The Monmouth inquirer., 1907-01-31

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Strong charges against the methods
Of The Standard Oil We're made by the
interstate commerce commission in a
report presented TO congress. 1t is de-
clared that the company has used dis
reputable methods to destroy its com
I petitors, that the ruin of independent
dealers has been distinct part of its
4 policy, and 1t is suggested that the rail
roads with which it has dealt have aid
ed in this policy. 1t is declared that
there is little to show that the great
profits of the company are due to its
economies The report is the result
OF the TilIman-G Gillespie resolution of
March Z, in which the commission
was ordered to make an investigation
Of the business of the great oil COM
pany The report declares that the
methods of the company have been so
long pursued that the only remedy to
save independent dealers is the fixing
of pipe line rates by the government
itself
Lieutenant Ralph W. Drury and Pri-
lvate John Dowd of the Ninth United
States infantry were placed on trial
in Pittsburg charged with the murder
of William Crowley, eighteen years
old, who on Sept. 10, 1903, was killed
near the United States arsenal by Pri-
vate Dowd, acting under instructions
from Lieutenant Drury. Crowley and
other boys are said to have been caught
stealing inside the arsenal grounds
and were pursued by soldiers. Crow
1 ley was shot after he had got a con-
siderable distance outside the arsenal
limits The question at issue is: Has
a United States soldier the authority
to kill outside of government proper
ty man who is suspected of crime
within government property?
Theodore p. Shonts, chairman Of the
Panama canal commission, was elected
president of the Interborough-Metr
poltan company. replacing August Bel
mont as the executive head of the sub
way, surface and elevated roads of
New York city. AS chairman of the
canal commission his salary was $780,
600. As president of the transportation
lines his salary will be $4,000 The
resignation of Mr. Shonts was accepted
by President Roosevelt, who praised
his services. Announcement was made
at the war department that the Offices
of chairman and chief engineer of the
isthmian canal commission would be
combined and that John f. Stevens,
the present chief engineer would be
given the appointment
Following a conference at the White
House. it was announced that the con-
tract for building the Panama canal
had been awarded to William j. Oil
the lowest bidder in the recent compe
ton, provided that within the next ten
| days he associates himself with at
least two Independent contractors
whose skill and experience, combined
with his own, shall. cover the entire
field of the work. Mr.. Bangs was
found unsatisfactory by the govern
ment. The Bangs-Oliver bid was 6.75
per cent of the entire cost of the canal.
The second vote in joint session OF
the New Jersey legislature to elect a
i United States senator resulted in no
change from the separate vote in the
two branches so far as Senator Dry
den, candidate for reelection, was con
cerned. Mr. Dryden received thirty
five votes, forty-one being needed to
elect. The eight Republicans who are
opposing him continue to hold out The
leading Democratic candidates are
President Woodrow Wilson of Prince
ton university and Colonel Edwin A..
Stevens of Hudson county.
Next summer may see an ice famine.
according to a statement by Wesley
/ NJ. Oler, president of the American
Ice company, commonly called the
/ trust. The head of the trust would not
predict famine because, he said, he
was hoping for the best. But the win
ter has been so open that now, at the
close of January, he declares, less than
one-quarter of a normal crop had been
harvested
at the Gridiron club dinner in Wash
ington President Roosevelt and Sena-
tor Foraker are said to have had a
lively argument concerning the for
mer's attitude toward big corporations
and also toward the dismissed negro
soldiers. The president is also said
to have addressed solemn warning
to j. p. Morgan and H. H. Rogers,
who were present at the dinner.
i With two votes to spare, one cast by
i William S. Clifford, the alderman who
is under $4,000 bail for the alleged
4 selling of his own and the votes of ten
colleagues, Francis S. McAvoy, the
Tammany candidate, was elected re-
i corder of New York city by the board
i of aldermen There is considerable
doubt about the aldermen's legal right
to elect a recorder.
A protest against further presenta-
4 tion of 'Saiome,n the sensational Bib
/ lical' opera by Richard Strauss, has
4 been made to Director Conried of the
Metropolitan Opera House, New York,
lby the directors of the Metropolitan
4 Opera aud Real Estate company, own
ers Of the oDera house. The opera has