Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1904 — Page 5

5 COPESSMEII TO VISIT EVAIISVILLEjll SUMMER Members of the House Committee to Examine Proposed River Improvements. GEX. M'KENZIE'S REPORT IIIDIAIIÄ SENATORS MAY HOUSE PASSES A LARGE NUMBER OF MEASURES RAIN. SNOW. MUCH COLDER. TSp.Gin3 dg on QcnüoüSdcüüQ Hep BE AT Philippine Shipping Bill Is Approved and $475.000 Voted to Oregon's Exposition. STATUE OF KOSCIUSKO

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Th daya of spring slip by like . golden sands." It take ral tana, GOLDEN SAND to buy novel pa"18 an1 ultra styles from th hijthest priced manufacturers, but we've done It. and we know the men In IndianapoH have and enoujrh to buy th best: th best in suits; in top coats in furnishings in hats in shoes, and we buy back any and all articles falling to reach your standard ' m AT THE Member of Merchants' Association. Fares rebated under their plan. USIFUL AKTKLIS FOR INVALIDS Reclining. Rolling and Self-propelling jPj' xd Tricycles. .Carrying Chairs. Uedslde Tables. J.ack Rests. Eby Walker and Crutches. JWM, H. ARMSTRONO Sc CO., 221 and S. Meridian St. Indianapolis. Ind. PUIIS FOR THE CONTROL OF BAHKSARE DISCUSSED Important Session of American Academy of Political and s Social Science.. ADDRESS BY RIDGELY PHILADELPHIA, April 8. A convention of national importance, especially to industrial interests, began here to-day, the occasion being the eighth annual meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Delegates from many citiea assembled at the Manufacturers Club and nearly all great corporate interests were represented. Thr? chair was occupied by Frank A. Vanderllp, former assistant secretary of the treasury and now vice president of the National City Bank, New York. The subject under consideration during the session i3 "The Government in Its Kelation to Industry," which is subdivided and taken up In detail. The first branch of the topic was "Government Regulation of Banks and Trust Companies," and addresses were delivered by William Barret Bidgely, controller of the currency, who spoke on "The Control of National Banks;" Frederick D. Kilburn, New York state superintendent of banks, "The Control of Trust Companies." and Professor Frederick A. Cleveland, of the Vevr York University, "The Financial Reports of National Banks as a Means of Public Control." Controller Ridgely said In part: "Under our dual form "of government, in which certain powers are given the federal authorities and all others reserved to the States, the question of governmental control of banking and other corporations. is a rather difficult and complicated one. The passage of the National bank act, or national currency act. as it was first called, may be considered the beginning of the federal control of banks. This has now been exercised for more than forty years with most satisfactory results both to the government, the banks and the people who have done business with them. "Comparing the results of failures and liquidations among the national banks with the figures in regard to the failure of state banks from 1SG3 to 16, as given in the report of the controller of the currency for 1S, the last date to which complete figures are available, it will be seen that while only 6.5 per cent, of the number of national banks in existence failed during this time, 17.6 per cent, of the other banks in existence failed. And while the national banks which had failed up to 1S96 paid to their creditors 75 per cent, in dividends, the state and other banks paid only about 43 per cent. It is extremely dilticult to get accurate figures In rrgard to the cost of liquidation of state and other banks which failed, but it is certainly very much higher than the cost of liquidation of national banks. "Whatever regulation or control there is to be of the trust companies, it must come, for the present at -least, from the state governments. Federal control of the national banks has been so satisfactory and successful that there is some desire expressed for federal control of other banks and trust companies There has not ben, however, so far as I know, any practical suggestion made by which institutions can be forced or persuaded to submit to federal control, especially if it. is to be more severe than that now experienced by the States. Federal control, therefore, does not seem to be a present practical question." GEARY EXCLUSION ACT MAY BE ENFORCED WASHINGTON, April 8.-Practically the entire time occupied by the Cabinet meeting to-day was consumed in a thorough discussion of the Chinese exclusion question. China has denounced the existing treaty which will expire by limitation next December. It has been the hope, if not. Indeed, the expectation of China, to negotiate a more favorable treaty than that which Is now in force, but an intimation has been conveyed to the Chinese government that It is 1 improbable a treaty of a : character more favorable to the Chinese than the existing one could be ratJnVd by Congress. The discussion to-day developed the fact that the whole situation is clouded In doubt. It is possible that China's denunciation of the treaty may be withdrawn, but no official Intimation of such action has been received by this government. No conclusion was reached at to-day's meeting. In the event of failure to negotiate another treaty, the Geary exclusion law will be enforced against Chinese immigration. This Is far more drastic than the treaty. PLACES FOR RECENTLY APPOINTED CONSULS WASHINGTON. April S.