what they believed
to be treachery to the Hermit Kingdom,
were this morning charged with mur
der. They must face trial for their
deed in the courts of this city. Held
in detention pending the struggle for
life which the courageous diplomat
made, the two men were charged on
the police blotter as soon as news of the
end was conveyed to police headquar
ters. In Whan Chang, the Corean who
fired the shots which proved fatal to
Stevens, when informed last night
at the jail of his victim's death, re
ceived the news without surprise and
with manifest delight. Since the day
oi the shooting Chang has been ex
pressing the hope that Stevens' wounds
might prove fatal. Last night, when
asked if he was sorry for what he had
done, Chang said: "No; I am glad
He was no friend of Corea, and he is
better dead."
There is a movement on foot among
the Japanese to erect a monument to
Stevens. Japanese commenced going
about among their fellow countrymen
this morning broaching the idea and
suggesting that subscriptions be forth
coming. The proposition is still in
the tentative stage, but, judging from
the feeling the Japanseae show toward
the dead American, there will be no
difficulty in bringing it to accomplieh-
ment. Whether the monument shall
oe erected in this city, in Tokio or in
Seoul, the theater of Stevens' services
to Japan, has not yet been decided.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTIETH
SESSION OF NATIONAL LAWMAKERS
CITY ROBBED WHOLESALE.
Chl-
Immense Frauds Discovered In
cago Water Department.
Chicago, March 27. An amazing
system of robbery and graft, involving
city employes and big business firms,
and extending back through several
years, has been discovered in the water
department. Two employes, including
a division head, were removed, and 38
subordinate employes will be die
charged, come of them may be in
dicted.
Through tampering with meters and
the connivance of city employes, seve
ral large corporations have defrauded
the city of hundreds of thousands of
dollars in water taxes. City employes
have sold meters to junk dealers and
bartered materials for drinks in sa
loons. Supplies never used by the city were
purchased ostensibly for the water de
partment and then used by plumbers
in private bnsineese.
The payrolls were padded with idlers
and incompetents. The force, which
originally numbered 200 men, was re
duced by Superintendent W. J. Mc
Court, of the water bureau, to 50.
TROOPS ORDERED OUT.
Mary Traitors in China.
Pekin, March 26. Seven men arrest
ed recently charged with trafficking in
governmental tecrets have been found
guilty and sentenced to long terms of
imprisonment. This punishment is
fsenerally considered to be worse than
death. It wcfuld appear that the con
spiracy against the government is fairly
widespread, and the revelations have
considerably alarmed the court. No,
less than 30 important persons are how
being held in custody and it is reported
that the chief of police of the forbidden
?ity is among them.
Cannot Deport an Anarchist.
8an Francisco, March 26. Joseph
Zabopki, an alleged anarchiet arrested
by Detective Goff recently, has been
given liberty by the immigration com
missioner. The Inability of the depart
ment to find the date of his arrival in
this country was a bar to deportaiton.
The police claim to have located the
headquarters of the foreign anarchists
in the Italian quarters and are contem
plating a raid that will cleanse the
place before the fleet arrives.
Kill Off Anarchist Papers.
Trenton, N. J., March 26. A bill
was introduced in the house today mak
ing it a misdemeanor to publish anar
chist newspapers. The bill is aimed
at a Paterson paper recently excluded
from the mails.
Striking Alaska Miners May Destro)
Property.
Seattle, Wash., March 27. Troops
have been ordered from Fort Seward,
at Haines, Alaska, to preserve order at
the Treadwell mines, on Douglass
island, where 800 miners have gone on
a strike. The troops are due to arrive
at Treadwell early tomorrow morning,
and serious trouble is anticipated.
United States Marshal Shoup, who has
just returned from Washington, leit
for the scene of the trouble, on receipt
of dispatches from his chief deputy.
TJie miners have threatened to blow
up the works if troops are landed on
the island They stole 10 kegs of dy
namite today from the mine stores.
