The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 27, 1927, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1927 A, J. BEVERIDGE, | INDIANA SOLON, DIES SUDDENLY a (Continued from page one) and in 1922 he won the republican nomination over Harry A. New but lost the election to Samuel M. Ral- ston, the democratic standard bear- er. In 1912, Beveridge’was defeated as the progressive candidate for gov- ernor of Indiana. An Orator and a Writer Beveridge’s prominence was as firmly fixed in his literary career and in his ability as an orator, as in his statesmanship. His “Life of John Marshall” is regarded as the most cluminating exposition of the great hief justice of the United States supreme court. After a year in Europe as a war correspondent for a national weekly ) magazine, Beveridge returned in “1915 to publish, on the eve of America’s ’ entrance, a volume “What is Back of the War,” which brought pitiless castigation from those who saw in it + a justification of the German action. It was barred from many libraries and training camps. That he . should have attained proficiency in many endeavors is more significant in the light of Beveridge’s humble beginning. He was born October 6, 1862, on an Ohio farm which gave back little more than a scant existence. After the Civil War the family moved to Il- linois. Before he had quite reached his ‘teens Beveridge had worked as a farm chore boy, a section hand on a rail- road, a teamster and logger. He found time, however, to complete grade school and enter De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind. Work- ing summer vacations as a book agent, Beveridge completed the col- lege work in 1885 and entered the legal profession, Katherine Langsdale, his first wife, died in 1900 and in 1907 he married Catherine Eddy of Chicago. The for- mer senator had two children, Al- bert, Jr., and Abigail. Took Up Law Winning an interstate oratorical hoa determined his future in jaw. A scholastic rivalry which develop- ed between Beveridge and James Watson, senator from Indiana, dur- ing their days at De Pauw after- wards became. a political rivalry. Both were aspirants for college ora- torical honor: It wi Beveridge’s declamatory powers that first officially aligned him with the Republican party. The year he won the interstate oratori- E.} main inhabitants of the doomed area. Ku Klux Klan turned its support to Samuel M. Ratston. President Harding offered Bever- idge the ambassadorship to Japan in 1921, and he was said to have been mentioned by. the president for the Berlin aiplomatic post. Given Roosevelt Medal Beveridge always was a persistent student of American history, ticularly the social and legislative phases. In 1926 he was awarded a Roosevelt medal for “valuable con- tribution to history’—the life of Marshall. Beveridge had been at work sev- eral years on a life of Abraham Lincoln, Because of his exhaustive research work Beveridge worked slowly, sometimes spending several months on a single chapter and fre- quently revising his copy as many us 50 times. An omnivorous reader and student he was able to present an able dis- cussion on many subjects, “The Bible as Good Reading” and “The Law and the Constitution,” were two of his most popular addresses. Several colleges conferred _hon- orary degrees on the former sena- tor. The Beveridges divided their time between their Indianapolis home and a summer residence in Massachusetts. | CREVASSE TO BE OPENED IN LEVEE FRIDAY (Continued from page one) the miscellaneous bundles which freighted the vehicles. Many of the refugees were persons who had been driven from their omes in the Poydras area by the 2 break. In the previous flood they had but the briefest notice and in many cases were forced to aban- don their belongings. Will Inundate 70,000 Acres The waters from the Poydras break will inundate about 70,000 acres, it was estimated by engineers. The crevasse of 192% flooded about that mueh territory. No towns of any size are likely to be touched by the waters. The village of St. Bernard is perilously close to the path the water is expected to take but it was thought that it would escape. Truck farmers and trappers are the None of these will be able to depend on any income from their regular sources during the year. The lands of the truck farmers are likely to be under water several months, and it will take several years to make up the number of muskrats drowned by the high waters. The oyster and shrimp industry along the shores of Lake Bi and children before evacuating the! enti y. Food, Medical Aid Given Mare than 4,000 refugees from Mc-| Gchee, Dermott, Tiller and the sur-| rounding countryside have flocked | into Monticello and, with the move-| ment. still in progress; churches, schools and private homes wer opened to the homeless. | In the upper reaches of the flood-| ed Arkansas und Mississipi sections, | the situation was reported greatly improved as the Red Cross resumed charge of relief at new points and hastened food and met 1 aid. Rescue .work, well advanced in the older flooded sections around Green- ville, Arcola and Leland, Mi and | numerous Arkansas localities, was! swiftly extended to newly inundated areas, | From many. parishes in northern Louisiana, refugees continued to} stream into Vicksburg, Natchez and, other high places, fleeing the torrent from the Red river and other streams | of that section. | CRISIS. PROBABLY PASSED, SAYS SECRETARY HOOVER New Orleans, April 27.