Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1903 — Page 4

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It is reported that the J. Pierpont Morgan group of financiers do not oppose anti-trust legislation, while the Standard Oil Company coterie is hostile to the publicity feature, doubtless because It has something It would not have exposed. Governor Durbln has vetoed a bill provjdlng for the borrowing of money by a town beyond the 2 per cent, limit for school purposes. He declared against it in his mes sage, and having vetoed one such bill it teerrs useless to Fend others to him. There Is an obvious Impropriety in efforts to got an intimation from the Governor as to whether or not he would veto a bill which Is yet under consideration by the Legislature. It is early enough to go to the Governor when a bill is in his hands for his action. With an increase In the value of live stock from ;T3,5C3,9C0 in 1S to J155.707.412 in 1002. and in values of agricultured prod ucts from ;il6.230.01t in 1S9S to J126.002.025 in 1902, Kansas shows the most remarkable progress ever made in six years by an agri cultural State. Under the agreement which has just been reached la this city the bituminous coal miners will get a material advance in wages for the coming year, but It will come out of. the pockets of the people In the in creased price of coal, and will Increase the probability of a reduction of wages a year or two jfience. The Tilden Club in New York city invited every Democrat with a national repu tation to a banquet, except Mr. Bryan. A class of Democrats are not content to have ZIt. Bryan out of the presidential race, but they desire to Ignore the fact of his ex istence. That sort of zeal may react, since Mr. Bryan has thousands of ardent ad mirers In. the country. Hon. Lloyd Griscom, United States minister to Tersia, says the Shah has often told him he would like to visit the United States if the Journey could be made easy for him. Once he asked if he could make It by land, and again if the Atlantic ocean could be crossed in one day. He cannot understand how a country so far from Tersia can amount to much. Would it not be well for the Legislature, now that fome of Its members see the defects of the enrolled laws which are at tested by the president of the Senate, the speaker of the House and the Governor, to Inquire if some better method may not be introduced for the next Legislature? No Legislature can well make the change for Ii ..Ii 1 & iLl . I . jiieu, oui inis legislature can enact a law providing for the engrossing and en rolling of bills for future Legislatures. The printing of such bills and laws, as is done by several States. Is better In every way. The proposition to build a dormitory for inmates of the Blind Institute in St. Clair square savors of vindictiveness as well as of poor business management. It looks like a piece of spltework towards Indianapolis as well as a departure from correct busi ness principles. No person questions the right of the State to do as It pleases with St. Clair square, but it should please to do the right thing. There is plenty of room for a dormitory In the present grounds of the Blind Institute without appropriating one of the most beautiful little parks In the city for that purpose. A Berlin dispatch says that the lyrical poets of Germany, numbering seventy, having compared notes on the subject of the remuneration of poetry, concluded that they were Insufficiently paid. They have re solved to take common action, and have formed a species of trust, agreeing not to accept lews than 10 cents a line. In this

country such an agreement might be held Illegal as a conspiracy to restrict the production and put up the price of a necessity of life. It Is probable, however, that among the seventy poets there are some so poor that they will soon begin to cut'rates and thus destroy the trust.

