The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-05
NEWS FORECAST FOR
THE CURRENT WEEK

| resolution as guide for the future,
declare the supporters OF the meas
| ure.
Inharmonious conditions in the
navy department, which led to the
resignation Of Rear Admiral Willard
H. Brownson from the office of chief
of the naval bureau of navigation,
will likely receive the = attention of
both houses during the coming week.
The resignation of Brownson, follow
ing close on the heels Of Henry
Reuterdahrs attack on the bureau
system of the navy department, has
revealed the strife existing in the
conduct of the navy and the need for
more harmonious administrator.
AS result, congress will undoubJcd-
~ give thorough airing to the
causes which have operated to bring
about conditions that all the officers
OF the navy are themselves anxious
to have remedied
The demand for the relief of the
financial situation has become wide
spread, and when the congressman
meet Monday they will be presented
with numerous petitions from COM
mercial bodies all over the country,
asking for speedy consideration of
the subject
AuuAIi0Hd1 IdIlEOdu tSSlSiatlCQ mas
also been demanded by many i'm
portant organizations, and several
resolutions on this subject will be
placed before the Solons when they
gather on Monday. It is the general
sentiment of congressman, however,
That the time is not opportune for the
passage of bills Of this character.
Thaw Trial Again.
The second trial of Harry Kendall
Thaw for the murder of Stanford
White is set for Monday, before JUS
tice Victor J. Bowling in the criminal
branch of the supreme court in New
York City. 1t is expected that there
will be little delay, and that the work
OF securing jury will be commenced
almost Immediately and be continued
with day and night sessions, until
completed. District Attorney Jerome
will again conduct the prosecution,
and 'Thaw will be defended by Mar
tin w. Littleton, assisted by several
other prominent attorneys. Insanity
Will be the plea Of the defendant,
according to the present plans of the
defense. Any attempt to send Thaw
to madhou5e will be fought by his
attorneys, who declare that his insan-
ity was only temporary and induced
by the recital of the wrongs suffered
by his wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, at
the hands of Stanford white. Mrs.
Thaw will again be the principal wit
ness for the Defense
Standard Oil Cases.
The hearing before Judge Franklin
Ferr1sS in the governments suit to
dissolve the Standard Oil Company
of New Jersey, the 500, O00, 900 parent
concern of the coil trust,'' will be re-
sumed in New York Monday. A mass
of testimony which has been given in
other suits against the Standard will
be introduced What is known as the
Little Alton" case against the
Standard OIL company of Indiana is
also set for trial Monday in the
United States district court at Chi
cago. In this case the Standard is
charged with the acceptance of re-
bates from the Chicago & Alton rail-
way from Whiting, Ind. to St Louis.
The indictment contains 134 counts
and If the company is found guilty in
all of them it will be subject to-a
fine of $2,68O.0 600
Elkins Law Test.
Attorney General Bonaparte will
probably make his first appearance
in the United States supreme court
as the governments chief law officer
ON Monday, when the rebate case
against the Great Northern, in which
the railroad company is under SEN
tence to pay fine OF $4,000, is to
be argued. This is the case in which
the company seeks to test the Elkins
law, under which the fine was im-
posed, Jthe attorneys for the defend
ants urging that the law was re-
pealed by the railroad rate law pass
ed by congress. The supreme court
has also set for argument next week
the case involving whether the land
owned by the University of the
South at Sewanee, Tenn, is subject
to taxation under the laws of that
state.
Two Cent Fare Law
Avcther case involving the mower
OF the federal courts to interfere in
the execution OF state railroad rate