Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 7, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1909 — Page 1

Volume VII. Number 36.

, ARE BUSY TODAY ■Option Bills Will Likely Come Late This Afternoon ■PASSED BILLS P The Solons Are Getting Busy With Their Work f Indianapolis, February 11—(Special gfto the Daily Democrat)—Both local ■option bills will come up late this S afternoon. and after a careful canvass it is the opinion of many of those ghwho are in a position to know, that g-the bills will pass, and that they will -have just the constitutional majority, fity-one, and no more. Representsptive Gottschalk is not wavering and p.iKlr vote will be against the passage Os the bill. He voted for it yesterp <day in order to advance it to secg ond reading, and there subject it to jK • amendment, but when the bill was sent to engrossment he voted against it Indianapolis, February 11. —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —The house diet business today, and if the clip is continued they will certainly re- ■ deem their past record, of sort o’ sleeping at the switch. They dis"posed of the following bills today: Bills Killed t House bill 66. an act to regulate p.-the sale of paint, turpentine, linseed , ■ oil, etc. Bills Passed f House bill 35, for the regulation I -of insanity inquests. House bill 149, making it unlawful • so: any person to make a false state- ■ ment to obtain credit, and providing E . a penalty. House bill 189, to provide for the expense of the Wallace monument ra*. commission. House Bill 215, relating to public ■rhealth and the prevention of contaE gious diseases. K. House bill 250, to amend and to res'peal certain sections and for the reg- ■ illation of public offenses. Senate bill 171, legalizing the ap-B-propriatlon of certain moneys by the 1- county council of Clark county. Indianapolis, February 11—(Spec- | ial to the Daily Democrat)—Governor ■f Marshall today signed the Vincennes E University bonds, thus completing the Blast chain in this famous bill and now F law. It has been in every legislate* ture for the past ten or fifteen years. and two years ago was passed by both ■ legislative branches, vetoed by the ■ governor, passed again by the legisBlature over the governors veto, and B"then Governor Hanly refused to sign Er the bonds. Governor Marshall anj’.ncunced in his inaugural address that (Continued on >•)

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RETURNED FROM THE SOUTH |W. 0. Myers Came Home Last Night From the South. , W. O. Myers, of Pleasant Mills, route one, came home last night from au extended stay in Alabama, most of the time being spent at Helena. He left here last December, first going to Arkansas. He reports the climate as being the best that ever happened, but the country is enough to make a hoosier ashamed of himself. The soil is poor, nothing but rocks and mountains being visible to the naked eye, and the fellow who thinks he has a hard time of it here, would feel rich indeed to see some of the people there, and the way they live. Mr. Myers had a pleasant time and enjoyed his visit to the southland immensely. forestrFmethod Paper Manufacturers to Protect Their Timber Preserve J TO FIX K N OX Dr. Wiley Got Another Blow E&low the Belt Washington, February 11. —A conference of manufacturers of paper who are extensive owners of timber lands in the United States, took place today, with Gifford Pinchot, chief of the forestry service, with a view to adoption of practical forestry methods in handling timber lands. This movement was started some weeks ago by the International Jjaper company, whose directors voted to conduct all their forest operations in accordance with the principles laid down by the forest service. At the conference today upward of 3,000,000 acres of timber lands were represented out of an estimated total of 5,000,000 acres held by paper manufacturers in the United States. The acreage comprised 1,617,000 in Maine, 275,000 in New Hampshire, 78.000 in Vermont, 887,000 in New York, 123,000 in Pennsylvania, 150,000 in West Virginia and 25,000 in Michigan. Washington, Feb. 11. —Just before the senate adjourned Senator Hale introduced a bill repealing that portion of the act of 1907, which increases the salary of the secretary of state. This is done to overcome the constitutional objection that no representative nor senator shall be appointed to an office the emoluments of which have been increased by the vote of said representative or senator. Senatoi Knox voted for the increase of salary of the