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The Commoner.
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Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas de
livered a speech in the senate advo
cating the passage of a bill intro
duced by him to penalize the use
of the mails, the telegraph or the
telephone for the purpose of con
veying gambling propositions be
tween buyer and seller.
Governor Deneen of Illinois com
muted to life imprisonment the
death sentence of Herman Billek
now in -the Chicago jail.
Senator Cummins of Iowa deliv
ered his maiden speech in the sen
ate January 26. He spoke in opposi
tion to Senator Carter's postal sav
ings, bank bill.
The Nebraska legislature has in
vited Mr. Bryan to deliver a speech
before the legislature in joint con
vention, - .
Robert Bacon has been confirmed
as secretary of state. John Callan
O'Laughlin will be assistant secre
tary of state.
The assembly in the Wisconsin
legislature rejected the Blaine reso
lution, for an- investigation of the
Stephenson primary.
'There is a deadlock in the Wis
consin legislature where- Senator
Stephenson is trying for re-election.
There is a deadlock-in the. Illinois
legislature where Senator Hopkins is
tryingKfor re-election. -
Joseph L. Bristol was elected sen
ator from the state of Kansas to suc
ceed Chester I. Long. The demo
crats voted for H. P. Farrlly. Fran
cis G. Newlands, democrat, was re
elected to the United States senate
from Nevada. The republicans stood
by their agreement to abide by the
popular vpte and placed no candi
date in nomination. In the house
all the members voted for Senator
Newlands and .t, the senate all but
two.
of the charges made against him,
said: "The charges by 'Senator
Blaine relative to my having re
ceived $1,000 from Senator Stephen
son in the recent primary campaign
for the purpose of illegally further
ing the interests of Senator Stephen
son's candidacy, are absolutely ri
diculous." A Millersville, Wis., dis
patch says: "Leslie Tilton, named
in Senator Blaine's charges as one of
the candidates of tho assembly who
entered into a deal with Isaac Steph
enson whereby the senator was to
finance Tilton's campaign for the as
sembly in return for his (Tilton's)
vote for Stephenson should Tilton be
elected, denied that he had received
any money from Senator Stephenson."
District of Columbia jail, were or
dered by Justice Wright of the dis
trict supreme court to pay the costs
incurred in the proceedings which
resulted in the sentence for con
tempt. These aggregate about
$1,50Q."
The judiciary committee in the
state senate for Texas by a vote of
sixty-one killed the bill providing for
statutory prohibition in Texas.
In the Wisconsin legislature Sen
ator Bfaine, LaFollette republican,
filed charges alleging that United
States Senator Isaac Stephenson, as
a candidate for re-election, gave to
Republican State Chairman B. A.
Edmunds of Appleton a sum of mon
ey in excess of $106,000 and approx
imating ,$250,000 in relation to the
primary election held on September
10 last, and by such acts vibTated
a Wisconsin statute; that the money
was given to Edmunds to pay to
other electors prior to the primary
in sums ranging from $5 per day to
$1,000 in bulk as a consideration
for some act to be done in relation
to. the primary by electors for Mr.
Stephenson. Other charges' allege
that the money was. paid t U. S.
Kelly o Sauk county, one Hembring
ton of Racine; Roy Morse of Fond
du Lac and divers other persons va
rious, sums as a consideration for
.acts to be done corruptly and un
lawfully. The charges against United
States Senator Stephenson num
ber sixteen in all, the conclud
ing, charge stating that "the
primary nomination or election was
obtained byjtheuse of large sums
of money corruptly and illegally"
and "illegal voting and corruption."
On the first day f balloting fifteen
members- In the assembly refused to
vote on the senatorshlp, fourteen of
these were republicans. Roy L.
Morse, of Fond du Lac, when told
A federal grand jury in session at
Muskogee, Okla., is investigating
some alleged frauds relating to the
sale of town lots in 1900 and 1901
by the government. The Associated
Press says that a large force of se
cret service agents are on hand,
there being one secret service man
for every grand juror. It is claimed
that this investigation was put oh
foot "hy Theodore Roosevelt and
William R. Hearst and has for its
purpose the smirching of Governor
Haskell.
