The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 16, 1903, Page 6

PEGE ED EN CALE LEE twig Se <0 e OWE — ma — THE BOODLE BILLS GROW.|P. 0. OFFICIALS BOOMD A MINE? Grand Jury Now Knows of $7,000 Paid to Legislators. | Officers of the National Copper Mining Co. All in Depart- ment, SCANDAL TAKES NEW TURN. PAYNE STILL OUT OF CITY. Kelly Will Not Come Back Without a Fight, It is Said---More Evidence of His lotimacy With Lee--- Page Gets Sick Again. St. Louis, April 9.—Gradually the whole story of the alum deal is un- winding itself. John A. Lee furnish ed in the check for $1,000 which he gave to Attorney General Crow, the first thread. Crow has followed, it Prominent in the Prospectus vigorously. Joseph W. Folk is) wasnj ington, April 9.—There was throwing into the cage all the energy to-day a temporary transfer of inver- he displayed in the fight on St. Louis est from the various scandals in the boodling. Together they are work- postoffice department being invest!- ing out the big story and the scheme gated by Fourth Aesistant Postmas- of the baking powder trust. ter-General Bristow to the promo- To-day a witness told on thestand | 4141 of investment properties by cer- how he had changed a §1,000 billfor | tain high officials of the department. a senator who has served in the leg- It is said stock in various corpora- islature more than one session before | i 4ng has been sold by superiors to and was one of the strong men inthe}, Hordinates in thie and other alum combine of 1901 and 1908.}i ranches of the government. The This $1,000 bill is the third that has corporation attracting most atten- been partly traced. All of them are/iion ig the National Copper Mining on broad trails that indicate a proba- Co., operating under the laws of Vir- bility that they came from the same ginia, and having offices here, ‘These source as the check given to John A.| Oimoorg of the company are: Presi- dent, A. W. Machen, superintendent KNOW OF $7,000 BOODLE, of free delivery; vice-president, H. H. Lee’s check makes four $1,000] Rand, confidential clerk to Postmas- transactions and it is not at all cer-|ter-General Payne; treasurer, Henry tain that in one instance at leasttwo|M. Baker, former representative in of the six $500 bills were the prop-|Congresstrom New Hampshire; secre- erty of the same man, That means}tary, J. D., King, chairman of the at least $7,000 of boodle that the | civil service board to examine appli- grand juries of St. Louis and Jeffer |cants for positions in the rural free son City know about, all of it paid|delivery service of the postoftice de- apparently for the defeat of one bill. | partment. Yet the application of a littlecom-| The capital stock of the National mon reasoning and some knowledge|Copper Mining is $150,000, It is of legislative affairs in Missouri to|said literature, setting forth the existing conditions leads to the con- | merits of the concern, has been cir clusion that not more than half has} culated through the department, and been traced at all, In view of all the|that many clerks invested. The circumstances the story that $15,000 | property is located in Mexico. was paid before the legislasure ad-| Mr. Machen said the mining prop- journed and $10,000 afterwards does jerty, in which he was interested, was not seem unreasonable, all that is claimed for it He denied The St. Louis grand jury worked |that stock has been offered for sale most of the day to-day on facts that |to subordinates in the postoffice or had been secured, partly at least, by| any other department. He declared Attorney General Crow before he| his title did not appear on any ofthe came here. It was absolutely neces-} company’s printing. sary for the success of the investiga-| A four-page leafiet has been scat tion that it should have a St. Louis| tered through the postoffice depart end and a Jefferson City end. ment describing the advantages of There is a St. Louis connection to} making investments through the every big matter handled. Some} Western Trust and Guaranty Co. transactions begun in Jefferson City| It cites the fact that the treasurer are closed in St. Louis and others} isH.H. Rand, postoffice department, begun in St. Louis are finished in Jef-| Washington, D. C. ferson City. A grand jury ineither} This isan instance in which there place working alone could not suc |is serious objection to the use of Mr. ceed very well; two of them working | Rand’s name in connection with the together can cioge in on the boodlers | “postoffice department, Washing- rapidly and completely. They are} ton, D.C.” working in that direction now. The Western Trust and Guaranty Co. submits propositions for invest- ment and receives a commuission of 10 per cent of the capital stock of each company promoted. It is ex- pressly stipulated that none of the propositions are