The independent., 1907-04-04
THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT

order elections to be held In July for
the new Philippine assembly promised
two years ago. 1t is proposed to form
a legislature, the lower house of which
viii DC elected By the Nhpinos. and
the upper composed of the Philippine
commission appointed by the president.
Congressman returning from inspecting
the Panama canal operations have
unanimously expressed Satisfaction
with the progress made. The spokes-
man for one party of thirty-nine said:
1--WE were delighted with all we saw.
They are taking out from $4,000 10 5l'-
OOO cubic wards of dirt day, with an
average Of about 100000 cubic yards
month. There are now estimated 52,OOO,-
600 cubic yards to dig out. SO you can
work it out for yourself. There are 35,-
600 men on the pay roll, of which b.
O00 are Americans. We did not see
single Chinaman at work on the canal.
We found the feeling was against their
employment. The only ground OF com
plaint we found was that possibly the
food was not all that might be desired.
This is. of course, accounted for by the
GREAT heat.-There we're only about 2OO
men in the hospital while we were
there and the general health seemed
good"
Indictments continue to be made in
large numbers against alleged san
FRANCISCO corruptionists. A. X. Detwil-
or prominent capitalist of Toledo,
Ohio and Louis Glass, formerly an OF
fetal of the Pacific States Telepnone
and Telegraph company were among
the indicted, on the charge OF pripefy.
over q hundred indictments have been
returned :,
strike of trainmen on all western
railroads has been threatened OWING
TO the inability Of the labor orgahiza-
tions and the railroads to agree on
scale Of hours and wages. At the end
of the week the matter was in dead
lock with the interstate commerce
commission and the department OF
commerce and labor preparing to inter-
vene in the hope of inducing peacefui
satt1ament The commission VIII act
under the terms of a new law Wnicn
;nstructs them, in such emergencies as
this "to nut yourself in communica-
tion with the parties to said contro-
yersy in order that there may pe al
amicable settlement of the same, anu
that il such effort should pc unsuc-
cessful. it is further requested that you
proceede to endeavor to bring ABOUT an
arbitration in accordance WIN the plo-
visions Of said act"
Arizona. Texas and Montana have aA
passed laws this. year prohlpltiHs
gambling. The worlds laws are grow
ing better whether the world IS or not.
After twelve weeks of balloting the
vote on senator in the Rhode Island
legislature stands just as it did at tne
beginning That spectacle tends 20
show Nebraskans how fortunate
they are. \The nomination of senator's
by direct vote is now an accomplished
fact in Nebraska and ordinarily that
amounts to the same thing as election
by direct vote.
Great Britain, particularly the lib
eral party, is stirred by the discovery
that the London & Northwestern Rail-
way company contributed to the cam
paign fund of the moderate party III
the late London elections If Brlti5f
corporations are to prove such apt pu-
pills as this indicates it may be neces-
sary for Great Britain to enforce a
censorship on American political news.
The startling way in which Ameri-
can cities are exploited by transporta-
ton companies finds illustration in the
declaration Of a stock dividend OF N,-
200 900 by the Atlanta street railroad
which already had capital OF S6,oO0-
0OO The objection to this sort Of thing
in street railways is the same as in
case Of steam railroads. The object Is
Of course to sell tho stock to innocent
investors and thus justify high rate
for service until the day Of Judgment,
Judge Jones of the Alabama fed
eral court has issued temporary In
functions suspending the two and
half cent passenger fare and the law
reducing freight rates passed short
time ago by the Alabama legislature.
This is done for the purpose OF ascer-
tanning in advance whether the lower
rates are high enough to warrant
compelling the roads to give them
trial There Is no ground here for
complaints by the railroads Of con-
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