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DEATH CALLS BlBBBBillBaHay |HEH " 4'^ JJ m^B^ II | g4 J ^B ^^^^B -?22B2&r^^H v:-**%5flH H f^^^B , , jMBHaBl^Ki "r n v"rfMri^Jn i. i ? ,/jj SENATOR SAMl'E of the people of hie state during his long Mfe. Born at Monroe. La.. May 'Jx, 1S37, and educated at Spring Hill College near Mobile, A'a., he began public service by entering the Lnited States Naval Academy. After completing his course there be went to the University of Virginia and graduated from the State and National Law School at Poughkeepsie. He entered the Confederate army early In the civil war and served as a lieutenant in Virginia under Magrudrr and under the transmissiasippi Department. At the close of the war he took up the practice of law In his native city, and xcept when he was holding public office, continued in the practice until his death. In 18?.? he was nominated for lieutenant governor, and. with L. A. Wiltz as governor, was elected. October, 1881, the governor died and he succeeded him in the state's executive mansion. He was elected governor in 1884. He was a candidate for renomination at the end cf his four-year term, but was defeated for the nomination by Gen. Francis T. Nicholls. Gen. Nicholls was elected, and one ot the new governor's first appointments was that of S. D. McKnery to be associate justice of the supreme court cf the state for a term of twelve years. He was nominated by the democratic party for governor in 1W2, but was defeated by the anti-lottery party. At the seeslon of the legislature in 1SSW he was nominated by the democratic caucus for 1 Mil I (MMimilN Villi Ibb WW! ? lliw IVI l THANKFULLY RECEIVED Fourth of July Committee in Accord With Spirit of Donor of Quarter. A most welcome subscription to the fund for the celebration of a safe and aane Fourth of July was a 2-Vcent piece from some one signing "Takoma Park Cltisen." The committee was glad to get it, because it showed that the hint that "every little bit helps" had begun to take effect. This small subscription was quickly followed by others, ranging from 5 cents to m dollar. Spirit Pleases Committee. . The Takoma Park man wrote a letter with his subscription which expresses the ( view of the committee so well that it was given for publication: "Too many of us perhaps think that j our mite would not count, and we refrain 5 from sending our dime because we cannot send our dollar. "Undoubtedly the many thousands who will enjoy the celebration would like to have a part by contributing their dimes, quarters, halves or dollars, if urged to do so by the committee. It would be simple for people to contribute 51 j each, which would megn $1,000; if 2,000 give SO cents each, another $1,000 Is obtained. It would take 4,?)00 twenty-five cent subscriptions to raise $1,000 and in.iam ten-cent subscriptions. ' t "If the people of WashinRton had i i looked at It that way from the first andj ; had contributed steadily in small amounts i i the committee would have no trouble inj raising the necessary $.1,000," 91,000 Is Still Needed. Although only $1,000 remains to be raised, the committee will face a deficit unless the returns increase. The money is coming in at the rate of S10O a day. The swimming races now appear assured. Dr. Hudson, superintendent of ' the bathing beach, said this morning that the new pools would be ready before the end of this week. ( Dr. Wlber. chairman of the athletic committee, is receiving entries for the events by almost every mail. Small boys appeal* to be taking tremendous interest. CONGRESS TO BE TOLD OF DISTRCT'S \IEEDS Special Chamber of Commerce Subcommittee to Work Out New Plan. 1 In order to frame a plan whereby the Interests of the District of Columbia may be brought more prominently before Congress and needed legislation may be enacted a subcommittee of the committee < on law and legislation of the Washington Chamber of Commerce has been appointed by A Leftwleh Sinclair, chairman of , the committee. The subcommittee consists of James F. Oyster, chairman; Per- 1 rival M. Brown. William T Galliher. 1 Walter B. Guy, Robert N. Harper, George H. Judd. Ralph W. Dee, Thomas C. , Xoyes, Paul C. Patterson, Jackson H. Ralston. Arthur E. Randle, Joseph Rich- ' ardson, Alonzo Tweedale, George W. White and J. Louis Willlge. The failure of Congress at the session ( just ended to enact Into law a number of bills which were of great interest to 1 the people of Washington has led to this 1 action on the part of Mr. Sinclair. A i large number of plans will he considered i by the subcommittee for caring for the interests of the people of the National Capital, among them a plan to elect delegates to Congress whose duty It will be to urge the needs of the District upon the floor of the Senate and House. The subcommittee will make its report to the fall committee, and that committee will in turn make recommendations to the chamber next fall. * f I LAWMAKER. o: v . ; >- j. T-ljt ^ wj tlCTMSK'PM K unru mr uciiiurici ui uie -LSiSir^Jl IU :he bank's petition. Although an appeal will be taken by Ihe bank, as the matter is a test case in which all the banks are Interested, fhe District officials believe they have won the first steps of a big victory. Views of Assessor. Assessor Richards said this morning that the District had been taxing banks and trust companies on the money derived from the interest on their capital, tiieir surplus and undivided profits because the District believes that all income should be called "gross earnings." The