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You cannot lose a penny, and I know vnut uioy aro doing. Send no money, but mail this cou pon at once t o d a y while you can. Wf)f BPHisBS VRADCUAMt -iM3l This $I.OO Coupon FREE, m Good for a roRnlnr $1.00. pair of Maele Foot b ' i to 6Cnt FrC l Try (M 0XPlaluctl An Associated Press dispatch says: A congressional "recall" of judges of tho inferior courts of tho United States is proposed in an amendment which Representative Hull of Ten nessee offered in tho house and which was referred to in the com mittee. Tho amendment which will be known as article XVIII, proposes: "That for reasonable cause, judges of the inferior courts of the United States may bo removed from office by concurrent resolution of both houses of congress if two-thirds of the members present concur there in. Such judge shall have reason able notice and shall have an oppor tunity to be heard in person or by counsel." Tho change in the con stitution proposed by Mr. Hull re quires a two-thirds vote of congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states of the union. Mr. Hull says his proposed amendment will confer on congress the power to deal with judges of the inferior courts of the United States, similar to that now given to about half the state legislatures with respect to judges of inferior state courts. Should the amendment become a part of the! constitution, congress could remove a judge for mental or physical dis ability, incompetency, continued ne glect of official duty, habitual drun kenness, oppression or other inis conducts in office. Namo Addres , . . -.,,T..,V-. --...,,,,,,, ,. The five judges of the United States commerce court would be re tained in office as circuit iuderes.- bv an agreement reached by the house kana senate conferees on the execu tive, legislative and judicial appro priation -bill. The commerce .court would be definitely abolished by the agreement and its work turned., over to the district courts in. which the various cases may have arisen. The senate had proposed that the. five commerce judges be immediately chopped from the judicial rolls, while the house proposed to keep them as .circuit, judges, but not to fill vacancies that might occur. In this manner the number of circuit judges would ultimately drop to twenty-nine, the number now authorized by law. .The conference report was submitted to tho Rnnto It provides also for a modification of one civil service term, fixing it at seven years. After each term, civil service employes would be required to again qualify for their places by examination or otherwise. Those now in the service would be credited with admission to a seven year term beginning next September. Mall this coupon to MorIc Foot Draft Company XC32 Oliver lUdjr., Jackson. Mich. The house of representatives, by a vote of 156 to 72. nasRori i ton tariff revision bill. It is claimed taut, ima win reauce the duties on cotton 21 per cent. It is the same bill that was vetoed last year bv President Taft. DOUBTFUTj "Jones is extremely attentive to his wife." "Still very much in love with her, "eh?" "Either that, or ho Is afraid of her." Boston Transcript. AN IMPKOVEMENT "I got a new attachment for the family piano," said Mr. Growcher; "and it's a wonderful Improvement." "What is it?" "A lock and key." Washington Star. staff, out of office on March. 4, was not In the reconstructed bill.. The bill, as the house repassed it', was changed only in that it did not carry the proposal to remove General Wood. President Taft was formally notlr. fled of his renominatlon at the White House. Senator EJihu Root delivered the notification address. Following are sample extracts from Senator Root's speech: "Your title to the nomination is as clear and unim peachable as tho title, of any candi date since political conventions be gan "You have been nominated be cause you stand pre-eminently for certain fixed and essential principles which tho republican party main tains. "You believe in preserving the constitutional government of the United States. . "You believe in the rule of law rather than the rule of men. You realize that the only safety for na tions, as for individuals, is to estab lish and abide by declared principles of "action." v t Senator -Simmons, representing the democratic-insurgent alliance in tho senate, and Representative Under wood, democratic leadAr nf h v,n, ..reached an agreement to frame a compromise wool bill, similar to that President Taft vetoed last summer. A meeting of tho wool tariff confer ence will be held. With practically all features on which President Taft based his veto the army appropriation bill was again reported to the senate by the njllltary affairs committee, carrying approximately $94,000,000. The section inserted in the bill when it was in conference to legislate Major General Leonr.rd Wood, chief of The majority report of the house committee appointed to investigate the steel trqst has been made to the house and it is described in an As sociated Press report as follows: The report was signed by the chairman and RenrGHAnrnMvoa T?n.f lett of Georgia, McGillicuddy of waine, .Beau or Texan nrul T.iftiofnT, of New tpr'k, democrats, Represen-v! uutiyea. .uaraner or Massachusetts,- Mfohfean and Sterling, of Illinois, republicans, dissented