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CAIRO, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1908
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FOR IDE FUTURE
THOUGHTS AND CARE FOR NA
TION'S GOOD IS KEYNOTE
OF THE GOVERNORS.
Is' Subject of Anle Addess of E. R.
Johnson, Who Urges Immediate
And Speedy Action Noted
Meetinq is Ended.
Washington. May 1 Tin' confer
ence of governors clos 'd today. The
president presided throughout the
lay's session. Ho brought to the plat
form men who made plain the pre
vailing feeling, that thought and tare
must be 'exercised fur the future. Tim
prepared papers were not pi csented,
hut they will be printed in the per
manent record. Their place was taken
(list, by a "declaration" which was
adopted after discussion which
brought to light no serious objection
to Its affirmations.
Then William J. Hryan was pro
nentd by the president. Hi1 touched
the san holds whlcii tiad produced
the vibrations of harmony and in
operation. A governor's discus-don
brought many state executives to
the platform but the product was al
together that of haimony. and s nti
meuts express! d worn applauded
alike by all.
President Roosevelt himself nnde
an address in which he set forth his
Ideas en the rights of the state and
of the nation in controlling corpora
tions and in charging rent for water
power. I'oth had powers that should
be pn -totted and properly exercised
for the general benefit.
Mrs. Roosevelt, tonight entertained
the governors at a reception at the
While House. More than l.HOO gm s'
were present.
tine t the most Important nd
- 4eae jnado was by 13. It Johnson,
un export on Inland waterway-r "H
tsald: Tells of Waterway Navigation.
The watereways in our country
livers, canals, lakes and coastal chan
nels have an aggregate length t be
tween Gli.tiOO and r.0,000 miles, and
only about half of the entire mileage
Is now used for navigation.
Considering the great length and
undoubted value 0' our inland wa'er
ways, comparatively litto has been
done tomake them commercially use
ful. The most effective work has
been done In improving the harbors
mid channels of Lake Superior. Michi
gan, Huron ami Kilo with tho 10
milt that the freight now shipped on
the Croat Lakes " rnilUon tons In
1!4i)r,--is three times what, it was In
isim. The traffic passing the ft.
Mary's locks rose from a million and
a ipiartor tons in 1SS0 to seven and
a half millions in lssn, and to forty
one nud a quarter millions In IflOfi
an In crease of "L'000 per cent. This
commerce on tho Great Lakes has
noon made possible by total . con
gressional appropriations of less than
a hindred million dollars.
Th'i total appropriations made by
congress from the beginning to 1907
for tho rivers of the Mississippi va'
loy amount, to J208.IS4.720. Tlrs
seems to be a relatively large sum;
but when we consider that the
Vnited States has spent during the
past hundred years In regulating, im
proving and exteding our system cf
national waterways only 4 14 per cent
of the amount private capitalists have
invested in the construction of rail
ways, our congressional appropria
thins for the betterment of inland
navigation seem to have been' con
servatively small.
The Vnited States has as yet done
less than has been done by other
leading Industrial and commercial
rivals in the development and use
of Inland waterways. If we except
as of course we ought the chain of
Oro.it Lakes which have no counter
part in any other country. Whether
it is desirable that the t'nlted States
should follow the example of France
and Germany as regards Inland water
transportation is a question to which
the American people are now giving
serious thought. There can be no
uncertainty as 10 lTlp importance of
the transportation services eper
formod by our coastwise shipping,
and by the fleet operated on the Great
I-ikes. Tho coastwise and Great
Uikos traffic is rapidly growing;
but upon our canals and many of our
rivers traffic languishes or de-
rlincR.
Our Rail Freight Rates Lowest.
In no other country of the world
have rail transportation costs been
reduced to such a low figure as in tho
Vnited States. In many other coun
tries it has been found more economi
cal to do the hoavTor transportation
work by making largo ue cf water
ways, and to develop the railway
traffic more particularly with refer
ence to the speedy movement and
schedule delivery of parcels, pack
ages and general commodity freight.
