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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Demands Were Irritating.

Demands Were Irritating.
Although their relations were Of the
most intimate and confidential character.
Senator Benton was a great trial to the
President because of his persistent de-
mands for patronage. and when they In
volved members Of his own household he
resented the Presidents refusal to crafty
him.
Benton's eldest daughter married New
Orleans man named Jones, and before the
wedding the President was asked to pro-
vide the bridegroom diplomatic rank
and honors at one Of the European CAPT.
tails, which he refused to do because Jones
was a wing and had spoken disrespect-
fully of him. Then. after the marriage.
Senator Benton asked that Jones be ap-
pointed postmaster at New Orleans. which
was impossible for the same reason.
Then, as the President recorded in his
diary: AT o'clock pm. I opened my
Office for the reception of company. Five
or six persons came in as soon as the
door was opened, and among them was
John Randolph Benton, the son of Sena-
tor Benton. l received him friendly and
kindly. In a manner somewhat excited
he said to me that he wanted an ap-
pointment of lieutenant in the army, and
asked me If he could get 1t. / told him
in mild tone that I could not promise
to appoint him, that there were embar-
easements In the way which I commenced
explaining to him. He interrupted me
and in a manner still more excited than
at first he said he wished to know dis
tinctly whether he was to be appointed
CT not. / told him he was no exception
to the rule. He rose to his feet and was
impertinent and still excited He left my
office in quite passion and very rudely
swearing profanely as he went out Of the
door. In a loud and boisterous tone he
used the exclamation as he passed out of
the door, BY c. he would do some
thing, but | lost the remaining words
which he uttered
Fremont Case Serious.
But the most serious matter was the
case of Gen. John G.. Fremont, who had
been brought from California under ar
rest because he had disobeyed the orders
of Gen. Kearney. his superior officer. and
was convicted and sentenced to dismissal
by court-martial for mutiny, disobedience
of orders and conduct prejudicial to the
military service. The trial took place at
Fortress Monroe and a majority of the
court signed a recommendation for mercy
After many days of excitement and con-
troversy the President approved the find
ings of the court, but RENTED the sem
tence OF dismissal, because, as he record
ed in his diary, II was not satisfied that
the proof in the case constituted mutiny."
Nevertheless, he says. Il meet Col. Ben
ton almost every Sabbath at church. but
been on good terms with Col. Benton, but
he Is q man of violent passions and
should nat be surprised If he became my
enemy because all his wishes in reference
to his family and their appointments to
office are not gratified."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

if they can, and will make a candidate
for the presidency Of him if they shall
think him their most available candidate.
They care nothing for political principles.
The spells of Office are all they care for"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Prophecy Was Fulfilled.

This singular prophecy, which was full
filled sixteen years later. was provoked
by the. famous 'proviso' proposed by
David Wilmot to the effect that slavery
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24


Chicago Record Herald
AT SEA.
North German S. S. Berlin,
April 10, 1910.
The diary of President Polk, the original
of which belongs to the Chicago His
torical Society, and is soon to be present
ed in book form by A. c. McClurg & Co.
Of Chicago, contains most extraordinary
story concerning the manner in which
the treaty Of peace with Mexico was ne
gotiated, and I believe the facts have
never been published. They are narrated
by President Polk himself. were written
in his own hand from day to day in his
private diary as events progressed, and
are a mixture of tragedy, comedy and
farce.
Having learned through an adventurer
named Atocha that Santa Anna, the Pres
ident of Mexico, was anxious for peace,
n. p. Trist, chief clerk of the State De-
partmcnt, as stated In my letter yester-
day, was sent secretly to the headQuar
tiers of the army with full powers, as
President Polk said in his diary. Ito treat
with the authorities of Mexico for peace"
He left Washington April 16, 1S47, with a
draft of a treaty made by the President
and Mr.. Buchanan and signed by them, to
which he was instructed to obtain the
signature or the Mexican president.
His mission has been kept a profound
secret and is known only to the cabinet.
I deemed it important that it should be
so,'' writes Mr. Polk, and he explains that
If 1t were known there were politicians in
Washington, capable of dispatching a
courier to Mexico ito discourage the gov
eminent Of that weak and distracted
country from entering upon negotiations
for peace. This they would rather do
than suffer my administration to have the
credit Of concluding just and honorable
peace. The articles in the National Intel
ligencer and other federal papers have
done more to prevent peace than all
the armies Of the enemy. If the war is
protracted 1t is to be attributed to the
reasonable course of the federal editors
and leading men,
You will remember that we had the
same difficulty in the war in the Philip
pines, and President Mckinley said the
same thing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Confirmation of Peace in
President Folks Time.
EXTRACTS FROM HIS DIARY
Man Who Procured Santa Annals
Signature Repudiated.
oFFENDs THE ADMINISTRATION
Opposition to Terms Agreed Upon
Develops in Senate, But
Is Overcome.

BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS
Special Correspondence of The Star and the
Chicago cord-Herald
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Reports Not Satisfactory.

Trist went to Vera Cruz and for a time
quarreled with Gen. Scott and the other
officers of the army. His reports were
very unsatisfactory. There were many
complaints of his interference in military
affairs and rumors of all sorts concern
ing the promises he made to the Mexican
authorities and the inducements he Of
fered for their signatures. These reports
reaching Washington were discussed in
the newspapers and in Congress, and
created a great scandal. The President
and Secretary Of State repudiated Trist.
They sent him instructions to suspend his
negotiation and ordered him back to
Washington.
Trist paid no attention to the sensa-
ton he had created and disregarded the
letters Of recall He soon made friends
with Gen. Scott, and between the two Of
them, the work which he was sent down
to perform was finally accomplished, and
Santa Ana signed the treaty of peace
precisely as 1T wits drawn by President
Polk
Trist did not return to Washington. The
diary does not ten what became OF him.
but he sent the treaty home by a dis
patch bearer. Although he had been
publicly and officially repudiated and de-
nounced by the President, who had even
ordered his arrest and expulsion from the
headquarters of the army, his treaty was
sent to the Senate and ratified by a vote
Of 3S to Ia as Polk recommended, with
the explanation that he Endorsed the act
and not the man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Meets With Opposition.

When the treaty came up for ratifica-
ton Daniel Webster, at the head of the
whig party, and Thomas III. Benton, the
leader of the democratic party, both OPP
posed its ratification, and as Mr.. Presi-
dent Polk writes in his diary: Extremes
sometimes meet and act effectively for
negative purposes, but never for affirma-
tive purposes They have done so in
this instance. Mr.. Webster Is for no
territory Mr.. Hannigan is for all Mexi-
co, and for opposite reasons both will
oppose the treaty. 1t is difficult upon
any rational principle to assign salts
factory reason for anything Col Benton
may do, especially in his present temper
of mind. wholly engrossed, as he seems
to have been, for some months past
with the case of his son-in-law, Col.
Fremont
ST the treaty in its present form is
ratified there will. be added to the United
States an immense empire, the value of
which twenty years hence 1t would be
difficult to calculate. and yet democratic
and WING senators disregard this and act
solely with the view to the elevation OF
themselves or their fayorites to the presi-
Dental Office
Mr.. Polk was also very much concerned
because the slavery question Is assum.
ing a fearful and most important aspect
And 1t will be attended with terrible con-
sequences to the country and cannot fail
to destroy the democratic party II it does
not ultimately threaten the Union itself u
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24
Cause Of Worry.

But the President was greatly worried
for fear the treaty would be rejected
/ The finances of the government were in
desperate state. and he says In his
diary: The truth is that the available
means In the Treasury were reduced to
between two and three millions Of dollars
before the loan bill passed authorizing q
loan, and the exposure of that
fact would have destroyed the public
enemy"
There was a great difference Of opinion
upon the question of territory. President
Polk had never attempted to conceal his
policy OF conquest, and when Mr.. Buchan-
an proposed to notify our ministers at
European posts that the object Of the
war was not to acquire either California
or New Mexico or any other portion
of the Mexican territory, Polk promptly
checked that intention, and says in his
diary: II told him that, although we
had not gone to war for conquest, yet
it was clear that, in making peace we
would, if practicable, obtain California
and such other portions of Mexican ter
ritory as would defray the expenses Of
the war, which that power by her long
continued wrongs and injuries had forced
us to wage"
Then" said Mr.. Buchanan, /"you will
have a war with England as well as
Mexico, and probably with France also,
for neither of these powers will ever
stand by and see California annexed to
the United States. 1 told him that be-
fore / would make the pledge which
he proposed l would meet the war which
either England France or all the
powers of Christendom might wage. and
that VIC stand and fight until the
'ast man among us fell in the conflict 1
told him that neither as citizen nor
a President would / permit orr tolerate
any intermeddling Of any European pow
er on this continent
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-24

