Connecticut western news., 1908-01-09
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The adnerentS or United states sen ator r. c. Knox issued a statement re- garding his candidacy for president. The statement in part follows: Tt will take 491 votes to nominate. Grave doubts are entertained as to whether Taft will get a majority of the dele gates from Ohio, his own state. The fifty-four votes of Illinois are commit ted to Joseph G. Cannon, and in addi- tion two delegates have been elected and instructed for him in the Eighth Michigan district However, under the call of the national committee these two delegates must be elected over again. Vice President Charles ". Fairbanks will get the thirty votes of Indiana, and Senator La Toilette is eX- pected to have WisconSin's twentysiX votes. Governor Hughes of New York is far from assured of the seventy eight votes of that state. Senate" l Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvari |; has the sixty-eight votes of that sti,,e pledged to him by the unanimous ac- tion of the Republican convention. He thus has more real visible strength than any. other candidate"
 The Ohio Republican state central committee decided to issue a call for state primaries to be held on Feb. II and for state convention to be held in Columbus on March 3 to select dele l gates to the Republican national con- vention. The friends of William H. Taft, secretary of war and candidate for the Republican nomination for l nrpciHnnt i'm of hn mittee, casting 14 votes to [ for the | supporters of Senator Joseph Benson 1 Foraker, also an avowed candidate for the presidency. The vote stood 14 to on every proposition which required roll call except the selection of d l temporary chairman for the state con- vention. The Foraker leaders say they will ignore the call. They charge the Taft men with an illegal use of the states election machinery.
 United States Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, who has taken much interest in the litigation growing out of the employers liability act which was declared to be unconstitutional in the supreme court of the United States, introduced a bill in the senate which is intended to remedy the defects in the present law. The bill is so drawn as to make it applicable only to cor porations engaged in such commerce as congress has the undoubted right to control and to employees of such cor porations engaged exclusively in inter- state commerce. The existing law is so broad as to cover all transportation l L. NT l,i modifies 1t as to limit its operations to common carriers which are operated by steam or similar motive power.
 In a message to the house of repre- sentatives President Roosevelt urged that in preparing for the work of talk ing the next census the 1000 or more additional employees needed be ap- pointed only after competitive exami-. nation under the rules of the civil service commission and strongly de- nounced the patronage system of mak ing the appointments, saying that the civil service commission was fully cap- able of securing the most efficient force. The noncompetitive eXamina- tions used in selecting the force at Washington of the last two censuses, the, president said, served. only "as cloak to hide the nakedness of the spells system" Such examinations, he declared, were useless as checks upon patronage appointments.
 The Rev. D. I. McDermott, rector of l St. Mary's Roman Catholic church in Philadelphia, refused to permit funeral services to be held over the remains of John Daly, a parishiOner, because an Ancient Order of Hibernian lodge had been invited to attend the Obse quies Because of Father McDermott's opposition to the HibernianS the funer- al had to be postponed. Subsequently the invitation to the Hibernians to at tend the funeral was revoked, and the funeral was held from the church. Father McDermott in explanation of his opposition to the society said he formed an opinion of the Hibernians during the Molly Mcguire reign of ter TOT in the Pennsylvania coal regions.
 Secretary Metcalf made public two letters addressed to him by President Roosevelt, in which the latter places Rear Admiral w. H. Brownson in the "disloyal" class for resigning his post as chief of the navigation bureau ill the navy department. The president says the admiral was guilty of gross impropriety in resigning and accuses him of having quit the service in pique, which action, be said, was sub- versive of naval discipline. Rear Ad- miral Brownson declares he resigned because the recent order placing Il medical officer in command of a hos pital ship is clearly opposed to the in- tent of the law and showed want of confidence in his advice.
 John P. Poe once attorney general of Maryland and an authority on colo nial history, produced letter written by John Jay in 1911 to repIdiate the assertion made by the Rev. Dr. Robert s. Macarthur of New York that Alex ander Hamilton and not George Wash ington wrote the farewell address of the Father of His Country. MT. Jay ir bic Iattar to a controversy tha f