Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 5, 1905, Page 1

The Bemidji VOLUME 3. NUMBER 192. BEMIDJ1, MINNESOTA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1905, TEN CENTS PER WEEK New line in Combs, Belts, Hand Bags and Neckwear for Holiday Trade 1 8 | L ———-—-_w—.-. Driving Salel|-=== on Coats, Furs, Skirts, Waists In this Sale you will find the newest and largest assortment in Lady’s cloth and fur lined coats, in the most popular cuts. Beautiful line of Eveniug and Dress Waists Just Received T bought consignment has just been received. Children’s Coats. We have a complete assortment of Children’s Coats in the season’s shapes which we will include in this Sale. Come and look at them. We can save you money. > IR TS GREIRD GRS SRR 658 Shces We haye made a fortunate purchase of Ladies’ Coats, Furs and Skirts, and this cheaply We offer our customers the heavy savings we have made on these garments—all of which are the season’s newest shapes and fresh from the most modish makers Millinery. Our stock of Hats is just as complete now as during the fall—as our rule is never to carry any Millinery about Half the Value. over, we offer our whole line at lWe have just receivéd a new consignment Ot house and dancing slippers in the advanced spring cuts. All our lines in Dress Goods, {/ndrewear, Table Linens, Furnishings, and Novelties are very complete and offer splendid opportumtxcs to select your sensible Christmas Gifts. examine our stock. The Berman Emporium For good values and great savings in your purchases <l Presidents Message tion of All Washington, Dec. 5. — President Rooseveit’s message to Congress was delivered at noontoday. The Presi- dent says: Corporations. I am in no sense hostile to corpora- tions. This is an age of combination, and any effort to prevent all combina- tion will be not only useless, but in the end vicious, because of the contempt for law which the failure to enforce law inevitably produces. The corpora- tion has come to v, just as the trades union has come to stay. Fach R R I D GEIERD GUEDENED G SEEsD Read the Dally Pioneer, Christmas Fuars N For a Ladies’ Xmas Present we reccommend furs, some- thing comfortable and ser- viceable appeals to the practical woman. Krimmer Coats, Skinner Satin Lined, $55.00 to $60.00 Astrachan Coats, Skinner Lined, $27.50, $42.50, and $50.00 Each Near Seal Coats, Skinner Satin Lined, $35.00 Fur Collars, $1 to $25 each. Fur lined coats. $20 and $50 each. Cloth coats with Fur Collars, $24 to $27.50 | souri, has delivered an opinion hold- ! ! the federal government charging the. M| kins act. Prices Cut Until Gloves Are Dumped, RAILROADS GET ~DECISION | REBATE CASES DISMISSED BY! JUDGE PHILIPS FOR WANT OF, JURISDICTION. Kansas City, Dec. 5.—.]11({5@, John ¥ Philips, in the United States district court for the Western district of Mis: ing that his court was without juris diction in the cases brought here by! Missouri Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and other railways with giving rebates on shipments of salt in Kansas and on coal in Colorado andi other products in violation of the Ll The motion of the railways %o quash the proceedings was granted On March 25, 1902, at the instiza., ition of the attorney generalls oifice at ‘Washington, Judge Philips granted al temporary order restraining the Mis souri Pacific, the Santa Fe, the Chi- cago and Alton, the Burlington and the Rock Island Railway companies from giving alleged rebates on various products. Last summer M. D. Purdy, assistant attorney general, brough additional proceedings, citing the oifi i cials of the rafiways named for con- ¥ | tempt on the allegation that they had i violated the court’s order in continu- 1 ing to give rebates. | proceedings were argued The contempt in Judga: Philips’ court on Nov. 18, when the; attorneys fer the railwayvs moved that! | the proceedings be quashed, claiming! that the court was without jurisdic: tion. Judge Philips, in delivering his| opinion. which sustained the motion' of the railroads, was very lengthy and, went into detail in covering the points: involved. MERCHANTS’ WAR IN BUTTE: Into the Street. Butte, Mont.,, Dec. 5.—Traffic was! temporarily spended and a squad of police reserves was called out to pre vent a riot when twe department! stores began <1hmpmg (‘a=€s of gloves into the after rs of vigorous price :umng. be\'eral wo ! men were trampled upon. The experience cost the merchants; more than $1,300 and 2,000 working men were supplied with gloves gratis. “Workingmen's buckskin gloves, 1 cent per pair,” was the sign put out in front of one establishment. The| rival then announced ten pair for 5 cents. Ten minutes later ten salesmen car ried five cases of gloves into the mid: dle of the street and invited the spec- ! tators to help i‘hemselveq i Pat Crowe on Trial. Omaha, Dec. 5.—Pat Crowe, the al- g leged kidnapper of Eddie Cudahy, has been placed on trial on a charge of shooting with intent to kill Patrolman ! Al Jackson. TIn case of failure to con-i vict Crowe on this charge he will: probably be placed on trial in con: mection with the kidnapping. MEET IN SPEGIAL SESSION WISCONSIN LAWMAKERS SuM: MONED TO ENACT CERTAIN LEGISLATION, * Madison, Wis,, Dec. 5.