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VOLUME XXVI : - .
NUMBER 14
. REPORT TELLS OF i
NEEDSOFFARHIER
SITUATION AS SEEN BY
COMMISSION ON COUN
_ TRY LIFE.
DEFICIENCIES POINTED OUT
Agriculture at Present Not Commer
cially as Profitable as It Is En
titled to Be—Highly Organized
Rural Society Recommended as De
sirable Step—Possible for Congress
to Remove Many of the Handicaps
Washington.—The report of the
commission on country life, made to
the president, was read in both houses
of congress. Substantially the re
port was as follows:
To the President: The commission
on country life herewith presents its
report. The commission finds that
agriculture in the I'nited States, taken
together, is prosperous commercially,
when measured by the conditions that
have obtained in previous years, al
though there are some regions in
which this is only partially true. The
country people are producing vast
quantities of supplies for food, shelter,
clothing, and for use in the arts. The
country homes are improving in com
fort. attractiveness and healthfulness.
Not only in the material wealth that
they produce, but in the supply of in
dependent and strong citizenship, the ag
ricultural people constitute the very
foundation of our national efficiency.
As agriculture is the immediate basis
of country life, so it follows that the
general affairs of the open country,
speaking broadly, are in a condition
of improvement.
Most Prominent Deficiencies.
Tet it is true, notwithstanding all
this progress as measured by his
torical standards, that agriculture is
not commercially as profitable as it is
entitled to be for the labor and energy
that the farmer expends and the risks
that he assumes, and that the social
conditions in the open country are far
short of their possibilities. We must
measure our agricultural efficiency by
The possibilities rather than by com
parison with previous conditions. The
farmer is almost necessarily handi
capped in the development of his busi
ness, because his capital is small and
the volume of his transactions limited;
and he usually stands practically
alone against organized interests. In
the general readjustment of modern
life due to the great changes in manu
factures and commerce. inequalities
and discriminations have arisen, and
- naturally the separate man sufTers
most. The unattached man has prob
\ lems that government should under
stand.
The reasons for the lack of a highly
organized rural society are very many,
as the full report explains. The lead
ing specific causes are:
A lack of knowledge on the part of
farmers of the exact agricultural con
ditions and possibilities of their re
gions:
Lack of good training for country
life in the schools;
Lack of good highway facilities;
The widespread continuing deple
tion of soils, with the injurious effect
on rural life;
A general need of new and active
leadership.
Other causes contributing to the'
general result are: Lack of any ad->
g quate system of agricultural credit.
M whereby the farmer may readily s<—
ure loans on fair terms: the short
age of labor, a condition that is often
complicated by intemperance among
workmen: lack of institutions and in
centives that tie the laboring man to
the soil: the burdens and the narrow
life of farm women; lack of adequate
supervision of public health.
Nature of the Remedies.
Some of theremedies lie with tne na
tional government, some of them with
the states and communities in their
co-porate capacities, some with volun
tary organizations, and some with in
dividuals acting alone. From the great
number of suggestions that have been
made, covering every pliase of country
life, the commission now enumerates
those that seem to be most funda
mental or most needed at the present
time.
congress can remove some or th^
handicaps of the farmer, and it can
also set some kinds of work in motion
such as;
The encouragement of a system of
thorough-going surveys of all agricul
tural regions in order to take stock
and to develop a scientifically and
economically sound country life:
The establishing of a nationalized
system of extension work in rural
communities through all the land
grant colleges with the people at their
homes and on their farms:
A thorough-going investigation by
experts of the middleman system of
handling farm products, coupled with
a general Inquiry into the farmer's
disadvantages in respect to taxation,
transportation rates, co-operation or
ganizations and credit, and the gen
eral business system;
An inquiry into the control and use
of the streams of the I'nited States
with the object of protecting the peo
ple in their ownership and of saving
to agricultural uses such benefits as
should be reserved for these purposes;
The establishing of a highway en
gineeringservice. or equivalent organi
zation. to be at the call of the states
in working out effective and econom
ical highway systems; ,
The establishing of a system or
parcels post and postal savings
banks;
And providing some means or
agency for the guidance of public
opinion toward the development of a
real rural society that shall rest di
rectly on the land.