THE CARD FEE AND SALARY BILL. It Ij probably true that the Gard fee and salary bill is constructed upon a much more equitable basis than any fee and salary law that has ever been in force in the State. The basi3. It is understood, is that recommended by the commission which was 'created by the Legislature of 1S09 and reported to the last Legislature, when the report received little attention. The present fee and salary bill is based upon the census of 1S90. while the calcula tions in the Gard bill are based upon the census of 1D00. In thirteen years there has been a great increase In the population of many counties, so that the salaries in such counties are much less than they should be, regardless of the fact that a score of men stand ready to take every county office at the present rate of compensation. The figures published In yesterday's Jour nal giving a comparison of the salaries un der the present law and those which would be paid under the Gard bill are computed on the amendments to the bill by the fee and salary committee of the Senate, and are higher than in the original bill as presented by Senator Gard. The Increases which will attract most attention are those accorded to county recorders. These officers have received less relative compensa tion the past few years than other county officers because of the greater activity In the real estate business. These officers paid Into tho respective county treasuries last year JS1.000, more than their salaries. On the basis of the business of the last two years the Gard bill gives recorders 50 per cent, of the fees which they collect in excess of their salaries. If the activity in real estate transactions should continue recorders would receive about the amounts given in yesterday's table, but If it should cease the salaries would fall off. The next greatest apparent increase is In the compensation of sheriffs. Under the present law if they collect sufficient fees to pay themselves they receive the salaries provided by law, but if they do not they are short the difference between the fees col lected and the salary stated. It is asserted that the prosperous times have seriously affected the fees of sheriffs. The fees received from sales under foreclosure of mortgages were the source of the largest revenue in the past, but these have fallen off largely since prosperity has enabled those giving mortgages to pay' them ' off In hundreds of cases where, a few years ago, they would be sold out. Probably the greatest objection to any one feature of the bill Is that which gives county treasurers 10 per cent, of the delinquent taxes which they collect. The amount of unpaid taxes In the State is so large as to make delinquency a subject of discussion by the tax commission. Such delinquency thou'd decrease during the sea son of prosperity, but it has continued to increase. In Marion county the treasurer is given a commission of 6 per cenL on the collections of delinquent taxes. The present official has pushed the collections with vigor and hag reduced the aggregate very much. The figures which he presents show that the percentage he receives goes to pay the additional officers employed in the col lection, and that the portion which he re ceives Is poor compensation for the odium which has come to his office for his vigor ous efforts to collect delinquent taxes. Perhaps 10 per cent. Is too much to pay for the collection of delinquent taxes, but if such a percentage will cut down the alarm ing aggregate of such taxes lb should be paid, and would be a good investment. "A small percentage and a constitutional amendment extending the term of county treasurers to four years and making them ineligible for re-election would be the most effective method of dealing with delinquent taxes. The Gard bill as amended by the committee will come up for discussion in the Sen ate to-day. It may be amended, but amend ments cannot be made to apply to single counties because the basis is upon population as required by the Constitution. There Is no disposition on the part of those who approve Its general features to hasten Its passage. If there Is an error in any feature, it is that the amount of salary to each 10,000 inhabitants may be too high. WILL THERE BE A COAL TRUST? Vlco President Lewis, of the United Mine Workers Association, has shown on more than one occasion that he Is conservative and far-sighted in his views on labor ques tions. His position enables him to study the trend of affairs in regard to mining interests, and his opinions are entitled to respect. In discussing the new wage scale and agreement that has been reached by the bituminous operators and miners he admits that it will undoubtedly affect tho contract price of coal next year to the ex tent of 25 to 40 cents a ton, but does not think It will materially affect the retail price of coal for domestic purposes. This, he thinks, is more dependent on other con ditions, especially the cost and facilities of transportation, than it Is on the wages of miners. The public will hope that Mr. Lewis Is right on this point. Regarding another one of broader Interest he says: The time for cheap fuel In this country is a thing of the past for the reason that a merging process of the coal industry is quietly taking place, and it is but a question of a few years when all of th? coal properties of the United States will be consolidated Into a few central groups and the whole business financed from New York. When this concentration is completed uniformity will be established In the waxes of the mine workers of this coun try, providing they have a perfect organization. Uniformity In the selling prices of coal will be established because there will be no such thing as competition. Some people may look upon this situation with alarm, but there Is no need for fear, as It Is but the natural evolution that Is taking place in the industries of the country, and the mining Industry is no exception to the others. This statement from a coal-mlnlng expert and prominent representative of organized labor is Interesting because it is a virtual recognition of the fact that the whole trust movement Is a phase of "the natural evolution that Is taking place In the industries of the country." This has been the contention of many political economists, of many writers on the subject and of many business men. but It has not been admitted by many representatives of organized labor. Samuel Gompers. president of the American Federation of Labor, In an address at the Chicago conference on trusts In 1S91). said: "For our part we are convinced that the State Is not capable of preventing the legitimate development or natural concentration of Industry." This was a quasi recognition of trusts as legitimate devel

opments of Industry, but it was rather exceptional among labor leaders. If Mr. Lewis's forecast of the future Is correct the public will, at no distant day, be confronted with a more serious phase of the fuel question than it has yet had

