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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-02

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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
Death of q Noted COnfed-
crate General

Gen. Alfred Cumming who died re-
Gently in Rome, Ga. was the eldest
son of Henry H. and Julia A.
Cumming and was born January 30,
1929. He graduated at the West
Point Military academy in 1849, and
was assigned to the eighth regiment
OF infantry, U. S. A., then stationed
IN Texas. His subsequent service
in the United States army was at mil
1tary posts in the northwest and in
the Utah expedition of 1S57-1858.
At the time Of the secession of the
state of Georgia he was captain in
the Tenth United States infantry
He then resigned his commission
and offered his service to the South
ern COnfederacy.
His first office in the Confederate
army was that of lieutenant colonel
of the Tenth Georgia regiment, of
which Lafayette McLaws was colonel.
He became colonel on the pro-
motion of Gen. McLaws and com
manded his regiment, which in the
Army of Virginia acquired
an excellent reputation in the pen
insular campaign and the battles
around Richmond in May, June and
July, 1862 being wounded in the last
of those battles at Malvern Hill.
At the battle of Sharpsburg IAN
tietam) he was taken from his reg
iment and assigned specially to the
command OF Wilcox's brigade. In
this battle he was seriously wounded,
and Immediately thereafter he was
promoted to a brigadier generalship.
On recov ,ry from his wounds he
was assigned to be the commander of
a brigade at Mobile but soon trans
ferred with his staff to the command
of brigade in the army defending
Vicksburg and participated in the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22

battles and siege and surrender of
that place. He was again in the
command Of his brigade at the battle
OF Missionary Ridge, November 25,
1858, where the brigade, under his
immediate personal leadership. on the
only part Of that field where the Con-
federates were at all successful, was
greately diSting uished-nOt only re-
pulsing the attact or it's position, but
leaving it's position and delivering a
commensurate, in which many pris-
Oners and three regimental flags were
captured from the enemy He COM
manded his brigade throughout the
Johnston-Sherman campaign from
Dalton to Atlanta in 1864, until, at
the eliminating battle Of that cam
paign at Jonesboro August 81, 1864,
he received three wounds which kept
him in bed till the end of the war
and on crutches for months there
after.
For the next thirty years he re-
sided with his family at and near
Rome Ga, but returned some fifteen
years ago to his native place where
he has lived quietly.
A few days ago he went to Rome
to visit the family of his only son,
Mr. Julian Cumming, where he died,
after a short illness. For fifty years
he was devout member of the
Episcopal church.
Gen. Cumming was of modest
and retiring disposition which he dis
played up to the last hour of his
life by requesting that his funeral
should be conducted most simply
without flowers, music or parade of
any kind.-Rome (Ga.) Tribune
Herald.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22

have been used to elect him to Office,
and is declared to have had no knowl-
edge of any cases of alleged brib-
cry" A subcommittee has reported
these findings and the full committee
submitted the result Of the investiga-
ton to the Senate. There were some
sensational law suits brought against
several prominent Chicago politicians
as the outcome of the Lorimer
charges, and the case was one of the
most sensational in the annals of
Chicago's political history.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
PAG E FOURTEEN
EDITORIAL NOTES
BY j. ID. WATSON

