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MAY 6, 1910 The Commoner. 11 funds of the Mercantile National Bank, of New York, has begun in that city. The opening address of United States District Attorney Wise was a terrific arraignment of the Heinze methods. General G. W. Gordon of Mem phis, has been chosen commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Vet erans. Little Rock, Ark., will be the scene of the 1911 convention of the veterans. The balloting for the next meeting place developed an interest ing incident. Col. Joseph Shipp of Chattanooga, who was only recently released from the Washington, D. C, prison, after serving a term for con tempt of the United States supreme court in permitting a negro to be lynched while he was sheriff, made the first appeal for Chattanooga. When he described how he had just been released from a federal prison after he had made a vicarious sacri fice, the convention went mad. When Mayor Thompson of Chattanooga, who followed him referred to the "cruel persecution," there was anoth er demonstration. Details of an attempt to assassinate the prince regent of China on April 3, have been received by steamer. The prince regent, with some officials ami attendants was crossing a small bridge in the palace garden in Pekin when a bomb was exploded by means of wires. Two attendants walking in advance were killed. Guards ar rested fourteen Cantonese dressed in western clothing. Several other bombs were found in different parts of the garden. Reports received from Louisiana and Mississippi indicate that earlier estimates of the damage to the cot ton crop as a result of the recent cold weather were not exaggerated. t With the cotton acreage damaged to an extent of not Jess than 50 per cent including a" total loss in many quar ters, planters have turned their at tention to re-planting, only to be con fronted with the grave problem of a lack of seed. Individual wage agreements have been signed in the Pittsburg district between the United Mine Workers of America and independent coal oper ators employing six thousand men, allowing the resumption of work in a' number of mines. The scales were signed on the basis of the Cincinnati convention resolution. One thousand foreigners, all that remained from the 5,000 who struck for increased wages and shorter hours at the plant of the Pressed Steel Car company, in Shoenville, have returned to work, and ended the strike which has crippled the plant's operations for the past ten days. The men did not gain their demands. At a meeting of the United States Steel corporation the directors de clared a regularly quarterly dividend of 14 per cent on the common shares, thereby increasing the rate from 4 to 5 per cent annually. unanimously nomininated for United States senator. This action was tak en after Governor Marshall's proposi tion to nominate a senatorial candi date was adopted by a close vote. Four million dollars has been sub scribed for the purpose of holding the "Panama-Pacific" exposition at San Francisco In 1915. A herd of elephants belonging to a circus went on a rampage at Dan ville, 111., and created, great damage before they could be captured. The leader of the herd was executed. By the explosion of the boiler on a Southern Pacific freight steamer at the mouth of the Mississippi river five men were killed and several se riously injured. Joseph M. Huston, architect for the Pennsylvania state capital build ing, was convicted on the charge of defrauding the state. General E. P. Alexander, a noted confederate leader, died ' at Savannah. A strike of loaders at the South Omaha packing houses was followed by a sympathetic strike on the part of the butcher workmen. About 250 men were involved. After being out a couple of days the loaders went back to work at an advance of one and a half cents an hour, and the butchers called off their sympathetic strike. Former Congressman Pollard will not be a candidate for the republi can nomination in the First Nebras ka congressional district. This dis trict is now represented by John A. Maguire, a democrat. William H. Thompson of Grand Island has announced that he will not be a candidate for the demo cratic nomination for United States senator of Nebraska. Personal and professional reasons influenced his patronation. Washington News Secretary of the Interior Balllnger took the stand boforo tho congres sional committee in his own de fense. An Associated Press dis patch described his testimony in this way: "Indignantly denying that he had been guilty of wrongdoing, Rich ard A. Balllnger, secretary of tho interior, made a bitter attack upon his critics while a witness before the Ballinger-Pinchot investigating com mittee today, and characterized many of tho sworn statements of his principal accuser, L. R. Glavis, as 