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frannlifsna nf railrnnrta at. tho rate of
Vj mills on tlio dollar In proportion
to tho equipment employed In the
state. Tho authorities levied tho tax
on all tho rolling stock of tho company
on tho theory that none of It la con
tinuously employed outside tho stato.
Tho railroad people contended that on
an avoraKO not to exceed two-thirds
of tho rolling s'cock Is ongagod within
tho bordors of tho stato. The decision
turned upon the question of the per
manent status of the cars, which this
court held to bo in New York, regard
less of their absence much of the
time."
General Miles on "Embalmed Beef"
The campaign committee of 'die na
tional democratic congressional com
mittee, and a sub-committee from the
national committee met at "Washing
ton City and organized for the com
ing campaign. Pursuant to appoint
ment by Chairman Taggart the follow
I ing rilombers of the national commit
tee were organized as a sub-committee:
J. Taylor Ellyson, Virginia,
chairman; -Col. Johnston, Texas, vice
1 chairman; J. M. Guffoy, Pennsylva
nia, treasurer, his proxy being held
by Edwin Sefton, New York, who was
elected secretary to the sub-committee.
There were also present John
T. McGraw, West Virginia, and Roger
Sullivan of Illinois. After the con
ference the following statement was
issued: A sub-committee from the
democratic Tiatiohal committee which
it was determined to appoint as long
ago as last February, met and or
ganized in this city today. Members
of this sub-committee were directed
to, and did meet, with the campaign
committeo of the congressional com
mittee tonight. A perfect understand
ing was reached and there is perfect
-harmony between these two bodies.
Each will work in its own field and
the national committeo will assist the
congressional, committee whenever
and wtieroyor the latter may desire.
An Associated Press dispatch from
Kansas City, follows: "General Nel
son A. Miles, who is here on his way
to Colorado to address Btate univer
sity students, said: 'The disclosures
abotjt beef and other packing house
products now being exploited are no
news to me. I knew it seven years
ago. I told what I knew then. Had
the matter been taken up at that time
thousands of lives would have been
saved. The adulteration of food pro
ducts is the colossal crime of the
times. I believe that 3,000 United
States soldiers lost their lives be
cause of adulterated, impure, poison
ous meat. There is no way of esti
mating the number of soldiers whose
health was injured by eating impure
food. I know only of its harvest
among the- soldiers and can only guess
how many lives it has cost the repub
lic. I have a barrel of testimony on
tho subject in the way of affidavits
which I collected when I made my
investigation seven years ago. The
investigating committee closed the
case and refused to hear two hundred
witnesses whom I had ready. At that
time I could have secured the testi
mony of one hundred thousand men
that tho canned beef sold tosthe army
was impure, adulterated and unwhole
some. In my investigation of "em
balmed" beef during tho Spanish
American war I found that poisons
were being used to preserve meats.
My first intimation of the practice
came to me in reports from command
ing officers to the effect that the ra
tions were not wholesome and were
making the soldiers sick. I ordered
an investigation and learned from the
reports brought to me that canned
meat had been sold to the army that
had been for months in the ware
houses of the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road and at the docks in Liverpool.
This meat had been relabelled and
sold to the United States for soldier's
rations. I turned the reports over to
the war department and a whitewash
ing investigation was instituted and
'successfully carried out. The official
report was that a colossal error had
been made. As a matter of fact it
was a colossal fraud and the persons
who perpetrated it and were interest
ed in it should have been sent to the
penitentiary.' "
Already Looking for Flaws
In an editorial entitled "The Goose,
the Gander, and the Sauce" the Wall
Street Journal says:
"From and after May first, nineteen
hundred and eight, it shall be unlaw
fuPfor any common carrier to trans
port from any state, territory or dis
trict of the United States, or any
foreign country, any article or com
modity, oth,er - than timber and the
manufactured products thereof, manu
factured, mined or-produced by it or
under its authority on which it may
own' in whole or in part, or in which
it may have any interest, direct or in
direct, except such- articles or com
modities as may be necessary and in
tended for its own use in the con
and Friday was a day of widespread
liquidation and panic. The causes of
this panic are stated as having been
over-production, gambling in futures,
the establishment of new banks that
were not required, and big real estato
and building schemes. Wall Street
Journal.
