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Rosenthal scandal will precipitate
ouch a break In the ranks of tho
city's democracy as to cause the loss
of both city and state to tho republi
cans this fall, Is uppermost in tho
minds of democratic loaders. They
aro In a stato of panic, and know not
whero to turn for relief. District
Attorney Whitman's haste In accept
ing the purse raised by millionaires
to employ Burns has acted as u
forcod march upon democracy's on
trenchmonts. Tammany Is not going to have any
investigation of Tammany methods
which Tammany doos -not make on
Its own account, or over which it can
not oxerciso control so as to call a
halt at the right moment if it can
help it.
Mayor Gaynor and others, who
greatly deploro tho scandalous facts
already bared, vlow tho situation
with manifest uneasiness. It is evi
dent that the mayor will fight for a
full and fair investigation as far as
ho can within tho limits which cir
cumscrlbo his power of action. But
the fact that he wont into office
through the votes and power of Tam
many worries his honor and worries
his friends. Will ho break with
Murphy, which ho must if any inves
tigation is to bo made undor his
ordors is to bo roal and thorough, or
will ho respect; Whitman's challenge
and disown at the same timo the
Burns proposition as outside and un
necessary interference? Whichever
course Gaynor takes will land him in
difficulties with tho general body of
tho electorate on the one hand or
with Tammany on tho other.
Burns hesitated about accepting
the retainer. Ho was unwilling to
pull tho chestnuts out of the fire for
a political organization or a political
faction. The backers of the district
attorney were able to assure him
that thoir action was dictated to
clarify tho city from the cancerous
growth of corruption. Upon this
understanding ho accepted and will
begin work.
Beyond the examination of the
widow of the slain gambler before
the grand jury, the principal develop
montB of tho day were yet unofficially
vorfled allegations and the collection
and disbursement of the "murder
purse."
WASHINGTON NEWS
Governor Deneen of Illinois an
nounced that he will support Mr.
Thoodore Roosevelt will sound tho
keynote at his party's national con
vention to bo held in the Coliseum,
Chicago, August 5.
The populist national convention
will be hold at St. Louis Tuesday,
August 13th. James H. 'Farrls of
Joliet, 111., la chairman of tho na
tional committee.
Tho balloon "Uncle Sam" made the
greatest distance in the flight from
Kansas City and will represent
America in the international balloon
races in Germany. '
An Associated Press disgch says:
Tho postofflco approprltjpon bill,
shorn of the good roads provision
proposed by tho house, but embrac
ing a revised parcels post system
with charges based on zones of dis
tance, was reported to the senate by
the postofflco committee.
Tho total appropriations proposed
by tllo bill are above those of tho
houso measure, which carried ap
proximately $200,000,000. One of
tho principal increases is in the pay
of railroads for transporting mails,
the senate committee adding more
than $2,500,000.
In striking out the Shackelford
good roads feature of the houso bill,
which provided for federal improve
ment of highways, the senate com
mittee recommends an investigation
by a special -commission of threo
senators and provides for no high
way improvements until this com
mission has reported.
The Barnhart amendment in the
houso bill for the regular publication
of the names of stockholders of news
papers and periodicals is changed to
provide for publication once a year,
when lists of tho stockholders are
required to be filed with local post
masters. Tho parcels post section is radi
cally different from that Incorporated
in the house bill, which provided a
flat rate of postage for all distances.
The senate provision is that of the
Bourne bill, slightly modified.
Senator Bourne recommended that
third and fourth-class mail matter be
combined for the parcels post ser
vice; but the bill makes the parcels
post apply only to fourth-class mat
ter. Senator Gardner declared it would
cost more to operate the Bourne par
cels post plan the first year than to
buy the express companies.
The senate committee struck out
the provision giving postal employes
the right to combine in labor unions
and to petition congress for redress
or grievances.
It provided for tho abolishment
of .the present system of nnrrvitur
second-class mail by fast freight
under what is known as the "blue
tag" system. Under the senate bill
all second-class mail would be put
back Into regular mail cars after
August 31.
A special commission is proposed
to Investigate tho subject of pneu
matic tube service, and whether the
government shall purchase that now
In use in various cities. A $10,000
appropriation is authorized for -im
proved mechanical devices in the Chi
cago postofflce.
Emperor Mutshuito of Japan is
dead, and Crown Prince Yushihito
has ascended to tho throne.
Police Lieutenant Becker was ar
rested in connection with tho Rosen
tbal murder in New York city.
Sugar refinery frauds at Philadel
phia have been settled by the pay
ment of a fine of a quarter million.
PUZZLED
Willie "Pop, what are 'an
cestors?' "
Father -"Well, I'm one of yours
your granddad is another."
Willie -"Oh! But why is it that
folks brag about them?" New York
Globe.
