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VOLUME XXI. CAMDEN,B.C.. FRIDAY, JtJNlC 24,1910. NO.23.
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AMID ROAR OF CANNlAHD BDLTI- -
TUBE'S YELLS ROOSEVELT COMES HOME
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Shrieks ol Steamboat Whistles like PtidemoDlUD u El-President Comes Up (lit
Bay. and Tears Fill His Eyes Wlitu Kindt Play "Home, Sweet Home."
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MAYOR CATKOR AT THE DATTEBt CRESTS DIM 111 THE CUTS DAME
nm>or uaynor, welcoming Colonel Roosevelt back to America,
greeted him with these word*;
"We are here to welcome Mr. Roosevelt home to New York.
We have watched his progress through Europe with delight.
"Wherever he has gone he has been honored, as a man and *?
an exponent of the principles of the Government of this country.
"He was received overywhere in'Europe and honored ae n.o
man from this country ever was honored. We glory in all that,
and it only remains for me to say now: 'Mr. Roosevelt, we welcome
you homo most heartily, and are glad to see you again.'"
READY TO "HELP TO SOLVE PROBLEMS."
In reply the ex-President said:
"I th3nk you, Mr. Mayor; through you I thank your commit
tee and through them I wish t> thank tho American people for
theii1 greetin;;. 1 need hardly gay that I am most deeply mpved l>y
tho reception given to me. :>*o man could receive such a greeting
Without hein; made to feel very proud and very byrabje,
"I have beeu a year and a quarter from America, and I have
seon strange and Interesting things, alike in the heart of tho
frowning wilderness and In the capital? of the mightiest and most
highly polished of clvlllr.ed nations.
"I have thoroughly enjoyed myself; antl nowvl am moro glad
than I can say to get home, to be lmck In jny ' own country, back
among the people I love, and ready and agree to do my part, so far
as I am able, in helping solve the problems which must be golved if
we, of this greatest democracy uuon which the sunha?over shone,
are to see its destinies risd to tho high level of our hopes jmd ite op
portunities,
"Tills the duty of every citlten; but it is peculiarly my duty;
for any man who haa ever been honored by being'made President
of tho United States is thereby, forever after, rendered tho debtor
of the Aiuer'.cau peoplo, and Is bound throughout his life to re
member this m his primo obligation, and in private life as much as
in public life bq to carry himself that the American people may
never havo cavise to feel regret that once they placod him at their
head." .
New York City.?Theodore Roose
velt, a piivato citizen, with no title,
not having the prefix "et," returned
to the United fetr-teo, and upon cater
ing this port received all th'o honors
that could ho deviled by his admirerB.
That la only another way of raying
that he could not have deceived great
ei* attention had ho still been Presi
dent or ono of tjie Kings or Emperors
with whom' lie has been hobnobbing
In Rurore for the last three months.
A3 his ship, the Kaiserin Augusto
Victoria, came tip tho bay, a United
States battleship fired a salute of
twenty-one ?;uns. Tho forts on either
side of the* Narrows-*-paid him the"1
same tribute^ Twenty-one guns, as
; every ono know^ ihs-the national sa
lute, the greeting for tho President.
There is nothing hightr.
And tho program of the roceptton
that foliowod oa shore and river was
all on a twenty-one-gun scale.
The Kalserin Auguste Victoria Car
rying Theodore Itoosevelt reached the
channel outsider of Sandy Hook In a
great hank cf mist. Above tho giant
shin rolling clouds threatened to spoil
the homecoming of America's moat
popular citizcn. Thero wa<j a heavy
chill In the air and not a bit of prom
ise that the sun would shine. But
Roosevelt luck was thero again. In
an'hour the Naveslnk Highlands, the
rest of the Jersey coast slanting down
to New York, the big towns on Coney
Island and the sandy skirt of Long
Island's south short earns breaking
)nto sigl\t, The sup, biasing merrily
above Long Beaeb, senPthe tog gait
}oplng from view, and by 7 p'eloci
the bright blue of fe June sky unfold*
ed itself over the ptretoh of water*
pnd of lend,
So with th? sun kissing him a warm
welcome Mr, Roosevelt began a day
that must always live green in his
memory, From tha shrill screeeh of
the welcoming Hamburg-American
tug, the first to grest him, to the last
neighborly salute In Oyster Bay at
Aight there was not an Incident to
mar hla homecoming. The Navy and
the Army thundered their salutes.
