Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 25, 1911, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT GRAND RAPIDS HERALD.REVIEW WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1911. GASE GOES TO SUPREME COURT Government Will Appeal Judge Willard’s “Lid” Decision. ISSUE COMES FROM BEMIDJI Anti-Saloon League and Prohibition Peopie Are insisting Highest Court Should Pass on the Question—Un- derstood President Taft Will Issue an Order Annulling Liquor Provi- sions in Al Indian Treaties Except That of 1853. Washington, Jan. 24.—An appeal will be ta »y the government from the | decision of Judge Willard in the Be-| midji liquor ¢ This announcement was made by a member of the Minne- sota delegation who has been follow- img the liquor situation closely. It also is understood President Taft will issue an order before the end of the 2k annulling all the Indian treaties, so far as the liquor pro- visions are concerned, save that of 1855, which is involved in the Bemidji ease. The treaty of 1855 cannot be annulled save by action of congress. No action of that character will be | necessary if Judge Willard’s decision is upheld by the supreme court. If Judge Willard is reversed, then it is altogether likely the next con-| gress will be asked to take action which will abrogate the treaty and put the administration of liquor laws en- tirely up to the state. The treaties | which the president can annul, and | on which he is expected to act, are those of 1851, 1853, 1854, 1863, 1867, 1889. The appeal from Judge Willard’s de- cision will be taken because of the insistence of the Anti-saloon league and other prohibition people that the ease should be taken to the highest court for a final verdict. These peo- ple have argued that there is but one way of settling the question for all | time and that is by getting a decision from the supreme court, and the ad- ministration has found it difficult to answer that argument. Both the department of justice and the department of interior, through the office of commissioner of Indian affairs, will recommend an appeal be taken, it is said. Pending the appeal, as has been | stated in these dispatches, Judge Wil- lard’s decision will stand as the law so far as Minnesota is concerned and the state will have to regulate the Mquor traffic in the territory affected in the Bemidji case. AFFECTING FISHING RIGHTS | Boundary Dispute Between Minnesota and Wisconsin. St. Paul, Jan. 24.—The governor has sent to the legislature a communica- | tion from George T. Simpson, attorney general, recommending some settle- ment be speedily reached over the dis- puted boundary between Minnesota and Wisconsin, in Lake Pepin. The} matter is important because of fishing | tights in the water: i Blotolalelelclstelei stars | gone down the cost of legislative print- ing has increased rapidly during the | jast few years, according to J. T. Man- nix, state printer. The cost of printing | the list of general orders for each day was $4,135 in 1903, $2,948 in 1905, $7, 738 in 1907, and $5,672 in 1909. Anybody who has been convicted of | drunkenness three times within three | years and anybody who is shown to be unable to control his appetite for intoxicating liquors or drugs may be} committed to the new hospital for in- | ebriates at Willmar, according to a bill | introduced in the house by C. B. Jobn- | son of Atwater. ELECTION FRAUDS CHARGED Indictments Against New Jersey Pub- | lic Officers and Business Men. Camden, N. J., Jan. 24.—A police | captain, a number of the city council, several police and business men were among those indicted ‘by the grand | jury here on charges of frauds at the November election in this city. Officers of a fraternal society and of | a Republican club were also indicted, | the former for keeping a “disorderly house” and the latter for permitting an immoral performance to be given in their headquarters. The action of the grand jury has | created a sensation. | go before | story. State’s Attorney John Lewman is | the examination of wit-| | nesses, the grand jurors interjecting | DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS. Novelist Shot Six Times by Apparently Insane Man. NOVELIST SHOT SIX TIMES Assailant of David Graham Phillips Then Kills Himself. New York, Jan. 24.—David Graham Phillips, the novelist, was shot six times as he approached the Prince- ton club by Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsbor- ough, a Harvard man, who immedi- ately after committed suicide. Phillips is at Bellevue hospital in an extremely critical condition, but, as relatives hopefully express it, with “a chance for life.” The body of Goldsborough, whose career at Har- vard was brief, lies in the morgue. Apparently insane he had a fancied grudge against the autnor and sought his life. He was thirty-one years old; Phillips is forty-three. GANNON’S SON-IN- LAW SUBPOENAED Grand Jury at Danville, Ill, Probing Illegal Voting, Danville, Ill, Jan. 24.