The report of the Congressional committee
appointed to investigate the Ballinger- Pin
chot controversy has made it's report, and the
report is rather an unusual one for even a
Congressional committee that has a coat of
whitewash to apply to guilty official.
The majority of the committee, which show
ed plainly throughout the taking of testimony
that it was partisan to Secretary Ballinger.
finds that the Secretary is not guilty of ma
terlal neglect of duty.
The minority makes a report against Bal
llnger that is a scorcher and declares him un-
fit for his office, while the one Insurgent Re
publican OF the committee is adverse to Bal
linger.
So after all, the question is Just exactly
where it was before any committee was an
pointed, so far as the settling of the dispute
is concerned.
But one peculiar feature of the report is
that the ma ority of the committee that white
washes Ballinger's record condemns Bal
fingers policy and recommends that of Pin
chot.
Not only does the committee recommend
the policy that Pinchot favored, but the Presi-
dent himself recommends 1.-THE leasing of
the government mineral lands in Alaska as
well as power sites, ETC., instead of selling
them outright.
After all, public opinion has rendered the
verdict that Ballinger is guilty, and Bal
hnger will remain guilty in the eyes of the
people for all time to come
No amount of Congressional whitewashing
Will cover the dirty spots on the Morgan
Guggenhelm agents record, and the sooner
President Taft gets Mr. BalIinger out of his
Cabinet the better it will be for Mr.. Taft and
his administration.
The investigation has at least shown the
people how millions of dollars worth of their
public lands was about to pass into the hands
of a few millionaires for a few thousand dol
lars, and Congress will look into the matter
with more care in the future
The people now know enough about the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
Senator LOyjmer i" Vim
djcQfed -

By a process known only to them
selves, the senate committee appoint
ed to investigate the charges of brib-
cry against William Lorimer, a sena-
tor from Illinois, have exonerated
him from all the charges which were
preferred He is completely exoner-
ated from any knowledge of or part
in 'the unlawful practices said to
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22
THE JEFFERSONIAN

Trust has changed it's attitude entirely and
has advanced the prices OF meat.
No wonder at the Trusts attitude, for the
Presidents message gives them every ass1r-
ance that they may not continue to rob the
people at home and sell meat in London
cheaper than they sell it in Chicago.
The special interests want to see the tariff
taken out of politics now that they have the
tariff fixed to suit themselves, and the Trust
officials didn't get scared and begin to court
public favor when the President recon-
mended that the Trust policy of revising the
tariff be adopted by Congress-
Up in Canada the farmers have been treated
by the Trusts that handle farm tools and
common hardware ust as the farmers here in
the States have been treated, but they seem to
be wider awake than our farmers when it
comes to getting relief from such burdens.
One thousand farmers from Winnipeg are
marching on Ottawa to demand free trade
for Canada in farm tools and common hard
ware, and it is more than likely that these
1000 determined men will get what they de-
mand
The crop on which these farmers have to
depend for their money is their wheat crop,
and they have to sell it at free trade prices
in competition with the whole world.
The tools which they have to buy to make
their crop are made by the same Trust that
makes tools on this side of the line and makes
our farmers pay an exorbitant price for them,
Just as it makes the Canadian farmer pay an
exorbitant price on the other side of the line.
Most of these tools are made by the same
Trust which sells tools in the remotest part Of
Europe cheaper than they sell them to the
farmers of Illinois, Ohio or Indiana-farmers
who reside within a few miles of where the
tools are manufactured.
When the International Harvester people
will sell mowers, reapers, binders and other
machinery in far off Cape Town cheaper than
they will sell them to the people here at home,
it proves conclusively that the American
farmers are being robbed by tariff that puts
millions into the treasury Of the International
Harvester Company.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22

In recent interview Governor-elect Sim
con A. Baldwin, of Connecticut, says:
Here IN Connecticut we want free raw
material for our manufacturers and free food
for our workingmen That is what tariff re-
form means to u.s."
Good Democratic doctrine is this. preached
by the next Governor of Vermont,-good
enough, in fact, for such men as the Hon.
Champ Clark and his followers to adopt as
their own.
When the Governor of Connecticut. a state
usually safe Republican, embraces such tariff
ideas 1t shows plainly just how strong the
demand for tariff reform is.
1t Judge Baldwin had made his campaign
two years ago on the same platform that he
made this years campaign on, he would have
been one of the worst defeated candidates in
the country, but the Payne-Aldrich tariff
gave even New England bigger dose of pro-
lection than she could swallow, hence the
change.
Sometimes it takes lot to open the peo-
pies eyes, but the faithfulness of Aldrich.
Payne, Lodge, Cannon and Hale to the in
terests which they represent pinched the or
binary mans stomach little too much for
HIM to remain blind to facts any longer.
Therefore the sweeping victory of the
Democrats in states like Maine, Massachusetts,
and Connecticut.
Just before President Taft's message was
sent to Congress the officials of the Beef
Trust announced that the prices of meats
would soon be lowered because of the bumper
grain crop raised in the West this year.
At the time it was pointed out that this
years grain crop had nothing to do with the
prices of meat now being put on the market,
for the simple reason that that meat was not
raised on this years grain crop.
But since the Taft message went in the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-12-22