—(#)—The | crisis probably has passed in the | Mississippi river flood situation and no more extensive hardship, suffer- | ing, loss of life and property is an- | ticipated in the opinion of Secretary of Commerce Hoover, President Coolidge’s observer in the inundated region. He arrived here today, com- pleting his tour of the area’ from Memphis to New Orleans. In Mississippi and Arkansas, Mr. | Hoover said he found no uns: factory conditions and only th necessity of continuing adequate re- lief measures. He said, however,/| that his view of the end of the! flood danger may be upset by later; developments. | The cabinet official expressed his, opinion of the flood situation: briefly as follows: “I believe the flood dead will not greatly exceed 200. “The homeless will probably not | be much greater than 150,000. | “The world war training has! taught us to handle a crisis, Our war organizations—the national guard, the American Legion and, the | Red Cross—and the men and the! women of the south did not become | hysterical and lose cofffrol of the | situation but immediately com menced the machinery of assistance. “Our greatest problem is the re- | habilitation of homeless and re-| establishment of agricultural pro- duction.” | who. earn | catching muskrats and shipping the | skins to market. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE: --*~ it will cause the swollen stream to flow past the city at a greatly accel- erated speed and reduce the rest as well as releve the trem us DFes- sure at the five narrow passes at the mouth of the river where the stream empties into the Gulf of Mexico. sep are constructed to keep the el clear and cannot meet the demands of an extraordin- ary rush of flood waters, resulting in accumulation waiting for a chance to get by the passes. Distribution of a portion of the river over 70,000 acres of land will relieve the responsibility of the passes and let the rest of the water through. Hunters’ Paradise The country around Poydras, where it is proposed to dynamite a levee, is a hunting and fishing field of which sportsmen dream. Almost every species of game and fish may be found if one knows where to look and every hunting day is a fidld day for the amateur. ‘The professio! comfortable Is are the trappers livelihoods The trapvers are a blend of many races with a few uns” in the groups, although Evangeline country with its Acadiana of whom Longfellow wrote is not in the path of the water to be released. The trappers will fight for what they gonsider their rights, although in this crisis dispatches from New Orleans say they have laid down their arms in the face of guarantees j of remuneration for their losses. Many Civil Wars There They have not often directed their belligerent efforts against outsiders. They have been too busy fighting among. themselv: Miniature — civil wars have been sought in the Louix- iana swamps for the musk- rat hunters went about their busi- ness with a trap in one hand and a gun in the other. The trap was for muskrat and the gun for any one who might attempt to interfere with the trapping, even though he might | happen to own the de When the levee lets’ the water through. an untold number of muek- rats will perish and succulent vege- tables will be buried deep in the 1.0 trucking section to be flooded. Notice to Water Consumers The rate for water used for lawn and garden purposes is now in effect. Water used The commerce secretary said he|for these purposes is charged felt confident that the return to! normal agricultural production will | be only the matter of a few weeks | after the water runs off the land. for at the rate of 17 cents per 100 cubic feet over and above 3C0 cubic feet above the av- PAGE TE it is merely for the convenieh his office amd not otherwise. “You further ask to what date terest shall be computed. It is in possible to determine this from th act'and therefore, based upon ordin- ary practice in commercial circles, we would say that interest should be computed to the time when refund is made. Were we te adopt a different rule it would penalize those who were in no position to make applica- tion for refund heretofore, and yet whose loss was sustained perhaps several yéars age: In other words lature the, house amended the act| the construction we have given to it aguin by spriking out sections three! is the only .one which ean be given and four lat neglected to strike the | that. will work with. equality to all. sentence ‘referred to. The same|Seetion seven to which you refer should huve been stricken and the! merely concerned with the constitu- bet will have to be consteued as] tional right of the legislature to re- though such sentence had been left! sort to certain funds and is not con- out, together with sections three and | cerned with any other constitutional four of the original amended act-| question.” less made before January 1, 1928.