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VERNON COUNTY CENSOR
O. G. Munson, Publisher.
tfIROQUA. • • WISCONSIN.
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COUNTRY LIFE.
This Is especially the season of the
year when the man who Is able to es
tablish a home in the country, and
bring up his children there Is to be
felicitated. The trend of migration
for many years has been strongly to
ward the cities and "the busy hum of
■men." but nowadays the city dweller
Is encouraged in various insidious j
ways to become a communter, or if
lie cannot get beyond the purlieus of ;
the city he Is taught the conservation ,
•of a little space—in the back yard, it
may be —for horticultural purposes ;
There is no satisfaction quite the j
equivalent of that of making two ears
of corn grow where none grew be |
fore, or causing the tomato plant or j
the bean vine to blossom even as the
rose beneath the careful nurture of'
one’s own assiduous band. A "sign of j
the times" is such an institution as
the Pennsylvania School of Horticul
tare for Women at Ambler, says the
Philadelphia Ledger. Women are by
natural instinct fond of flowers and
of all growing things, and they are, j
by inborn and inbred patience as well j
ms by this predisposition, qualified to
be successful gardeners and planters.
It Is gratifying to be able to chronicle
the success of institutions which un
•dertako to give women instruction
that reduces to the rational and scien
tific basis the culture of plants and
flowers and fosters and appreciation |
of the advantages of country life.
If anybody was asked to suggest
why the soup plate was made broad
and shallow the almost certain an
swer would be that such an arrange
ment facilitates the cooling of the
soup to a temperature comfortable to
the mouth. We believe that utilita- .
rians drink tea out of a saucer for
the same reason, says the Lancet
While that may be the explamtlon of j
the peculiar shape of the soup plate. !
the advantage Indicated is surely in
significant compared with the obvious
disadvantages which may probably I
arise from exposing so large a sur
face of nutrient fluid to the air. Soup .
should be served in a eup, a low, broad
teacup, and the method, which is be- j
coming more usual, is hygienic. Too
deep a vessel would be an error on the
other side; its advantages would bo
canceled by its great drawback; we
should miss some of the delicate fla
vors of the soup. In the shallow cham
pagne glass the bouquet as well as the
taste can be appreciated. In a nar
row, deep glass the bouquet may miss
appreciation altogether.
The news of the day tells of a Japa
nese youth who was once a bellboy In
a Boston hotel, but who managed to
take a course at Harvard and is now
icturning to his native land to head a
university department there. He was
not an American boy, but he deserved
to be, and bis honorable position is a
lesson to some 1n this superior land
af ours who greet with prompt snub
bing those who would take advantage
of the opportunities offered by this
country to all who would rise from
humble positions to higher ones by
force of determination and their own
merit.
From Connecticut a Japanese gradu
ate of the state agricultural college IB
Inking a dozen bullfrogs back to Japan
ills purpose Is to secure a race of
edible hind legs in that empire, not a
bumper crop of hops.
A Philadelphia girl is afflicted with
Wood poisoning from licking postage
stamps, and complicated with Phila
dolphia sleeping sickness the case
should be a pathetic one.
A French savant claims to have
frozen a fish and restored it to life
after a lapse of three months. With
out hesitation we pronounce it the
best fish story of the season.
A New York man has tried io ship
bis wife out of the country because
she has grown so fat. That famous
remark shout no one loves a mt man
Is nov due for an addition.
We see by the papers that a Pitts
burg woman has resigned from her
clubs because they interfere with the
care ot her family. Those Pittsburg
people are so eccentric.
If it were not for the mismanaged
gasoline launches the life savers would
break into the hero class less fre
quently.
An anti-hobtle skirt bill has been
defeated in the Georgia legislature.
Southern chivalry continues to grant
the Indies the right to wear what they
please, heaven bless ’em.
St. Louis wants a slogan. Out of
70,000 submitted not one was found to
be satisfactory. What is the matter
with "See St. Louis and sklddcio?"
Many a fly remains unswatted and
the people should do their duty.
A Topeka minister has invited the
members of his congregation to tell
him all their troubles. If they do he
will probably want to hunt for an
other congregation.
Trinity church in New York has
fcr.n saving souls but losing money.
That is nothing. Some good people
have lost their lives saving souls.