Such an organization of the business
of transportation as has been worked
out in England, France and Germany
does rot result In as low average
freight rates by rail as prevail In the
HOUGHS
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. United States; but the costs of whole
sale and retail distribution and of
many manufacturing aetii:iis are
I undoubtedly less than they would be
were the people of Europe served al
most entirely by railroads and not
by both railroads nfid waterways.
Our dependence upon railroads, al
most exclusively, for the movement
of bulky commodities long distance
even at low average rates, while wo
at the same time neglect the develop
ment and use of our inland waterways
docs not necessarily mean that we
have organized our work of rod in-
tion and distribution in the most
economical manner. When oondi i 11s
in the Vnited States approach n ore
j cli soly those prevailing In Europe,
J we shall find it Increasingly d fslrablo
;to provide ourselves both .with well
developed waterways ami w.tli rai
roads more efficient than pn si nt
conditions permit them to b In the
handling of package rrelgiit. We, as
well as Europe, wi'.l find it. 1 miitable
In nilrlmize capital and warehousing
J costs.
I The construction of canals and the
j Improvement of rivers in the UcPed
1 State havo progress d slowly, in
! part at least, because the federal gov
ernment has in the past lelt to the
states the work of canal building
and to some extent the canalixath n of
rivers.
Improvement is Nation's Work.'
The states nro manifestly incom
petent to carry out the improvement
of our national waterways. The
great state of New York has the
financial ability and ecnm mis Incen
tive to reconstruct the Eri canal;
hut, Its route is so clearly national
that the waterway should long s'nee
have been taken over and enlarged by
tho federal government.
The experience of our own country
and of other nations shows con
clusively that waterways should be
public ways that their execution
and maintenance siioud h" by the
government. The entire net work of
American waterways should he im
proved and extended systematically
by one authority and' with reference
to the economic and social needs of
the entire nation. There H only one
power who authority is as' wide as
our country, and that Is the federal
government. In the future but small
place in the development- and control
of waterways will he given lilher to
the states or to private coroprations.
TherrrYsrTto tio -doubt thet lUo.Jn.
land WKterways of the United Stales
will be more extensively used in the
future than they have been in the
past. Tho reasons for this are
numerous and conclusive.
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TO SUV BYES
REVOLUTIONARY REFUGEES AT
SAN JOSE SELECT MAN TO AS
SASSINATE PRESIDENT OF
COLUMBIA.
Panama, May ,15. Dispatches re
ceived from Port Llmon, Costa Hioa.
relate the discovery of ap lot against
the life of President. Koyes, of Colom
bia. It seems that Colombian revolu
tionary refugees who are living In
San Jose held a meeting a few days
ago at which it was decided to send a
man to Ilaruiuiuilla to assassinate
the president. The Colombian author
ities are fully aware of every step
taken by tho refugees.
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ALSO DEPOSED
REV. GEORGE CuARKE COX HAD
IDEAS OF HIS OWN REGARD
ING CHURCH . AND IS IM
PEACHED AS RESULT.
Boston, May 1.1. Rev. George
Clarke Cox. of Cambridge, formerly
rector of the Episcopal church in Cin
cinnati, has been formally deposed
from the priesthood by Hishop Yin
cent. At the time of the trial of Re".
Algernon S. Crapsey, of Rochester, N.
Y., who was convicted of holding re
ligious views not countenanced by the
Episcopal church, Cox expressed sym
pathy with Crapsey and endorsed some
of his statements.
ARE ANXIOUS TO ADJOURN.
(Washington, May 15. A conference
was held heretoday on five big supply
bills passed annually by the congress
and all may be reported tomorroy.
These are postoffice, District of Co
lumbia, fortifications, diplomatic and
consular, legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bills. Haste is
being made on these bills and It is
promoted by desire to adjourn next
week.
ILLINOIS DENTITS ELECT
Springfield. III., May 15. Th?
forty- fourth. Annual meeting of tho
Illinois State Dental Society closed
today. Dr. A. D. Black of Chicago,
was elected president.