°| With such interpretation placed up- This must be read in conjunction on it the bill becomes a continuing| After the heart muscle, the dia- phragm muscle is the most import- with the balance of that section | bi ant in the human body, as it is able which provides that a certificate hold- er shall be allowed one year from | to do all the work of breathing nec- essary to maintain life. care for the demands for refunds they aire made. The’ appeal to the attorney gen- eral was made. necessary by the fect that several amendments were made to the bill without making adjust- ments in the next which was permit- ted to remain. The Opinion The opinion of the attorney gen- eral’s office follows in part “You first ask relative to the title of the act in that it provides for a# refund of hail taxes on lands not liable therefor, ‘1his is not pruviaeu for in the body of the act and thus that statement in the title is merely superfluous, it being broader than the act and, therefore, docs not a! u the vaiudity of the same. “You call our attention to the last sentence of section five which reads as follows: ‘No claim for a refund of taxes paid shall be allowed un- ing out everything after the word, ‘A Bill’ and substituting an entirely new act, including the title; that | the portion at the title to. which reference was made thefetofore wa carried out in sections three and’ four, of the! original amended act. | It is very evident that the quoted sentence, being the last’ sentence of section five, referred back to said sections thawe and four of the orig- inal amended act. House Amended It. “On its journey through the legis- HAIL STATUTE CLARIFIED BY -LBGAL RULING Senate Bill 185 Permits Re- fund of Hail Tax to Cer- tificate Holders Clarification of the tent in passing Senate Bill No. 185 at the last session is contained in a pinion given by the attorney gen- eral’s office to the state hail depart- ment. The act was intended to permit the hail insurance department to make refunds of hail indemnity taxes to the holders of tax sale certif- cates and thereby make these secur- ities more attract investors. It was made necessary by the fact a supreme court ruling held that. ive in- e do not believe that you are correct in assuming that proof must be made that sheriff's deed has act- ually been issued and recorded. It iv only necessary to prove the year of redemption has expired, .as the! issuing of the deed is but a minister- ial act. If, for any reason, deed does not issue, you have an assign- ment of the certific so that your lien’ is protected against a reversion of title to the owne “Interest at the rate of five per cent per annum should be computed from the 4 of sale. The reason for this is that under the law it is Presumed that payment is made in cash at the time of sale. If the sounty auditor has extended the time and after the loss of title in which to present his claim, bearing in mind the fact thut the act does not go ints et teet ue il Suly, hant that all hail tax certificates do not have the |t ie has een, (ost yeler th JaWeAry a ecie as tax certificates on! 1, 1927, may file their claims up to land and there was little demand January 1, 1928 If the sentence we eThee hail departinent has no in| Hier mae Meat be comateaed formafion as to the amount of money | which the pri athe lim miter enue which will be necessary to carry out} appl: We must, therefore, look to iA g eee The aaneuane |S e fragt of anit oe ae to as. has issued a booklet outlining the Jatures (| wemHon Of the legis: ferms of the law which becomes ef-| By’ so doing we find that Senate uly 1 and is preparing to, Bill No, 185 was amended by strik- W. E.: Perry MORTICIAN AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR Parlors 210 Fifth Phone 687-' 6 cal medal, a coveted honor among lorgne is expected to suffer the “fresh water” colleges of the central states, both Democratic and Republican state organizations were searching for spellbinders. Both heavily also. The entire national guard was called into service to pa- trol the levees in the vicinity of New PRI ae erage consumption for the OF INTEREST TO SanyS | months of October to Apri ted Pres: | inclusive—C'ty of Bismarck, Orleans. ts own admission / Waterworks Department. sought the services of the young Hoosier Demosthenes, and the Ro- publicans were successful. In 1887, two years after receiving his academic degree, Beveridge passed the bar examination and be- came a junior member of an Indian- is firm. That same year he arried Miss Lungsdale. The young lawyer became un en- thusiastic Republican party worker, winning’ a position in the organiza- tion Yeoancils as he attained local eminence as a constitutional lawyer. In 1898, he was injected as a “dark horse” in the race for the United States senate and, to the surprise of | 5, the state. won. He was elected again in 1905. Beveridge took with him to Wash- ington a reputation as an orator and he soon justified that renown before his colleagues in the senate. Al- though 37 years old he became the “boy orator” in that assembly of venerable solons, Interested in Porto Rico The Hoosier’s first notable speech; was on the Porto Rican tariff bill. He advocated unrestricted freedom of trade to the island. His child \labor bill introduced in 1907. wa ‘wie first of unsuccessful measures designed to relieve that condition. It died in committe Although Beveridge in many of his speeches attacked the visible empire” control in national affair: and repeatedly denounced “big bu ness,” his political opponents charged he neglected to vote against legislation