to deal with. Of all the trusts that have yet been formed a coal trust would affect the most interests and be the most odious, provided, of course, that It should under- I take to regulate the production and control the price of coal throughout the entire I country. That Is what Mr. Lewis hints at, and it is not impossible. The coal-mining Interests of the country are enormously large, but they are not so much larger than some other interests which have been consolidated as to render their consolidation Impossible. Other Interests, almost as large and as ramified, are financed from New York, and why not the coal-mining Interests? Mr. Lewis thinks that when this condition is reached there will be uni formity In the wages of mine workers and In the selling price of coal, "because there will be no such thing as competition." That would be an Ideal trust. This com placent view of a trust controlling all the coal-mining interests of the country takes no account of one phase of the situation, namely, that such a trust would probably be independent of organized labor, and would fix a rate of wages to suit Itself, uniform alike for union and nonunion work men. FOR THE PROTECTION OF RAILROAD EMPLOYES. It is much to be regretted that a recent decision of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals has greatly impaired the efficacy of the law of requiring the use of automatic car couplers and power brakes. The law was Intended for the protection of railroad employes, and it has-been very beneficial In that respect. Its enactment was largely due to the earnest and repeated recommendations of President Benjamin Harrison on the subject. In his first annual message he called attention to "the urgent need of congressional legislation for the better protection of the lives and limbs of those engaged in operating the great Interstate freight lines of the country, and especially of the yardmen and brakemen." He presented statistics of fatal accidents among such employes and said: "It Is a reproach to our civilization that any class of American, workmen should, In the pursuit of a necessary and useful vocation, be subjected to a peril of life and limb as great as that of a soldier in time of war." He repeated this recommendation in hla second, third and fourth annual messages. The present law on tho subject was passed in the closing days of tho Fifty-second Congress, and President Harrison approved It two days "before the expiration of his term. The law required all locomotives used in moving interstate traffic to be equipped with power or train brakes, and all cars so used to bo equipped with power or train brakes and with automatic acting couplers. The railroads were given five years in which to comply with the prCYisions of the I law, which was to become operative Jan. 1, 1S98. From that time it was quite generally compiled with, and resulted in great ly reducing the number of accidents among railroad employes. In 1893, the year the law was passed, the number of casualties in coupling and uncoupling cars was 11,710 namely, 433 persons killed and 11,277 In jured. In 1002 the number of accidents from the same cause was 2.256 namely, 113 killed and 2,113 injured. The number of men en gaged in railroading was fully 33 per cent. larger In 1002 than it was In 1SD3. There can be no question as to the beneficial ef fects of the law since It went into opera tlon. In the tnse of Johnson vs. Southern Paclflc Railway Company, the plaintiff being an employe who had been injured, the United States Circuit Court held as follows: That it is not necessary to equip locomotives or tenders with automatic couplers, because the law does not so specifically provide. That a car Is not in interstate traffic unless actually in transit in an interstate Journey, loaded with interstate commerce

or being actually moved or handled in prep- vaiue rnUSt depend on the depth and thlckaration of an Interstate movement. In I . . ....

other words, a car having made an inter state Journey is not in interstate traffic while being switched unless such switch lng is in actually preparing an Interstate train. Nor is a car which has been loaded in one State with freight destined to another State, and which has been unloaded and Is returning empty for another load In interstate traffic while so returning emntv. That the law does not require that cars shall be equipped with couplers which will couple automatically with those in use on another road. That it does not even require that the cars of one company shall be so equipped as to couple automatically with other cars of that company which may be equipped with another type of automatic coupler. It is only necessary that cars shall be equipped with automatic couplers which will iouple automatically with their own kind of couplers The decision construes the law very narrowly and practically nullifies its main ob ject, which was to secure such uniformity in applied automatic coupling devices as to permit all cars in a train to be coupled and uncoupled without requiring men to go between the cars. If railroads are to be permitted to use any kind of automatic coupler they see fit, different roads using different kinds that will not work auto matically with each other, the main object of the law will be defeated. To obviate such a result the United States rm a a i aenaie nas passea a diu wnicn is now pending in the House, amending the law of 1S93 m such a way as to make Its mean ing clear and prevent the law from becoming a dead letter. The necessity for this amendment is as urgent as was that for the passage of the original law. Unless Congress wishes to remit the railroad employes of the country back to a condition In which the number of casualties araonj them was six times as great as it was last year, the law should be promptly amended and strengthened. The bill which the Senate passed yesterday for the taxation of mortgages held out of the State should be. entitled "a bill to drive foreign capital out of Indiana and to Increase the rate cf Interest on mortgages." It provides, in effect, that when the money invested by a nonresident in an Indiana mortgage is not taxed in the place of his residence, it shall be taxed here. The bulk of the money that comes to Indiana for in vestment Is owned by insurance companies, or, rather, by their policyholders. The capital of such companies is taxed in the States where they are chartered and in every State In which they do business. Still, under this bill. If the money or mort gage was not locally taxed it could be taxed here. The result of such taxation would be to drive such capital out of Indiana. Now, there is so much local and foreign money to lend that the rates for mortgages have been reduced from 8 to 10 per cent, to 6 and 7, while money for commercial purposes Is obtained nearly a third