Other remedies recommended for
consideration by congress are:
The enlargement of the I'nited
States bureau of education, to enable
it to stimulate and co-ordinate the ed
ucational work of the nation;
Careful attention to the farmers’
interests in legislation on the tariff,*
on regulation of railroads, control or
regulation of corporations and of spec
ulation. legislation in respect of riv
ers. forests, and the utilization of
swamp lands:
Increasing the powers of the fed
Deral government in respect to the
supervision and control of the public
Providing such regulations as will
enable the states that do not permit
the sale of liquors to protect them
selves from traffic from adjoining
In setting all these forces in motion,
the co-operation of the states will be
necessary; and in many cases definite
state laws may greatly aid the work.
Remedies of a more general nature
are; A broad campaign of publicity,
, that must be undertaken until all the
people are Informed on the whole sub
ject of rural life, arid until there is an
awakened appreciation of the neces
sity of giving this phase of our na
tional development as much attention
as has been given to other phases or
interests; a quickened sense of re
sponsibility. in all the country people,
to the community and the state in the
conserving of soil fertility, and in the
necessity for diversifying farming in
order to conserve this fertility and to
develop a better rur.i^ society, and
also In the better safe-guarding of the
strength and happiness of ttie farm
women: a more widespread conviction
of the necessity of organization, not on y
for economic but for social pur
1 poses, this organization to be more or
! less co-operative, so that all the people
; may share equally in the benefits and
have voice in the essential affairs of
‘ the community; a realisation on tie
| part of the farmer that lie has a dill—
' tinct natural responsibility toward ti e
| laborer in providing him with good
living facilities, and :n helping him in
| every way to be a man among men;
and a realization on the part of all
ti.e people of the obligation to protect
and develop the natural scenery ar.d
! attractiveness of the open country
Underlying Problem of Country Life.
The commission has pointed out a
number of remedies that are extreme
ly important; but running through all
of these rvmedi* s are several great
forces or principles, which must be
utilized in the endeavor to solve the
problems of country life. All the peo
ple should recognize what these fun
damental forces and agencies art.
Knowledge.—To improve any situ
ation. the underlying facts must be un
derstood. The farmer must have ex
act knowledge of his business and jf
the peculiar conditions under which
he works. The United States depart
ment of agriculture and the experi
ment stations and colleges are rapidly
acquiring and distributing this knowl
edge; but the farmer may not be abie
to apply it to the best advantage be
cause of lack :>f knowledge of his own
soils, climate, animal and plant dis
eases. markets, and other local facts.
The farmer is • nt.tied to know what
are the advantages and disadvantages
of his conditions and environment. A
thorough-going system of surveys in
detail of the exact conditions under
lying farming in every locality is now
an indispensable need to complete and
apply the wo”k of th- great agricul
tural institutions. As an occupation,
agriculture is a means of developing
our internal resources; we cannot de
velop these resources until we knew
exactly what they are.
Education.—There must be not only a
fuller scheme of public education, but a
new kind of education adapted to
the real needs of the farming peo
ple. The country schools are to be so
redirected that they shall educate theii
pupils in terms of the daily life. Op
portunities for training toward the
agricultural colleges are to be multi
plied and made broadly effective.
Every person on the land, old or
young, in school or out of school, edu
cated or illiterate, must have a chance
to receive the information necessary
for a successful business, and for a ;
Healthful, comfortable, resourceful life, j
both in home and neighborhood. This ,
means redoubled efforts for better
country schools, and a vastly increased
interest in iht welfare of country boys
and girls on the part of those who
pay the school taxes. Education by
means of agriculture is to be a part
of our regular public school work.
.Special agricultural schools are to be
organized. There is to be a well-de
veloped plan of extension teaching
conducted by the agricultural colleges,
by means of the printed page, face-to
face talks, and demonstration or ob
ject lesson, designed to r-ach every
farmer and his family, at or near their
homes, with knowledge and stimulus
in every department of country life.
Organization.—Th^-re must be a vast
enlargement of voluntary organized ef
fort among farmers themselves. It i9
indispensable that farmers shall work
together for their common interests
and for the national welfare If th*y
do not do this, no governmental activi
ty, no legis at ion. not even better
schools, will greatly avail The farm
ers are nevertheless relatively unor
| ganized. We have only begun to de
velop business co-operation in Ame-i- ;
•a. Farmers do not influence legisla- j
tion as they should. They need a mere !
fully organized social and recreative
life.
