Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-29

town, and South Portland. The Republi-
cans retain Eastport, Bath and ELS
worth.
The New York State Assembly finance
committee voted in favor of an investiga-
tion of the State banking department,
naming former Chief Judges Parker and
Andrews of the Court of Appeals to do
the probing.
A movement is on foot among the lead
ing lawyers of New York to take the
nomination of judges out of politics, and
to put forward for judicial offices next
year men selected and Endorsed by the
legal fraternity.
Newton w. Gilbert, Congressman from
the Twelfth District of Indiana, will re-
sign his seat to accept a judgeship in the
Philippines. which he has been offered by
President Roosevelt. He will leave for
his post on July l.
"Old Tom" Corwin, as he was familiar
ly known, Governor of Ohio, United
States Senator and Secretary of the
Treasury in Fillmorr's cabinet, used to
say: BE solemn-afI the monuments are
raised to solemn ashes"
Congressman Gaines of West Virginia
was arguing for the passage of the rail
way rate regulation when John Gaines of
Tennessee, no relative, and of the oppo-
sition, saw a chance to interject: Does
the gentleman from West Virginia yield:'
asked the chairman. "Of course | do
replied the West Virginian. u congrat-
ulate the country on hearing us both in
one speech
During the consideration of the Indian
appropriation bill in the House of Repre-
sentatives the question of tariff revision
was under discussion, and considerable
applause greeted the statement of Mr.
Rucker (Dem.) of Missouri, that the
Democrats would go before the country in
the next national campaign with tariff
revision as its platform, and with W. j.
Bryan as i1s leader.
Every time l see this picture of the
late Speaker Michael G.. Kerr Of Indi-
ana" said Congressman Campbell of
Ohio, Il am reminded of an old friend of
mine who worked on a Boston newspaper.
This man was the telegraph editor, and
was possessed of one of those queer
streaks of humOr which he always used
at the wrong time. When the story of
Speaker Kerr's death came into the office
my friend wrote this headline over the
story: From gavel to gravel He lost
his job the next morning"
The resolution passed by the recent
reform Legislature of Pennsylvania di-
recting an inquiry into the coal carrying
business of the Pennsylvania railroad and
other anthracite roads has been vetoed BY
Gov. Pennypacker, on the ground that it
was not ger1nane to the call of the extra
session. He also vetoed the resolution
asking that the session be reconvened to
enact a 2-cent passenger rate for the
railroads and to enable trolley lines to
carry freight. These are expected to be
the live issues of the next campaign.
Close on the heels of the announcement
that Joseph Medill Patterson had resign
ed his position as Commissioner of Pub
lie Works of Chicago because he had
become an out-and-Out socialist. and while
the country was discussing with unusual
interest the explanation of his course, the
fact leaked out that a private conference
of leading political reformers of all sorts
and conditions was in progress at the
Stamford Comm residence of Arson
Phelps Stokes, on invitation of Robert
Hunter. author of Poverty" Young
Patterson was himself a guest, and with
him were several well-known socialist
writer's and speakers.
Rufus Bullock, the only Republican
ever elected Governor of Georgia, and
who played a conspicuous part in the re-
construction period, is now spending his
declining days in the village of Albion,
Y. Y, his boyhood home.