Middletown transcript., 1907-11-16
WASHINGTON LETTER


IN meHt ON Thursday designed to sho,
h that as general proposition the verdic
e rendered at the polls in the various State
I. could not be construed as rejecting ad
% .versely apon the popularity OF his admin
b istratiop.. ] as been claimed, in SOM
II quarters. tl,.,t iiie slump in the Republi
can maJority in New Jersey, where tn,
e Republican gubernated nominee pulled
!. through by 7,200 could be attributed Il
o the unpopularity OF the Presidents poll
g cies aud that the same argument could
q be advanced with respect to Rhode Island
/ and Maryland, while the victory of Tam.
u many over the fusion forces in New York
= Gitty5 GIFT be directly ehaEgeable te the saHe
Cause The President took exception to
these contentious, which be considers are
erroneous and gave out a statement which
may be summed up in bis closing SEN
teace. GAS whole, the showing has
been an Improvement over what it was
four years ago and eight years ago" It
seems that there is little, If any, excuse
; for controversy, in view of the fact,
quite generally conceded, that the election
possessed no national significance and that
the administration policies were not i'm
jected as an issue into any OF the contests.
~
Tie names of the Federal office-hold-
ers for the new State OF Oklahoma we're
announced at the White House on Thurs
day and the announcement precipitated
whirlwind OF indignation and wrath
among the Office seekers and their friends
from Oklahoma and Indian Territory who
| have spent the greater part of two weeks
IN Washington believing as they express
IL. that there would be something like an
Equitable division of these six offices. Of
the sixteen Territorial judges who came
to Washington with their friends to pre-
sent their claims for one OF the new Fed
eral judgeships, not one landed prize.
The appointees are lawyers in the two
Territories. Mad but mildly expresses
the state of mind Of the politicians WIN
took their departure by Thursdays alter
noon trains, and threats were made that
the new State would be taken away from
the friends of the administration.
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The proceedings of the Cosmopolitan |
Shipping Company against the Hamburg
American Packet Company, the North
German Lloyd Steamship Company, the |
Wilson Lines and the Scandinavian |
American Line, filed several months ago,
with the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, have taken on a new and important |
phase. As attorneys for the defendant |
lines, former Senator John G. Spooner,
William G. Choate and Harrington Put
man have entered with the commission
demurrer to the, complaint OF the Cosmo-
politan Shipping Company, in which it is
set up that the commission has not, under
the laws OF the United States, jurisdic-
tion over the subject matter of the COM
plant or power to proceed against the de-
PENDANTS. 1t is maintained, further, that
the complainant's petition sets forth no
matter which is cognizable by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission or which it
hes been given power to remedy. The
counsel for defendants ask, therefore,
that they be not compelled to answer the
complaint and that the case be dismissed.
The commission has fixed Tuesday, De-
cember Sd, as the date for hearing argu-
ment on the demurrer.
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Mr.. John A. Fox, of Arkansas, special
director of the National Rivers and Har-
bors Congress, reached Washington on
Wednesday, after trip of more than
$4,000 miles throughout the United
States. He is here to complete certain
arrangements in connection with the
forthcoming convention of the organize.
ton. Among those who have signified
personally to Mr.. Fox their intention of
being present at Gov. Glenn, who will
head delegation of sixty from North
Carolina; Governors Hoke Smith of
Georgia; Chamberlain of Oregon; Cutler
of Utah; Mead Of Washington; Gillett of
California; Kibby of Arizona and Child
Of Massachusetts. Gov. Hoke Smiths to
make an address and Ambassador yonj
Sternburg and Ambassador Jusserand will
discuss waterway development in Ger
many and France respectively at the con-
yeLtion.
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President Roosevelt has protested
against the Misrepresentation of certain
conservative newspapers and has ex-
pressed his conviction some of HE friend
that these papers, which are usually as
influential with investors as with finan-
ciers, have done more by their persistent
distortion of the facts and their wilIful
Misrepresentation of his aims and policies
to precipitate the lack of confidence of
which they are now complaining than
have all of Mr.. Roosevelt's trust prosecu-
tions and oratorial denunciations of sue
cessful dishonesty. As matter of fact ,
those capitalists and fnanciers, who come ,
to the White House to plead with the
President against repetition:of utterances :
they have attributed to him or beg him to
say certain things which they believe will
help to restore confidence, are generally | i
amazed to find that be has never said the
former and that the latter he has put in |;
more forceful manner Alan they
suggest. s
LOST BOTH ARMS c
With both arms mangled in railroad |
accident at Porter's station on the Del i