Swinging In a hammock is one of
•our most popular pastimes these days
TAR REPLIES TO
ALASKAJHACKS
Denies Selfish Interests Have
Secured Controller Bay.
DEFENDS BROTHER AND SELF
President Denounces Letter Charging
Undue Family Influence as
Wicked Fabrication and
Malicious 3lander.
Washington.—President Taft sent
] to the senate Wednesday a message
| that recalled some of those received
j from his predecessor. It was in re
ply to a resolution of the senate re
questing the president to transmit to
I the senate all the documents relating
to the elimination from the Chugach
national forest, in Alaska, of land
fronting upon Controller bay. Mr.
Taft seizes the occasion occasion to
make a vigorous defense of his own
honor and that of his brother, Charles
P. Taft, against the attacks made in
relation to this Controller bay "scan
dal.”
The president sent in all the docu
ments asked for, and more, and
quotes the executive order in ques
tion, by which 12,800 acres were
eliminated from the national forest.
His message describes the import
ance of Controller bay as a railway
terminal and relates the operations of
the Copper River railroad, owned by
the Morgan-Guggenheim interests,
whose terminal is at Cordova.
Ryan's Application Investigated.
In December, lOmj, Richard S.
Ryan applied for the Controller bay
elimination, afterward granted, stat
ing that he represented the Controller
Railroad and Navigation company.
Mr. Talt tells how this application was
referred to the district foresters at
Portland, Ore., and in Alaska and
was approved by Chief Forester
Graves; how the navy department
stated it did not desire to use Con
troller bay as a reservation; how the
matter was considered fully by the
forestry bureau, the secretary of ag
riculture, the secretary of the inter
ior, the general land office and the
cabinet. Asa result, after an inter
view between the president and Mr.
Ryan, un order was drafted eliminat
ing 320 acres.
Meanwhile Mr. Ryan had satisfied
the president and other officials that
he and his associates had no connec
tion with the Morgan-Guggenheim in
terests and were engaged in an in
dependent enterprise in good faith to
build an Independent railroad. The
question again came before the cab
inet, and the president, with the ap
proval of the secretaries of the in
terior and agriculture, changed the
order so that it eliminated 12,800
acres, with sufficient room for a
railroad town. The message says:
"I was willing to do this because I
found the restrictions In the law suf
ficient to prevent the possibility of
any monopoly of either the uplands
or the harbor or channel by the Con
troller Railroad and Navigation com
pany or any other person or con
cern." These restrictions the presi
dent sets forth at length, and shows
that the Ryan company has not the
slightest opportunity for exclusive
appropriation of the harbor facilities
unless congress shall by future act
deliberately and voluntarily confer It.
The "Dick to Dick” Letter.
Coming to the personal side of the
matter, Mr. Taft says:
"Before closing, i desire to allude to
a circumstance which the terms of
this, resolution make apt and relevant.
It is a widely published statement at
tributed to a newspaper correspondent
that in an examination of the files of
the interior department a few weeks
ago a postscript was found attached
to a letter of July 13. 1910, addressed
by Mr. Richard S. Ryan to Secretary
Ballinger—-and in the present record
—urging the elimination of land
snough for terminals for the Control
ler Railway & Navigation company.
The postscript was said to read as fol
lows:
"Dear Dick: I want to see the presi
dent the other day. He asked me
who it was 1 represented. I told him
according to our agreement, that I
represented myself. But that didn't
seem to satisfy him. So I sent for
Charlie Taft and asked him to tell
his brother, the president, who it was
i really represented The president
made no further objection to my
claim. Yours, DICK.”
Uses Strong Language.
"The postscript is not now on the
I files of the department, it It were,
: It would be ray duty to transmit it
; under this resolution. Who is really
! responsible for its wicked fabrication
; if it ever existed, or for the viciously
false statement made as to its anthen
j Hetty, is immaterial for the purposes
of this communication. The purport
j of the alleged postscript is, and the in
tention of the fabricator was, to make
Mr, Richard S. Ryan testify through
The Power ot Music.
Euripides (B. C. 480-406) was one of
the celebrated tragic Greek poets who
discoursed on music in this wise: "No
one has found out how to soothe with
music and sweet symphony those bit
ter pangs by which death and sad
misfortune der roy families; and yet
to assuage such griefs by musio were
wisdom " The music of the Greeks
evidently had the power to stir or
calm emotions, although neither melo
dic nor harmo , 'ic as the terms are un
derstood today.
