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SIXTV-TIIIKD YEAR. NO. 148.
THURSDAY, ArKIlt), 1!)H. -TWELVJi PAGK&
PRICE TWO CENTS.
LODGE BACKS
PRESIDENT IN
TOLLS STAND
DEATH TAKES
JAPEiPRESS
IN64THYEAR
SOME SPRY
TROOPS FIRE
PROPERTY IN
COASTCLASH
Loss of Waters-Pierce Re
fineries at Tampico
is Feared.
HIS APPOINTMENT
BRINGS SENATE ROW.
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Republican Senator Makes
a Vigorous Plea for Ex
emption Repeal.
HOOTS TRUCKLING CRY
Cites Declaration of Independ
ence in Support of Respect
for Other Nations.
Washington. D. C, April 9. Public
heiVir.gs were begun today before the
senate canals committee on repeal of
Panama toils exemption. Senators
bo have introduced bills and resolu
tions were to have their subjects
bard. From a seat in the bouse gal
lery Andrew Carnepie applauded a
Timorous epecb, by Representative
Vo-Imer of loua. the newest member.
supporting I'anama tolls exemption
repeal- Carnegie later vUited the
White Houte.
Carnepie chatted a few minutes
ith the president. He said the visit
as merely to pay his respects. Con
corning the tolls controversy Carne
gie said: ''Our country will be dis
honored if we do not uphold our
treaty." Carnegie predicted the re
peal bill would pass the senate, and
jokingly sucgei-ted: "Only prayer
ill help borne of those democrats in
the fenate, the way they are behav
xs now."
Washington. D. C, April 9. Sena
tor hods", ranking republican mem
ber of the foreign relations committee,
addressed the senate today in support
of President Wilson's Panama canal
! policy. He maintained vigorous
I? legal right of the United States
to exempt its hlppinc. foreign as well
as coastwise, from tolls, but declared
that "a decent respect to tae opinions
of mankind" and Uie "distrustndjn
'me cases di?Iike"with which the
Culled State is regarded abroad, de
Land rroir.pt repeal of the exemption
au?e of the canal act.
"Wiiether we shall insist upon giv
ing to our ships two or three million of
dollars in a disputed way is, in my con.
ftptioa. a very small question com
pared to the larger issues which are
here Involved." said the senator.
"When tae year ISv'j opened, the Unit
ed States occupied a higher and strong
er position among the nations of the
earth than at any period in our his
tory. Never before had we possessed
uch an influence in international af
fairs, and that influence had been used
beneficently and for the world's peace
la two conspicuous instances at
Portsmouth and at A'geciras. Never
Were had our relations with the vari
ous states of Central and South Amer
ica be.n o good. It seemed as if the
Didow of suspicion which, owing to
oar dominant and at times domineer
ing power, had darkened and chilled
our relations w ith the peoples of Latin
America had at lat been lifted. This
jrtat position and this commanding
InSuence have been largely lost.
Retracing Some of Steps.
1 am not in the councils of the pres
ident of the United States, but I be
lieve that during the past year the
P'e-nt position of the United States
1 its foreign relations has become
very apparent to him. as H has to 0M1
f re;-poni-i!j!p and reflecting- men. and
"ith this appreciation of our present
Pinion hai come the earnest wish to
retrace t-o:ne ,f our steps, at least, and
to regain, so far as possible, the high
Pane which we formerly occupied. It
oold be an obvious impropriety to
point out the specific conditions of our
Present relations with the various na
oni. bo'. a la the old world and the
B; it is enough to note the fart that
are resrarcJed by other nations with
ktnnt and in Fome cases with dis
':e. Rijfidly or wrongly, they have
tome to b-!i ve that we are not to be
tttted; f-.at we make our Interua-tt'-na:
relations the sport of politics
nd treat U.-ro as If they were in no
w clSt-r-ut from questions of d
ooitic Irg!-laMon. This has not been
la accord with our history or our posl-
loa. Only once have we abrogated a
rea'y, and then actual. If not de-
thvred. war existed. We have scrupu
Iy obfterved our international
yreemer.ts, and here differences have
rten we have settled them not with
high hand of power, but by nego-
''lon and arbitration.
Respect For Others' Opinions.
'I suppose that at this moment In
h m'dst of the adroitly stimulated
ions raided aralnat the president's
rcomniendation that we should repeal
tol exemption It will be thought
ry p,r tj.irtted and even truck
'! 1 belfeve that Is the accepted
urd to suggest that in deciding this
I'iestion we taoulj take into consider
'icn the oolninna or oilier nations.