Spiritual Forces.—The forces and j
institutions that make for morality j
and spiritual ideals among rural peo- i
pie must be energized. We rrn.'s the
heart of the problem if we neglect to
foster personal character and neigh
borhood righteousnes . The best way
to preserve ideals for private conduct
and public life is to build up the •ssti
tutions of religion. The church has
great power cf leadership. The whole
people should, understand that it is
vitally important to stand behinfl the
rural church and to help it to become
a great power in developing concrete
country life ideals. It is especially
important that the country church rec
ognize that it has a social responsibili
ty to th- entire community as well as
a religious responsibility to its own
group of peotle.
Recommendations or trie commission.
The commission recommends all the
correctives that have been mentioned
under the head of "The nature of the
remedies." It does not wish to dis
criminate between important meas
ures of relief for existing conditions.
It has purposely avoided indorsing
any particular bill now before con
gress, no matter what its value or ob
ject.
There are. however. In the opinion
of the commission, two or three great
movements of the utmost consequence
that should be set under way at the
earliest possible time, because they
are fundamental to the whole problem of
ultimate permanent reconstruction; these
call for special explanation.
Taking Stock of Country Life.—
There should be organized. as ex
plained in the main report, under gov
ernmental leadership, a comprehensive
plan for an exhaustive studs' or survey
of all the condtioris that surround the
business of farming ^nd tne people
who live in the country, in order to
take stock of our resources and to
supply the farmer with local knowl
edge Federal and state governments,
agricultural colleges and other educa
tional agencies, organizations of vari
ous types and individual students of
the problem, should be brought into
co-operation for this great work of in
vestigating with minute care all agri
cultural and country life conditions.
Nationalized Extension Work.—Each
state college of agriculture should be
empowvr> d- to' organize as soon as
practicable a complete department of
college extension, so managed as to
reach every person on the land in its
state, with both information and in
spiration. Tiie work should include
such forms cf extension teaching as
lectures, bulletins. reading courses,
correspondence courses. demonstra
tion. anil other means of reaching the
people at home and on their farms. It
should be designe- to forward not
only the business of agriculture, but
sanitation, education, home making,
and all interests of country lit*.
BEFORE THE TROJAN HORSE IS ADMITTED,
The Puzzled Citizen Will Have to Be Shown a Little More Fully.
OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR INDICTED
CHARLES N. HASKELL AND SIX
OTHERS ACCUSED OF FRAUD
Defendants Charged with Conspiracy
Against Government in Musko
gee Town Lot Cases.
Muskogee, Okia.—As a result of the
investigation by the grand jury of the
alleged frauds in connection with the
scheduling of town lots in this city
seven indictments were returned
Wednesday night. The charge against
the defendants is conspiracy to de
fraud the government. Those indicted
are:
Gov. Charles X. Haskell, F. B. Sev
ers. A. Z. English, C. W. Turner, W T
Hutchings, Jesse W. Hili and Walter
E. Eaton.
Attorney Thomas H. Owen of Mus
kogee representing Gov. Haskell,
made arrangements for the governor
Friday morning to enter his appear
ance and give bond in the sum of
$5.0o0 fur appearance for trial.
The writs issued are returnable
forthwith.
Gov. Haskell is at Guthrie, the state
rapital. There is but one indictment
against him charging him with con
spiring with Walter R. Eaton and
Clarence W. Turner to defraud the
government. There are two indict
ments against Turner and one each
tgainst the others.
Turner was first to give bond in the
sum of $10,000. Hutchings and Eaton
gave bond in the sum of $5,000 each.
\11 probably will be arraigned before
Judge Campbell Friday morning. Eng
lish is in Los Angeles. Cal.
In a statement issued at Guthrie,
lev. Haskell said:
‘‘I have just heard of the indictment
for conspiracy coupled with seven or
eight of the oldest and highest-charac
tered citizens of Muskogee, men who
developed and built up that country by
their unselfish effort. From now on,
the proceedings will be open to both
tides.
"I am satisfied the interior depart
ment has been misled by false state
ments. I am confident there has not
been a dishonest act done by any of
the indicted parties and that good
citizens in general, regardless of poli
tics, feel the same way.”
LEWIS RE-ELECTED 3Y MINERS.
Ohio Man Chosen for President by
Majority of 16,CC0.
Indianapolis. Tnd.—Thomas L. Lewis
of Bridgeport. O.. Wednesday was re
elected president of the United Mine
Workers of the United States and
Canada by a majority of more than
16,000 votes over his opponent. John
H. Walker, district president of Illi
nois.