Unprofitable Heroism.
Heroism se. es to be at a considera
ble discount in Germany just at pres
ent. Four peasants wbo recently
launched a bont on the Lake of VVol
rlger and rescued some Berlin trip
pers who were In danger of drowning
have been fined two dollars each for
tresyc sing on the lake.
The V/lsh.
An ordinary piano contains a mile
of wire and we sometimes wish it
could be changed to 10,000 miles of
wireless. —Phlladelphis Inquirer.
Us words to the public that although
i was at first opposed In the public in
terest to granting the elimination
which he requested, nevertheless
through the undue influence of my
brother, Mr. Charles P. Taft, and the
disclosure of the real persons in in
terest. I was induced improperly and
for the promotion of their private
gain, to make the order.
“The statement in so far as my broth
er is concerned —and that is the chief
feature of the postscript—is utterly
unfounded. He never wrote to me or
spoke to me in reference to Richard
S. Ryan or on the subject of Controller
Bay or the granting of any privileges
or the making of any orders in respect
to Alaska. He has no interest in
Alaska, never had, and knows nothing
of the circumstances connected with
this transaction. He does not remem
ber that he ever met Richard S. Ryan.
He never beard of the Controller Bay
railroad until my cablegram of inquiry
reached him, which, with his answer,
is in the record.
"Mr. Ballinger says in a telegram in
answer to my inquiry, both of which
are in the record that he never re
ceived such a postscript and that he
was in Seattle on the date of July 13,
when It was said to have been written.
"Mr. Richard S. Ryan in a letter
which he has sent me without
solicitation, and which is in the
record, says that he never mot my
brother, Mr. Charles P. Taft, and
that so far as he knows, Mr. Charles
P. Taft never had the slightest inter
est In Controller Bay, in the Controll
er Railway and Navigation company,
or in any Alaskan company, and he
utterly denies writing or signing the
alleged postscript. The utter improb
ability of his writing such a postscript
to Mr. Ballinger at Washington, when
the latter was away for his vacation
for two months, must impress every
one.
Places ‘.he Blame.
"The person upon wuose statement
the existence of what has been proper
ly characterized as an amazing post
script is based, is a writer for newspa
pers and magazines, who was given
permission by Secretary Fisher, after
consulting with me, to examine all the
files in respect to the Controller Bay
matter—and this under the supervision
of Mr. Brown, then private secretary
of the secretary of the interior.
After the examination, at which It
is alleged this postscript was re
ceived from the hand of Mr. Brown,
the correspondent prepared an elab
orate article on the subject of
this order and Controller Bay,
which was subm’tted to Mr. Fisher,
and which was discussed with Mr.
Fisher at length, but never in the con
versation between them or in the arti
cle submitted did the correspondent
mention the existence of the post
script. Mr. Brown states that there
was no such postscript in the papers
when he showed them to the corre
spondent and that he never saw such
a postscript. Similar evidence is
given by Mr. Carr and other custodians
of the records in the interior depart
ment.
"Stronger evidence of the falsity and
maliciously slanderous character of the
alleged postscript could not be had.
Its only significance is the light it
throws on the bitterness and venom of
some of those who take active part Id
every discussion of Alaskan issues.
Scandal Mongering Denounced.
“I am In full sympathy with the con
cern of reasonable and patriotic men
that the valuable resources of Alaska
should not be turned over to be ex
ploited for the profit of greedy, absorb
ing and monopolistic corporations or
syndicates. Whatever the attempts
which have been made, no one, as a
matter of fact, has secured in Alaska
any undue privilege or franchise not
completely under the control of con
gress. lam In full agreement with the
view that every care, both in admin
istration ntid in legislation, must be
observed to prevent the corrupt or un
fair acquisition of undue privilege,
franchise, or right from the govern
-ent in that district.
“On the other hand, the acrimony of
spirit and the intense malice that have
been engendered in respect of the ad
ministration of the government in
Alaska and in the consideration of
measures proposed for her relief and
the wanton recklessness and eagerness
with which attempts have been made
to besmirch the characters of high of
ficials having to do with the Alaskan
government, and even of persons net
in public life, present a condition that
calls for condemnation and requires
that the public be warned of the de
moralization that has been produced
by the hysterical suspicions of good
people and the unscrupulous and cor
rupt misrepresentations of the wicked.