cheaper than it was a dozen years ago. The

effect of the bill will be to increase the rate of interest In Indiana by driving out residents of other States who would lend money here. If It had any other effect It would be to cause the outside money lender to require the party giving the mortgage to pay the tax, thus increasing the burdens of the man who borrows on mortgage. Low rates of interest and discount are the basis of the present prosperity of the mass of people who are buying farms and homes. and of those who borrow large amounts to carry forward enterprises that require large amounts of outside capital. To pass such bills' as that in the Senate will drive that money out of Indiana. The bill referred to recalls the attack of Populism upon capital and of the days when demagogues howled at the money power, because they thought votes could be won by it. Such appeals to prejudice are no more effective than is the cry of 16 to 1. SBBSBiiWawsaMSBBMSBaaaasssMa One of the city preachers on Sunday de clared his opposition to legislation prohib iting the doing of this thing or of that thing on Sunday in an effort to make peo ple observe It as a day of rest. Instead of prohibitory legislation he favored the creation of a sentiment in the public mind for the observance of the day to the extent of making it one of rest and recreation, according to people's Idea of what constitutes rest and recreation. A great many good people will regard this as a very wrong view of the subject and involving a dangerous practice, yet it is founded on reason and sustained by experience. The idea of legislation to compel specific ob servance of the Sabbath or, rather, of Sunday, which was not the Jewish nor the biblical Sabbath is of comparatively modem origin and has always been of doubtful utility. Such legislation has been a prolific theme of controversy and discussion, but the disposition of advanced thinkers is to class such laws with sumptuary laws which undertake to regulate what people shall eat, drink and wear. In an address before the Michigan Politi cal Science Association Mr. James B. Doll, a corporation lawyer of New York, brought out some new ideas In regard to that muchabused class of citizens. He contended that the corporation lawyer of to-day Is simply a business man specialized along the lines of legal principles. He maintained that col lege currlculums and business methods were steadily approaching each other, and that the outcome would be that the best student would be the best business man. "The corporation lawyer of to-day," he said, "Is the right hand of the corporation management, an Integral part of the body corporate." These are twentieth century ideas, and they make one think what a poor figure the uthor of "Blackstone's Commentaries" or "Chitty on Pleading" would cut nowadays posing as a corpora tion lawyer. This city is being Injured by the sensa tional dispatches which some correspondents are sending out regarding the graverobbing disclosures and the trial now going on. me piam iacts are Dad enougn, ana no person should object to their disclosure. though 'it is pretty hard for a whole com munity to be brought into unenviable notoriety by a half dozen miscreants. But there are a few special correspondents of outside papers who, In order to increase their bills and put a little money Into their pockets, are doing their utmost to exagger ate and distort the truth. They seem to be trying to found a new school of ghoulism. From a moral point of view they are no better than the colored grave robbers. The proposition to tax coal deposits the right to which has been cold by owners of the surface land has an element of reason In It. but It seems impracticable. As a matter of principle all property should be taxed, but it would be very difficult to ar rive at the value of coal before it is mined. In the earth it has only a speculative value. Its real value depends on the cost of get ting it out, which operators say is from 90 to 95 per cent, of its market value. This ness or tne vein, me accessiDiuty to mar ket, and other causes which tax assessors would find it very difficult to define. The proposition to tax It seems Ideally just, but really impracticable. The New York banks, having 120,000.000 in their vaults, not long ago let the most of it out to those who deal in stocks. The result was an advance all along the line. There being an unexpected demand for J7.000.000, the stock dealers could no longer depend upon the banks, and values dropped. All of which seems to show that the ups and downs of stock speculation depend entirely upon the capacity or dis position of the banks to furnish the funds for the game. v THE HTHI0RISTS. The Meaning. . Tuck. Mrs. Newrocks I'm determined that Cynthia's debut shall pass onT with great eclat. Mr. Newrocks What's eclat, Maria? Expense? Chance for Practice. Yonkers Statesman. "I wonder," remarked the Observer of Events and Things, "what the members of the "Don't Worry Club are tioing about the coal-bin situa tion?" On the Street Cars. The man whose life hangs by a thread Need scarcely give a rap. His peril doesn't equal one Whose life hangs by a strap. Judge. One or the. Other. Catholic Standard. "I don't know whether she has shaken him or promised to marry him." "Why?" . "He has stepped buying extravagant presents for her." ! Spelling. A beautiful lady named Psyche Is loved by a fellow named Yche. One thing about Yche The lady can't lyche It his beard, which is dreadfully spyche. Answers. Sherlock Holmes. Baltimore American. "And then." ccntinued the great detective, as he shot a load of dope Into his arm. "I waa awakened by hearing the Knickerbocker special passing in the distance." Hut how do you know." dutifully asked Dr. Watson, "that it was the Knickerbocker special r "I recognized It by the locomotive's loud, hört pants." Wanted to De Sure. Chicago Post. "And you're really a lord?" said the maiden. Of course. Do you think I'm an impostor?" "No; oh, no: but papa says one can't be too cautions these days. WoulJ you mind bringing