S M PLO
CRN'S FRIEND
SUE SURETIES UF
STATE OFFICERS
FORMER TREASURER AND AUDI
TOR SAID TO HAVE DEBTS
RUNNING INTO MILLIONS
LOOK TO THE BONDSMEN
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I
I To Make Good Alleged Shortage and
Damages Sensational Instru
ments Filed by Gov. Dencen
and Attorney General.
I Springfield. 111., May IT,. -Five suits
1 in action of debt, aggregating $I.7iiO,
K1O11 and for damages of $ l.'O.fiO't were
I filed in the Sangamon county circuit
'court today by Attorney Genual
ISiead niiil Governor Deneen against
jthe sureties of former state treasurers
land one former state audit, r lor f ei s
! retained during their administrations
If.... w.llut Imr Intuitiur nn lili:itv.
IUI V.'l,-Vl.fn ....... ....
municipal and district bonds.
The suits are the result of the hold
ing of the state supreme court that,
the sureties on the bonds of the
state treasurers and state audltois
are liab'.o lor all fees retained by the
state auditors and treasurers. The
suits are directed against the living
sulfites and the heirs of th se dead.
On the bond of Charles P. Swlge.t,
auditor in 1SS-I, there is a debt of $.10,-
Od'), and damages of $::o,00.
Eiastus Mates, treasurer 18!7 has a
l.'bt of 2iKUiO'i and a damage of $20.-
000. Edward Kutz, treasurer 1SX1 .
has a debt of $V'0,0ii0 and a damngc
of $2."i,0i.0. Edward Rube, treasur r
187(1, has a debt r,f $.,.IO,00(. and a
damage of $21,000. Moses O. Wil
liamson, treasurer in 1!0 I, bin a debt
of $r,il0,,iu0 and a damage of f. 10,00.
GEORGE H. BICKNELL, PAST COM
MANDANT OF U. '8,' NAVY
YARD, RELIEVED FROM DUTY
BECAUSE OF AGE.
Washington, 1). C May 1.1. Ren:
Admiral George H. Uleknell. for mor."
thau a year past commandant of tho
nevy yard nt I'ortinouth. N. H., was
placed on the retired list today by
operation of the age limit. Captain
Edwin K. Moore, a member of the
navy examining and retiring boards
in this city, has been named to sue
reed Rear Admiral Mieknell as com
niandant. at Portsmouth.
Rear Admiral Bicknell leaves be
hind him a record of active service of
exceptional interest. He was born
in New .Jersey, May 11, dSKl, and re
ceived his early education in private
schools in Indiana. He entered the
army In 18iil ami served as first lieu
tenant in the volunteer infantry dur
ing the Morgan Raid. He graduated
from the Vnited Stati s Naval Acad
emy in istitt and for three years served
in the Atlantic fleet. Some' of the
most interesting experiences of his
early career occurred in Japan. He
was present at the opening of the
ports of Kobe and Osaka to trade
ami was in the landing party that, re
pelled the attack of Prince Hizen
at Kobi'.
In the. early 'KO's he cruised from
.Montevideo to Heard's Island, about
seven thousand miles, seeking and
rescuing about thirty survivers of the
shipwrecked bark. Trinity. During the
Spanish "war, as commander of th"
steamer Niagara, Commander Bick
nell coaled the vesels of Admiral
Sampson's squadron while oil their
way to the bombardment of San Juan,
and took his station during the bom
bardment off Point Salinas, to guard
against the approach of gunboats
from the westward. In December,
18H0, Commander Itlcknell . was in
command of the Monocacy on the
Asiatic station and cruised to Han
Kow anil other river ports of China,
taking Minister Conger and his suite
to visit the two viceroys of the river
provinces.
MOUND CITY PEOPLE
NOT GUILTY OF ARSON.
John Melntnrff and wife of Mound
City who have been on trial in the
circuit court there for some days,
charged by relatives withhurningtheir
own house, were discharged by the
jury last 1 veiling; and it is the feel
ing among their friends that the
charge against them was merely the
result of a family qnarol. The case
was hard fought, but the evidence
presented was not strong.