-The State Department has decided to find temporary employment for the persons recently appointed to consular offices In Manchuria frnd will make no effort to place them nt their designated posts pending the issue of the war between Russia nnd Japan. Mr. Cheshire, who is nominally United States consul to Mukden, will be attached to the United States legation at IVking. Mr. Davidson, who was named ns consul to Antung on the Yalu river, will be sent lnsteal to Meu-Chwanj? to serve as assistant to Mr. Miller, the consul at that point. Kdwln Morgan, who was to have been consul at Dalny. will be sent to Shanghai as assistant consul. CATHOLIC CALLS SOCIALISM A MENACE WASHINGTON. April 8.-The menace of socialism and anarchy formed the theme of the principal paper read at to-day's session of the missionary conference at the Catholic University. It was read by Rev. William Stevens Kre., of Cleveland. O., who ald that there Is a small army of organizers working with frantic zfal for the fprad of th- faith: that the Socialist party published over J) newspapers and a nurrber cf magazine and nrued that the Catholic Church was the only force that could cop.- successfully "with the SocialAtic auaconda,"

Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. April 8. On the invitation of Representative Ilemenway, the House committee on rivers and harbors will visit Evansville during the coming congressional recess to examine the proposed Improvement project on the Green river, near that city. Notwithstanding the adverse report of the army engineers on the plan to construct a movable dam below Henderson, Ky., with a view to providing six feet of water at Evansville, Representative Ilemenway will insist at the next session that provision shall' be made for this project, which is one of the most comprehensive now under consideration, Involving as it does an expenditure of more fhan 2.öO),öOO. The House committee has not decided when It will visit Evansville, but the trip will probably betaken some time in June. Mr. Ilemenway also expects to have the army board make another examination at Evansville. General McKenzie, chief of engineers, submits the following to Congress "in connection with the adverse report of Colonel Lydecker on the subject of a dam below Henderson for the benefit of that city and Evansville:

"The law ordering this preliminary examination requires a report upon it simply from the point of view of the benefit to the harbors at Henderson and Evansville and to the Green river navigation. The facts brought out by the preliminary examination sufficiently indicate the inadvisability of the construction from these points of view. The project has, however, been pressed on the additional ground that a dam so established would be one of a chain of canalization in the lower Ohio, extending from Louisville to the mouth of the river, and to make this report complete this phase of the matter must be touched upon. By appropriating money for dam No. 37. Just below Cincinnati, on the Ohio river. Congress has Indicated its intention of adopting, at least in pan. the project founded upon a survey pf the Ohio river from Marietta to the mouth of the Big Miami. 603 miles below Pittsburg, which project provides for canalization between thVse points, and is an extension of a previously adopted project to provide slack-water navigation from Pittsburg to Marietta. "Although work on the first dam of this series, namely, the one at Davis island, was begun twenty-live years ago, only two of the dams have yet been completed, 'seven more are under construction, nd money has been appropriated for five additional ones. As yet, therefore, only a beginning has been made on the project for thirtyeight dams, carrying slack water to the mouth of the Big Miami. No provision has been made for the portion lying between this river and the head of the falls at Louisville, and It seems premature to locate, at this time, a dam below the falls, which would, to a certain extent, commit the government to an extension of the slack-water project beyond any point yet considered, and before the portion already authorized has been so far finished as to enable its full usefulness to be correctly and certainly measured. The work which Congress may be assumed to have entered upon, namely, the slack-water system to include dam No. 38, will have cost when completed, acc.ordirg to present estimates, about $28,000.fj00. The further extension to Louisville and thence to the mouth of the river would require probably about eighteen more dams. The lower dams would necessarily be much larger than any on the upper river, would usually require a much more expensive foundation, and would cost very much more. Without attempting an accurate estimate for these structures it may be said that the total cost of the extension from the Big Miami to Cairo may prove to be little, if any, less than the cost of the first thirty-eight dams of the series from Pittsburg down. "I concur lu the views of Colonel Lydecker and f" the board of engineers for rivers and harbors, that it is inadvisable ü3 the present time to undertake the consti i'.etion of a movable dam in the Ohio river below the mouth of the Green river." if A. B. Ward, of Bear Branch, Ind., Is an applicant for -a position in the Weather Bureau. "You