—The special i session of the Wisconsin legislature opened during the afternoon. The old organization was reformed and recess | was then taken until evening, when Governor la Follette will in persom read a message to both houses. Inter- est centers chiefly in an expected an- nouncement from Governor la Fol- lette relative to his choice between the senatorship and the governor's chair. The ostensible purpose of the extra session is to consider a law-un- der which the state capitol, which was; burned two years ago, may be rebuilt, Proposed alteration in the primary elections law is another -matter slated for consideration. Amendments to the se-called railroad rate commission bill will also be taken up, as well as sev- eral measures calculated to remedy alleged abuses by corporations, par- ticularly railroad and insurance com- Panies. KILLED FILIPING POLICEMAN. . American Army Officer Held on Mur. der Charge. Cebu, P. I, Dec. 5.—Lieutenant «Charles Pendleton ol the United States constapulary ordered four na- tive soldicrs into the vehicle in which he was driving. A native policeman ¢ stopped him and ordered him to light the lamps on the vehicle, when Pen- dleton shot him dead. He then con- tinued on his way, but returned later : and obtained the body, which he de- livered to the police, claiming that he ‘had found the man dead cn the road. The soldiers accompanying him con- firmed his story antil Monday, when they broke down. Pendleton had been (drinking. Pendleton’s family lives at Atlanta, Ga. He was formerly a sergeant in the Seventy-first regiment of New York. He has been held for murder. LOSS WILL BE HEAVY. Towboat With 500,600 Bushels of Coal Goes Over Dam. * Pittsburg, Dec. 5.—In the Mononga- hela river at Fort Perry during the afternocon the hig towboat Twilight, with a tow of 500,000 Lushels of coal,{ was swept over the break of dam No. 2, breaking to pieces. The loss will be immense. That not one member of the crew ot xteen persons, including a chamber- maid - who could not swim, was drowned seemed most strange and the rescues were most thrilling. Miss Peters. the chambermaid, made a leap for life as the immense tow poised on the edge of the falls. She { landed on a long, heavy laden. coal ! { boat, which, in going over, did not ' crush badly and here she remained until rescued. R can do and has done great good. Each should be favored so long as it does good. But each should be sharply checked where it acts against Iaw and Justice, Experieiice has shown conclusively that it is useless to try to get any ade- quate regulation and supel ion of these great corporations by state ac- tion. Such. regulation and supervision can only be effectively exercised by a sovereign whose jm‘isdietion_ is coex- tensive witlt the field work of the cor- porations—that is, by the national gov- ernment. I believe that this regulation and supervision can be obtained by the enactment of law by the congress. If this proves impossible, it will certainly be necessary ultimately to confer in fullest form such power upon the na- tional governuient by affirmative ae-j ment of the constitution. The laws of the congress and of the by the courts, have resulted more often In showing that the states have no power in the matter than that the na- tional government has power; so that there at present ex a very unfortu- nate condition of things, under which these great corporations doing an in-| terstate business occupy the position of | subjects without a sovereign, neither any state government nor the national government having effective control over them. Our steady aim should be by legislation, cautiously and ecarefully undert 1, but resolutely per e\(—\u-xl) in, to assert the sovereignty of the na- | tional government by affirmative ac-( tion. This i3 only in form an innovation. In substance it is merely a restoration for from the carliest time such regula-| tion of industrial activities has Dbeen recognized in the action of the 1:4'\\'-. making bodies, and all that I propose: s to meet the changed conditions in| such manner as will prevent the com-| monwealth abdicating the power it has, o always possessed, not only in this coun-| try, but also in England before and; nation. Railread Rate Legislation. As 1 said in my message of Dec. last, the immediate and most pxessm"l need so far as legislation is (oucemed‘ is the enactment into law of eome\ scheme to secure to the agents of the! government such supervision and regu- | lation of the rates charged by the rail-| roads of the country engaged in iutel-[ state traffic as shall summarily and ef- | fectively prevent the imposition of uu-‘ just or unreasonable rates. It must! include putting a complete stop to re-| bates in every shape and form. T power to regulate rates, like all similar powers over the business worid, should be exercised with moderation, caution and self restraint, but it should exist, so that it can be effectively excrcised ! when the need arises. i In my judgment, the most important ! provision which such