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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
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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.
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: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
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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
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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.
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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
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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;
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EEPOETS OF ESTRADA VIC- ;
TORIES DECLARED UNTRUE. j
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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* ""
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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
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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.
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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
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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. \