The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1906, Page 2

JCOON TELLS OF CANAL ZONE il Governor of the Isthmian Strip Appears Before the Senate Board of Inquiry| SCRIBES CONDITIONS | il Explains the Court System and Monetary Arrangement hy Made the Commission E cana Com- anals to-day and with In Mil- nectior ani- The whether the by the Isthmia right were tried and « ' by Governor Ma- nited s had ey ¥ »ple yrth 100 worth Ma- became t immediate- w 3overnor the United sub-trea Magoon that to dis- the 1se was other cireu- Governor pped logical free o Mr. Cleve- tor Morgan. He had but after a rvation as he Mr. Cleveland most ————— New Banking N 0 Law Passed. Rul the General a bill to Com of to pass Bank against ar MeAvoy Now at Head of Tammany. NEW YORK, Feb Thomas F. Mc- s ¥ Deputy Commis- r McClel- to-day e com- position DOAN’S PILL DANGER IN DELAY Kidney Diseases Are Too Dangerous for San Francisco People to Neglect. e at danger of kidney trou- bles is they get a firm hold be- re the fferer recogmizes them. adually undermined, back- 1 nervousness, lame- umbago, urinary trou- es y. diabetes and Bright's ease »w in merciless succes- Jon't neglect your kidneys. dneys with the certain and edy, Doan’s Kidney Pills,| s cured people right here in V. Powell of 272 Harriet ys: “I know of a case of kid- 1 probably due to e ¢ of a cold, where Pills were used and ¢ stopped very severe! aching oss the small of the back.! This was some months ago, and since 1 there has not been any indica-| return. T have seen ac- ounts in our mnewspapers -in San Francisco of others who were just as ronounced in their estimation of Kidney Pills as L” le by all dealers. Price 50 ) Milburn Co., Buffalo, | w York, sole agents for the Unued: States, ] Remember the name, Doan’s, and Using D™ Graves’ Tooth Powder twice daily will remove tartar, whiten and brighten the teeth, harden the gums and make brown teeth white. Most peoplé use it | twice-a-day. Ask a dentist why. l In handy metal cans or bottles, 25¢. Dr. Graves’ Tooth Powder Co. ! of | an’s | Ne {Report of Attack | congidering the urgent deficiency bill, | 000 to be expended for additional bar- NEELS Miss Helen Keller Must Abandon Her Work Noted Blind Woman Is 'on Verge of Collapse. Eagel o4 WARRENTHAM, Mass., Feb. The physical and mental &train of her course at Radcliffe College and the subsequent work which Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and blind woman, has been doing to aid those - similarly afflicted has caused ill- wess upon the-part of Miss Keller. Her physician has ordered a long period of rest, and in accordance with his s all work which Miss Keller i and several engagements to public mectings in ald of the nd have been given up. Miss Keller'’s condition was reported as appear b at siightly improved this afternoon. Dr. Macey explained that the young woman had no disease, but was suffering from exhaustion. He did not consider Miss Keller's condition dangerous dr so serious as to occasion alarm among her friends. FINDS NEW 108 FOR UNCLE SAM Leading English Periodical Wants Him to Assume the Task of Policing Morocco - LONDON, Feb. 9—The Statist, one of the leading financial weeklies of Great Britain, deals this week with the Alge- ciras conference in a long leader. The article predicts a failure to reach a con- clusion satisfactory to France and con- sequently continued uneasiness in the commercial world, while at the same time the writer belleves that war will not re- & The point of the Statist's conclusions | is that President Roosevelt alone can save the situation, “just as he alone was able to bring about peace between Russia and Japan.' The Statist, after dealing with the crux | of the situation, namely, the policing of Moracco, upholds France's right to de- mand that she should be given power to maintain order and to maintain a police force. The paper does not believe from present indications that Germany will yield the point, that country preferring to | miliate France, with the result of tving d the immense h up for an indefinite pe: sums of money mnow held inactive In rrance The small powers,” says the article, “are afraid to meddle between Germany and France and England cannot do any- thing that would seem contrary either_to the spirlt or the letter of the Angio- French agreement Russia too much to do at home Hungary Is too much dis- There remains, then, only the United States. If the United States is willing to undertake the policing of Mo- rocco everybedy will hail with joy her reawmess to assume an unpleasant re- sponsibility for the sake of preserving the peace of the world Jody would to dictate to the United States, attemy yet everybody knows that the United States is impartial and by undertaking the policing would not entangle herself- in treaties, would not incur any danger and would not impose upon herself any grat- uitous expense, In turn she would sweep away the danger of war between two great European nations—a war, which, if it broke out, would iIn all probability spread and ultimately become world- wide. We trust that for the sake of main- taining the world’s peace the United States will willingly depart from its settled poliey. CHINESE MISSIONS SUFFER BIG DAMAGE by the Orientals at Changpu Confirmed. PEKING, Feb. 9.