The helpless state to which the credul
ity of some and the malevolent scan
dal-mongerlng of others have brought
the people of Alaska In their struggle
for its development ought to give the
public pause, for until a ju6ter and fair
er view be taken, investment in
Alaska, which is necessary its de
velopment. will be impossible, and hon
est administrators and legislators will
be embarrassed in the advocacy and
putting into operation of those policies
in regard to the territory which are
necessary to its progress and pros
perity. WILLIAM H. TAFT
"The White House, July 26, 1911.”
The Useful Brush.
in good housekeeping a collection ot
brushes is found to be indispensable.
a large brush made of fiber, for clean
ing the sink; a small painter's brush
lor greasing pans and griddles; a small
scrubbing brush for cleaning potatoes
and other vegetables, and a fiat brush
with a narrow back and long flexible
bristles tor slipping behind radiators
to dislodge the dust: a small camel's
hair water color brush Is also fine to
dtp in melted chocolate or colored
icing Tor decorating cake.
The Joy of Today.
it is a serious thing that we should
see the full beauty ot our lives only
wven they are passed, or in visions ot
a possible future. What we most need
ts to see and feel the beauty and joy
of today.—Moncure D. Co-way.
For a Bolt.
The skin ot a boiled egg is the most
efficacious remedy that can be applied
to a boll. Feet It carefully, wet and
apply to the part affected. It will
draw off the matter and relieve the
l soreness In a tew hours.
HARVESTER TRUST
PUT UNDER FIRE
House Committee Gets Data
Ignored by Bonaparte.
WICKERSHAM ON THE STAND
Charges bared to Hcuse Committee
by Investigator’s Report Declare
That Steel and Reaper In
terests Are United.
Washington.—Charging that Charles
J. Bonaparte, while attorney gen
eral In the Roosevelt administra
tion, failed to prosecute the Interna
tional Harvester company for viola
tion of the Sherman anti-trust law,
although having complete proof. Chair
man Stanley of the steel trust inves
tigating committee produced a report
on the harvester trust made in 1908
by Burdett C. Townsend, a special
agent of the department of justice.
The report showed that the United
States Steel corporation allowed re
bates of three dollars a ton to the
harvester compan.-. and Mr. Stanley
declared that it indicated that the
giant steel corporation and the har
vester trust were practically one.
In describing the organization of
the group of larger companies in the
Harvester combine the McCormicks,
Deering, Plano, Wardner, Bushnell,
Glessner and the Milwaukee Harves
ter companies, Mr. Townsend reported
to Mr. Bonaparte:
“It appears that there was an i*n
usual concentration of the capital
stock of these five companies. kt
was all owned and controlled by four
families, thu McCormicks, the Dcer
ings, the Jonses and the Glessners.
The pooling of their holdings was all
that was necessary to create a trust.
All these people lived in Chicago.
"Another fact is Interesting. Har
old McCormick (one of the heaviest
stockholders of the McCormick com
pany), is a son-in-iaw of John S>
Rockefeller. The McCormick com
pany was therefore already distantly
related by marriage to the great Amer
ican family of trusts J. Pierpont
Morgan is the Vust architect usually
employed by *.he Rockefeller Inter
ests.
“He is a good builder and receives
fabulous fees for his work. George
W. Perkins Is his associate.”
Attorney General Wickersham, sum
moned as a witness, testified that he
had never seen the Townsend report
before. He promised that Townsend
would testify later. He did not know
why the harvester case was not
pressed In 1908-09. “I surmised," he
added, “that the case was held up
pending the Supreme court decisions
in the tobacco and Standard Oil cases
involving the same points."
Mr. Stanley announced that a sub
poena had been issued for Mr. Bona
parte, who is now in Canada, and that
an effort would be made to ascertain
from him and from other government
officials why there had not been a
prosecution of the international Har
vester company upon Townend's
charges. Mr. Stanley also announced
his intention of endeavoring to show
a close connection between the United
States Steel cojporatlon and the In
ternationa! Harvester company.
Mr. Townsend in his report particu
larly referred to the price paid to J.
Pierpont Morgan & Cos. in the har
vester deal, declaring that "$5,000,000
Is a very high price for the simple
service of suggesting to persons how
they can agree in a legitimate trans
action It is not unusual." he said,
“in illegal transactions, such as creat
ing a trust, which can evade the
laws. Doubtless, if proceedings were
instituted against the International
Harverter company, the manner of its
defense will demonstrate that the fee
was earned."