secretary of state. Since he is to hold that position under Taft it will be necessary to repeal that section of the act and again pass it after Mr. Knox has left the senate, in order that he may enjoy the increase from SB,OOO to $12,000 a year. Washington, Feb. 11. —The house of representatives dealt a blow to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, the chief of the bureau of chemistry, by refusing to cut off the appropriation for the referee board, or supreme court of chemistry, which is the bete noir of the doctor’s existence and which recently overruled him in the important benzoate of soda case. —o ■ • THEY ARE VOTING TODAY. Plymouth, Ind., Feb. 11. —Marshall, county will vote today to elect a representative to fill the vacancy in the house caused by the death of William Sarben The issue is the repeal of the local option law, Adam Wise, Democratic candidate, is pledged to its repeal, while Dr. Brown, Republican candidate, stands for the law. The Democrats have a normal majority of 400 and Mr. Wise's election is claimed by his party. ' The saloons and their friends are all a unit for Wise and are making every exertion for him The Republicans are counting upon the Prohibitionists and the Democrats who favor the option law to aid them. The weather is adverse to the option people, and It is feared by them that many who live remote from the voting places will not go out in the blizzard when they consider 'hat the candidate elected has but a short time to serve.

FOR THE PLATFORM The Democrats Will Caucus Upon Carrying Out Their Platform MANY BILLS Will Be Presented Carrying Out Their Platform Pledges Indianapolis, February 11.—Representative Behymer, of Madison county, who is chairman of the Democratic platform committee of the house, has given each member of the committee a special part of the work to do, and Representatives Thornton, Faulknor, Sweeny and Sunkel, who compose the committee with Mr. Behymer. are busy in consequence. The function of this committe is to see that the pledges in the Democratic platform adopted at the last state convention are carried out by the passage of laws asked for in the platform. On the questions of trusts a bill has already been introduced. The platform demands an income tax and an inheritance tax bill is before the house. A resolution declaring in favor of the election of United States senators by popular vote has been introduced. A large number of bills relating to capital and labor are before both houses. A bill for the better enforcement of the pure food law will be introduced. Bills cutting off useless offices have been introduced, and a resolution asking for a non-partisan committee to examine into the needs of the state offices has been passed. The Democratic platfrom demands a general primary law, and one will be introduced today. A bill to take the appointment of the state inspector of mines from the geologist and lodge the appointment with the governor will be introduced at once. Bills to repeal the metropolitan police law are pending in both houses. These are the principal platform bills, and it is the Intention to hold a caucus of Democrats and pass them, at least so far as the house is concerned. —o -■ TRYING TO BAR HIM Raising Constitution on Senator Knox’s Appointment IS NOT ELIGIBLE The Big Lawyers Will Find a Way to Avoid Technicalities Washington, Feb. 11.—Is Senator Knox eligible for re-appointment as secretary of state In the incoming administration, or must the presidentelect when he again touches American soil tomorrow find himself confronted with the press’ng necessity of selecting a new premier for his cabinet? This was a question that confronted all official Washington this morning. It was true that the first suggestion of the possible constitutional obstacle to the appointment of Senator Knox as secretary of state was broached yesterday, but it was so late at night that no one had an opportunity to lay hands upon the legal authorities which might serve as a basis for an answer to the question Consequently this ’ morning there was much conning of ccnstltutions, statute books, supreme court decisions, opinions of comptrollers of the treasury and other usual sources of such information. The facts in the case are perfectly plain. There Is no dispute about them. Senator Knox was last elected i for a six-year term which will not expire until March 3, 1911. The constitution prohibits the appointment of a senator to an office created, or the salary of which has been increased, during the term for which he was elected.

