The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1903-03-27

The operators are required to pay conf
missioner who shall be appointed by a
Circuit Judge and whose duty it shall be
to determine the average wholesale price
of coal Among the general recommen-
dations of the Commission is one recom-
that the custom of employing
special police shall be abolished and also
one urging that the existing child labor
laws be enforced.
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In view of the ratification Of the Pan
anna canal treaty the engineers are already
figuring on the force that will be required
to construct the canal. 1t is said that not
less than 20, 900 will be employed and at
times this force may be doubled. There
are now 900 men at work under the
French company and every foot of the
canal has been surveyed aud ground
broken. Two hospitals, fully equipped,
are now maintained and doubtless will be
during the entire construction of the
canal. Assuming that no legal obstacles
present themselves it is not believed that
the actual work of construction will begin
before the fall oil 1904. American skilled
labor and possibly some of the exper-
fenced French engineers will be employ
ed but only negroes and preferably those
who have been accliniated will be hired
for the common labor
W.
The President has expressed himself as
sorely disappointed at the postponement
of actual reciprocity with Cuba for prac-
tically year and is seriously contem-
plating calling Congress in extra session
about November IS. with view to get
ting the Cuban legislation disposed of be-
fore the volume of legislation inevitable
at the beginning of a regular session. Mr..
Roosevelt is also disappointed at the fail,
ure OF the Senate to act on the nomina-
tons of William Michael Byrne as United
States Attorney for Delaware and of DIR.
Crum, the negro named for collector of
the port of Charleston, S. G. Both of
these nominations were sent in at the reg
ular session and both were unfavorably
reported by the committees to which they
were referred. Both were sent in during
the special session and the first was I'M
favorably reported by the Judiciary Com
mittee, but the Commerce Committee re-
fused 10 meet to consider the latter. The
President has committed himself to the
appointment of these two men unless for
mally turned down by the Senate, and he
desired vote of that body but failed to
secure one. He has now made both ap.
pointments as recess nominations and the
men will take Office.
W.
The President will 60 west on April I,
and hopes to secure, in the wilds of the
Yellowstone Park, an absolute respite
from all official cares and worries. He
will take newspaper men on his special
train but has requested that when he
enters the Park they remain outside and
permit him the two weeks undisturbed
and unmatched vacation of which he feels
himself in need. The proposed trip is a
far-reaching one. From the Yellowstone
Mr.. Roosevelt will return to St. Louis and
be present at the dedicatory exercises of
the St. Louis Exposition and will then go
to the Pacific coast, practically the entire
length of which he will traverse, and on
Decoration Day expects to deliver an
address at Cheyenne, Wyoming. From
there he will journey towards Washing
ton making numerous stops aud reaching
here on June 5th.
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Already the President is worried over
what appears to be a serious blunder
made by his friends with regard to his
visit to Chicago. The date set for that
visit is April and on April will occur
the municipal election. For some, thus
far unexplained reason, the Mayor of
of Chicago, who is a candidate for re-
election, was not invited to be chairman
of the reception committee, and although
the President understood that his recep-
ton was to be entirely nonpartisan, it
now transpires that only republicans have
been invited to participate in his recep-
ton. The democratic mayor has attack
ed the President on the ground that he is
coming to Chicago to help elect repub-
lican mayor, but the President has in.
sisted on the Mayors being invited to
participate in all the ceremonies attending
his visit.
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A somewhat sensational report has Just
been received at the War Department
urging upon the Government the i'm
portance of increasing the stategie
strength of the American Legation at
Pekin. While the report contains moth
ing which indicates danger of an imme-
date uprising it states that in the event
OF such a catastrophe the Americans
would be wholly unprotected, there being
no armament at the Legation, aside from
the small arms of the Guard, but two
antiquated guns valuable only as orpa-