Cheering thousands on the water and
? vast multitude on land sent to him
their rounds of applause.. Friends of
a generation grasped his hands on the
revenue cutters Androscoggin and
^Manhattan. His old Hough Riders of
the Spanish War mobbed him at the
Battery and at the finish of the par
ade. Politicians crowded the Andro
scoggin to say that bis leadership i*
>10 more queetloned now than when
he was master of Congress and tho
White House. Walla of people, lined
Broadway and Fifth avenue and In a
tumultuous demonstration made plain
how happy they were to have him
borne,
No fewer than half a million per
aons crowded the roofs of the sky
scrapers and thronged the river plera
to cheer his Journey up the North
River. They made a panorama of
color and life that was wonderful^
Flags, colored streamers, parasols of
eVery shado, were waved In welcome.
Tugs screamed their salutes, factory
whistles serenaded and ferryboats
hoarsely cried Welcome to,the former
President. On the water, as on the
land, there was not a moment of quiet
while Mr. Roosevelt was In view. The
wildest reception was at.tho Battery.
'At least 70,000 men, women and chil
dren roared their delight when the
first cltlxea was landed from'the An
droscoggin to bo received by Mayor
Gaynor. The noiso of tho multitude
actually drowned the final river salute
of the boata that_had finished the na*
T*Fromdthe beginntttg to tinrond it
was the same old Roosevelt who
smiled, laughed ftlowd. shouted-her#
and there to a friend or took some
body aside tor" a second or two of
confidential eh*t.?right arm
worked faster than an active pump
Young Lawyer Wea 9w4de*ly.
thkt seised C. 8. Batt, ?
hla death Ivf the A
City, where he
handle as be saluted* silk liat in br.nd,
minute after minute during the day.
His smile never wore off. His energy
was ever present. Those who l;now
him well eaw little change in the man
who left here fifteen months ago., He
is a bit ptouter and has a bronzed
face, but otherwise the happy, offer
veeping man who went off in^April of
last year to hunt in the African juu
gles. -? That bo annrcciated
begun to call various trooper* tndt
yjdu&lly by Agine. Then, lac llougb
Hldera really'showed their capacity.
They stood up lu their stirrups and
yelled and cheered until, In aome
cases at least, the tears began to roll
down their cheeks. Then Colonel
I) rod I? gave the command to tall in,
and they took their place In front of
tho carriage hearing Mr. Roosevelt, j
Mayor G'ayuor and Cornelius Vander
hilt, the chairman -of the general re
ception committee,
Preceding them came a squad of
mounted police and the mounted
Squadron A band, while out in front*.,
marshalling the parade, rode Chief
Inspector 8cbmlttberger, of the Police
Department,
Following Mr. Roosevelt'* carriage
t i committee, guests and official
delegates rode In carriages, in the
first of which, besides Collector Loeb
and Elbert H. Gary, of the reception
committee, were Secretary of Agricul
ture James Wilson and Captain Arch
tbald Butt, President Taft's personal
representative.
Fully a million and a half persons
stood and waited for the moment
when, in ship or in carriage, tho re
turning Roosevelt aboyld come within
their flold of vlBlon, and when ho did.
the noise broke looso. Bauds blared,
cannon crashed and sirens ecreamed,
but above their din rose the steady,
continuous thunder of human wel
come.
"Ob, you Roosevelt!" ~ "Good old
Toddy!" rang the five-mllo chorus,
and through it all he rode barehead
ed, flushed with .the pride of hero
worship, bowing to right and left,
picking out here apd there eonje en
thusiast for special notice, a wave of
tho hand or wide smile.
Theodore Roosevelt i? Uttlo changed
from the man who sailed for Africa
| fifteen months ago. A little more
grizzled, perhaps, as to the framing of
his upper Up, a trifle heavier in the
Shoulders from the musole-forming
;*t?enuougness of big-game hunting. .
- Colonel Roosevelt sped fast through
the city when tho exercises of the day
had ended. At night he slept in his
home at Oyster Bay, but not until
his progress there had been made the
occasion for neighborly greetings
that extended from Long Xaland City
to his home town.
Almost like an nntl-cllmax to tho
day's drama of many acts was ono of
Colonel Roosevelt's utterances after
ho reached Oyster Bay. It was this:
"I am not going to talk to any
body for publication. I am going to
chut up for a while?shut up like an
O-'.fA-*."
