The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-18

soon know.
 Reclamation Service on a business like plan.
 That the Forest Service-Indian Blu
 reau cooperative logring agreemen
 was illegel, and that the Forest Ser
 vice had wasted money in chimerica schemes.
 l That he did not agree to the schem | whereby a Reclamation Service em | ploye was to receive money from tn l Hartman interests for lectures in ia
 vor of irrigation projects along thei | lines.
 That the latest legal opinion of thu
 statute prohibiting government offic
 ials accepting and prosecuting claim: | against the Interior Department with | in two years after their retirement
 was that it referred only to money claims.
 Of the charges which have developed
 since the hearings. the defense con- 1 tends:
 That Taft himself asked Lawlor tc prepare a draft for a >letter exonerat- l ing Ballinger. having already arrived at the decision that Glavis' charges | were baseIess, after a consideration of | the evidence on his own behalf. That Ballinger had only personal friendship for George W. Perkins, ot
 J. Pierpont Morgan & Co. Ballinger and his subordinates ad- init:
 That Lawler was prejudiced against Glavis
 That Attorney General Wickersham ante-dated his summary of the Glavis charges.
 That Lawler wrote a draft of a let | ter "as if he were President"
 Fully one-third of the time of the
 ted States Supreme Court at it's next term, beginning in October, will be occupied with the consideration of cases in which the government Is a party or in which it Is interested be- cause they involve the construction of federal laws.
 According to review of the situa- tion made at the Department of Jus tice the court has advanced the date for hearing 5 cases between October IT and January 3 of next year. Of no less than 43.
 They include the Standard Oil and Tobacco Trust cases. those involving the constitutionality of the corporation tax, the New York World libel suit; the Bucks Stove and Range case against the American Federation of Labor involving the boycott question and the contempt proceedings against Samuel F. Gompers, the validity of the commodity clause of the Hepburn law as it applies to the coal-carrying rail- roads; the Lehigh Valley, Erie. New Jersey Central and the Pennsylvania; the case against Augustus Hefnze ac cused of misapplying funds of the Metropolitan National Bank of New York, and the Htpolite Egg case which Is the first to be brought under the pure food law
 Tn the first three hundred cases he fore the court on regular call the gov ernment has about one in every four. This not only indicates the activities of the Department of Justice, but em- phasizes the tremendous interest which the government and the people have in securing a full bench. If all of the cases set for argument for the first three months. of next term should be decided within that term it would be the most important period in the his tory of the court
 to be well cared for spiritually, accord ing to statistics included in a report issued the other day by the Census Bureau.
 Figures for 1906 show that while there were 1S1.393 religious organiza- tions. with a membership of 23,64S, ,267, who worshipped in English, there were likewise 1906 organizations. attended by 3,371, CPS members who heard relig- ious services in English and foreign tongues mixed, and 16.6S8 organiza- tions, with a membership of 5.S22, ,601, who worshipped at services entirely in foreign tongues.
 Of the churches reporting the use of a foreign tongue exclusively the Luth- eran bodies lead, with 7,242 churches with 1,227, ,9S1 members. The Roman Catholic is next. with 2.176 organiza- of n1 Cants.
 The number of known languages re- ported is A. The list includes Arabic. Armenian. Chinese. Esthonian. Gaelic, Modern Syriac. Lettish. Monenegrin, Wendish, and Yiddish. in addition to
 Strangest of all. however are the lingual combinations reported Some churches conduct services in such heterogeneous mixtures as German, Italian, Scandinavian and English, or Chinese Greek-Magyar-Polish Slovak- or Armenian-Chines nese-Hebrew- 
 In respect to foreign membership, Germany leads the list with by far the most church h-members. German speak ing people have v denominations, at tended by 3,601, ,943 people, Next in number of denominations comes the 25 organizations conducted in the tongue of American Indians: then, Norwegian; Swedish; Danish; French: and Ital- ian. The list is different when it comes to classification by the number of communicants. France coming next after Germany, then Italian, and Pol ish.
 It used to be the Ananias Club. Now it is the Association of Unwelcome Guests that has been called into be- ing by the White House.
 Nobody really realized how the HJn- welcome Guest Club had been quietly growing until the late unpleasantness suffered by Representative Francis Burton Harrison. Since that time statesmen with thoughtful turn of mind have been cata1oguing several