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If 4 ." If w fc r. r S ' The Commoner. l&1r& 7ZZ : "1. j WeSAAtS! jpV " ds' M m . I A I V 1 U JjZr0m J - Tft - Senators Warren and Clark of Wyo ming deny that they used any influ ence to prevent an investigation into thV charges made in connection -with tlfel entry of coal lands owned by the Union Pacific Railway company. An Associated Press dispatch under date of Guthrie, Okla., November 30, follows: "The actual formation of a constitution for Oklahoma was inaug urated this afternoon "when proposi tions were introduced in the constitu tional convention for two planks pro viding respectively for railway regu lation and separate coaches for whites and negroes. The railway regulation bill, introduced by Delegate Clint Gra ham, is summarized as follows: 'Rail road, express, sleeping car and oil pipe line companies shall be declared com mon carriers; to provide for stock inspection; to prevent consolidation and prohibiting free passes.' The 'Jim Crow resolution was offered by 'Judge' Ledbetter of Ardmore, I. T. Both propositions were referred to the .committee on railroads. The rules "were adopted this afternoon. A feat ure of this morning's session -vyas tjie uddress of Delegate Ledbetter, who .opposed the adoption of a resolution, .recognizing the federal constitution as .paramount to that of the state ofcOkla :homa. He declared that state sovere ignty should, be, strictly observed." ' The TJnitp.rT Pltnrou cimrflmn .. . has decided the Moyer-Hayward case. jiu. ittvor or uie state or laano. This means that these labor leaders must be tried in Idaho. t General L. Victor Baughman, well known,.as one of Maryland's foremost democrats, diea suddenly at his home fin Frederick. General Baughman was fa member of the democratic .national icommittee. f v Richard R. Garvey, representative elect from the Second Missouri dis trict, died at his home in St. Joseph, November 30, age forty-two years. Colonel Theodore Ewart of Spring field, 111., formerly assistant adjutant general of Illinois, died at the Soldiers Home, at Quincy. A Washington City dispatch carried umu tIlG Associated Press follows: The president announced the appoint ment of John A. Mcllhenny, of Louisi ana, to fill the vacancy on the civil service commission caused by the pro motion of A. W. Cooley, to be assist ant attorney general of the department of justice. Mr. Mcllhenny -was a mem- ?r i the Stoont of rough riders of which the president was colonel during the Spanish Tvar. Mcllhenny is a democrat, and his appointment inakes the board a democratic one Commissioner Black also being of that political faith." Commerce Commissioner Clark at Salt Lake City startling revelations were made with respect to land frauds. The two senators from Wyoming, Warren and Clark, and Land Commissioner Richards, are placed on the defensive by the testimony at Salt Lake City. It is claimed that the two Wyoming senators used their, influence against vigorous prosecution of inquiries in these land deals. Forty persons were, killed in an ex plosion near Dortmund, Germany. A new cabinet for Spain has been formed and accepted by the king. Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco has returned from his trip abroad. Im mediately on his arrival in Snn TiVnn- cisco he was placed under arrest, but was released on bond. . He says he will have no difficulty in establishing his innocence. Iowa railroads have, during the past year, increased their business $3,753, 000, or more than twelve per cent. Paris cablegrams say that France is about, to -abolish the death penalty. Chauncey L. Graham, vice president of the Steele-Ball company of Chicago has been arrested on the charge that his concern" owes the Stensland bank $270,000. Stensland was recently sent lu prison ior name ivrecking; New Tork reDublicans imvo cinvnr. nor-elect Huches n. hnnnnnt "MV Hughes took occasion to say that he would be his own boss. A collision took place on the South ern railroad near Lynchburg, Va. Six people were killed and a number of others seriously injured. Among the dead was Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern Railroad company. Mr. Spencer had a wide reputation as a railroad man and took conspicu ous part in the opposition to railway rate legislation. y Herman TCrmritTo nKactiiAn .a i. --,,, incoiuDui, ui. cue First National bank, Omaha, Neb., is uvcm Russian authorities are face to face SiStUtaS? illvolving fc5 faraIne In the hearing before Interstate Samuel Gompers was re-elected pres ident of the American Federation, of Labor. This is Mr. Gompers' twenty fifth election to this office. There was no opposing candidate. DISMISSAL OF NEGRO TROOPS Negro citizens throughout the north and west have held mass meetings to protest against the dismissal by President Roosevelt of three troops o negro soldiers because of the riots at Brownville, Texas. Thousands of petitions have been forwarded to the White House urging the president to withdraw his order of dismissal. The president has yielded to the extent of agreeing that if any of the members of these troops shall show themselves to be innocent of participation in the Brownville riots they will be restored. The feelincr nrniiHPrl hofmaan i races showed Itself plainly at Chicago when it was announced that Senator Tillman would speak in that city for the benefit of a fh1.f.rT.a Tinonlfni The negroes protested against the Till man address. Finally Mayor Dunne declined to nreside nf fhA moattn A large number of people met Senator Tillman nf tho t,,v. oj i-u j. w vu btuau a.uu mo BfcJUULOr was given a police bodyguard during hjs stay in Chicago. No trouble oc curred at the Tillman meeting. In connection with the dismissal of the negro troops, an Associated Press dispatch under date of New York, No vember 29, will be interesting. That dispatch follows: "At a union Thanksgiving service, in which the members of four negro churches of this city participated to day, President Roosevelt was de- E cf for 5" action in dismissing Unit.dr0 negr SOldiers f thS States army. At the conclu- ?io n? tt 5rvlce' whlch was held in iv i?"nt liyot BaPtist urch, near- lJJYfry0nf present made a contribu- rn? afu,nd whIch ls Ing raised for the relief of the dismissed soldiers bv nTmn ,lthQ day was Preached qf ! ?.eVT- H' Books Pastor of St. Mark's Episcopal church; In the sCaTd.Se $ Wb . address Mr' brooks n?f' i ft has "been tne Pretense and less S2ft f thBOuth that the 2.1 ? dopant negro was the one she despised, but the real south ap pears in her true colors when she took rMD rUn down' aumiliate and out ISQ mof fc IntellInt, thrifty and upright people of the community; This Wal, !carcely over before, the chief magistrate of the nation covered Himself with eternal shame Z Tdfs- 7,n ujr u Just, unirtnd, undemo cratic, un-American and czarocratic, cold, cruel, drastic and Infamous or- Srl again?fc brave as heroic, as self-sacrificing. a set of men as ever wore the blue or bore "old glory" on ?J?tfld, f Strife' We wil1 not be re 11 f TeYenZQM7 but we are bold enough to denounce the act as an outrage and aggressive enough to de mand justice at the highest court of earth and before the bar of heaven. Let him of the "square deal" deal square; him of the "fair play" play fair; him of the "door of opportunity" not shut it and bolt it forever in the face of black veterans. Has the world's iiV -iZi, 7i. i. , u aaa urea or his job that he can, ruthlessly mistreat a suffering, hysterical woman on the one hand and outrage a battalion of soldiers on the other? If 'peaching' on comrades is such a soldierly virtue he- should have a chair of peachment at West Point, Annapolis, and espe cially at Harvard. But in. spite of all we have reason to be thankful, for again we have disappointed the world for the soldiers in disgrace have acted as brave men, not resentful children; thankful that the press of the coun try, with but few exceptions, has con demned such drastic measures; that the conservative . people north and south do not countenance such impul sive action. 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