The shots fired by the Kansas Legislature, forced from it by a determined demand of the people, at the trusts and monopolies have been heard around the world. They sounded the death-knell of plutocracy in America. Aimed at the Standard Oil octopus, these shots hit every political and commercial scoundrel in the United States. The special privileged class have been dealt a blow which staggers their fabric from centre to circumference. This is the beginning of the end of corrupt government. The people who do the labor and produce the wealth of the world will be deceived and plundered no longer. The revolution is on and it can’t be checked.—_The Dalton (Ga.) Herald._ News Record FROM MARCH 7 TO APRIL 7, 1905 _Government and Politics_ March 7.—George B. Cortelyou takes the oath of office as Postmaster-General and announces that he will resign as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. The special session of the United States Senate considers the Santo Domingo treaty. Senator Elkins, Chairman of the Senate Railroad Committee, announces that hearings on the freight-rate question will be held during the recess, beginning in April. Charles H. Treat, of New York, is appointed United States Treasurer. March 8.—The Senate confirms the President’s diplomatic and consular appointments, chief of which are those of Whitelaw Reid as Ambassador to Great Britain, Robert S. McCormick to France, George V. L. Meyer to Russia and Edwin H. Conger to Mexico. President Roosevelt announces his intention of appointing ex-Representative F. C. Tate, a Georgia Democrat, United States District Attorney. Senator Hemenway, former Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, figures a national deficit of $18,000,000 for the coming year; while Representative Livingstone (Dem.) says it will reach $93,000,000. March 9.—Commissioner of Commerce James R. Garfield spends the day in the New York offices of the Standard Oil Company, investigating books and reports. The Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth, of New Haven, Conn., states before a legislative committee that the sum of $150,000 was expended in the recent senatorial fight resulting in the election of Morgan G. Bulkeley. March 10.—To avoid legislative investigation, the New York Telephone Trust agrees to reduce its tolls 20 per cent. March 12.—Government agents unearth great coal land frauds in Utah. March 13.—The United States Supreme Court decides that the peonage laws are constitutional. March 14.—The President is informed that the treaty with Santo Domingo, which has been radically amended by the special session of the Senate, stands no chance of receiving the two-thirds vote necessary to its approval by that body, as all the Democrats oppose it and some of the Republicans are lukewarm.