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GIVES ANOTHER OPINION. The McCoy Case Still Hanging F; e at Governor’s Office. Indianapolis, February 11. —Attorney General Bingham, in a long opinion sent to Governor Marshall clings to the views he gave the governor several days ago regarding the Thomas J. McCoy case, a question that Uss been raised by the attorneys,for McCoy asking that he be released from prison under the “good behavior act” of 1883, which the attorneys declare is not repealed by the indeterminate sentence law. The attorney general on Feb. 3 submitted an opinion to the governor, in which he agreed with the attorneys for McCoy. Had not Warden Reid bestirred himself when information regarding the contention of the attorneys reached him McCoy would have been out of prison by this time. His maximum sentence of three years expires June 19. Warden Reid found in an old case of Davis vs. the State an opinion from the supreme court which did not accord with the attorney general’s views. BIG LOG ROLLING Os Modern Woodmen Will Be Held in Decatur June 17 1,000 WILL BE HERE The Committees Are Appointed—Secure a New Hall Probably the most important meeting ever held by the local camp Modern Woodmen of America, was occasioned last night when plans were completed for the big annual log rolling which, according to the report made by the committee last night, will be held in this city June 17. At the conclusion of the business session proper, the report from the committee was read, showing the following officers for the log rolling elected: President, W. H .Fledderjohann; vice president, Dore B. Erwin; second vice president, James P. Haefling; secretary, C. L. Walters; assistant secretary, Walter Johnson; treasurer, Henry Fuhrman; assistant treasurer, Thomas Leonard; advertising committee, J. H. Heller, R. E. Peters and H B. Amrine; soliciting committee, W. H. Fledderjohann, Eli Meyer, J. 8. Falk, James Koher, C. R. Dunu, Charles Yager, and E. F. Gass; committee on arrangements, S. E. Shamo, C. C. Enos, J. O. Hoagland, Orval Harruff, M. N. T-enhart, C. M. Rice and William Ward; committee on speakers, E. B. Lenhart, D. B. Erwin and T. J. Burkin; committee on music, C. O. France, W. E. Huffman, James Sprague. Roy Wolford and Walter Johnson; committee to arrange program, E. B. Lenhart, Martin Jaberg, W. O. Biggs, C. J. Voglewede and D. E. Hoagland; prize committees Dr. W. E. Smith, C. R. Dunn, H. E. Butler and Orval Harruff; reception committee, C. O. France, C. K. Moses, C. O. Brown, C. L. Brown, Ed Ashbaucher, B. C. Hoagland, E. E. Archtr, W. Engle, George Bruihn. Warren Hamrick, F. J. Colchin, Walter Noak, T. Haefling, Harvey Baker, Harry Jeffry, Charles Good. Frank Peterson, Earl Butler, Harvey Butler and Homer Lower. Great preparations are giready on to make the event the most notable of its nature ever held in the city of Decatur. It is expected that a r . least 1,000 Woodmen will be entertained here on the seventeenth day of June, and it will be a day long to be remembered by all w’bo partake cf the festivities. Fancy drill work, band contests and other Interesting contests will be Indulged In and appropriate prizes given to the winners. The greater portion of the day will be spent at Steeles park, the Woodmen returning to the city in the afternoon. where they will witness the exemplification of the secret work on a large class of candidates. A committee has been authorized tq engage the Meibers hall and if present plans materialize, the local camp will be comfortably located in that spacious room in the near future. Every one is anxious for the big rolling and the business men and citizens should lend their efforts in making it a big event as it means something to have such a crowd in our city.