Luitj5LI3K,rill:'' " ? ?
diagram of vmter and land parade in honor of
HOOSBVELT.
come wm clear from the moment lie
left the big Hamburg-American ship.
Tears dimmed t'ne eyes of tbe
former President as he stepped on the
bulkhead of Pier- A at the Battery,
while tho roar of_thousands of voices
and the shrieks of hundreds of steam
boat whistles drowned out the soft
strains of "Home, Sweet Home."
The centre of attraction lo a water
pageant that, swept up the bay from
Quarantine to Fourteenth street and
then down the North River again to
the Battery, Colonol Roosevelt later
rode behind his own Rough Riders
through flvo miles of persons, cheer
In* to-one continuous roar., that
reached from Battery Park to Central
Park Plasa. Vr -. V
\ It was nfter tho brief reception at
tho landing place and jnst as the col
umn was forming for the -maroh up
town that Mr. Roosevelt first caught
eight of the Rough Riders, and as
they saw his carriage coming toward
themthsylet out a yell whleh shamed
tho thousands of enthusiastic ama
teurs, who thought they were making
com* n'eflae.
Mr. Roosevelt came to bis feet wit
a-Jerk when his old regiment turned
loose; waved his hat frantically and
1TAFT SIGNS RAILROAD BILL,
House Fusses It and It flcon Becomes
. a Law.
Washington, D. C.?The Taft rail
road bill Is now on the statute boolts.
The^measure wa? Anally passed by the
House and was signed by the Presi
dent at night.
The; President found both the Ad
ministration railroad, bill and the
Statehood measure, which also went
' ihrough the, House on Its final
passage, when ho returned from his
trip to Pennsylvania
The President was very tired, but
Was eo glad to find both these mcas-'
ureg, but particularly the railroad
bill, out of danger that he decided to
sign It without delay. The railroad
bill was over in the executlvo offices,
but the President had it brought to I
the White House proper and afflxM I
his signature without any formality I
in tho presence of his secretary and
one Or two others. 1
President Taft Keep* Kites*
President Tart, at Washington, D.
C.. t ^rsa^aded^ Sectary K aos to re*
Governor of Pennsylvania.
trs3rstrrrrir : c ft t1
rearing defeat by IfiatfrgSnts andl
Democrats, tfce machine of the House
News.
BY WIRE.
To Stop "Cussing,".
Richmond, Vr.,?A law providing a
fluo not exceeding $600 for using
"cuts" word* or other language calcu
lated to provoke a breach of the
peace went Into effect In Virginia,
Vicar General FlUgerald Dead.- ?
Kansas City, Mo?The Hev. Thos.
Fltsgerald, pastor of 8L Mary's Cath
olic Church in Independence, Mo.,
and Ytear general of tho diocese of
Kama* City, died in his home frcm
heart diseaso. Ho was sixty-el^ht
years old.
Negro Murderer Lynclicd.
Mastadon, ?Mlss.--~Eliro Curl, a
negro, was lynched here, for shooting
W. I*. Miller (several week* u',?o. when
Mr. Miller went, ut tho h&ad of %
posse, to asrest Curl for writing au
insulting note to a white woman.
Indicted on Bribery Charge.
- Washington, D. C.?The' Federal
Grand Jury returned an indictment
against Peter G, Thomson, president
of the Champion Coated Paper Cqjp
~pnny, of Hamilton, Ohio, charging at
tempted bribery in connection with
the furnishing to the Government of
paper for postal cards.
Knicide Pact is Murder,
Montgomery, Ala.?Tho Supremo
Court hold that if two men agree to
a sulcldo pact and ono kills himself
while the other tfoea not, the ono
failing is guilty of murder in either
the flrat or second degree.
Coy Aviator Foils to Death*
| Ran Francisco, Cal.?When making
a practice flight In ? an aeroplane
! glider, Eugene fipeyer, sevfenteen,
? fell to tho ground from a height of
' fifty feet, Buffering injuries which
j caused death. .The slider was at
' tached to an automobile. Ills mother
Is a wealthy widow.
I
Dee Stings Kill Horse*.
I "Washington, D. C.>?Two. hor?ci
were stung to death by boo3, and the
: negro driver barely escaneJ with hla
life. His face was swollen to twice
Its natural size and both eyea wore
closed. The bees belonged to Dr.
Reginald Munson, who lives, cn the
Virginia side of the Potomac, oppo
cite the capital,
? 6? . ? , . .