from the re- P.orf ,the maJrity. Representa-. tive Sterling submitted his individ ual views in a minority report and Representative Littleton, democrat, dissenting from the recommenda- P16 ma3orlty for amendment of the Sherman, antitrust law, filed his views.. .; Representatives Gardner and Dan ford will unite in another minority report which Representative Young will sign and add to it his own find ings as to the facts sflrrounding the organization and operation of the steel corporation. TOthVep?rt,?f the ma30ry deals with the steel trust from its incep tion and describes the various steps by which J. P. Morgan and his as sociates built up the corporation. In addition to recommendations for legislation suggested as remedial the democratic members of the com mittee make general accusations against the men' responsible for the organization. J. P. Morcran rinrT iio 'odmii.1 are held up as being the beneficiaries of enormous profits realized flrom the over-capitalization of,N the sub sidiary companies of tnev steel' cor poration and later pf the corporation n Jcgie E H-9ary and his dinners to j steel manufacturers are credited with a scheme by which prices rind territory were controlled by the steel trust after pooling agreements were discarded. tller Prident Roosevelt is in dicted for making the control of the steel trust absolute and is charged with being responsible for the gigan tic stature which the trust has at tained. The United States Steel corpora tion flayed as an enemy of organized labor, accused of lowering the socio logical conditions of its employes and of, contributing to AinricaDi dustry workmen and work methods un-American and foreign to.-the. best ' interests of labor-, j Principal stockholders of :tlie steel corporation are accused of exerting powerful and injurious influence on the business of the United States by means of control exercised through interlocking directorates of railway and industrial organizations. The activity of the corporation in politics is laid bare and its influence described and tho "steel trust" as a tariff beneficiary and. its part in the making of tho Payne-Aldrich tariff act are touched upon hy the demo crats. The committee recommends legis lation to cure trust evils and to meet existing conditions. It condemns the steel corporation, but does not in vade the jurisdiction of .the United States court in which there is now pending a government suit for its dissolution. ' Early in its report the committee sets forth that it would investigate "as if no proceeding on the part of the United States government were now pending against said corpora tion, but not for the purpose of- de termining the questions involved-.in the action brought by the govern ment." The government's- suit is to dis cover if the United States Steel cor poration is "in violation of the Sher man anti-trust law." In summing, up its conclusions the majjority, report says: "The control of corporations by the federal government as recom mended by Mr. Carnegie, Judge Gary and others, is not approved. What ever may be the evil results of the elimination of competition from tho steel -business, it does not justify such a remedy and- could not' be cured by- it. Such a control, semi socialistic in its nature, is beyond .the power 'vested by- the "constitution 4nthe federal congress: y, ' ., ! 'fT-he- almsesr 'mentidnad-tfri thls're '" port can in a great' measure; "bo rem- -- edieaX-by. giving to the 'operations of; ' the-.. United' States Steel corporation and. other like corporations the Kidest.. publicity,- 4ind by the strict enforcement of laws specifically in-' hibiting the-employment of cunning devices by which: unfair advantage over competitors is secured. The' bureau of- corporations possesses the " authority to thoroughly' -investigate the internal affairs of industrial concerns doing an interstate busi ness. . , . ; Had the .character of the steel cor poration and the naturo and extent of its operations been known to the people and to the president of tho United States at the time of the ab-, sorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company, it is highly improb able that the chief executive would In twenty minutes haye given his consent to a merger fraught with in finite injury to the steel industry and to the public alike. The part that United States steel the absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad company. Presi dent Roosevelt and Wall street ?-nancIers Dlayed in the panic of J.907 are covered in the report and' the insinuation is made that tho panic was an artificial one designed for the benefit of the steel corpora tion In its comment the committee Bays:- ' . "How a Panc which had persis ;iy resisted combined effort of the federal government and John. o. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan & ?: and remained in unabated fury after Morgan and Rockefeller had turned loose $60,000,000 and th federal treasury $25,000,000 more should suddenly be stilled by this manipulation of Grant B. Schley'a loans has not been explained either by Mr. Roosevelt or by any other STiu .Yet ,fc ls gently malu twned that the paiilo' continued jprfopd to this magical scoop of securities i mVmr" tH liwuMfcw L - t4lUfM,ll 1 llf """ " " " ' I ffUH. '.: .. V y ; . . !.- k