Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-04-11

Reports from Jamaica show that Gov.
Swettenham's resignation has been re-
ceived with general satisfaction. The
Governors unpopularity is of long stand
ing and has been brought to a climax by
recent events.
Secretary Taft has announced that Col.
Cocktails succeeds Mr.. Stevens as chair
man of the Isthmian Canal Commission
and engineer in charge of the canal work.
Col Goethals will receive a salary of
$4,000 annually.
The President has appointed George J.
Woodruff of the forest service to be assist
ant Attorney General for the Interior, to
succeed Frank L. Campbell, who has been
transferred to the position of special at
torney in the Department of Justice.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has
declared unconstitutional the redistricting
act of 1906 This will remove seven Dem
ocratic members of the Legislature and
render more doubtful the election of Gov
J. c.. w. Beckham to the United States
Senate.
United States Senator Culom of Hi
nos, after emerging from an interview
with President Roosevelt, said he had
told the President that if he had his way
he would try to put E. II. Hartman in
the penitentiary on account of the Alton
deal alone.
George w. Perkins, formerly the first
vice president of the New York Life In
surance Company, has sent to that com
pany his personal check for $54,0f9, in
reimbursement to the company of the con-
a., l., -, 30
the expenses of the Republican cam
paign.
In a newspaper interview, while he was
en- route from the South, John d. Rookie
Teller declared emphatically that federal
control of all the railroads would be a
good thing for them, as well as for the
general public. He said that the railroads
and other big corporations were greatly
overcapitalized, and his only explanation
of that policy by men with whom he had
been associated was the temptation to
make money faster.
Former Secretary Shaw, speaking at
the banquet of the South Carolina So
ciety of New York, said it was the duty
of all citizens to go on record as prom
Using the safety of railroad investments
from the reckless manipulation, as well as
from the reckless demagogue.
As a punishment for those railroads
which retaliate on lawmaking by reduc-
ing service or pay. Gov. Hoke Smith of
Georgia, in an address at the banquet of
the Cincinnati Receivers a-u Shippers
Association. advocated limited railroad
ownership, national, State and municipal,
to supplement national and State control.
81 had letter few days ago." said
Congressman Hale of Tennessee, from a
constituent who asked me to send him the
rules and regulations of Congress" did
you do it?'' Yes; / sent him photo
graph of Joe Cannon"
United States Senator William J.
Stone. in the course of a speech in Kan
sas City, said that if we are to have
serious trouble with any nation it will be
with Japan. Japan" he remarked,
wants the Philippines. l am not sure
if it would not be best for all concerned
If she would get them, but one thing is
certain, and that is she will never get
them with our consent"
That the labor unions have been the
greatest forces for good in America, was
the opinion expressed by w. ]. Bryan IN
a speech before Chicago unionists. de
credited organized labor with introduc-
ing the Australian ballot, raising wages,
shortening hours of labor, and raising the
age limit of child labor.
Socialists in the Wisconsin Legislature
have caused the committee on federal re-
lations, to pass a resolution asking Con-
gress tb seize and operate all public utili
ties which may become bankrupt. The
plan is to work up national movement
in behalf of such a law and thus to give
the people a chance to experiment with
national operation of railroads.