Items of Interest April 26, 1900 Issue

Items of Interest

Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, the "father of Congress," delivered what is said to have been the greatest speech of his life in the United States Senate, April 17, on the Philippine question. Mr. Hoar has opposed the polity of his party in dealing with the Filipinos at every stage of its development, and in his great speech he embodied his views fully, supporting them by an appeal to the official reports and the history of the country. The speech made a profound impression on the senators and other hearers, because of its strength and of the high character of the great man who spoke.

The Washington press dispatches state that the special sub-committee on trusts of the House judiciary committee has decided upon two measures destroying destroying trusts. One is a constitutional amendment giving Congress full power to deal with trusts, and the other is a new anti-trust law prohibiting the interstate traffic in trust-made goods, prohibiting the use of the mails to concerns and their officials proved to be trusts, and other prohibitive limitations.

Mrs. Dominis, otherwise known as Liliuokalani, the ex-queen of Hawaii, will sail from San Francisco May 15 for her home in Honolulu. It is said that she is bitterly disappointed by the failure of her pension claim, and says she will never again set foot in the country which has treated her so unjustly. She is said to have an income of twenty-five thousand dollars a year.

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