Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 18, 1910, Page 5

C0X GETS THE WRONG STEER | tornia” ana ex-memver of congress | that state; Lieutenant Frankiin Murphy of . b Newark, N. J, late governor of New Jer Captain Palmer Explains Attack of | ey, owner of the Murphy Varnish Works n Newark and in Chicago, a milliona re; | the Ohio Congressman. | Cotonel Edwin P. Hammoud of LaFayette, e \[Ind., attorney for the Wabash rallway;| y [4 SOLDIERS' HOME BOARD WORKS |General Joseph 8. Smith of Bangor, Me., | | who during the war was chief commissary e | of a division of the army of the Potomac Members Do No Waste Publie Time | o one time; Lieutenant Oscar M. Gotts. ey Nor Charge Inmates |chall of Dayton, O. one of the most Defaks And Clwase | prominent attorneys in that state and, if | {1 am not mistaken, has been the trusted . bt v | attorney for vears of Mr. Cox. 1 don't think any member of the board, With reference to the attacks of Con-|or any of the ex-officio members—the presi- gressman Cox, a demoerat from Ohlo, who)dent, chief justice and secretay of war 9 made charges against the National Home | would be tempted even to charge the gov for Disabled Volun Soidlers, alleging | erument, much less an inmate of the home, that the man of the Danvlile | the cost of a drink or cigar B branch was extravagant E Captain Henry president of the board Palmer, second vie Convicts Burn answers (he congressmun "I fecl less Inclined to blame Mr. Cox 3. . sald Captain Palmer, “for the many mis l 3 b F statements In his speech for the reason rison, but Ire that it Is apparent that much of his in- . Ofl, EJ . e ebn s s i o Cuts cape L best interests of all concerped, have been | p A disciplinea. | . “The ('Iu«'ll.' of the canteen has in- | Thirty-Six Negro Inmates of Alabama creased th# difficulties of control and : - i Pproper government. Men who think ey | Stockade Lose Lives in Fr‘n'lc 9 must drink, who were satistied with thr Dash for Freedom. O four glasses of beer a day, with only - 2% per cent alcohol—mow drink bLootleg o fRE AP " - % whisky, ‘which makes their presence in the 1 s TERVILIE, Alk., )f“'\ . ;“”:‘_ home unbearable, 1 belleve, however, that | 5I% Ne8ro convicts lost their lives early t 5 . day when the stockade of the Red Feather some provision should be made to care for Coal company at Lucille was destroyed by these men as incurables, making them |“°f L 4 . hosplth] patients under proper discipiine|® fiTe. set by one of the prisoners In an v patients ur prop v of y " rty-five and segration effort to gain his freedom. Thirty A tr. Cox Is reported as stating that|UOnvicts were burned to death and another ¥ ¥ IRt SRR . - [t ) ng o € he negro ©of wasting public funds to the extent found el LB R L = in the disbursement for the homes ot dis- | Who started the blaze. o abled soldiers. kxactiy the reverse of this| 1t was with much difficulty that the re- ] statement exists. No department of the aining convicts in the stockade were 1')\'\' government can show a better record for |Vented from eluding the guards. The economical, honest disbursement of the financial loss will reach several thousand i tunds provided by congress for the main- | doNars. tenance and conduct of the homes without T fire had gained such headway as to stinting to a wrong degree the inmates, |D¢ bevond control when the guards and W The flgures given as to cost of homes. Dan. | Other men on the outside of the stockade 5 ville, for Instance—$1,278,000, granting M !llls(-u\'tn-d it. At the risk of their own lives Cox' figures 1o be corractis not an ex. | they rushed into the burning bullding, free- travagant or unwarranted expenditare for |IN Many of the convicts from their cells a plant to house and care for over Jow|The divislon of the convicts which was i necessary to guard the prisoners who were o ':.’:"";mw :" cent of whom need hospital |, ..eq outside, greatly hempered the res- » 5 cue work. Cost of Admintstration. The wood of which the stockade was “Again, he states that with an average |bullt, burned like tinder and in an hour number of 1856 in the homes in 1895, the st of maintenance was $2,627,148, while in , with 19,919 inmates—an increase of only 7 per cent—the expenditures were | 5,265,968, an