3,000,000 POUNDS MEAT BURNED.
Omaha. May 15. The old plant of
the Omaha Packing Company, South
Omaha, was destroyed by fire tonight,
together with 3,000,000 pounds of moat
involving a loss of flOO.ou,). The flic
started in the smoke house, although
ten orgin ba not yet been determined.
RETIRED ADMIRAL
HAD BUSYCABEtR
JAW BONE FOUND ON
MURDER FARM THAT
OF FIENDISH OWNER
l a Porte, Ind., May 15. Aside from
the Idi ntiheation cf the piece of jaw
bone taken from the ruins of the
Guinness farm house 11s portions of
Mrs. GuhinrW skull, thef w. r no
new positive deveh p-..u nts today. The
remain if Andrew R. Helge'ein. of
Mansfield. S. D.. one of tile victims
was fciu'Lid tonight In Pulton's ceme
tery. EXECUTIVES II
ONE CALLS, SPECIAL SESSION OF
LEGISLATURE OTHER RE
VOKES CALL AND REFUSES
TO SHAKE HANDS. 1
,
Lille" Reck, Ark.. May 2V Governor
Plndaft. who reached the city at H:',W,
shortly before luilnlglit issued the
following proclamation revok'n.? the
call for a special session of the
legislature issued by Atin.,r Gov. A.
H. Handler:
"After a careful consideration of
the proclamation horoU.fore !s-aied,
calling a special ses. h 11 of the g -n-eral
assembly of the state of Arkan
sas to convene at initio Rock, at noon
on the lSth day of May, llt 'S, I have
concluded that the call was ill al
vised, that the purposes tfienin do
net demand any action by ,the le's
lature at this time, and th.it t'-e peo
ple of the state should not b bur
dened with the enormous exoens of
an extraordinary session, which 110'
tlior occasion nor exigency demands.
"Now, therefore, I, O. X. Pindall,
governor of the state of Arkansas, by
virtue of the power and hi th" eve'
rise of the d'scretii-r. vos.ed in im by
the constitution of the st ite, do here
by revoke nad set aside the said proc
lamation made and published on the
l?fh day of May, J90S.
."fn es'jiiicny w hereof 1 h iv here
unto si t my lurid hut caused to b
affixed thereto the groat seal oftk
state of Arkansas, in .lie execiilive
chamber, city of Little Rock, on this,
the 14th day of May.'WuS.
X. O. PINDALL, Governor.
"O. C. LCDWKl,
"Secretary of State.''
Pindall Ignores Hamiter.
Governor Pindall and paity reached
Little Rock at 8:"0 tonight and drove
immediately to the statehouse, where
they found Acting Gov. Allen If.
Hamiter and friends In the executive
office awaiting Gov. Pindall.
When the party entered the gov
ernor's office. Acting Gov. Hamiter
arose from the gubernatorial chair and
offered Gov. Pindall his hand, which
was refused by Pindall.
Mr. Handler then told the governor
that, be had taken possession of the
office because the constitution requir
ed him to do so, and that he had not
disturbed or attempted o interfere
with any of his policies.
Refuses Hamiter's Hand.
"I noy turn the office over to you.
Gov. Pindall," continued tho retiring
governor.
He then offered his hand, which was
declined by Gov. Pindall.
Mr. Hamiter then retired to his
Motel.
Seveial hundred people crowded in
to the ht.itehouse and grounds to
grot t Gov. Pindall upon his return.
Accompanying the governor home
were Gov.-elect Geo. V. Donaghey,
Soci etal v of State Ludwig and Com
missioner of Agriculture Guy I!. Tuck-
GENERAL CONFERENCE OF
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH WILL CUT NUMBER
IN HOME FIELDS.
Pultimore. May 15. There are in
indentions today that the general con
fen nee of the Methodist Kpiscopal
church now in session, will not elect
as many n w bishops as had been ex
pocted. It has been thought that the
number elected would be eight, but
it now seems certain that the com
mit'.oe having the mutter in charg-1
will recommend that the total number
of bishops ho made less than it ha
been hitherto, but that there will be
no reduction in the foreign field.
