Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-23
THE WEEK ENDING JUNE Is, 1905

After extended discussion by the cabinet
the President ordered Attorney General
Moody to begin vigorous prosecution Of
the Standard OIL Company. President
Roosevelt. in reply to Representative wads-
worth. admitted his error regarding meat
inspection at night. but attacked the court
review amendment; the President and the
House committee on agriculture compro-
missed their differences on the meat inspec-
ton bill: the President signed bill admitting
Oklahoma and Indian Territory to the
Union one state and permitting Arizona
and New Mexico to come In under the
same conditions II they desired; the Lake
Erie and Ohio river canal bill passed the
Senate; the Senate by majority of five
took position with the President and House
and declared for a lock canal across the
isthmus; the Item cf $4,000 for travelling
expenses for the President became a law;
the conferees on the railroad rate bill did
not reach an agreement en- points In dis
pute; the House adopted the substitute or
the Senate meat-inspection amendment to
the agricultural bill and bill defining con-
ditioris under which witnesses in trials af-
fectirg corporations may have Immunity
from prosecution was adopted q Senate
resolution directing that supplies for the
Panama canal be purchased in. this country
and the sundry civil appropriation bill were
passed by the House.
Four big meat packing concerns and the
Chicago. Burlington and Quincy road were
fined $4,000 each, and New York freight
broker and his clerk were sentenced to mes
and Imprisonment for consp.ring TO give,
receive and obtain rate concessions.
The interstate commerce commission at
Washington resumed its inquiry into rela-
lions between coal companies and railroads,
Mr. Cromwell again refused to answer
questions propounded to him by the Sem
ate committee on interoceanic canals; John
J. Kean was arrested, convicted and SEN
fenced to twenty years at hard labor IN
solitary confinement for the kidnapping OF
the Muth boy at Philadelphia; the fiftieth
anniversary of the formation OF the repub-
lican party was held In Philadelphia; Gov
ernor Pattison of Ohio died after a long H.
ness, his death resulting in republican con-
troll Of the state.
Foreign Affairs.
Conditions throughout the Russian en-
pire were reported as growing worse. ia
pan decided to open Dalny, Manchuria. as
free port: Jananese forces blew up the gate
of Hongju. Korea and defeated a body OF
rebels; King Haakon of Norway was crown
ed. A cloudburst caused much damage In
southwestern Bohemia. The Zulu revolt In
Natal was practically suppressed. The
Congo administration took the position that
no power has the right to interfere on be-
half of the Congo natives. Peruvian troops
were reported as having invaded a section
of eastern Ecuador, which is disputed ter
ritory.
In the District,
By vote of % to II the Senate rejected.
the Hansbrough proposition to tax public
utility corporations in the District II per
cent on their net earnings; the bill pro-
viding for the extension of street railway
tracks to the new union station was
ported to the Senate: the Commissioners
appointed d. w. Wilkins clerk in the po-
lice department to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of r. B. Cole; Allen
Wade Dow, for seven years inspector of
cements and asphalts, rendered his resigna-
ton to the Commissioners; Col. r. E. Les
ter, representative from the first Georgia
district. died from the effects of a fall at
the Cairo; John F. Mccormick. who mys-
terfously disappeared from a Chesapeake
bay steamer, returned to Washington; ISAIAH
Blaine. forty-fve years old, was instantly
killed by a falling wall in Anacostia; the
body Of unknown Italian was found
floating in the Georgetown channel; Mich
ael Kelly, sixty years old. received a frac-
ture of the skull by falling from the sec
ond floor of the Sherman building at the
Soldiers Home.