Colonel Green, in command of
company of the Tenth infantry,
Haines tonight with a gatling gun,
should reach the mines at an early hour
this morning. The .other companies
stationed at Fort Seward have been or
dered to be in readiness to reinforce the
first company if needed. i
Just before his departure for Juneau
at 9 o'clock last night, Marshal Shoup
received a message from his chief depu
ty that no serious disturbances have oc
curred, but trouble of a serious nature
is anticipated when the troops are land
ed on the island in the morning.
Saturday, March 28.
Washington, March 28 But little
progress was made in the house today
in contUeringg the agricultural bill
The disoubsion dwelt mainly upon the
proposed esablishmentof Ft deral stand
ardd of cotton grades and Federal in
spection of grains. Mr. Crumpacker
and others opposed a section providing
f ir the establishment of Federal labor
stories for examination of samples of
seed or gra n.
The clause of the section providing
that the reports made as result of such
laboratorical examinations "shall serve
as a basis for the fixing of definite
grades, such grades to become the offi
cial standards for the grading of grains"
was stricken out on a point of order
after a lively debate.
The section was then adopted as
amended.
one
left
and
Bribery Is Charged.
San rrancisco, March 27. Tonight
it was learned that the new grand jury
which today heard the testimony of
many of the witnesses who appeared
before the Oliver grand jury, when Pat
rick Calhoun, Tirey L. Ford, Geoige M.
Abbott, ex-Mayor E. E. Schmitz and
Abraham Ruef were indicted on many
counts for bribery in the granting of
the United railroads trolley franchise,
have voted to bring three joint indict
ments for the same offenses against Cal
houn, Ford and Ruef. Schmitz is l-.ft
out of the new indictments. ,:
Friday, March 27.
Washington, March' 27. The Aid
rich bill was passed by the senate to
day by a vote of 42 to 16, in the main
a party vote. Previous to the taking
of the vote on the Aldrich bill, a vote
was taken on the Bailey substiute an
authorizing the government, instead of
the national banks, to issue the emer
gency circulation tor which the bm
provides. The vote on the substitute
stood 42 to 13, and this vote was en
tirely partisan, even La Follette cast
ing his vote with the Republicans. The
bill has been before the senate since
January 2. The vote was not reported
until after 6 p. m. and the galleries
were practically empty.
As passed, the bill provides for not
more than $500,000,000 of emergency
currency to be issued tp national banks
upon the deposit by them of state,
county and municipal bonds to be ap
proved by the secretary of the treasury.
The currency is to be issued with a
view of securing an equitable distribu
tion of the currency over the United
States, and in accordance with the un
impaired capital and surplus of banks
in each state. Hants are to pay lor
this emergency circulation one-half of
one per cent a month during the first
four months it is circulated and after- i
ward three-quarters of one per cent a I
month.
The bill provides that national banks
shall not pay less than 1 per cent on
government funds deposited with them.
As amended today, the bill carries
an important change in panning laws
relating to bank reserves. This amend
ment provides that of the 15 per cent
reserve required to be kept by banks
not in reserve cities, four-fifths is to be
kept in the vaults of the banks, and of
that amount one-third can be in the
form of securities of the kind required.
Wahington, March 27. The house
passed 360 piivate pension bills, at the
rate of ten a minute.
An urgent deficiency appropriation
bill appropriating $3,000,000 for carry-
ng on the work of the Washington
naval gun factory was passed.
Thursday, March 26. v
Washington, March 26. Although
the senate met today with the inten
tion of devoting the entire time of the
session to the currency bill, the cre
dentials of Senator-elect John Walter
S nith, of Maryland, early became the
subject of a discussion that consumed
nearly four hours and destroyed all
hepe of disposing of the currency bill
before adjournment today.