question Of land grants, ETC., to make Con-
gress pass more stringent laws that will pro-
tect the peoples interests when it comes to
leasing or selling them.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
DR.. ABBOTT ON THE ISSUE
Declares Cobb Bill To Be of
Fundamental Importance.

Assemblyman George A Green has re-
ceived the following letter on the subject
of direct primaries from Lyman Abbott,
editor in chief of The Outlook:
The Outlook. 2S7 Fourth avenue. New York.
Lawrence F. Abbott president; William
g Rowland, treasurer; Karl V. S. How
land, secretary; Lyman Abbott, editor in
chief; Hamilton w. Mabie, associate
edit II: Theodore Roosevelt, contributing
June %, 1910
Dear Sir: The right of popular self-gov-
ernment involves the right of the voters,
placed before them, but also the right to
determine who those candidates shall be.
in a government carried on by parties this
right involves the right Of the members
of a party to determine who the candl-
dates of the party shall be. Under our
present primary laws the voters of a party
are denied that.right.
It IS because the Cobb direct nomlna-
ton BILL now before the Legislature, pro-
vides a way at the same time of maintain
ing the responsibility of party organization
under duly constituted party leadership and
of giving to The members of the party the
right TO select party candidates that re-
gard the Cobb bill as measure OF funda-
mental Importance.
The Republican party is now in control OF
of the state will hold that party respon-
sible for whatever happens TO this meas
ure It is hardly necessary to say that
all right minded people will be inclined TO
place their confidence in the party only as
II accepts and acknowledges its reSpon-
regard to this bill. Very sincerely yours
LYMAN ABBOTT.
Hon George A. Green, Assembly Chamber
Albany, n. Y.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
MANY BILLS INTRODUCED
Senators and Assemblymen at
Albany Show Activity.

Albany, June 2s-Only three Senator'S
were present at to-days session of the
Senate, which adjourned until tomorrow
night There was a fair attendance in the
Assembly, which will meet again to-rnor-
row morning al the usual hour
At to-day's brief session Senator Agnew
introduced q bill designed to prevent the
appropriation by one party Of the political
emblem Of another party. The purpose OF
this bill" ne explained, is to prevent a
recurrence of such a proceeding as the
taking by Tammany Hall of the Indepen-
dence League emblem at the late mayor
atty election in New York. The game
bill was introduced in the Assembly to-day
by Mr.. Ward.
Senator Agnew also introduced the Ward
New York City election bills, which were
defeated at the regular session, and have
been reintroduced by Assemblyman Ward.
Senator Grattan introduced the franchise
corporation tax bill and the bill prohibiting
the sale of transfer stamps without the
Controllers consent, which were introduced
by Assemblyman Hinman on Monday night
In the Assembly the Murray concurrent
resolution providing for the appointment of
a committee to inquire into the feasibility
of legislative retrenchment was offered, but
consideration was refused on objection of
the minority leader Mr.. Frisbie, who de-
clared that such committee was unneces-
sary. He said that the question would be
attended TO at the next election. The
Ways and Means Committee has promised
TO consider the matter at its meeting this
afternoon.
Assembiyman Lansing introduced two
hills providing for licensing abattoirs and
butcher shops The bills failed at the
regular session.
Assemblyman Ebbets succeeded In intro
ducing his bill licensing slot machines,
which was held up al yesterdays session.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30

