The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-04-08
NEWS NoTEs.

senator Frazier joins supreme Justice:
Beard. Neil and Shields in declining tC
enter the Patterson primary. Among
those who have so far refused to allow
their names to be submitted to the Pat.
terson primary are Judge Lansden, who
is candidate for the Supreme Court,
State Treasurer Reau Folk, Judges 5.
F. Wilson and John NJ. Taylor, Of the
Court Of Civil Appeals, Frank Hall, cam
didate for the Court Of Civil Appeals,
and Judge J. c. Higgins. The various
candidates, however, refuse for different
reasons. The primary plan is also rails
ing storm Of protest all over the State.
President Taft will speak Saturday in
Washington in defense of his Admins
tration. His speech will be in the ma
ture Of reply to the many attacks
made on it and it is stated that he and
the host of Republican orators who will
follow him are ready to take the often
siye. There is talk of Cannon resign
ing the Speakership at the close Of the
present session and rumors are rife Of
Cabinet changes before the Congress
sional campaign begins
In his speech before the Brotherhoods
in Train Service at Worcester, President
Taft Geclared he believed in labor organ
izations, but as Chief Executive Of the
nation, he added, he believed also in
the right of every man to labor as he
will, if he chooses to stay out of labor
organizations. The President discussed
the anti-injunction bill and said the Re-
publican party's promise should be kept.
The Administration railroad bill,
stripped of many Of its original fea-
lures, but still providing for the crea-
ton Of Commerce Court and the reg
ulation OF railway agreements, CONSOLE
dations, securities, rates and routes, all
as amendments to the interstate COM
merce law, was reported to the House
by the Interstate Commerce Committee.
The biggest freight rate fight since the
passage of the Hepburn rate bill entered
the final stages when the Government
filed in the Supreme Court of the United
States a brief in the so-called Missouri
River rate cases. They involve the in
terests of manufacturers merchants, job
bers and railroads from the Atlantic sea-
board to the Rocky Mountains.
The New York Central Railroad has
increased the salaries of all employees
receiving $200or less a month on the
lines east of Buffalo by per cent, ex-
cepting the engineers of way and main
tenance, whose pay was recently in
creased, and the trainmen, conductors
and telegraph operators, whose demands
are now under consideration
State Senator Theodore Bilbo was put
through grueling cross-examination
n the Mississippi Senate in regard to
lis charges of bribery. Senator Bilbo
n his direct evidence before the body
stated that he had arranged through a
woman to have his first meeting with
)ulaney at a residence in a question:
Ible part of the city.
Former President Roosevelt will not
'isit the Pope owing to note from the
atican received at Cairo that he must
lot cause complication by an act sim
lar to that of former Vice President
fairbanks. This resulted in a second
ote, in which Mr.. Roosevelt stated he
Tould do as he pleased, and this ended
matters
Senator Bailey introduced bill pro-
iding for the publication of campaign
A similar measure has
cen ordered favorably reported by the
on the Election of President,
ice President and Members Of Con-
ress, but Chairman Gaines has not yet
resented the report. III