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proceedings Senator LaFollette voted for the
bill, the defeat of which he has so vigorously "
Insisted upon. This would give him the right, ,
as one of the voters in the majority to move
for reconsideration. LaFollette made his mo
tion amid deafening applause from the galleries
and it was lost. The galleries again gave the
Wisconsin senator a great send-off. He was
surrounded by democratic house members show
ering congratulations upon him for the fight he
had put up against the measure. Aldrich and
the other republican senators, were jubilant over
the outcome. They had already prepared to
resist the efforts of LaFollette and Stone to
again resume the floor. This they realized would
likely result in opposition from the democratic
senators and perhaps drag them into an indirect
filibuster, which might extend the session in
definitely. The senate democrats were already
in an ugly frame of mind. Their leaders de
clined to enter into a filibuster against the cur
rency bill on the ground that it was not a sec
tional matter and if the east or west could stand
it, so could the north and south. They declared
the bill was not one which would demand a
filibuster. But the action last night of the re
publicans in sustaining the chair in his ruling
against LaFollette's right to insist upon the at
tendance of a quorum created a feeling on the
democratic side which could have easily result
ed in lining up the entire minority in opposition.
Luck, however, was with aldrich. His arrange
ment with the presiding officer and the senate
clerk proved his well earned reputation of be
ing the peer of the most accomplished of par
liamentary strategists, otherwise there might be
a different story to tell."
TREASURY OFFICIALS are making prepara
tions to carry Into effect the new currency
law.. An Associated Press dispatch from Wash
ington says: "Assistant Secretary Coolldge con
ferred with Director Dalph of the bureau of en
graving and printing and W. W. Eldridge of
the office of comptroller of the currency and
the statement was authorized that the actual
work of printing the new notes would be begun
within the next ten days. The new notes will
be identical with the national bdnk notes now
in use, except that the legend at the top of the '
fae. of the .note,. 'Secured by bonds of the
United States,' will he changed to 'Secured by
bonds of the United States or other securities.'
The comptroller of the currency now has in the
vaults about $203,000,000 in old notes belong
ing to various national banks and these will
bo used as required until new notes are printed
and seasoned ready for use. It is probable that
it will require six months to change all of the
plates used by .the 6,810 national banks, but
it is expected that some of the new issue will
bo ready for delivery by July 1 next. Several
matters connected with the new issue are still
under discussion, one of the most Important
being the denominations of the notes, but it is
thought that the smaller denominations will
be issued first, as each autumn there is a heavy
demand lor small notes, especially from the
west and south. As soon as the department is
ready to supply the new iOtes in any quantity
requred, no further issue of the present notes
will be made, the present notes being destroyed
as fast as they reach the treasury for redemption
and new notes issued in their place."
JAMES K. JONES, who was chairman of the
democratic national committee "in 1896
and in 1900, died June 1 at his residence in
Washington, D. C. Mr. Jones was sixty-nine
years of age andwas ill only a few hours. The
Washington correspondent for the Chidago
Record-Herald says: "He was one of the lead
ing democrats in the senate from 1885 to 1903,
and was one of the strongest supporters of
William Jennings Bryau, having, as chairman of
the democratic national committee, conducted
the campaigns of 1896 and 1900. Since leaving
the senate in 1903 he has conducted a law prac
tice in this city and has not actively engaged
in politics. On Friday Senator Jones returned
from a visit to his daughter, Mrs. Leonora Car
rigan, in Arkansas, and last night was appar
ently enjoying good health. Complaining slight
ly this morning, ho remained in bed, and at 5:30
this afternoon died, the immediate cause of
death being heart failure. A native of Missis
sippi, where he was born in 1839, James Kim
brough Jones received a classical education and
fought as a private soldier in, the confederate
ranks throughout the civil war. After becom
ing a resident of Dallas county, Arkansas, he
lived on his plantation there until 1873, when
he took up the pVactice of law. He was elected
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,to the state senate the same year and became
president of that body In 1877. Afterward ho
was elected to the forty-seventh and the two
succeeding congresses, and In 1883 succeeded
to the seat of James S. Walker in the United
States senate, whore he served three terms, re
tiring In 1903. Senator Jones was a dilegate
to the national democratic convention In 1896
which gave Mr. Bryan his first nomination, and
as chairman of the committee on resolutions he
reported the 16 to 1 platform. He was made
chairman of the national democratic committee
after the convention and as such conducted both
of the Bryan campaigns for the presidency. In
the senate Mr. Jones came forward rapidly .as
one of the leaders of his party and was for
several years chairman of the democratic caucus.