could almost get a quorum of the House ar the races," said a member of the Indiana delegation to-day. This remark was made in the presence of William Forbis. of Monticello, one of the numerous Hoobiers employed in the House wing of the Capitol. "It's a remarkable thing." said Forbis. "the amount of department work the members do when the races are on." 4 Quartermaster General Humphrey to-day forwarded a communication to the Senate committee on appropriations bearing on the Indianapolis army post. He recommends that the general appropriation for posts and barracks be increased from SlxiO.OOO to $1.500ioi), and that the appropriation of $523,Ou0 for Fort Benjamin Harrison be retained in the bill as passed by the House. t t Senator Fairbanks to-day offered an amendment to the sundry civil bill appropriating $1.500 for the relief of Mrs. Lala B. Ingersoll, widow .of the late United States Consul John C. Ingersoll. This amount represents sdlary due to the consul at the time of his death. A bill was introduced by Representative Zenor appropriating $3,000 for the relief of John Glenn, of Corydon. whose property was damaged during the Morgan raid. Senator Fairbanks to-day recommended the establishment of rural free delivery at Crawfordsvllle and Butler. f Under a provision in the Indian appropriation bill, which was agreed to In conference to-day, the secretary of the Interior is authorized to approve leases of oil properties in Indian Territory which have been held up pending action in Congress. ' mi t i . m . . . . . . mis is ot concern to me Indian. Territory Development Company, in which several Indlanians, including Governor Durbin, Harry S. New, State Senator Wolcott and others are interested. This company has secured twenty-one leases, covering- about 4.000 acres of valuable ground In the Territory, from which it desires to transport oil by means of pipe lines. Attorney Samuel O. Pickens, of Indianapolis, has made several visits here during the past few months in connection with this matter. Frank M. Sharp, of Indianapolis, is an applicant for an appointment as a Jefferson guard at the St. Louis fair. ! The nomination of Hamlin Smith for appointment as postmaster at Brownstown, Jackson county, has been reported favorably by the Senate committee. Representative Watson will leave for Indiana early next week on account of the illness of his father. Telegrams were received by Representative Hemenway to-day urging him to use his influence to have the gunboat Nashville and accompanying torpedo boat stop at Mt. Vernon on thdr way to St. Louis the latter part of this month. The vessel will make short stops at Evansville and Mt. Veruon. on the suggestion of the First district member. llmiiin Memorial Day. COLUMBUS. O., April 9.-The joint legislative committee on the Ilanna memorial day exercises has reported April 30 as the date for holding the exercises. ITnittil States Senator Charles Dick will deliver the memorial oration. Lieutenant Governor Harding will preside and speeches will be made by (iovernor Herrick, Speaker Thomas, of the House, and State Senator Schallenburger. of Cuyahoga, county.

Fairbanks Mav Be Put on Ticket and Beveridge Given Committee Chairmanship. J. E. WATSON MENTIONED Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, April 8. There are several aspirants in the field for the various honors to be passed around at the Chicago convention. Of course, no one can openly announce his candidacy for any of these positions, but there are many prominent party men quietly at work with the hope of capturing the temporary or permanent chairmanship of the big gathering of Republicans which will be held at Chicago in June. The names of several senators and representatives have been mentioned, notably Senators Spooner, of Wisconsin, Beveridge, of Indiana, Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Representatives Watson, of Indiana, Coucins, of Iowa, and others. The name of former Secretary Root has recently been mentioned in connection with the temporary chairmanship. No better selection could be made. Mr. Hoot has been prominently identified with the Roosevelt administration. His ability as a convincing public speaker and his intimate knowledge of party affairs will assure an interesting address before the convention should he take the gavel. At the Philadelphia convention in 1900 Indiana was given one of the highest honors. Senator Fairbanks having been made chairman of the committee on resolutions. At the Chicago gathering the Hoosier State will undoubtedly be conspicuous. There is a chance that either Senator Beveridge or Representative Watson may be selected for one of the chairmanships. Both have many friends among the party leaders, and each hold high rank as orators in the respective houses. Simultaneous with the reports circulated regarding the choice of former Secretary Root and Senator Spooner for the convention chairmanships it was also reported that the party leaders were considering Speaker Cannon for the permanent chairmanship. Friends of the speaker assert to-day that there is nothing in this report, and that Mr. Cannon does not want the place and would object to being selected to fill it. "With the temporary chairman from New York and the chief nominating speech to come from that State it is regarded as certain that the permanent chairmanship and other leading places will be given to Western men.

