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The Commoner.
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that an organization of cotton-growers
aro bent upon getting him out of
the service.
The sultan of Turkey refuses to ac
cedo to the demand of tho powers
concerning tho Macedonian reform.
.. At a special election held in tho
First Nebras'ka district, July 18, Ern
est M. Pollard of Nehawka, Cass coun
ty, republican, was elected over Fran
cis W. Brown, democrat, by a major
ity of 2,000.
Governor Higgins of New York has
yielded to popular demand to the ex
tent that he has recommended that
the legislature appoint a commission
for the investigation of the conduct
of insurance companies generally.
nations Is Interested particularly In
tho open door to Manchuria and be
hind China's simple declaration lies
the whole quostion of tho commerce
and tho commercial relations of a
great empire. What action, if any,
tho United States government may
take as to the note, is beyond accu
rate conjecture at this time."
Governor Hoch of Kansas has de
clared that the office of state treas
urer, held by J. J. Kelly, is vacant
because of Kelly's refusal to give a
new bond. A spirited contest is on
between Kelly and the governor.
Rear Admiral F. J. Higginson, who
lias served forty-eight years in the
navy and has held a command since
18G2, has retired.
Justice David J. Brewer of the Uni
ted States supreme court delivered an
address at Milwaukee, July 19, in
which he said that tho people must
bo "true to tho traditions of our
fathers." Justice Brewer asked if any
one imagines that Mr. Ryan paid two
and a half million dollars for prop
erty which under no legal circum
stances could pay him more than three
per cent with the idea that all he
could get would be this Interest?
Captain H. Clay Evans, jr., the only
son of H. Clay Evans, the former
pension commissioner, died at Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
The boilers of the United States
gun boat, the Bennington, exploded
July 21. Thirty-nine seamen were
killed, while many others were ser
iously injured. The Bennington was
in San Diego harbor, and was under
the command of Lucien Young.
The Balfour ministry was defeated
on John Redmond's motion to reduce
the vote for the Irish land commis
sion, but it is announced that Premier
Balfour has decided to remain in
office until the end of the session, and
to dissolve parliament in October.
The City National bank of Kansas
City closed its doors July 20.
Nebraska farmers are signing peti
tions to the attorney general of the
state asking that criminal proceedings
be instituted against the members of
the Nebraska Grain Dealers association.
Plainly a Packed Jury
An attompt was made July 19 on
the life of Vico Governor Deutrich of
Finland. A bomb was thrown and
the vice governor was thrown off his
feet, but no serious damage was sus
tained.
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Paul Morton has dismissed Thomas
J. Jordan, comptroller of the Equit
able Life Assurance society.
Judge McPherson, sitting in the
federal court at St. Louis refused to
restrain the St. Louis postmaster
from withholding the People's United
States Bank's mail marked "fraudulent."
Washington dispatches say thatthe
president will appoint Louis A. Coo
lidge to succeed Wm. B. Ridgely,
comptroller of the currency.
New York dispatches say that Sen
ator Depew, who is now in Europe,
will hasten home owing to the Equit
able disclosures.
Captain John R. King has assumed
command of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
The New York legislature has re
fused to oust Warren B. Hooker from
the bench..
, Mrs. John A. Logan has given to
;the state of Illinois her valuable his
torical collection, now in ,her home
In Washington.
i The foreign office of China has sent
;to tho powers neutral in the contest
between Russia and Japan a note in
which warning is given that no pro
vision affecting China without the ap
proval of China being previously ob
'tained, which tho treaty of peace may
'contain, will be recognized as valid.
; Tho American representatives appear
to . be greatly disturbed because of
this note. The Associated Press ex
plains: "It really means far more
;than that as it is construed her.e. The
"United States in common with other
NERVOUS PROSTRATION
. You can't sleep; you feel tired, Irrlta-
'ble, dizzy at times; havo headache, baclc-
;acho, and aro nervous and excltablo. You
aro on tho verge of nervous prostration,
which means a gonoral breakdown. Dr.
Miles' Nervine will build up your nervous
system to its natural strength, and all
this misorv will AlHn.nnrnr Tim ri-i- i.
Uo will cost you nothing if It fans to
help you.
It is now agreed that there will
be no special session of congress. It
is also agreed that there is no general
interest in the report which will be
made by the senate committee
charged with the duty of investigating
the railroad situation. In order that
the reader may appreciate the situa
tion two extracts from dispatches
printed in two republican newspapers
are here given.
Extracts from a dispatch from Wal
ter Wellman, Washington correspond
ent for the Chicago Record-Herald
follows:
"Tho railways made no secret of
the fact that they have captured the
senate committee on interstate com
merce and will be able to secure a
report in the autumn mainly favor
able to their side of the contention.
"The senate committee closed its
hearings today and announce 1 that no
more witnesses would be heard. An
executive session was held, but no
conclusion arrived at save that the
formulation of a. report and of a bill
will be deferred till the autumn.
The senators on the committee feel
that they have worked hard enough
during the spring and that they are
entitled to a little rest.
."The railroad attorneys who have
given careful attention to the sessions
of the committee, and who know as
mucli as the members themselves as
to how the committee standsj express
no doubt whatever as to the outcome.