rs pairs Specially Priced Eng.
1ish and French Crete Curtains
Worth up to $12.oo pair.
Special, $3.50.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
Eastern Forests Neglected.

Notwithstanding east and the
south have a right to ask the same
attention by the national government
to forests on the water sheds of the
Appalachians as has been given to
the west, declared former Governor
Curtiss Guild, Jr., of Massachusetts,,
president of the American Forestry
association, at its annual dinner
Tuesday night. Not one state of the
old thirteen" he said, that fought in
the revolution, that helped pay for
the Louisiana purchase, that fought
the war of 1872 or that was taxed to
pay for the ceding of Florida by
Spain is benefited directly by the ma
tional forest reserves established
heretofore exclusively in the west"
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
Suggestions of Civic Federation.

Washington.-Agre that there
should be uniformity in state laws af-
fecting not only commercial matters,
but likewise those that pertain to the
well-being of the individual, the Ma
tional Civic federation, at its final ses-
sion on Wednesday, adopted a mum.
Der of resolutions. Among them were
those recommending to governors the
adoption of uniform laws for the pro.
lection of children employed in indus
tries; favoring uniform insurance
code for adoption by several states;
uniform legislation on the subject of
gathering and preservation of vital
statistics; endorsing the conserva-
ton of American forests and referring
the same to the committee on uniform
state laws.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
MEAT PRICES DROP
GOOD RESULTS ALREADY OBJ
TANNED BY NATIONAL MOVE
MENT AGAINST TRUSTS.
Proceedings to be Instituted Against
Beef Trust After the People Had
Demonstrated Efficiency Of
Nationwide Boycott.

Chicago.--The movement to com
bat the high prices of meat has
spread rapidly and is assuming ma
tional character Coincident with the
growth of the movement came an
nouncements from Milwaukee and
Cleveland that the price of meat had
dropped.
In Milwaukee, two retail butchers
quoted porterhouse steaks at 10 cents
pound, a sirloin at the same price
and other meats in proportion. The
wholesale price of beef fell off 10
cents a hundred pounds in Cleveland.
Dispatches from Kansas City, Bal
timore Milwaukee, Omaha, Memphis,
Plttsburg and other cities, told OF the
rapid growth of the movement Cleve-
land, credited with being the origina.
tor of the scheme, now has 10000
names enrolled in the crusade, while
Kansas City reports that it may soon
have 10000.
The heads of the leading packing
houses of Kansas City and Chicago
refused to discuss the effect of the
movement upon their business.
From Denver comes the report that
the growing movement to boycott
meat has aroused stocltmen of the
west to a protest that the effect of
the boycott will be against the stock
men rather than against the packers.
Proceedings will soon be instituted
by the department of justice against
the so-called beef trust with head
quarters at Chicago is the latest from
Washington. Complaints charging OPP
erations in restraint of trade have
been investigated by the department.
Suit probably will be brought under
the Sherman antitrust law.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
Sutherland Represents Senate.

Washington.-Senator Sutherland
of Utah has been honored by being
selected as one of the senators to sit
upon the commission appointed by
congress to investigate the Ballinger-
Pinchot trouble. The appointment is
a distinct compliment to the Utah SEN
ator, as the commission was selected
with great care in order that the in
vestigation may be free from suspi-
cion of favoritism or prejudice. The
other members of the committee ap-
pointed by Vice-President Sherman
are Nelson of Minnesota, Flint of Cali.
fornia, Root of New York, Republi-
cans, and Paynter of Kentucky and
Fletcher of Florida, Democrats.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
PLANNING GIGANTIC AIRSHlP.
Count Zeppelin viii Build Craft to
Carry Three Hundred Passengers.