COMMONS IN WILD DISORDER.
Premier Is Howled Down—Struggle
Over Lords Issue.
London.—Scenes of wild disorder
marked the session of the house of
commons. Half a dozen times the
premier arose to move consideration
of the lords amendments to the par
liamentary hill and each time he was
howled down by a din so terrific that
the speaker had difficulty in making
himself heard as he appealed to both
sides to observe parliamentary de
corum.
After trying for three-quarters of
an hour to get a hearing and finding
himself unable to prevail against the
uproar, Premier Asquith cut short his
projected speech and amid a hubub
declared that If the lords would not
consent to restore the veto bill, even
with reasonable amendments, to sub
stantially its original form, the gov
ernment would be compelled to Invoke
the exercise of the royal prerogative
for the creation of new peers.
Unable ti restore order, Speaker
Leather declared the sitting sus
pended.
Miners Hit Ownership Plan.
Butte. Mont.—The convention of the
Western Federation of Miners adopt
ed a report which characterized as Im
practicable the suggestion of President
Mover in favor of ownership of mines
and smelters by labor crganiza
tlons.
Says Bhe Is Widow of Five.
Atlanta. Ga. —Claiming that she Is
the widow of five men, all of whom
fought in the Civil war, a woman of
Walton county has filed a petition for
five pensions of mo.
No Vote on 1912 Choice.
Fremont, Net).—The Democratic
state convention refused to Indorse
the candidacy of any individual for
the presidential nomination in 1912 ft
had been expected that an effort
would be made to have Governor Har
mon of Ohio Indorsed.
Mrs. Goodwin Wins Decree.
New York. —Justice Bischoff in the
supreme conrt granted the Anal de
cree in the divorce action brought by
Edna Goodrich Goodwin against Nat
Goodwin, the actor.
SHOOTS NIAGARA
FALLS AND LIVES
Bobby Leach Goes Cver Cataract In
Barrel!—Badly Battered by
Trip.
Niagara Falls, N. Y. "Bobby”
I .each made a trip over the
Horseshoe falls in a steel cask and
lives to tell the of an experience
more thrilling than any of his pre
vious feats, whieh include several
trips through the whirlpool rapids, a
number of balloon ascensions, a ride
over the Seneca falls in a barrel aad
a leap off the upper steel arch bridge
over the Niagara river with a para
chute.
Though he was severely battered
and bruised in the drop of 158 feet
his injuries are only superficial, and
he is able to be about his hcuse.
This Is the second time In the his
tory of the river that such a feat has
been accomplished. Mrs. Anna Ed
son Taylor ot thi* city made the trip
in a barrel on October 24. 1901, and
came out alive.
Harassed by the police on both sides
of the river, Leach was forced to make
his start from La Salle, two miles and
a half above the cataract on the Unit
ed States side.
Two rlvermen took him in a launch
to Navy Island, where everything was
made shipshape and Leach was placed
in the barrel.
It is a steel affair, eleven feet long
with ends of wood. Leach was hung
in a canvas hammock.
The barrel with its passenger was
cast adrift Just oft the mouth of
Chippewa creek, hardly a mile above
the brink of the Horseshoe, at 2:52
o’clock, and was quickly caught by the
rush of the upper rapids. When 500
yards from the brink the barrel was
caught in the tremendous current and
raced to the chasm.
Within 200 yards of the brink it
struck hard against a rock, and a
largo, section of the wooden end was
broken off. As the barrel reached the
crest, it swung straight and went
plunging down Into the abyss on its
long axis.
Hardly thirty seconds elapsed until
it was seen, a red speck, careening
in the spume below the cataract.
With the terrific outrusli of the
Horseshoe, caused by high water, the
barrel went floating down, tossing and
tumbling In Us passage towards the
upper steel arch bridge.
Frank Bender of Chippewa swam
out to it with a rope and caught the
barrel by one of its handies. From
that point the barrel was towed
ashore.
Leach was bleeding and appeared in
a bad way, but once out of the barrel
he raised himself and waved to the
crowds that lined the bank.
He was badly exhausted and it was
necessary to apply oxygen to revive
him. He thought his leg was broken
but examination showed that it wa3
merely sprained.