-rtbeIet, I consider this a very
JniPor.nt element in any decision
hii h I may reach, and I am encour
d to believe that I am riht in so
News Item: The American Academy of Social and Politcal Science declares the Monroe
Doctrine to be as much alive today as it ever was.
KING TWO HOURS
IN AN OPERATION
Gustave of Sweden Found Suf
fering With Extensive Ulcer
ation of Stomach.
1 Stockholm. Js'tve'den," April' 9. fClng
Gustave, operated on today at Sophia
hospital here was found suffering with
an extensive ulceration of the stom
ach. The operation was in charge of
Professor Berg, well known Swedish
surgeon, and lasted two hours. It was
announced afterward that the king's
condition was satisfactory, although
he was weak. The queen occupied an
apartment in the hospital during the
operation and will stay there until the
king Is convalescent.
thinking, because I have the warrant
and authority of the author of the Dec
laration of Independence. When Jef
ferson framed that great Instrument
he declared that the Imperiling reason
for making the Declaration was 'a de
cent respect to the opinions of mac
kind.' "The long de'ay in the ratification
by the senate of the treaties renewing
the arbitration treaties of 1908 pro
duced a widespread feeling among oth
er nations that our championship of
the principle of arbitration and our
loud boasts of our devotion to the
cause of peace were the merest hypoc
risy, because we seemed ready to aban
don the cause of arbitration when it
looked as if our treaties might bring
us to the arbitration of questions
which we did not desire to have decid- j
ed by an Impartial tribunal. The pres
ident renewed the arbitration treaties,
and finally, after a delay which, as 1
have said aroused unpleasant suspi
av. bT . sent tolage of ArtUe 3. which dec:areS
cions, those which
the senate have been ratified. This
was the president's first step, as I
looked at It, In his effort to restore
the Influence and reputation of the
United States, which he had found to
be Impaired. The second step is his
recommendation of the repeal of tne
to'.l-exemptlon clause of the canal act.
Nation Not Subservient.
"The outcry about exhibiting sub
serviency to Great Britain or any oth
er country because we see fit to repeal
the tolls seems to me hardly worthy of
orlous consideration. The Unltei
States is altogether too great and too
powerful to be subservient to any one.
and the mere fact of suggesting it
seems to me to indicate an uneasy hus
plclon on the part of those from whom
It emanates not only of the validity of
their position, but of the power and
greatness of their own country, as to
which I. for one, am troubled by no
doubts.
"As I have listened to some recent
stirring declarations of our utter fear
lessness, of our readiness to face a
world in arms, in defense of toU ex
emption, about which noble cause no
country would think of fighting, there
have been moments when I have mar
velled as I thought of the coolness
and Ipdlfference with which we have
contemplated the murder of more than
a hundred and fifty Americans not
many miles from our own border. The
violated rights, the unavenged, the al-
moi-t unnoticed deaths of those Inno
cent people have seemed to make hero
ics to cut canal tol s, where there Mi
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THE WEATHER I
Forecast Till 7 p. m. Tomorrow, for
Rock Island, Davenport, Mo!ln
and Vicinity.
Fair tonight and Friday; rising tern
perature, w Ith the lowest tonight slight
ly above freezing; moderate variable
breezes.
Temperature at 7 a. m., 2S. Highest
yesterday, 33. Lowest last night, 24
hrtty t)t, wtuti arWK ftf? TO TnireS
per hour.
Precipitation, none.
Relative humidity at 7 p. m., CO; at
7 a. m., 72.
Stage of water, 4.G; a rise of .2 in
last 24 hours.
J. :C SHERIER, Local Forecastei.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Evening stars: Mars. Venus, Saturn
Morning stars: Mercury at brightest i.
Jupiter. The notable array of stars
extending from zenith toward the
northeast point belong to constella
tions Ursa Major, Draco, TJrsa Minor
and Lyra.
no peril to any one, peculiarly out of
place."
For Equality of Terms.
"It Is clear, that the rniUJ States
has rightfully and in accordance with
the terms of her treaty, built the canal
through territory which is its own for
canal purposes, although the ultimate
sovereignty remains with the republic
of Panama, and the treaty accords to
tho United States all rights incident to
building the canal. It is also clear
that in undertaking the canal on these
terms the United States did so with
the purpose of excluding :i foreigu
control beyond the stipulation to pre
serve the 'general principles' of neu
tralization and for equality of terms to
all users of the canal.