A FITTING PROGRAM Will Be Rendered at Central ‘ School Building Friday . 'BY SEVENTH GRADE Old Soldiers Are Invited—i Will Go in a Body — The seventh grade students who are , taught by Miss Bailey will render • a very interesting program Friday 1 afternoon in observance of the centenary of Lincoln. The members of the , G A .R. have been extended a special invitation to attend the exercises and they will go to the school room in a body. The .program to be rendered is as follows: Song—Red, White and Blue. Salute the Flag. Song—lndiana. Address of welcome —Cecil Cole. Roll Call. Life of Lincoln —Walter Wilkinson. jSongf—Lincoln—Taylor Long, Otis Poling, Cecil Cole, Jesse Cole, Henry ' Weidler, Walter Wilkinson. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Speech—Jesse Cole. Lincoln’s Favorite Poem —Dorothy Dugan. The Mother of a Soldier —Crystal Kern. Song—When Johnnie Comes Marching Home. Abraham Lincoln—Cecil Andrews. Lincoln’s Favorite Poem —Irene Leßrun. Song—Just Before the Battle, Mothet —Esther Heckman,Cecil Eady, Mary Stults, Dorothy Dugan, Crystal Kern, . Veda Hensley. ■ The Soldier Boy—Otis Poling. Song—lndiana. Barbara Frltche —ytvian Dutcher. Yankee Doodle —School.' The Name of Old Glory—Winifred Ellingham. Exercises—By School. Marching Through Georgia. IS SERIOUSLY ILL i Colonel P. Foreman is Sick at ’ His Ohio Home i . HAS APPENDICITIS 1 1 And Has Not Been Able to Work Since Being ( There * _ s Colonel P. Foreman, who a month i ago removed his household goods from > Decatur to North Baltimore, Ohio, where he had purchased an agency for the Watkins Medicine company, is and has been for some time confined to his home as a consequence of , a serious illness resulting from a ■ siege of chronic appendicitis. Mr. ) Foreman has not been able to do any t work since being in the new’ field of ! labor as he was taken ill immediately t after his arrival there. He had been ■ complaining for Jsome time before 1 leaving Decatur, but it was not > thought that such ,an excruciating t ailment wa® enveloping his system. I He has gradually grown worse during • the past few weeks, and it is not • improbable that he will be compelled ■ to submit to a surgical operation in 1 the near future. The afflicted man ■ is very well known in this city, he • having been a clerk at the Laman & - Lee hardware store for several years, i and his many acjuaintances are sin- • cerely hoping that he will be soon 1 restored to health. o s AN ADDRESS AT HIGH SCHOOL ! s Hon. D. E. Smith will deliver an :• address on “Lincoln” at high school 1 tomorrow, Feb. 12, 2:30 p. m. All t are invited to be present, and especi ially soldiers and women of the relief corps.

WILL NOT REVISE THE TARIFF W. J. Bryan Makes a Speech in Florida. Pensacola, Fla., Feb. 11. —W. J. Bryan in a speech here said: "The country need not hope for a revision of the tariff at the hands of the present congress. There will be no revision, for the reason that the republicans cannot afford to lower the tariff, for every man who has asked has contributed to their campaign fund and must be protected. It is true that the contributions to the national fund were published, but moneys received by the congressional fund were so tainted that the republicans dared not publish them even after the election. While there may be talk of a revision and a lower tariff, there will absolutely be no change.” o MAY GO THROUGH Both Repeal Bills Can Pass the Lower Legislative House ARE TO CAUCUS Democrats to Get Busy on Many Platform Bills It is now believed both bills can be passed in the house. The Kleckner bill is a platform bill and the Tomlinson a compromise measure. By putting both bills up to the senate, the house Democrats expect to go on record as having fulfilled their platform pledges and by compelling the senate to turn both down, to place the Republicans on record as opposed to all temperance legislation, which will disturb the county unit law. The fate of the local option bill in the house will probably be decided today. The Kleckner and Tomlinson bills for county unit repeals were both passed to engrossment yesterday, after a few slight amendments had been agreed upon. An effort to strike out the clause in the Tomlinson bill to repeal the county unit law met with defeat. A bill embracing the ideas of the state Federation of Labor for a lawon labor injunctions was handed to Senator Proctor of Elkhart yesterday and the senator will introduce it on an early roll call. He will also introduce a bill for the benefit of the railroad men of the state pertaining to railroad insurance departments. The bill provides that no contract not to hold the employer liable in cases where insurance is given shall be valid and that any man contributing to such an insurance fund shall receive the benefits derived therefrom