The report of the tellers of the bal
lots cast in the election of last Decem
ber that as none of the candidates for
vice-president or secretary-treasurer
had received a majority of the votes
cast, it would be necessary for the
delegates assembled in the convention
to decide the contest. Ballots then
were distributed.
Attack Forest Service.
Washington.—The forest service got
its usual annual drubbing Thursday,
the criticisms against it coming prin
cipally from Mr. Smith (Cal.), Mr.
Cook (Col.I and Mr. Mondell (Wyo.),
all of whom charged extravagance in
administration and the extortion of
money from miners, farmers and even
the owners of bee hives. Mr. Cook
attributed to Mr. Pinchot, the chief
forester, the ulterior motive of schem
ing for Secretary Wilson's seat in the
cabinet.
Dayton Has Another Murder.
Dayton, O.—Late Friday after
noon the body of a young wom
an was dragged out of a cistern
in the rear of a vacant house. Her
brother, whom she was visiting, has
identified her as Lizzie Fulhart, 18 ^
years old, of Vandalia. O.
New Orleans Has Big Fire.
New Orleans.—Sparks from a donkey
engine set fire to the wharf at the
$3,000,000 Chalmette plant of the
American sugar refinery Friday. The
loss is $200,000.
STOPS THE JAP LEGISLATION.
Speaker's Appeal and Governor’s Mes
sage Postpone California's Action.
Sacramento. Cal.—Speaker Phillip
A. Stanton took the floor Friday and
secured, by a strong personal appeal,
unanimous consent 01 the assembly to
postpone further action on the Japa
nese school segregation bill until next
Wednesday.
He declared he had information,
which he could not reveal, that proved
the assembly was treading upon dan
gerous ground in passing the anti
Japanese bill.
At tire conclusion of the speaker's
; address. Grove L. Johnson, author of
! the measure, asked that the matter of
reconsideration of Thursday's vote be
! put over until Wednesday, and his mo
i tioi carried without dissent.
Gov. Gillett sent a speciad mes
■ sage to the house raising the point of
1 the bill's constitutionality, and this
i was the subject of a long debate, dnr
i ing which it was suggested by iead
i ers on both sides thatAhe measure be
■ referred to the committee on judi
ciary and submitted to the attorney
! general for an opinion as to its le
l gality.
j Senator A. C. Min.etti introduced the
' Japanese school bill in the senate.
DEFENDS USE OF SLEUTHS.
President Says Secret Service Is Nec
essary to Punish Criminals.
Washington.—Declaring that “if the
government is to act with full ef
ficiency against criminals, it must have
some force of secret service agents
who can act against criminals any
I where," President Roosevelt in a
| statement made public from the
1 White House emphatically reiterated
| liis opposition to restricting the field
i of usefulness of the secret service.
“The position of the administration
' is," said the president, “that it is
! against sound public policy to dis
| criminate in favor of criminals by dis
| criminating against the use of the
secret service to detect and punish
them."
The statement was called forth by
"misleading statements appearing in
some of the afternoon papers" to the
effect that the work of the secret serv
ice has not been hampered and that'
the investigation of cases outside the
detection of counterfeiters and the
protection of the president has uot
been circumscribed by restrictive leg
islation at the last session of con
gress.
Wants Premium for Mothers.
Des Moines, la.—One dollar to the
mother of every baby born in Iowa.
Representative Fulliam Friday intro
duced such a bill as a substitute to the
tax on babies measure. It provides
that the mother of a new born baby
shall be paid one dollar by the county
treasurer upon receipt of a certificate
signed by the mother and the attend
ing physician.
Relief Fund Is Now $3,641,000.
Washington.—Funds raised by the
relief organizations for the earth
quake victims in Italy have reached a
total of $3,641,000, this sum represent
ing the contributions which poured in
from all quarters through the three
leading organizations—the American
National Red Cross, the Italian gov
ernment committee and the Italian
Red Cross.
Carrie Nation Is Fined.
London.—Carrie Nation became ac
quainted with the London police courts
Thursday afternoon, when she was
lined $7.50 for thrusting her umbrella
through a window of a car in the un
derground railway upon which a ciga
rette advertisement was pasted.
Candy Maker Has Leprosy.
Los Angeles.—Samuel Bernick, a
Russian candy vender who for a year
or more has been stationed near the
school, dispensing candy to the chil
dren and passers-by on the street, ha^
been found to be a leper.