Wiley Cannot Get Rail.
lioa Angeles, Cal.^-itfl..vmond M,
Wiley, said to be the son of a wealths
business man of Rutharfor#, J.,
who says he was formerly,
athlete, was held to (h6 , 8ln0t|ii
Court on n charge of burglary. Bail
was fixed at *3000, which he wa3 un
able to provide.
Anti-Negro Law Void.
Frankford. Ky.?The Court of An
peals1 decided unconstitutional tho
act of the last Legislature providing
that no negro industrial school should
be located in any precinct in the State
unless the majority of voters of that
precinct voted for its location. Tho
act was Intended to prevent the loca
tion of the Lincoln Industrial Insti
tute in Shelby County.
Joy Hiding Makes Teller Steal.
Detroit, Mich.?Daniel M, Shaver,
teller of the Lumberman's State Bank,
Day City, Mich., was arrested on the
charge of robbing the bank of $2 4.
CC3.60, which has been mado good
by the itookholders. Poker playing
end auto joy riding are blamed tor
the stealing,
Advance For Railroad Men.
St, Louis, Md.?The Terminal ItalU
road Association, of 8tk Louis, an
nounced an increase of five per cent,
in the wages of ltt 5000 employes
who receive less than 8200 a month,
Dncketshop Operators Arrested.
Cincinnati, Ohio,?Louie W. Fos
ter, Ed Hell, Walter Campbell* J. M.
Scott and Arthur W. Baldwin, the
five members of tne O'Dell Brokerage
Company, who were sentenced to jail
on charges of UBlng the mails for
bucketshop operations, surrendered
and they were sentenced to pay a
fine of $200 each and eerva flva
months In jail.
BY CABLE.
New Batteries Shoot Straight.
Manila, P. I.?Artay officers eay
that the now batteries on Corregldor
Island, at the entrance to Manila Bay,
broke the world's record. Out of
twelve shots from tbe six-Inch guns
eleven were placed In the bull's eye..
Earl Beanchamp Is Lord President.
London.?Karl Beauch&mp was ap.
pointed Lord President of the Council
In succession to Viscount Wolver
hampton, resigned. Ho was Mayor
of Worcester In 5 895 and-from 1809
until 1901 was Governor and Com
mander-in-chief of the colony of New
South Wales.
Rxpel 105 More Jews. ?
Kteff, Russia.?In the contlnuatv.n
ot tho expulsion of Jews alleged to be
living Illegally outside The Pale, 165
persons were sent out of Kleff in one
day."- Thirty-two of there had beeir
allowed to settle their affairs, while
seventy-three were etpejled without
notice, iwelTiug passpoiur to a speci
fied destinatioa^vfvi
Venice. Italy.?Kin* ^Victor Em.
nuei, aocompanioit' vj tnt UURe or
Abnifft, visited the International
I.; Exhibition, where WttfrlJ
of Americans are hn?f. The King
miMH RAIDS
UNITED WHESS
Officers Arrested For Using Mails
to Defraud.
THRO MAN IS LOCKED UP
llted of Stock-Hclllnft Agency Alsc
Involved In the Chnrg??T?
J/MHi For Stockholders Culled
Attention to Fraud*,
New York City.?-On a charge of
sending misrepresentations through
tbo United States malls (or the pur*
pose of gelling ctock in tho United
Wireless Telegraph Company Chris
topher C. Wilson, provident of that
corporation, and Beth 8. Bogart, vice
president, wero arrested by United
States Postofilce liiHpectora und dep
uty nvarshajj*. Tho arrests were mndt
nt tho inaKulllcontly furnished ot
flcea of the company at No.' 42 Broad
way, and large quantities of hook*
and documents wero seized by tint
inspectors.
It Is allogeri that tho United Slatoi
"Wireless Telegraph Company ha?
rold cIobb to. 120,000,000 worth ol
stock throughout tho country by
means of fraudulent misrepresenta
tions.
Wilson and Bogart, who was al
one tlmo CJoneral Superintendent ol
tho Western Union Telegraph Corn*
pany, were hustled out of the build
ing ut No. 42 Broadway and up to
tho Federal Building several houri
after the raid. They were taken flrsl
to the office of United Statos Marshal
(Henkel and were later arraigned be
fore Uhited Slates Commissions
Shields. I
Commissioner Shields fixed ball In
the rase of Wilson at $25,000 and
110,000- In the case of Bogart. The
prisoners weris represented by Fran
cis X. Butler and William 8; Bogard,
who promised to secure bonds within
a short time. The Clovornment au
thorities wanted tho ball for WHson
fixed at $50,000 aud for Bogart al
$20,000, but the Commissioner cut
thcdfl amounts In half.
