Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, April 8, 1905, Page 3

Rerald-Review. By C. E. KILEY. GRAND RAPIDS, - MINNESOTA. Blouses. that cost more than one hundred dollars are called “blooses.” Oyama’s wife was educated at Vas- sar. Is any Other explanation neces- sary? King Peter of Servia wants some rapid-fire guns. Evidently fixing to get fired. v _One brewery owns 183 saloons in Kansas City. Nearly two dozen “oc- topuses” rolled into one. Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gil- man condemns man’s clothing vigor- ously—but has she ever tried it? It might be mentioned that it is the salt water lobster and not the land variety that has gone on strike. The fact that a $10 bill will accumu- late 73,000 microbes in a month does a seem to jar Russell Sage a little vit. Adam should have been a very hap- man. He never had to pay a maker’s bill or discharge the cook. r, wouldn’t it be fun to see Oya- Nogi, Oku, Nodzu and Kuroki sit- ting in together at a little game -of poker? It would seem that one of Uncle n’s “banana ships” would be dan- erous to any enemy that might slip up on it. The people of the United States consume 75 pounds of sugar per head a year. No wonder the dentists have good pickings. The tobacco trust has the honor to report that its net profits last year were over $22,000,000. Smoke up with the tobacco trust. cea The conscience stricken person who returned $12,000 to the government will be surprised to see how few will follow his example. Supt. Maxwell recommends a course of planting seeds and growing plants for moral instruction. That leaves,out all knowledge of grafting. The modern woman who expects to have a statue in the hall of fame ovght to wear Grecian robes. “Gowns” co not show up well in stone. If we saw ourselves as others see us, we would at least have the privil- ege of insisting that we were labof- ing under an optical illusion.—Puck. A Harvard professor declares that e solar system is tipping over. Now s about time for people to get to- ner and abolish the tipping cus The world do move. The Chinese, ter having cleansed every nation but r own, have established a soap factory and a towel supply house at home. it appears that the butlers and lady secretaries employed in the house- holds of the rich have acquired the aft” habit. Only heaven is left to The kind newspaper lady who tells her readers “how a woman can look quite smart on $400” doesn’t do much to help the woman who has only $40 for a limit. Another man having lost his tongue from excessive smoking, it is now up to some unregenerate bachelor to re- mark that it is a pity that more wom- en do not smoke. Bloch, the military expert, was wrong in thinking that “war is impos- sible,” but recent events have made it plain to most persons that it ought to be impossible. Prof. Starr of the University of Chicago announces that a substance that he terms hamirumaha is a per- fect substitute for tobacco. And echo answers: “Ha! Ha!” “The ball tosser who is thought to be a wonder” is prominent in the pa- pers all over the country now. As a rule, he won’t be nearly so conspicu- ous two months later on. In Berlin young men have formed a society whose members pledge them- selves to snatch birds from the hats of women. There are likely to be im- portant developments in the German capital. A scarcity in small silver coins is predicted, congress having failed tc provide for the purchase of the neces- sary bullion. You may have to fall back on your children’s ten cent say- ings banks. The Binghamton Herald notices the conviction of nearly every man, who never tried to do it, that he can run a newspaper. It is a business which confident outsiders assume with cour- age and abandon with enthusiasm and experience. This world, saith the preacher, is filled with men who*are like a watch, well made and wound, but whose faces and dial hands point to 3:30 at 10 a. m. They were made right and wound right and keep going, but they have never been set right. Washington. Secretary Hitchcock designated William H. Code of Los Angeles as chief engineer of Indian ‘irrigation. The navy department,has been ad- vised of the departure of Secretary Morton and party from Havana to Fer- nandina, Fla. The German government has in- definitely postponed the international world’s electrical conference which was to have been held in Berlin next month. President Roosevelt presented di- plomas to the class graduated from the United States Medical school. He addressed a large audience and