Increase of 100 per cent, ex- plained by the fact that the last item covers the cost of the new homes erected since 1808, together with repairs and re- constructing of homes bullt of wood forty- five years ago; it also covers cost of gardening, parking, bullding roads, walks, | etc., charged maintenance, Increasing the per capita tax, some years 100 per cent pver preceding years. “The reference to junketing trips is ridi- culously wrong. He says in a two-days' session of the board at Dayton, O., the bill for liquors for members of the board exceeded $150, which amount was taken out of a fund made by the soldier inmates— not true. As a matter of fact, there were not exceeding elght members of the board present at that less than two-days' ses- slon; not half of the members drink at all, and not 1 cent for drinks or cigars is ever charged to the government. The of- ficers at Dayton have at their own ex- ‘ pense, as J believe, with their wives pres- ent, given a dinner complimentary to the board, of managers on the eve of thelr departure on completion of the annual in- ‘ spection. Not one penny is pald to any member of the board for services rendered, except to the president, and a small allowance— $00 a year—to the member who serves as wecretary. Every account for actual ex- ] pense for travel and board, while making the annual Inspections demanded by con- gress, has to be itemized and sworn to before a notary public before payment. The figures and every item of expenditure by the board of managers or by the officers of the homes are open to inspection and the reports made to congress and published annually. ‘Junketing trips, as Mr. Cox calls them, are made for the benefit of the inmates—our comrades—made to insure correct management and good treatment to the soldiers; complaints, it any, heard with- out the home officers being present, ali the work performed by the managers for | charity's sake and for the honorable trust imposed upon them by congress, costing them at least fifty days in a year of valu-| able time 10 look after the honest and areful expenditure of from $3,000,000 to $3,- 000,000 a year for'the national homes, and for the nmineteen state homes nearly as much each year—§i00—for each inmate in the state homes. after the flames were discovered the spot was marked only by glowing embers and the huddled bodles of the dead convicts, Ogalalla After New: Passenger Depot |4 Citizens File Complaizt with Railway Commission Urging Union Pacific to Build. to (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, May 17.—(Special)—Citizens of Ogalalla want a new passenger depot and @ new frelght depot and to that end they have filed a complaint with the State Rail- way commission to issue an order on the Union Pacific to build them. The petition, tiled with 1. O. Halloway and eighteen others, tells the story of a long-suffering community more - forcible than any ever told in any other petition now on file along similar lines. With the petition are a number of photographs to substantiate the charges made. It is alleged that the present depot was erccted In 1884 and it is 24.5x70.6 feet in di- mensions. The waiting room is 15x25 feet and has a seating capacity of seventy-five. The office Is 12x23 feet, divided into two rooms. Freight is unloaded from the cars, the petition says, and stacked along the right-of-way, where it remains days and sometimes weeks while waiting to be called for, and yet storage charges are col- lected always. The photographs show freight and express piled up in profusion, some at least 400 feec from the depot. In fact, so bad are the conditions that seven- ty-five different employes have been on the payroll and quit during the year, three persons being employed regularly. The petition sets out that the income of the station is not less than $7,00 to $10,000 a month and that the payroll amounts to only about a month. Attorney General Thompson has con- cluded twelve volumes of briefs printed during the three and a half years he has been at the head of the legal department of state. These volumes average some- thing over 700 pages each. When he was attorney general Norrls Brown filled four volumes in two years and Attorney Gen- eral Prout compiled