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ON MAY 4 President Roosevelt transmitted to
congress the report of James R. Garfield,
commissioner of corporations, giving the results
of his Investigation of the Standard Oil company.
Commissioner Garfield says that his Investigation
has disclosed "numerous and flagrant discrimin
ations by the railroads in behalf of the Standard
Oil company and its affiliated corporations." This
report confirms the charge of rebates and other
discriminations which have for years been made
against the oil trust, and shows that in almost
every particular the oil trust magnates have vio
lated the law. Accompanying this report was a
-message from Mr. Roosevelt in which he said
that "the report is of capital importance." He
calls attention to the fact that the report shows
that the Standard Oil company has benefitted uy
secret rates to at least three-quarters of a million
dollars a year. He says that "the department of
justice will take up the question in Instituting
prosecutions in at least certain of the cases, and
lie asks for the enactment into law of the bill in
troduced" by Senator Knox seeking to correct the
interpretation of the immunity provision rendered
in Judge Humphrey's decision. The president
says tho Standard Oil company is not the only
great corporation which has benefited "in wholly .
improper fashion by an elaborate series of dis
criminations which permit it to profit both at the.
expense of its rivals and of the general public."
IN HIS SPECIAL message Mr. Roosevelt says,
the attorney general has reported to him
that investigations have disclosed that the sugar
trust "rarely if ever pays the lawful rate for
transportation and is thus improperly and prob
ably unlawfully favored at the expense of its. .
competitors and of the general public." 'Repre- ,
sentatlves of the Standard Oil company say that .
the criticisms of their concerns are unjust. They,
say that they have not violated the law, and that
they showed Mr. Garfield over the field and that
he promised them "a square deal." One para
graph In this report follows: "One does not care
to bandy words with the president of the United
States. It is not easy to differentiate between
Mr. Roosevelt, the president, and Mr. Roosevelt
the individual. He has given of his advice most
generously on every subject, from the size of
our families to the mistakes of federal judges,. '
and. some error is inevitable to the most conser
vative man under such circumstances. We say
flatly that any assertion that the Standard Oil
company has been or is now knowingly engaged
In practices which are unlawful is alike untruth
ful and unjust."
WHILE SENATOR TILLMAN is willingto
co-operate with Mr. Roosevelt on railroad
rate legislation, it is evident, that- he draws tho
line at White House hospitality. Mr. Tillman's
position is explained in a dispatch to the Rich
mond Times-Dispatch under date of April 28, which
dispatch fallows: "Senator Tillman of South Caro
lina was invited to attend a dinner given at the
White House last Monday night in honor of the
French naval ofllcers. Tho South Carolina senator
d d not attend. Three years ago the president in
vited the senator to a "White House dinner and the
afternoon preceding, former Senator McLaurin
and Senator Tillman engaged in a fist fight on
the floor of tho senate chamber. The president
heard of it and he promptly withdrew the invi
tation. Jt seems that tho president now thinks
a good deal more of the senator than he did at
the time he took his hasty action. Senator Till
man and the White House have nothing to say
about the latest development. All that is known
is that the president sent an invitation to Senator
unman which was not accepted." .
MANY COMMONER readers will remember
Htiftia?X Je m'intea several months ago and
tmtitea "Milestones on Love's Pathway1' This
article referred to a little volume published for
private circulation by Mrs. Theodore Sutro TlUs
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Mr sutro to his wife. Those who "Ire interest
ed in this article will nwi JKl.VT1
an article whin), ,.. YT" l?" "" "y-sieu in
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a prominent clubwoman find social leader, died
at her home, No. 320 West One Hundred and
Second street, yesterday morning, after a pro
longed illness. Her death is a crushing blow to
her husband, a well known member of the bar.
The devotion of the couple during their twenty
throe years of married life called forth, a year
ago, a little publication of their love letters, by
Mrs. Sutro. When she contracted pleurisy last
September, Mr. Sutro hurried with her to Hot
Springs. Failing to obtain benefit there, husband
and wife went to Baltimore. The time since then
has been spent in a vain effort to alleviate Mrs.
Sutro's suffering. She returned to her home in
this city last week in a precarious condition. The
funeral will take place on Monday from the fam
ily residence and, later in the day, the body will
be taken to St. John's Episcopal church in Jersey
City, where services will also be held. Mrs. Sutro
was the daughter of H. W. Clinton, of England.
She was married to Mr. Sutro in St. John's
church, Jersey City, in October, 1884. She had
been a lover of music from her childhood 'arid
had been graduated from the New York Conserva
tory of Music. After her marriage her ambition
to master the profession of her husband, with the
idea of becoming more in sympathy with him, led
her to study law in his office and finally to enter
the women's law class-in the University of New
York. She was the first woman to enter a uni-1
versity law class. Mrs. George B. McClellan was
the second member of the class. Mrs. Sutro's
natural bent led her, however, to the pursuit of
art, rather than the law and all her married life
she has been identified more or less with musical
matters. She was a brilliant pianist and com
poser, and never refused her services -at charity
benefits. She was a member of many women's
, clubs, among them Sorosis and the Press club, .
was president of several philanthropic clubs and
societies, member of the Political Study club,
and was always interested in New York. and its
development."