STRIKE AT END.
Kansas City, May la. The strike n!
700 brewery workers, begun Wednas
day. was ended tonight when the
r.rewers agied to grant a small in
crease in wages.
T "o Away with Envy.
Thou o'ighttst not to know th
wealth of Ugr neighbor. Homer.
ARKANSAS AT OUTS
P REDUCTION
III
LUIS TEAM
BEATS CHICAGO
STATE UNIVERSITY TRACK ATH
LETE3 WIN DECISIVE VIC
TORY, CAPTURING BIG MA
JORITY OF EVENTS.
Champaign, 111., May 15. The t'ni
versity of Illinois today defeated the
Chicago Univresity in track meet,
CVM to .1 8 1 points. The Chicago
Ereshmen defeated the Illinois Fresh
men CI to LI.
Illinois Winners.
120 yard hurdles Brown. Time 111.
Mi) yard dash May. Time in 1-5.
Mile run-llliimat). Timet: 10.
I "11 vard hnnlli s lirown. Time 25
jl-5.
1 220 yard dash May. Time 22 1-5.
j KK0 yard run 1 lauley. Time 2:20.
j Two mile nin Foreman. Time
11:01.
Pole vauit -Jones. Ten feet, t!
Inches.
, Discus hurl -Drundage, US feet, 8
inches. '
Chicago Winners.
41.) yard runMen im. Time CO 2 5.
High jump Scliummer, Five feet,
S inches.
Shot put Si-lmmmer. Forty feet,
2VS inches.
liroad jump Garrett. Twenty-one
feet , Il'i inches.
Hummer throw ioi thine, 12(1 feet,
Vi Inch.
IS TO BE POSRED
NATIONAL CONGRESS OUTLINES
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN FOR
SUMMER NEXT MEETING IN
WASHINGTON.
Washington, May, 15. At a meeting
of tjj direj tyrs oftlle National Rivers
and HailHiis Congress today if was
decided to hold the next national con
verdion in this city, on December 0
next. The organization has planned n
vigorous campaign for the coming
summer. The congress seeks to have
the federal government, expend not
less than $50,(ihi,immi a year 011 the
waterways of the country.
T
NAVIGATORS HAD SENT MA
CHINE AROUND IN CIRCULAR
COURSE OF TWO MILES
WHEN IT BECAME UNMAN
AGABLE AND PITCHED TO
DESTRUCTION.
M.iuteo, N. C, May 15. On the eve
of a great, triumph with a sustained
record of eight miles in the air Just
roll",! off, , the Wright brothers
aeroplane was completely wrcked on
the beach in Kill Devil Hills shortly
after 1 o'clock this afternoon. Wilbur
Wright, who was Scoring the ma
chine nf the time, escaped without
injury.
The accident was caused by an un
manageable lover, which, instead of
regulating the descent of the ma
chine to the beach, sent if pitching
forward to destruction. The wreck
was instantly screened from public
view anil tonight the pieces are being
packed for shipment to the h.uiie if
the Inventors, in Dayton. Ohio.
Details of the accident were abso
lutely refused by the Wright
brothers.
Had Won Fame.
For the purpose of conducting their
experiments the two men leased .1
broil strip of beach here two weeks
ago. ami over this they exercised
rigorous supervision. It was from
this pel nt. that the wonderful flight
of the aeroplane was witnessed at
noon today.
Had the wreck not occurred the
Wright brothers would have leaped
into fame tomorrow morning nbso
letly successful navigators ef the
air. for in the presence of half a
dozen life guards an! with the news
paper correspondents observing tho
movements closely they had first sent
the machine around in a circular
course of two miles, under perfect
control, in two minutes and forty sec
ends.
PROF WICKOFF IS DEAD.