seven volumes in four years. The briefs In the express rate cases more than filled one entire volume. CHICAGOAN HURLS SELF FROM THIRTEENTH FLOOR John A. Ryerson, Prominent Business Man and Athlete, Commits Suicide In Tragic Manner. Personnel of the Board. Cox names the members of the !bwa Major James W. Wadsworth of W York, the president, for twenty years @ member of congress, chalrman of the committee on agriculture, one of the very wealthy citizens of New York state; Gen- eral Thomas J. Henderson of Princeton, I, o over % years old, twenty years a mem- ber of congress, oné of the most honored “‘Mr, A cltizens of that state, a man who was a, CHICAGO, May 17.—John A. Ryerson, a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln; my | Prominent Chicago business man, jumped humblo' selt from Nebraska, second vice | from the thirteenth floor of the Chamber president;. Colonel Walter P, Brownlow of |°f Comiaerce bullding tonight and was Jonesboro, Tenn., secretary; has been a|!NStantly —Killed. Relatives bolleve the Imember Of Gongress for the last {welve |*1cide was caused by supposed finarcial or fifteen years, is on the appropriation | Jificulties. s wife, who formerly was committee; John H. Holley of La Cro: | Miss Violet Stone, daughter of Rev. James Wis.,a-0n0. .00 ~4he. prominent. bankers of Stone, rector of the St. James Episcopal Wiscongin; Major Willam Warner of Kan. | CNUrch. Is prostrated and fears for her life " t | are expressed by her family. as City, Mo, Who s at present United | : : i tes. tonator: Colonel Henry H. Mar.| R¥erson came to Chicag about five years ago, soon after the death of - his father, George W. Ryerson, a member b of the New York Stock exchange. After f was presid; guging in various busine med an electrical’ company, of which he nt. and about a year and three months ago began the manufacture of auto- mobilcs. Business assoclates say that his affairs seemed to be in a flourishing condi- tion. s enterprises hé LEFFERT'S DIANMNOND X DEPARTMENT <} taken up golf, and last summer was frequent player on the links of the Onwent. sia club, of which he was a member. He was @ graduate of Columbla university. His wedding to Miss Stone was the easiern soclety event of 19 of every gem sokd. One pri to, | that _the lowest, ! Died of Pnenmonia” s never written of thoss who eure coughs |and colds with Dr. King's New Discovery. | Guaranteed. 3¢ and $100. For sale by Beaton Drug Co. FFERT LsM-LE OWAY. COUNCIL BLUPFS. . A.A.CLARK & CO. LOAN MONEY ON Eoesss, ourmix, s HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND ANY CHATTEL SECURITY AT ONE-HALF THE USUAL RATES, X Twenty Years of Successful Business CORNER MAIN AND BROADWAY, OVER AMERICAN EXPit IS, No connection with the firm calling themselves The Clark Mortgage Co, PHONES 217, JINO. P. TINLEY, Mgr. twenty- | K | Mr. Ryerson had attained considerable 3 fame In American tennis circles. He was than you_get l_nMete_ehe veers he had plaved little tennls, but had | Al THE BEE i SMITH DEFENDS REGULARS|Creamery Men |Iowa Congressman Opens Campaign with Criticism of Insurgents. Says Present fie Session Wil Be v Any Years—Hopes for Postal Prol ot in ue of Savings. VILLISCA, la., May 17.—Congressman | Walter 1. Smith opened ils campaign for | renomination here tonight with a vigorous defense of the regulars in congress and | eriticism of insurgency Judge Smith indieated that he will largely confine himself In his campaing to an ex- | position of the work of congress and to a defense of his course In the vital issues. | He regards the present session of congress as promising to be the most prolific of good of any In years. In the course of his talk tonight he said he felt that he | would be able to convince tHe voters that | they should support the administration of President Taft and not contribute to the further delay of great reform measures by weakening the strength of the regulars |in congress | “Between & ana % per cent of the re- | | | publicans in both houses of congress,” he said, “are loyally supporting the adminis- tration and that certainly ought to be some presumption in a republican form of government that %0 per cent is more apt to be right than 10 per cent.” Better Tariff Law. The speaker