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The Commoner
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M. MORGAN, member of the Colorado stato
senate, addressd the joint legislative con-
ntion March 6 and charged that James N. Her
rt, vice president and general manager of the
lorado and Southern railway and Daniel Sulli
van, postmaster at Cripple Creek, offered to pay
1,500 for an Adams vote in connection with the
bernatorial contest. Subsequently eight infor-
ations charging bribery and conspiracy were filed
gainst Herbert and Sullivan in the criminal court.
he accused men deny that they offered a bribe
land declare that Morgan solicited from them a
ribe of $3,000 which he subsequently shaved to
1,500 but which they refused to give.
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IT IS also charged that the fund was raised by
the corporations for the purpose of raising
hrotes for Peabody, but no notice has been taken of
ithoso charges, by the legislature. Upon motion
of B. J.O'Connell.-a committee of five was appointed
'by the joint convention to make a thorough in
vestigation. Governor Adams, referring to these
charges, says: "I do not believe the charges. I
believe they are part of the political game. Sen
ator Morgan volunteered the information that ho
would yote for me."
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S -T7RANK J. CANNON, formerly United States
,t Jl senator for Utah, has been expelled from the
. ' Mormon church, because he wrote two editorials
i?v in the Salt Lake Tribune in which articles he at
tacked President Joseph H. Smith. Cannon ad
mitted writing the editorials and declined to re
tract them. He declared that the course of Presi
dent Smith, if continued, would be sure to work
great hardship to the Mormon people and main
tained that all his charges against Smith were
true. In hi3 testimony, Mr. Cannon said: "I do
not think Joseph F. S'mith is a prophet of God.
I think his idol is mammon."
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to the senate
on March 6 a special message relating to the
Santo Domingo treaty. The Washington corres
pondent for the Chicago Tribune says that moro
than one-third of the republican senators and prac
tically all of the democratic are opposed to the
treaty in its present form. This correspondent
adds: "The senate is suspicious of the whole
subject and is inclined to drop the Santo Do
mingo prpposition without much ceremony. There
is a feeling in the senate that a dangerous prece
dent would be created, that the United States
would be forced into a protectorate of the island
sooner or later, and that the treaty will be only
the beginning of a series of similar agreements
with foreign countries. It cannot be said there is
any personal animosity toward the president dis
played by the senate, but there is a distinct feel
ing that the policy he has outlined in regard to
Santo Domingo is not entirely a wise one. In
stead of feeling that the president is shaking the
big stick or is adopting a policy which is too ag
gressive in regard to the Spanish-American bank
rupt republics, there is a growing belief among
both republican and democratic senators that the
state department has gone at the problem wrong
end to, and that it has failed to meet tne emer
gency in Santo Domingo, which sooner or later
must be met not only there but in Venezuela and
the other little republics."
THERE is a disposition among senators to serve
notice on Europe once and for all that the
collection of debts due from American republics
to European individuals by force of arms, will no
longer be tolerated by theJJnited States. Refer
ring to this disposition, the'Tribune correspondent
say3: "This is a radical advance on the Monroe
doctrine, of course, but the situation in Santo
Domingo and Venezuela rapidly is influencing many
people to believe that the promulgation of this
new doctrine is the only way to prevent a series
of attacks upon the independence of (hese insol
vent Spanish-American states either by the Unit
ed States or by European nations. Every one
knows that practically all the claims against the
Spanish-American countries were entered into by
money sharks" and adventurers with a full under
standing of the fact that the security was of the
worst and that the chance of being paid oven the
interest always was small. Every sandbagging
improvement company and every combination of
speculative European bankers ;which has ever
gone into Spanish-American finances has done so
with a full understanding of the situation. The
par value of the debt in almost every instance is
far in excess of the money actually received. Ono
series of bonds ha3 been increased deliberately in
many cases by foreign speculators who believed
that when the par value was large enough their
own governments would be Induced to take a hand
and help them collect their money by force of
arms.'
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THE Kansas state senate adopted resolutions
March 6, in which resolutions the federal
'department of commerce and labor i3 bitterly
criticised. These resolutions say that: "In spite of
the fact that the members of said trust in twenty
five years, by the operations of said trust, have
accumulated fortunes beyond the dreams of avar
ice, the Garfield report says that the trust 'is
now doing business on a margin so small that
there is little or.no profit.' The resolution says:
''We request the president of the United States to
i eject this report and appoint some man with ex
perience, independence, and nerve that shall qual
ify him for the ta3k of investigating this gang
of commercial highwaymen, known as the beef
trust, to the end that the public may bo informed
fully as to the sources of the enormous profits
and foundations of their colossal fortunes, and the
means, instruments, and agreements by which for
a generation they have robbed both purchaser and
consumer, to the end that legislation protecting
both may be devised intelligently, and that the
light of publicity that light that is destructive
of all trusts and combinations may be thrown
upon the operations qf this vicious and iniquitous
conspiracy." '
IN dealing with the merits of the Garfield re
port, the resolutions adopted by the Kansas
state senate declare: "The cattle industry of Kan
sas has been declining steadily for the last seyen
yeare, the price of cattle going lower and lower
under the operations of this trust, so there no
longer is" any fixed relation between the price of
beef and the price of corn, and as this reduction
of price has gone to such an extent that there is
no longer any profit in feeding cattle for market,
and at the same time the price of beef on the
block is being advanced constantly to the con
sumer. The producer of cattle knows there 13 but
one market and one purchaser for his product, a
market that he must accept and a purchaser with
whom he must deal or lose his entire Investment.