banks have held that the cnly "earnings" a bank can have is the money earned from deposits. Assessor Richards has taken the opposite view. The national banks have been taxed 6 >er cent on their gross earnings and the rust companies ti per cent. The incorx>rated savings banks have been taxed 1 per cent on their gross earnings, less nterest paid to depositors. The law provides that the Interest paid :o depositors shall be deducted from the jross earnings of savings banks, but does lot make the same provision for trust :om panics. Corporation Counsel Thomas considers fhis case important. In making his report upon it to the Commissioners he cook occasion to commend the work of Assistant Corporation Counsel Stevens, 'because the legality of the tax. was difficult to present and sustain." STOLE FOR SICK WIFE. Excuse Given by Butler for Taking Employer's Jewelry. John B. May. butler, employed In the home of. Dr. Morris Miller of lttlfl H Btreet. arrested on a charge of taking J.'ioO worth of Jewelry and a suit of clothes from his employer, pleaded guilty in the Police Court today to a charge of grand larceny and one of petty larceny. In the tlrst case the defendant was sent to jail in default of a flfteen-hundreddollar bond to await the action of the grand jury, and in the second a line of |10 was imposed. The default of thirty aays will be served in jail while May Is awaiting trial on the grand larceny charge. "I stole the jewelry to raise money enough to send my sick wife away for the summer. It was very wrong. I might have known I was going to be caught, but I couldn't help It," the prisoner explained. All of the stolen property was recovered by Detectives Vermillion and Barbee, who made the arrest. A ( L O. MrEXERT. I'nited States senator for the term of six years beginning March 4, 1897, to succeed N. C. Blanchard. Walter Denegre of New Orleans was his opponent, supported by republicans, populists and a faction of the democratic party known as the Citizens* League. The vote was taken under exciting conditions. As originally calledt it stood: for McEnery, Senate. 'JO; House, 4S; total. 68; against. Senate, 16; House, fit*: total. 66. Before the vote was announced, one vote changed from McEnery to Denegre. and two votes from Denegre to McEnery, making the final rote stand a good margin for Mr. McEnery. He was re-elected in 1902 and xgain In 1S?08. While Governor of Louisiana. Mr. MeEnerv carried out many reforms. He Improved the financial condition of the state and built up Its general fiscal system. General improvement of the levees is credited to him. and the farmers were [ rganized for better results under the initiation of Mr. McEnery. Ever since the beeinninc of bis service n Congrfss. Senator McEnery supported he tariff on sugar. And his desire to irotect that schedule led him to giving nuch support to republican measures. Once when he was asked to help the lemocrats against the republicans on a ;lose vote he is said to have replied: "What have the democrats ever done for sugar?" BANK'S GROSS EARNINGS ARE FROM ULL SOURCES Justice Wright's Opinion Sustains Assessor's Levy on Financial Institutions. Assessor Richards and hjs assistants ire rejoicing today over the decision of lustice Wright that the District of Coumbia has the right to tax the income if banks from capital, surplus and undivided profits. The decision was handed down yesteriay in a case where the Merchants and Mechanics' Savings Bank sought to recover from the District all the money laid on a personal tax levied on the gross 'arnings of ihe bank, being interest from stocks, United States bonds and rents. Flie court decided the tax was a franchise tax and not a tax on property. Justice Wright's Decision. In concluding his opinion Justice Wright iaid: "My mind is therefore led 1*> the conclusion that the tax authorized by the statute and laid by th^ appraisers is an :xcise upon the business of banking by xirporations; that it is not a direct tax in property: that the term 'gross earnngs,' as applied to banks, includes accun illations that they happen to derive rrom I'nited States bonds and from the -ental of real estate for office purposes." He upheld the levy of the tax and susninr.^1 . T .2 ... -I .,4 ~ BLUECOATISSUICIOE Policeman W. J. Stuart Puts Bullet in Heart. HIS TROUBLES MULTIPLIED Illness, Domestic Discord and Complaint Against Him. GAVE NO HINT OF PUBPOSE Fired Revolver Into Himself While in Bed at Precinct Dormitory. Dies in Patrol Wagon. Putting two bullets Into his heart while In bed in the dormitory at the ! fourth precinct police station, Walter 1 J. Stuart, twenty-seven years old, a 1 member of the police force for five years, committed suicide shortly after ! 5 o'clock this morning. He fired two shots into his left 1 breast. Policeman J. W. Jones dis- ( armed him as Stuart was about to shoot j again. Troubles Thrice Multiplied. Stuart had given no hint of a pur- ( pose to take his life, nor did he leave j any note of explanation, so far as his < brother policemen could learn. 1 He had a multiplicity of troubles. 1 however. He had not lived with his ( wife and child for a number of months. ] When relieved from duty this morning ; he complained that he was not feeling well, getting a "sick card" from Lieut. Flather. It is also said that a complaint made against him was under investigation. < Separated from his family, illness t and the prospect of trial before the , police board, it is thought, formed a , combination which the man of nervous temperament could not easily discard. 