“I minded the tumbling about the
falls more than the big drop,” said
Leach. “Like to killed me the way
I was tossed about before 1 hit the
brink.”
PEDDLERS IN RIOT; MANY HURT.
Nonunion Hucksters Struck Down in
Chicago.
Chicago.—The strike of street ped
dlers against the anti-noise ordinance
adopted by the city council has as
sumed the proportions of a continuous
riot on the West and South sides of
the city and kept 1,500 policemen on
extra duty.
Half a dozen policemen were in
jured in trying to disperse the mobs,
and hundreds of hucksters who at
tempted to sell their wares despite
the strike were set upon and beaten.
One of the most serious affairs oc
curred at Maxwell and West Thir
teenth streets, where a band of strik
ers, led by Mrs. Isidor Silverman, the
wife of a peddler, overturned two
grocery wagons, trampled their con
tents to a pulp and severely beat the
drivers. A platoon of police charged
into the crowd, and after a fight Mrs.
Silverman and nve men strikers were
arrested.
VICTORY FOR SENATOR CUMMINS
Report on Monetary Reform Will Be
Ready In December.
Washington.—Senator Cummins of
lowa has won his fight to compel the
national monetary commission to sub
mit its report to congress and to re
quire the dissolution of the commis
sion immediately thereafter.
In response to the agitation against
the commission which has been brew
ing in congress, former Senator Al
drich, chairman of the body, sent
word to the regular Republican lead
ers in the senate that he would be
ready to present his report when con
gress convenes next December.
Chairman Penrose of the finance
committee reported the Cummins hill
to the senate with a favorable recom
mendation. but oa account of the ah
sence of Senator Bailey consideration
of the hill was postponed. Its passage
is assured.
De Kalb Post Office Robbed.
Aurora, 11L—Robbers gained en
trance through a window’ to the post
office at De Kalb, 111., blew open two
safes and secured $7,500 in stamps
and cash. $6,000 of the amount being
in stamps.
Train Hits Au*" One Dies.
Bloomington. 111.—While crossing
tracks of Chicago & Alton railroad in
an automobile. Mrs Howard Stevens
was killed and her husband and child
seriously injured, when their car was
struck by a train.
“Not Guilty” Gompers Plea.
Washington.—ln lieu of formal an
swers to the contempt charges against
them. Samuel Gompers. John Mitchell
and Frank Morrison of the American
Federation of Labor entered oral pleas
of "not gutlty” before Justice Wrigh*
of the District Supreme court
Indlanian Slain; Rival Accused.
E vansville. Ind. —Noah Russell, aged
twenty-nine, was shot and killed, and
Elbert Meridlth, aged thirty. Is ac
cused cf the crime. He is missing
The me i were rivals.
RECIPROCITY BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
Goes Through Upper House With
out Amendment.
PARTY LINES WIPED OUT
Measure Must Now Be Acted on by
House Before it Can Be Sent
to President for His
Signature.
Washington.—The Canadian reci
procity bill was passed by the
senate by a vote of 43 ayes and 27
nays, aDd the business for which con
gress was assembled in extraordinary
session was concluded.
FOR (REPUBLICANS).
Bradley. Nixon.
Brandegee. Penrose.
BrIRRS. Perkins.
Brown. Poindexter.
Burton. Richardson.
Crane. Root.
Cullom. Stephenson.
Guggenheim. Townsend
Jones. Wetmore.
Lodge. Works—a.
McLean.
FOR (DEMOCRATS).
Bacon. Myers.
Bankhead. Newlands.
Bryan. OGorraan.
Chamberlain. Overman.
Chilton. Owen a
Culberson. Paynter.
Davis. Pomerene.
Fletcher. Reed. -
Foster. Shively,
gore. Bmith of Maryland.
Hitchcock. Smith of S. C
Johnson. Stone.
Johnston. Swanson.
Kern. Taylor.
Martin. Watson.
Martine. Williams—23.
AGAINST (REPUBLICANS)
Borah. Heyburn.
Bourne. Kenyon.
Bristow. La Follette.
Burnham. Lippltt.
Clapp. Lortmer.
Clark of Wyoming. McCumber.
Crawford. Nelson.
Cummins. Oliver.
Curtis. p a ge.
Dixon. Smith of Michigan.
Gamble. Smoot.