de- livered a message to twenty-three new- ly made doctors on the responsiblities of the service they have entered. Crimes and Criminats. August Finke, aged 57, a wealthy’ German farmer of Rising Sun, Ind., committed suicide by shooting himself. in the head. A. J. Oldfield, proprietor of a. ma- chine shop in Chicago, shot and killed his wife and a moment later put a bul- Jet through his own head, falling dead a few feet from his wife's body. The coroner’s inquest into the cause of the death of Hilda Schubart, the young woman who was found dead at Wheeling, W. Va., has brought in a verdict of murder by strangulation. Dorsey Cranston, better known as “Kia” Dorsey, a colored pugilist, was exonerated by a coroner’s jury of all responsibility for the death of John Hall, colored, who died following a boxing bout. ? At Drain, Ore., Herman Shooks shot dead E. V. Cooper, who .had accused him of atempting to poison him, and also shot and killed Paul Howse, who was in Cooper's house, the scene of the tragedy. He then shot himself, dying almost instantly. Declaring that George Alberton promised to marry her if she got rid of her three children, Mrs. Mary Brock- well broke down at Paducah, Ky., and confessed that she killed the little ones, aged three, four and five, by giv- ing them morphine and coal, oil. Harrison Ash, a detective of the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, shot and killed two men who were attempting to rob the freight cars in the yards at Huntington, W. Va. The men were known as Siman G. Winn and Thomas Hutchinson. Ash has not been arrest- ed. Caught by a decoy letter, Mail Col- lector J. H. Wormley broke down at Youngstown, Ohio, and confessed that he had been rifling letters for three years and had taken $1,000. Fears are entertained that he will attempt sui- cide and a special guard will be placed over him in the jail. Stanley Francis, alias Arthur S. Fos- ter, a promoter of .many companies, was arrested by United States postal inspectors at Philadelphia on the charge of using the mails for fraudu- lyent purposes. Francis is one of the leading figures of the Storey Cotton company and the Provident Invest- ment company, which are alleged by the postal authorities to be fraudulent “get-rich-quick” concerns. Both con- cerns have gone into the hands of re- ceivers. List of Casualties. Fire wiped dut the business portion of Faunsdale, Ala. Loss, $55,000. Fourteen residences and two stores were destroyed by fire at Walters, Miss. Loss $50,000. Half of the east side of the public square at Harrisburg, Ill, was de- stroyed by fire. Loss, $50,000. Fire destroyed the entire business section and the best of the residence district of Carbon, Ind. Loss $200,000. Two men were killed and another was fatally injured in a freight wreck on the Baltimore & Ohio railway at Stanton, Del. Fire destroyed the extensive pork packing establishment of J. Y. Griffin & Co., opposite Winnipeg. The loss is over $200,000. A rowboat containing a party of five persons was overturned by a squall at Rock Ledge, Ga., and four of the occu- pants were drowned. A tornado struck the business por- tion of Eldorado, Kan., injuring sev- eral persons, one fatally, and wreck- ing a hotel and school house. Lucy and Helen Baker, young wom- en of San Diego, Cal., and their cousin, Harry Hayes of Iowa, were drowned by the upsetting of a canoe. Mrs, W. H. Schweiering, wife of the presiding elder of the German Meaho- dist church, was run down and instant- ly killed by a street care at Burling- ton, Iowa. Prairie and forest fires are sweeping over more than 500 acres northwest of Coshocton, Ohio. Men, women and children have done nothing for twelve hours but fight the flames. The freight depot of the Anheuser- Busch Brewing company at St. Louis was destroyed by fire, together with seventeen refrigerator cars, the prop- erty of the St. Louis Refrigerator Car company. A large piece of steel, evidently from the bottom of a vessel, has been found in the new Welland canal, which, it is believed, solves the mysterious loss of the steamer Bannockburn with all on board in Lake Superior in the fal of 1903. It is believed that the piece of the hull was lost, weakening the Ban- nockburn so that it foundered on Lake Superior. Resume of the News. From Other Lands. The United States,and Great Britain have offered $40,000 to Germany as |- settlement in full of the Samoan claims of $12,000. The distilling department of the Zukhoff Oil works at St. Petersburg was destroyed by fire, believed