A DeputiJ^arBhal went toMahopac
Falls, Putnam County, N. Y., and sr?
rested William W. Tompkins, preslr
dent of tho New York Selling Agency,
of iy Broadway, which handles th<s
stock and advertisements of United
Wireless. -
Tompkins was found on his farm
'at Mahopac FallB by Deputy United
States Msrshar Oriim." CohinUsalon
fir Knidlfla nxed bis ball at fl0,000,
and Tompkins immediately called uy
his lawyer, K. B. Wilson, by tele
, phone. - He was taken to the Tombs.
' rChief Inspector Mayer, after the
arrests'gaye, out ah extended state
ment, telling of the^psrations of the
United Wlrpless concern. - Among
other charges made by Ihspec^pr
Mayer is this: v,
? Th? officers of this company have
sold to the public thousands of
Bhares, claiming all tho time .that
they wero holding their shares and
putting tho monoy received from the
public Into the plants of tho com
pany. One of tho ofilcers is believed
to have cleaned up $5,000,000 at $10
a share, and possibly $10,000,000 at
the rangtng prices of $10 to $50. Tho
other officers of lesser degree have
profited in proportion.
There are 28,000 stockholders
throughout tho country, many ot
whom have placed their savings in
the stock of tbo United Company
through false representations that
have been mads by its officers. A por.
?Ion ot the business has been done by
soliciting agents by house to housa
canvass, but the greater portion of
the stock selling has been done by use
of the tiails. either through newip**
per advertising or circulars.
The sales of the stock hare been
made through "fiscal" or "selling"
agencies in which certain officers of
the company are said to have bad
commanding interests.
The United Wireless is the out
growth of the old DeForest Wireless,
which was founded by Abraham
White, who gained fame by risking
a postage stamp on n bid for Govern*
ment bonds and cleaning up a for
tune. Tho company claims to have
COD operators at work on hundreds
ot ships abd at 102 land statlous tak?
Ing and sending wireless messages,
$80,000,000 FOR IRRIGATION.
Senate raises Land Withdrawal Dill
Favored by Taft,
Washington, D. C.?With $80,000,
000 provided for th6 completion of
irrigation projects, the House bill
authorizing the'withdrawal of public
lands by the President- passed the
Senate. It Is one of the measures ad
vocated In President Taft'a Jeg4?la
tlve program. x
Among the provisions rejected was
an amendment by Senator never Idge
opecidcally withdrawing ? from entry
the coal lands of Alaska,"find another
by Senator Gore brlnglug the friar
lands of tho Philippines within the
operation of the general land laws of
these islands.
Jlepbnm Lose* Coifcgresa FJght.
The Congress contest at Washing
ton, D. ?L, of former Representative
W. P. Hepburn, Republican, against
William Jamleson, Democrat, of low#.
lnvolvlnfc.JI|e representation .Qt the
Eighth Iowa District* was settled by
the .Hgqsft?Cqinmmcg QP PlectlOM,
No. S in imvor oi Jiriui?6on.
Call of Legislature Urged.
iProsidont Frelinghujnseo, ?! the
NirKrHf Sttte Senate, "HT.^
angered "-It Ooverrn |
urged him to call
special session, I
to any fair rem?
may be
Bull
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WITH GOJTON POOL
Hayne, Scales, Hirroan, Thomp
son, Kit" lo art! Brtwn Namscf.
CONSPIRACY IN ALL COUNTS
Contract nnrt Purchnsos Given n? (Iw
lia?ia of (?lt(M'ge9-?Government
lU'K" 11 Its Attack Itpforc
lators linked in Profits.
New York City.?James A. Patten,
of Chicago, the Cotton King> and
Beven other men In tho bull party in
the Cotton market were Indicted by'a
special Federal Grand jury for vio
lating tho Sherman Anti-Trust law
by operating a pool to corner the ?up*
ply of raw cotton. Tho action h
probably tho moat remarkable of Its
kind on record^' for tho Federal Gov
ernment stopped in and started Mh In
vestigntlon at a tliuo when tho bull
pOol was In full operation, Instead of
waiting until It bed accomplished K*
objects and raked down its profits.
