Morris tribune., 1906-06-30
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government Versus Standard Oil.


After a special meeting of the presi-
dent and cabinet Attorney General
Moody announced that it had been de-
termined to start criminal actions in
the courts at once against certain OIL
GERS and employees of the Standard
Oil company and others concerned with
! them in the granting or acceptance of
rebates or in other violations of inter
state commerce laws. These prosecu-
lions will seek jail sentences as well
as fines, and it is believed that the
purpose Of the administration is to go
after Rockefeller, Rogers and other
high officials Frank B. Kellogg of ST.
Paul and Charles B. Morrison of Chica-
go have been employed as special coun-
sci, and a further Investigation has
been started to determine whether ac-
ton will lie against the Standard for
violations of the antitrust laws These
cases are the direct result of the Gar
field report
Norway Mission For PIERCE.
The president has sent to the senate
the nominate of Assistant Secretary
Of State PIERCE to be American minister
to Norway, and Huntington Wilson,
secretary of the American embassy at
Tokyo, to succeed PIERCE in the state
department. Confirmation was prompt.
New Commissioner of Education.
DR.. w. T. Harris, for many years the
Nf7 of hn A ioor
school system as the United States
commissioner of education, has resign
ed and in his place the president has
appointed DR.. e. E. Brown professor
Of education in the University of Cali
fornia President Wheeler of that in
stitution and President Butler of Co
lumbia Joined with DR.. Harris himself
and the two California senators in rec
ommending Brown.
Reappointed as Ambassador.
The legation to Turkey having been
raised to the rank Of an embassy the
president has appointed the present
minister, John G. A. Leishman, to be
the first ambassador.
Aged Clerks Not Useless.
By direction of the president the civ
IL service commission has investigated
the matter of aged employees in de-
partmental service. The number who
are sixty-fve or older is 1925. OF
these 8 per cent entered the service
through examination. The work of
only ninety is rated as poor and ten
JScl,Sy
jority being efficient and hundreds past
seventy doing a good days work.
Signing of Statehood Bill.
When the president signed the bill
admitting the Oklahoma and Indian
Territories as one state and permitting
Arizona and New Mexico to vote on |
joint statehood he wrote the word |
Theodore" with gold pen provided |
by the citizens of Arizona and the word |
Roosevelt" with pen made from an |
eagles quill furnished by the Okla |
homa delegation. He congratulated |
those present on the outcome, and there |
was handshaking all around
More Railroad investigation.
When the interstate commerce COM
mission resumed it's session at Wash |
ington Fourth Vice President Thayer
of the Pennsylvania railroad took the |
stand and endeavored to explain the |
mine rating and car distribution about |
which SO much had been heard. He
contended that SO long as private cars
were in use there was no method to
prevent some discrimination, and on
this account they had ordered the sur
render of all individual cars after this
year. Mr. Thayer admitted that the
ownership of coal property by railroad
officials should be abolished. In re-
sponse to invitation none Of the rail-
road presidents appeared Prior to this
officials Of the Western Maryland,
Chesapeake and Ohio and Buffalo and
susquehanna railroads had testified.
The general manager of the Western
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