Cologne.-Count Zeppelin, whose
aerial flights in dirigible balloons
have attracted worldwide attention,
is planning a monster airship, capa-
BILE of carrying 800 persons, and which
it is proposed to use in a passenger
service 10 be established between
Hamburg and London. A service also
will be maintained from Hamburg to
Cologne and Baden Baden. The craft
will be 9S4 feet in length and about So
feet in diameter. 1t will be driven by
eight motors. News of the enterprises
developed through visits which Yep
pelin's chief engineer, Col. S. Mann,
made to Hamburg and to this city,
where, on Monday, he discussed with
the mayor of Cologne arrangement
for the construction of landing and de-
parture yards.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
TWENTY PERISH IN WRECK.
Four Cars Leave Track and Plunge
Into River.

North Bay, Ont.-At least a score,
and perhaps two score, people were
killed on Friday when four cars of a
Canadian Pacific passenger train on
the 500 branch jumped from the
track and falling down steep EN-
bankment, plunged through the ice
into the Spanish river. Some were
drowned, others were burned, almost
within handreach of the drowned;
still others were crushed to death.
One of the splintered cars was
burned on the brink of the river. The
wrecked train was en- route from Mon
treal to Sault Ste. Marie and Mime.
apolis. An official statement says
that the accident probably was due to
a broken rail.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
COOK HAS No PROOF
COPENHAGEN COMMITTEE CON.
FIRMS PREVIOUS FINDINGS
IN REGARD TO EXPLORER.
While Unanimous in Declaring Cooks
Claims Untrue, Some Of Members
Declare He is an Honest Man,
Though Not a Scientist.

Copenhagen.-T committee of the
University of Copenhagen has com
pleted it's examination of DR.. Fred
erick A. Cooks original notes and on
Wednesday confirmed its previous
conclusions that not the slightest
proof that the explorer reached the
north pole had been submitted.
The report was submitted to the
consistory of the university. The
committee finds the copy of Cook S
data, on which its previous decision
was based, conforms in the main to
the original note book now in it's pos
session. rhe latter, the examiners
say, contains various alterations, but
there is nothing to show whether the
charges were made with the purpose
of deceiving.
While the consistory was unani-
nous in declaring Cooks claims
were absolutely untrue, there are
still some of its members who de-
clare Cook is an honest man, though
not scientist.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
Fifteen Killed by Blast.

Fishkill Landing, N. Y.-Fifteen
men. three of them Americans, were
killed Friday by a premature eXplo-
sion of nitro-glycerine in tunnel that
is to form part of the local aqueduct
which will carry water from the AS.
hokan dam in the Catskills to New
York City. Five men were terribly
mutilated, but were so near the mouth
of the tunnel that they were rescued
alive. The other fifteen were found
beneath a mass OF rock and debris,
literally hammered by the force of the
explosion into a bleeding mass of
heads, limbs and torsos. 1t is be-
lieved that one of the workmen, car
rying torch, tripped and fell, ignit-
ing a fuse and setting off series of
charges of nitro-glycerine.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
PRESIDENT GREETS GOVERNORS
Welcomes Chief Executives Ct Diff
ferent States at Washington Con.
vention as "Fellow Sufferers"

Washington. In welcoming the con-
ference OF governors at the White
House Tuesday afternoon President
Taft INDUCED in little good-natured
speculation as to how ,ne English
system of executive authority might
work in this country, and especially
with respect to giving ,ne executive
the right to argue matters out with
the LEGISLATIVE branch and go before
the people if necessary He said he
would like to have a heartto'heart
talk with some of the governors as TO
their methods of obtaining legislation.
81 would especially like to ask Gov
ernor Harmon how he manages with
a Republican legislature out in Ohio"
said the president. Il can assure
him." added Mr. Taft, that there are
struggles even when you have con-
gress which nominally is of your own
party.
There is no use mourning over our
lack of the English system of govern
ment in this country, for we can
never have it, but you governors, as
well as !, have felt at times the in
justice of criticism which comes TO
the executive because of the lack Of
the English system"
President Taft addressed the gov
ernors as MY GEAR fellow executives
and fellow sufferers"
Governor Hughes of New York and
former Mayor Seth Low, New YORK
City, spoke at the afternoon session.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
Wild Times on stock Exchange.