USE OF NAVAL STEAM YACHT MAYFLOWER Secretary Moody Replies to Criticism Made by Minority Leader Williams. WASHINGTON, April 8. Replying to a criticism of the use of the naval steam yacht Mayflower, filed in the House for reproduction in the Congressional Record by Representative Williams, of Mississippi, In the form of a newspaper clipping. Representative Foss, chairman of the naval affairs committee, to-day filed also, to be printed in the Record, a letter from Secretary Moody giving detailed history of the use of the Mayflower by the President. He says the Mayflower is not, as was stated in the criticism, denominated "the President's yacht." Continuing, the secretary says: "She receives her orders from the department in the same manner as other vessels. In accordance with a custom of long standing, however, a vessel of the navy has been placed at the disposal of the President from time to time, as he may desire It. The Mayflower has been the vessel selected for this service under directions from the President that at no time should she be diverted from any naval duties for which she might be needed. It would be an injustice to the officers and men of the Mayflower to suppose that her sole or principal use was that of a yacht." FOUR MEN KILLED IN GAS EXPLOSION WASHINGTON, Apr 8.-Four mer were killed In an explosion to-day at the Pintsch Gas Compressing Company's plant in Southwest Washington. The dead: Stephen Henson, Charles W. Grigsby, Joseph Cumberland and an unknown negro. The explosion caused $2,000 damage to the building. Its origin is unknown and the superintendent of the plant says that probably Henson only knew the cause. Henson was the engineer. Cumberland was the fireman. Warren Horstman, an employe, was blown some distance and stunned, but quickly recovered. The machines in the building were badly damaged and a wall of the second story was blown out. The plant supplied light for many of the railway cars entering the city. PRESIDENT APPOINTS A FRIEND TO OFFICE WASHINGTON, April 8.-The President will nominate James R. Parsons, Jr.. as United States consul general to the city of Mexico, vice A. D. Barlow, resigned. This is a personal appointment on the part of the President. Mr. Parsons Is a distinguished educator, forty-two years of age, and a native of Albany, N. Y. He is secretary of the board of regents of the State University of New York and has taken an important part In the development in the public school system of that State. Mr. Parsons has had experience In consular work, having been from 1SSS to 1S0O United States consul at AIx la Chappelle. Fatal LodRlnfc House Fire OMAHA. Neb.. April S.-KIrk Anderson, a lodger, was fatally injured: John Pearsall. a fireman, and two babies of Mrs. Anderson were badly hurt In a fire in a lodging house to-day. Several other occupants of the building were more or less hurt. JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS MAI IIECEIIIE REWARD Minority Leader in the House May Be Temporary Chairman at St. Louis. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, April S. The Democrats are wrestling with the question of chairmanship selections for the St. Louis convention. It doutbless will devolve wholly on the Democratic national committee to make these selections, on account of the contest over the Democratic nominations, and in this view of the situation it is difficult for the leaders to makf a decision far in advance. But the indieati:ns are tlmt Representative Williams, of Mississippi, the leader of the Democratic forces in the House, will be chosen as temporary chairman. Williams is In hlsh favor with the Democrats and he can have anything he wants, and in addition to that so successful has he been during the past few months in placing before the country in the best possible light the weakness of the Democratic position, to make thorn appear strong, that he has become so much of a party idol that It is desired to plate him in the front of the campaign. No plans have been made for their permanent chairman, but probably one of the leading senators will be chosen. TYNER AND BARRETT TO BE TRIED IN MAY WASHINGTON, April 8. Justice Pritchard of the Criminal Court has fixed May .2 as the day for the trial for former Assistant Attorney General James N. Tyncr and former Law Clerk Harrison J. Rarrett, of the I'ostofflce Department, for conspiracy to defraud the government. The cases grew out of the postal investigation. Tiner was once postmaster general.

FRANK P. SARGENT. Commissioner General of Immigration.