me cne of those abstracts of title I hear so much I

about before I give you my answer? Had Ilia Approval. Washington Star. "Did you enjoy the muslcale?" Inquired the friend. "In a way," answered Mr. Cumrox. "It was a great deal better than listening to the conversation that would have occurred if there hadn't been any music." DR. BUCKLEY SAME AS OF YORE. err York Editor Still Delights to Goad Ilia Methodist Brethren. NEW YORK. Feb. 9.-Rev. J. M. Buckley, editor of the Christian Advocate of this city, caused consternation at a meeting of Methodist preachers to-day. The previous speaker, D. D. Thompson, editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate of Chicago, had spoken in an enthusiastic way, declaring that there had been a million and a half converts made by the Methodist Church In the last four years. Dr. Buckley disputed the accuracy of these figures. He declared that statistics showed that Methodism was actually declining in some of the Eastern conferences, at any rate. He believed in looking at the facts, and he declared it was a grievous mistake to take an overoptlmistic view. His statements were vehemently opposed by the other members of the meeting. Dr. Buckley made several short answers to the attacks made upon him. AGAINST ANY ALLIANCE "REGULAR' DELAWARE REPUBLICANS WILL HOLD ALOOF, Overtures from Addicks and Ultimatum from Democrats Reject ed Deadlock Will Continue. DOVER, Del., Feb. 9.-Another day has passed and the sensational situation is apparently no nearer a solution than it was when the Legislature met, but the day was replete with interesting incidents and rumors. The first surprise of the day was a Democratic ultimatum. Then came a Democratic caucus, which was participated In by all the Democratic members and later a regular Republican members' caucus which was attended by all ten members of that faction. The Democratic ultimatum was- a proposal to be submitted to the regular Republicans, in which the former agreed to support Congressman L. Heisler Ball for the long term senatorship, and eventually to support some other equally staunch regular Republican for the short term. But the ultimatum failed of its pur pose. The "regulars" held a caucus late in the day, at which it was decided to advise the Union Republicans that in case the regulars reached an agreement of any kind with the Democrats they would proceed with their proposal without a moment's notice to tho Union Republicans. It was further decided not to enter a caucus with the Addicks men on the Addicks withdrawal proposition, which would virtually give Addicks the power to name two United States senators, and. lastly, the regulars decided to continue to vote for Ball and Dupont. It is an open question whether the Demo cratic leaders can turn enough votes over to the regulars to elect Ball or any other man. A leading Democrat said to-day in summing up the situation: "The Democrats were sent here with instructions to elect two Democratic senators. Nothing was said about coalition with either the regular or Union Republicans, and if it is decided to choose two Republicans there is nothing to prevent the Democrats from voting for any Republican they may sec fit." This statement Is significant, coming as It does at a time when-fears are expressed that Addicks emissaries are at work in the Democratic ranks. If. by any means, the Union (Addicks) Republicans should be able to elect two United States senators, which at present seems doubtful, it is admitted that Governor Hunn would be one of the senators chosen. Should the second senator elected resign his seat to enable Addicks to be ap pointed, the Union Republicans' leader would still fall to attain the much-coveted goal, as Lieutenant Governor . Phillip T. Cannon, who would have the appointive power, said to-day: "If such a contingency should arise I would not appoint Addicks, but I would select a man acceptable to all the people of Delaware." The ballot to-day resulted: Long Term Addicks, 21; Handy, 20; Ball, 8: HIrfflns. Z. Short Terra Addicks, 19; Tunnell, 20; T. C. Dupont, 2; H. A. Dupont, 8; H. A. Rich ardson, 2. AMERICANS MOBBED. Stoned by a Chinese Rabble In the Walled City of Canton. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 9. Previous reports of a threatened outbreak in China against Caucasian residents is confirmed by several persons who have Just arrived here from the Orient. Dr. James Young, surgeon of the steamer China, David Austin and G. J. Kavanaugh are among those who give accounts of the menacing attitude of the Boxers. Dr. Young, accompanied by Austin and an American engineer and under the direction of a Chinese guide, went to Canton when the steamer China was at Hong-Kong. Once within the gates of the walled city the party was beset by a rabble and was met with demands for money. When the tourists refused their request the Chinese hurled stones at them and drove them in terror to the flve-story pagoda, where they were temporarily free from molestation. However, when the Americans emrged from the pagoda they were again pursued by the mob, which became bolder and more defiant and finally hurled missiles of every description at Dr. Young and his party. A great stone struck Dr. Young in the neck and rendered him unconscious. The mob had almost overpowered the Americans when Dr. Young revived, and the three left the walled city with all possible speed. Mr. Kavanaugh declares the center of the impending revolution is in southern China and not in the north, where the last outbreak occurred. "In Canton and the south ern provinces." he said, "where there was no activity during the uprising in 1900 is now thoroughly alive with cut-throats. The Chinese are procuring arms and ammunition in open violation of the treaty with the powers at the time the former uprising was settled. The movement is being planned carefully. Many Americans who were in the Philippines have gone to China and are engaged In drilling and training the Chinese. It is my belief that the uprising will take place at a not far distant date." SORRY SHE STRUCK HHI. Woman Creates a Scene While Standing by Her Husband's) Coffin. CHICAGO, Feb. 9. Standing at the side of the coffin of her husband, for whose death the police believe she Is responsible, Mrs'. Mary Flynn created a scene In the presence of friends. The woman, who has been held pending the outcome of a coroner's inquest, was given permission to attend the funeral. Mrs. Flynn became hysterical as she gazed on the body, and throwing herself on the coffin, she kissed the cold face of her husband. "Oh. my darling Jim. I did not mean to strike you. Forgive me," sobbed the woman. Mra. Flynn. who is the mother of two children, is forty years of age. Her brother is James Barry, retired champion bantamweight pugilist. Barry is now in California. Jones' Drifting Policy. Washington Post. The Hon. James K. Johnes thinks a drifting policy the best thing for the Demo crats at present In the meantime, the gentleman from Arkansas hopes to drift onto the Isthmian Canal Commission.'