favored by the “invisible ig id did occasionally vote big business” group. He} traced his break with the regulars to the Payne-Aldrich tariff measure of 1909, Enunciating the progressive creed at the Chicago “rump” convention in 1912, Beveridge said: “We mean not only to make pros- peritg steady, but to give to the many who earn it-a first share in that’ prosperity instead of helping| ‘Yhe few who do not carn it to take an unjust share. “The tariff must be taken out of | politics and treated as a business problem. The tariff in politics is one of the invisible government’s smethods of wringing tribute from the peopl He remained with the progressive cause until 1914 when he wi le- feated as a progressive candidate for the senate That year he went to Europe as a war correspondent and obtained. an interview with the kaiser. For his defense of the kaiser’s spirituality and morality he incurred the enmity of the Germo- phobiacs before the United States entered the conflict and the con- demnation of many Americans after: this country declared war. i} “Dear George” Episode | An _ ineident resulting in much criticism by Indidna editors became known in Hoosier politics as the “Dear George” episode. In 1912 when Beveridge was a progressi' candidate for governor of Indian: a letter purported to have been writ- ken by him to George W. Perkins, an official of J.* P. Morgan and company, in which Beveridge re- fused a $26,000 campaign contribu- tion by Perkins, was made public. Perkins was called “Dear George,” and the writer commented upon the many favors he had received from the financier regarded as one of the ‘all Street” group and cose to the invisible empire” of regular Re- publicans in the senate. Beveridee' returned to the Repub- lican fold in time to avow the Hughes candidacy in 1916. He made many speeches against the League of Nations and “stumped” the coun- ry for Harding in the 1920 cam aign. His name was prominently mentioned as vice presidential can- aiaate with Harding. A typical Beveridge campaign of oratory swept him ahead of Harry . New in the 1922 race for the Re- blican nomination for the senate. le was regarded the odds-on : Village faced the crisis of the flood. jsons to be ‘taken from favorite in the ion until the | Although all the ramparts were reported to be in satisfactory condition there was faint hope of holding an unbroken chain when the water goes three fect higher. Meanwhile, the waters pouring: from Stops ‘Landing claimed addi tional thousands of acres of farm lands in the Mississippi delta and in- undated new towns. Suffering Is Acute A small private levee at Anguilla, Mississippi, had been swept away by th rs from the Stops Landing many miles north of the result about 2,500 were suffering from lack of food and shelter. ter was said to be five feet deep in parts of the town. In southern Arkansas, efforts were being made to save the Arkan river levee at South Bend. The sit- uation was considered desperate. A dozen other towns were inundat- ed by the flood of the Arkansas and Oauchita rivers. Dermott, Tiller, Eudora, Arkansas City, Kalion, Wat- son, Kelso, McGehee, Cominto, and Lake Village were included among these. With water in some parts of the “ewn reported 12 feet deep and rising at the rate of an inch an hour, Lake! With all avenues of escape gone ex: cept by boat, there were 5,000 per. e the town. Food supplies were expected to las through the day. Boats from Kudora were dispatched to take off women Capitol Theater Offers Tonight and Thursday “WHITE GOLD” An Exquisite and Tense- ful Story of Elemental Emotions The stark drama of a beau- tiful Spanish dancing girl, ane fe plies: rancher played on t! ti super- heated desert. What was this devoted wife to do? She loved her hus- band, his father hated her. and another man coveted her. The monotony of life on the desert all but drove her mad, and— A ca love shane graphically. screened — greet picture with a smash- ing climax that lifts it into a class all its: own. “One of the cleverest di- rected and acted pictures I’ve seen in a long time. It’s go- ing to be a box office win- ner."—I. W. I, Hollywood ‘op! “Keen intelligence, artistry, and above alt an ‘exquisite understanding of the value of modulation, have been welded into the fashioning of this superb picture.” — Henri Sloane, N. Y. Tele- graph. Newlyweds’ Comed: “Snookums’ Tooth” “America’s most interesting city,” a it faces the most serious flood men. ace in its romantic history of 12: years, has its apprehension shared with sympathetic interest by cities and people far removed from the danger zone. | Many persons who have never been | to the “Paris of the United States,” another pet name given the southern | metropolis by the home folk, watch} the flood waters threatening to in. vade the historically sacred precincts of the famous vieux carre, the French | section of the city, where nistory wa: made and is cherished. | Cannot Cope With Floods | The fac much of the city is below the river makes the situation serious during an ordinary flood and critical when the waters rise to unprecedented heights, vy rains often steal a march on the elaborate and expensive drainage syste na- ture refusing to~dispose of the wa- ter and it is necessary to pump it off. 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