They feel perfectly sure the report of
the committee will be a final triumph
for the railroads. By this they do
not mean tho committee will report
against any action whatever by con
gress. Indeed, that is not the rail
road wish. The scheme is to make a
pretense of doing something, but to
make jolly sure that something, if it
bo embalmed in law, shall do the
railroads no harm. At this sort of
stopmouth legislation, which really
effects nothing of Importance and yet
shuts off agitation, the railway attor
neys and their many friends in the
senate aro recognized experts.
"Now that tho senate committee
has finished its hearings, it is im
portant the people should understand
fast why those sittings of. the commit
tee were hold, and the methods pur
sued in this supposedly impartial In
vestigation. The hearings were pro
posed in the first place as a railway
scheme of delay ana as a campaign
of education. The resolution provid
ing for the sittings was prepared by
the attorney of an eastern railway
company and introduced in the senate
by Mr. Kean of New Jersey, who Is
nothing more nor less than a railway
lawyer, temporarily occupying a seat
in the upper branch. This Is not say
ing that Mr. Kean is a bad follow.
He moves according to his lights
and training. All his associations
have been with corporations, and he
thinks he is doing right in looking
-after their interests. He is not by
any means the only man in the senate
who represents both a sovereign and
a corporation which owns that state.
In pointing out these facts it is not
necessary to throw any bricks at the
individuals themselves. They are
within their rights, as politics goes.
But the facts should be known, never-
the less.
"Throughout the long series of
hearings now brought to a close the
railroad attorneys have been in pretty
complete control of the committee.
They have run the whole show..
"If anyone had entertained doubts
as to the sympathies of a majority of
the committeemen it would have been
necessary only to attend a few meet
ings of the committee to have those
doubts removed once for all. Every
railroad man who has appeared be
fore the committee has been treated
as if he were one or the lords of
creation, and generally he was. Noth
ing was too good for him. No awk
ward questions were asked. He was
not subjected to a rigid cross-examination.
.His paths lay through pleas
ant groves, lined with flowers.
"But the man who appeared for tho
people's side of the contention was
treated in quite another manner. Af
ter the politeness had been properly
expended he found himself under fire.
In fact, he was almost an object of
suspicion. It seemed' to be the prin
cipal aim in life of a majority of the
members of the committee to expose
his ignorance of practical railroad
ing. A concerted effort was made to
show that he was nothing but a wild
eyed dreamer, a theorist, a dema
gogue, who must go to pieces when
confronted with the cold logic of facts
and figures. And after a half-dozen
eminent senators, well versed in their
art and long practiced, had picked
and pulled at the witness to their
heart's content, they would turn to
one another with a smile of satisfac
tion, as much as to say" Another one
gone by the board. Didn't we do him
up in flno shape?"
"The trutli is, the committee was
with them from the first: It Is what
may be called a packed jury. The
friends of the railways havo made it
their business to see to it in the past
that a majority of tho members of
this highly important committee were
friendly to the corporations. It was
their business to do this, and It was
not anyone's business to counteract
them."
Extracts from a dispatch to the
Chicago Tribune by John Callan
OLaughlin, its Washington corres
pondent follow:
"No moro flagrant disregard of tho
wishes of tho people has been shown
by a congressional committee than
that displayed by tho ntmnt. """"
tee on lntitatemS1
tion with the railroad rate mSS
The committee concluded ts W
this afternoon after an eXhan
session lasting five weeks 7w "SjS
adjourn tomorrow without makbL?!1
slightest attempt to iTmZtl r!
port of any kind. a re
"The truth of tho matter is tw ,
committee deliberately lauSed toSf
up in a net, skilfully woven by thft
railroad officials and agents, for n!
other purpose than to defeat tho wm
of the president and of the pecX
Not all tho members have favored thn
program. m
"Senator Cullom and Senator Dollt.
ver stand out as notable exceptions
But the shameful way in which Sen'
ator Elkins, Senator Kean, and Sena
tor Foraker endeavored to blind tho
country, the first name I by 'packing1
the witness stand with men controll
ing railroads or in their pay, and tho
others by asking questions apparently
designed to draw out statements fa.
vorable .to the railroads to discredit
the effort to show a need of rate regu
lation, is a shining reflection upon tho
states they were elected to represent.
"Any one familiar with railroad
conditions in the United States, who
makes an analysis or the witnesses
who have testified before the commit
tee, segregates them promptly into
three classes:
"Railroad agents, officials, or attor
neys. "Business men, either middlemen
or having their industries located at
terminals.
"Interstate commerce commission
ers and a few experts and shippers
whose evidence literally was swamped
under the testimony of the preceding
classes,
"From the outset of the 'inquiry'
the evident purpose of Chairman
Elkins has been to further the efforts
of the railroads to befuddle the peo
ple. Railroad agent followed railroad
agent, and the scandal of it finally
reached a point where the members
of the committee went to the chair
man and told him that if any impres
sion were to be made upon the coun
try he would have to change his tac
tics and 'sandwich in' witnesses who
wero not known to have connection
with railroads and who might even
support the president's views.
"The railroads took the tip, and
men claiming to represent the inter
ests and the communities affected by
railroad rates were haled before tho
committee and led by questions pnt
to them by Elkins, often at the in
stance of ex-Senator Faulkner, an at
torney for the railroads, to give utter
ance to opinions which made one won
der why the charge of rebate or un
just discrimination ever was brought
against these constant guardians oi
the public's welfare."
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