to have been of incendiary origin. Loss, $250,- 000. v The sultan of Morocco has appoint- ed Kaid Maclean, formerly of the Brit- ish army, to command the Moorish troops during the visit of Emperor Wil- liam. Pope Pius received twelve American parish priests and forty-five laymen on Sunday. W. Nolle of Indian territori- ty presented his holiness a walking stick carved by Indians. The prospectus has been issued of the Grand Trunk-Pacific railroad $16,- 000,000 3 per cent first mortgage ster- ling bonds at 95 guaranteed by the Canadian government. Maxim Gorky’s lung trouble is in- creasing the anxiety of his friend The doctors declare that his transfer from Riga to South Prussia is abso- lutely essential to his recovery. The Switzerland bundesrath has rat- ified all the pending treaties of com- merce with the exception of the treaty with the United States. Further ne- gotiations regarding the latter wili be necessary. King Edward has decided to go di- rect to Copenhagen, as previously planned, to be present at the celcbra- tion of King Christian’s birthday, April 8. When he leaves England, April 6, he will go to Marseilles. An official dispatch from Windhoek, German Southwest Africa, announced that eleven men of Kerchner’s detach- ment were killed and twenty-two wounded in a fight with insurgent na- tives on March 11 at Kosis and Gei- banes. The governor of Tangier has invited Raisuli, the brigand chief, to come in with the principal tribesmen to meet Emperor William, and it is understood that Germany has guaranteed Raisuli against any interference on the part of the Moorish government. ‘ Domestic. Gov. Folk of Missouri has vetoed the St. Louis police home rule bill. This pill provided for the appointment ofa non-partisan police board by the may- or, At a meeting of the American Smel- termen’s union the strike in the Globe and Grant smelters, which was com- menced in July, 1903, was declared off, by unanimous vote. Five thousand dollars is bequeathed to the National Spiritualistic associa- tion of Washington, D. C., in the will of the late Samuel W. Tucker, a wealthy ctizen of Keokuk, Iowa. Princeton won the eleventh annual debate with Harvard, advocating that the free lective system at college is the best plan of study. This is Prince- ton’sfirst victory since the fall of 1902. The American Ice Securities com- pany of Trenton, N. J., with an au- thorized capital of $20,000,000, was in- corporated and will take over the char- ter and assets of the American Ice company. The directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad company, ordered an issue of $100,000,000 convertible bonds at $75 a share, bearing 6% per cent interest, and privileges are extended to the stockholders Capt. Reed Williams of Company B, Third regiment, Texas national guard, has refused to permit his men to do patrol duty when President Roosevelt visit$ Dallas, saying, “My men are soldiers, not policemen.” Two mill workers have died, several are in a serious condition and many have been compelled to quit their du- ties in the mills in Pittsburg and vi- vinity owing to the excessive heat. The temperature registered -78 de- grees, With a total for the last week of 26,- 000 aliens, and with the prospects of at least 23,000 more to come in on the steamers arriving this week, it is prob- able that all immigration figures will be broken at New York before the spring is ended. Both houses of the Nebraska legis- lature have passed a Dill prohibiting sports on Memorial day and the gov- ernor will sign it. Horse racing, base- ball games and other sports not per- mitted on Sunday in the state must not be engade in on Memorial day, and penalties are provided, including fines and imprisonment. Instructions have been received from President Samuel Gompers of The American Federation of Labor or- dering Chicago unions to cease mak- ing financial contributions to the West- ern Federation of Miners. Internation- al and local officers of the American Federation are urged to do all in their power to resist the American Labor union. Operators and miners of the Central bituminous district of Pennsylvania, after being in conference since March 16, endeavoring to agree on a wage seale to go into effect on April 1, ad- journed finally without coming to an agreement. The failure to agree means the suspension of work by 65,000 or- ganized miners of the district at the end of March. Conrad Schaefer, president of the American Stock Growers’ association, is dead at Denver, aged 58 years. Mr. Schaefer was one of the foremost fig- ures in the stock industry of the United States. ‘ BASE HOPE ON NAVAL FIGAT RUSSIANS ARE NOT YET READY TO TREAT FOR PEACE, SAYS m’CORMICK, NOW LOOK TO ROJESTVENSKY HOPE THAT HE MAY WIN VIC. TORY THAT WILL CHANGE ASPECT OF WAR. PEACE MOVE FALLS THROUGH ROOSEVELT’S DEPARTURE ON VACATION LOOKED UPON AS PROVING IT. » New York, April 5.