The result of the debate on the pro
priety of swearing in Mr. Smith was a
vote of 34 to 39 in favor of receiving
his credentials and leaving the regu
larity of his election to be considered
by the committee on privileges and
elections, and by the senate later.
the sanction of the committee received
any subt-tantial support. The amend
ments reportsd by the committee were
all adopted without opposition and
then one senator after another offeied
additional amendments which, except
in the cases of one proposed by Dupont
anu one by Lodge, were voted down.
Washington, March 25. In the
course of a bitter denunciation of the
president, on the floor of the house of
representatives today, Stanley, of Ken
tucky, compared him with Alexander
Hamilton, whom he designated "an
obscure adventurer," and both of
whom, he said, had profound con
tempt for the constitution and display
ed everlasting impatience with its re
straints. me president was a man
who relished glamor and who became
intoxicated by applause. On the other
hand, he said, Mr. Bryan had the re
spect of the country as a statesman and
was trusted as a man.
When Scott, in charge of the agricul
tural appropriation bill, today Bought
unanimous consent to limit to five
hours further debate on the bill, Sul
zer, of New York, objected. That ac
tion forced the house to a vote, and it
was agreed to confine general debate to
four hours instead of five.
A plea for homesteads for farmers
of 320 acres instead of 160 acres was
made by French, of Idaho.
The remainder of the session was de
voted to brief speeches by GricgB, of
Georgia, who gave notice of an amend
ineont increasing by $100,000 the ap
propriation for the investigation of
soils; by Bell, of Georgia, who favored
governmental aid to public roads; El
lerbe, of South Carolnia, who also fa
vored increased appropriations for soil
investigation.
Tuesday, March 24.
Washington, March 24. Upon the
conclusion of Senator La Follette's
speech on the Aldrich currency bill in
the senate today, a plan was decided
upon by which Senator Aldrich will
tomorrow move to take np the bill and
continue its consideration until it has
been disposed of.
Aldrich asked for unanimous consent
to dispose of the bill before adjourn
ment Thursday, but to that proposition
La Follette objected, on the ground that
he feared debate would be curtailed by
such procedure.
The colloquy which resulted in Aid
rich's announcement followed the con
clusion of the third and last installment
of La Follette's speech in' opposition to
the Aldrich bill. La Follette declared
the statement that the industries of
this country, were controlled by less
than 100 men had been attacked as sen- j
sational. Declaring that such was not
the case, he said that he had been too
conservative, and that in fact a much
smaller number of men dominated the
industries.
LAUDS AMERICAN NAVY.
French Naval Officers Surprised at
Efficiency.
Paris, March 25. Many French offi
cers frankly a ay that the impressive
demonstration given by the American
battleship fleet in its journey to Magda-
Jena bay of Its ability to keep at sea
raises the American navy to an equali
ty with that of Great Britain. If the
return journey is as succeeif jl as the
trip around South America has been,
they declare, the American navy will
have no superior in the world.
The French minister of m trine, M.
Thomson, is so impressed with the re
sult of this cruise that he is instructing
Lieutenant Commander de Blanpre,
the French naval attache at Washing
ton, to proceed lo San Francisco and
send a full report of the condition of
the ships and the lessons of the cruite.
The lack of boiler accidents during
the voyage already has called out criti
cism of the contrast turnith d by the
French navy, where trouble in the en
gine room is constant, and M. Thorn
Bon has been interpolated as to why
the government does not use the Amer
ican type of boiler, which is now being
manufactured in France.
A salient feature of the cruise which
is attracting attention here is the sue
cess obtained irom the American sys
tem of employing line officers in the en
gine rooms. This procedure up to the
present time has been regarded with
much skepticism in French naval circles
News of the decision to send the bat
tleship fleet back to the Atlantic coast
by way of Australia and the Suez canal
is received here as a crowning revelation
of the efficiency of the American navy
The statement that the cruise is to be
extended in this manner has opened
the eyes of the French public, which
has been led to believe that the Ameri
CAN'T BAR FROM
FEDERAL COURTS
Supreme Court Annuls State
road Rate Laws.