"Those who deny the right of the
United States to exempt its own
vessels rest ttieTr case on the lan-
tliat
" 'The canal shall be free and open
to the vesse"s of commerce and of war
of all nations observing rules, ou
terms of entire equality and more
particularly upon the proposition that
me woras an nations roui. .nc.uue ine
United States. I freely admit that this
it a lairiy arguuuie pu.ui, om u w.-.
not seem to me that words 'all nations
in this connection necessarily include
the United Stales
Mendel Given 18 Years.
New York. April 9. Edward Mendel,
who was a respected Iron and steel
merchant In Newark by day, and a
thug In New York by night, was sen
tenced to 18 years in Sing Sing. He was
a member of many fraternal orders in
Newark and was identified by four
women as a thug who robbed then
tearing ear rings from their ears.
HAMILTON A FED;
JUMPS ST. LOUIS
St. Louirt. Mo.. April 9. Earl Ham
ilton, left-handed pitcher, jumped 1.1s
contract with the St. lxuig Americans
today and left to join the Federal
league club at Kansas City.
"I am leaving because I am getting
bigger piece of coin," said Pitcher
Hamilton before departing for Kansas
ritv. "President Hedges refused to
meet my demands. 1 am with
Federals to stay."
ALASKAN WOMEN
WIN IN ELECTIONS
Put Over Non-Partisan Ticket
at Skagway Routing Party
in Power Six Tears.
Seattle, Wash, April 9. Cable dis
patches from Alaska indicate that the
results of elections In various parts of
the territory this week was determin
ed in a measurable degree by the votes
of women, who cast their ballots for
the first time, having been granted the
right by the territorial legislature a
year ago. in skagway, electors were
steered to the polls by women work
ers, who bought cigars and lunches
and supplied conveyances while ex
plaining the sample ballots. They
elected their entire non-partisan tick
et in Skagway against the tax payers
ticket, in power six years.
INDICTMENTS FOR
HIGGINS AND GIRL
Arraignment of Wife Murderer
Before Mercer County Court
Some Time This Week.
Aledo, 111.. April 9. Formal arraign-
J slayer of h,B wlfe wll, ttki pjace ome
time this week in the Mercer county
circuit court. An indictment was re
turned against Higgins yesterday af
ternoon by the grand jury, which made
it s final report.
The indictment contains two counts,
one charging Higgins with murder and
the other concerning his relations with
his stepdaughter, Julia Flake, who is
under the statutory age of consent.
The grand jury also sprung a sur
prise by returning an indictment
against Julia Flake, charging her with
being an accessory In the murder of
nother Mr9 XetUe F,ake. The
leUm wh,ch tne glrl had wrltten to
,1 .!.. , '
re.anes .u . " ? " " ""uv-cv I
in eviaence uciurr me giauu juiuib,
ami upon the showing the indictment
was voted.
MRS. ABEL'S CLAIM IS CUT
TO $1,000 IN THE HOUSE
Washington, D. C. April 9. The
house committee on claims made a fa
vorable report on a bill to pay J1.000
to Mrs. Mary Abel, widowed mother
and sole heir of August Abel, an em
ploye of the Rock Island arsenal, who
was fatally injured in the falling ot
an elevator in one of the shops Feb.
24. 1905. Abel died the following day.
The army board which investigated
the accident reported that it was due
to a defective cable and the safety
clutches falling to work properly. The
war department recommended $5,000
be awarded Mrs. Abel, but the house
committee reduced this to $1,000.
Shriners Have Special Train.
Local Shriners are making arrange
ments to attend the spring ceremonial
of Mohammed temple at Peoria, to
morrow. A special train has been ar
ranged to carry them and it is estl-
the 1 mated that over 100 members will at
1 tend.
Mutsuhito's Widow Passes
. . .
Suddenly at the Imper
ial Villa.
SEES TROUBLE PERIOD!
Witnesses Transformation of
Country, Passing Through
Two Costly Wars.
Tokio, Japan, April 9. Dowager
Empress Haruko died at the imperial
villa at Namazu today.
- She passed away very suddenly in
the presence of Emperor Voshmihito,
the empress and other members" of the
royal family. Bright's disease was the
direct cause of death.
She was the widow of Emperor Mut
suhito, who died July 30, 1912. She
was born May 23, 1S50. In 1S69 she
married the emperor and was declared
empress. With her husband she
passed through the troubled period
of the transformation of Japan at the
j beginning of Mutsuhito's reign. She
saw the country opened to foreign
commerce, its departure from old
world customs and adoption of west
ern civilization. She awaited in the
palace news of the Japanese armies
at war, first with China, then with
Ruscia, and saw the complete revolu
tion of Japan into a world power. She
presided at court functions with great
dignity, .on most occasions wearing
western dress, especially when in con
tact with Americans and Europeans.