A HUMANE ACT
Nothing but words of the highest
commendation will be said of tho ac
tion of Theodore Roosevelt in allow
ing Harry Welch to visit his dying
wife. The milk of human kindness is
exhibited here in a rare degree and
every husband and every wife who
reads of it will admire him the more
for it. There is little danger of a
serious result ensuing from the grant
ing of Welch's request that he be al
lowed to visit his dying wife, and
even though, as President Roosevelt
says, there is no written law for his
action there is an unwritten law that
will make that action justifiable in
the eyes of both God and man.
Mercy is an attribute to God himself,
And earthly power doth then show
like to God's
When mercy seasons justice.
-Omaha World-Herald.
PATENT SECURED!
An Associated Prass dispatch under
date of Washington, June 4, says:
"Arthur Pue Gorman, United States
senator from Maryland, died sudden
ly at his residence in this city at 5:05 1 duct of its business as a common
o'clock this morning. While Senator carrier."
Gorman had been 111 for many months, 1 The above extract from the Hepburn
he had shown some improvement late- bill is the basis of all the wild talk
ly. Heart trouble was the Immediate that is afloat concerning the anthra-
cause of death. Up to the moment of
death Senator Gorman was conscious.
His condition during the past week
had improved so much that yesterday
the family had hopes of shortly tak-
- Ing him to the country. He partook
of some nourishment at 8 o'clock this
morning but at 9 o'clock ho was seized
with a heart attack and died in five
minutes. At the bedside were Mrs
Gorman, Miss Ada Gorman, the sen-
.... w.UWfc uuuBiiiur, una T.no nurse.
When the attack came physicians
were sent for but the senator was
dead before they arrived."
Senator Burton of Kansas sent his
lesignation to Governor Hoch June 4.
Foster Dwight Coburn was appointed
to succeed Burton.
cite coal railways.
It Is the most interesting bit of
legislation perpetrated by Washing
ton in very many years. It will stand
close analysis.
The Hepburn bill is intended to be
a bill to prevent discrimination be
tween shipper and shipper by the
railways. The principle of discrim
ination is tacitly and openly con
demned. Yet it would be difficult to find In
all the legal tome's of all the world
a clearer discrimination than the one
outlined in this extract from the Hep
burn bill.
If it -is wrong for the Lackawanna
to carry coal from Its own mines in
the Pennsylvania to tidewater at New
York, why would it be right for the
THE PRIMARY PLEDGE
nnJnDtafl t0 a"end a11 th0 Primaries of my party to be held between
now and the next Democratic National Convention, unless unavoidably
sTrZ, fn '? T rayJnfluence to secure a clear, honest and
n i? i !" d?clafratlon of the party's position on every question
upon which the voters of the party desire to speak. ' '
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Great Northern to carry lumber from
its own mills in Montana to tidewater
at Seattle?
The Reading Coal & Iron company
owns coal and timber lands. The
Reading company owns a railway.
Under this ruling the railway may
carry the timber or lumber from the
timber lands, but may not carry the
coal from the mines. '
Why this subtle distinction? The
answer may be worded any way one
pleases. The gist of. It Is that the
bill would never have become a law
without the support of the western
members, and the western members
would not vote to cut the railways
out of the lumber business.
These legislators were quite willing,
even anxious, to "divorce" the coal
carrying business from the coal pro
ducing business; but the lumber busi
ness that is the heritage of the west!
Therefore this curious provision
stands in the rate bill. The peculiar
inter-relation of the Michigan, Mis
sissippi, Arkansas and Washington
railways and the so-called "lumber
combines" of those states is not
brought under the eye of the law at
all. No one is entitled to ask, for
instance, whether the Atchinson still
owns that Kirby lumber stock or not.
Nor is it a matter of public interest
that Frederick Weyerhaeuser, Wash
ington lumber king, is a director of
the Great Northern railway.
Is it not possible, under the word
ing of the act, that some coal lawyer
may set up a claim that coal is a pro
duct of timber? If it is not, of what
is it a product?
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PANICS AND FRIDAY1
It is really remarkable how many
panics have set in on Friday and in
the month of May. May has always
been considered an unlucky month,
and Friday a day to be shunned by all
In beginning a new undertaking. The
panic of 1884 began in May; the Nor
thern Pacific panic was in May, and
there have been several great market
upheavals, notably that which follow
ed the collapse of Gould's gold corner
which developed" on Friday. The Lon
don Financial News calls attention
to the fact that May 10th was the
fortieth aniversary of the panic of
1886 which was ushered in by the fail
ure of the great firm of Overend,
Guerney & tj0., with liabilities
amounting to $100,000,000., Their fail
ure took place on Thursday afternoou
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Special prices during Juno. J. M. Dryden
Phelps City, Mo., R. D. No. 1.
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