Connecticut western news., 1907-02-28
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 view in Columbus, O., attacked John D. Rockefeller's recent gift of $32000.- 900 to the general educational board. MT. Bryan said the oil king should have given the money back to the peo- pie from whom it had been wrested by illegal methods. In a magazine article Colonel Bryan planted himself square ly against President Roosevelt on the San Francisco school question and on the proposition for general federal con trol of all corporations. On proof that any corporation or corporations had become n monopoly Colonel Bryan would withdraw from the offending class the right to ship goods on inter state roads. use the telegraph lines or the United States mails.
 Frederick T. Gates. business repre- sentative of John D. Rockefeller. said: There have been Il great many anus ing misstatements on the subject Of AIr. Rockefeller's wealth. Mir Rocke- feller has at various times authorized a statement that his fortune cannot ex. ceed S2J0,000,000 to S300,000.00o Fur thermore his income. instead of being
 
 in his most prosperous year have ex- ceeded $l5.000000 to S20.000000, Mir. Rockefeller's holdings of Standard Oll stock are about 20 per cent
 Governor Hughes sent to the New York senate a special message recon. mending the removal from office of Superintendent of Insurance Otto Kel- sey. Governor Hughes based his rec. ommendation on what he calls Kei- sey's conspicuous failure to perform obvious duties of the first importance and his unftness for the trust contided in him. "There is no satisfactory evi. dence," says the governor. that Mir Kelsey endeavored to master the situa- tion and to put the department upon proper basis"
 In an address on the duties of col lege graduates before the Harvard un- ion at Cambridge. Mass. President Roosevelt took issue with President Eliot of Harvard. who favors the abo. lition of football and other rough athletic sports. The president declared that "the states have shown that they have not the ability to curb the power of syndicated wealth and therefore, in the interest of the people, it must be done by national action. Our present warfare is against special privilege"
 Major General Frederick Dent Grant, son of President Grant, was quoted as telling the Philadelphia c. A. R. that he was sorry the time had come when the president of the United States had to talk with the indicted mayor of city about the provisions of n treaty with another country. He Is to explain to the war department. If guilty of making the remarks he is subject to court martial
 In n Washington's birthday address in Chicago former President Cleveland said: "The self examination invited by this days commemoration will be In. complete and superficial if we are not thereby forced to the confession that there are signs of the times which indi. cate q weakness and relaxation of ou: hold upon the saving virtues of har mony, honesty, industry and frugality."
 State Tax Commissioner Healy of Connecticut was removed from office by Governor Woodruff. He was charr ed with offering to secure a commis sionership for Howard NJ. Steele of New Britain upon payment of $1.00 William II. Corbin of Hartford, Conn. the well known Yale football expert was appointed state tax commissioner by Governor Woodruff.
 Tn Austin, Tex, United States Sena- tor Bailey took the stand in the legls lative investigation of his alleged con. nection with the Standard oil company and denied in detail all the charges He said the charges were instigated by William R. Hearst. The Texas senate has dismissed the charges against Senator Bailey, thus closing the investigation.
 Herbert Elkins, clerk in the Leahy hotel at Brownsville, Tex, testified ln the Penrose court martial that he heard negro say that night, 'I'll come back and finish the - whites" He told how, from his room in the rear of tho Leahy hotel on the second floor, he saw negro soldiers come up the alley m f,,fN t,a