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l the statement that he would have no dealings with any committee of so called Democrats-self appointed or otherwiSe-unless the men represented considerable body of persons who supported the Democratic platform in l 1896 and 1900. Bryan also announced through his political secretary, Willis | J. Abbott, that he would be glad to accept the Democratic nomination from the national convention and that he believed he would be elected. He intimated through Abbott that the par | ty would be much stronger if all the | Wall. street Democrats, such as Bel mont, Sheehan and O'Brien, could be driven into the opposition ranks.
 Returns received by the Chicago Tribune in a national straw vote, just completed, show that President Roosc velt's policies are just as heartily ii. dorsed now by the mass of Republic ans as they ever were. Answers were received from 4,43S voters, represent ing every state in the Union and in- cluding Republican editors, members of state legislatures, representatives and senators in congress and delegates and alternates to the last Republican national convention. No fewer than 4,044 affirmatively declared in writing | their approval of the presidents poli- cies. Only 1S4 declared positively against them, while 210 failed to an- swer the question, although they sent in votes on candidates.
 T of the cutters and flatteners against the Amalgamated Window Glass | Workers of America by Judge George L. Phillips in common pleas court of | Cleveland, O. The decision dissolves the association of window glass work CTS, which was composed of the vari- ous workers employed in the glass trade. The complete a! 1lgamation of all the workers into one association was consummated six months ago. Judge Phillips scored the association as being an illegal organization in re- | straint of employment-in fact, "a la- ! bor trust''-and declared its contracts | with the other organizations absorbed | by it were illegal, as were the bylaws. l At a dinner of the New York State Bar association at the Waldorf-Astoria, | in New York, ex-Anbassador Joseph | H. Choate made pointed attack upon President Roosevelt demanding that the>chief executive should either name eminent malefactors whom he de- nounces or else stop denouncing them. MT. Choate also declared that the tend ency to confuse the functions of the executive, judicial and legislative de- l partments of the government must be checked. These parts of the speech were enthusiastically cheered by the lawyers present, among whom were many of the most eminent judges and practitioners.
 To congress, and through it to the world at large, President Roosevelt an nounces that it will probably be gen. eration, it may even be longer, before the Filipinos will be fit for complete self government and ready to decide whether, they shall be independent of 1 American rule. This declaration from the president accompanies a special re- | port to him by Secretary Taft upon his recent visit to the Philippines on the occasion of their first national assem- ply and recording the results of the American occupation of the islands in the nine years since the battle of Ma nila bay.
 Representative Keller of Ohio, chair man of the subcommittee of pensions of the house committee on appropria- tions, announced informally that that committee has agreed to recommend a pension roll of $150,000,O00 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909. This will be about $7,000,0O0 in excess of the pension roll of the present fiscal year. The increase is largely due to the provisions of the McCumber bill, by which the enlargement of pensions in accordance with age and the abolish ment of physical examination was brought about.
 In the great Vanderbilt mansion at 1 West Fifty-seventh street, New York, Miss Gladys Vanderbilt was married to Count Laszlo SZechenyi, and the bride, heiress to $12,000,000. became countess in one of the oldest and proudest families of the Hunga- rian nobility. Mgr. Lavelle of St. Pat | TICK s CdIUeuTdl OluCIdleu, dSSlSleu Dy the Rev. Father Byrne The ceremony was half in Latin and half English, the latter being a concession of the Catholic church to the fact that Miss Vanderbilt was a Protestant.
 It was decided by the United States supreme court that an act of congress passed on June 1, 1898, prohibiting railroad companies engaged in inter- state commerce from discriminating against members of labor organiza- tions is repugnant to the constitution and therefore void. This means that the blacklist which the labor organiza- tions fought against may be put into force again and that any interstate corporation may discharge its servants at will.
 The Washington Post announced the result of a poll of the Republican