THE CONFEDERATE veterans held their re
union at New Orleans recently.' The old
officers of the association were re-elected by ac
clamation. They are as follows: General Stephen
D. Lee, commander-in-chief; General Clement A.
Evans, C. Irvine Walker, commanding the army
of North Virginia, and General W. L. Cabell, com
manding the trans-Mississippi department. Rich
mond, Va., was selected as the next place of
meeting. The dedication of the monument to
Jefferson Davis will take place in Richmond next
year. Among the resolutions presented and
adopted were: Commending the action of con
gress in marking confederate graves; starting a
movement for a monument to southern woman
hood; expressing sympathy for the earthquake
suftereru, and asking the southern- states to pay
pensions to the negro slaves who remained loyal
to their masters during the war.
GENERAL C. A. EVANS, chairman of the com
mittee -on history for the confederate vete
rans, read a report from his committee, of which
the following is an extract: "The reputation of
the people of the south is so dear to themselves
that they insist upon a fair portraiture in history
The true story of the people who formed the con
federacy and fought its battles is of more value
to the future citizens of the south than all the
property lost in that 'struggle. The character of
a people, who, in the language of Gladstone's
famous compliment, had 'created a nation"' is
worthy for future influence, more to the United
States than the billions expende'd in preventing
their success in their effort to secede. When
the general character of our wondrous nation has
been formed, it will be known that the south
brought its fairest offerings to construct the
nobler nationality of this Republic It is trSy
eratlfylne to ourselves as confederate soldiers
that the great interests dependent on accurate
history and pure literature have not been neg
tm?"1?? - general comncial advancl.
This fair field is more pleasing to contemplate
because it is becoming cleared of such noxious
weeds and thorns as unpatriotic suppressions,
sectional expressions, ungenerous treatment of
illustrious men, and other stimulants of hatred,
in the main, the writers of all literature which
specially concerns the events of confederate, times
have become better informed, more sincere, less
partisan, more national. The increase of books
relating to the south has been remarkable, and
in the general tone of the new issue there -is a f
decided abandonment of the. former sectional ran-
cor and unfair treatment." - ;', , :
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HP HEY ARE BOOMING "Undo Jn" nnnrinn W
1 president. The republican paper printed-,
Danville, 111., the speaker's home, has ahnbiincect,
that Mr. Cannon is its candidate for the presl-.,
dency, while the republican paper printed at
Springfield, the capital of the state, makes a"
similar announcement. The Washington corres
pondent for the New York World says: "Num
bers of these newspapers have been circulated
among members of congress here. The speaker
is not credited with having inspired the announce-'
ment, but it is known that it is pleasing to" Klin
"Are you going to be a candidate ?J he was asked. .
"No man is ever a candidate for such a high.;
office," the speaker said gravely, shifting his
half-chewed cigar from the 16ft to the right hand''
corner of his mouth. All day the speaker wW
receiving. congratulations from members. He' wore
his happiest smile and a big white carnation as
he mingled with "the brethren" in the cloak'
rooms. 'One fact which his friends say is a sure
indication that the speaker Is" a candidate is thatr
during the 'last two months he has always kept
his waist-coat buttoned. Speaker Cannon has no
autographed photographs of himself. Vice Presi-;'
dent Fairbanks, who is also, a candidate, is .giv
ing away his autographed ptiotbgraphs. One' of'
dhe speaker's friends said today: 'These will
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THE NEW YORK grand jury for April,-'tipph-'
the completion of its duty, made aJreport'i ji3
to Recorder Goff,, in which it explains Its tfailifre "';v
to investigate political contributions by insurance1 if? -
officials on the ground that- District Attorney
Jerome had advised the jury not to do so. It will
be remembered that the grand jury in Judge O'Sul-' " '
livan's court failed to make such an investigation
because the district attorney neglected to co-operate
with it, and now for similar reasons the grand
jury in Recorder Goff's court has failed. The "
jury in Recorder Goff's court reported that -Mr.
Jerome had been asked for the evidence, but
that he had opposed action, saying that he de- -.?
sired first, to secure an opinion from the higher
court as to the validity of Judge Greenbaum's" '"':
decision that such political contributions consti- '
tute larceny. Mr. Jerome said to the jury;" "If .' :
Justice Greenbaum's ruling be sustained, it will "''.: ,,
be necessary to call as witnesses Cornelius "N,
Bliss, treasurer of the republican national . con .
imittee, and George B. Cortqlyou, its chairman
and postmaster general, and indict a large portion
of the officers of every financial institution in. v"
this city." Recorder Goff discharged the jury,
but told its members that they had not done their
lull duty, although they had rendered a signaL -
service in authenticating the "unequivocal respon- "..
sibility" which now rests upon the district at- v .V
torney. . ;
TIERRE CURIE, the co-discoverer with his wife -'-I?
of the wonderful element of radiumv met -M
death recently through an accident in a Paris " '
street. Tho London correspondent for the New
York Sun, says: "Nothing is known at the mo-
-ment of the work on which Dr. Curie was actually -
engaged at the time of hia dont.ii Hf m .....
mitting devotion to science and his despisal of
all public distinction and social distractions had
led the scientific world to look to him and his
wife to lead the way to further epoch-making
discoveries. It was characteristic of the man that
he refused the decoration of the Legion of Honor
as useless, that when, he had obtained some fe.w -decigrammes
of radium he rejected a rich man's
offer of half a million francs for "them because he
wanted the precious stuff to work upon ana that:
he only accepted the Nobel prize and certain-sub
ventions so that he might consecrate the money
to further research. When he accepted the pro
fessor's chair at the Sorbonne in 1905 it was on
condition of having a laboratory furnished there
where he could continue his labors in company.
With his wife. It is a coincidence that the min-
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