ITEMS OF INTEREST September 28, 1907 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

The new charter for the city of Chicago, authorized by the State Legislature at its last session, was rejected by the voters at its recent special election, by a majority of more than sixty-two thousand. Mayor Busse, who led the light for the adoption of the charter, says: "It is evident from the result that a great majority of the people of Chicago either do not want a charter to are not sufficiently interested in a new charter to go to the polls and vote. The very light vote and the majority against adoption clearly proves that. I think this indifference has been a mistake. ... Its adoption would have enabled the administration to accomplish many public improvements which would have been of lasting benefit to the city."

The profits made by the Standard Oil Company from 1899 to 1906, inclusive, were $490,315,934, and there was distributed to its shareholders in the same period $308,359,403. The capital stock is $98,338,382. Profits of more than one thousand per cent a year have been made by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the corporation sentenced by Judge Landis to pay a fine of $29,240,000. Evidence tends to prove that the Standard Oil Company is operating in Texas under the name of the Corsicana Refining Company. The Texas anti-trust laws forbid the Standard from doing business in that State.

In a miniature consular office in the State Department, modeled after those of the United States in foreign countries, candidates who passed the last examination to establish an eligible list from which to fill vacancies in that service are receiving instruction as to their new duties. Formerly an appointee was given thirty days' leave under pay in which to prepare to go to his post. By the new procedure this thirty days will be spend under instruction which will familiarize him with the manner in which the work of a consular office should be conducted.

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