—Speaker Jo- seph G. Cannon’s home city and coun- ty were brought under the searching eye of a grand jury in the hunt for illegal traffic in votes. The Vermilion county grand jury heard eleven wit- nesses, and twelve more, including Speaker Cannon’s son-in-law, are sub- poenaed to appear. The grand jury heard Danville’s city attorney accused of having ad- mitted buying votes. It was given a list of fifty possible witnesses by the accusers. The city attorney’s alleged trafficking, it was testified, was in the interest of the present sheriff at the last general election. The fact that an investigation may disclose irregu- larities in the election of the state’s attorney and even the court itself has not stood in the way of their orders to have the search made complete and all the officials concerned have openly announced they want the inquiry to go to the bottom of affairs, regardless of the result. One of the newspaper men told the inquisitors he had been approached by persons offering him a vacation and several “good things” if he would not the grand jury with his conducting questions as they occur to them. | Foreman Isaac Woodyard, who prom- ises to be the central figure in the in- vestigation, said: “We have our instructions to go in- to this and we're going as far as we | can go. if it takes all spring. We'll find out about these alleged confes- sions.” “LANDS FOR MINOT NORMAL North Dakota Congressmen Introduce Bills for Endowment. Washington, Jan. 24.—Bills were in- Warrants for) troduced by Senator McCumber and those named in the indictments were | Representative Hanna providing that immediately issued. The first to be! the government shall endow the Minot served was against Daniel Fick, a Po | normal school with 70,000 acres of pub- liceman, who was held in $6,000 bail on charges of false registration and perjury. : . ELEVEN KILLED IN WRECK Passenger and Ore Trains Collide at Hopkinstown, Wales. Jan. 24,—Eleven persons London, were killed in a collision on the Taff | Valley railway at Hopkinstown, Wales, between a passenger train and an ore train. Several leaders of the striking Welsh coal miners who were on their way to London to attend a labor con- ference were among the killed. Sev- eral passengers were also badiy im jured. Ss ode FECTIVE j lic lands. It is pointed out that in the enabling act admitting North Da- kota to the Union land grants were made for the benefit of the Mayville and Valley City normal schools. | Messrs. McCumber and Hanna insist that like provision should be made fo: | the institution at Minot. . Tennessee Elects Senator. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 24.—The dead- Jock in the Tennessee legislature over to succeed J. B. Frazier was broken by the election of Luke Lea, an inde- pendent Democrat, regarded as the candidate of the fusionists. Mr. Lea is a lawyer and publisher. the election of a United States senator | ‘MAIL CLERKS MAY WALK OUT. South Dakotans Plan to Resign in a Body Feb. 15, ASK FOR REINSTATEMENT | Ex-Governor Elrod Championing the | Cause of the Men and Is Endeavor- ing to Secure Former Positions for Those Who ‘Have Been Suspended. Congress Deciines to Vote..Compen- | sation for Overtime. | Watertown, S. D., Jan, 24.—The re- | fusal of Superintendent Perkins of the | Tenth division of the railway mail service to reinstate the men on the Tracy-Pierre line when they offered to } return to work in accordance with the recommendation of Senator Crawford has precipitated a crisis in the situa- tion. Ex-Governor S. H. Elrod has | championed the cause of the men and has had circulated for the signatures | of the clerks on the Brookings-Pierre | line a petition to Perkins for the rein- statement of the men now suspended | and in the event of his refusal has vol- unteered io take the matter up with | the South Dakota congressmen. Blanks | are leaving Watertown for the signe- tures of all railway mail clerks in the state declaring their determination to resign in a body on Feb. 15 if the rein- | | statements are not made by that time. Traveling men say sentiment in towns over the entire district is solid- ly in sympathy with the men. | | FOR RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS | RK gaan | House Refuses to Provide Compensa- tion for Overtime. Washington, Jan. 24.—Efforts made again by the Northwestern members, | among them Representatives Martin of | South Dakota and Kendall of Iowa, to force the adoption in the postoffice ap- propriation bill of an amendment pro- viding compensation for railway mail clerks who work overtime went for naught. The house refused to follow the lead of the Northwestern members. Rep- resentative Martin expressed the opin- ion that the debate in the house would doubtless accomplish what had been sought by those who have taken part in the debate during the past few days in the interest of the railway mail clerks. The bill provides for the ap- pointment of more than 1,000 addition- al clerks. Heretofore the department has not employed all the men made available by congress. Mr. Martin ex- pressed the opinion that beginning July 1, when the new fiscal year be gins, assignments of additional clerks would be made to Western routes, where the men are dissatisfied be- cause, as they charge, they are com-— pelled to work overtime without being | allowed compensation. Representative Martin believes the | department will assign to each route | a sufficient number of men to do all the work, thus obviating the necessity for labor during the lay off period TO HAVE WHITE SLAVE LAW Drastic Measure Introduced in Mon- tana Senate. Helena, Mont., Jan. 24——A drastic “white slave” bill has been introduced | in the state senate by Senator Edward Donlan of Missoula. Sections of the bill provide punish- ment for the procurement of women and giris for the purposes of prostitu- tion and for inducing them to enter upon a life of shame. The seduction and prostitution of women and girls and receiving of money from women | engaged in prostitution is made a felony, punishable by imprisonment from two to twenty years and a fine of not less than $1,000 or more than $5,000. Restraining girls or women % | houses of ill fame to liquidate any debt dues or obligation incurred is, in | the bill, punishable by fine and im- | prisonngent. Cohabitation with a woman of ill fame also is made a | felony, punishable by imprisonment i | for from one to twenty years. | Representative O’Hearn of Missoula has introduced a similar measure ia | the house. SNOWFALL iS VERY HEAVY. Chinooks Less Effective Than Usual in Northern Montana.” Fort Benton, Mont., Jan. 24.—In this section of Northern Montana an excep- | tionally dry season has been followed — by an exceptional fall of snow. Chi- nooks, which ordinarily soon clear off snow, have not this year been as ef- fective as usual and as a consequence | there is still a layer of snow and ice | that makes range conditions bad. Some losses of stock have been report- ed and feeding is necessary in a great many cases. To Bridge the Red River. Washington, Jan. 24—The house committee on commerce reported fa- vorably a bill introduced by Repre sentative Wanna of North Dakota au- thorizing the Fargo and Moorhead Street Railway company to construct a bridge across the Red River of the | North. | in with snow. | and minority vote, JOSEPH G. ROBIN. Medical Examiners Believe New York Banker Insane. @ 1910, by American Press Association. | BELIEVED ROBIN IS INSANE. Case of New York Bank Wrecker May Never Come to Trial. New York, Jan. 24.—Joseph G. Rob- in, alleged wrecker of the Northern National bank and allied institutions, probably will never be tried. It was | admitted by District Attorney Whit- man that his two medical experts have pronounced the banker incurably imsane. . [OWA REPUBLICANS MAY HOLD CAUCUS Move on Foot to End Senatorial Deadlock. Des Moines, Jan. 24.—The Iowa leg- islative vote on’ the Dolliver succes-| sion having shown no significant varia- | tion from the vote of last. Tuesday @ movement was started for a general Republican caucus to select a candi- date for the purpose of breaking the deadlock. Speaker Stillman and other party leaders have interested themselves in | the plan of holding a caucys and called the attention of the supporters of Senator Lafe Young to the fact that, even if a special primary law was passed, the legislature would still have to ballot in joint session every noon until final adjournment. The standpatters have the key te the situation, but have not given signs | of wavering from their allegiance to Young, the special primary and the} deadlock. Their leaders insist they | will not go into a caucus to stop the deadlock until the progressive Repub- licans of the legislature have gone on record on the primary. The house committee on elections, to which the standpat special primary bill has been referred, is preparing | to report it with an amendment for) the expression of first, second and| third preference for senator, which | the standpatters regard as equivalent | to providing for two chances against | Young to one for him. | The Democrats held a conference | and discussed the advisability of end- irg the deadlock by voting for the} standpat Republican candidate for sen- | ator, but no conclusion was reached. | eas ae | ots ee ee ee ee ee Oe eS el ee nee eee sont sSeetoatontontocgeedecetoatoatoetbapeceteetoatoatondonocgecetbocdeteeteetiateatontectendeeteeteeteateatesteetedretostontectet ST ee ae te ee ee ie RE ee Oe es ae | TRAFFIC COMPLETELY TIED UP Wreck at Lubec, Mont., Causes Sus- pension of Trains. | White Fish, Mont., Jan. 24.—Traffic on the Great Northern from this point East has been practically at a stand- still since the head on collision at Lu- bec between Burlington train No. 44 and a rotary snowplow. A terrific snow storm has been raging in the | mountains in the vicinity and it has been impossible to clear the wreck- age off the track. These huge dam- aged locomotives and the snowplow block the way and have been drifted Fireman McLaughlin, who was in- jured in the’ wreck, is now in the hos- pital here with two badly broken legs and body badly scalded. Though seri- ously injured it is thought that he will recover. Reconsiders Suffrage Action. Bismarcs, N. D., Jan. 24.—Remark- ing that he “had heard from home,” Senator Ed Pierce of Ransom county moved for a reconsideration of the | vote taken by the senate when it in- definitely postponed the Steele bill providing for suffrage for women. 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