dwelt at length upon the tariff. He sald, among other things: “Every man who voted on the present tariff law was voting, not for the new law much as on the question whether the new law was better than the old one. Every man who voted against the present law voted to perpetuate the Dingley law, every man who voted against the new law voted for high duties on everything pro- duced by the Standard Oil company and every such vote against the maximum and | minimum tariff, by which, for the first time, we are getting falr trade relations with foreign countries, every vote against the present law was against the tax on corporations, which pow brings a revenue of about $25,000,000 a year."” Power of Commission. Regarding the tariff commission he said that he and Representative Tawney of Minnesota had prepared a provision now in the sundry civil bill, widening and ex- tending the powers of the commission. Re- garding the work of congress Judge Smith sald: “The railroad bill has passed the house in fairly good condition, and before con- gress adjourns I think a postal savings bank bill will be passed and at least one great conservation measure.” Judge Smith made a bitter attack on Sen- ator La Follette, whom he charged with being the “master muckraker.” He added that the real charge of Cannon and Aldrich adherents against himself had been that he would not be swerved by others than the 200,000 masters he acknowledged in his district. He sald that Roosevelt's big stick would soon fall on the opponents of Taft. 50 Answers “No” to Bribery Charge Representative Michael Link of Illi- nois Denies Allegations Before Grand Jury. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 17.—Representa- tive Michael Link, who was charged with refusing to reply to questlons put to him before the Sangamon grand jury, today answered “no” when at the suggestion of Judge Shirley in the circuit court the fol- lowing form of the question concerning the alleged senatorial bribery affair was asked him: “Did any person or persons in Sangamon county, Illinols, offer or promise you any money or other valuable consideration for your vote in the forty-sixth general assem- bly of this state for United States sena- tor?" Link appeared in circuit court in answer to the chargs against him, but before the lawyers finished thelr talks Judge Shirley suggested the form of question. Attorney Reid of State Attorney Way- man's force said he was willing his client should answer the question and Link was forthwith ushered before the grand jury and answered '‘no."” SOUTHERN METHODISTS ELECT THREE BISHOPS O Two Ministers from Virginia from Tennessee Chosen on Fourth Ballot. ASHEVILLE, N. C., May 17.—Rev. W. R. Lambuth of Tennessee and Rev. E. D. Mouzon and Rev. R. 4. Waterhouse of Virginia were elected bishops on the fourth | ballot at the general conference of the | Methodist Episcopal church (south), ac- cording to the announcement made shortly after the opening of the conference today. On the sixth ballot Rev. J. H. McCoy | of Birmingham, Ala., was elected as the seventh bishop, filling the college of bishops. TO HOLD REUNION OF [ VETERANS AT FLORENCE Villuge Chosen as Meeting Place for August Gathering by Douglas County Association. Plans for a reunion to be held at Florence in August by the Douglas County Veterans' association were laid ut a meeting held |in the city nall last nigi Several committee appointments were ! made. The exact time of the reunion has | not been set “We Lope to get speakers from among | the well known Grand Army men out in the state” said M. J. Feenan, secretary. | “Just who they will be we have not de- cided vet." | Foley Kidney Pil's are antiseptic. tonlo and restorative and a prompt corrective of | @il urinary irregularities. Refuse substi- ‘luun, For sale by all druggists, | calaurents sermon’ to the high sehoct clace will be preached next Sunday morning in | the Congregational church by Rev. J. W Ferrls. A class drama will be played in the opera house on Wednesday. The an- ! nual alumni banquet follows the next even- | Ing and graduating exercises Friday even- [ing in the Congregational church. Miss | Frances Wyman will give the class oration and Dr. Hugh A. Orchard will give an ad- Commencement at Tabor, TABOR, 1a, May 17.