y ALIENS SUBJECT TO DEPORTATION UK Commissioner Sargent Believes There Are Thousands in Eleemosynary Institutions. AN EXTENDED INQUIRY Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, April 8. If the present plans of the federal authorities are carried out there will be a wholesale deportation of aliens during the coming year. An inquiry which has been in progress several months develops that there are thousands of aliens confined in the eleemosynary institutions of the several States, who, under the law, are subject to deportation. Reports are daily received by the commissioner general of immigration from various sections of the United States advising him of the presence In public institutions of aliens who, under a rigid enforcement of the law, should be deported at the expense of steamship companies which brought them here. Under present statutes any alien can be deported who becomes a public charge within two years after landing in this county. Thousands of foreigners of this class, as well as those to whom the law does not apply, are supported and maintained in asylums and other charitable institutions in this country. The Inquiry in question extended into every State and Territory in the Union. It was undertaken In accordance with an act of Congress, and the conclusions will be used as a basis in drafting laws which will be enacted in the future to prevent the landing of insane and diseased immigrants. "The report will show," said Commissioner General Sargent, "that the conditions which brought about this investigation are quite general throughout the United States. Of course the evil is more pronounced in the East, but it exists to a greater or less extent in the middle and northwestern States. The results will surprise most people, and will bring sharply to the attention of the lawmakers the necessity for more rigid statutes. It also enables us to locate thousands of deportable immigrants whom we could not have reached in any other way." The -eports from Indiana have been received, but have not yet been tabulated. It Is understood that the conditions in that State are not as bad as in other sections of the middle West. ROOT ENGAGED BY . . HILL AS COUNSEL NEW YORK, April 8. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Elihu Root to represent the Northern Securities Company in its fight to prevent E. II. Harriman from obtaining control of the Northern Pacific Railroad as a result of the distribution of the Northern Securities assets. Mr. Root will be the second ex-member of the Cabinet to represent the Northern Securities Company as special counsel in cooperation with the regularly employed attorneys of the corporation. When the government case was first argued John W. Griggs, attorney general In the first McKinley Cabinet, represented the Northern Pacific Railroad merger as special counsel. With John G. Johnson, of Philadelphia, he also represented the corporation before the United States Supreme Court. The case in which Mr. Root is to appear is to be argued before the Supreme Court in St. Paul next Tuesday. PASS NO. i IS ISSUED TO THE PRESIDENT ST. LOUIS, April S.-Pass No. 1 to the world's fair grounds during the regular exposition period was made out to-day in the name cf Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States. It will be Issued to the President next week. A special form of pass has been designated for the President of the United States, the members of his Cabinet, -the supreme judges of the United States, members of the Senate and Congress and other national dignitaries. After the President's pass, the others will be numbered consecutively and issued to officials in the order of their prominence. TO E Important Measure Reported to the Senate from Committee by Mr. Dillingham. WASHINGTON, April S. Senator Dillingham to-day reported favorably from the committee on immigration a bill to authorize the commissioner general to establish in connectioa with the immigrant station at Kills island a bureau of Information and display for furnishing information to Immigrants upon their arrival In this country, to aid them In determining where they should locate. The information to be furnished is to relate to the resources, products and physical characteristics of each State and Territory, the character of the climate and soil, the prices of land, the routes of travel and costs of transportation, the opportunities of employment in the various skilled and unskilled occupations, and prevailing rates of wages, and the costs of living in said States and Territories respectively, and all other information that might tend to enlighten immigrants as to the inducements offered to settlement. Lach State and Territory Is authorized to maintain at its own expense an agent to represent it at Ellis island. The agents will have access to all immigrants after they tuive been admitted, for the purpose of setting forth the advantage of the States and Territories as places for settlement. n Repent of Heuert Liintl Lnun. WASHINGTON. April S.-By a vote of 8 to 3 the House committee on irrigation of arid lands to-day defeated the bill to repeal the desert land laws. Nothing half so fine as Mrs. Austin's Pancake flour. Ask your grocw for It.

