Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-05
COMING ELECTION
HOLDS ATTENTION
GOVERNORS TO BE ELECTED
IN MANY STATES
President Roosevelt Starts for Porto
Rico and Panama Wednesday.
General News Forecast
Of the Week
Rv Associated press.

BY Associated fTeSS
NEW YORK, Nov. 4.-The elections
next Tuesday will be national in scope.
Besides the selection of a national
house of representatives nearly every
state i'm the union will choose'its gov
ernor or other state officials.
In all votes will be cast i'm forty-two
states and three territories. In twenty
two states the legislatures to be chosen
will elect United states senator's
President Roosevelt will go to oyster
Bay to vote Tuesday morning and i'm
mediately afterward will return to
Washington aboard the naval yacht
Mayflower. which Is to take him to n
point off Wolf Trap Light where he
will embark on the battleship louisiana
for his trip to Porto Rico and Panama.
The president will be accompanied by
Mrs. Roosevelt, Surgeon General 2. M.
Rixey of the navy, NJ. c. Latta, the
presidents assistant secretary. and
Lieutenant Frank T. Evans, son of
Rear Admiral r. d. Evans, who VIII
act as the presidents aide.
The president expects to reach Colon
November 13. An elaborate program
has been prepared for the entertain
ment of the presidential party while in
the canal zone territory. after which a
brief visit will be made to San Juan.
Porto Rico, November 90. the return of
the party to Washington being sched-
uled for November %.
The Louisiana will be escorted by the
armored cruisers Washington and Ten
nessee. The officers quarters of the
Louisiana have undergone a complete
Encouragement and it is the intention of
the navy department to make it possi-
BILE for the president to be in touch with
Washington by wireless telegraph every
day he Is at sea.
Plans Tour of Inspection
One interesting feature of the presi-
dents visit to the canal zone will he his
inspection Of the Culebra cut which is
set for the 18th. On this tour of in
spection he will be accompanied by
Chairman Shonts and Chief Engineer
Stevens. An entire day will be spent
in viewing this difficult section of the
canal, which has presented some of the
most serious problems in the great
work
An important meeting affecting the
relations between the railroads and
their switchmen will be held in Chicago
on Monday. At this conference the
switchmen will present to the roads
request for the eight-hour day, but it is
not expected that this demand will be
insisted upon absolutely. However, the
sWitchmen are not satisfied with the
proposition TO increase wages
two cents an hour, and will try to Sc
cure better offer in this respect. The
outcome of the Chicago conference will
probably govern relations between
switchmen and their employers
throughout the country.
The meeting November of the ma
tioua1 assembly at Gettinje will mark
the beginning of the parliamentary sys-
tenn of government for Montenegro,
which was proclaimed by Prince Mich
olas December 10 last.
The French parliament which ad-
journed October 25 owing to the incom-
pleteness of the ministerial declaration
will reassemble today. The parliament
tary program of the new Clemenceau
cabinet Is understood to include the
purch5 Sc of railroads and mines by the
state reform the system of court mar
tial, abolition of the death penalty, a
scheme for an income tax, complete en-
forcement of the church and state
separation law and the creation of a
state monopoly of petroleum and al
cohol.
A continuation of the plea of the
Countess de Castellane for absolute di-
vorce from her husband, Count Boni,
and the custody of their children will
be presented before the tribunal of first
instance of the Seine at Paris by Maitre
Cruppi, counsel for the countess, No
vember Z, after which the counsel for
Count Boni will be heard.