By a vote of 70 to 62 the demo
cratic house voted to stand by its de
termination to oppose any appropria
tion for new battleships.
In the District of Columbia su
premo court, Samuel Gompers was
sentenced to one year. Secretary
Frank Morrison to six months and
Vice President Mitchell to nine
months. Tho charge was contempt
of court growing out of the Bucks
aiuve ana Kange company case.
Mr. Taft has consented to a repeal
of the Canadian reciprocity act.
Following is an Associated Press
dispatch: Chairman Henry D. Clay
ton, of the house judiciary committee
announced that he considered un
necessary further impeachment pro
ceedings against Fedoral Judge Han
ford, of Washington, who resigned.
In a lengthy statement, Chairman
Clayton declared that while congress
has the power to try a federal official
for impeachment even after he had
resigned, he did not believo that
course necessary in this case.
Chairman Clayton instructed tho
subcommittee, now in Seattle taking
testimony in the Hanford case, to
discontinue its work. He received
the following message from Repre
sentative Graham, chairman of the
subcommittee:
"Judge Hanford has just forward
ed his resignation to the attorney
general. We are not quite done tak
ing testimony, but nearly so. The
sub-committee unanimously favors
to discontinue tho taking of further
testimony."
In his statement, Chairman Clay
ton cited the precedent of the case of
Secretary of War Belknap, who was
impeached and tried by the senate
after his resignation had been ac
cepted by President Grant. The ar
ticles of impeachment against Belk
nap failed to receive the necessary
two-thirds vote in the senate. In
conclusion, Mr. Clayton said:
"The main object of impeachment,
being to get rid of an unfaithful offi
cer, having been accomplished in this
case by the resignation of Judge Han
ford, if it is true that he was unfaith
ful, there seems to be no necessity
for impeaching him in order to dis
qualify him to hold any office of
honor or profit under the United
States. ,
"I take It that no president will
ever appoint him, and no constitu
ency would ever elect him to any
office of honor or profit.
"Of course, there will be no formal
action on the part of the committee
on the judiciary until a report is
made by tho sub-committee which I
appointed to investigate the alleged
misconduct of Judge Hanford."
Judge Hanford's resignation was
received at the White House as Presi
dent Taft was starting for the golf
links.
Judge Hanford's telegram to the
president read as follows:
I hereby resign my office as
United States federal judge. Letter
will confirm."
President Taft will take no action
until the letter reaches Washing
ton. Frequent conferences between the
president, Senator Jones and Repre
sentative Humphrey, of Washington,
in the last few weeks caused a re
port that Mr. Humphrey might be
considered for Judce Hanford's ninoo
Mr. Humphrey's friends urged his
appointment to tho federal bench
several months ago, but another man
was appointed.
Following ia an Asnnnlntorl T..
dispatch: Ten progressive republi
cans overthrew the regular republi
cans in tho senate and joined with
the democrats in passing tho La Fol
letto woolen tariff revision bill as a
substitute for the democratic meas
ure framed by the house of represen
tatives. The LaFolletto bill was
adopted by a vote of forty-seven to
twenty less than two hours after the
republican leaders had achieved what
they believed was a victory when a
compromise submitted by Senator
Penrose was passed in the committee
of tho whole.
A sudden-termination of the wool
tariff fight came as a climax of a day
full of surprising events. The demo
cratic house bill for a revision of the
wool tariff was technically before the
senate. The progressives first voted
for Senator Cummins' substitute tho
rates of which were slightly above
those of tho democratic bill. They
wero defeated, fifty-seven to four,
teen. Then Senator Penrose camo
forward with a compromise measuro
considerably higher than tho demo
cratic bill which regular and pro
gressive republicans believed they
could agree upon.
Led by tho defeated Senator Cum
mins, who said he would accept the
Penrose bill, "as a step In the right
direction," all but threo of the pro
gressives rallied to tho support of the
Penrose measure and it was adopted
by the narrow margin of thirty-four
to thirty-two. This took place in
what was known as the committee of
the whole. Tho amended measure
then passed into the senate proper.
Tho Washington correspondent for
the Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal,
says: Enough support haB been se
cured in the senate, it is said, to in
sure the passage of the excise bill,
extending tho corporation tax to in
dividuals and co-partnerships, sev
eral progressive republicans, having
changed in favor of the bill. Senate
leaders predicted defeat of the demo
cratic wool bill.
Declaring the Unltod States can
not regain Its prestige in Mexico in
fifty years, Senator Fall, of New
Mexico, arraigned the policy of tho
state department In its attitude to
ward the southern republic.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
Democrats and progressives united
again in the senate, and by a vote
of thirty-seven to eighteen passed the
democratic excise bill, extending tho
present tax on corporations to the
business of individuals, private firms
and co-partnerships. Attached to
the measure, also, by the aid of re-
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