Attempt to Sell Girl Charged.
Pittsburg, Pa—Raffalo de Biasi, a
grocer of this city, was arrested Fri
day on compiaint of Antonia Gentile,
aged 17, who alleges that de Biasi,
who is married, tried to sell a girl tc
him for $200.
Congresc.
The senate agreed to the confer
ence on the urgent deficiency bill. It
carries 1150,000 to continue the fight
on foot and mouth disease.
The president vetoed the bill pro
viding for the next census because it
ignored the competitive system.
President Roosevelt has added an
other “insult” to the long list of griev
ances congress treasures against him.
The war department wants con
gress to pass a retirement bill for
civil employes of the Philippine
government and charge the expense
up to the Filipinos. General Edwards
of the bureau of insular affairs ap
peared before the house commit ee
cl insular affairs in advocacy of such
it measure.
Senator Teller made an extended
speech on Senator Bacon's bill ques
tioning the authority of the president
to withhold official papers from con
gress.
Congressman Mondell of W yoimng
in a speech in the house made a se
vere attack on the forestry service.
The house locked horns with the
senate on the question of automobiles
for the White house and refused to
accept an amendment to the urgent
deficiency bill striking out the ap
propriation of $12,000 for that pur
pose.
Congressman Pollard of Nebraska
made an argument for federal inspec
tion of grain.
The senate has agreed to vote on
the Aldrich substitute for the Foraker
bill February 22.
The house reduced the appropria
tion for balloon experiments to $250,
000.
A bill passed the senate to permit
drainage of Omaha Indian lands.
Congressman Pollard appeared be
fore the interstate and foreign com
merce committee of the house in be
half of his bill providing for the stand
ardizing of grain for export only.
The senate passed the horse bill
making hundredth birthday of Abra
ham Lincoln a legal holiday.
Senator Gamble's bill providing
for the creation of a new land district
at Belle Fourehe, S. L. has passed
both houses.
The house incorporated an amend
ment in the army bill appropriating
$750,000 for experiments in aerial navi
gation.
Organization of the committee cf
the next house presents a b g problem
to leaders because of defeat for re
election of chairmen of a number of
important committees and promotion
of others.
Bills were passed by the house ex
tending the time in which the city cf
Burlington may construct a bridge
across the Mississippi at that point
and creating a new land district in
South Dakota to be known as the
Belle Feu re he district.
General.
The California legislature post
poned for a few days reconsideration
of the bill segregating Japanese school
children.
About twenty persons were killed
by a stc m which extended from the
east Tennessee line to the Texas
Panhandle.
Floods in Germany have become
alarming and the Rhine and tributary
streams are still rising.
Rear Admiral Sperry approved ii>e
findings in the Qualtrough court
martial.
Czechs and Germans had a collision
in the Austrian parliament.
Land frauds in Oklahoma have
seriously impaired land titles in
cities in the state.
Expectation that the government
will carry out the survey plans of the
Salt creek valley in Nebraska with
out any charge to the people con
cerned has been dissipated. The gov
ernment will bear the major part of
the cost but about five hundred dol
lars must be contributed by the peo
ple in the valley or the v*ork will not
be done.
The Danish rigsdag approved treat
ies of arbitration with the United
States. Norway and Sw-eden.
The California house passed the
separate school bill, aimed at Japan
ese. the worst of all, the president
says. :
The two Nevada senators are not in
sympathy with anti-Japanese legisla
tion in that state.
There is no indication that the Illi
nois senatorial deadlock will soon be
broken.
Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma will not.
resign because he has been indicted.
Senator Cummins is an advocate
of specific, rather than ad valorem
duties on imports.
An increase in battle efficiency has
been shown by the Atlantic fleet.
Venezuela refused to sign the pro
tocol drawn up by Buchanan.
The governor of Tennessee vetoed
the bill prohibiting the manufacture
of liquor in that state, but it prob
ably will be passed over the veto.
Captain Qualtrough is reported to
have been found guilty in the court
martial trial at Gibralter.
The governor of Kentucky issued a
proclamation asking the state to do
honor to Lincoln on his birthday.
The South Dakota legislature
passed a 2-cent passenger fare law.
The state court has issued a writ o?
mandamus to compel its observance,
and the federal court enjoins, officials
from enforcing it.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma and
six other men were indicted by the
federal grand jury at Muskogee on
the charge of conspiring to obtain
fraudulent titles to town lota.
