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ml 1 10 TAFT foivcr. and Ui IMwlH'S forj-c-H
1 cliiHlHul In Ni-w York City on tho ovoiiins
of January I (J. The Hughes iwn undnrtoolc to
coimldor tho roHoliitlon endorsing Hughes or
tho republican nomination for president, whlcli
roMolutlon wiih tabled several weeks af?o. I Ho
AHHoclutod I'rcHH report said that three hours
was connumod In debate between the Tuft una
Hughes forces unci thai this debate was charac
terized by "bitter Invective and frequently by
cheers, IiIhhck and cat calls." Finally an ad
journment was taken for thirty days, no vote
having been reached. Tho supporters of Hughes
Insisted that tho Taft men were afraid to allow
tho question to como to a vote.
A WASHINGTON dispatch to the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat follows: "President
Roosevelt was today credited with having ex
pressed tho opinion to a caller that William II.
Taft, secretary of war, would bo nominated for
tho presidency at tho next republican national
convention on the first ballot. The president
1b credited with having added that Mr. Taft
would havo about GOO votes on his first ballot.
Tho information spread rapidly through political
circles and was eagerly talked about at the cap
ltol. Thorn was general surprise that the pres
ent administration should so oponly espouse tho
causo of Mr. Taft and mako apparent its lean
ings In tho direction of deciding who should suc
cood Mr. Roosevelt. At tho White llouso when
Inquiry was mado as to tho correctness of the
roport of tho president's utterance, it was neither
confirmed nor denied. In an informal way, tho
statomont was bolstered up. From tho expres
sions of Mr. Loob, secretary to the president,
It would appear that tho Taft people now claim
to havo practical assurance of 517 delegates. In
making this estimate practically all tho states
wost of tho Mississippi river are claimed, includ
ing Iowa and Minnesota. Half of tho delega
tions from Kentucky and Tennessee aro claimed,
a goodly porcontago of tho delegations from tho
solid south, thoso from North Carolina and South
Carolina, with absolute conlldenco. Most of tho
dolegates from New England and all of Ohio
aro Included in tho Taft claims.
SENATOR ALDRTCII claims to havo the co
operation of Mr. Roosevelt on his financial
moasuro. A Washington dispatch to the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat says: "Tho republican
mombors of tho flnanco committee wero today
glvon definite assurances by Senator Aldrich that
ho had gono ovor tho bill which bears his namo
with tho president and had been assured by Mr
Roosovolt that it had his entire approval. It
dovolops that a Chicago editor has busied him
soir In doveloping opposition to tho Aldrich bill
and told a number of senators that tho president
was opposed to tho moasuro. Senator Aldrich,
with his characteristic energetic manner, wont
at once to tho president and secured his author
ity to assure his republican colleagues that tho
administration was heartily in favor of this
moasuro. Local papers havo been publishing
a statement that beoauso of tho opposition of
certain bankers of Chicago, Senator Hopkins of.
Illinois, a now mombor of tho flnanco committee
would oppose tho moasuro and had so notified
Senator Aldrich. This was flatly denied by the
Illinois senator this afternoon, who said that
ho stood directly on tho Interview which wts
So bill." tU08 disimtdlos Saturday in favor Tf
JUDGE HOUGH of tho federal court In Now
0 York has ruled that E. H. Ilarriman must
answer questions put to him by tho inters ato
commerce committee relating to tho pnrci "so
of Union Pacific or Southern Pacific stock Tho
questions which tho commission desired Sir" Har
rlman to answer wore described by United States
Attorney Stimson in this way: "What t !J 11
mission is endeavoring to l&rn is W ether tho"
enormous stock investments made with Un on
Pacific funds amounted to a waste of th
and impairment of the facilities of an tatoStote
common carrier, and whether tho matte? of BUph
investments would bo mado subject to te reg
ulation of congress." Tho questions to which
Mr. Ilarriman objected related to the purchase
of tho stock of other railroads in the interest
of tho Union Pacific and tho Union Pacific divi
dend. In regard to the $28,000,000 of Illinois
Central purchased at $175 a share, the questions
which Mr. Ilarriman declined to answer aro as
follows: "Wore tho 90,000 shares sold by your
self, Mr. Rogers and Mr. Stillman pooled?" "Was
it acquired for the purpose of selling it to the
Union Pacific?" "Was tho stock purchased by
you at a much lower price than $150 with tho
intention of turning it over to the Union Pa
cific?" "Did you have any interest in the 100,
000 shares sold at the time by Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
to the Union Pacific?" "Was the 105,000 shares
acquired by tho same pool for the purpose of
selling to the Union Pacific?" The grounds as
signed by Messrs. Ilarriman and Kuhn for their
refusal are thus summarized by Judge Hough:
"First The questions propound d are not per
tinent, relevant or material to any inquiry stated
or defined by the resolution of the interstate
commerce commission. Second Said resolution
or order was an improper method of originating
inquiry by the commission. "Third
The committee is not empowered either
to pass the resolution or make the order or ask
tho questions by a statutory grant of power.
"Fourth If, however, congress has assumed to
grant statutory power authorizing such proced
ure then such congressional grant is un
constitutional, inasmuch as congress itself could
not repress these questions, because they do not
relate to cQmmerce among the several states."
