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CASH for FURS!
Yon got the hlgbrot prices find the
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than any honuo in tho world. Tlio big
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Tho national association of rail
way commissioners has adopted
resolutions approving the recent ac
tion of the convention of governors
of various states at Spring Lake, N.
J., in authorizing the presentation to
tho supremo court of tho United
States of a brief supporting tho right
of states to regulate freight rates
within their borders.
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M. a. HASKKLL, Vico President
M. O. SELLS. Cashlor.
A Washington correspondent to
California Outlook says: The Ore
gon direct legislation case, which
was appealed by the telephone com
pany, will bo argued before the su
premo court of tho United States In
this session, and a decision Is ex
pected soon. Tho appeal is based
on the issue whether tho constitu
tional amendment of Oregon, allow
ing the people to initiate laws and
to pass on laws framed by tho legis
lature, Is contrary to the provision
of the United States constitution that
guarantees to every state in the
union a republican form of govern
ment. The courts of Oregon, includ
ing the supreme court of that state,
have decided in favor of the initia
tive, and the supremo courts of many
other states have given similar de
cisions. As direct legislation pre
vails now in ten states, and is in
use in several hundred cities, if the
United States court should rule
against it, there would be a serious
upsetting all along the line. Affairs
in many California cities would be
Jthrown in great confusion. The
feeling against practical democracy
or the rule of the people is very
strong among politicians in the
eastern states, and many legal
authorities have argued against it.
But if the supreme court should find
against it, the effect will be most
unfortunate on western public sentiment.
ern railroad were not made defen
dants in the suit, as neither had been
represented at the conferences of
the railroads where the "objection
able 65 per cent contracts" were
agreed upon. Ho added that neither
was a stockholder in the Temple
Iron company, by which the govern
ment claims the Philadelphia &
Reading, The Lehigh Valley, the Dela
ware, Lackawanna & Western, the
Central Railroad of New Jersey, the
Brie and the New York, Susque
hanna & Western railroad com
panies, all entering the anthracite
region, are held together in an il
legal combination.
The national association of railway
commissioners met at Washington
and refused to adopt a resolution
favoring legislation abolishing the
express companies of the country by
compelling the railways to take over
the express business.
A general inquiry into the control
by railway companies of the docking;
wharfage -and pier facilities at vari
ous ports of the Gulf of Mexico, Mis
sissippi and Atlantic coast points, in
cluding Galveston, New Orleans, Mo
bile, Memphis, and Philadelphia, has
been instituted by the interstate com
merce commission.
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The United States supreme court
"has taken under consideration the
so-called "hard coal case" after a
two day argument by counsel for tho
government and for the principal
railroads and coal-owning companies
in the anthracite coal Tegions of
Pennsylvania, charged with violating
the Sherman anti-trust law. The
main argument for the defendants
was that it would be ideal to have
the anthracite railroads and coal
companies independent, but that
close relationship between them was
necessary because the Tailroads had
I fn hnvp trmnnirfi nRnnrn-nno fn ronrmri-
pense them for the expense of build
ing into that region.
James H. Torrey, for the defense,
asked why the government had taken
no action against independent opera
tors who sold coal under 65 per cent
contracts to coal companies, whose
stocks were owned by the Pennsyl
vania Railway coi-ipany and by the
New York, Ontario & Western Rail
road company.
"If these coal companies are free
to make contracts while the others
are to be dobarred," said he, "It is
conceivable that the result of this
proceeding may be to increase largely
the coal companies of the Pennsyl
vania, New York, OntaTio & West
ern and to shift the control of the
anthracite market to persons other
than tho principal defendants and
who may be presumed to be actuated
by like motives.."
The closing argument for the gov
ernment was made by J. C. McRey
nolds, special assistant to tho attor
ney general. Ho outlined tho relief
A dispatch to the Richmond (Va.)
Times-Dispatch says: A discrepancy
of over $3,288,271 between the ma
terial on hand and that called for by
the books of the Washington navy
yard, was shown by the inventory of
that yard just completed, according
to an announcement by Secretary of
tho- Navy Meyer. This is the first
inventory of record made at this yard
within the last twenty-five years.
The discrepancy is attributed to
loose bookkeeping methods, which
Secretary Meyer set out some time
ago to correct.
The Washington yard was the last
to have the new accounting system
established, the Boston, New Yorfi,
Philadelphia, Portsmouth, N. H.,
Puget Sound, Mare Island, Charles
ton, S. C, Cavite and Olongapo yards
preceding Washington.
The navy department officials
stated explicitly that there was no
indication whatever that moral tur
pitude was involved in the discre
pancy, and that It undoubtedly was
duo to the antiquated bookkeeping
methods.
After serving in the federal prison
at Leavenworth, Kan., for 20 months,
John R. Walsh, the former Chicago
banker, was paroled by President
Taft into the custody of his son.
Walsh had been sentenced to a five
year term.
It is reported that the Japanese
ambassador to Germany, Viscount
Chinda will be transferred in Febru
ary to Washington to succeed Visr
count Uchida, who has returned to
Tokio.
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