without prejudicing any cause of action which he might have on account of his injury or which his heirs might have on account of his death. The senate passed the Merchants’ Association public accounting bill yesterday after it had been amended as agreed upon by the Republicans in conference Tuesday. Party lines were tightly drawn, the Democrats opposing and the Republicans favoring. The vote stood 27 to 22, one member, Senator Durre. being absent. The amendments take away from the governor the power to appoint the members of the department and makes the secretary of state ex-officio chief inspector. William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana university; W. E. Stone, president of Purdue, and W. W. Pasrons, president of the Indiana State Normal School, appeared before the ways and means committee of the house yesterday in behalf of the bill introduced by Representative King, which provides for an increase in the.educational tax levy for the support of these institutions. o A general order affecting the employes of the Clover Leaf shops in Delphos and Frankfort went into effect Monday the force of shop men at both places being greatly reduced, and will very likely continue so for some time. About twenty-five men have been laid off at the Delphos shops, only the round house force being retained. At Frankfort the cut is even more extended. ,

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WILL BUILD NEW CHURCH Mennonites of Berne to Have $50,000 House of Worship HELD A MEETING Yesterday Afternoon and a Committee Was Appointed A movement has been inaugurated which, if a culmination of the present plans is realized, will result in the construction of a Mennonite church in Berne that will, in size and beauty and equipments, surpass by far any house of worship in Adams county. Realizing that the dimensions of their pi esent church are grossly inadequate to accommodate comfortably the 750 people whose names are found on the roll, those high in the counsels of the organization called a meeting of the congregation yesterday afternoon at which time a committee of nine members, consisting of Messrs. Daniel Stuckey, J. P. Habegger, Philip Sprunger, Emanuel Sprunger, Samuel Lehman, Levi Sprunger, A. Neuenschwander and Eli Baumgartner was chosen, to be known and vested with the power of a building committee. These men will assemble at a stated meeting place and discuss the matter relative to the location, size, time of building, approximate cost and other Important features. It is already understood, hoiwever, that the new church will be built on the three acre tract of land owned by the congregation in the vicinity of their present church; its construction including material, will cost between $35,000 and $50,000, and the seating capacity will ’be 2,000. Every convenience known to modern times will be installed. and when completed the structure will be a credit to the county. It is not improbable that the work of construction will begin during the summer months of this year, although it may be deferred a year later. The committe will not only discuss the plans of building, but it will be their duty, we are informed, to devise ways and means for obtaining the capital with which to pay for same. This -will be done, either by subscription or assessment at the option of the majority. 0 — • THE MAUD WILLIS COMPANY The Senior Class of the High School Backing the Engagement. The senior class of the Decatur high school have been fortunate enough to secure an engagement of the Maude Willis company at the Bosse opera house for Monday night. Feb. 22, owing to the fact that they have an off-night between engagements at Indianapolis and Fort Wayne. The company consists of four well known artists: Miss Maude Willis, Miss Winifred Townsend. Miss Faerie Lambert and Mr. Ralph Walker. Miss Willis is a reader and impersonator, who has studied under some of the best teachers, actors and critics. Miss Townsend th a and also under Albert Geloss the great Span-ish-French violinist. Miss Faerie Lambert possesses a wonderfully vibrant voice of fine dramatic quality. Mr. Walker possesses a magnificent baritone voice, which never fails to charm the audience. This attraction is sure to please the public and the class feels much gratified in securing such rare talent. - ... o .» STATEMENT OF THE OLD ADAMS As Usual They Make a Good Report of Their Business. The Old Adams County bank comes forward with their statement, giving the condition of their business on February 5, and the showing they make is as usual a tribute to a good bank, whose business is managed with that safety and economy that helps make success so much the easier. Their deposits are $819,846.04. while their total resources and liabilities are $976,287.14. The showing is a good one.