Connecticut western news., 1907-06-06
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r'resldent Roosevelt returned to Washington after a four days trip to the middle west, involving journey of 1,774 miles. At the unveiling of the Lawton monument in Indianapolis the president delivered an address, in which he came out squarely for the physical valuation and the federal su- peryiSion of railroads. There must" he said, be vested in the federal gov ernment a full power of supervision and control over the railways doing in- terstate business, power in many re- spects analogous to and as complete as that the government exercises over the national banks. It must possess the power to exercise supervision over the future issuance of stocks and bonds, either through q national incorporation, which I should prefer, or in some sim liar fashion, such supervision to in- clude the frank publicity of everything which would be investors and the pub lie at large have a right to know" In another address at the celebration of the semicentenary of the Michigan Agricultural college at Lansing, Mich, the president declared that crop of children is the farmers best crop and that the best products of the farm are the men and women raised thereon. No leader" he continued "in church or state, in science or art or industry, however great his achievement, does work which compares in importance with that of the father and the mother, who are the first sovereigns and the most divine of priests
 Among the names that have been submitted to Governor Hughes of New York for utilities commissionerships are former Borough President j.. Ed ward Swanstrom of Brooklyn, Robert Kelly Prentice, William NJ. Twins, Ed ward Sandford, the legal adviser of the governor and one of the framers of the utilities bill; J. Aspinwall Hodge, Rail- road Commissioner George w. Aid ridge, Gas Commissioner Jack Davies, Gas Commissioner l.. l.. Shedden, J. R Sheffield. Rapid Transit Commissioned w. S. Hurley, former Congressman Lucius Littauer, the Republican boss of Fulton Hamilton; former Secretary of State John F. O'Brien, the Repub- lican boss of Clinton, and former Con- gressman Ward, the Republican boss of Westchester. State Senator Arm strong, who headed the insurance in vestigating committee, is said to be an aspirant for counsel to the up state commission. The salaries of the com missioners will be $15.000 year.
 It was announced that Howard Gould had refused to pay Tiffany & Go. of New York several large bills contracted by his wife since their sepa- ration last summer. The statement was made by a friend of MT. Gould, who has been delegated to speak for him, that the purchase of jewelry amounted to $60,000 and that other bills of which MT. Gould has learned bring the total up to $160,00O These bills or copies of them will be used by MT. Gould in the formal reply to his wife's suit for separation and in sup port of his counter charge that Mrs. Gould was inordinately extravagant Another instance he will cite as an ex- ample of his wife's extravaganza, it is said, is that on one occasion she took sixty-two pairs of shoes on board her husbands yacht, the Niagara, to be worn during a cruise.