Grain receipts at Omaha market
increase over 2,000,000 bushels during
January, 1909, as compared to same
month last year.
Charges of drunkenness are prefer
red against Captain Qualtrough of the
fleet now circumnavigating the globe
and he will be tried by cour-.-martial.
The Illinois legislature is still
wrestling with the senatorial matter
without being able to make a choice.
Homer P. Leavitt, from whom Ruth
Bryan Leavitt is seeking a divorce,
makes public letters in which Mrs.
Leavitt urges him to stay in Paris
and paint a great picture.
M. Loopkine, former director of po
lice in Russia has been arrested oa
charge of high treason.
Standard Oil company makes a
proposition for a compromise in the
’suit in which it was ousted from the
state of Missouri.
nenry L,air. promoter ot tne wmte
slave traffic, was sent to prison for
two years and fined $2,500 by the
federal court in Chicago.
Foreign Minister Komura in an ad
dress to the Diet declares Japan’s
policy is for peace and he says anti
Jap legislation will not lead to com
plications.
There is three hundred thousand
dollars in sight for an Omaha univer
sity if that city will raise $200,000.
The Federal grand jury at Musko
gee is expected to bring in at least
300 bills involving about twenty per
sons in lot frauds.
The Countess De Lesseps, widow of
Count Ferdinand De Lesseps, pro
moter of the ship canals of Suez, Cor
inth and Panama, died in Paris.
Gompers says he will not stop talk
ing. notwithstanding court injunc
tions.
President-elect Taft is pouring oil
on the troubled political waters in
Panama. Colonel Goethals says the
Panama canal will be completed by
January 15, 1915.
The lower house of congress met
on Sunday to hear enlogies of the
life and public service of the late Con
gressman Powers of Maine.
The lower house of the South Da
kota legislature killed the senate
resolution for the submission of a
woman's suffrage amendment.
The California court of appeals in
deciding a will case holds that a man’s
divorced wife is still his wife, al
though she has remarried.
The Burlington and Missouri Pa
cific have come to an agreement about
terminal differences in 9t. Joseph.
Governor Hughes in an aiidress in
New York said he hoped to see the
time when leg slators are accountable
to their constituents only for their of
ficial acts.
President Roosevelt has given his
consent to the placing of the head of
Lincoln on one of the popular coins.
Washington.
The senate concluded consideration
of the District of Columbia appropria
tion bill, carrying an aggregate of
about eleven and a half millions of
dollars. A conference report on the
urgent deficiency bill was agreed to.
It appropriates $12,000 for the “pur
chase. care and maintenance of auto
mobiles for the president.” and $150.
000 to enable the secretary of agri
culture to continue to com'oai the foot
and mouth diseases in horses and cat
tle.
Recommending that the standard of
the different grades of cotton, as fixed
by them be adopted as the official
classification of the government, the
committee of export cotton classifiers
designated by the secretary of agri
culture to assist him in establishing
such a standard, have made their re
port to the latter.
John Norris, of the American News
papers Publishers association sent to
the house ways and means committee,
a letter wherein he charged that the
International Paper company in pre
senting its argument for the reten
tion of the tariff on paper, had de
liberately misrepresented to thp com
mittee the amounts paid by the paper
company as wages to paper makers.
Surgeon Francis C. Nash, who has
been on duty at the Naval academy at
Annapolis, is to be tried by court
martial in Washington February 10
on charges of having administered im
proper treatment to Midshipman
Harry W. Stephenson of Nebraska.
The supreme court of the United
States refused to advance on the
docket the case of the Noble State
bank of Noble, Okla., vs. Governor
Haskell and other members of the
Oklahoma state banking board, involv
ing the validity of the Oklahoma bank
guaranty law.
The annual report of the United
States commissioner of patents shows
that there were issued during 190S to
citizens of Missouri patents; to the
number of 955, or one patent to every
3,253 persons in the state; to citizens
of Kansas 434 patents, or one to every
3,388 persons.
Personal.
Judge J. J. Sullivan took the oath
of office at Omaha and accepted ap
pointment as justice of supreme court
of Nebraska from Governor Shallen
berger.
First division of American battleship
fleet under Admiral Sperry reached
Gibraltar Sunday morning.
Samuel Gompers addressed a labor
meeting at New York in defense of his
attitude toward courts.
iSSJSi’le* E. Magccn, provisional gov
ernor of Cuba, is in Washington pre
paring his final report.