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WASHINGTON, April S. The House today passed a large number of bills, including the Philippine shipping bill and the bill appropriating $473,(00 in aid of the Lewis and Clark centennial exposition to be held in Portland. Ore., in 1005. The only amendment made to the Philippine shipping bill was one extending until July 1, liKVi, the time when the law shall become operative. The bill provides that no merchandise or passengers except supplies for the army or navy shall be transported by sea. under penalty of forfeiture, between ports of the United States and the Philippine archipelago, directly or via a foreign port, or for any part of the voyage in any except vessels of the United States. It-does not prohibit, however, the sailing of any foreign vessel between the United States and the Philippines, nor between the ports or places In the Philippines. The tonnage taxes now in force remain on foreign vessels coming from the Philippines. The Philippine commissionis authorized to issue licenses to engage in lighterage or other exclusively harbor business to vessels or other craft actually engaged in such business at the date stated and to vessels or other craft built in the Philippines or in the United States and owned by citizens of the United States or inhabitants of the Philippines. The law does not Impair or affect any privilege guaranteed tot Spanish ships and merchandise by the Paris treaty of peace. , A House joint resolution was agreed to providing for the acceptance of a statue of General Thaddeus Kosciusko, presented to the United States by Polish-American citizens. In a speech on the race question, Mr. Bowers, of Mississippi, pointed with pride, he said, to the fact that in his State the ratio of mulattos to the colored race population and to the whole population was less to-day than it has been at any time since the war. He declared that there was less intermingling with negroes than ever before and that the mulatto steadily has become with the people of Mississippi "an incident and recollection of the past." Mr. Rowers asserted that the negro's entry into politics simply was to serve a party expedient and that his political baptism was an aid of Republican ascendancy. He believed, he said, that race purity could be preserved absolutely by the utter segregation of the races in every scholastic relation. The slightest Intermingling of the races, he declared, was fraught with peril. He said that the negro was not fit for selfgovernment, and he was greeted with Democratic applause when he eald the negro, within constitutional limits, should be eliminated as a political factor. "I thank God," he added, "the Constitution of Mississippi swept the circle of expediency to accomplish that end."

SULLY'S OFFER IS NOT YET ACCEPTED NEW YORK, April S.-The creditors of Daniel J. Sully & Co. held a meeting to-day at which Sully's friends, beaten in an attempt to force an Immediate settlement, retired from the meeting. Those remaining adopted a resolution continuing the creditors committee in power and instructed it to continue its work of inquiring into Sully's affairs. It was said after the meeting that Sully's proposal to pay 40 cents on the dollar and give notes for three years had been rejected by a large .vote. The Corn Exchange Bank has turned over to the receivers the 1,730 bales of cotton held as surplus collateral and this the receivers will sell. RITTER SECURES RARE SPECIMENS OF SEA LIFE California Scientist Returns from Dredging Voyage Off Point Conception. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, April 8. William E. Ritter, professor of zoology at the University of California, has Just returned from a voyage on the steamer Albatross, having been engaged for the last month in collecting specimens of sea life for scientific research. The entire month was spent in sounding and dredging the ocean off San Diego, although most of the work was carried on about Point Loma, La Jolla and Catalina islands. Some dredging was done about 240 miles off Point Conception, this being the farthest the steamer sailed from land. Here the abyssmal depths began, the soudings ranging anywhere from 10,000 to 14,000 feet. "It was in these great depths that we found the most interesting specimens of sea life," said Professor Ritter. "There is an abundarce of life there, and it Is surprising the gorgeous colors the inhabitants wear. The range of color is astonishing. The predominating life at the great depths Is the starfish and the sea urchin. The sea urchin is most abundant in individuals and kinds." Samples of the bottom were taken by the expedition at all places and science will be interested to know that bitumen was found in large quantities in the great depths. PRAISE FOR AMERICAN MANUAL TRAINING LONDON, April 8. The Mosely commission to-night issued its report on the education system of the United States in a volume of 400 pages, Illustrated. It covers every department of American educational work and especially praises manual training, coeducation and the sanitary and hygienic conditions of the buildings and schoolrooms. It has been arranged to distribute the book to all officials and others especially interested in education in the United Kingdom. REPORTS TD THE HOUSE OF THE jTHEHODD BILL Democrats Find Fault with Plan for Making But Two ! States. WASHINGTON, April 8. Majority and minority reviews on the statehood bill recently reported from the House committee on territories were fded to-day by Representatives Hamilton, of Michigan, and Moon, of Tennessee, respectively. Mr. Hamilton reviews the provisions of the bill at length and urges the necessity and Justice of admitting the four Territories as two States. The minority views are signed by Representatives Moon, Lloyd, Robinson of Indiana and Thayer. After a lengthy discuffloa of the Mil the minority concludes with this expression: "Should the Republican party pass this bill, wicked as it Is in the denial of equal rights In representation, and partisan in all of its material details, It will but afford an indecent example of the suppression of individual, territorial and national rights to subserve partisan ends. Even more than that, it is a surrender of the power that sovereign States would exercise in the Union if the constitutional methods were followed in the admission of States. It minimizes the influence of the West and Southwest in the citadel of federal power the United States Senate. We are of opinion that it ultimately will be better for the Union that the Territories opposed to consolidation shall be denied statehood under the theory of this bill indefinitely than that conditions which will be forced by an unnatural union should exist." The Republican members of the, House arc to meet in caucus oa the statehood bill early next week to agree respecting cousideratiou of the bill.

