Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 6, 1914, Page 4

MEASURE NOW _ UP TO SENATE Radical Immigration Bill Through the House. WILSON IS AGAINST IT President 8atd to Oppose Provision for Litoracy Test Included In Statute—Bryan Urges House Com- mittee to Reject Asiatic Exclusion. Washington, Feb. 6.—With a provi- #lon barring {lliterates, sald to be the most drastic legislation of its kind for many years, #he Burnett immigration bill s before the senate, where the final question on the literacy test will be threshed out. The bill passed the house Wednesday. Many expect the senate to pass the b#l as it stands, but President Wil- son’s atbitude is the subject of much speculation. Some of those who claimed to be informed say the president is opposed to the literacy test. Before Mr. Wilson signs the bill, however, he will give public hearings upon it, as former Presidents Taft and Cleveland did on similar bills. Becretary Bryan ‘urged the house immigration committee to take no ac- tion on the Raker bill for exclusion of Asiatic immigrants. Diplomatic negotlations betweenthe United ®tates and Japan over the lifernla antl-aMen land laws and the ole question of the Asiatic exclu- jon was discussed at length behind closed doors. EIGHT WOMEN IN THE FIELD Seck Aldermanic Nominations at Chl- cago Primarles. Chilocago, Feb. 6.—Eight suffragists will fight aldermanic nominations in the primaries Feb. 24, it was announc- ed when the time for filing candidates’ peotitions expired. Mrs. Raymond Robinson, wife of a Progressive party leader, filed for the Bull Moose nomi- nation in the Seventeenth ward just before the entries closed. Two other Progressive women, Miss Marion H. Drake and Mrs. Julia Agnew, are can- didates in other wards. The Democrats have two women candidates for council seats, Miss Sa- rah M. Mopkins and Mrs. Marie Ger- hart, and the Soclalists three, Mrs. Josephine C. Kanecho, Mrs. Lida Mec- Dermott and Migs Maud J. Ball. CONTAIN 75,000 SIGNATURES Petitlons for “Wet and Dry” Vote In Chloago April 7. Ohicago, Feb. 6.—Petitions calling for & “wet and dry” vote in Chicago 3t the aldermanic election on April 7 have been flled with the board of election commissioners. The question will be placed on the regular ballot, which carries the names of the aldermanic candidates, it the petitions are filed and approved. John H. Hill, chairman of an organi- zation which has been circulating the petitions quietly for the last several weeks, served notice on the election board that the required 75,000 signa- tures had been obtained. CONGRESSMANBREMNER DIES Had Been Undergoing Radium Treat- ment for Cancer. Baltimore, Feb. 6.—Robert Gunn Bremner, member of congress from the Seventh New Jersey district and editor of the Passaic Daily Herald, died of cancer at a local sanitarium where he had been undergoing radium treatment since last December. He had been suffering from the disease for four years. Mr. Bremner was thirty-nine years old and married, but childless. WILLIE RITCHIE MATCHED Champion WIIl Get $50,000 for Three Fights in Australia. San Francisco, Feb. 6.—Lightweight Champion Willie Ritchie will go to Australia in May or June to meet three Australian lightweights, accord- ing to a statement made by Austra- llan promoters. He will get $50,000 for the three battles. Hughey Mehegan and Herb McCoy will be two of his opponents. The third has not been chosen. ISSUE CALL FOR PEACE TALK Action Taken on Request of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. Washington, Feb. 6.—The United States, it became known at the White House, has issued a call for the hold- ing of the third peace conference at The Hague next year. This government took this action, it is understood, at the request of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. Grief Hastens Man’s Death. New York, Feb. 6—Dr. BEdward Gardiner Day, an eminent physician and surgeon in New York city for thirty years, is dead at the age of seventy years. Death, which was due to a complication of diseases, was hastened by grief over the death of his wife, which occurred on Jan. 9. GOES BACK TO THE WO00DS Millionaire-for-Day Falls to Get Statue Into Hall of Fame. i ‘Washington, Feb. 6—“Butch” Mec- ] Devitt is going back into obscurity at ‘Wilkesbarre, Pa., very greatly peeved. He hogged the limelight for a day, spent $3,000 or more and could not get his own statue in statuary hall ¥ nor obtain permission to address the 1y populace here. He owned to defeat and will carry the statue back to that dear old Wilkesbarre. z-“Anyway, I bad a good time,” ob- perved the millionaire-{or-a-day. T I LOUIS D. BRANDEIS. - Boston Attorney May Become Trustee of Eastern Railroad. DENMARK IN PEACE RANKS Bryan and Constantin Brun Sign Arbitration Treaty. ‘Washington, Feb. 6.—Secretary Bry- an has signed a peace treaty with Denmark providing for the submission of any questions in dispute to a com- mission, which is allowed a period of one year for examination and report. Constantin Brun, the Danish minis- ter, signed the treaty for his own gov- ernment. ARMS TURNED OVER T0 REBEL FIGHTERS War Material Sent Across Mex- ican Border, Washington, Feb. 6.