CONTINUOUS INDEX (Continued). France and the German Crown Prince, 901 Separation of church and state, 516 Franchise-tax law, New York, sustained, 848 French disarmament scheme, 614 neutrality, American views of, 733 Garbage disposal and city politics, 51* monopolists vs. the people, 691 German fear of Japan's growing power, 633 Germany affected by Russian situation, 712 and English admirals, 828 Crown Prince wedding, 901 wou d wage war with U.'S., How, 635 "Girl, Unpleasant," in literature, The, 890 Gomez, the liberator, 4* Great Britain open to invasion? Is, 789 Ground, Temperature of the, 547 Guns, great, with rapid fire, 932 Hara-kiri defended by Japanese, 617 Higher-criticism defended, 552 "Historico-religious" Bible interpretation, 632 Hooker, W. 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S., charged with heresy, 550 Manchuria, War balloons used in, 706 Marking-system, Scientific, possible, 589 Medicine, Modern, in antiquity, 743 Medicines, Some pernicious, 894 Mental disease, Responsibilit, in, 781 Meredith's literary style, The penalty of, 891 Methodism as alternative to Romanism, 592 Milk-bottles, Paper, 820 Mine, Finding a lost, 819 Miniature painting, 9* Ministerial irresponsibility, 785 Missions, Christian, The greatest problem before, 861 Foreign, as affected by outcome of the war, 19* Modjeska testimonial, The, 701 Mohammedanism, A missionary spirit in, 786 Molière comedy revived, 585 Moon, Active volcanoes on the, 15* Morales, The shrewdness of, 495 Morality, Machine-made, 587 Morocco, Delcassé's defeat ín, 902 German Emperor's action in, 636 imbroglio, Possibilities of, 23* Morton's, Mr., exoneration, 5* and religion as rivals, 822 Nan Patterson case, Verdict in the, 696 Naval training, English views of our, 866 Navy, Deserters from, 578 Negroes, Southern, as property-holders, 926 Nerve-current, Nature of a, 704 Neutrality and French neutrality, 751 laws enforced, 884 Newfoundland strikes back, 579 Newspaper woman, Struggles of a, 544 Niagara, Commercializing, 737 How to save, 893 The destruction of, 507 Do You Know Paint? 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The New York Evening Post (Ind.), which has never manifested any hesitation to criticize the Administration, does not think that in this case "a thorough inquiry would establish general conditions of corruption in the department" of which "the Holmes scandal is only an incident." Mr Richard Cheatham, however, the secretary of the Southern Cotton Growers' Association, who brought the charges JOHN HYDE, Chief-Statistician in the Department of Agriculture. The Southern Cotton Growers Association is said to be "after his scalp." against the department, believes that the particular piece of rascality he has helped to bring to light is indicative of dishonest practises which have been going on for a long time and involve many persons either connected with the Government or doing business in the cotton markets. Thus a despatch to the New York Herald WHOLE NUMBER, 796 (Ind.) credits Mr. Cheatham with the following bold statements: "Mr. Cheatham does not hesitate to say that in his opinion there could have been no leakage without the knowledge of other officials of the department than Holme; that Holmes was made a scapegoat for officials higher up, and he further says that, in his opinion, Chief Statistician Hyde is either implicated in the leakage or he is incompetent. Mr. Cheatham even goes to the point of asserting that it is his belief if the investigation is sufficiently pressed Secretary Wilson may also lose his official head." The person around whom the scandal centers at present is Edward S. Holmes, Jr., associate statistician of the bureau. He was the suspended when ugly rumors of irregularities in his office first got afloat, and on July 9 he was summarily dismissed, after the truth of these rumors was confirmed by the investigations instituted by Secretary Wilson. The Secretary finds and reports that Mr. Holmes communicated advance information to L. C. Van Riper, a New York broker, and to M. Haas of New York a gobetween for the parties implicated. The evidence of Mr. Holmes's wrong-doing rests upon the testimony of Mr. Van Riper, a portion of which we condense as follows: Copyright by J. E. Purdy, Boston. SECRETARY WILSON. The discovery of corruption in his department prompts his critics to suggest that he resign. Mr. Van Riper testified he became acquainted with Holmes in New York, in 1904, who said he could get information concerning the Government crop report, through the report of the general agent and the reports of the State agents. Van Riper said Holmes furnished him with information for several months, in advance of the publication of the official figures, and that the information furnished by Holmes corresponded exactly with the figures afterward published as the official crop reports. Mr. Haas, of New York, acted as a go-between for Holmes and himself. The witness said he met Haas at the Hotel Waldorf, and was told by him that the report for June, 1905, would be 75 per cent. on condition and 121⁄2 or 13 per cent. on acreage, which was as bearish as they could make it; that in an hour Haas called on him again and said that he was going to Washington to see if they could not get the percentage a little higher and the acreage a little smaller, to make the report more bearish. Van Riper testified that the official report: was more bearish than the figures previously given him, and that he took this to mean that the effort to influence the report had succeeded." Mr. Van Riper further confessed that during the progress of these dealings he bought from Mr. Holmes, for $73,000 cash, a three-fourths' interest in an Idaho mining property which he had never seen nor known anything about. The story that Holmes's: |