THE TARIFF question will not down. A New
York dispatch to the Chicago Record-Herald
follows: ."More than one hundred members
of the National Association of Boot and Shoe
Manufacturers were present today at the open
ing session of tho annual meeting of the asso
ciation. In his report President John II. Hanan
said tho American shoe manufacturer was able
and willing to compete with the world if tho
government would remove the handicap imposed
by tho heavy duty on hides. Governor Guild
of Massachusetts, in a brief address at the ban
quet tonight, discussed the necessity for a revi
sion of tho tariff. 'A demand will be made
after the next national election,' he said, 'for a
special session of congress for the revision of
the tariff in tho interests of common sense rather
than of special interests. I am a protectionist.
I believe that policy more than any other one
thing has built up the industrial domination of
tho United States. I believe that policy should
bo continued, but the time has come when
illogical and needless duties should cease to
hamper alike our industries and our people
Wool is a proper subject for protection. Sheep
aro carefully bred to produce a certain kind of
wool, and the sheep that produce the finest wool
give the poorest mutton. No one ever heard of a
farmer raising cattle for their hides, or breeding
cattle to produce a certain kind of hides. The
duty on hides helps the big meat packers I
understand, to some extent, but it certainly is
of no value to the cattle raiser.' Governor Guild
advocated free admission of bituminous coal and
beef and a reduction on wool. He thought that
a revision would not cause a general upheaval
of business."
A NEW YORK man Henry E. Sullivan, left a
J will providing for the conversion of his
body into buttons, pouches and fiddle-string
Referring to this peculiar will a writer in th a
New York World says it Is not unprecedented
and gives a description of freak willinKry
as follows: "In Morgan vs. Bovs a w y
upheld which directed that part of tJ 11 JS8
be made into fiddle-strings, the remainder
limed into smelling-salts and the rest of Sfl i??
vitrified into lenses. The court drew a tatta?
tion between insanity and eccentricity t5t
Ziska, blind chieftain of tho HuMltS" in?!??
directed that his skin be tanned II i i n I424
made of it. Mr. S. Sanborn in 1871 w?"!
his corpse to Harvard university and nnTf?
to the two anatomical professors nKulaly
Holmes and Louis AgaThe JuEfE
made into two drumheads for: 'Warren Simpson,
drummer of Cohapel, on condition that he should
on the 17th of June every year, at sunrise, beat
on tho said drum the tune of 'Yankee Doodle on
Bunker Hill. The drumheads to" be respectively
inscribed with Pope's 'Universal Prayer' and the
Declaration of Independence. The re
mainder of my body to be composted for
a fertilizer to contribute to the growth of an
American elm to be planted in some rural thor
oughfare, that the weary wayfarer may rest, and
innocent children may play beneath its umbrage
ous branches rendered luxuriant by my remains.'
Jeremy Bentham left his body to Dr. Southwood
Smith for dissection. The skeleton was stuffed
to fit Bentham's clothes, a model made of the
headfand the whole inclosed in a mahogany case
with glass doors. In his arm-chair, with his
walking-stick in his hand, all that was left of
the great apostle of law reform remained for
some years in the house of Dr. Smith, who ulti
mately presented it to the University college. In
Neville vs. Geary, tried in Dublin in 1878, the
testatrix left numerous articles of clothing, in
cluding trousers about five inches long and three
Inches wide, with jackets, swallow-tailed coats,
etc., 'for the baby that should rise at the first
resurrection.' While such testiments may shock
tho feelings of relatives, they do not leave tho
sting which more vindictive documents possess.
A notable will contained handsome legacies for
wife and sister with the provision that once a
week each should spend an hour with the other
at the grave. 'I do this,' was the conclusion,
'because they made my life miserable with their
eternal squabbles, and I want to be certain that
they will torture each other for a while after I
am gone.' "
SUPERINTENDENT George E. Hunter of tho
watch factory of Elgin, 111., explained re
cently to a writer in the American Food Journal
the reason why forty loaves of fresh bread are
required each day at the watch factory. Mr.
Hunter said: "There is no secret regarding the
use of bread in this factory, and I am willing to
tell all I can concerning it. From the earliest
times in the history of watchmaking it has been
tho custom of watchmakers to reduce fresh
bread to the form of dough. This is done by
steaming and kneading. They then use this
dough for removing oil and chips that naturally
adhere, in course of manufacture, to pieces as
small as the parts of a watch. There are many
parts of a watch, by the way, that are so small
as to be barely visible to the naked eye. The oil
is absorbed by this dough, and the chips stick
to it, and there is no other known substance
which can be used as a wiper without leaving
some of its particles attached to the thing wiped.
This accounts for the continued use of bread
dough in the watchmaking industry. The Elgin
National Watch company uses something over
pounds'year1" " PGr day' r about 24'000
THfiSnT.AUKiEBxTDaily News Prins this
editorial: The New York World which
dlfnrSln6 fdemcratic party as its candi-
Starr to vTi?1, .SW s devotins itself to an
effort to vitalize a 'boom' for Governor Tnhwn-n
of Minnesota. In 1904 conditions were propitf-
TUwVe0rtholnpammoInn?f a 'BepvattfdWate.
3 ? democratic party had suffered defeat
to be fLW leadership. He had declined
to be a candidate and the field was open with
2SdmBatrenfKSf tendencjes of e Prominence
ana strength to command the united support
of the progressive members of the party There
was a disposition on the part of rnany progres
sive i democrats to give the conservatives oonor-
on St onSlr, hat merit therrwas in Er
contention that the successive defeats of tho
Shi? Tow XBpyan,S C.andidacy nd leader!
snip, bo, with the support of tho 'anvthimr to
win element' that was dazzled by the promises
that Parker could carry New York and New
wouTdy MS sn cnest of ?he party
would bo filled to overflowing, the Now vvlrir
contingent had comparatively easy sailing Pa
ker was nominated. It is quite unnecefsary to