--(Special.)—The bac- | dress on “What Shall We Do with Our | Brain The names of the ten members of the class follow: Frances Wyman, adys Green, Lucy Smith, Helen Woods, | Gertrude Reeves, Ruby Asman, Ethel Chan. OMAHA SEES MUCH GOOD FROM CONGRESS | Most | . WEDNESDAY Oppose Change 1 in the Oleo Law | Ex-Congressman E. J. Hainer Appears Before Agricultural Committee on Proposed Act. ('rom WASHIN Statf Correspondent.) | gram.)—Bx-Ccrgressman E. J. Hainer of | Lircoln appeared before the agricultural |ccmmittee of the house today in opposi- | tion to any abolitlon or veduction of the |tax on oleomargarine. Mr. Hainer said he | represented very large creamery interests |of Nebraska and as president of the Lin- coln and othes creamerles which make 12,- 000,000 pounds of butter yearly he protested against any modification of the existing law. Major Harry C. Hale, adjutant general of the Department of the Lakes, Chicago, upon the arrival of rellef has been ordered to report to the commanding general of the Department of the Missouri at Omaha fo duty as adjutant general of that depart- ment James W. Welch was appointed postma ter at Georgetown, Custer county, Ne- braska, vice E. W. Pierce, removed. The secretary of ‘the treasury has awarded the contract for the construction of the public building at Lander, Wyo. to Tom Lovell of Denton, Tex., at $99,043. On the recommendation of Congressman Hinshaw, Dr. F. L. Beck has been ap- pointed pension examining surgeon at Geneva, Neb., vice Dr. B. B. Mozee, de- ceased A. H. Sargent of Cedar Rapids James A. Devitt of Oskaloosa, Ia., today admitted to practice before the su- preme court. Mrs, Norris Brown, ‘wife of Senator Brown, leaves for Nebraska tomorrow, go- ing to Lincoln first to see her daughters, who are attending the University of Ne- braska, before going to her home In Kear- ney. CHARLES FIRST, EDUCATED CHIMPANZEE, IS SMOTHERED Seen Ly Omahn Theater Crowds, Recently, Suf- foeated in Cnr. PORTLAND, Ore., May 17,.—Charles I,the famous educated Chimpanzee, valued at $65,000, which has been exhibited all over the world, was suffocated In a car last night while enroute from Seattle to this city. The animal-was found dead when the car was opened today, the heat from a steam radiator having proved too much for it. Charles I smoked cigarettes and signed his own name. and The TMigh Cost or Living Increases the price Of many necessities without improving the quality. Foley's Honey and Tar maintains Its high standard of excellence and its great curative qual- {ties without any Increase in cost. It Is the best remedy for coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough and all ailments of the throat, chest and lungs. The genulne fs in & yellow package. Refuse substitutes For sale by all druggists. IN, May 17.—(Special Tele-| were | 1R, 1010. NETHODISTS AFTER CRITICS| Board of Bishops Issucs Statement Fl] Covering Situation in Italy. ROOSEVELT'S VISIT THE CAUSE Reference with Made to Catholle that Missions | Are Open All Who May | { Enter. Attack | Statement | PHILADELPHIA, May 17.~The board of [ bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church through its secretary, Bishop L. B. Wil tonight issued an_officlal statement h had been prepared by the board at| | its meeting In Clicago, May 9 relative to the Itallan mission. The statement s the | son w outcome of tho recent controversy in Rome caused by the vieit of Colonel Roosevelt.) The statement follows ' | Deploring and at all times seeking to avold Interdenominational controversy, we | are, nevertheless, compelled to recognize | occasions when personal preference must vield to a propcr sense of officlal duty. We cannot allow to pass unnoticed the| | recent unprovoked and unwarranted at-| [tempt to discredit one of our most useful | missions by widely published accusations | which, if based upon truth, would bring dishonor upon the church which supports | that mission. We regret that, after repeated challenes for details of the specific acts supposed to | | Justify these charges, they still remaim in | such general terms that their validity can- | not be tested befors the judgment of the world. \We can only observe: | 1. That ordinarily the use of opprobri- preaching the gospel in its simplicity and cunducting schools where they are needed, | schools which recognize the piain teachings |of the New Testament as a supreme au thority in religlon and ethics, have long been followed by our missiol in South America and Mexico, as well as in Home, | and no such indictment has been brougnt against those missions, even to this day, 80 far as we are informed. 