Semi-weekly herald., 1908-04-02

tleships.
But one thing indicated is that the
president and the speaker have their
differences and that they are not
making them up very fast. The
speaker caused great disgust at the
White House and possibly ultimate
trouble for himself when he refused
to send the antitrust revision bin to
I the Interstate commerce committee
/ On top of this quarrel comes the
story that the speaker is willing to
use the public building measure as a
club to help defeat the administra-
tion naval expansion programme.
NEW YORK, April 1.-The charges
preferred against Chancellor Day of
Syracuse University by Rev George
A. Cooke OF Brandon. Vt, were ruled
out OF court by Bishop David H.
Moore al the opening of the lO9tn
session of the New York Methodist
Episcopal conference today Bishop
Moore in dismissing the charges said
that he regarded the charges against
Chancellor Day as direct attack
upon free speech and free press The
decision was greeted with cheers and
prolonged APPLAUSE.
WSHINGToN, April 1.-Secretary
Taft left this afternoon for ten
days visit to cities in the middle
west. He will deliver an address be
fore the board of trade at Columbus.
o., tomorrow evening. and the next
evening will address the International
Onion AT the Auditorium hotel in Chi
cago. He will spend Saturday in Chi
cago. the guest OF the Press club at
luncheon in the early afternoon, then
holds a reception at the Hamilton club
late in the afternoon. In the evening,
after "a dinner given by the CONNER
cial club. he will respond to toast.
Sunday the secretary leaves Chicago
IN time TO keep an engagement to ad-
dress the Mckinley club of Omaha
Monday evening Tuesday Mr.. Taft
will attend banquet of the CONNER
cial elnb of Council BUNS, and Will
leave that city in time to spend the
following day and night in Cincinnati.
NEW YORK. April l-Seven hun
dred' guests last night attended a din
ner at the Waldorf-Astoria given by
the Playground Association of Amer
lea in honor of Mrs. Humphrey Ward,
the celebrated English English novel.
ist and worker for social betterment.
The guests included many society
people. and persons prominent in all
walks of life. The Duchess of MARI
borough was guest and shared the
honors with Mrs. Ward. Both made
speeches and the comparisons drawn
by the Duchess of Marlborough be
tween American and English women
in philanthropic and educational work
were especially interesting. but were
against the Americans.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, April In
diana Republicans in state conven
tion today adopted a platform and
formally presented to the country
| Charles Warren Fairbanks, vice pre- -
ident Of the United States, as their
candidate for the Republican national
nomination for the presidency. For
Two days the hotel accommodations
of The city have been strained % their
utmost. The 1900 delegates in them.
selves make a goodly crowd whicn
has been doubled by as many alter
mates and multiplied twenty times by
/ federal, state, county and municipal
Office holders. Friends and support
ers of the contesting candidates and
rank and file of the party were pres
ent from every corner of the state
( WASHINGTON, April LII bill
passed by the senate today becomes
law, it will be unlawful for any ad-
vertiser TO announce that his ware is
guaranteed by the government of
the United States under the pure food
law" The bill is Intended to prevent
the misleading statement that under
the pure food law articles are guaran-
iced as TO their purity OF character
LONDON, April LIT strikes us
over here in England that American
women are paying a very bad compli-
ment indeed TO their own countrymen,
as day by day the newspapers are
fun of marriages and rumors of mar
riages between American women OF
fortune and foreign men Of title
II Is the more extraordinary that
these mixed marriages should prove
so attractive in prospect, inasmuch
as marriage In America usually
means an increase OF enjoyment and
liberty. added TO devotion which
women can never hope to get from
those of another nation. not excepting
Englishmen.