1 Despite his troubles he did not appear 1 despondent when he left his beat at ' 2 o'clock this morning and went to < the station to retire. Came Off Duty 111. Stuart went on duty at 6 o'clock last night in South Washington, his eighthour trick concluding at 2 o'clock this morning. Just about 2 o'clock he entered the station with Policeman J. W. Kite and was marked off duty. He told Lieut. Flather that he was not feeling well, and that he would like to get a sick card. He was given the card and said he would see a police surgeon this morning. Policemen W. A. Looper, J. E. Grant, 1 J. W. Kite. J. W. Jones. W. G. Davis. J. F. Davis and William Grim, all in the 1 same room, were awakened by the reports of the revolver. Policeman Jones, 1 occupying the bed nearest to Stuart, ' thought Stuart was firing his gun in his 1 sleep. Springing to the floor, ho saw that Stuart was about to discharge the weapon for a third time. He wrested the smoking pistol from his hand. "What's the matter?" he shouted to 1 Stuart. "Are you craxy?" i "No." Stuart answered. "I am not , crazy." Lieut. Flather, who was on the upper floor, heard the shots, and hurried down stairs. He found Stuart disarmed. 1 A message was sent to the Emergency 1 Hospital for the ambulance and a physi- < cian. ' Dies in Patrol Wagon. i "Don't wait for the ambulance," said i Lieut. Flather. "Get. out the patrol 1 wagon and hurry him to the hospital." A few minutes later the patrol wagon ' was hurrying in the direction of the hospital. Death claimed the wounded man h*fArn iha hnanitol ?' ? ?? ?*?ao I CO>l/UCU> Hospital physicians pronounced life extinct, and had the body placed in the hospital morgue. The police notified a , sister and brother, in this city. Coroner Nevitt viewed the body later in . the day, and gave a certificate of death from wounds Inflicted for the purpose of 1 ending life. The body will probably be , taken to Harpers Ferry for interment. j Walter Stuart is spoken of by Capt. j Mulhall and Lieut. Flather as a big overgrown boy. He came here from Harpers , Fefry shortly before he was appointed to , the force. I His father, Walter Stuart, had been in ; the hotel and ice cream business there j for many years, prior to his death about a year ago. A brother of the policeman ] killed himself at Harpers Ferry several J years ago. , REBELS USING GROUND; i EEPOETS OF ESTRADA VIC- ; TORIES DECLARED UNTRUE. j i Madriz in Control of Entire Atlantic Coast Line Except Town of 1 Bluefields. SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua, June 28.?Great Corn Island and the whole Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, with the ex- j ception of the town of Bluefields, are in the hands of the government. Acoyapa has not been captured by the revolutionists, as was erroneously report ed yesterday. It is also untrue that Estrada's men have captured the port of San Ubaldo, Nicaragua. Developments today do not bear out the reports of revolutionary successes received here yesterday and transmitted to the United States. The report that Acoyapa had fallen was due to a telegraphic error. The rebel band is at a point in the department of Chontales, northeast of Acoyapa. Yesterday's report also had Gen. Mena in the possession of San Ubaldo. The claim has no basis in fact. JAIL BALKED WEDDING. Would-Be Bridegroom and Companion Charged With Bobbery. J. A. Manuel, sergeant of police, from Roanoke, Va., left here this afternoon with James E. Davis and Harry Kenney, negroes, charged with having stolen f>56 from the billiard room of Charles Mitchell, in Roanoke. Davis, who was employed by Mitchell, is alleged to have entered the room and taken the money while Kenney watched on the outside. Shortly after the rob eery me negroes came iu mis cny. During his short time here Kenny courted and promised to marry a girl. The marriage was to have taken place last Sunday, but the prospective groom was behind the bars. "Owing to circumstances over which I have no control," he wrote his sweetheart. "I will be unable to be on hand 8unday." Detectives Pratt and Howlett located the defendants here and arrested them. They will reach Roanoke about 9 o'clock tonight. s , Jumps Overboard, to Death. * DETROIT, Mich., June 28.?A pas- 1 senger giving the name of F. Gold- 1 thrite of Ottawa, Ont.. Is believed to j have committed suicide by leaping j from the steamer Eastern States as the vessel was coming up the Detroit river ' today on her trip from Buffalo. Nobody 5 saw the man jump. Suicide letters were discovered after the vessel-docked. ] POST FORMARSHALL Likely to Head New Conservation Commission. SENATORS SEE PRESIDENT Want Engineer Put to Work on Ir? ligation Projects. TAFT BUSY ON HIS LAST DAY Dr. Parker Will Go to Beverly. Roosevelt to Head Peace Commission. President Taft's last day In Washington for the summer was a moat busy one up to the hour of his departure for Beverly at 5:35 o'clock this afternoon. Many congressional callers and conferences occupied his time up to the assembling of the cabinet for the last regular meeting in this city until fall. Many things were disposed of concerning the departments, so that there would be as little as possible to bother the President it Beverly. Western senators interested in the thirty-odd irrigation projects in various stages of completion which may be affected by the twenty-million-dollar advance from the Treasury authorised by Congress talked to the President about the commission he will appoint to Investigate