—Hundreds of thousands of rounds of rifle and ma- chine gun ammunition under seizure along the Mexican border are being turned over to the Constitutionalists BRANDEIS MA Slated for 'l‘rnstee'of the WREYNOLDS TO APPROVE | Under Agreement With President El- deis ‘of Boston probably will be chair- man of the board of trustees to take over the Boston and Maine holdings of the New York, New Haven and Hartford under the plan agreed to by | Attorney General Chairman Ellfott of the New Haven. ney General McReynolds and although no announcement was made at the department of justice it was under- stood that he was asked to become chairman of the trustees. lected and it is possible that twe or four more will be chosen. interest in' the affairs of the New Haven- for many years and is thor- oughly familiar with the details of its acquisition of the Boston and Maine. arating the New Haven from the Bos- ton and Maine have not been worked out the trusteeship would last for sev- eral years and the stock of the Bos- ton and Maine, owned by the New Haven, would gradually be disposed of to others. General McReynolds to name trustees to handle the property, but he does expect the opportunity to ap- prove any men chosen by the New Haven. WIPE OUT GAPITAL'S SLUMS Bill Before Congress Has President’s capital’s slums would be wiped out in ten years under a bill now before con- gress from the commissioners of the District of Columbia, who urge its enactment into law in the interest of public health, Y |ASSAILED ON HOUSE FLOOR e Morgan duggenheim Syndicate Scored Feiid - by Borland. ‘Washington, Feb. 6.—Nearly every orime im the calendar was iaid at the doors of the Morgan-Guggenheim in- terests by Representative Borland of Missourl during house debate on the Alaskan rafiroad bill. “The. story running in the sober records of the court includes every- thing from the corruption and bribery of judges to the wanton attack by ‘armed bands of assassins upon work- men engaged in rival enterprises,” he declared. HEAD RAILROAD Boston and Maine. He declared the situation to- offer the all tive of turning the country back to the Alaska syndicate or to give the United States the benefit of the great natural resources by means of the government controlled rail- roads. S FOR PROTECTION OF BIRDS Agricultural Department Intends to Enforoe Federal Laws. ‘Washington, Feb. 6.—Reports that the federal law for the protection of migratory birds would not be enforced this spring are declared to be “entire- ly unfounded and misleading” by the department of agriculture in a state- ment calling attention to the fact that Feb. 1 marked the end of the hunting season practically throughout the country. “Every effort,” it says, “is being made to enforce the law so far as the limited means provided by congress will permit.” The statement was is- sued to allay the misapprehension caused in certain sections of the coun- try by the circulation of reports that the law was not to be enforced. HOBSON REQUESTS ACTION Alabaman Demands House Thresh Out Parker Protest. Washington, Feb.- 6.—Representa. tive Richmond P. Hobson of Alabama, who has been campaigning against Oscar W. Underwood for the Demo cratic nomination for the senate from Alabama, wants immediate action on the demand of W. H. Parker of Ala- bama that his salary be withheld for the days he has been absent from the house. ‘When he returned from Alabama Mr. Hobson telephoned Representa- tive Underwood demanding that some- thing be done about the Parker pro- test. He declared he wanted the mat- ter called up on the floor of the house and threshed out or dropped en- tirely. liott of the New Haven Road Attor- ney General Retained Right to O. K. Selections for Place. - ‘Washington, Feb. 6.—Louis D. Bran- McReynolds and Mr. Brandeis conferred with Attor- Other trustees have not been se- Mr. Brandeis has taken a peculiar Although details of the plan for sep- It is not the intention of Attorney the Approval, ‘Washington, Feb. 6.—The national Army Scandal Threatened. comfort, " morale, and | o e, Feb. 6—That the French as fast as they prove ownership. During the two years that the em- bargo on arms has been in force agents of the devartment of justice have arrested hundreds of men in the act of transporting arms across the border and have seized carloads of ammunition. In many cases the ammunition so seized was turned over after it had been used as evidence. Such arms as may be needed as evi- dence against persons still under in- dictment will not be released for the present. It was said, however, that the department of justice probably will not attempt to prosecute all the cases agalnst arms smugglers. Municipal Judge Who Accepts From Company Loses Office. Madison, Wis., Feb. 6.—The law expressly provides that acceptance of a retainer from a corporation by a municipal judge vacates the office, At- torney General Walter C. Owen shid in an opinion given to District Attor- ney Samuel G. Williams of Hayward. Mr. Williams had asked the attor- ney general whether a municipal Jjudge who accepts a retainer from a telephone company vacates his office by so doing. _— MEAT CAUSE OF KIDNEK TROUBLE Take a glfiu of Salts if your Back hurts or bladder bothers—Meat forms uric acid Fee If you must have your meat every day, eat it, but flush your kidneys with salts occasionally, says a noted authority who tells us that meat forms uric acid which almost para~ lyzes the kidneys in their efforts to expel it from the blood. They be- come sluggish and weaken, then you suffer with a dull misery in the kidney region, sharp pains in the back or sick headache, dizziness, stomach sours, tongue is coated and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. - The urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, the chan- nels often get sore and irritated, oblidging you to seek relief two or three time during the night. To neutralize these irritating acids, to clense the kidneys and flush off the body’s urinous waste get four eunces of Jad Salts from any pharmacy here; take a table- spoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a fow days and your kidneys will then act fine. This fa- mous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize the acids in urine, so0 it no longer ir- ritates, thus ending bladder weak- ness. 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