The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-11-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.

break up the Steel Trust was begun in
Trentonf last week in the United States
Circuit Court. 1t is the most sweeping
antitrust action ever brought by the
Department of Justice.
The Government asks not only for the
dissolution of the United States Steel Cor
poration, but for the dissolution of all
constituents or subsidiary companies
which are alleged to have combined in
violation of the Sherman law to main
tain or attempt to maintain a monopoly
of the steel business
There are Sc subsidiary corporations;
10 individuals named as defendants, five
other individuals being named as trustees
in connection with ore companies.
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What to do with Senator Isaac Stephen
sons campaign documents, after he had
expended $Io7, 900 in his fight for nomi-
nation in Wisconsin in 1909 proved to be
a perplexing problem, according to wit
nesses before the Senatorial investigating
committee.
The documents. brought together at
the Milwaukee headquarters after the
close of the campaign, were hauled FROM
town to town, taken ont of the State to
prevent their being examined at q pre-
vious legislative investigation of the
Senator's expenses and were alternately
packed in box in gunny sacks and in a
trunk before they finally landed before
the present Investigators
1t was shown that when the papers left
Milwaukee they weighed 400 pounds and
when they finally returned they weighed
1870 pounds. All witnesses declared they
had no knowledge that any documents
had been distracted.
w. E. Black, counsel for Senator Ste
phensou, admitted he had the papers
taken out of the State to prevent their
being examined at previous investigations.
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II may strike some persons as strange
that the proposition is seriously advanced
at San Diego. the Exposition city, to
teach poultry raising as a science. The
suggestion is made that it be made part
of the curriculum of the rural schools
A. E. Blethen, president of the Poultry
Fanciers' Club, is father of the idea, and
he wants to have the children given
chickens to care for, and to earn their
pocket money with. California now i'm
ports many carloads of eggs from Kansas,
Nebraska, and other states, whereas Mr..
Blethen thinks that she shonld be export
| ing henproducts.
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Senator Bourne, of Oregon, has taken
+ up the cudgels against the prelates of the
Catholic Church who have condemned
the initiative, referendum and recall.
There seems to he no doubt about the
Senator's courage.
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Sam" Davis, the Nevada humorist
who is almost as well known as Mark
Twain and Bert Harte. PROPOSES to have
real. simon.pure, genuine '49 placer
diggin's rugged up in gulch at the
Panama California International Exposi
ton, to be held in San Diego in 1915
Director General Collier favors the
proposition.
Visitors to the Exposition will be per-
mitted to wash out little gold dust for
tharaaivas Thax cao x,,,t I. -, a..
vial and exhibit it ever afterward as
souvenir of San Diego and the Exposition
When it comes to realism Davis will
have rockers, dance halls, faro layouts,
old time shooting ARRAYS and perhaps a
vigiiante hanging. 1t will make the
heats of the surviving argonauts beat
faster to see the reminder of Hangtown,
Yuba Dam. Poverty Flat and the rest.
There will be stage coaches and regular
museum of relics which Davis will spend
the next three years getting together
the exposition.
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Complete control Of all railroads of the
country by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, and virtual elimination of
the State Commissions from such control
is foreshadowed in an opinion handed
down on Monday by the Supreme Court
Of the United States The Court held
that hereafter all locomotives. cars, or
other equipment used on any railroad
which is highway of interstate com-
merce must comply with the Federal
Safety Appliance act.
In its opinion the Court held that COM
pliance with Federal law is compulsory
on all railroads engaged in the trauspor
talion of persons or freight from one State
to another. Celebrating this, however,
il held that the cars or equipment of such
roads, even if engaged in such transporta
ton within the confines of State, must
he considered as part and parcel of the
road. and therefore completely under the
jurisdiction of the Federal Commission