A Harrisburg, Pa., dispatch car
ried by the Associated Press January
26 follows: "James M. Guffey the
Pittsburg oil magnate vas today
unanimously chosen as the Pennsyl
vania member of the democratic
national committee to succeed James
Kerr, deceased. Mr. Guffey was de
feated for the position at the Den
ver convention, William J. Bryan
dictating the election of Mr. Kerr.
The result was a sensational con
troversy between Mr. Guffey and Mr.
Bryan."
A Milwaukee, Wis., dispatch car
ried by the Associated Press sayfl:
"There are 14,235,451 Roman Cath
olics In the United States, accord
ing to the advance sheets of the
1909 Wiltzius official Catholic direc
tory, published in this city. The
statistics are furnished by the arch
bishops and bishops of the United
States after the taking of a census
in all dioceses. Added to the 14,
235451 the number of Roman Cath
olics in the Philippines, Porto Rico
and Hawaiian islands brings the
grand total of Catholics under tho
United States flag to 22,474,440, as
compared with 12,053,000 Catholic
subjects under the British flag."
The senate committee on judiciary
has reported that the senato has no
right to call on President Roosevelt
for information concerning the ab
sorption by the steel trust of the
Tennessee Coal and Iron company.
The committee says that under the
act creating the department of com
merce and labor the commissioner
of corporations is empowered to
gather from corporations engaged in
interstate commerce such data and
information as will enable tho presi
dent to make recommendations to
congress for regulation. This pro
vision of law concludes as follows:
"And the information so obtained
or so much thereof as the president
may direct, shall be made public."
The data supplied to the president
by Judge E. H. Gary and H. C.
Frick as to the necessity for the
merger, according to Mr. Bonaparte,
comes within this clause of tho com
merce and labor act. Without this
information it is difficult for the
committee to proceed. The coram it
itee seems to take this view of the
case.
Jose Miguel Gomez was Inaugurat
ed president of tho Cuban republic.
Governor Magcon formally with
drew and the people of Cuba are
again In charge of their government.
Four counties In Indiana held lo
cal option elections January 2G and
the temperance element won out.
Several weeks ago thrqp other In
diana counties "went dry." The
four counties to go dry last week
were Decatur, Putnam, Tipton and
Hamilton.
A Chicago dispatch says: "In full
view of thousands at the electric
show the electro-hen is now hatch
ing broods of chickens. It Is a
couple of hours after each chicken
fights its way into the world before
it is entirely presentable, but It is
then just as lively as if It was re
sponding to tho cluck of a feathered
mother."
District Attorney Jerome of New
York has issued a statement saying
that if Douglas Robinson requests,!
him to commence action for criminal
libel against the New Tork World,
he will do so in the state courts, pro
vided, the attorney general of tho
United States will say that the state
action shall take precedence of any
federal action.
A Cleveland, Ohio, dispatch to the
Philadelphia North American fol
lows: "Mayor Tom L. Johnson,
nothing daunted by the failure of
his three-cent fare operation of the
city's traction system, Is to try for
the mayoralty next fall. He began
his campaign by taking out petition
blanks for primary use. Belief, that
the negotiations looking to a settle
ment of the traction problem here
will result in a fare no higher than
three cents is said to have actuated
Johnson's move."
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The Lincoln, Neb., Journal Is re
sponsible for the following: "There
are more than ten thousand unem
ployed' actors and actresses now in
New York, equally divided as to
sex.'
A Washington City dispatch says:
"Presrdent Samuel Gompers, Vice
President John Mitchell and Secre
tary Frank Morrison, of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, recently
adjudged in contempt of court and
I sentenced to imprisonment in the
Silas A. Holcomb has declined the
appointment to the Nebraska su
preme bench offered by Governor
Shallenberger and the governor has
appointed in his place Willis D. Old
ham of Kearney.
The' house of representatives in
the NeTiraska legislature passed, by
a rote of 68 to 29, the bill providing
for the selection of United States
senators by the Oregon plan. Tho
republicans voted against the meas
ure; also one democrat, Skeen of
Nemaha county.
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