Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-31
CAPITAL JOTTINGS.

''Vhulci I1dlt VI NdlIlt Called DIT Ilt
White House offices Saturday to urge
upon the President the nomination OF
Medical Director Henry &. Boyer as
surgeon general of the navy. The lat
ter's son is president of the Unior
League Club at Portland. Me.
The school board of the DISTRICT OF
Columbia has sustained the refusal of
the superintendent to admit to one OF
the white schools the daughter of S. r.
Wall, on the ground that though the
mother is white the father is a Ne
gro. The father, it is said, will carry
the case to the courts.
A number of agents Saturday began
a house to house canvass in Washing
ton seeking subscriptions to a monster
petition to be presented to President
Taft for the pardon of Charles w.
Morse. who has just begun to serve
l5-year sentence in the Atlanta peni-
tertiary.
That the government is handling the
long nauls of mail at a low rate and
consequently at little or no profit, or
at an actual loss. while the express
companies and the railroads. are max
ing the short hauls and reaping good
financial results, was the general con-
sessus of opinion Saturday at the in
quiry into second class mail rates by
the House committee on postofiices and
post roads.
John A. Ballain of Seattle was intro
duccd to the President Saturday by
Senator Jones of Washington. and
brief.' explained the proposition made
by him few days ago to the Senate
committee on territories for the coal
to be taken from government lands
In Alaska. The President only COM
mented that he hoped Congress would
some day make provision for getting
at the immense store of coal in that
faraway territory.
President Taft has saved Capt.
Frank d. Wickham, 18th L. S. Infan-
try. from dismissal from the army.
That officer was recently convicted by
courlmartial in the Philippines on the
charge of drunkenness on duty and
sentenced to be dismissed. On the rec
concentration of Sec Dickinson, the
President has committed the sentence
to reduction of 80 files in rank on the
Iineal list of captains of infantry.
Representative Mann of Illinois call
ed at the White House Saturday with
John M. Glenn. secretary of the ILL
nois Manufacturers Association, to
talk with the President about the cor
poration tax act Speaking for the Ma
tlonal Manufacturers Association, Mr.
Glenn strongly urged the President to
use his influence toward an amend
ment to the corporation law. What was
desired. he said. was the postponement
Tor 90 days from March 1 next of the
period of time allowed the corporations
10 make returns of their taxable in
comes, and also an amendment to the
section OF the law which requires pub
hcity of the affairs of the corporation.
The President listened with evident in
terest, but did not commit himself in
any way.
Edward w. Callahan chief clerk of
the bureau of navigation of the navy
department, formerly of Boston, was
Iound IN an unconscious condition on
Connecticut avenue, Washington. Sat-
urday night by policeman. He was
hurried to the Emergency hospital,
Where he died few minutes later. at
$50 o'clock. The circumstances of
death We're such that the coroner will
hold an inquest and perform an autop-
sy to determine the cause Examina-
ton by the hospital physicians failed
to show the cause of Mr. Callahan's
death, although it was stated that
there were signs of poisoning, but
whether uremic acid poisoning or not
could not be ascertained.