—Robert Ss. Cormick, newly appointed ambassador to France, who has_ just arrived in Paris from St. Petersburg, says he is surprised at the reports that there was a desire to conclude peace at any price manifested in official circles, cables the Paris correspondent of the Herald. According to Ambassador McCormick, no such desire exists in St. Petersburg. “On the contrary, in official circles there is,” he said, “a general desire to continue the war to the bitter end, and there are great hopes that Admiral Rojestvensky wilijmeet the Japanese fleet and gain a victory which may in one day change the entire aspect of the war. o “All the hopes of Russia are now centered in that fleet, and its encoun- ter with the Japanese squadron is looked forward to with confidence. “Reports of American intervention in the war are without the slightest foundation.” Peace ‘Move Dropped. St. Petersburg, April 5. — The an- nouncement that President Roosevelt has left Washington on a vacation trip is accepted here as evidence that the efforts to'draw Russia and Japan into peace negotiations have come to grief for the moment. No definite explana- tion of exactly what happened is forth- coming, but the general impression is that Japan either declined to treat upon the Russian basis or demanded a direct avowal that there was a pa- cific disposition. At any rate, the advocates of a con- tinuation of the war seem secure of their pcsition and everything indicates that the hope of an immediate Change of Fortune ~ is stakefl on Vice Admiral Rojestven- sky, whose squadron, according to the best information, is now actually on its way to meet the Japanese. The admiralty is greatly encouraged by the prospects that Rojestvensky will be able to defeat Admiral Togo, owing to the splendid reports which have just arrived here from Madagas- car, recounting in detail the condition of the ships and personnel, and the re- sults of the target practice of the squadron and of the maneuvers in which the warships have been drilling for three months. Quiet at the Front. Harbin, April 5. — Affairs at the front generally are quiet except for skirmishing by Gen. Mistchenko’s Cossacks. Reports are received of the move- ment of a Japanese flying column northward through Manchuria in the direction of Tsitsihar. The loss and destruction of commis- sariat stores at Mukden, Hussitai, Tie Pass, Kaiyuan and Changtufu has been a heavy deprivation to the Rus- sian army. As a result the price of forage and provisions has considerably increased. Mc- SEEK TO KILL TREPOFF. Terrorists Found to Be Acting on Con- ‘ certed Plan. St. Petersburg, Opril 5.—The police arrested yesterday in the Nevesky Prosvect a’man disguised as a car- riage driver, presun ably belonging to the same organization as the twelve persons who were arrested last week for supposed connection with terror- ist schemes. There is little doubt that there was a plot against the life of Gov. Gen. Trepoff, and the latest arrest indicates that the terrorists are acting on a concerted plan, with auxiliaries and lookouts to aid the actual perpe- trator of the assassination. ‘Negro Kills Four. Batesville, Ark., April 5—John Dow, a negro, last night shot dead his wife. He then turned on his wife’s mother and father, killing them both. He also shot and killed Mrs. Jones, a friend of Mrs, Dow. The tragedy resulted from Mrs. Dow’s refusal to live with her husband. Killed a Man. Steubenville, Ohio, April 5.—It was Jearned yesterday that Peter Hardy, aged 26 years, was killed by President Roosevelt’s special train at Mingo Junction while attempting to board an east-bounA freight train. Prince’s Auto Kills Woman. Rome, April 5.—While Prince and Princess Brogli were riding in a mo- tor car to Naples at the speed of forty- five miles an hour, their car ran over and killed a woman. The prince was arrested. {lican mayors: DEMOCRATS CARRY CHICAGO. City Is Committed to the Policy of Municipal Ownership. Chicago, April 5.