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STATE TO REGULATE SÄLE OP INTOXICATING LIQUOR Passage of Hepburn and Dollivcr Bill Is Favored by House Committee. PURPOSE OF MEASURE WASHINGTON. April 8. A report favoring the passage of the Hepburn and Dolliver bill, granting the States police power over original packages of liquor shipped within their borders as interstate commerce, was filed in the House to-day by Representative Clayton, of Alabama. The report says: "Thre has arisen considerable misapprehension as to the meaning and purpose of this proposed legislation. It has been said by some to be a prohibition measure ana by others to be an attempt to deprive the individual citizen of his right to have beer, wine and other liquors shipped to him from another State for hl3 own use and enjoyment. Neither of these assertions Is true, as (we think) has been demonstrated. This bill is not intended to prohibit the sale and use of beer, wine or other intoxicating liquors which have been uniformly held by the United States to be legitimate articles of commerce, nor is the measure designed to abridge the Tight of a citizen of one State to import from another State such beverages as he may uesire for his own use, as before said. The purpose of this proposed law, and its sole purpose, is to allow each State to carry out its own domestic or internal policy In relation to the control of Intoxicating beverages within the boundaries of the State. The sole effect will be to permit the State, if it so wills, to circumscribe the sale of intoxicating beverages within its boundaries to the full extent that It may desire to restrain such traffic, or to regulate the sale of the same through the medium cf its own laws. Including local option laws, high license laws or dispensary laws." MANY LIVES WERE LOST III THE RELIEfOF OMARARU Germans' Battle with Hereros Described by Correspondent Who Saw the Fight. BERLIN, April 8. The Southwest African correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, Dr. Moellenhoff, has sent his paper a graphic letter describing the relief of Omararu Feb. 4, from which it appears that both sides fought with desperate courage. When the garrison of Omararu heard the firing of the artillery of the relief corps twenty-five of the beleaguered force made a sortie against the enemy, who held a natural fortification consisting of a line of cliff-like projecting rocks. "The Hereros, attacked in front and rear," says Dr. Moellenhoff, "held their ground with marvelous tenacity. When the Germans rushed among them many of the Hereros crept into crevices In the rocks, where they were bayonetted. Lieut. Von Kollewarth received a mortal wound from a Herero twenty paces distant, and a German cavalryman searching among the rocks for wounded men was killed at a few paces' range. "After being driven from this position the Hereros took up a new one, contesting the ground inch by inch and leaving a number of dead at every rallying point. After the hottest firing was over the enemy fired at the German wounded from neighboring bushes and the surgeon dressed the wounds while the bullets were whizzing in the air. The Hereros lost about a hundred killed or wounded, of their approximate total of G0 men. The German loss was eight men killed and ten wounded." DECISION IS HANDED DOWN AT ST. PAUL State - Supreme Court Makes Ruling in Hastings and Dakota Land Case. ST. PAUL, April 8. The State Supreme Court to-day handed down a decision in the case of Russell Sage, assignee In trust for the Hastings & Dakota Railway Company, appellant, against Theodore Maxwell et al. The case Is one of fifteen cases pending, involving the same principle. These cases involve 2TV.000 acres of land In different counties in this state. The lands are all within the indemnity limits of the Hastings and Dakota grant of lSO. The company attempted to select all its indemnity lands In bulk in 1SS.7 to make up for losses In the original place limits of the grant. Th homesteaders settled on this land after this selection had lcen made. The court holds that the selection of iands by the rallrcad company was defective and Insufficient, and that the company acquired no rights under It. and that the land was improperly given to the homesteaders by the land orlice. BIRTHDAY OF AGED KING IS CELEBRATED Crowds Cheer Christian and Jlis Royal British Visitors at Copenhagen. COPENHAGEN. April S.-King Christian to-day celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday in excellent health. United States Minister Swenson conveyed to the King a greeting and felicitations from President Roosevelt. Congratulatory messages were received from all the sovereigns. Enormous crowds thronged the "vicinity of the palace cheering the old old monarch, who. with the King and Queen of England, appeared on the balcony of the palace. Telegrams of congratulation were also received from Danes in the I'nited States and there were general festivities throughout Denmark. Wolf Ilitca SIv IVmotiN. MINSK, Russia, April 8. A wolf entered this town to-day and attacked and bit six persons before it was killed.