OLD TALES REVAMPED

SOLDIERS ACCUSED OF MURDER BY SENATOR CAR3IACK. Who Also Charged "Onr Sohle, Gencrom and Humane Secretary of War" vrlth Indifference. REGISTRY SYSTEM EXTENDED CHANGES FOR BENEFIT OF RURAL FREE DELIVERY PATRONS. 3IodIfication of the Postal Laws Re garding Use of Mall Sacks by Congressmen and Others. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. In the Senate to-day Mr. Carmack spoke on the Rawlins resolution calling on the secretary of war for certain courts-martial. He charged that murder in the Philippines by American soldiers had become so common that they would not bear investigation, and that this answer was entirely satisfactory to our noble, generous and humane secretary of war. He also criticised the President for "never having heard of the Captain Brownell case, after having announced his Intention of probing crimes In the Philip pines.' The best army that ever trod the earth, Mr.' Carmack declared, could be sent to the distant tropical land, but when It became known that crime will go unpunished awful consequences will ensue. Just these consequences have existed, he said, and the charges have been met with stoical and cynical indifference. He asserted that there was an organized system of torture in the Philippines. "It is a further fact." said Mr. Carmack, "that this was notorious throughout the whole army and that it was continued for months and years. No effort was made to suppress it, and no single torturer was ever punished for the crime. It Is a fact that men of high char acter and standing, the representatives of leading Republican administration newspapers, went in person to the command' lng general and told him that they had not only seen a perfect orgy of looting and plunder but that they had eeea wounded prisoners butchered before their very eyes, and, though he did not deny it, he ignored it. It is further true that this fact was brought to the attention of the secretary of war in a letter over the signature of Robert M. Collins, the chief agent and representative of the Associated Press in the Philippine islands, ana it did not sug gest the propriety of any inquiry or any investigation." Murders by American soldiers in the Philippines had become too common, he said, to bear investigation. which answer seems entirely satisfactory to "our noble and generous and humane secretary of war." Court-martial in the Philippines had been a travesty on Justice, he said, and he cited the case of Lieut. Preston Brown, whom he charged with murdering an unarmed native Filipino, and whose sentence of live years had been miti gated by the President to a nominal fine and a slight reduction in rank. To every wicked, vicious and depraved ruffian in the army, h said, the order of Gen. Jacob H. Smith to kill and burn in Samar meant that there was no law, no re straint and no punishment and yet the President calmly surveys the ruin ho has wrought, "and, like another great imperial 1st. he is astonished at his own modera tion." He inquired how it happened that the President who had declared his lnten tions to probe crimes in the. Philippines never heard of the Captain Brownell case when Father Augustln was tortured until he died. The Littlefleld anti-trust bill was re ceived by the Senate to-day from the House and referred to the committee on Judiciary. The army appropriation bill was cent to conference. The following bills were passed: To extend the time granted t the Mussel Shoals Power Company in Alabama within which to commence and complete work previously authorized; House bill fixing time of hold ing terms of court in Colorado: Senate bill establishing a life saving station at Cape Nome. AlaskaMr. Kean spoke on the statehood bill for a short time when he yielded to various senators who indulged in debate over the ouestlon of the influence of the Mormon Church in politics. Mr. Elklns also spoke at length in defense of the claims of New Mexico to statehood. After a brief executive session the Senate at 5:10 ad Journed until to-morrow. Proceedings of the House. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The House spent practically the entire day upon two Dis trict of Columbia bills, one to authorize the government to advance J6.000.000 to the District and the other the conference re port on the Union Station bill. The former was defeated and the latter sent back to conference after a motion to recede from the amendment of the House to cut down the appropriation from 11,500,000 to $1,000,000 had been voted down. The action of Mr. Hepburn in presenting the conference report on the Department of Commerce bill during the memorial ses sion yesterday resulted in postponement of consideration of the report until to-mor row. REGISTRY OF RURAL MAIL. Slannal of Instructions Issued by Sir. MaddenDilatory Congressmen. WASHINGTON. Feb. 9. Third Assistant Postmaster General Madden has issued a manual of Instructions for tho conduct of registry business in the rural free delivery service. The most important Innovation provides for the registration of letters and parcels left in the rural mail boxes, the carrier leaving the sender's receipt In the box. Formerly it was necessary for the sender to meet the carrier on the route. Rural carriers also are required to ac cept for registration 'mail matter properly prepared and offered by any one that meets them while on duty, whether a patron of the rural free delivery service or not. Storekeepers on rural routes customarily receive the mail matter of their patrons. delivering it to them at the first oppor tunity. Registered mail has not been deliv ered in this manner in the past, but it is now provided that on the written order which the addressees are required to leave for the delivery of their mall to the storekeeper, registered mall also will be deliv ered except such as Is Indorsed by the sender's "deliver to addressee only." Postmaster General Payne has ordered a modification of the postal laws and regulations regarding the use of mail sacks of the government by senators, representatives and others. The postal authorities have discovered that large numbers of the sacks have been kept for long periods. In one instance six hundred mall sacks were found stored away in the barn of a former representative. By the amended regulations sacks must be returned within three days. WHAT THE PHILIPPINES NEED. Message from Governor Taft on the Currency Question. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Secretary Root to-day transmitted to the president pro tem. of the Senate a copy of a cablegram from the Governor, of the Philippines dated Manila, Feb. 5. indicating the urgent necessity, of legislation regarding the Philippine currency. In his dispatch Govenor Taft says: "Official ratio Mexican dollars to United States currency now to SI; total direct net loss to Insular treasury from depreciation in silver since Jan. 1. 1902, ll.277.94L AH business suffering greatly from fluctuations, and depreciation in sliver has caused immense losses to merchants who have sold on credit. Failure to furnish relief at this session of Congress would create consternation throughout the Islands. Added to the prevailing financial depression loss of animals by rinderpest and other contagious diseases and resulting destitution, the ik-