offered by the com- pany. His Confidential Secretary Brought Here From Wisconsin by Him is BEFORE THE GRAND JURY. Thegrand jury witnesses this after- noon were Senators Nelson, Collins and Scheulaub; George Hobbs, pay- ing teller of the Colonel Trust com- pany, and “Diamond” John Smith. Smith was a member of the assem- bly of 1899 and in that body that] _H. H. Rand was brought herefrom had more than its share of boodlers, | Wisconsin, after Mr. Payne became Smith was afamous character. Lit-|Postmaster-general, and made his tleis known of what any of them told confidential secretary, — the grand jury. Enough was told In addition to the National Copper on the outside to show that there is| Mining Co., some of the postoffice of- not a reasonable doubt that one| “cials own stock in the Hidalgo Min- witness who testified saw a $1,000 ~~ ~— a o bere pose an billin the hand of one senator and eo COmpra : . another had seen a $500 billhandled | Rand have been investigated by in- by another senator. There was con- | 8Pectors, and this feature of bees ee siderable squirming during part of |POTt is. ready for Mr. Payne’s ex- the testimony and there is no longer | ®™ination when he returns. any doubt remaining that before the Among the charges preferred members of the assembly will tell all| 9@ainst Mr. Rand is one that he was they know there must be a decision interested in the Parrish ice claim, on the question of how far their con- which passed Congress at the last stitutional right to avoid incriminat- | 888100, and did some lobbying forit. ing themeelves by refusing to testity Amannamed Parrish was undercon- will protect them. That must be de-| *act to supply the Federal army termined in the contempt proceed-| Witb- ice during the civil war. He against Cole Hickox in Jefferson City shipped a lot of ice down the Ohio or next Wednesday. Mississippi river. The portion ofthe army for which it was intended had London, April 8.—Horror andcon-| quently refused to pay for it. A sternation have been aroused hereby |claim was pressed in Congress, and the report from Safia that the Chris- | has been pending for many years. tian population of Okbrida, thescene} The amount is about $300,000. of a recent Bulgarian outbreak,have| It has often been alleged that Mr. been massacred by Albanians. Machen used his influence derived ~~ Details of the massacre are as yet| through his position as superinten- meager. It is said to. have taken| dent of free delivery to assist in se- —place-nt- night and men, women and | curing the passage of the Parrish ice children were aroused from theirsleep | claim, and that some of his subordi- and ruthleesly slain. There is great anxiety here over| J. D: King, who is associated with | fense. A. W. Machen in the National Cop-} The trouble was caused by the de- letin boards in the hope of learning| per Mining Co., was an applicant for | feat of the negro candidates at the ; McGrew wasalso more definitely the extent of -the| the postoffice inspectors, who will vestigate the charges that collusi and favoritism existed in the posto!- fice supplies department which pre- vented any honest firm outside the District of Columbia from securing a contract. * General notice is to be-given to all firms that have heretofore competed for any character of postal supplies to file complaints of favoritism of unjust diserimination and produce their evidence. It is now thought Mr. Payne will be absent a week or ten days longer. Judge Mulligan’s Famous Poem “IN KENTUCKY.” The moonlight falls the softest In Kentucky; The summer days come oftest In Kentucky, Friendship is the strongest, Love's light glows the longest; Yet, wrong is always wrongest In Kentucky. Life's burdens bear the lightest In Kentucky; The home fires burn the brightest In Kentucky; While p'ayers are the keenest, Cards come out the meanest, The pocket empties cleanest In Kentucky. The sunshines ever brightest In Kentucky; The breezes whisper lightest In Kentucky; Plain girls are the fewest, Maidens eyes the bluest, Their little hearts the truest In Kentucky, Orators are the grandest In Kentucky; Ofticials are the blandest In Kentucky; Boys are the fliest; Danger ever nighest, And taxes are the highest In Kentucky. The bluegrass waves the bluest In Kentucky; Yet, bluebloods are the fewest (?) In Kentucky; Moonshine is the clearest, By no means the dearest, And yet it acts the queerest In Kentucky: The dove-notes are the saddest In Kentucky; The streams dance on the gladdest In Kentucky; Hip pockets are the slickest, Pistol hands the slickest, The cylinder turns the quickest _ In Kentucky. The song birds are the sweetest In Kentucky; The thoroughbreds are the fleetest In Kentucky; Mountains tower proudest, Thunder peals the loudest, The landscape is the grandest— And politics—thy damnedest— In Kentucky. With Apologies— The railroads are the fleetest In Kentucky; Passenger trains the neatest In Kentucky; If you wish to travel fast, Use the “Henderson” first and last, You don’t want your time to waste; “To and thro’ Kentucky.” Trying to Escape Hanging. Guthrie, Ok., April 9.