law should (:ou-i | tain is that conferring upon some com- : petent administrative body the power to decide upon the case being hrought‘ before it whether a given rate pre- scribed by a railroad is reasonable and Jjust, and if it is found to be unreason- able and unjust then, after full investi- gation of the compiaint, to- prescribe ‘the limit of rate beyond which it shall not be lawful to go—the maximum reasonable rate, as it is commonly call- ed—this decision to go into effect with- in a reasonable time and to obtain from thence onward, subject to review ! by the courts. It sometimes happens at present, not | that a rate is too high, but that a fa- vored shipper is given too low a rate. In such case the commission would have the right to fix this already estab- lished minimum rate as the maximum, and it would need only one or two such decisions by the commission to cure railroad companies of the practice of giving improper minimum rates. I call your attention to the fact that my pro- posal is not to give the commission | power to initiate or originate rates gen- erally, but to regulate a rate already fited or originated by the roads upon after Inyve:t' nwm_k pRtiidien DEMANDS A SQUARE DEAL Correcting Evils. ‘ | |1y affecting rates ave concerned. { shiuld be provided simil several states hitherto, as passed upon; - ’| gogue singers chanting a dirge. i bor, social | vivors of the massacr since this country became a se[muteg 0} Zion—a six-pointed 9 .‘nni‘ziuq‘nl 919)4 a Plea For Coopera- 5 Classes In penal{y should De exacted from | any corporation which fails to respect { an order of the commission. I regard | this power to establish a maximum rate as being essential to any scheme of real reform in the matter of railway | G regulation. | It is worth while considering whether it would not be wise to confer on the government ihe right of civil action fgainst the beneficiary of a rebate for Lt least twice the value of the rebate. This would help stop what is really blackmail. Elevator allowances should be stopped, for they have now grown to such an extent that they are demor- - alizing and are used as rebates. | Private Car Lines. # All private car lines, industrial roads, i refrigerator charges and the like | should be expre: put under the su- ! pervision of the interstate commerce : commission or some similar body so i far as rates and agreements practical- ! A re- | bate in icing charges or in mileage or in a division of the rate for refrigerating charges I8 just as pernicious as a re- bate in any other way. There should be publicity of the ac- counts of common carriers. Only in ‘this way can violations or evasions of the law be surely detected. A system of examination cof rail - 1 o {1 Continued on Page Four. counts t now HUNDRED THOUSAND IN LINE. Big Parade of Jews Occurs in New York City. New York, Dec. 5—One hundred thousand Jews, each wearing a band of crepe on the left arm, marched un- der a myriad of bidek Banners througt the principal-streets of lhe Fast Slae during the day, accompanied by bands playing dirges in memory of the Jews massacred in Russia. Hundreds of women and children, grouped in sing- Ing bands, were scattered throughout %13 long parade. immediately follow- ing the police, who headeq tha proces: sion, came several hundred boy syna- In which wound ast Side streets i e were 114 la- an revolution-- all band of , at whose: /! 1d among: [ were sur-- the long procession, through the narrow E: behind these boys, th ¢ and R ary organizations. O men, women and child ppl'ua(-h nearly c- ! the spectators was La ) Mingled everywhere Wwith the hun- dreds of black flags, which made al- i most a canopy over the paraders, was lthe Stars and Striyes and the flag of blue star on a white field. From shop doors and tenement house windows which over- looked the procession flew thousands of crepe streame. One of the most impressive features of the parade was the march across Williamsburg bridge of 20,006 Jews ) from Brooklyn. As they crossed the great center span of the bridge their black flags could be seen and the sad music Heard far up and down the Rast river. The procession marched to the plaza in Union square, where it re- solved itself into a mass meeting to formulate reso]utlons FINED FOR SMOKING. Millionaire’s Son Gets Into Trouble in Indiana. Richmond, Ind., Dec. 5—Rudolph Leeds, son of William B. Leeds, New | York millionaire, was fined 3$25 and costs in the police court for violaiing the new Indiana anti-c.zarette law. Young Leeds is spending the winter in Richmond with his mother. The al- leged offense against the cigarette law was committed at a social function. The case probablv wm be appealed. France Falthful to Russla. Paris, Dec. 5.—Premier Rouvier made a vehement protest in the cham- ber of deputies against the soclalist declaration of the Russian revolntxon ists. He said the French government intended to remain faithful to the friendly, allied nation.. The chamber voted its: approyal iR ¥ statement. Lovett, tormer sealer of wi illed * his wife and r}mn icide af their home here. | 411% ?veg ta;g;pex hape fi,::amm': & A