'Wilful and deliberate lies.' Led on by his attorney, Mr." Vcrtrees, the cabinet officer answered, one by one tho indictments of those who would destroy him. Ho referred with ap parent pride to Theodore Roosevelt's oft-expressed high estimate of him, particularly the former president's statement when ho was commission er of the land office 'that he had so cured a $25,000 man for $5,000.' Ho defended his conduct in connec tion with the Cunningham coal cases and stated emphatically that ho would take the same action today as ho did when at the head of the land office If he had the same record before him." Tho senate adopted the resolution introduced by Senator Smith of South Carolina, directing the attor ney general to investigate gambling In cotton. "It has already cost this country $40,000,000 by depreciating prices," said Smith. He suggested that tho attorney general investigate the chief of weather bureau for hav ing permitted the recent blighting frost. "There Is not sufficient left," said Smith, "to replant,. GO per cent of the crop destroyed." John W. Kern, nominated by the Indiana democrats to be the United States senator, has accepted. An Indiana dispatch carried by the As sociated Press says: "Assuming that 'the democratic members of the legislature will feel like carrying out the popular will thus expressed,' John W. Kern confirmed in a formal statement his acceptance of the In diana democratic convention's en dorsement as its candidate for the United States senate, conferred upon him yesterday. Among hundreds of congratulatory messages received by Mr. Kern from members of congress and others prominent in the party, was this from William J. Bryan: 'Accept my hearty congratulations. Success to you. We need you In the senate.' " Henry P. Flannery, president of the San Francisco police board, has been Indicted and arrested on the charge of being financially interest ed in pool room operations. At the annual Associated Press banquet in New York on April 28 great disorder was precipitated by the efforts of Thomas T. Williams, business manager for William R. Hearst, to reply to some severe criti cism of the Hearst publications by Mayor Gaynor. Mr. Williams was not allowed to speak and tho dis order continued until Rev. Newell Dwisht Hillis arose and made a fe licitous speech that brought out shouts of laughter and drove away all. anger. At. the convention of the Indiana tate democracy John W. Kern yf&B Four wealthy men of St. Louis have recently given Washington Uni versity of that city the sum of three million dollars. A bill to "prohibit interference with commerce between the states"' was introduced by Senator Clay (dem., Ga.) and is intended to mako it unlawful to use the mails, tele graph or telephone to make con tracts for the purchase of cotton or farm products where the property is not to be delivered. It is similar to the Scott bill now pending In the house. Senator Chamberlain Introduced a resolution calling upon tho attorney general to exercise dispatch In prose cuting suits to recover lands in Ore gon granted to railroads and dis posed of or offered for sale in vio lation of the grant. This resolution recites the fact that in one parcel there are 2,300,000 acres unsold, and in another 820,000 acres which are sold in violation of the provision of the law. Proceedings were begun under a former order of congress to recover these lands, and the resolu tion states that the suits have been allowed to drag through lack of at tention of government agents. NATIVE "Give one verse of 'The Star Spangled Banner.' " . "I can't do it, judge." "Quote a passage from the consti tution." "Too many fer me." "Then I can't naturalize you, my man." "But I was born here, judge. I don't want to be naturalized. I'm after a bailiff's job."-Kansas City Journal. In the senate April 28, the admin istration of the republicans defeated tho Cummins substitute for the Crawford-Elklns traffic agreement provision of the railroad deal." The votes stood 35 to 29. An Associated Press report of the votes Is as fol lows: "This question had practi cally monopolized the attention of the senate for the last week, and was regarded as one of the most im portant subdivisions of the pending bill. The vote is generally accepted as a test of the strength of the con tending forces, respectively, and it is believed it presages the passage of the bill by a safe majority. Of the total membership of ninety-two there were twenty-eight senators who did not vote and of these, four, all dem ocrats, were absent without being represented. They, were Senators Clark of Arkansas, Bankhead of Ala bama, McEnery of Louisiana and Smith of Maryland. All the demo- T A rF 177 TV T tf hecukki ok vkk Frcn rrport an to Pnlcntftblllty. 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