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discussed ey senate Rental Price Denounced by Mr. Culbertson as Too High Bill Jones's Epitaph. SPEECH BY PATTERSON WASHINGTON, April S. The contracts for canceling machines used by the Postofhee Department was debated at length ia the Senate to-day In connection with tho postoffice appropriation bill. Mr. Culbertson introduced an amendment reducing the rental of the machines, and the Democratic senators charged that the rental now paid was the same that was paid under the contracts made by George W. Beavers, when he was chief, of the salary and allowance division of the Tostoffice Department, and that they were excessive. Mr. Lodge denied the charge, saying that there was no proof of its truth. Mr. Lodge offered for Mr. Hear an amendment permitting the appointment as postmaster of persona who have a principal place for business within the delivery district of the office to which they may bo appointed, and repealing the existing law which requires postmasters to reside In the district. The provisions aroused opposition on the part of Messrs. Money and Culbertson. Mr. Money said that the statute should be restricted rather than extended and he said that in his State postmasters were carpetbaggers brought from one part of the State to the other. He added that he had no desire to take from the Republicans the privilege of appointing their own men to olfice, "because," he said, "every time you appoint a Democrat we los a man and you gain one. I want the Republican authorities to make the Republican party as odious as possible in my State, and I may add that as in the case of Dill Jones's epitaph, they have done their best, and angels could do no more.' " The bill was not completed. The tirst hours of the session were devoted to a discussion by Mr. Patterson of the Chinese question. In which he maintained that the exclusion laws would b inefftctie after Dec. 7 unless there was additional legislation. In the course of Mr. Patterson's speech. Messrs. Mitchell. Cullom and Spooner questioned him as to whether the treaty of lx had not had the effect of entirely superceding and rrpealing the treaty of 1so, but Mr. Patterson contended that such was not the case. Mr. Spooner made the point that if the treaty of ISM had the effect of repealing the treaty of the latter treaty must have had the effect of superceding the treaty of 1S0S. Mr. Patterson, however, did not yield the point. Mr. Spooner suggested that the treaty between the United States and China would have the effect of holding in force the other treaties existing at the time. Including the treaty of IK, but Mr. Patterson did not accept this construction, lie contended that the only safe method was to make explicit declaration In the form of legal enactment as he predicted that unless this course was pursued serious agitation would ensue. Lnftc Defeated I AVInconaln. MADISON, Wis., April 8. The managers of the Luse campaign to-day acknowledge the election of James C. Kerwin. of Neenah. to the Supreme Court Justiceship. SKIN AND BLOOQ PURIFICATION Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills Cleanse the Skin, Scalp and Blood Of Torturing, Disfiguring, Homours with Loss of Hair COMPLETE TREATL1EIIT $1.00 Thousands of the world's best people hare found Instant relief and speedy cure by the use of Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills In the most torturing and disfiguring of itching, burning and scaly humours, ecxemas, rashes, ltdiinzs and icflanrmations. Thousands of tired, fretted mother, of bkln-tortured and disfigured babies, of all apes and conditions, have certified to almost miraculous cures by the Cuticura remedies, when the best medical (kill bad failed to relieve, nach less cure. Cuticura Treatment Is local and con stltutlonal complete and perfect, pure, sweet and wholesome. Bathe the affected surfaces with Cuticura Soap and hot water to cleanse the kin of crusts and scales and soften the thick ened cuticle, dry without hard rubbing, and apply Cuticnra Ointment freely to allay Itching, irritation and inflammv tion, and soothe and heal, and lastly take Cuticura Kesolrent rill to cool and cleanse the blood, and put every function in a state of healthy activity. More great cores of simple, scrofoloua and hereditary humours are dally madd by Cuticura remedies than by all other blood and skin remedies combined, A single 6et beim; often sufficient to cur the most distressing cases when all else fails. Soli throueSoct the vorld. Cattenr JUoWrt Mfc Oa form o. ckweotat Ci I Kit. rVr pr al Ol otm cat, V . mi.b, tSe. Umi UldiK. S7 l trHn bouMSq I rViKMl!. rm Boton. iC Coiua hotr lnt sn4 CK. C' . toot tap. mr toe - U A iti 4 firtflsf - f