The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-04-02
EWSFORECAST Of
COMING WEEK

Washington, April at is being
said again that the supreme court,
when it reconvenes Monday after the
Easter recess, will hand down it's de-
cision in the case of the American
Tobacco company, which involves the
legality of trade agreements as dis
tinct from the issue of monopoly
which is the material item in the
Standard Oil case which is also be-
fore the highest tribunal.
Monday has also been assigned by
the supreme court as the day for
hearing arguments in the Missouri
rate cases. These cases are the most
important in the history of the inter-
state commerce commission, invOlv-
ing as they do the power conferred
upon the commission by the Hepburn
law to fix rates where railroads are
found to be overcharglng.
During the week President Taft
will deliver addresses at the dedica-
ton of the new million-dollar home
of the International Bureau of Amer
lean Republics, at the. dedication OF
the Carnegie library at Howard uni
versity and at the annual dinner OF
the League of Republican State clubs,
to be given Saturday night at the
Arlington hotel.
Early in the week town and city
elections will be held in Illinois, Wis
consin, Minnesota, Missouri, Okla
homa, Texas and a number Of other
states. Special interest attaches to
the results of the elections in Illi-
nois, Michigan and other states where
local option is the chief issue.
The big event of the week in poll
teal circles, however, will be the re-
publican state convention in Indiana.
to nominate candidates for the state
offices to be filled at the fall cleo
ton and to adopt platform. Sena-
| tor Beveridge, one of the insurgents
who voted against the tariff bill, will
preside. Senator Beveridge is can
didate for reelection and the situa-
| ton is identical with that in half
dozen other states of the west, where
| the state platforms cannot indorse
the tariff bill without repudiating
many of their own senators and rep
resentatives.
Events of interest in naval circles
| will include the placing in commits
sion of the formidable battleships
North Dakota and Delaware and the
launching of the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Perkins. The last-named
event is fixed to take place Satur-
day at the yards of the Fire River
Shipbuilding Company at Quincy,
Mass
Other matters that will figure in
the news of the week will include the
Earl Grey musical and dramatic
competitions at Toronto, the annual
Conference on Education in the South
at Little Rock, the Texas Conserva-
ton Congress at Forth Worth, the
meeting of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science In
Philadelphia. and the sale OF the
Yerkes art collection in New York.
The cable news will tel, of the re-
ception of ex-PresideIt Roosevelt in
! Rome ana the travels of his party
in Northern Italy. In Copenhagen
former Minister of the Interior Berg
is to be placed on trial on charges
connected with the notorious Alder
ii frauds, which year or more ago
resulted in the fall of the Danish
cabinet. Saturday is the date set for
the inauguration of the Empress
Augusta memorial on the Mount or
| Olives by Prince Eitel Frederick,
second son of the German Emperor