Cotton men throughout tho world
will be .interested, by tho action
against Patten and tho other bullB,
for It means the Government hax
placed Itself on rocord as being ready
to break any corner attomptcd by a
pool.
i ho men inoineu are
JaineH A. I'atten, of Chicago, who
ptimo to New York CMty six months
ftpo lo bull the cotlon nmr.ket after
making rrillllona out of n pull cam
paign lu tho Chlcnxo wheat pit.
ICuKone n. Scales, of Dallas. Texas,
one of the biggest cotton operators In
tho South.
Sydney J. Harmon, of Shreveport.
La,, a cousin and business associate
of Scales.
KQ?:ert m. Thompson, euent part
ner" In the big New York cotton bro
kerage houre of B. H, P. Pell & Co.,
and one of C. W. Morse's directors In
the National Bunk* of North America.
Chnrles A. Kittle,' partner in the
flrm.pt 8. 11'. I?. Pell & Co.*
Morris Sj Hothprhlld. a rotton
planter, of Woortsvllle, Mies., who Is
operating In the New York market,
with an office at ^2 Bev/er Direct.
Frank B. IJayne. of the firm benr
ing his name, a leader of the New Or
leans rotton market.
William* P. Brown, of New Orleans,
who shares with Hayue the primacy
of the New Orleans community of
cotton brokers.
? Five of the defendants cams in-be
foro Judgo -Kowrh with thetr counsel
to enter pie.is of not guilty to the In
dictment and to ptvo bail, which wa?
fixed at C"?000 each. ,
Cotton brokers who learned of the
Indictments oppressed the opinion
tliat the returning of ihdletment'j
r.guiijst tlio leading cotton bulla la the
most startup n: action that ever ha
b^en taken by tho Federal CJovern
m?nt insolation to the cotton market.
What t'^c Cowrnment Irttends to
prove aper'.flraliy is this: That Patten
and his associates in the speculative
market mado an agrooiuent with cot
ton spinners and manufacturers In
Alabama, Georgia, North and South
Carolina to corner tho entire supply
of cotton for the present crop yearr
and thus to boost tho price of raw cot*
ton to any price they chose, Tho
method by which this wns to be done
is revealed in r contract between the
speculators and the spinners, which lg
roe.de part of the indictment.
ROOSEVEXT GREET8 AMERICA/
NOT TO MAKE SPEECHES VX*
Tlh AUGUST} DEEP APPRIN
CIATIONOrnOSriTALITV,
New York City.?Former President
Roosevelt gave out the following in*
terview;
I have been away a year and a
quarter. White I enjoyed' Africa
most, I enjoyed Europe a very great
deal. In fact. I fall to see how any
one could have had a more Interest
In* or pleasanter trip than I have had.
"I wl*hi to express my very deep
appreciation of the more than gener
ous courtesy mid hospitality with
v/hich I was treated by the peonle and
the rulers of the countries through
which I passed. But, of couree, I an}
Very glad to get home.
"I appreciate deeply t'.io kindliness
of ft multitudo of friends who hav.*
asked me to speak in different places,
and bono they will understand that it
Is simply a physical impossibility tor
me oveu to consider accepting moM
than one in a hundred of these invi
tation?. I ehall not spea? anywhere
for et least two months, and then will
tneak first at the John Brown celebra
tion, In Karias City, at the Cheyenne
frontier gathering, at the Conserva
tion Cohgress In 8fs. Paul, and pos?l<
bly at one or two other placet,
"I shall have nothing whatever to
eay <n t?o immediate future about
jolitiej and will hold no interview
whatever on liie subject with any one.
.Anything, purporting to J*o an inter
view with rt?e that may ayrear can be
safely ret down at once as an inven
tion
take thiz opportunity o?acknowl
edfing wlth. the heartiest thenk*
tho numerous Mnvconlgrams and let
ter sreeiings which I received in Lon
don before starting and which It had
fccen imrofEible to acknowledge. I
need not Hay how deeply I am.touched
by these Wnd message* and am eure
tUe tenders will understand that
failure to answer all o
slwply to the fact tb
Washington
Confronted by the probability tha*.
