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was a possibility Of trouble with Russia
over the stand that government had taken
IN Manchuria. Senator Lodge urged the
immediate ratification Of the treaty, as
such was thought by the State Depart
ment to be essential. He said that the
ratification of the treaty would lave a
good effect in settling the far Eastern
question.
The Northern Securities case against
the United Satates was argued for two
days before the Supreme Court, whose
decision is now awaited with interest.
Attorney General Knox represented the
government, and Mr.. John G. Johnson,
Of Philadelphia, aud former Attorney
General Griggs and others composed the
counsel retained by the companies. Dur
ing the hearing many Senators, members
of Congress and prominent business men
crowded the court room.
Mr.. Johnson argued that the Securities
Company did not acquire the stock of the
two trans contin entail railroads to restrain
trade, but to increase it; that the Sher-
man Antitrust Act did not forbid the
acquisition of stock in two dlIcreut com
panies and that if it did. it would be
unconstitutional; and lastly That the mere
possession of power to prevent competi
ton was not the same as preventing it.
Attorney General Knox replied for the
Government that the Securities Compan
les was a combination in restraint ct
interstate commerce and therefore a vi"
lati"n of the Sherman Act; that it was a
munupoiy and that the Court had the
right to prevent it. He added that it
bordered on the ridiculous to claim that
two railroads which were under the same
management, would ever compete in any
true sense of the word.
Assistant Postmaster General Bristow's
complete report has just been published
and several copies of it have been given
to each member of Congress The re-
port of Holmes Conrad and Charles J..
Bonaparte has likewise been published.
1t holds Perry S. Heath directly respon-
sible for the frauds in the Washington
Post Office and tries to saddle some of
the blame for the postal scandals upon
former Postmaster General Charles
Emory Smith, by claiming that he did not
pay sufficient attention to the warnings
which were given him.
The Cuban reciprocity bill was signed
by the President with a gold pen supplied
for the occasion by Senior Don Gonzalo
de Quesada, the Cuban Minister. The
bill passed the Senate by a vote of 81 to
-. many democrats supporting it and one
republican voting against it. On the last
day of the debate Senator Bailey made
an able argument against the constitution
atty of the action of the President and
Senate in negotiating a treaty which call
ed for a reduction of the tariff and of
making the validity Of the treaty contin-
gent on the approval of the House. He
declares that all revenue acts shall origi-
nate in the House. This question will
probably be taken before the Supreme
Court as soon as the reciprocity bill goes
into effect.
According to a cablegram here from
Manila, an agreement has been made by
Governor Taft and the Philippine f~riars,
whereby the friar 'laud question: will
be settled. The Pope has approved the
terms of the settlement and the approval
Of the War Department is now awaited.
According to the agreement, the 400, 900
acres, comprising all the agricultural
lands of the friars, will be purchased for
$780, 600. The price at fl 5: ask-d was
$15,O 200. 900. As the people of the United
States are not to be charged with any of
the money required to buy the lands, and
as the purchase will be generally approx
ed of by the people of the islands, there
is no doubt that the President and Secre-
tary Root will approve Governor. Taft's
arrangement.
Not satisfied with the explanations
given by the Turkish government re-
lative to the assault Of American Consul
Davis by some Turkish soldiers at
Alexandria,, the State Department will
instruct Minister Leishman to demand
an apology of the Suitan's government.
After Mr.. Leishman's report on the affair
was received here, it was decided to up
hold Consul Davis and a warship was put
at bis disposal. In fact, if he decides to
return to Alexandretta, two ships from
Admiral Cotton's fleet, which is now at
Beirut, will escort him there.
Tariff revision by republi CAM is destln-
ed to remain ever a vague promise. The
Iowa idea" has been killed again. This
time by Ernest E. Hart, national con :
NIT teeman from that State, who declared
here, "The Iowa idea, as it came to be
known, has been exploded. 1t was ju t
a furry hat didn't last long" Cover
nor Cummins long ago deserted it in prac-
tical politics, although he preached it in
a rt cent academic discussion in Boston.
To the republicans tariff revision will re
main a subject for academic dicu OF
of an after election promise.
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