Items of Interest March 14, 1903 Issue

Items of Interest

Brigadier General Leonard A. Wood, who has been ordered to duty in the Philippines, will investigate the forms of British colonial government in Egypt and India, and of Dutch colonial government in Sumatra and Java, with the view of incorporating what is best into the government of the half-civilized Moros of Mindanao and other provinces of the southern department of the Philippines. There is talk of his being made the civil governor of the Philippines, to succeed Governor Taft, in the event of Governor Taft's return to the United States, which may occur within the next year.

A temporary injunction, that may be made permanent, has been issued by Judge Adams at St. Louis enjoining the labor leaders from issuing orders for a strike on the Wabash system. According to the grand master of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen this injunction, if sustained in the upper courts, sounds the knell of organized labor. A motion will be filed by counsel for the employees asking for the injunction to be dissolved, and every effort will be made by organized labor to prevent this ruling from being written into the laws of the country.

President Roosevelt on March 2 issued a proclamation for the Senate to "convene in extraordinary session" on March 5. Owing to the opposition of Senator Morgan the consideration of the Panama Canal Treaty could not be brought to a conclusion before Congress adjourned. It was hoped that the Senator, who is a champion of the Nicaragua route, would relent in his opposition and allow ratification. At the extra session this and the Cuban treaty will be considered.

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