litical situation would become more difficult. The adoption of American money would enhance prices greatly and derange

every form of buMness. Legislation making the gold peso equal to one-nair an American dollar, as unit of value of the peso, and subsidiary minor coinage receivable for all public dues at the rate of W centa American money for one peso, wnn provision for Issuance of silver certificates based on deposit of new pesos, would fur nish a currency as good as American money and much better adapted to the needs or the islands. The Philippine commissioners are unanimous in these views." Protest Agalnit It red Smoot. WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.-Senator Bur rows, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, has received a protest against the seating of Reed Smooth as a senator from Utah on the ground that he is an apostle of the Mormon Church and that as such he should not represent the people of Utah In the Senate. The docu ment Is voluminous and quotes liberally from sermons, speeches and other Mormon utterances showing the power of the priest hood of the Mormon Church over all matters spiritual and temporal. Senator Frye, as president pro tem. of the Senate, received a copy of the protest. It was decided by Senators Burrows and Frye not to present the protest to the Senate until Smoot credentials were presented, when both would be referred to the committee on privileges and elections. Stanley Declines an Appointment. MEDICINE LODGE, Kan.. Feb, 9. ExGovernor William E. Stanley has declined the appointment as a member of the Dawes commission to succeed the late ex-Senator Dawes. Mr. Stanley said to-day: "I de cllned to accept a place on the commission for the reason that I am not familiar with the duties of the commission, nor do I know the tenure of the office. I have gone back to my law practice and will accept no minor position that will take me away from it. I wired my declination this morning." Bills Signed by the President. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. The President to-day signed the bill appropriating fl.500.000 for the construction of a new building for the Department of Agriculture in this citv. Plans for the new structure will be drawn at once and work begun immediately on their approval, me uunaing will be erected on the plaza directly in front of the present building. What is known as the Philippine extradition bill was signed by the President to-day and is now a law. National Capital N'otea. WASHINGTON. Feb. 9. The controller of the currency this morning issued a call for the condition of national banks at the close of business Feb. 6. The President to-day sent the following nominations to the Senate: Assistant treasurer of the United States, Claries A. Bosworth, at Cincinnati; United States attorney, Milton C. Elstner, for the Western district of Louisiana; secretary of legation at Berne, Switzerland, Roger Sherman Gates Boutell, Illinois; postmaster at Rensselaer, Ind., Frank B. Meyer. Confirmations by the Senate: Roger Sher man Gates Boutell, secretary of legation at Herne, Switzerland; Indiana postmasters. D. A. Shaw, at Mishawaka, and R. W. Morris, at New' Albany. Charles B. Davis, formerly colonel of the Fifth Infantry, will be retired at once on his own application. His successor will be Col. Joseph P. Farley, of the ordnance de partment, who is entitled to the credit of the successful construction of the only six-teen-Inch rifled United States coast defense service gun. He is In command of the Watervleit arsenal near Troy. N. Y.. and will retire as soon as promoted. I he bureau of construction has submitted to the secretary of the navy Its recommendations for the two new gunboats of the Wheeling type to be known as the Dubuqe and the Paducah. They will be of 1.000 tons displacement each and each will carry six four-inch guns, jsix slx-poundcra and one one-pounder guns. BIG ESTATE IN DISPUTE It ELATIVES OF THE LATE MRS. CHARLES D. FAIR BIUNG SUIT. They Say Her Husband Died First nod They Are Therefore Entitled to Property Worth f ,KH),000. NEW YORK. Feb. 9.