Morris tribune., 1906-05-19

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vert and perilous. He said that the
president had no right constitutionally
or morally, to attack corporate or pri-
vate business by name. The president
should be the first to recognize and re-
spect the regular process of law. In
conclusion he says it is an amazing
blunder for congress and the people to
see this overriding of sacred individual
rights without protest.
Speaker Cannon at Seventy.
Uncle Joe Cannon's seventeen birth
day was celebrated at Washington
May with a remarkable reception in
the parlors of the Arlington hotel and
by demonstration of affection from
the members of the house when he en-
tered to preside over the days session.
| The applause from the floor and gal
lery continued for full minute, when
it was ended by the bang Of the speak
er's gavel. Among the thousand or so
guests at the evening reception were
President Roosevelt and the members
Of his cabinet, majority Of the SEN
ate and many Of the members of the
diplomatic corps. Every one remarked
on the extraordinary appearance Of
physical vigor which the speaker pos
sessed in spite of his seventy years of
strenuous life. Numerous kilograms of
congratulation were received from
prominent men in all parts Of the coun-
try.
Rosewater For the Senate.
Edward Rosewater, the veteran edi-
tor of the Omaha Bee, has announced
in his own newspaper that he would
be candidate for the United States
senate to succeed Senator Willard. He
calls attention to the fact that he has
advanced for many years the princi-
pies held by President Roosevelt. At
present he is in Rome as the repre-
sentative of this country in the inter
national postal congress. During the
war he was telegraph operator in the
White House and worked as President
Lincolns private operator.
Election Rebukes Court.
W. W. Rose, the Democratic mayor
of Kansas City, Kan. who resigned
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against him for nonenforcement of the
prohibition and antigambling laws and
who was nevertheless ousted by the
state supreme court, which disregard
ed his resignation, was reelected to Of
fee by 1000 plurality over the Repub-
lican and Socialist candidates. Roses
right to the Office will be contested,
b0uavnr &c fho surname oo11r+ rnoo rde
him as ineligible
Chasing the Oil Octopus.
Attorney General Ellis of Ohio, who
has been investigating the operations
of the Standard Oil company, reports
that Notwithstanding the transference
of the property of the Standard Oil
trust to the Standard Oil company of
New Jersey, following the adverse de-
cision Of the Ohio supreme court in
1890, the company in it's new form has
been violating the state and federal
antitrust laws. He says that it drives
out competition by organizing fake
| companies in the Oil fields. These COM
| panies will pay bonus of 5 or 10
cents to those who are selling to indie
pendent companies, forcing the indie
pendents to bid up in order to get the
Oil. He says that the Manhattan Oil
company, Of which Archbold and Rog-
ers are directors, is such a company.
The attorney general of Indiana and
the state railroad commission have
taken the Garfield report as the basis
of an Investigation directed against
the railroads and oil refneries Of the
state.
A significant change in the policy of
the Standard Oil company is the ap-
/ pointment of j. I. G. Clarke, for many
years an editor pf the New York Her