She was greatly affected by the death
of Mutsuhito, suffering many months
with an affection of the heart.
All Theatres Closed.
The emperor and empress returned
from Namazu, where they prayed an
hour In the death chamber. All the
atres were closed and entertainments
cancelled. It is probable that the em
peror's coronation arranged for Nov.
10, will be postponed and the minis
terial crisis has been cast into the
background.
COLD WAVE OVER
SEVERAL STATES
Kansas City Mo., April 9. Freezing
temperatures, the average of which is
said to be lower than ever recorded
eo late in the season were reported
from many parts of the southwest to
day. It is feared that fruit has suf
fered severely.
Muskogeo, Okla., April 9. Coldest
April weather here in 2C years.
Atlanta, Ga., April 9. Extremely
low temperatures in many cases
breaking the weather bureau's records
for this season, are reported In south
Atlantic and gulf states. Fruit and
vegetables are greatly damaged. There j
have been snow flurries as far south
as Greenville, S. C.
SALESMAN SLAIN
IN CHICAGO CAFE
Isaac Henegow, Former Spar
ring Partner of Kid Farmer,
Shot While Drinking.
Chicaeo. III.. Anril 9 Isaae Hene. !
gow, a cigar jobber, formerly of San
Francisco, was shot and killed last
night in a south side cafe, lie was
formerly sparring partner of "Kid"
looking for James
"Duffy the Goat," said to have been
drinking with Henegow and a woman
a few minutes before Uie snooting.
Henegow was known Jn sporting cir
cles as "William Wood."
Bryan Back at Desk.
Washington, D. C, April 9. Secre-
tory Bryan, kept indoors a week by
a cold, returned today to his desk in I
the state department. !
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HATCHET IS USED
BY A LONDON SUF
London. England, April 9. Armed !
with a hatchet a militant suffragct to- '
day smashed 10 cases containing ex-1 Dallus. Texas Stockholders of the
hibits of the Asiatic section or the .Missouri. Kansas and Texas Railway
British Museum. Beyond breaking a company, in accordance with an agree
few specimens of valuable pcrcelain, ; mcnt with the attorney general of
however, she did little damage. i
The woman was arrested but refused I
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Belfast, Ireland, April 9. Suffragets !
continued the firebrand ca.niiaign In!
l ister toaay oy uurniug tn? unaaus.
an old mansion near Carrickbfurgus. j
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Winthrop M. Daniels.
Winthrop M. Daniels, member of
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the New Jersey board of public util- j
ity commissioners and former pro- Mexico City, April 9. The first ad
fessor of political economy at Prince- mission that Villa's army had occu
ton, has been appointed a member of ple$ Torreon was made by the Mexi-
the interstate commerce commission t . . . .... ,
. , . . can Herald today. The government
bv President Wilson. The appoint-
ment has brought forth vigorous pro-. nas decided to institute a censorship
test by Senators Kenyon, Cummins, of cable despatches.
La Follette and others against the i .
executive sessions held by the senate, i Washington, D. C, April 9. Over
with a threat to refrain from secrecy ;nl nt dispatches from AamiraI Fietch.
hereafter except when treaties and
similar matters are under considera-. er reported fighting still in progress
tion. , : at Tampico, without advantage to
- i either side. Fletcher received the fol
CHINA BRIGANDS
MURDER 100MORE
: am discouraging refugees from corn
White Wolf's Followers SweeD- 'ins on board. Have received few on
ing Entire Country About
Shensi Province.
Peking, China, April 9. The towns
of Huhsien, Chowoship and Haihsien,
In Shensi province, were looted today
by brigands under "White Wolf," and
100 inhabitants killed. Brigands are
sweeping the entire country around
about. All foreigners at outstations
were ordered to Sian Fu, where 1500
regular t rdops " h aVS "aFfTved.
CHARGE MUSICIAN
WITH A LARCENY
Carl Swartz Put Under Arrest in
Muscatine on Complaint of
Local Man. -
Carl Swartz, former musician in a
Rock Island motion picture theatre,
but now of Muscatine, was arrested
yesterday by police of that city
charged with larceny, in Rock Island.
There is said to have been some con
tention as to the availability of funds
with which to return Swartz, and he
was still in Muscatine up to noon to
day. Swartz is alleged to have drawn the
salary of a fellow musician in this
i city and later he left Rock Island.