New York-There was an episode
in the New York stock exchange
Wednesday that was more spectacu-
lar, in many respects, than the recent
Rock Island fiasco. With a break of
more than GO points, the so-called Co
lumbus & Hooking Coal and Iron pool
was smashed, two stock exchange
houses were forced to suspend, and
the market generally underwent Sc
we're declines. involving the heaviest
trading since the day OF Edward II.
Harriman's death. A rigid inquiry by
the governors Of the exchange is Elk.
pected.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
WILL NOT DROP SUIT.
Government viii Fight Merger Of
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific.

Westinghouse was stated author
itatively on Thursday that the govern
ment suit for the dissolution of the
merger of the Union Pacific and
Southern Pacific railroads would not
be dropped. Acknowledgement Wick
ersham has found nothing so far in
his investigation to warrant such
conclusion.
A conference was held Thursday be-
tween the attorney general and Frank
b. Kellogg on the one side and Judge
Lovett, president of the Union Pacific,
and counsel reprkenting the allied
Hartman lines on the other for the
formal presentation of reasons why
the suit to dissolve the merger of the
railroads should not be pressed.
The railroad interests have made it
clear that they feel confident the suit
cannot be pushed to a successful con-
clusion and are willing it should be
compromised
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
CHARIOT FAILED TO COME.
Religious ZeaIots Had Expected the
End of the World.

Bellingham, Wash.-Waiting for a
fiery chariot from heaven, George
stripped themselves at Lynden,
Wash, and clambered to the roof of
their home in freezing weather. When
discovered, their baby, Martha, aged
IL months, was dead from exposure
and hunger, apd another child was at
the point of death.
Sunday Holy Roller" exhorted
the members of the sect at Lynden to
prepare for the end of the world.
Paschtot and wife took the instruc-
ton literally, stripped themselves and
the children to the skin and danced
the night through in the bitter
weather.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
Half a Million for Aviation Prizes.

New York-More than 100000 in
prize money will be offered this year
for aviation meets held under the
auspices OF the International Aero
nautc federation. According to a
statement issued at the headquarters
of the Aero Club of America, fourteen
meets are scheduled between April
and November 2, for which $4,000
has already been promised. The
longest dates awarded are those Sc
cured for the American meet, which
will be held from October IS to No
vember 2. No selection of city for
the competition will be made until all
bids are in.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
UNDER CONTROL OF STATE.
Question Of Developing Water Power
to be Left to States Interested.

Washington Carter, after
conference with several western
governors, who were in Washington
attending the governors conference,
has prepared a bill authorizing the is
suance of patents to states for public
lands chiefly valuable for the develop
ment OF water power.
In effect, the Carter measure would
turn over to the states the whole
question of developing the water
power. 1t would remove the entire
problem of regulating the use of lands
and streams chiefly valuable for the
development of power from the con-
troll of the federal government.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
Banker convIots Given Freedom.

Chicago.-Paul o. Stensland, former
president of the Milwaukee Avenue
State bank of Chicago, and Henry W..
Herring, formerly it's cashier, who
were convicted in connection with the
wrecking of the bank and the disap-
pearance of $l,300,0O0 of its funds,
were paroled on Thursday. Stensland,
who was captured after sensational
chase extending across the Atlantic
ocean into Europe and to Morocco,
has served three years, three months
and twenty-four days.
The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1910-01-29
BaIIinqer viii Stick.

Washington Ballinger
made it plain Tuesday night that he
does not intend to resign under fire,
When told of report that he was to
be succeeded by a man from Okla
homa, the secretary showed some
heat. II don't intend to resign while
there Is anything to fight" he said,
THAT cannot be made too plain. That
answer is final and win answer any
resignation rumor when 1t comes up
in the future"