Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-21
WEEK ENDING MARCH 81, 1908.

Admiral Thomas was selected to Sue
coed Admiral Evans in command of the
battleship fleet. and Admiral Sperry to
command on the homeward voyage. The
Supreme Court sustained the packers
fines for accepting rebates on export
products. Public Printer Stillings offered
his resignation and the President accept
ed it. AT the invitation of the Emperor
of Japan the American battleship fleet
will visit that country. Labor leaders.
representing all the principal unions, pre-
sented a memorial to Congress setting
forth the demands of organized labor.
Senator TillmanS resolution providing
for an inquiry into the conduct Of ma
tional banks in the recent panic was
adopted after a lively debate. Senator
La Toilette declared in a speech his be-
lief that one hundred financiers caused
the recent panic. The Senate passed the
ocean mail subsidy bill. and the bill pre-
viding for the increase in the pay OF the
men In the life-savinS service. IN the
House a bill restoring the motto: In
God We Trust to the coin was passed.
The House passed the pension appropri-
alton bill. and resolution asking the
President to state the authority by which
he governed the Panama Canal Zone was
adopted. Judge Holt, in the United States
circuit court of New York, ruled that
the Sugar Trust could monopoliZe the re-
fining industry without being liable under
the Sherman antitrust law Machnists.
boilermakers and other employees in the
Denver and Rio Grande railroad shops
went on a strike. Raymond Hitchcock,
the actor. was acquitted. one of the girl
witnesses having declared that hef
charges were false. Among thoAe Whd
died were United States Senator William
Pinkney Whyte Of Maryland.
Foreign.
The legal fight for the control of the
London Times ended in a victory for the
old owners Lord TWeedmouth said in
the upper house of parliament that Great
Britain would almost be able to assemble
a fleet of battleships in 1911 which could
not be matched by all the powers in the
world. The Bank Of England reduced its
rate of discount to per cent. The Rus
sian minister of justice asked the duma
to vote $1,000, 600 to enlarge the over
crowded prisons. The Russian emperor
confirmed the courts recommendation to
commute the death sentence passed on
Gen. Stoessel to ten years Imprisonment.
Gen. Smirnoff was severely wounded by
Gen. Fock in duel with pistols fought
in the ring OF the riding school at st. Pc
tersburg. The leader of the Group OF Toll
in the second duma was siaid by assas-
sins In EkaterinOslav. Russia. The Ger
man government refused the proposal
made by members of the reichStags ap-
preparation committee to use the war
fund Of $50. 100000 in gold stored in the
Julius tower, in PotSdaIn, to relieve the
current needs OF the empire. Police and
troops were used in Berlin to check so
cialiSt demonstrations in favor Of general
suffrage. The German press decided not
to print the proceedings of the reichstag
until apologiZed 10 for an insult 10 the re-
porters in the gallery. Japan and China
agreed upon settlement OF the steamer
Tatsu Maru affair. A dozen alleged revo-
1IlfinnfStC Srappe6 thair hoIS n
Haiti and shot.
In the District.
President Roosevelt asked District At
torney Baker to insist on a Jail sentence
for Robert n. Harper, convicted Of violat-
ing the pure food law. The District
Commissioners forwarded to the board of
education the report of Chief Belt OF the
fire department OF his inspection of the
local schools and the board asked that
100000 be appropriated to prevent any
danger of fire. The Commissioners decided
to amend the police regulations so as
to regulate and otherwise govern the
operation of taXimotor cabs in the Dis
trict. Senator Galinger introduced BILL
drafted by the Commissioners. to create
a teachers retirement fund for the local
public schools. Representative Bartholdt,
chairman of the House committee on pub
lie buildings and grounds appointed a
committee to investigate the Bieber land
grants criticised by Senator Garter. Will
liam II. Haycock was made superintend-
ent of the city delivery division of the
Washington post office in place of Can't
Johnson. w. X. Stevens. the veteran su-
perintendent of the bathing beach, re-
signed his position. Fire destroyed Ell
singers lumber yard and a portion of the
old Freedmen's Hospital and seriously in
jured two firemen. Frank H. Hosford and
William A. Ridgely committed suicide.
Among those who died were: Rev Dr.
Ralph Pierce, ID; Rev. S. NJ. Hartsock,
Brig. Gen. Royal ThaXter Frank, l.. S. A.
and Capt. Edward S. RanSdeu