Princeton. V .1. May 15. Walter
Augustus AYJekoff. A. M., assistant
professor of political economy In
Princeton 1'niversity, .lied here to
night. Call for Deeds.
Tears in mortal miseries are vain.-
Homer.
WATERWAYS PLAN
we
IS WRECKED
ENGLAND HONORS
FAMOUS NURSE
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, HERO
INE OF CRIMEAN WAR, CELE
BRATES EIGHTY-NINTH BIRTH
ANNIVERSARY.
I-omlon. May 15. Florence Nightin
gale, upon whom the corporation of
the City of Ijilidon recently con
ferred the freedom of Uie city, en
tered upon her eighty-ninth year to
day . At her home in Park Lnne she
received nn almost countless number
of congratulations. Among tho send
ers of felicitatiou. greeting were
King Edward mid Queen Alexandra,
j The h ading newspapers in, their is
sues today paid compliment to Miss
I Nightingale and her works and
I eulogized her as among the greatest
I women w hose names have adorned
English history. '
j Florence Nightingale's nsnie is In-
severaoiy connecieu wmi ue- inin-iui
war. An English army of 25,000 m 'n
sailed for the Crimea In the spring
of 1S54. The battle of Alma was
fought In the following September.
Meantime, the troops remained inac
tive, decimated by cholera and other
diseases. There were over thirteen
thousand sick In the hospitals. The
death rate at Scut at I was forty-two,
per cent. In tins Kulull hospital it
rose to fifty-two per cent. More than
$5,000,000 was poured by the p-ople
into various funds and nu dicul sup
plies were sent out by the ton, whi'e
the medical stalT was multiplied until
there was i doctor for every hundred
soldiers. The trouble, it iR declared,
lay not In a deficiency or supplies,
but In want of brains ind method 'in
their uses.
One man, Sir Sidney Herbert, of
the war department, said: "It Is a
woman's work, and there Is one wom
an in England who can sot this right."
Then lie sat dowu and wrote to Flor
ence Nightingale, asking her tf she
would go to the East and organise a
nursing service in the great host ital
nt Scutari. She accented, and taking
'a band of forty nurses with her, set
md -wtthti -a -weak,UniIer her ttd-
ministrfitlon the death rate nt hi
pll.nl (latients was brought down to
I wo per cent.
NO BOOZE AT BIG
SUB - COMMITTEE OF REPUBLI
CANS DECLARE AGAINST
LIQUID REFRESHMENTS AND
PICTURES OF CANDIDATES.
Chicago. May 15. The sub-commit
tee on arrangements of the Republican
national committee, passed a rule to
dav declarini: that no liuuor shall be
sold, served or brought Into the con
vention ball either at committee
meetings ord uring the convention
Week.
The committee also placed a ban on
nortraits as adornments for the walls
of the -all and decorations, according
to the present plan, will be confined to
(lags nud bunting.
REPRESENTATIVES OF COMMER
CIAL ORGANIZATIONS ASK
ROADS TO LEAVE JUSTICE OF
RAISE TO INTERSTATE BOARD
Chicato. Mav IV Representatives
of more than "no commercial organ
izations from all parts o fthe country
at a meeting heretoday adopted reso
lutions protesting against the pro
nosed advance in railroad freight
rates, but agreeing to submit the ques
tiou nf the justice of .filch ail ad
vance to the interstate commerce com
mifbiun without appeal to the court.
In the event that the railroads refuse
to consent to arbitration, the federal
courts are to be asked to Issue In
junctions against the railroads In
eveiv district where an att nipt may
lie made to increase the rates.
HELPS SCHOOLS OF MtNES.
Washington. May 15. The endow
ment, of the schools of mini's and
mining from eht proceeds of public
land sales outside the irrigation states
is provided for 1y a bill passed by
the senate today.
WELL KNOWN MEN DROWNED.
Sanborn. Iowa. May ir While boat
ing on Ijike Milwaukee, I-e Richard
son and Amos Hendricks, two well
known citizens of Sanborn, were
drowned last tiij;ht.