Rail-
Epoch Making Decision on State Rail
road Legislation Against Both Min
nesota and North Carolina in Fa
vor of Railroads Only One Judge
Dissents.
can navy was a good deal of a "bluff,"
and that the cruise around South Amer
ica would demonstrate the incapacity
of the vessels, and that if it was accom
plished the ships would be ready for
the scrap heap. Even in French naval
circles the belief was general that this
long voyage would develops structural
weaknesses in the vessels themselves,
or at least serious breakdowns in the
engine rooms. In view of these opin
ions, the announcement that the fleet
arrived at Magdalena bay ahead of its
schedule, ready for target practice and
in better condition than when it sailed
from Hampton roads in December, has
created all the more astonishment.
NEW ERA FOR ROADS.
Washington, March 24. Determina
tion to conduct a filibuster on all occa
sions where opportunity presented it'
self, in order to force the Rebpublicans
to action cn an employers' liability bill
and other measures deemed necessiary
of enactment was announced by Wil
liamms, of Mississippi, in the houe
of representatives today during the con
sideration of the agricultural bill. He
said he had waited until today to see
some evidences of an intention to trans
act business which the people were de
manding, but, finding none, had reach
ed the conclusion that the time wss
ripe to force the hand of the Republican
party. The Democrats cheered the an
nouncement.
Wednesday, March 25.
Washington, March 25. A good deal
of progress was made by the senate to
day in disposing of proposed amend
ments to the Aldrich currency bill. Ii
was evident throughout the session that
the bill will be perfected in the form
approved by the finance committee, as
no proposition that failed to receive
Does Not Want Hill.
Berlin, March 27. The German gov
ernment has informed President Roose
velt that Dr. David J. Hill, at present
American minister 'at The Hague,' is
not acceptable to it as ambassador at
Berlin. Charlemagne Tower, the pres
ent ambassador, declined today to eith
er confirm or derw this statement.
From other sources t was'learned that
the grounds are that Dr. Hill is not rep
resentative enough for the United StateB
to Bend to Germany.
More Warships to Hayti.
Washington, March 27. Two addi
tional war vessels were ordered to Hay
ti today following a conference of offi
cials of the State and Navy departments.
The Des Moines already had been sent
to the scene of the recent outbreak.
The two vessels dispatched today are
the gunboats Marietta and Padueah
toth of which have been at Guantana.
mo, Cuba, preparing for target practice. - the State department.
Monday, March 23.
Washington, March 23. The senate
today for the fifth time invthe present
session adjourned because death had
robbed the body of one of its members.
The untimely death of Senator Bry
an, who was familiarly known as the
"baby" of the senate, a title which he
took pride in, came home to the senate
with more force than any which had
preceded it. There was no other sub
ject of conversation prior to and after
the session than the fact that the mor
tality record of the present session is
greater than in any previous entire
congress.
Washincton. March 23. A. scene
endeavored to , somewhat out of the ordinary was en-
provision hisacted in the house of representatives
today because of a charge made by
Mann, of Illinois, that Sulzer, of New
York, had put into the congressional
purported to be a speech
delivered by him last Saturday, but
which Mann charged was not the one
delivered.
It all had to do with Sulzer's claim
that be, and not Mann, was the author
of the legislation that brought the de
partment of commerce and labor into
being.
A letter addressed to Speaker Cannon
from Representative Charles E. Little
field, of Maine, tendering his resigna
tion as member of congress, to take
effect September 30 next was read.
After passing a number of measures
relating to the District of Columbia,
among them an amendment prohibit
ing betting on hcrse races at Benning
ton's track, the house adjourned out of
respect to the late Senator Bryan.
Washington, March 26. More shafts
of sarcasm and invective were aimed at
President Roosevelt in the house of
representatives today. In one of the
most scathing arraignments of a public
officer ever heard in that chamber,
Beall, of Texas, charged the president
with having been guilty of "a disgust
ing usurpation of power," not only
toward the national legislature, but
the judiciary as well.