gates selected as provided IN the law VIM
however. represented a small minority AZ
the voters
amendment provides that there shall be ON.
delegate for each one thousand voters
within an assembly district. each OF vhfes
delegates shall have one vote This amend.
fnent applies to judicial Convention,
throughout the state 1t may, however. ).
changed by party rules
Persons acquainted with Chairrnas
Woodruff said last night that he wss
about ready to jump On the direct DIT.
mary band wagon. They declared thar
five of the votes in the Republican les
isIative delegation in Kings County had
been changed from the anti to the pro
direct primary column. This was as
couplished by Naval Officer Kracke AM
CONGRESSMAN Calder. it was said. and +
was added that Chairman Woodruff "a
allied that only a quic-- flop will kes.
him from annihiIation at the prirlaris
in Kings County in the fall.
When Judge William II. Wadhana
president of the Direct Primaries Al
sociation, learned OF Mr.. Roosevelrs
message last night he exclaimss
.'Splendidl" He added:
1T should insure the passage Of Z
Cobb bill without any question We q
hearing from leading Republicans q
over the state falling in behind the lea.
ership Of the ex-President- All the els
ments in the Republican party are unt
ing in support of this excellent begtnni-,
of a direct primary system AS such )
beginning 1t is acceptable to the Dire
Primaries Association and. understaM
to all the advocates of direct primaries'
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
SURE OF COBB BILL NOW
Griscom Explains Amendments
Which Roosevelt Approves. y

In his first political utterance since ne
returned from Africa Mr.. Roosevelt
yesterday declared his belief that the
people demanded the passage Of direct
primary measure, and that the Cobb bill.
with the amendments proposed by Presi-
dent Griscom of the county committee,
met the situation.
The statement of the former President,
which most of the leaders here believed
last night would insure the passage of
the amended Cobb bill, came out in the
form of telegraphic dispatch to Presi-
dent Griscom.
The dispatch arrived late in the after
noon, and Mr.. Griscom Immediately took
steps to have the views of Mr.. Roosevelt
communicated to the members of the
Legislature. Later he started for AL
bany himself. Collin H. Woodward.
chairman of the county committee,
has been at Albany since Monday, and
expects to remain until the Legislature
adiourns.
President Griscom said he did not care
to make any comment on the dispatch
from Mr. Roosevelt. He declared that
it spoke for itself. He was much
pleased, of course, that Mr.. Roosevelt
had come out in favor of the amended
Cobb bill. Mr.. Griscom has thought all
along that some soft of direct primary
measure was demanded by the people,
but he was fearful that so stringent a
measure might be passed that it would
prove unsatisfactory to the active mem
bers of the party.
For some time he has been working on
the problem, and his amendments to the
Cobb bill. as announced yesterday, were
the result. A member of the county
committee who was going to be in Cam
bridge at the same time the meeting be-
tween Governor Hughes and Mr.. Roose-
welt was scheduled to take place was
designated to communicate the views of
Mr.. Griscom and explain the proposed
amendments, both to the ex-President
and to the Governor.
There were many New York City Re
publican legislators in the city yester-
day, and they were informed of the
views of Mr.. Roosevelt 1t was aIso
pointed out to them that advices from
Washington were to the effect that
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
HUSTLE TO BEAT AGE LIMIT
Candidate for Naval Academy to Take
Hurried Examination.
fBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Ibs ItItsTaIlH 70 : ne IT1bunt
Annapolis. June 29.-Because he is on
the eve Of exceeding the laws maximum
age limit. Zena Blain Huffman. a candi-
date for the Naval Academy who passed
the mental examination last week, will
take his physical examination Tomorrow.
Within twel-ty-four hours Huffman,
whose home is in Lawrencevile H.. will
be over twenty years old. Should ne be
accepted physically tomorrow ne will be
sworn in at once, to comply with the age
limit law. He was TO have been examined
to-day, but because the senior member Of
the medical survey board was detailed az
q member Of the board of inquest inyesti-
eating the death of Mrs. Bowyer and two
midshipmen a postponement was taken.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
MAYOR MAY WELD AXE Tc-oN