-The relatives of Mrs. Charles D. Fair, who, with her husband, was killed in an automobile accident in France in August last, have commenced an action here to set aside au agreement which they entered Into with Mrs. Theresa Oclrichs and Mrs. Virginia Vanderbilt, sisters of Charles Fair, not to start a contest over the estate. By th agreement Mrs. Nelson was to receive 5125,000 and her daughter's Jewelry, valued at 100,000. It was claimed at the time that under the California laws Mr. Fair outlived his wife and therefore his relatives were entitled to his estate, estimated at $6,000,000. Mrs. Fair's relatives now say they are prepared to prove tfcat she lived thirty minutes longer than her husband and that he executed a will leaving his entire estate to her, and they arc entitled to the whole of it. Besides filing the complaint, counsel for the Nelson family filed a lis pendens against proierty on Riverside drive and Seventy-fifth street, this city, which they claim was the private property of Mrs. Fair. They also claim furniture, clothing, silverware. Jewelry, bonds and securities and real estate in San Francisco of the total value of JjOO.ooo.xwhleh, they contend, Mrs. Fair possessed independent of her husband. They allege that when the defendants offered the settlement, which was accepted, they knew well that Mrs. Fair outlived her husband and that the statement that she died before was made to defraud them out of the estate. ANOTHER FINANCIAL BILL. Senator Aldrlch's Plan for Slaking the Currency 31 ore Elastic. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Senator AJdrich to-day Introduced a bill authorizing banks which are national depositories to deposit for the safeguard of the government other securities than government bonds. The intention of the bill Is to give greater elasticity to the currency and permit of the release of the larger volumes of the government funds in times of stringency. In addition to government bonds the bill provides for the deposit of state bonds, municipal bonds of cities of 100.000 population which have been in existence for twentyfive years and which have not defaulted on any of their debts, and the first mortgage bonds of any railroad company which has paid dividends of not less than 4 per cent, for ten years. The secretary of the treasury is given authority to determine the proportion of these various securities that he will accept and also to at any time require additional security. The banks are required to pay interest on the government funds In their keeping at a rate of not less than Hi per cent., and the deposits are payable on demand. The bill also makes the bonds to be Issued on account of the Panama canal eligible for use as securities for bank notes. The payment of one-quarter of 1 per cent, every six months on such of its notes as are based on the canal bonds also is required. Another provision of the bill authorizes the secretary of the treasury to retain In the general fund of the treasury national bank notes received In the ordinary course of business and pay out such of them as may be fit for circulation or any of the obligations 'A the government excepting only the principal and Interest on the public debt. Darned by Molten Metal. PUEBLO, Col.. Feb. 9.-By molten metal from a ladle which tipped over one man was killed and eight injured, three of them fatally. Thomas Crowe, superintendent of converters at the Mlnnequa steel plant, where the accident happened. ws painfully but not dangerously burned. The accident was caused by the chain of the ladle breaking. But little metal spilled on the men. and their injuries consist largely of inhaling gas. The dead: J. K. Urllx. Fatally injured: Virgil Trile. foreman; W. XL Hartman and Jahn Lenlch.