Congress will adjourn without taking
tiny atepa to iucreaae the commis
sioned personnel of the army, the Sec
retary of War baa
Clmnce For ordered that wher
Retired Officers. ever possible offlcera
be restored to their
lino duties, Including thoae now de
tailed to staff duty, work on the Pan*
anm Canal, a't educational institu- ?
tlonr, etc. Thin will not greatly affect
the work on the Panama Canal, for
ths reason that most of the officers oil
duty In the raual rone are there by
express provision of law, but it will
mean that many of Uio officers now
;tl military school#, etc,, will be rer
inrtioil to their regiment3 and their
places mi. i wit'a retired officera
found competent for the work. The
order will probably affect officers on
duly with the Quartermaster-genera1,
tho comm ixaa ry?geuera), In the medi
cal corp.*, etc. Hecretury Dickinson
bps ale;> urged Congress Immediately
to push the bill designed to place tho
general stuff on the Bnmo plane as
other stuff bureaus, to that vacancies
mado by tho arslgnmcnt of officers to
tho general staff may bo tilled by pro
motion until tho vacancy at thu foot'
nf the lino is filled.by the commission'
ing of a second lieutenant. The Sec
retary frankly expresses his regret
that It should be necessary to replace
officers at tho military schopls with
retired officer?, but ho believes thi?
step Is Imperative.
A development which promises to
ipake greatly for the popularity of
the Taft administration is the install
ation of Charles 1). Norton as secie
tary to the President. It
Norton, lx no exaggeration to say
Secretary, that the whole atmos
phere of tho White House
changed with the appcarance of Mr.
Norton ou the ecene. Those who had
appointments with the President
found that they were received on
tlnie? - Newspaper correspondent!!
had no difficulty in obtaining satisr
factory information' regarding tho
news of tho White House, and fol
lowing the conference with the rail
road presidents, a larger number saw
the President than at any previous
time since his inauguration. Every
thing mcvod with a snap and anror
t.GY which augur well for tho tutnrg.
and predictions of the success of the
new secretary were heard on all
sides. It is betraying no confident
to say that one of the weak spots of
I this administration has been the con
1 veying of news to the press-~*-not. of
course, those matters which should
not bo made public, but those which
should, Mr. Norton begins hlK work
with a realization of the Importnhca
of this phase of his numerous duties,
and there is reason to believe that ho
will be sucpessful In the performance
of this delicate and highly Important .
task, ;
The Committee on Claims reported
to the Sedate a hill granting |773,?
047.23 to the Southern Pacifio HalU
i?o?ici for the work It did to check the
Sal ton Sink and save the
Uncle 8am Imperial Valley from per*
Poor Pay, manent lnun<latton, The
amount spent for this
work by the Southern Pacific, which
was carried in the hill Introduced by
Benator Flint, was ?M?8/UM0, end
the payment wag ttrpngly recom*
mended by President .BoosereU in a,
nr-eci*i message to Congrtiitjro lift? :
kwfc^tr^907^0' course, the nth .
road .cannot compel the United States
to pay more than it chooses for thle
work, which was done without any
contract, and Congress appears to
think It will be doing Its full duty by
passing the bill reported, although It
carries considerably less than halt the
amount spent to remedy the break In
the Colorado Elver and eave the val
ley, which 1b occupied by. betwteo
SjOOO and 10,000 settlers, ., ,
W * * :? '
A prominent New Yorker recently
In Washington ie authority for the
statement that no man has grown so
rapidly In publlo life as George W.
Wlckersham, Attorney*
WickersImm's General in President
Growth, Taft'e Cabinet. Thie
authority asserted that
Wall Street was confident when Mr., '
Wlckersham was choson for this re-*
sponsible post that it would find in
him a quick and ready sympathize:-,
,t>nt that now that It has come to a re-f';'
nlltatlon of the fact that Mr, Wicker- '
sham Is acting with a fall apprecia
tion of the fact that he has the entire
American people for htr clients and
la showing/remarkable ability in,the
conduct of the business of.the natlofe.
Wall Street's admiration and oonfl-; ]
tfencfe have turned to hatred; and
there la nothing too bitter for it to
say of Mr. Wlckersham. To thiaJ^eSCS1!
aU?*ppointment ar? attributed some "
of the receot attacks on the Attorney
General, but in proportion as a certain
class of business men are turning
against the Attorney-General the
great mass of the people are turning
to him, and ninoo he initiated the ill- p
innctlon proceeding* whieh brought
the Western tailroade to the White^
"House asfihpplinnts W* neace ar an* ?
price, and the ultimate effect of which
wgrto pruisct the peoi'
oral advance in freight
ftetloniof the West th
"Attorney-General
manean hardly b* m*