The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-27
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 Cannon and Gaines.

Speaker Cannon and John Wesley Gaines. of the old Hermitage district. were the only Congressmen in Wash ington this week.
 Your Uncle Joe spent Tuesday in town, lon genough to let everybody see that he was standing pat in an unus- ually natfooted way. When his atten- ton was called to the reciprocity and tariff reform convention just held in Chicago, he gently but grimiy grinned and grunted. why shouldn't they meet and pass resolutionsT' he asked. The speaker left the same evening for his home at Danville. He looks In good fettle for the chair-work of the next Congress meeting
 Congressman Gaines. who came in on an early morning train was the first visitor Wednesday morning at the off, flee of the Secretary of Agriculture. Secretary Wilson was glad to see Mr. much mutual sympathy in the matter of measures of relief for tho tobacco growers of the country, and especially of the dark tobacco region of Tennes- sec and Kentucky Mfr. Gaines went hot-footed and double -flisted after the tobacco trust away back in the early days of Philander Knox's regime in Pennsylvania lawyer almost contume- liously Ignored the efforts of the zeal ous Tennessean. Not so with Attorney General Moody He has had the mach inery of justice going after the viola tors of the Sherman act and its amend
 ments. Secretary Wilson manIfestly, in the belief of MT. Gaines, Is heartily In sympathy with the tobacco growers. and Is ready to do everything the law allows him to advance their interests and relieve them of oppressive bur dens and unnecessary taxation.
 Mir. Gaines remarked after his talk with tn eSecretary that MT. Wilson shows he has keenly felt the blunder- ing and infidelity of some of his subor- dinates in both the tobacco and cotton statistics scandal .-:-
 Senator BurtOn's Side Enterprise. Senator Burton has been one of the most industrious members of Congress When he came to the Senate in 1901 he immediately looked about him and studied whereby he might piece out his meagre salary of S5,0o0 as a Sena- tor According to the courts which have been looking into his feats of in dustry. he loved business not wisely, but too well. :......- :..:..
 The latest information of the sena- tors performance in the line of embrac- ing opportunities for business incident to his place in the Government may be had at the Department of Justice Twenty-six Chickasaw National Fund Warrants. which were issued to Mir Burton and z T. Burton, for services as attorneys are In the possession of the department. These warrants aggregate nearly $14,0oo. The services for which they were issued were mainly the press ing of claims before the Interior De- partment in this city. They were all issued during Burton's term as Sena- tor. which does not expire until March 4. 1907. Six of them, bearing date Oct. 22, 1901, were Issued to J. R. Burton, direct. and amount to $5.500. The oth- CTS were issued to E. T. Burton. who, the department holds. was no more than the alter ego of Joseph Ralph Burton, the United States Senator from Kansas. and Z T. having heen used merely to cover the part played by the Senator.
 It Is said that when the case comes to trial, 1t will be proved that 2. T. Burton never practiced in Indian Ter ritory, nor before the departments at Washington, but that z. T. Burton was fiction as far as concerned these transactions, and for which Senator Burton drew money. All of this Is in the way of new evidence and will be produced at the next trial of Senator Burton. The twenty six warrants were paid at different times during two years that the Senator was doing business outside of his congressional duties with the Interior Department.
 A witness iD the person of Superin tendent Benedict of the Indian Schools at Muskogee, ]. T., will testify at the next trial, 1t is understood. that he came to Washington to look after cer- tain matters for the Territory and met Senator Burton, who said that he alone was authorized to represent the Indians at the Interior Department.