—A dispatch from Amoy to-day confirms the report of the destruction of the English Presbyterian and Roman Catholic missions at Chang- pu, thirty miles from Amoy, by a mob de- scribed as having been composed of Box- ers. The damage amounts to $50,000. The American missions were uninjured. De- tails are lacking. The sentiment in the neighborhood of Changpu is hostile to foreigners, and it is considered strange that the American mis- sions were not molested, as the boycott of American goods is strong there. — TAFT ANXIOUS OVER CHINA. Asks for. Addities Barracks Manila, but Is Réfused. WASHINGTON, Feb. .—When Secre- tary Taft was before the Senate Com- mittee on Appropriations, which was Nesr he requested an appropriation of $10 racks and quarters for the army at or near Manila. When asked as to the: necessity for this appropriation he stated that the situation ‘n China was such that it might be necessary at any time to send troops there and that it would be wise to have troops near to be used for that purpose. The com- mittee did not think it expedient to! make the appropriation at this time, The report of the committee when peinted will be referred to the Commit- ! tee on Philippines, as it is thought by some such importance that the Committee on Philippines should take it up and con- sider it, . —_——— ES TO GIVE BABY GIRL INTO CUSTODY OF MOTHER Judge Gesford Believes Little One Is Hetter Off With Her Grand- purents. AUBURN, Feb. §.—Mr. and Mrs. Jo- seph Cumberland of San Francisco were some time ago divorced and thelir baby girl was turned over to her grandmother, Mrs. Williams of Ophir, Recently the Cumberlands were r united and delmanded the child. Mrs. Williams refused to give up the little one and the Cumberlands sued out a writ of habeas corpus. Mr. and Mrs. Williams appeared in court with the REFUS| | 8irl to-day. They had no attorney and made no answer and the attorney for the Cumberlands demanded a/default, Judge Gesford investigated, and, learn ing that the mother was not a fit per- son to care for the child, announced that, Jaw or no law, he would not com- plel the grandmother to give up the lit- tle one. Senators that the matter .is of | THE SAN' FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1906 DOCTOR SAYS SHE LONG REST —-— & % ND WOMAN WHO IS IN MENTAL COL- NOTED BI THE VERGE OF LAPSE. CUSTON-HOUSE SCANDAL ARED Sulzer’s Resolution Calling for an Investigation Is Taken Up in Committee e PPN WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—A hearing was held to-day before the House Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds on the resolution introduced by Representative Sulzer of New York, in regard sale of the old New York Custom-house property. The resolution called for in- formation as to when the deed was exe- cuted, where it was deposited and why it has not been recorded in New York Coun- ty. and for information in connection with the sale of the property Sulzer stated to the committee that the authorities in New York have not been able to find when the deed was executed or where it was deposited or any infor- mation concerning it. He also assailed the Treasury Department for the trans- action, pronouncing it an unspeakable outrage on the Government-and on the city of New York. He stated that the property was worth $6.000,000 when it was sold and is worth $10,000,000 now.. He stated that more than $1,000000 had al- ready been. paid to the National City Bank for rent. He further stated that not a-dollar had been paid for the prop- | erty by the National City Bank. He de- clared that there ought to be an investi- gation by Congress of the whole affair. Secretary Taylor of the Treasury De- partment replied to the charges. In the first place, he said, no deed ever had been executed, therefore it could not be deposited anywhere and could not be recorded. The reason the deed had not been executed was because the property was not fully pald for, and under the con- tract the National City Bank was not corhpelled to make final payment and get the deed until the new Custom-house was completed. In reply to the charge that the National City Bank had not paid a dollar for the property, Taylor said the full amount had been actually transferred to the credit of the Governmenf at the Sub-Treasury in New York, making a payment as com- plete as though the actual currency had been pald over. Taylor stated that the transaction connected with the sale of the Custom-house property was as clean and intelligent a transaction as any ever made by a publie officer. The resolution of Sulzer provides that the Attorney General shall furnish infor- mation about the deed. The committee agreed to make a favorable report on Sulzer's resolution after it shall have been amended so that the Secretary of the Treasury is the officlal on whom in- formation concerning the Custom-house sale shall be sought. ————— ANNAPOLIS ACADEMY TO BE INVESTIGATED Congress Appoints Conimit- tee to Report Upon Its Management. