The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-12-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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The federal grand jury that investi
gated coal land frauds in Utah and
charges that railroad corporations have
Disseminated against certain shippers
returned indictments against the I'm
ion Pacific Railroad company, the Ore
gon Short Line Railroad company, the
Union Pacific Coal company, the Utah
Fuel company and several of the high
est officials representing the Hartman
and Gould corporations in Utah. The
first Indictment charges violation OF
the interstate commerce law, alleging
discrimination against D. J. Sharp, a
coal dealer in Salt Lake City, who was
forced out Of business for cutting
prices. The second indictment charges
the Gould interests with defrauding
and attempting to defraud the federal
government of coal lands in Utah.
A letter has been addressed by Bel
lamy Storer to President Roosevelt in
regard to his dismissal from the post
of ambassador to Austria Hungary.
Mr. Storer was dismissed because Of
his wife's supposed interference in af-
fairs of the Roman Catholic church and
her alleged misuse of letters from the
president. 1t was also charged that
Mrs Storer had meddled with French
politics. Both Of these charges Mr..
Storer denies and on the other hand
declares that the presidents interest in
the selection of Archbishop Ireland as
a cardinal was not due to Storer or to
Storer's wife, but to the president
alone when he was governor of New
York The president replied by pub
fishing the correspondence between
himself and the Storers.
In his report Commissioner of Cor
porations Garfield devotes special at
tention to the investigation Of the
Standard Oil company. He speaks of
the system OF gross railroad rebates by
which the great monopoly was built
up, calls attention to the fact that dur
ing the fiscal year indictments contain
ing SOB counts were returned as a
result Of the investigation and contin-
ues, 1.-THE shippers Of oil advise the
bureau that for the first time in many
years they are now rapidly obtaining
equality of treatment from the trans,
portation companies Commissioner
Garfield advocates system Of federal
licenses for corporations.
Reports were heard in Washington
that the settlement Of the difficulty be-
tween Japan and the United States
was not to be by a treaty, but BY an
Arrangement The cody companies
were not to be permitted by Japan to
send men either to the American CON
tInent or to Hawaii incidentally ia
pan was to recede quietly from her
position on the school question. Ameri-
ca was to permit the naturalization OF
those Japanese who wished to become
American citizens. Before the recent
exclusion order there were only nine
ty-three Japanese children in the San
Francisco schools.
Documentary evidence is in the pos
session Of the New York American
said that newspaper, showing that fol
two years past King Leopold Of Bel
giuin has maintained an expensive lob
by in washington for the purpose d
preventing action by the United States
relative to the alleged atrocities il thl
Kongo Free State few years ago
Secretary HoNt lo1k the position tina
| interference ny hls government IL thl
Kongo wou|a " gpwarrantad
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