When the agricultural appropriation
bill was read for amendment today,
Macon, of Arkansas,
have inserted as a new
bill prohibiting the dealing in futures
in agricultural products, but the chair
sustained a point of order against it.
Scott, of Kansas, in charge of the bill, Record what
expressed his entire sympathy with the
proposition which, however, he insist
ed should be acted on independently.
On a point of order the several new
stations were stricken from the bill.
These stations were proposed to be lo
ciated in Texas, Kansas, Virginia,
Michigan, Vermont, Missouri and Indiana.
State Regulation Is Utterly Killed by
Last Decisions.
Washington, March 25. It has re
quired a second day's consideration for
men in public life in Washington to
fully grasp the sweeping character of
the decisions handed down by the Su
preme court in the Minnesota and
North Carolina railroad rate law cases
and to realize their important effects in
restoring confidence m railway securi
ties and bringing back the prosperity of
the nation, temporarily checked by the
money stringency of last fall. As a re
sult of these decisions, a brighter era
for railroad property is dawning.
The immediate results brought about
by these decisions are:
1. No state, through its officers or
its courts? can enforce a rate law passed
by its legislature pending the settle
ment of the law's constitutionality by
the Federal courts, when direct appeal
is made to the latter.
2. The rate laws of two states have
been wiped out completely and every
other state in the union that has enact
ed rate legislation is in doubt as to
whether its law is valid.
3. The overwhelming power of a
Federal injunction to restrain, not the
action of state courts, but individuals
from proceeding through mandamus in
the state courts to enforce that which
the Federal court seeks to stay, has
been established by the highest tribu
nal in the land. And this is only an
other way of declaring that the power
of a state court is nugatory, ence the
Federal authority interferes.
4. Any rate law which charges a
state, through its officers, with the
duty of administering it is open to Fed
eral inquiry the moment the state at
tempts to force the law, and such inter
ferene Is not a contravention of the
constitutional provision giving a state
immunity from prosecution.
Fishermen and Packers Agree.
San Francisco, March 25. An agree
ment between the Alaska Fishermen's
Protective union and the Alaska Pack
esr' association has been reached and
there will be no strike. The scale'will
be fixed on laet year's basis, which
was what the fishermen were contend
ing for. A modification will be made
m the cape of the hshermen at rort
Wrangle and Pyramid harbor. They
will be paid by the case, instead of a
percentage based on the number of fish
caught. The fishing fleet will leave
shortly for the north.
Will Dismiss School.
Loo Angeles, March 25. Pupils in
the public sthools of this city will have
an opportunity to see the battleship
fleet of Admiral Evans without playing
truant. The board of education today
arranged to hold the spring vacation
while the fleet is here, one week later
Washington, March 24. In refusing
to grant to Attorney General Young,
of Minnesota, a writ of habeas corpus
releasing him from the penalty in pos
ed by the United States District Court
for the district of Minnesota on the
charge of contempt of court in institut
ing a proceeding in a state court for en
forcement of the railroad rate law after
the Federal court had prohibited such a
course, and in affirming the decision of
Judge Pritcbard, of the United States
Circuit court for the Western district
of North Carolina, discharging from
imprisonment James H. Wood, a ticket
agent of the Southern railway at Aehe
ville, after he had been sentenced by
the Asheville police court to eerve a
term on the rockpile on the charge of
collecting for a ticket on that road a
greater price than was permitted by the
state railroad law the Supreme court of
the United States today added another
to the series of decisions which have
rendered notable the present term of
that court.
In both cases the right of states to
fix rates for railroad transportation was
the issue, and both involved conflicts
between the Federal and the state
courts. The decision in each case was
opposed both to the states and to their
courts. The opinion of the court in
both cases was announced by Justice
Peckham and, with the exception of
Justice Harlan, all the other members
of the court stood behind him in the
announcement of the court's finding.