4. From these facts the inferunce ap-| pears to be Irresistible that other consider- {ations than the methods of our mission in Rome must have been the real cause of this suddeen outery. Possibly some urgency of diplomacy, lo- | cal in its origin, but far-reacning in' its| portent, required (his attack as a diversion from the real issue Involved. The facts that support this inference are | known to all who have followed the course of recent events in the city of Rome. Had there been any other way to avold certain jssues of etiquette and precedence created by coincident circumstances of a | public nature, the Methodist mission might nave escaped calumny and thus lost the | | valuable reecognition of its success. | Under such clrcumstances we enter upon no defense of our work in Italy and make no plea for abatcement of the judgment of the world, We deciine at the present time to enter upon any counter attack on the Roman Catholle church. We ask only that all fair men inter- ested in the ‘situation study for them- selves its methods of p traditional attitude o other Christian faiths. We believe that there are standards of | equity and moral rectitude by which, in the estimate of all progressive peoples, all re- liglons and all methods must be rated by what they contribute to iIntelligence and moral character. We now content ourselves with affirming out entire confidence in the moral integ- rity of our missionaries and methods in Italy and against the denunciations of thelr accusers we place the wide-open ropagandism and the that church toward rec bot New York Business Men Call “‘Heads' N the $200 representing the T oil stock bought for which A referee by ene d of the Methodist Epicco h as to teaching and meth ind throughout the world p to Settle Lawsuit and EW ry Y first t he litig the tte « the col e Now I'l | whether 1 pay you $2,50 to settle the whethe: Talls," “Talls it is,’ published hn A. Madden settled a flip of a penny Madden Madde: The copper fel tp Copper “Tails,” and “Tails” Wins $2,700. May 1% here, John ORK cording A. Gates laweult by today. (iates won $2,500 Another toss and he w costs of the & over $11000 worth Mudden by refused to nt had testified ber: suggested that they ec 1 who should pay for thy ef avcepted and cried M “Talls hrow ation a former | tlip you," sald Madden, “to r you settle it for nothing was Gates answer said Madden needed, SMOKE FROM FOREST FIRE HINDERS LAKE NAVIGATION | Flames Ra ployed by at Plain the company's with dJ(tv:\I\ 8 Is suggestive of anger rather | in Woodlands of Michig Doing of reason. That the methods of our.mission In B bl s L Italy, now for the first time thus publicly | HOUGHTON. Mich May iT.-Forest firer condemned, are (he same that have been (which apparently had died have started Uyt eglniing, o orty | oot i ‘§‘,a:.‘lz‘”.‘u’“ the beginuing, almost forty again with renewed fury. The fire Is gel |73 That the same methods, namely,fting close to the city. Today men em-| the Champl ate fought bo ck the flames fr property. A number houses were destroyed obscured vigation on Lake Superior is made aif- ficult because of the smoke, the sun being Unless heavy rains country, It Is feared, are doomed. P ALUM saved several struction by vicinity of Calumet and Lake Linden have been fighting fire two days. small settlements from forest fires, Farmers in The situat! here {s much improved. Together they visited the referee to tell him his services were no longer Incrensing Fury Mining company come soon many of the smaller towns in the copper . Mich., May 17.—Rain tonight It you see'it in onr DO YOU KNOW? Perhaps you do Perhaps you don't That we have rn (mmenss stook of Silverware and Cut Glass, suitabie for Wedding resents—Chest Silver or in oxes, containing a dozen ieces. 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