Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-21
Attorney General Said to Be In
Disfavor With President and
May Retire From Cabinet
TALKS WELL BUT NOT WISELY
President to Urge Federal Legislation
Looking to Prevention of Rail Wrecks
ia Next Messase-White Earth In
dams to Get Lands Under AIIot-
ment.

Washington, Aug. 21.--According tc
a newspaper correspondent close tt
Attorney General Bonaparte is among
the probabilities of the near future.
The statement is made that impor-
tant interests close to the administra-
ton believe that the usefulness OF
the attorney general as member OF
the presidents cabinet has culmin-
ated. 1t is not expected that immed-
late retriment will result, for such
action might be construed as a. sign
Of weakening In the presidents anti
trust policy-a construction particu-
larly distasteful to Mr.. Roosevelt
since not the slightest justification ea-
lists for il. But there is no question,
according to the excellent information
obtained, that the president is not only
not in sympathy with the recent flip
pant and undignified attitude and the
at least doubtful legal procedure dis
played by the attorney general, but is
in all respects opposed to them.
The attorney generals policy, the
Journal of Commerce says, it is UNDER
stood, it condemned by all the presi-
dents most trusted advisers, and. 1t
adds, there is excellent reason to be-
lieve some important changes In the
cabinet would constitute protest
against executive Endorsement of Mr..
Bonaparte's program. Secretary Root,
for instance, the paper declares, is
known to have expressed strong criti-
cism of it, while Assistant Secretary
of State Robert Bacon is also entirely
out of sympathy with the attorney gem
erals policy.
1t is not expected, it is stated, that
any official consideration will be given
the current strained situation until the
president returns to Washington from
Oyster Bay.
Perils of the road for the travelling
public are to cease If program
adopted by the administration shall
prove effective.
The appalling number of victims
which the railroad minotaur has ex-
acted has led the president carefully
to consider way to curb its voracious
appetite. The result will be a strong
in his forthcoming
annual message that Legislation be eff
fected which will permit the federal
government to make Investigations or
accidents affecting interstate trains.
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In some states investiga tions of ac-
cidents are made at coroner's inquests;
in others they are intrusted to railroad
commissioners. Secretary 2. W. Nose
ly Of the interstate commerce commits
sion thinks the Wisconsin railroad
is especially we'll equipped
to make inquiries into accidents.
That there is grave need of protec-
tive legislation is Shown by reports In
regard to accident issued by the COM
merce commission for the last eight
years, from 1900 to 1908 inclusive.
There have been killed 27,744 and in
jured 4O6,248.
Long delay in the allotment of land
of the White Earth Indian reservation
under the Stenerson act, which gives
each Indian an additional eighty acres,
probably will be approved by the sec
rotary of the interior in Washington in
the next three weeks. The schedules
have been under examination in the
Indian office for some time, and any
number of corrections will have to be
made before they can be approved.
1t is said that the corrections can be
made by correspondence with Agent
Michelet, and that it will not be neces-
sary to return them for the necessary
changes
These allotments have been under
way for several years, and at ore time
It was thought that lively scandal
night mature in connection with them,
The full-bloods asserting that the
mixed bloods We're getting the; best
and.
Unless the provisions of the Clapp
aw interfere the mixed -bloods will get
} fee patent for their allotments which
Will permit them to sell their holdings
1t any time after the patent is assured.