Gronna. Warren—24.
AGAINST (DEMOCRATS!
Bailey. Slmons-3.
Clark of Arkansas.
Pairs—Lea (for). Frye (against): Till
man (for), Dillingham (against); Ray
ner (for). Sutherland (against): Du Pont
(for). Thornton (against); Percy (for).
Gallinger (against).
Every amendment was voted down
by a larger majority than that hy
which the original bill finally cr.rried
—in all cases where a roll call was
had. On the final passage 21 Repub
licans voted for the bill and 24 against,
32 Democrats for it and 3 against.
The only significant thing as to
votes on the various amendments was
the practically unanimous disposition
on the part of friends of the reciproci
ty measure not to allow anything to
mar the agreement entered into be
tween executive officials of the Cana
dian and United States governments.
Most of the votes on amendments
on which there were roll calls ran
about 16 to 64. The highest votes ob
tained in favor of any amendments
were those on the Nelson cattle and
farm products proposition and the Mc-
Cumber scheme to prevent elimination
of the duties on grain in bond. The
former was defeated 23 to 68 and the
latter 21 to 54.
Washington.—Speaker Clark and
Vice-President Sherman signed the
Canadian reciprocity bill and it
was at o ice forwarded to the presi
dent, who also affixed his signature.
The famous document which is re
sponsible for the existing extra session
of congress was signed with a gold pen
which the president personally pur
chased for presentation to Senator
Penrose, the chairman of the finance
committee of the senate, who had a
great deal to do with the favorable
consideration of the measure in the
upper chamber.
In order to observe strictly the his
torical proprieties, the president de
clared that he would not sign the
agreement unless Mr. Knox, the secre
tary of state, was present. Mr. Knox
did a very large share of the prepara
tory work, arranging the mutual tariff
concessions, and was in thorough sym
pathy with the idea from the begin
ning to the end.
CHICAGOAN IN POSTAL PROBE.
Lawyer Goodwin Is Accused of Ex
ploiting Mail-Order Houses.
Washington. The sensational
charge was made before the
bouse committee Investigating the
post office department that Leonard
Goodwin, a Chicago lawyer, and broth
er of Russell P. Goodwin, assistant
attorney general for the post office
department, was exploiting mail-order
houses throughout the country, tell
ing them he could arrange any trou
ble they might have through a denial
of mail privileges, etc.
The charge was made by E. G.
Lewis, president of a publishing com
pany In St. Louis, recently denied the
second-class privileges. Lewis also
declared that post office inspectors at
St. Louis had been told to use what
ever methods they pleased “to put
Lewis out of business” and “to shut
Lewis up before the next campaign."
This was the campaign of 1908.
Asks Funds for McNamara.
Washington.—An appeal for a $500,-
000 fund to defend J. J. McNamara,
the labor man accused of dynamiting,
has been issued by Secretary Morri
son of the American Federation of La
bor to the 2,000.000 members of labor
unions. He suggests that each mem
ber contribute 25 cents.
Attacked by Thugs: Dying.
New York—Capt. Daniel McAllis
ter, a well known mariner, is dying
at his home as a result of an attack
by three thugs
Wickersham In Deni.!.
Washington. Attorney General
Wickersham branded as f&l. r x>ds
the charges of Delegate Wick-irsham
of Alaska, that the attorney general
had “shielded Alaskan criminal ” and
had allowed the statute of inn: atlons
to run in an alleged coal contract
fraud case.
Last Survivor of Semlnale War Dead.
Chattanooga, Tenn.—W. F. M. Rice,
ninety-seven, the only survivor of the
Seminole war. is dead of old age at
Flint Springs, Tenn.
PACKERS ARE TO FACE
LORIMER INVESTIGATORS
Chicago Newspaper Manager Suggests
Names of Six Who He Believes
Should Be Interrogated.
Washington.—According to and( \*el
opments during the second and
last day of the cross-examination of
James Keeley, general manager and
editor of the Chicago Tribune, it
seems probable that a member of Cbi
e go packers will be subpoenaed to
tell the Lorimer investigating commit
tee just what they know about con
tributions to the "jackpot” in the lUI
- legislature.
Replying to a question by Senator
Fletcher, who asked if he could sug
gest the names of any packers who
should be called as witnesses, Mr.