and report upon the different proj sets, fienatoss Carter, Jones, Smoot and Dixon were those who discussed this subject with the executive. Marshall Slated for Post. They want to get the inspection body of United States engineers at work at the earliest moment so as to push the completion of the plans heretofore made. The President said that he would handle the matter as quickly as possible. It is probable that he will name Gen. Marshall, former chief of engineers, as head of the commission. The statement was made by the President's visitors that it may not be necessary for the Secretary of the Interior to call upon the Treasury for an advance on account of the $20,000,000 for a year or more. There is now in the irrigation fund, available for work upon the various projects, about $8,000,000. During the next ilscal year the receipts from the sources making up that end will bring in another $7,000,000, giving $15,000,000 for the year. The $20,000,000 will be called on only in case of necessity. Senator Burkett of Nebraska, another caller, said there was no truth in a report from Oyster Bay that lie is to go there to see former President Roosevelt. "I did not request an appointment with Col. Roosevelt." said Mr. Burkett, "and have no business at Oyster Bay unless Its famous citizen wants to see me." President's Staff at Beverly. President Taft will have with him at Beverly Secretary Norton, Assistant Secretary Forster and a staff of clerks sufficient to handle the business that will irise. The President has also asked Dr. Parker to accompany him. Dr. Parker is the man who has kept the President in physical trim for a number of years. The President has treat faith in his methods. Dr. Parker had arranged to go west this summer and canceled his dates at the request of the executive. Assistant Secretary Mischler and Chief Clerk I^atta will remain* in charge of work at the executive offices in this city, transmitting to Beverly whatever they consider of sufficient importance for the attention of the President. Roosevelt to Head Peace Commission It is expected that ex-President Rooseiralf wall Vva namo/i K?r PnOoldont To f* act TVIV Trail uc iiauicu uj a I VOJUCIII i ?ii ao chairman of the commission authorized by joint resolution of Congress, of which Representative Bartholdt is the author, to report to Congress a plan for permanent and world-wide peace, thereby relieving the nations of the burdens of heavy armament. Mr. Bartholdt, who has long been identified with international movements for world-wide peace, talked to the President today about the commission of five. The President will announce the appointments from Beverly. Members of Congress have requested the President to name Mr. Bartholdt as a member of the commission. It is understood that he will be appointed. President Taft announced today that ha has appointed ex-Gov. Curtis Guild of Massachusetts as special ambassador of the United States to the celebration of the .first centennial of the republic of Mexico, to be held in the City of Mexico In September. The President has also announced the civil members of the commission that will represent this country at the commission. They are Justice Gerard of the supreme court of New York, ex-Gov. Franklin Murphy of New Jersey and Col. C. A. Rook of Pittsburg. There are six other members of the commission, three senators and three representatives. FOLK'S NOVEL CAMPAIGN OZARK MOUNTAINEERS WILL TOUR NEW ENGLAND. Propose to Stir Up Sentiment for Missouri's Candidate for the Presidency. NEW YORK. June 28.?A new idea n political campaigning originated in :he interest of the candidacy of exJov. Folk of Missouri for the democratic presidential nomination is on ;he eve of practical working out with S'ew England as the field for the experiment. " Six Missourians from the Ozark moun:ain region are in New York today eady to start tomorrow on a tour of Mew England to tell the people of that lection what Gov. Folk has done and to irganise the Folk sentiment In each town visit. The Ozarkers here, who form :he "advance guard." are headed Boston ward, where they will Join the rest of :he delegation and complete the round >f New England states. The trip up tomorrow will be utilized by the campaigners to preach Folk gos?el to Connecticut, that state being seected as the starting point because one }f its sons has served Missouri as an ixecutive in the person of Gov. Phelps. In pursuance of the novel plan, former residents of each state will be selected as largely as possible to do the missionary work in that commonwealth. The Osarkers say they expect :o Identify themselves so thoroughly with Gov. Folk's cause that they will ioon stand in the same relation to the ifisourian as the Hough Riders now do to Col. Roosevelt. Records for Twenty-Four Hours. The following were the readings of the hermometer and barometer at the weath?r bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning at 2 p.m. yesterday: Thermometer?June 27. 4 p.m.. 85; 8 p.m., r4; 12 midnight, 88. June 28, 4 a.m., 00; i a.m., 74; 12 noon. 76; 2 p.m., 80. Maxmum. 86 at 4:30 p.m. June 27; minimum, IT at 9 a.m. June 27. Barometer?4 t? m., 29.85 ; 8 p.m., 29.83; 12 midnight. 29.84 ; 4 a.m.. 29.79 ; 8 a.m., 9.82; noon, 19.82: 2 p.m., 29.82. 