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Secretary Bonaparte has decided that while sev- eral of the midshipmen whom the board of investigation found to have been im- plicated in the hazing of fourth cla men will be technically placed under arrest, they will not be court-martialed at once, if at all. The Secretary ‘prob- ably will be willing to suspend action at Annapolis for a reasonable time to afford opportunity for investigation. The House Committee on Naval Af- fairs to-day adopted the following reso- lution: A Resolved, That a sub-co appolnted by the chair tnn‘m:::fg gun‘;..v: academy 7t once to examine and report up-n the discipline and management of the academy ard to report to this committee at the. earliest possible time, . Chairman Foss of.Illinois has ap- pointed the following. members of the ‘sub-committee: Representatives Vree- land, New York (chairman); Loud, Michigan; Dawson, Iowa; %Padgett, Tennessee; Greg, Te: The sub-committee. will go to Ann- apolis next week. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb. 9.—It is of- ficially stated at the Naval Academy that first honors in studies. will be taken in the graduating class this year by Allen Chaniry Jr. of Malvern, Towa. Among the first seven graduates with “‘star rank’” having received 85 per cent as an aggregate in all subjects, was William C. Barker Jr. of Salt Lake City, Three midshipmen who are members of the first class will have charges of haz- ing lodged against them to-morrow and twélve more have been found deficient in one or more branches of study. An even hundred wilt receive their diplomas from Secretary Bonaparte on Monday. Among the graduates are; Carroll 8. Graves, Fred M. Perkins, Salem, Or.; P. Scudder, ol North Yakima, = Wash. ‘wood A N 4 Francise and Raleigh E. Hughes. Portland, Or. No standing is assigned to Midshipman Vietor N. Metcalf of Oakland, Cal, as he has been 1ll and has not completed hig lons. examinatis T i to the | MIEBILL 1S FAVORE * BY PERKI s Senator, However, Points Out Inadvisability of Declar- ing for Measure Before It EXPLAINS SITUATION IN RECENT LETTER Addressed Communieation on Subject to the Pres dent of Board of of the City of Redlands I Special Disparch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.--Senator Per- kins and other members of the California delegation have received numerous re- quests from boards of trade-and various other commerecial organizations of Cali- fornia to give their support to this or that bill which has been introduced in one or the other branch of Congress re- lating to the railroad rate question. In response to a request of this character from the president of the Board of Trade of Redlands, Senator Perkins has written the following letter, which explains it- self: LETTER OF THE SENATOR. WASHINGTON, D. C.,. Feb. 3, 1806, Hon. P H. Kingsbury, Président Board of Trade, Redlanas, Cal My Dear Sir: I am In receipt of your tele— | gram of the 24 inst., stating that the Redlands Board of Trade favors the Dolliver railroad rate bill and asking for iz wy Support. In reply 1 would say that 1 am always glad to have made known to me the opinions of the | people of California, whom I, In part, repr | sent, on all important questions before Co | Bress. for I recognize the fact that my func tion ‘and duty here is to make effective the wishes of the majority of california’s citizens. Such ex ed opinions are a great help and guide on all occasion and always receive my | respectful attention and consideration. | But in many instances involving a complica- | tion of mterests, policies and polities, it some- times happens Ui | these ¢ n a bet nicting conditions, is, or ought to be, situation to matter from a distance and who are impressed strongly by the | public press. |~ The proposed railroad rate legislation Is an | example In point, There have already been | introduced six bilis ip the Senate and ‘séven— | teen In the Houee providing for rafiraad legis- |iation. Each approaches the subject from a | difterent point of view and each contains pro- vizlons worthy of .consideration. ~ All, of course, | cannot pase, and mo ane will, it i probable, be | passed as introduded. -as hundreds of propoeed | amendments are pending. -No one, therefore, | can tell in advatige wnat will be the fina: shape | of any bill when put.on its final passage, and it would be injudictous and often productive | of disastrous resulfs“to bina myself to support any measure as presented to Congress. It one | were to do so, he -woula often be compelied 0 vote for a bill which i, entirely different in effect from that 'to wmien he pledged his support. 