—Attorney General J. C. Roberts has been by the United States Attorney General to appear before the United States Su- preme Court on April 15 torepresent Oklahoma in the appeal of B, P. Queenan, convicted of the wife mur- der in Oklahoma City and sentenced to be hanged. Queenan’s attorney tried to show that the code of criminal procedure under which he was convicted was invalid for the reason that the bill did not bear the signatures of the president and speaker of the legisla- ture, but the Oklahoma supreme court sustained the law. Theappeal now before. the United States Su- preme court is based largely on the fact that Thomas Harper, a member of the jury that convicted Queenan, once served a term in the Nebraska penitentiary for felony. Shooting at the Polls. Lexington, Mo., April 10.—Mark Crumley, a constable, killed John Swancy, a negro, last Tuesday night at Waverly, near here. Swancy re- saulted the conatavle, who says he TO SAVE THE NEGRO’S VOTE The New York Union League Club Aroused. Congress Will be Asked to Reduce Southern Representation and to Test the Validity of the Con- stitution of Southern States New York, April 9.—The members of the Union League club will advo- cate the protection of negro suffrage in the South at the April meeting to-night. Congress will be asked to deal with the question along the line ofa radical reduction of representa- tion of the Southern states in con- gress, It is just a year ago that the Union League was divided upon the ques tion of discharging negro attend- ants. The negro servants were kept after a stormy session. The report of the club committee on political reform, which is expected to precede the action favoring negro suffrage, will, it ie believed, be of interest in the southern states. After recit- ing that southern states have tried to circumvent national legislation giving suffrage to negroes, the report recommends that Congress be asked to take up the question without a moment's delay. It recommends also that the southern representation be cut down and that a large sum of money be appropriated to test the validity of the recently adopted con- stitutions in Alabama, Virginia and other states in the south. The ablest counsel in the United Statee will be employed to prepare and argue these test cases regarding the constitutions mentioned. In ad- dition to the sums appropriated, it it proposed to ask the individual members af the elub to contribute. One of the prime movers in this movement is said to be ex-secretary Cornelius N. Bliss. Ten thousand these resolutions will be among state senators, churchmen and those in authority every where. President Roosevelt was vice pres- aleader in its councils. General Horce Porter, Joseph H. Choate, John Jay and George Cabot Ward have also been presidents of the club. The late Hamilton Fish and William M. Evarts were presidents. Senator Chauncey M. Depew, John D. Rocke- feller, J. Pierpont Morgan and An drew Carnegie are members of the club, the two latter being on the gov- ferning committee. The list of mem- bers includes Wm. D. Sloan, George F. Baker, Whitelaw Reid, John Jacob Astor and D. O. Mille, Schenectady, N. Y., April 9.—Ata mass meeting here last night resolu- tions were adopted indorsing the action of President Roosevelt in ap- pointing negroes to office and up- holding the rights of “the colored people to partake of the fruits of cit- izenship.”” HE IS MIXING WITH BEARS AND INDIANS President Has Entered Wilds of Yel- lowstone Park---Will “Rough It.” Livingston, Mont., April 8.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has plunged into the wilds of Yellowstone park for two weeks. He will study the animal life in the park incompany with the na- turalist, John Burroughs. Secretary Loeb will keep in as close touch as possible with the nation’s chief exec- utive, and ifanything unusual hap- pens the world will know ft. The president arrived this morning at nine o’clock, and after he had was made for Cinnibar, where the rest.of the party will remain, while the president goes roughing it. /Late last night the president reached Me- dora, his old ranch home, on the Lit- tle Missouri. He shook hands with every man, woman and child there, in the town hall. He made a short speech to his old neighbors, had his picture taken with sisted—arrest by Crumpley and_as-| them by flashlight, and then held an informal reception. Jefferson City, April8.—J.C. Doyle iy, Ap Doge of 80 No. 2 Through Por No. 4Stloam 8) Reme! ident of the club in 1899. 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