'Maximum temperature past twenty-four hours, 86; a year ago, 82. a MAY GETTOGETHER Clerks Urged to Present Unit- , ed Front for Pension Project. PERIL IN VARIED OPINIONS Advocates Will Prepare for Education of Congress. PETITION FOB AGED CLERKS "Fair Deal" Asked by Sons of Vetera* "In Name of Justice and Humanity." Those who believe provision should be made for retirement of superannuated government clerks, as well as those who consider that a general increase should be made in the salaries of employes of the executive departments, will prepare data and other facts from now until the reassembly of Congress that will enable Congress to view both questions fairly and fully. It was developed at the meeting of the business men with the congressional committee, toward the close of the session, that many senators and representatives perceive the justice of the clerks' demands. It seems now only to be question as to the best method of granting ] them. . There is, of course, a difference of ' opinion among thb clerks themselves upon this point. Some are contending ' for a straightout pension; others are wil- i ling to accept a contributory plan. Source of Objections. ' , The chief objection manifested to the J former seems to be that there is a long J settled repugnance, not only in Congress, i but elsewhere, to a civil pension list. J The clerks object to the contributary J plan because it lessens their already in- . adequate salaries, and in some instances imposes additional hardship at a time ! when the cost of living is high. j Friends of the retirement proposition express themselves strongly upon the ( unwisdom of presenting to Congress a . divided front by the clerks themselves. They believe differences of opinion should be settled among themselves in private, not in personal communications to the press. It is well, they argue, to present the merits of the different propositions advanced, but temperately and forcefully. Anything like personal controversies, they say, will be disastrous. Square Dead for Old Clerks. A monster petition to Congress is being prepared at the national headquarters of the Sons of Veterans. U. S. A., In this city. Its object is to have the federal government give its employes, especially those who have grown gray and feeble in the service, a square deal. This will be asked in "the name of justice and humanity." In a statement issued from headquarters today it is explained that It is the aim to secure the signatures of the 40.000 members of the organization and the approximately 4,000,000 non-member sons and grandsons of Union veterans. The petition will recite: j "For the good of the service, adequate provision should be made for the pay, promotion and retirement of government employes. "Those who enter the service through rigid civil service examinations, representing as they do, mentally, morally and physically, the choice of a selected class of people from the various states, should be given recognition in keeping with their standing and efficiency. "The same arguments justifying inrr?H r%t nav tA maat Mnoroo of living' apply to these employes who give the best years of their Uvea to specialized work (law, finance, accounting and other technical pursuits) equally as to those who have already received increased pay. "These employes who spend long periods of service wrestling with the intricate problems of government should have a voice in questions afTecting their condition. "The undivided responsibility of passing upon questions affecting the right of speech, of petition, and of retirement should not be confined to the representatives of the people and heads of departments who spend short periods in service and have neither time nor opportunity to become acquainted with the em- , ployes upon whom depends the successful operation of the government." * The intention of those having the.mat- { ter in charge is to use the correspondence J school department of the Sons of Veterans' Memorial University, Maj. C. O. Howard, superintendent, to handle the enormous correspondence connected with this effort in behalf of Uncle Sam's army of workers. DEFENSOTB POINT HOWLAND ADDRESS ADMITTED IN LYON CASE. Lively Tilt Between the Judge Advocate and Counsel at Fort Myer Court-Martial. g Little interest attached to the proceed- ? ings today in the court-martial at Fort Myer of Capt. Samuel P. Lyon, commander of Company D, 25th United States Infantry. at the time of the "Brownsville affair," on the charge that he was guilty n of conduct unbecoming an officer of the it service in willfully making misstatements h in his reports to the War Department of d the amount of ammunition on hand in his tl company and also that he knowingly gave false testimony before the Brownsville " court of inquiry. ? One telling point scored by the defense was in securing the permission of the members of the court to read into t] the evidence in this case an address made * by Capt. Howland, the judge advocate, before the Brownsville court. Capt. Howland is the prosecuting officer who is conducting the case against Capt. Lyon. f and it was the purpose of the defense to * show that his address at Brownsville ~~ was almost identical in tenor to the " specifications in the formal charges . against Capt. Lyon. Thus the defense is seeking to show !* that the prosecuting officer offered the p real inspiration for the filing of charges _ against Capt. Lyon, even though Lieut, h Gen. S. B. M. Young, U. S. A., retired, ,. fathered the charges by affixing his signature to them. p TKopa a/a a a lfvolv vprhfll hptWPUn a"v4v ' - - ' ?