Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1908-03-19

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program was announced IA An oitlclal
order issued by Secretary Metcali aiser
one 81 the cabinet meetings this week !.
The fieet will come home ~ way q
The Suez canal. This had been the
general understanding, bit " has|
been decided also that " shall visit
the principal ports Of Australia IN re-
Spouse to q specific invitation from
the British government conveyed e
the President BY Ambassador Bryce,
The British Foreign Office on the
suggestion Of King Edward sent q
courteous note to tile President second
ing the invitation that had already
been issued by the Commonwealth Of
Australia for the feet to visit the
island continent. So the program
has been arranged. The battleships
viii remain on the Pacific Coast, Wis
ting the various seaboard cities till
July 9th, when they will wind up
the carnival at San Francisco. When
at San Francisco they will shape
their course for the east. Admiral
Evans will retire for age in August,
SO there will be another commander
chosen to bring the squadron home.
The vessels will first stop at Hawaii,
go thence to Samoa, and then to
Australia. AT just what ports they
will touch has not yet been deter
mined, but there will certainly be a
round of visits and entertainments.
From Australia they will 60 to the
Philippines, touching first at Manila
and then at some Of the other ports.
After leaving the Philippines the voy-
age will be strickly business one.
No more entertainments will be
scheduled, and the squadron will
make only such brief stops as will be
necessary for coal. This, as has be-
fore been intimated, will be to avoid
the risk OF trouble if any exchange
Of Inequalities should be attempted
with Japan, and the social feature OF
the visit at other points will be omit
ted SO that there will not be too
marked discrimination against the
Mikados country.
1t has been settled that the Shcr-
man Anti Trust Law is to be revised.
There have been number of confer
ences at the White Ho use at which
there have been present j, P. Morgan,
George Perkins, President Gary of the
Steel Trust and a. number OF other
powers in the financial world. 1t is
explained that the Sherman law un-
der which so many trust prosecutions
have been brought makes no discrim-
nation between good and bad trust,
and that it is only through the dis
elimination OF the Department Of
Justice and the Attorney General that
the benevolent trusts have not been
proceeded against along with the
others seeing that it is the business of
the Department. Of Justice and the
Attorney General to be discriminat-
ing. But some Of the big combina-
tons fear that they might get hurt
some time even while obeying the
law, so the President and his advis-
ers have drafted a modification of the
Sherman law that. will specifically
exempt law abiding trusts, and will
permit railway pooling which is now
prohibited by law with view to i'm
creasing the stability Of transportation
rates. The only trouble with all this
program is that Congress has recent
ly shown marked disinclinati on to
pass any laws originating at the
White House. What viii be the fate
Of the revised Sherman law remains
to be seen.
The Aldrich Currency Bill seems
to have a better show of passing than
for some weeks past. 1t was defend
ed in the Senate this week by Sena-
tor Lodge of Mass. for what it really
'is, namely an emergency measure
that will have to answer till some-
thing more comprehensive and scien-
tific is passed. Senator Lodge said
that the whole currency system Of the
country needed overhauling, and de-
clared himself strongly in favor Of a
central government bank, but he said
that this reform would need more
consideration than could be given it
at the present session, and would