Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-01-27

Whenever the Senate debates de-
velop into personal colloquies; when
one man after another joins in the
discussion and remarks are made
from the seats of Senators and the pre-
siding officer is ignored: when the SEN
ate becomes disorderly and needs to
be ADMINISTRATION does President
pro tenn. Frye call the venerable Sen
ator Pettus, of Alabama, to the chair
and watch the result Pettus will not
allow one Senator to interrupt anoth-
Ell without first addressing the chair
and through the presiding officer OBJ
tanning the consent of the Senator en-
titled to the floor. A running debate
is very difficult under such conditions,
and the collOquieS are interSpersed by
Interruptions of the chair, who de-
clares first one and then another Sen
ator out of order. The Alabama Sen
ator performs this duty with such an
air of gravity and an evident desire
for decorum that no Senator can take
offense.
The United States government,
through the Department of Justice,
has brought suit in the United States
District Court at st. Paul to enjoin
the General Paper Company from fur
Their opera tons. The suit is brought
under the Sherman antitrust law, and
its object is to break up a combination
which is alleged to control the produc-
ton, sale and distribution of paper i'll
nearly the whole country west of In
diana. This conspiracy in restraint of
trade, as described in the petition of
the Department of Justice, is carried
on through a selling company of nomi-
nal capital, the stock of which is held
by % manufacturing companies. This
selling company-the General Paper
Company-is the exclusive selling
agency for the product of all the com
panies, and limits the output, fixes the
prices and allots territory.
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When United States Senator Philan-
der G. Knox purchased the fine farm
on which he now resides at Valley
Forge he engaged in the milk business,
supplying his neighbors with the pro-
duct of his thoroughbred herd. Miss
Frederick, daughter Of Dr. Charles
Frederick, who resides about a mile
from the Knox farm, had for quite a
number of years been supplying the
villages of Valley Forge, but when
placed in competition with the Sena-
tors herd the customers of Miss Fred
erick began to fall off very materially.
When it came to the ears of Senator
Knox that he had as a competitor in
business the pretty daughter of the
aged country physician he proceeded
to dispose of his COWS, and since that
time Miss Frederick has had an undis-
puted monopoly of the milk trade of
Valley Forge.
The total issue of the commemora-
tive series of postage stamps for tie
Louisiana Purchase Exposition reached
only 2S7, 800, 200, as compared with
total for the Worlds Columbian expo
stion at Chicago of 2,014 ,233, 100. The
issue was even less than of the special
stamps for the Pan-American eXpOsi-
ton at Buffalo, which was 1924, 100000.
The total issue Of special stamps for
the Omaha exposition, covering the
two-year period, was %, 532 40. The
only reason for the falling off in the
number of these special stamps issued
given by Major Reeves, chief of the
stamp division of the PoStoffice Depart
ment, is that such newness soon wore
off, and the people were satisfied with
the ordinary regulation stamp.
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One thing which Postmaster Gen
eral Wynne mentioned in his annual
report ought surely to receive prompt
attention That is the peril to rail
way mail-clerks through the use of
mail-cars that are of lighter construc-
ton than the other coaches in the
train, During the last fiscal year
twenty-one clerks were killed and four
hundred and thirty-nine injured. The
position of the mail-car in the train is
necessarily dangerous. The govern
ment pays the railroads literally, and
has a right to insist that the cars in
which the mail is carried shall be
strong and safe
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Russia has been Informally notified
by the United States government that
owing to the limited time at the dis
posal of the short session of the Amer
lean Congress further negotiations on
the subject of the proposed Russian
American arbitration treaty will be
postponed. Only those treaties which
are of uniform model can be laid be-
fore the Senate this session.
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The gross postal receipts for the fifty
largest postoffices III the country for
December, 1904, as compared With De-
cember, 1903. show net increase of