-.7 . ? ? q Capt. Murphy, military counsel for the accused man, and Capt. Howland, the * judge advocate, before the admission of 5 the latter'8 address was secured, and * there was another tilt over the offering _ by the defense of the evidence given by _ Capt. Lyon before the Senate investigat- fl ing committee. . This testimony was also ordered to be v admitted, and most of both the morning i and afternoon sessions in the court-martial were devoted to reading it, Capt. Lyon's counsel, Capt. Murphy and Attorneys Burton and Easby-Smlth, taking turns at the big printed volume. Steamer Still Missing. * BOMBAY. June 28.?There are no tidings from the Austrian-Lloyd steamer Trieste, which, with her thirty-four 1 passengers and crew of eighty-five, is G eight days overdue from Trieste. Three c ships are searching the Arabian coast. The Trieste, a passenger and mail ? steamer of 5,085 gross tons, sailed on June 4 and waa reported from Adon on s June 14. h MONEYJOBE REAL All Finished When It Leaves Bureau After July 1. NEW METHOD IN FORCE Number and Seal on When Notes Reach the Treasury. BIG SAVING TO GOVERNMENT Labor-Saving Devices to Do Double Work Formerly Done by Manual Labor. July 1 the transfer of the work of imprinting the numeral, sealing and separating notes and certificates from the Treasury to the bureau of engraving and printing will be completed. In preparing United States notes and gold and silver certificates the work of ; the bureau of engraving and printing has not included, for many years, the final processes of imprinting the numeral, sealing the notes and separating the sheets into individual notes, but the sheets have been carried over to the Treasury building, where they have been separated and marked with the seal and numeral In the division of issue. After July 1, however, the notes will be entirely finished at the bureau of eneravine and printing and delivered to the treasurer ready ?or use, and large economies will result from the change. It was recently suggested to Mr. MarPeagh that both the seals and numerals :ou!d be printed on the notes simulta- |? leously on the same press, and he in- ** structed Mr. Ralph, director of the bureau of engraving and printing, to institute a series of experiments in this direction. From these trials it appeared lot only practicable to seal and number the notes at one operation, but also to trim them at the same time. As the ex- fit perlmental work has progressed it has ?c ilso been found that the machine could pe further improved by the attachment fo if a device which would separate and ? :ount the notes and turn them out in ? packages. ^ ^ Many New Devices. The experiments along this line have continued until an entirely new style of trimming device has been designed and the press perfected by the addition of G separating, collating and counting features. These arrangements were the result of innumerable experiments and alterations by the expert force at the bureau, which has produced a single maihlne which now numbers, seals, separates, counts and collates in packages the notes. This presents a most striking example of the substitution of ma:hinery for manual work. There are already in successful operation in the bureau twelve of these presses preparing notes for delivery after July I. and with the present week the remain- n< ng three presses to make the required D< total of fifteen that will be needed to do the work will be installed and in opera- gf tion. er The old method of executing this work fo -equired a trimming operation and a jn printing process at the bureau of engravng and printing, and a printing process uid a separating and collating operation m it the Treasury Department, the four w processes requiring six woman operatives m tnd two pressmen, while under the new . method all four of these operations are 81 performed on two new-style machines by se three woman operatives and one press- af man. The resulting saving by the elim- va ination .of the 35 employes who operated the eighteen printing presses and twentylix separating machines used in the di- Hi rision of Issue of the treasurer's office fu gill approximate 1138,000 per annunm. Expect Increased Speed. d w The estimated saving from the elimi- th lation of the work in the Treasury is , >ut a part of the total that will event- fC lally result from the change for the lo eason that M, m._i* "" ? * *?. i?av? cagu uciltJVCS hat the speed of the presses can be V nuch greater than originally antici>ated, and that consequently a greater lumber of notes may be produced with ;he present equipment after the speed b? >f the ipachinery is fully developed and he employes have become more faniliar with its operation tfnd with the su iiandling of the work in the new proc- of isses. ] Changes in another branch of the rreasury Department, which will result fo p large economies, wil be consummated iej Tuly 1. By rearrangements introduced in th :he office of M. O. Chance, the auditor < 'or the Post Office Department, seventy- pr ;even positions have been vacated and ed he reduction in the force has been such th hat the entire staff can be taken into m. he main post office building July 1 and ev he quarters in the Union building which tri lave been used for this purpose at an innual rental of $7,500 will be vacated. The changes in this division of. the H Treasury alone will involve a total re- U renchment of approximately $117,000 per | ^ear, but far more important than the 'esultant economies is the improvement n the expedition and accuracy of the ludit which has been effected, especially n the money order branch of the office. D, Under the system of auditing money irder accounts, which has been