President Roosevelt receives a portrait of the Empress Dowager of China, sent as an evidence of China’s good will to the United States.
February 20.—Ex-Chief-Justice Alton B. Parker appears before the New York Court of Appeals to argue a case in favor of the New York City Interborough Railway Company, whose chief owner is August Belmont.
The United States Supreme Court sustains the Kansas Anti-Trust law, affirming sentence of fine and imprisonment against Edmund J. Smiley, an agent of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company.
A special committee of the California Legislature recommends the expulsion of five State Senators on the charge of soliciting and accepting bribes.
The Kansas Legislature, by concurrent resolution, asks the annulment of the Government’s blanket lease of Osage lands to the Standard Oil Company.
February 21.—The Government begins criminal prosecution of the Beef Trust before a Grand Jury at Chicago called especially for that purpose.
Despite the protests against it, Secretary Hitchcock decides to extend the leases of the Osage Indian oil lands.
The Illinois Legislature orders an investigation of the oil pipe lines of the State, and offers to loan the State of Kansas $100,000 to aid in the fight against the Standard Oil monopoly.
While J. Edward Addicks has lost all but about fifteen of his supporters in the Delaware Legislature, these decide to make the deadlock permanent and thus prevent the election of a United States Senator at this session.
President Truesdale, of the Lackawanna Railroad, criticizes President Roosevelt’s attitude on rate legislation.