Keeley mentioned the following:
J. Ogden Armour of Armour & Cos.,
Alfred R. Urion, general counsel of
Armour & Cos.; Arthur Meeker of
Armour & Cos., Edward Morris of Mor
ris & Cos., Louis F. Swift of Swift &
Cos., John A. Spoor of the Union Stock
yards company.
One other packer, Edward Tilden,
president of the National Packing
company, whose name was given by
Mr. Keeley, already has appeared as
a witness before the committee.
Mr. Keeley told the committee that
he had no evidence against any of the
men he named. He said, however,
that it was commonly reported that
the packers had contributed largely
to various campaign funds and for
that reason he believed they should
be Interrogated regarding their knowl
edge of a fund raised for the election
of Senator Lorimer.
The subject arose when Elbridge
Hanecy, attorney for Senator Lori
mer, asked Mr. Keeley whom he had
in mind when he wrote editorials a
year ago which made the inquiry:
“Who Furnished the Sawdust and
Lard for Lorimer’s Election?’’
Mr. Keeley said in mentioning the
word "sawdust” he had in mind Ed
ward Hines and the lumber interests,
and in the use of the word “lard” he
referred to the packing houses, with
out having the name of any particular
indivdual in mind.
RATIFY REVISION IN COTTON
House Members in Caucus Vote to
Reduce Rates.
Washington. Following a pro
longed discusion the Democratic
members of the house In caucus rati
fied by a large majority the bill re
cently drafted by the Democratic
members of the ways and means com
mittee for a revision of the cotton tar
iff.
This revision reduces by nearly
one-half the schedules of the Payne-
Aldrlcb law on manufactures of cot
ton. The bill will be Introduced in
the house and its passage expedited.
The bill was not ratified without
protest, and a vigorous effort was
made by many Democrats to upset the
party legislative program and to pre
vent adjournment of the special ses
sion of congress by blazing away
with tariff revision all down the line,
even if such action would throw the
session into the late fall.
The comm.ttee estimates that un
der the new rate the revenue to be
derived in 12 months from the cot
ton tariff will be $10,500,000, a de
crease of a little more than $3,000,000
from last year under the Payne-Ald
rich law.
WIRE MEN FINED; U. 8. VICTORY
Thirty-seven Assessed From SI,OOO to
$1,700 Each.
New York. Thirty-seven defen
dants recently Indicted in the
government’s prosecution of the al
leged wire trust withdrew their pleas
of not guilty and entered pleas of
nolo contendere.
Judge Archbald in the United States
district court ifnposed fines of from
SI,OOO to $1,700 and costs in each
case.
The action came in the face of vig
orous argument against !he accept
ance of the plea by United States Dis
trict Attorney Wise. It had never
been accepted in this court, he de
clared, and he protested against a
precedent
BERGER CALLS AT WHITE HOUSE
Socialist Asks Taft to Pardon Texaz
Youth in First Visit.
Washington.—Victor Berger, the
Socialist congressman from Wis
consin, paid his first visit to the
White House. He asked the presi
dent to pardon a Texas youth, Dewey
Carter, of Beaumont, who is serving
a five years sentence for stealing $5
while employed by the postoffice de
partment. Mr. Berger declared that
children should not be employed by
the government.
Incidentally Mr. Berger asked the
president to take some act:'in toward
allowing letter carriers in various
cities to perform their duties during
the hot summer days in their shirt
sleeves. The president, Mr. Berger
said, promised to act.
Won’t Revise Wool LIsL
Washington.—lnformation came to
President Taft from Republican sen
ate leaders that he need have no anx
iety over the possibility of action at
this session of congress on a bill re
vising the wool schedule of the pres
ent tariff.
Former Congressman’s Wife Is Dead,
Franklin. Pa.—Mrs. Metta Babcock
Sibley, wife of former Congressman
Joseph C. Sibley, died at her home
here, after an Illness of a year. Mrs
Sibley was fifty-eight years old.
Taft’s Work Praised.
Lincoln, Neb. —Nebraska Republic
ans, In convention, gave President
Taft and his administration a strong
indorsement and blocked all efforts of
a small band of insurgent delegates to
arouse sentiment for Senator Robert
M. La Follette of Wisconsin as a pres*
dentlal candidate.
Steel Earnings are $28,108,520.
New York. —The report of the United
States Steel corporation, made public
shows earnings of $28,108,520 for the
quarter ending June 30.