followed or a great many years, nine months irere required to make a final settlement if a postmaster's money order account, >ut by the use of adding machines the ?] ime of making the audit will be reduced 0 four months. As the audit was formery made by visual comparison there was Treat liability to error, but with the aid f mechanical devices now introduced it rill be absolutely accurate. Counting Money Orders. There are received in the office of the udltor between 500 and 600 pounds olf toi noney orders daily. This means that it th' 3 necessary to compare in the neighbor- So lood of half a million money orders it ally with the statements rendered by wi he postmasters throughout the country. I Under the old system of visual check it hit ras discovered that thousands of these an rders were being checked as having been th) eceived in the office and properly drawn, ' rhen, as a matter of fact, they had never be' cached the auditor's office. By the use of Po he adding machine each money order is th, ow entered separately on the machine. v., nd it is impossible for an order to be j hecked unless it is on file. h_ The accounts of the postal service were srmerly kept on the single-entry basis. Juc nd no adequate system of control by leans of aggregates was provided. After thorough investigation it was found that 1 some classes of accounts as high as 25 1 er cent of postmasters' errors were being -clo assed in the audit without detection. , With the approval of Mr. MacVeagh a omplete system of double entry book- * eeping has been Installed, and controll- wa ig and clearance accounts have been jjil rovided in order to establish the correctess of detailed accounts in the books of fr* riginal entry. J? While making these economies Mr. iacVeagh has seen to it that none of ? be empldyes displaced by the new proesses will be thrown out of employment, rn rith the excertffnn of four nresamen who lo rill be reinstated or transferred at the io rst opportunity. All of the others have ar?' een taken care of either in the Treasury w{] department or in other departments, in WM illtng vacancies that have already oeurred, or which will occur before July 1. STMXE TIES UP MILL. Te 'art of Workmen Kefused to Pay v Strike Assessment. cu MARTINS FERRY. Ohio, June 28.- Coi "he Laughlin sheet mill of Whitaker, the flessner A Co., employing 1.200 men, was Bl< losed today by a strike of a large ma- yes >rlty of the men refusing to work with P?! thers who refused to pay a 10 per cent T ssessment for strikers. ins The double house from which the mill Ph< trikers were evicted was dynamited to- the ay. No one-was injured* T A CONVICTED IT ffflHfiP ^J^ -> ^L. ^Kpi ^^HpB^*vaa _ -_^____ l_ ^???^ " ? WILLIAM 1 NO WORD OF PITTMAN. fficials Doubt if American Has Been Sentenced in Nicaragua. Nothing has reached the State Departent in regard to the report from Blueslds that William P. Pittman, the Ameran engineer captured by the Madriz rces, has been court-martialed and senWHITE SLAVE" REPORT RAND JURY FINDS NO ORGANIZED TRAFFIC. [oving Picture Shows Criticised by New York Investigators Headed by Rockefeller, Jr. NEW YORK, June 28.?"We have found > evidence of the existence in the county ' New York of any organization or orinizations engaged in the traffic of worni for immoral purposes. We have not und evidence of any organised traffic women for immoral purposes." This was the opening of the presentent made by the special grand Jury, of TV 4. I. men ?iuiin u. nuu&cicuci, jgxo ivi^an, which has been investigating white ave conditions in this city. The prentment was handed up several days to, but was not filed by Judge O'Sullim of general sessions until today. The presentment denounces most heartr the men who profit from the unlaw1 practices of unfortunate women. Moving picture shows are sharply crltised and condemned in the presentment, hich speaks of them as creating evil in e minds of children. The presentment speaks of having und 125 massage and manicuring par* rs to be nothing more nor less than disderly houses, where manicuring is adsrtised or performed for "a blind." New Laws Recommended. The presentment suggests that laws ? made to control the operation of masge and manicure establishments. A pervision of such places by the board ' health is recommended. [n relation to the consorts of dissolute mien, it recommends that there be rmed a crusade against them and that grislation be effected looking toward eir examination. Concerning the tenement house laws the esentment suggests that they be revison a stricter basis, and recommends at a commission be appointed by the ayor to study the question of social lis in the cities of this and other coun* es. ROVING POWELL HOT . AUGHTERS TESTIFY TO HIS INSANE ACTS. amity to Prohibitionists Brought Out by Representative Kitchin, Whose Brother Was Shot. WARRENTON. N. C., June 28.?Witsses for the defense put on the stand lay, in the trial of E. E. Powell for e murder of Chief of Police Dunn at otland Neck last March, testified that was their belief that the defendant is mentally unbalanced. Several related that they knew of i going to the grave of his dead son d writing messages to the dead on e ground. They said the son had en dead for fifteen years, but that well appeared to be firmly convinced it he was in communication with n. >nnrAil's two riaurhters testified that he d been insane for several years. One them declared, however, that he had :id intervals. Trial Hearing Close. 