—A political torna- do yesterday overwhelmed one of the most ruggedly unicue leaders in the country. Incidentaliy the Republican party met defeat in a memorable effort to capture the mayoralty of Chicago. As a direct result the city is officially committed to the policy of the qnic est possible céssation of private fran- chises for public utilities. Municipal ownership is especially threatening street car lines, valued high up in the millions. Aftes’ winning successively four remarkable bicnnial fights of in- dependents against the regular Re- publican party organization here, John Maynard Harlan, son of ssociate Justice Harlan of the United States supreme court, was yesterday loser as Republican candidate for mayor. His defeat is attributed to an extraordi- nary whirl of causes, starting with po- litical revenge and taking in a wide sweep, embracing the most up-to-date socialism as a factor. The victor is Judge Edward Dunne, Democrat. The plurality for Dunne is estimated at be- tween 22,000 and 25,000 votes - over Harlan. In the city election two years ago BH ison, Dem., defeated Stewart, Rep., by 7,000 plurality. The city, however, was carried by the Repub- n the presidential election last fall by a heavy plurality. ELECTION IN WISCONSIN. Is Probably Re-Elected State Superintendent of Schools, Milwaukee, Wis., April 5.—Election returns received by the Sentinel from various parts of the state up to mid- night indicate that Charles P. Cary, the present state superintendent of schools, has been re-elected over Al- bert Salisbury by a safe majority. A light vote was polled. Quite a number of women took advantage of their right of suffrage on school matters. The following cities elected Repub- Racine, Whitewater, Sparta, Oshkosh, Fox Lake and Viro- Cary qua. The following elected Democrat- ic mayers: Berlin, La Crosse and Monroe. GARFIELD READY FOR INQUIRY. Goes to Kansas to Look Into Standard Oil Methods. Washington, Aprile 5.—Commissioner James G. Garfield, of the bureau of corporations, returned yesterday from a fishing trip on the Gulf of Mexico. In his absence the preliminary work of the inquiry into the production and marketing of oi], which he instituted before he left Washington has pro- gressed to such a stage that he now is enabled to begin his personal work on it. He will leave to-day for Kansas, going directly to Topeka, where he will begin his inauiry into the methods of the oil trust in that field. Commis- sioner Garfield said yesterday that it was not possible for him to say ap- proximately how much time the work will consume. He proposes to make it as thorough and comprehensive as possible. With that end view the length of time the inquiry will occupy will not be taken seriously into ac- count. THE MARKETS. ‘ Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, April 5. — Wheat—No. 1 Northern, $1.12@1.13 3-4; No. 2 North- ern, $1.07@1.08 1-2; No. 3, $1@1.03 1-2. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 45@46c. Oats — No. 2 white, 30@31c Minneapolis, April No. 1 hard, $1.12 3- $1.10 3-8; No. 2 Norther 1.06 5-8. Oats— Duluth, April 5. Wheat — No. 1 Northern, $1.04 No. 2 Northern, 98 3-4c@$1.02 1-4; flax, 39c; rye, 77¢ Milwaukee, Apri] 5. — Wheat—No. 1 Northern, $1.121-2; No. 2 Northern, $1.08 @ 1.10. Rye — No. 1, 851-2¢ Barley—No. 2, 51c. Oats — Standard, 311-2c. Corn—No. 3, 47c. Chicago, April 5. — Wheat—No. 2 red, $1.12 1-2@1.14 1-2; No. 3 red, $1.03 @1.10; No, 2 hard, $1.10@1.121-2; No. 8 hard, $1@1.09 1-2; No. 1 North- ern, $1.12 1-2@1.14 1-2; 2 North- ern, $109@1.12. Corn — No. 2, 48 @ 481-4c. Oats—No. 2, 30@30 1-4c. Sioux City, Iowa, April 5. — Cattle —Beeves. $4 @ 5.25; cows, bulls ana mixed, $2.50@4.50; stockers and feed- ers, $3 @ 4; calves and yearlings, $2.75 @ 3.80. Hogs—Bulk, $5@5.05. Chicago, April 5. — Cattle—Good to prime steers, $5.25@6.25; stockers ana feeders, $2.75@4.75; cows, $2.80@4.50; heifers, $3 @ 5; calves, $3 @ 7. Hogs — Mixed and butchers, $5.25 @ 5.40; bulk, $5.80@5.40. Sheep—Good to choice wethers, $5.75@6.25; native jambs, $5.50 @ 7.70; Western lambs, $6@7.80. South St. Paul, April 5. — Cattle— Good to choice steers, $4.75 @ 5.50; good to choice cows and heffers, $3.20 @425; butcher bulls, $2.65@3.40; veals, $2@4.75; good to choice stock steers, $3@4; good to choice milch cows, $30@40. Hogs — Range price, $4.90@5.10; bulk, $5 @ 5.10. Sheep —Good to choice lambs, $6.75@7; fair to good, $6@6.75; good to choice yearling wethers, $5.40@6.50; good to choice ewes, $4.75@5.25. BIG OIL STRIKE IN OHIO. Tubings Burst and Investors Go Wild With Excitement. Mount Vernon, Ohio, April 5.