Although not an orator, Senator Jones was a
forceful and logical speaker and was often heard
in debate. Senator Jones is survived by his
widow and three children, Mrs. Carrigan of Ar
kansas, Miss Sue J(3nes and James K. Jones, Jr.,
of this city. Senator Jones will be buried in this
city and many of his former colleagues in' con
gress who have not yet left the city will remain
to attend the funeral."
THE WASHINGTON (D. C.) Herald prints
this editorial: "Outsiders appear to be
greatly Impressed with a secondary fact in the
situation, which Is that many southern news
papers are lukewarm or openly hostile toward
Bryan. But Mr. Bryan has thriven on news
paper criticism, and entirely too much impor
tance has been attached to it, particularly as an
Indication of public sentiment over wide areas.
The anti-Bryan press in New York is a conspicu
ous offender In this regard, its readers being fre
quently regaled with anti-Bryan quotations from
inconsequential southern prints; while the
weightier opinions of such widely circulated and
influential newspapers as the Louisville Courier
Journal, the Atlanta Constitution, the Houston
Post, the Birmingham Ledger, the Nashville
Tennesseean, the New Orleans States, the
Raleigh News and Observer, the Columbia State,
the Charleston Post and Richmond Journal aro
wholly ignored. Colonel Watterson has recently
taken the metropolitan press to task for its
obvious inability to fathom political sentiment
west of Hoboken, and he has been trying to
impress incredulous Gothamite editors with the
fact that has just been freshly emphasized in
the Alabama primary. It is to be hoped that
they will see a new light, in the returns from
that state. We do not Ignore, of course, the
opinion antagonistic to Bryan which finds ex-;
pression in such able journals as the Charleston
News and Courier, the Richmond Times-Dispatch,
the Montgomery Advertiser, or the Nashville
American; but wo doubt whether any ono of
these newspapers is representative of the demo
cratic majority of its own state. Wo are in
clined to believe that a large proportion of those
southerners who have been hitherto hostile to
Bryan will bo eventually found occupying sub
stantially the position of Mr, Watterson, him
self the original Johnson man, but who now ac
cepts Mr. Bryan as the logical candidate of the
democratic party and the man best fitted to
present the issues by which alone the party can
win."
THE NEW York Herald after what it calls
"unbiased investigation" admits that Mr.
Bryan's nomination at Denver is now assured.
The Herald says: "The Herald in its table of
probabilities continues to place New York where
it was scheduled last week, as not instructed or
classified. The Herald believes that the dele
gation from New York will vote for Mr. Bryan.
But the strength of the Nebraskan is growing
so rapidly from week to week that it now must
be evident to the veriest tyro In politics that
Mr. Bryan can be nominated without the sup
port of either New York or New Jersey. The
anti-Bryan managers have had an unexpected
backset. It is hard enough to elect delegates
opposed to Bryan, but to have them apparently
elected and then discover that they were not
elected at all is maddening. This Is what has
happened In Florida. Florida is entitled to ten
delegates. An open primary was held, and al
though no question of presidential preferences
was raised, it was announced that eight of tho
delegates were opposed to Bryan and were
classed for Judge Gray, while two were for
Bryan. The vote at the primary was canvassed
last week, when it was discovered that only four
delegates had been elected, and that these were
for Bryan. Six delegates will have to be chosen
at a second primary. Tho Bryan men will be
on the alert this time and will fight for every
delegate. The loss of these eight delegates re
duces the number of votes instructed or classed
for Gray from thirty-one to twenty-three. Tho
action of the West Virginia and New Hampshire
state conventions were serious blows to the can
didacy of Governor Johnson. Tho Johnson man
agers expected that both these states would- re
fuse to instruct and that anti-Bryan delegates
would be elected."
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