Clin MEETING
WAR DECLARED ON
NCREASED RATES
DRAFT CRIES ARE
RAISEOJ ROUSE
GENERAL SHERWOOD ACCUSED
BY KEIFER OF RANK "BUN
COMBE" PLAY,
OPEN PURCHASE CHARGE
Against Members By Fitzgerald Who
Declared Public Building Bill
Reeked With System of
"Public Plunder."
Washington. May 15. One of the
most scathing denunciations of a fel
low member, ever heard in the bouse,
was uttered today by General Sher
wood of Ohio, against his -colli Kin,
General Kelfer, former speaker of th)
house. Sherwood based his remark
on the alleged accusation by Ke-Ifer
that, lie had introduced a bill for pen
sions for veterans "for buncombe, a id
political purposes."
Interest In the incident was en
hanced by the fact that in additlou to
being from the same state, they are
both veterans of the cijil war. Sher
wood said he had lvon attacked aa-l
maligned and 'aLi.iuoted In six pags
of the Ci..igresslonal Record, "and
that loo, without any provocation
.vl.ulever."
Ho said his advocacy of the meas
ure, of relief for veterans had excit .
the envy of Kelfer, "who 1 am reliably
Informed, wishes to be recognized as
the only soldier of any account e.n this
floor." He said that "Kelfer's Idea of
legislation wras like Kelfer himself
entirely selfish."
Graft Cry Raised in House.
Under suspension of rule today the
house passed the public building bill
carrying an appropriation of JUS,-
100.000. Hartholdt, of Missouri, briefly
explained Its proviscionh, which, he
said, would result lu giving woik to
many now unemployed. ;
In opposing tho bill. Fitzgerald, of
New York, o ft he. committee of appro
priations, protested agaiust the lack
of opportunity afforded to consider It
it).. detail Ho charged that the spoil
had hooft Cvonly db;t rebated as t
forestall a veto with which the presi
dent was credited with threatening
congress.
"The bill," he said, "will go through
by cohesive pttwer-of public plunder."
Jenkins, of Wisconsin, vigorously
resented the statement of Fitzgerald.
The effect of his language, Jcukln
charged, was to impute that the mem
bers of the house had beeu purchased.
He wanted to know bow many "Demo-
ocratic Indians" the Republicans got
yesterday on the currency bill though
a knowledge of the fact that in the
matter of public buildings, they were
sharing equally as well as the Re
publicans, Willi equal vigor, Fitzgerald dis
claimed making any such suggestion.
Currency Bill Sent to Conference.
The Vreeland currency bill which
passed the house yesterday wns de
livered to the senate today and at
once was sent to the committee on
finance. A Id rich promptly made a
report from the committee, substitu
ting the Aldrich bill in amended form
for the house -measure and lu. that
form it was passed by the seuats.
This action threy the bill into confer
ence and an effort will he made to
reach an agreement at an early day.
The work of cleaning up legislation
in the house preparatory to adjourn
ment May '.',, proceeded at rapid puce
today. With only a short time allowed
for debate, both the military academy
appropriation and the omnibus public
building bills were passed, leaving
the supply bills only, the general d-1
Moloney bill to be considered. This
probably will be taken up Monday.
In addition S.T, private pension
bills wore put through.
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THIRTEEN MEN AND OFFICERS
KILLED AND 65 WOUNDED IN
BLOODY CLASH BETWEEN
TWO FORCES.
Algiers, May 15. The French frocs
under General Vigy lost l ! killed ani
15 wounded during a fierce engage
ment yesterday with fanatical Arabs.
The engagement lasted the greater
purt of the day and lioudeuib, th
stronghold of the Mulai llafsen, wai
bombarded. Three officers are among
the French killed. The Arab losses
are described as heavy.
WITH FIRE AND SWORD.
St. Petersburg. May 13. General
Snarskie, commander of the Russian
punitive expedition into Persian ter
ritory has been ordered to resum hi.
advance into Persia and to punli.l
the bf.ndits with fire and sword. Jla
will dtsiroy villages, but spare woj
1 en and children.
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