—The Clark company of Pittsburg yesterday made a big oil strike in the Tissarand well near here, the oil spouting fifty feet above the derrick. The force of the oil burst the tubing and hundreds of barrels have been wasted. There is the wildest excitement here as scores of companies throughout Ohioe have teases in the neighborhood, FOR ROOSEVELT LOUISVILLE’S RECEPTION is MARKED BY WONDERFUL ENTHUSIASM. THE BLUE AND GRAY MINGLE TOTTERING VETERANS, ONCE ENEMIES, MARCH SHOULDER TO SHOULDER. PRESIDENT PRAISES STATE REFERENCES TO “A UNITED COUNTRY” GREATLY PLEASE HIS HEARERS. Louisville, Ky., April 5.—With na- ture smiling in the first blush of spring and a steady sunshine enhancing the y of elaborate decorations in all the streets and avenues, Louisville yesterday paid splendid tribute to President Rooseyelt. The entire city practically turned the day into a holiday, and Mr. Roosevelt, respend- ing with his accustomed warmth to the joviality on every side, won the heart of every celebrating Kentuckian. The president was just two hours in the heart of the city. His reception Was marked by wonderful enthusiasm. Tottering veterans, who had been ene- mies in the Civil war, marched shou!- der to shculder, contrasting the blue and the gray, as a personal escart to the chief magistrate. It was a memorable day for Ken- tucky. The glories of the state were sounded by the far-reaching throngs, and Kentucky fervor reached a climax in tumultuous cheering when the pres- ident spoke in glowing praise of the state. Mr. Roosevelt, true to bis gift of adaptness, turned himself to the flowing Kentucky spirits. Altogether his visit passed without one jar ‘or hitch. , Children Are Numerous. Mr. Roosevelt met with many evi- dences during his visit that “race suicide” does not afflict this city. There were school children at almost every turn. The president commented on their numbers, and not a gathering of little ones was passed by without a gracious bow. In the shadow- of a magnificent bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson, just in front of ihe architecturally pleasing court house of Jefferson coun- ty, President Roosevelt in something less than fifteen minutes delivered a notable address to a crowd which ex- tended for two blocks on the e; and sides of the speaker's stand, which jammed intersecting avenues and overran the broad lawns which skirt the square. No more than one- fifth of those who saw the president could hear what he said, but they cheered him heartily nevertheless, in- terruptions of applause occurring al- most momentarily. west Welcome Is Typical. The president's welcome tucky was typical of the state and his references in his speech to “a united country,” his greeting of Confederate veterans as “my comrades” and his allusion to the wearer of the gray who bore aloft at the head of the proces- sion of escort the “flag of one united country” immensely pleased those who could hear him. The president was in Louisville but two hours, but not a moment was lost. Everywhere the crowds were enor- mous, but orderly, and barring a little to Ken- confusion in front of the speaker's stand the police arrangements were excellent. The president was greatly pleased at the cordiality of the crowd and much touched over the presentation of three magnificent souvenirs remi- niscent of Abraham Lincoln, which oc- curred a few moments before his train departed for the Southwest. Arrives at St. Louis. St. Louis, April 5 —The special train bearing President Roosevelt and party pulled into East St. Louis on time last evening, reaching the Illinois Trans- fer Belt Line at 7 o'clock, where the Southern railway handed the train over to the. terminal company for transfer over the river to St. Louis. REYES AND CASTRO CLASH. Slight to Colombian Envoy May Cause Trouble. Willemstad, Curacao, April 5—Senor Lucan Geballero, the Colombian min- ister who was not received by Presi- dent Castro of Venezuela, sailed yes- terday for New York on the steamer Philadelphia from La Guiara. It is re- ported that he is charged with a dip- lomatic mission relating to possible trouble betweer Colombia and Ven- ezuela. WILL VISIT MISSOURI. New Jersey Legislators Want to Be Shown How to Get Rid of Lobbyists. New York, April’ 5.—Assemblymen Alexander, Colby and Robbins of the New Jersey legislature, will, it is re- ported, start for Missouri in a few days, as a committee to ask Gov. Folk to suggest the best manner of barring lobbyists from the house and render- ing their work null. Lobbyists have been worrying New Jersey legislators for years, and it is now proposed to get rid of them if possible.