5 g 3 In the case whielr fe raised by your telegram | this fact 1s prominent. The Dolliver bl which you advocate, when presented had cer’ tain, provisioms. which me: with your approval, but when. sent to committee the work —of analysis and amendment began, and: when {t is reported back—if It should be reported at all —it may contain and Is likely to contaln some radical amendments. Its author himsel? does not know what form the committee will ulti- mately give it or whether another bill will not be revorted in its vlace. It wou'd, therefore, be injudicious to bind myself to a4 measure which might in the end bear hardly any resemblance to the original except the name of Its sponsor, And in the case of such vital legisiation as that in question Incomplgte reports through I think it the duty of legislators to keep themseives free to support any bill which con- taing the spirit of reforms desired rather than | one whose title is the only thing that Indicates | its purpose. Of all the bills that bave thus far been in- troduced, the Hepburn bill, now before the House, is the onl surmised with any degree of certainty. the opinfon here ihat it will come to the Sen- ate_without, change of its provisions, and with prattically the unanimous approval of the lower house and the administration. NATURE OF BILL DESIRED. If such should be the case, an effort to sub- stitute for it a bill bearing the name of Sena- tor Dolilver, which might not after all be the bill criginally introduced by him, would be unavailing, und such influence as a Sena- tor'might possess would be frittered away and no leglslation at all might be the ultimate ré- sult. As T understand the position of the people of California, they desire the enactment of legis- lation which will cure the evils growing out ot the present methods of raflroad management. If T am not mistaken, they will be satisfled with ‘any bill which will cure these 'evis, whother it has the name of this Congressman or that Senator. Results, in fact, are desired. is results that I LB gravely doubted had. would say here that it whether it would bring the results desired— in fact, that the railroads would be likely to is be more gratified than the people by fts passage, as it is now taking shape. T therefore think that the people of Cali- fornia will best cerve thelr own Interests by not insisting upon the passage of any bill that may not even be reported, but by walting until measure Is finajly formulated and is present- ed in shape for final action. Omly then can it be knewn what' kind of legislation is in the way of enactment: As T understand the temper of California shippers, they desire a raliroad commission on which the coast interests are represented, with power to fix a maximum rate which shall stand until overruled by the courts: that the rates for transpcrtation of property shall be jusc and reagonable, that there shail be no diserim- Ination in rates between shippers, and all re- bates off of sublished tariff rates and classi- fication shall e prohibited, and no special car privileges given to favored shippers. I belleve the people of Califonia will be sat- isfled with the passage of a bill no matter by what neme It may be called, that will ac- complish this end. Very truly yours, GEORGE C. PERKINS, ————————— ARMY ORDERS. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Army or- First Lieutenant John A. Mur- , assistant surgeon, in addition to his present duties, will take charge of the medical supply depot at San Fran- cisco during the absence of Lieutenant Colonel Louis Brechemin, deputy sur- geon general, who fs on sick leave. —_——————— Calitornia Postmasters Appointed, WASHINGTON, Feb. 8—The follow- ing California postmasters were ap- pointed to-dav: Kast Pasadena, Los Angeles County, George B. Tuthill; Glenburn, Shasta County, John H. Creighton. JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 9.—Fifty-five na- tives were drowned to.day owing to the flood- ing of South Rose, & deep gold mine. e N THE CALL DINNER SETS READY FOR DELIVERY. m&v_mslc;lflod-’“of Lt nner have just Vi These handsome n Assumes [ts Final Form Trade! t one who is in the midst of | udge of the proper | | course of action than those who look at the | URCENCY BIL PASSES SEMATE Measure Providing for De- capes ~ Material HOLDS Change BRIEF SESSION Patterson Says Canal Will Be Built at Fearful Cost of Both Money and Life WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Almost the entire session of the Senate to-day was devoted to th® consideration of the ur- gent deflciency appropriation bill, which was passed practically as it was reported from the Committee on Ap- propriations. The only discussion in connection with the bill was over an amendment suggested by Patterson to | strike out the provision relieving alien wovkmen on the canal from the opera- | tion of the eight-hour-day law. Pat- terson contended that to require men to labor mere than eight hours a day in the tropics was inhuman and urged that the reauirement would do injus- tice to American labor. Several Sena- tors on both sides of the chamber