May 3.—J. J. Hill testifies before the Senate interstate Commerce Committee that Government control of railroad rates will be disastrous.
Federal Grand Jury subpœnas thirty representatives of the Traffic Departments of different railroads to testify in the Beef Trust investigation.
May 5.—The Federal Grand Jury for the District of New York begins an investigation of the Tobacco Trust’s business methods.
Attorney-General Moody holds that the Government can legally regulate railroad rates.
Governor-General Davis stricken with fever. Secretary Taft orders him to leave Panama and return home.
May 6.—President Roosevelt ends his hunting trip in Colorado and starts for Washington.
General Home News
April 9.—After a fight covering twenty years and costing millions of dollars, the Bell Telephone Company has been whipped by the rural lines in Iowa and forced to connect with them.
Several hundred sailors belonging to the North Atlantic squadron desert at Pensacola.