The National tribune., 1906-05-10

will return to Montana to look after
his large business Interests there SEN
| ator Clark has been much maligned
outside the Senate. but inside that body
no finger has everiibeen pointed at him;
He has been quiet; conservative, and
| apparently conscientious representa-
tive of his people in the House of
Lords Although one of the richest
! men in the United States Club" he
has made no show of wealth, and
looks more like Catholic Priest as
he goes about his daily duties than
| like anything else.
What amounts practically to an
| agreement on the existing differences
concerning court features of the Rail-
road-rate bill has been reached by Sen
ate conferences extending over the last
week, and Senator Allison has offered
an amendment comforting jurisdiction
upon the Circuit Courts to hear and de-
! terinine suits brought against the In
| terstate Commerce Commission. The
| amendment will not suggest to the
courts, whether their judicial review
| shall be confined to constitutional
questions or whether it shall be an in
quiry into the justness or reasonable
ness of the rates fixed by the Commits
| sion Senator Long. who made the prin-
| cipal legal argument for the House bill
I and Senators Aldrich and Crane, the
| leaders in the movement seeking an
amendment providing for broad
| court review, expressed themselves to-
day as favoring the amendment, and
| both factions are agreed that the COM
promise is satisfactory to President
| Roosevelt.
| Arrangements nave been concluded
| by the Agricultural Department to try
oiIing some of the dirt streets in the
/ OnfSI<irtS pf Washington to COO yybet n q
| they can be semimacaGamfzed by this
means. as are some of the roads in Cal
ifornia where oil has been tried with
great success. The oil used i'm the west
is very cheap. and it's application has
been eminently satisfactory, the roads
resembling asphalted pavement, only
more yielding to the feet of horses, and
the dust being laid entirely.
The President likes to have news
paper correspondents get right on mat
ters about once in so often anyhow, so
he invites them into his councils oc-
casionally Once, some months ago,
the President issued an order to the
members of the Cabinet that they
must not talk so much. In fact, he
suggested to them that he would give
out all Administration news, especial
ly that which had its inception at Cab
met meetings. The newspaper corre-
IL
and they continued to say so. until the
President inaugurated his Newspaper
Cabinet" He has Just had another
meeting of his Newspaper Cabinet. He
called together 36 of the Correspond
ents of Congress and discussed with
them in the Executive Offices the status
of the Railroadrate legislation, and
to learn the Presidents views as to
certain pending amendments to the
Hepburn bill.
The meeting lasted more than an
hour. While the President made II
clear. at the outset, that he desired
not to be quoted directly as to views
he might express. he said he was per-
fectly willing that his views should be
known and be stated in the language of
the members of the press who were
present. ,,r,
With this understanding, the infor-
NAL discussion which ehsued took a
wide range as to the. rate measure and
proposed amendments. The President
talked with frankiies5 in the express
sion of his views In answering ques-
tions which were propounded to him
from all sides, and in explaining the
attitude of himself and the advocates
of the suggested legislation. Neces-
sarily, the discussion. was in a nature
academic, but it was interesting and
The discussion dealt chiefly with the
various propostions for court re-
view. .l".
-, s'ps51s s '
The Senate Committee on Privileges
and Elections held 4 meeting Friday
to consider a report In the STnoot case.
After considerable discussion, in which
it developed that the committee stood
eight to five in favor of a report that
the Utah Senator was disqualified, Mr..
Dubois. of Idaho. as means of bring
ing the question to an issue, proposed
the following resolution:
Resolved. That Reed Smoot is not
entitled to his seat as a Senator of
the United States from the State of
Utah"
Senators Frazier, of Tennessee, and
Knox. of Pennsylvania, asked for time
to consider the evidence more fully.
It was agreed to vote upon Senator
DubOis's resolution Friday, May IS.
1t is likely that food manufacturers
OF the country and DIR. Wiley, Chief of
the Bureau Of Chemistry, will clash
during the consideration of the Agri-
cultural appropriation bill by the SEN
ate Committee on Agriculture, of
which Senator Proctor Is Chairman.
This will come through an attempt
to put back into the bill the appropri-
alton and authorization for the investi
CATION of food products by the Secre-
tary of Agriculture, or his represent
atives." The appropriation was 100000.
and was for the publication of the re-
suits of the investigation, the estab
lishment of principles for the use of
preservatives. and of purity of stand
ards for food products.
Regulations Regarding importations
were also authorized. The National
Food Manufacturers Association was
opposed to this as giving DIR. Wiley too
much power. and will contest an at
tempt to put 1t back in the bill.
A sequel to the San Francisco earth
quake and fire has appeared at the
Treasury Department in the shape of
charred money, which has been sent
here for redemption.
The money in question amounts tOI
$3.50. which was inclosed in tin box
i'm the safe of business firm located
at No. So California street, near the
water front So great had been the
heat to which it had been subjected
that when the safe was opened it was
found that the tin box had melted, and
the money was charred as a result
The damaged certificates and notes,
however, are in good condition, and
the employees of the Redemption Di-
vision are having little trouble in idcn-
tfyin; them.
A fortunate thing for the Treasury
Department is the fact that very little
papei money is used I'm San Francisco,
about the only source of circulation
being from tourista.o
On the other hand, it is known that