con- | troverted the position. The amendment was voted down | without resorting to a rolleall. At the beginning of to-day's session Foraker presented an amendmént to the statehood bill directing the method | of proceeding in Arizona and New Mexico on the auestion of admission. It directs that within thirty days after the approval of the statehood bill the | Governors of the two Territories shull respectively cail elections for submit- tipg the quiestion of statehood. Voters of ‘the two proposed States shall vote separately, and the union shall not be consumnihited until a majority of the votes in each Territory are cast in the affirmative. ‘\ Money opposed Patterson’s amend- ment relative to relieving alien work- men on. the canal. “What it all means in plain, brutal English is that there is being prepared |on the isthmus a slaughter-house for | aliens and that the canal is to be built lat a fearful cost. not only of money, | but of life,” responded Patterson, in persisting in his amendment. Gallinger called attention | statement of the canal that sanitary conditions on mus were much improved, terson replied that | did not correspond with the testimony | given to Senators. Tillman also took issue with Patter- son, saying that “when the Senator makes an appeal for alien la- bor he would better look a littie closer home and consider the American la- borer, who in the end must pay for building the canal.” | Patterson withdrew the amendment | he had offered, and offered another fix- ing the limit.of a day’'s labor on canal | work at ten hours instead of eight. | The amendment was lost. | _’l‘lllman expressed dissatisfaction | with, the relationship between the Ca- nal Commission and the Panama Rail- road Company, and sald he hoped the Canal Commission would find means of unifying the canal and the road. + Hale agreed with the statement made by Tillman as to the desirability of "dolng away with the dual arrangement. | The bill was then passed. and at 3:08 | P- m. the Senate went into executive | | Session, and at 3:15 adjourned until IMundayA to the officials the isth- and Pat- e SENATORS CLASH. Rate Bill. WASHINGTON, Feb. Committee on Interstate Commerce to- day began consideration of the Hepbury rate bill, which passed the House ygster- day. To-day was'devoted to the first sec. tion, which describes the kind of trans- | portation to which the act shall apply. »Several amendments were suggested by Senators unfriendly to the bill, but none was voted on to-day. It is generally con- ceded that the Hepburn bill with only a few modifications will have a majority report when the committee votes next Friday. It became evident during the discussion of the various amendments that the ar- rangements to discuss the bill next week would accomplish no important result, so great were the differences of the oppo- nents and champions of the bill. Senators Clapp and Dolliver charged that the amendments were offered to obstruct the pertection of a bill that stands a good chance to become a law. Senator Aldrich replied that the amend- ments had been offered seriously, where- upon Senator Clapp announced that he would “waste no more time" in the con- sideration of the bill, but would be pres- | ént to vote on the measure on February |16, He then left the commitiee room. | After the departure of Senator Clavp Senator Dolliver took the commeittee to task for its “levity” in considering rail- road rate legislation. He called attention to the fact that the committee had been conducting hearings since last summer and had not arrived at any agreement. He charged that some members of the committee did not appear to desire an agreement. Objection was made by Senator Aldrich to the charge that “levity” had been displayed, and he said that he had been serious in everything that he had of- fered. Warming to the defense of his sincerity, he said that he would talk in any manner he pleased in discussing the proposed legislation and would not be called to account by Senator Dolliver. The Iowa Senator, who is the particu- lar champion of the Hepburn bill, with emphasis replied that he, too, would choose his own language and characterize as he chose the methods that he said had been resorted to. Chairman Elkins, who had participated in the early dispute, rapped for order, and a few minutes later the committee adjourned. s S Sennte Confirms Nominati WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The Senate in executive session to-day confirmed the following nominations: Brigadier generals—Palmer G. Wood, Eleventh Infantry; Henry A. Reed, artillery corps; Willlam E. Birkheimer, artillery corps, —e Shot In Quarrel Over Dice. DENVER, Feb. 9.—Thomas Johnson, traveling agent for a hook comipany of Chicago, was shot and fatally wounded early to-day in a saloon by Policeman Charles Secrest. Secrest was oft duty, and had quarreled with John- son over a game of dice. Johnson was hot three times and died on the way 0 the hospital. Secrest refused to sub- mit to arrest until a detail arrived from beadquarters. —_—— British Cotton Men Raise Wages. LONDON, Feb. 9.