The purchaser knows there is but one market in
which he can buy one of the necessaries of life,
and that he must buy of the beef trust at whatso
ever price it may fix, however spoliative, or be
come a vegetarian; and, every fact known to the
public is contradictory of this alleged investiga
tion and report, and believing said report is en
titled to no credit, faith, or confidence, and be
lieving that it has been made without sufficient
care, and that the commission has been misled and
deceived."
THE fortieth anniversary of the wedding: of
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Adamsky was held re
cently in New York city. Mr. Adamsky is 63 years
of age and his wife 61. He served throughout the
civil war and toward its close wa3 severely wound
ed. Mr. and Mrs. Adamsky have many children
and grandchildren. An invitation was sent to Dr.
William Osier, the famous physician who recently
'declared that men over forty years of age were
practically useless, while those over 60 years of
age should be chloroformed. This Invitation was
accompanied by the following letter: "While we
deem it unlikely that you will find time to accept
the invitation, still we would be charmed to have
you with us to help us celebrate the fortieth an
niversary' of our wedding. According to your phil
osophy, I vshould have taken chloroform many
months ago. We have been married for as many
years as are contained in your estimate of the span
of man's usefulness, and yet wo continue to find
much Joy in living and feel very sure that wo
would be missed by our loved ones if your ntivcl
theory were put Into practice. Wo are halo and
hearty and happy and have by no moans outlived
tho period of our usefulness. Wo trust that you
may feel as well when you have attained our
years."
CHICAGO'S municipal campaign Is growing
more and moro Interesting. A Chicago dis
patch to the New York World under date of March
5 says: "Joseph Mcdill Patterson has resigned as
editor of tho Chicago Tribune, slmuUaneouHly an
nouncing that ho will take tho stump for Judge
Edward P. Dunne, tho Democratic candidate for
mayor, who is running on a municipal ownership
platform. Two years ago Mr. Patterson was elect
ed to the legislature as a republican, and distin
guished himself there as a friend of municipal
ownership and reform."
RW. PATTERSON, editor of tho Tribune, and
. father of Joseph Mcdill Patterson, has is
sued a statement, In which he says that his son's
retirement was entirely voluntary and that they
had ceased to bo as3oc!ated in business 'because
an honest difference of opinion had arisen between
them.' Joseph Mcdill Patterson is a Yale graduate.
In a newspaper interview ho says: "The trac
tion question is tho only issue in this campaign.
John M. Harlan stand3 for private ownership of
the street car lines, and he promises franchises
to the traction companies. Judge Dunne stands
for municipal ownership of the street railway
lines and has pointed out the way to this end. I
believe in municipal ownership, and therefore I
shall aid Judge Dunne's campaign in every way
possible."
THE franchise under which all the surface trac
tion companies in Chicago now operate havo
expired and the lines are being carried on under
licenses until a settlement with tho city shall he
effected. This Issue is paramount in the mayor
alty election to be held the first Tuesday in April.
A Chicago correspondent for the Now York World
says that tho indicatipns point to Judge Dunne's
election, and adds: ''Mr. Patterson's attitude is
held to be indicative of the turning of thousands
of younger republicans and the younger voters of
Chicago generally to Judge Dunne and the cam
paign to 3ave Chicago's streets from the J. Pier
pont Morgan and Wall street traction crowd, to
whom Harlan has surrendered. R. W. Patterson
said: 'I have great respect for the sincerity of my
son's convictions, but I think he has acted without
giving the subject all the consideration its Impor
tance deserved. The Tribune will continue to
give its hearty support to Mr. Harlan.' Judge
Dunne said: 'Mr. Patterson, jr., has for a number
of years been interested in the practicability of
municipal ownership, and on finding himself con
vinced in regard to the question he has shown him
self strong enough to break away rrom tne influ
ences of his gilt-edged surroundings. Ho is a
type of the young American with lofty convictions
and force of character which is breaking away
from plutocratic environments and capitalistic
surroundings.' "
WASHINGTON correspondents appear to be
lieve that Mr. Roosevelt Is approaching an
open break with his party leaders. The correspond
ent for the New York World, under dale of Mar. 5,
says: "President Roosevelt begins his administra
tion with tho hostility of congress well developed,
and the indications are that before the close of his
four-year term he will be more bitterly antagonized
than was Grover Cleveland, who retired with only
three -Senators of his own party left to derend his
policies. The Fifty-eighth congress, at the three
month session, which closed at noon yesterday,
ignored and rebuked the president as no previous
body of legislators has ever done. Nearly every
recommendation made by the chief executive was
ridiculed and rejected. Apparently all required
to""flefeat a measure was the knowledge that th
president urged and approved it."
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