'he trial began yesterday is nearipg its >se. The defense has practically conided its case. lepresentatlve Kitchin, whose brother s shot by Powell at the time Dunn was led, brought out the fact, on crossimination of the defense's witnesses, it Powell entertained bitter enmity to >se who opposed his anti-prohibition ling. 'he state is contending that this prejue against prohibition inspired Powell kill Dunn, who was a strong prohlbinist, and to shoot State Senator Travis i State Representative Paul Kitchin, om he had accused of compromising th the prohibitionists. FINED UNDER STATE LAW. lephone Company Convicted of Violating Anti-Trust Statute. FATBR VALLEY. Miss., June M.-The mberland Telephone and Telegraph mpany was found guilty of violating i state anti-trust law by Judge I. T. >unt In the chancery court here late iterday and a fine of 1175,000 was imled. 'he company was charged with enter; into a contract with the Oxford Telesne Company in Marshall county for i purpose of shutting off competition, he'case will be appealed. 4 NICARAGUA. ^^ p *,*<?. H^g^v .-.. &s ?<4irf iV flr.tfu,' "Mv WHIHHI^HHv'' <?mBp 1' P. PITTMAX. " I tenced to ten years In the penitentiary Considering the source of the report, th* officials are inclined to douht its aecuracy. Naval officers at Blueflelds, near where Pittman has been confined for some time are under general instructions to see that he receives no treatment inconsistent with his status as a prisoner of mar. As surances have been given to that effect HOLD mm HERE ' SENATE PROBE INTO POLICE 'THIRD DEGREE" METHODS. Second Subcommittee to Take Testimony in the West After July 15. The investigations into the "third degree" practices of the police of this country by the select committee of the Senate, headed by Senator Brandegee ot Connecticut, will begin shortly after July 15. Washington police officials mill be the first to be heard; and any others who can throw light on the methods of the local police in extracting statements from prisoners will get the ear of the committee. The committee decided, after discussing * its task and its plans fcr several houra yesterday afternoon, to do its worn through two subcommittees?an eastern and a western committee. On the east- l ern .subcommittee will be Chairman Brandegee, Senator Overman of North * Carolina and Senator Borah of Idaho. The weatern committee will Include Senators Brown ot Nebraska, Stone of Missouri and Borah of Idaho. As there are only Ave members of the committee and three were desired on each subcommittee. Senator Borah was assigned to both subcommittees. It is expected, however, that most of his time will be spent with his western colleagues. Hearings ?in Washington. The hearings in Washington will be W., n ankAAwavnlttwA cnmn/ldaH ruiiuuLiru a p?wwmw??i.**rti v v??? pwwv? of Senators Brandegee and Overman. Chairman Brandegee said this mornln* that no list of witnesses has been made up, and It was not known as yet whr would be called. It Is expected, however, that the head police officials of the District will be among the witnesses The hearings here will not be confined to an investigation of the Washington police department. Witnesses from other cities w'li be heard; and these are expected to be not a few, because the committee has received many letters of suggestion. YOUNG FATHER IS RE ' l NO PROOF OF CHILD'S DEATH IS < FORTHCOMING. Habeas Corpus Writ Gets Hillersville Normal School Student Out of Prison Cell. LANCASTER, Pa.. June 28.-J. C. Qrtoe. the Millersville Normal School student who had been in custody of the police here for a week on suspicion of knowing something about the whereabouts of his two-week-old child, which, the polioe are unable to find, was today discharged by Judge Hassler In the Lancaster county court on a writ of habeas corpus. Orice and his wife left thtolr boardinghouse on the night of June IS, since whioh time the wife and child have been missing to the police. The wife, however. wm crcu ti? n?iiiouui? dcvoisi uoje ??in without the baby. At the habeas corpus proceedings today it was shown that two' hours after the pair left their boarding-house they registered at a hotel in this city under the name of Rogers, and spent the night there. The child was not with them. Judge Hassler ruled that the commonwealth would have to produce direct proof of a corpus delicti and connect Grlce with the death of the child. Failing to produce such proof, Grlce was discharged. Building Permits Issued. The following building permits were issued today: To H. R. Howenstein, for two two-story brick dwellings at 907 and 900 5th street northwest: architect. H. A. Bright: builder. H. R. Howenstein; estimated cost. IT.500. To William L. Stewart, for /our twostory frame stores and dwellings at 11JW and 1140 7th street and from 638 to Florida avenue northeast; architect, William J. Palmer: builder, William L.. Stew art: estimated cost, $10,000. To J. C. Welch, for one two-story brick I store at 220 New York avenue north- I west: architscts. Spelden St Spenden; builder, George C. Hough; estimated cost, $4,000. | To Male H. Williams, for one four story brick store and dwelling at 1812 R I street northwest; architect Clarke Waa gaman; builder, R. J. Basil Construction Company: estimated 'cost $18,000. To Thomas B. Hutchinson, to repair store at 1012 and 1014 f street north- I west: architects, Vo*t & Merrill; builder. the Charles J. Cassidy Company; estimai ed cost. $5,480. John S. Rousie, a well known citlsen H and Confederate soldier, of IDssex county, ya.,-died suddenly at his home. \