! JAPANESE TROUBLES
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! PRESIDENT SENDS ANOTHER
MESSAGE TO CALIFORNIA.
WORK OF THE GOVERNMENT
Anti-Japanese Legislation Will Be to
the Fore by the Law-Making
Bodies.
Sacramento, Cal—Anti-Japanese leg
islation will be to the fore this wees
in both branches of the legislature.
Two resolutions drawn by Grove L.
Johnson of Sacramento and aimed at
the island emperor's subject will be
subject of discussion in the assembly
Wednesday, one already passed, seg
regating the Japanese in the public
schools of the state, and the other,
which was refused passage, empower
ing municipalities to segregate in
residential districts all undesirable
aliens whose presence might in the
opinion of boards of supervisors be
inimical to the public health and
morals of the various communities af
fected.
It is the school bill that most deep
j ly concerns President Roosevelt, and
between this time and Wednesday for
which day it has been made a speehii
order of business to determine
whether or not the vote by which it
passed shall be reconsidered, it is
expected that the national authorities
will throw additional light upon the
subject. This is supposed to be of an
extremely important nature, showing
the true state ot diplomatic nogetia
tions now pending between Japan and
the United States and revealing to the
the legislature the reason for Mr.
Roosevelt’s numerous telegrams to
the governor urging postponement of
further action on anti-Japanese legis
lation.
Governor Gilleit said yesterday in
San Francisco that he understood
Speaker Stanton had received a mes
sage from President Roosevelt that he
was at liberty to make public if he so
desired. Mr. Stanton, who went to
Los Angeles Friday night, refused to
publish his correspondence with the
president, but a telegram was re
ceived at the governor's office from
Washington stating that the Roosevelt
message might be given out and As
semblyman J. P. Transue. one of Stan
ton’s lieutenants from Los Angeles,
issued the fallowing ebpy:
Wh-t President Wired.
“Washington. D. C., Feb.. G.—Hen.
Philip A. Stanton, Speaker of the As
sembly. Sacramento. Cal.—Please ac
cept the expression of profound obli
gation on hehalf of the American peo
ple as a whole for the high and patri
otic services you are rendering I
have unlimited confidence in the san'*
good sense and right mindedness of
the people of California.
“I know that they appreciate that
the national government is at this mo
ment engaged in doing everything it
can to achieve the ends that California
has in view, while at the same time
preserving unbroken the relations of
respect and good will with a great and
friendly nation, and therefore I am
sure that the people of California will
support you in taking the position you
lave taken, which is so eminently in
the interests not only of the American
people as a whole, but especially of
the state of California.
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
Mr. Transue said that he wyas not
aw.are of any other message received
by Speaker Stanton from President
Roosevelt. As the telegram above
quoted wan dated February G and
Stanton made his appeal to the as
sembly Friday, February 5. it could
not have been the one he referred to
at that time as prompting him to take
the floor and make a personal apodal
for delay on anti-Japanese legislation.
The senate will take a fling at the
Japanese Monday immediately after
the reading of the journal.
Denrran Thompson III.
New York.—News was received in
local theatrical circles Sunday that
Denman Thompson. 7« years old, the
veteran actor of “The Old Home
stead,” is dangerously ill of pneumo
nia at his home .u West Swansey,
near Keene, N. H.
HARRIMAN MERGER HEARING.
Taking of Testimony to Be Com
menced Tuesday.
Cincinnati, O.—The case of the gov.
eminent against the Union Pacific
Railway company, E. H. Harriman and
others, called a year ago in the United
States courts, to break up what is
claimed to be a. merger of the Harri
man lines, will be heard here Tues
day, having been transferred to Cin
cinnati recently. Thirty-five witnesses
will be examined, it is said.
Oregon Interested.
Portland, Ore—The doings of the
California legislature in regard to the
Japanese while followed with interest
in this city, are discussed but little.
Sentiment of nearly all classes is in
favor of discouraging the emigration
of the Japanese .
Pension for Ex Presidents.
Washington.—African hunts and
magazine writing will not be neces
sary as the occupations of ex-presi
dents of the United States if a bill in
troduced by Representative Volstead
of Minnesota be enacted. This meas
ure provides a pension of $12,000 an
nually for every president, after he
leaves the White House. No duties
will be required of the retired chief
executive, but if he should be again
elected to the highest office in the gift
ci the people his pension would ceas-j
during his term of office.