The court decided that by reason of
the enormous penalties provided in the
rate laws by way of fines against the
companies and imprisonment of their
agents and employes, the companies
are in effect prevented from ever ques
tioning the validity of those laws, as
the risk of confiscation of property and
imprisonment of agents in case the
companies failed in their defense was
too much to undertake in order to ob
tain a judicial decision of the question
of such validity.
The question of sufficiency of the
rates to enable the company to Obtain
some return to its stockholders for
their investments has for many years
been held to be one for the courts to
decide, as it would be a violation of the
constitution of the United States to fix
rates so low as to be confiscatory, if en
forced. '
The laws providing rates for trans
portation of passengers and freight in
the two cases under consideration have
been held by the courts below to be so
low as to be substantially confiscatory
and should, therefore, not be enforced
until after further trials. The courts
had jurisdiction to make such an order.
MUST LEAVE IT ALONE.
Federation of Lebor Loses Again to
Buck Stove & Range Company.
Washington, March 24. American
Federation of Labor President Gompers
and others of that organization were
permanently enjoined from "conspir
ing, agreeing or combining to restrain,
obstruct or destroy" the business of the
Buck Stove & Range company in a de
cision rendered by Chief Justice Cla-
baugh, of the Supreme court of the
District of Columbia today, making
permanent the temporary injunction of
Justice Gould against the federation in
that case. The federation's counsel
immediately noted an appeal to the
Dietrict ccurt of Appeals.
Today's decision bars the federation
from in any manner calling the atten
tion of the public to the business of the
Buck Stove & Range company or the
putting of that company on the "unfair
list," and from stating that the com
pany's products should not be pur
chased either in Missouri or elbewhere.
Ruef in Tweco's Class.
rSan Francisco, March 24. In order
to aid the District court of Appeals in
determining if Abe Ruef is held under
excessive bail, Francis J. Heney today
filed a number of briefs showing that
Boss Tweed, of New York, was required
to put up $5,000,000 while his trial
was pending. Mr. Heney declares that
Ruef's offenses are not less heinous
than those of New York's forn er boss.
The prosecutor also filed with the high
er court a copy of Ruef's testimony be
fore the grand jury, so that it may be
guided by it.
Enormous California Crops.
Sacramento, Cal., March 24. In re
sponse to an inquiry from Rufus P.
Jennings, manager of Alden & Ander
son, oi the Laiiiernia iruit aistriDutors,
Favor Country's Ships.
Washington, March 26. The house
committee on interstate and foreign
Slavs Appeal for Compatriot.
Washington, March 25. Representa
tive Sabath, of Chicago, today laid be
fore the president a petition eigned by ; commerce agreed today to report favor
470,000 Slavs and Bohemians in this ably the senate resolutions to restrict
country requesting that the United J to vessels cf United States register the
StateB make representations to Hungary transportation from the United States
for the release from prison of Frank , to the Panama Canal tone of material
Polakvic, a naturalized American citi- J for the canal. The resolution author
sen, who was imprisoned for singing an ' izea the Isthmian Canal commission to
objectionable Slavonian hymn. The purchase or charter and operate vessels
president will take up the matter with of the United States for the transports
the biggest shipping concern in the
than had been intended. Members of state, today replied that more than
the board agreed that it would be im- twice a9 many men would be needed to
possible for the children in the schoqls handle the fruit crops this season than
to attend to their stndies while the
warships were maneuvering nearby.
Accept China's lvitnt'nn.
Washington, March 25. The State
department today notined Wu Ting
Fang, the Chinese ambassador, that
the invitation extended Sy hU govern
ment to the battleship fleet to visit
China would be aocepted. Thesmba-
sador was a-ked to
tion of such material and of canal mail, ance to his government at Pekin.
last, from all parts ot the state come
reports of indications for enormous fruit
crops which will go far toward solving
the great problem of the unemplojed.
Profits of Sugar Trust.
Boston, March 24. The annual re
port of the American Sugar Refining
company for December 28,1907, was
issued to the stockholders today. The
profit and loss account shows net earn
ings for the year 1907 of $3,749,291.