AS the Mayors power TO remove hos
over officeholders without cause ends .
night. at the expiration of his first =
months as chief executive, there was =
port yesterday that he would take actK
in the Change of Grade Damage COmms
sion case before nightfaH. IL is suggest.
that the Mayor may do as he did in Z.
case of the old Aqueduct Commissionl
that is, replace the present members b
others pledged TO clean up the work with
a short time and permit the commissIcs
to go out of existence
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30

fishsd Both class and commodity rases
should be slightly lower from MISSISSIPPI
River points to Spokane than from cnl-
cago points
IT was also held that the rates to
Baker City, La Grande and Pendleton.
Ore. and walla Walla. Wash. were ex-
cessive. in so far as they exceed the new
rates fixed to Spokane.
In the Nevada and Arizona cases, in
Guiding the Sacramento-R Reno case,
against the Southern Pacific Company
the Railroad Commission of Nevada
against the Southern Pacific Company,
and the Maricopa County Commercial
Club against the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway Company and other
carriers. the decisions were prepared by
Commissioner Lane.
Existing Rates Unprecedented.
In each of them a heavy cut in class
rates is ordered, some of the reductions
being as high as SO 1-3 per cent. The
commission finds that the existing rates
are practically without precedent or
parallel throughout the United States.
The average rate a ton mile on all ten
classes from Sacramento to Reno is GIG
cents. an unprecedented figure. The
class rates between Sacramento and
Reno are reduced approximately 50 per
cent, the rate on first class freight being
lowered from 81 % to So cents on one
hundred pounds. Similar reductions in
the class rates are maintained from
Sacramento to other points in Nevada
and Utah.
In the case of the Railroad Commission
of Nevada against the Southern Pacific
Company and other carriers, the
commission condemns the existing
west-bound class rates from Eastern
points to Nevada. The commission de-
clares these rates to be the highest
main line rates found in the United
States" For carrying carload Of first
class traffic containing 10000 pounds
from Omaha to Reno the Union and
Southern Pacific lines charge SS5S. II
the same carload goes 154 miles fur
ther, to Sacramento, the charge is only
5000 The first class rate to the more
distant point, Sacramento, is So on lOt
| pOu1lGS, anu 10 liic pOillN' iNSAAN
| 81 % on 100 pounds. If the same car
| load Of freight originates at Denver
800 miles west of Omaha, the same rates
to Reno and Sacramento apply; and il
/ the freight originates at Boston, 1,'ot
miles east of Omaha, the rates are the
same. The figures lead the commission
to the conclusion that Nevada traffic is
no longer as inconsiderable as has been
generally supposed.
Turning to the division of earnings
between carriers on traffic from the East
to Reno, the commission finds that the
| lions share accrUes to the Southern Pa
cifc Company. It is significant, as
indicated in the opinion, that the lines
! east of Ogden, Utah, receive exactly the
same divisions out of the so-called
water compelled" rates to Pacific Coast
/ terminal points as they receive out o1
| the greatly higher rates to Nevada
points, the entire difference being ap-
propriated by the Southern Pacific Com
pany." After discussing this situation,
the commission adds.
The fact remains, however. that for the
/ 24C0-nile haul from New York to ogden
! the New York Central, the Lake Shore the
/ Northwestern and the Union PACING secure
| the same revenue out OF the IS rate 70 70
Sacramento that they do out OF the 81 -
rate to Reno.
New-York tribune., 1910-06-30
RETAIL BEEF PRICES DROP.

Chicago. June 2s-Retai beef prices
dropped sharply yesterday following the
wholesale price reduction of the day be-
fore. Siroin steak. which on Monday sold
for 1871 cents a pound could be had for l6lb
cents. Porterhouse, that had sold for 22
cents, was quoted al 70 cents