When arrested Swartz made no objeo
tion to returning to this city, alleging ference here today. It was announc
the man whose salary he drew was in- j ed that a list of candidates was agreed
debted to him for a greater sum of j upon merely as a suggestion and that
money.
He had a job as a musician in a mo
tion picure theatre at Muscatine at the
time of his arrest.
FOUR MEN LOSE LIVES IN
AN EXPLOSION IN CANAL
The Dalles. Oregon. April 9. Four !
men were killed, another had his nose
blcwii r-ff and three othprs vere injur
ed on the Dalles-Celilo government
canal works rear Big Eddy when a
"'"vy charge of dynamite that had
mitsei!
f.re was struck by a steam
shovt i
Engineer I. Kindler, who was
worlang the fhovel that struck the '
The police are na"!1' . WHS rmwu mio mo coBs oi . 8ence or a document, according to At
Franche, alias , nis " achnrry r.vd ground to death. , torney General Smith, is going to
Kmployrs w ere aroused over the
a. idont. Fcr some time, it is said,
; they -have, been complaining about the
, "miose l Ix les " .leclaring the engineer
lin charge o! the blasting had been
j trying tc f re too many holes for the ;
; number of batteries used and that
dani,'fro-is flrres were left unpro-,
testel in the way of workmen.
WIRE SPARKS
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Wellesley Wellesley college has re
ceived a gift of $750,000 from the
Rockefeller Foundation toward re
storation of facilities lost in the re-
Ictnt destruction of College hall by
i fire. Two million dollars must be
raised by Jan. 1 to obtain the gift
Texas to separate Its Texas holdings
from its outside property, selected a
uvn uumim vi w i . 1 i .
Ogden. Utah A slight earthquake,
tne duration or wnicn : about two t
seconds, w aa felt hero,
GERMAN PLANT BURNED
' Federal Gunboat Directs Attack
j in Effort to Repulse Invad
ing Rebels.
'
lowing from Admiral Mayo yesterday
afternoon:
"Fighting continues, with no change
except that the gunboat Zaragossa ia
assisting the Vera Cruz in shelling
Arbol Grande. On account of a north
ern and no advantage in fighting I
Des Moines alongside dock. Reports
are circulated on shore that Ameri
can battleships are supplying arms to
rebels."
Officials here did not regard the
report that rebels at Tampico were re
ceiving aid from - American battle
ships as worth commenting on.
Lives Not Periled.
The state department said that for
eign property, especially oil plants, at
Tampico,kere In grave danger, but
thcrtrglll' " theTawas IfltTeVa nger To
lives of foreigners. The Waters-Pierce
oil refineries have been occupied by
the attacking forces the last two days
and as a consequence have been under
heavy fire of a federal gunboat in the
harbor. Loss of the entire property
is feared.
A German company's warehouse
was burned with a loss of $500,000.
Maaatlan is reported tranquil.
Five Americans arrested at Vera
Cruz as a military precaution were
released today. Fighting is reported
in progress at San Pedro and Paras
was a report to Brigadier General
Scott at El Paso, Texas.
IOWA MOOSERS 1:
SELECT A TICKET
Des Moines, Iowa, April 9. Progres
sive leaders today began circulation of
nomination blanks for candidates for
various state offices selected at a con-
other progressives were not barred
from making the race for any office
they desire. :.j
Marshal'.town, la., April 9. The pro.
hibition state convention nominated M.
L. Christian of Clinton, Iowa, for sen
ator, and Malcolm Smith of Cedar Rap
ids for governor. The platform ad-
vocated enactment of
woman suf
frage legislation.
WEYERHAEUSER LEFT j
NO WILL, IT IS SAID
St Paul. April 9. Frederick Weyer
haeuser, deceased lumber king, left
no will, so far as is known. The ab-
caUse considerable embarrassment in
collecting the inheritance tax. The
opinion is prevalent here that Wreyer-
haeuser disposed of much of his prop-
erty before he died and that the sta.t
win not realize nearly the amount first
anticipated. This mav also caua
litigation, according to the attorney
c-eneral
Identify Boay In Mystery.
Kewanee. II'., April 9. The body of
a man found dead near town Sunday
with a stab wound about the heart
was identified as that of Frank W.
Brown of Galesburg, a plumber.
GRAND JURY QUIZ
OFBALLOTHOLDUB
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Decatur. III., April 9. Leadii.f
zena of Pana today 'ere summ
appear before the grand jury
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vtuAk mvy ftiiew oi tne sen -
holdup of Town Clerk Lester T
morning, when 3,000 ballots h
carrying were slezed. Sens,
testimony may be givto.
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