—The mill owners of the northern counties have granted the cotton operatives an increase of wages amounting to 21 per cent, commencing with May. The increase affects 150,000 operatives. This is the first time in thirty years that they have been placed ficiency Appropriation Es-| these statements | Colorado | Aldrich and Dolliver Spar Over '..' 9.—The Senate | SMOOT PLANS Witnesses in Effort to Hold Seat in the Senate PROSECUTION RESTING R e All Evidence Against the Man From Utah Presented Before the Committee RS S 5 WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The introduc- tion of testimony against Senator Reed Smoot of Utah was closed by the protest- ants’ counsel to-dey. A. S. Worthington. Wwho represents the Senator, said he was not ready to proceed, but that he would communicate with Chatrman Burrows within a few days. The character of the evidence coffered this session, said Worth- fngton, had convinced him of the desira- bility of calling witnesses for the defense. With referenceito the list of the members of the Utah conmstitutional convention, members of the Legislature and State offi- cers charged to have been polygamists, Worthington sald that it might be neces- sary to call from 100 to 200 witnesses to disprove the testimony of the prosecution unless the committee permitted the flling of afidavits. He said that Senator Smoot was anxious. that the case should be closed and that there should not be one day of unavoidable delay. C. A. Smurthwaite of Ogden was called | for cross-examination by Worthington to- day. The witness said the usual course n settling difficuitien between members | of the church is to lay complaints with | the teachers of the ward in which the | eggrieved persons reside, and the Bishop, | after aearing the complaint, ordinarily in- structs the teachers to do everything in | their power to adjust the differences. | Worthington asked Mr. Smurthwaite if he had any reason to belleve his trouble with President Smith over their rival salt | interests could not have been adjusted in | the same way. The witness replie | ““Yes, my knowledge of the leaders of | | the church convinced me that was impos- | sible.” | Senator Knox then inquiréd of the wit- ness if Smith had followed up his threat to ruin Smurthwaite because the latter insieted npon continuing in the salt busi- ness. He said his company went on and made salt, but its competitors reduced the price of crude salt from $8 to $2 a ton. | The witness said his company had been compelled to plie up his production. effcet, he said, was to Injure his credit and depreciate the value of.the stock of | the eompany. Aftér expiaining the tith- ing gystem of the Mormon church, Emurthwaite was asked if the tithes were investéd in ¢orporations. “1 am fearful that they are,” he replied. He estimated that tithing brought the church a revenue of from $1500.000 to | $2000000 a year, but mo accounting had beer made so far he knew. ek INSURANCE CONSIDERED. Committee Takes Up the Question of Natlonal Control. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. —Acting un- | der instruction of the House, the Ju- diciary Committee to-day began an in- vestigation in ‘erder that it may re- port whether or not Congress has the power to provide Federal control of in- surance. That this authority does not exist was maintained by R. W. Breck- | enridge of Omaha. Nebr., chairman of the insurance committee of the Amer- jcan Bar Association. The opposite view of the question was presented to the committee by George Whitlock of Baltimore. The | | sent to its insurance committee for | consideration a resolution | Federal control of insurance illegal and { unconstitutional under the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. Whitlock was the author of that reso- lution and presented that view to-day. show that the insurance business was national and not local In character. Of twenty of the largest insurance com- panies, he said, but 15 per cent of their business was done in the States wherein they were chartered. Whitlock contended that the Amer- jean Bar Association had not com- mitted itself upon the question and that if the Supreme Court had ever estab- lished any doctrine it was that Insur- ance was not commerce. Three Chief Justices and twenty Associate Justices had all gone on record to that effect. PRGN R AMENDS TARIFF ACT. House Places American Cotton Goods on Equality With Foreign Products. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The House to-day ground out its usual semi- monthly grist of private pensions, pa: ing in seventy-two minutes 429 bills for the benefit of veterans who are barred for one reason or another from coming in under the gemeral statutes. Seventy-five per cent'of the bene- This order, with a number of minor bills and the passage of two amend- ments to the Philippine tariff act of 1905, constituted the transactions of the day. as the cost of production is concerned, with European goods. Low grades of shoes were admitted at a lower tariff. The House adjourned until Monday. st g 2 Beavers’ Trial Again Postponed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The trial of George W. Beavers, former State Senator George E. Green of Binghamton, N.. Y., and W. D. Doremus on Indictments alleg- ing fraud in connection with the letting of postal contracts, which was set for Mecnday next, has been postponed until the following Monday. The | Bar Association by a vote of 113 to 29 | declaring | Brocentiue mrien v Waeoa m"clected to Parliament for Aberdeen ficiaries are either blind or bedridden. ! The tariff amendments place Amer- ! ican cotton goods on an equality, so far | s DEFENSE AN May Call Over One Hundred [Action Commeneced Year Ago KANSAS DROPS TA FE SUT Against the Railroad Is Dismissed Without Trial COMPANY TO PAY COST Alleged Violations of the State Anti-Trust Laws Are Not to Be Investigated S WITSR ke TOPEKA, Feb. 9.—The suit against the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, brought by the State of Kan- sas to oust that company from the State, which was commenced at Sedan, Kan., nearly a year ago, was dismissed at Se- dan to-night. The railroad company agrees to pay ail the costs. The sult was brought by the State on information filed by the County Attorney of Chautauqua County, alleging violations of the State anti-trust laws, naming more than thirty transportation and car line companies with which, it was alleged, the Santa Fe had traffic agreements. The action was commenced at the time !l‘ State was swept by anti-Standard O sentipient and was backed at first by the Ka State Ofl Producers’ Assoclation. GENERAL EATON, EDUCATOR, DIES IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON. Feb. 9 John Eaton, a distinguished véteran and noted educator, to-day, aged 77 years. At one time ho was editor of the Memphis Post. In 1876 he became United States Commis- sloner of Education, which position he held for sixteen years, and afterward became president of Marietta Collexv. in Ohio, and of Sheldon Jackson Col- lege, Salt Lake City. FHe established the educational system of Porte Rico under the military occupancy of the United States and became Superintend- ent of Public Instruction there. s S e Death Calls 0. C. Ellison. EL PASO, Tex., Feb. $—0. C. Elli- son, one of the founders of the National Irrigation Congress, California Com missioner to the Chicago World's Fair and the Commissioner who collected tho Scandinavian art exhibit for the same exposition, died yesterday at Guaymas. Sonora, Mexico. He was the husband of Edith M. Nicholl, the novelist. ar in boyhood lived on an adjoining estai to Ibsen in Norway. et Death of a Ploneer Educator. ivil War died heve SANTA FR®SN. Mex., Feb. 9.—Peter Schneider, aged years, a ploneer educator of the Southwest, dled this afternoon. FHe was a member of the Territorial Board of Education and was rresident of St. Michaal's College of the Christian Brothers for several decades. He¢ was a natlve of Alsace-Leorraine. S ety P ey Glenn County Farmer Dead. WILLOWS, Feb. 9.—John MeMartin, a promimnent farmér of westéern Glenn County, dled suddenly last night. He was on his way home from a business trip to Willows when he was stricken with paralysis S L Countess Howe Dies in Londen. LONDON, Feb. 5—The Countess Howe, who was Georgiana Elizabeth | Spencer-Churchill, daughter of the seventh Duke of Marlborough and aunt of the present Duke of Marlborough, died to-day. L e Prominent English Journalist Dies. LONDON, Feb. 9.—James Annand. a prominent Journalist, who recently was in dled here to-day. the Liberal interest. Cockrell's WAKRENSBURG, Feb. 8.—Mrs. ator F. M. Cockrell, died at her he: , here to-day. She was 77 years of age. KING OF PORTUGAL ADJOURNS ' PARLIAMENT Session Brought to Close as Result of Disorderly Secenes. LISBON. Feb. 9.—King Charles to-day, as u resuit of the recent disorderly scenes and obstruction in the Chamber of Depu- ties, signed a decree which was subse- quently read in the Chamber, ordering t dissolution of Parllament. The Couneil o State is considering the situation, but no further action has been decided upon. —_———— Garfield’s Report Read. CHICAGO, Feb. 9—The reading of the report of Commissioner Garfleli was finished in the packers’ case jus. before adjournment to-day. A rece was taken uniil Tuesday, when the first witness to he placed upon the stand will probadly be Edward Cudahy of Omaha. Mo., Mary Ann Tapscott, a sister of ex-Sep —_—————————— To Cure a Cold in One TIV. LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets S‘,;?..mmmqnuhmwm B. W. GROVE'S signature is on each box. 28¢.* e — WARREN, Ohfo, Feb. 9. —Charles C. Deigan, arrested recently on the charge of being im- plicated_in the murder of Roiand K. Lewis, a wealthy farmer and stock dealer at West Farmington, Obio, has that he killed Lewls, DOUBLE, = divide your on the full wage standard adopted fifty i TROUBLE