Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1905 — Page 4

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The butchers keep right on charging the same prices for meat as if the Supreme Court had not rendered that decision.

The trusts that have been finding difficulty in "doing business” with the Nebraska legislature are threatening to elect their own legislature next time.

Fowler Leader: The bill to reimburse the persons who had money in busted banks should have an appendix to it, which should read that not a dollar of the fund should be paid until the defaulting officer had been punished.

If there are still any people in Jasper comity who are so poorly supplied with gray matter that that they think the state will pay the $23,000 called for in the Nichols relief bill, we would refer them to the acts of 1903, page 513, where a similar act appears. Read the last paragraph of the preamble.

Oxford Tribune: If the legislature passes a special act relieving the treasurer of Jasper county for the loss of funds in the McCoy bank and the treasurer of Newton county for funds in the Gilman bank, we see no reason why we can’t have that body do the Carnegie act to the depositors of the old Dwiggins bank. Tit for tat.

But few bills have as yet passed both branches of the state legislature, and of those the Moore bill is probably of the most interest. A bill has passed the senate to increase the pay of petit and grand jurors from $2 to $3 per day and to increase their mileage from 5 cents to 10 cents per mile; also a bill to increase the mortgage exemption from S7OO to SI,OOO. Both these bills will probably become laws.

The Moore temperance bill which has passed both branches of the legislature and been signed by the governor, provides that the voterß of a township or ward (in the case of a city) may remonstrate either against the applicant for a license or against the business, and that such remonstrance, when once filed, shall hold good against the applicant, or the business, as the case may be, for a period of two years. No withdrawals can be made from the remonstrance when once filed, and when a town or city ward successfully remonstrates against the saloon business, other applicants are held from applying for license each month, as is the case with the law at present.

Starke County Democrat: A condition bas been discovered by the investigation following the embezzlement of county funds by Frank Obencbain, treasurer of Cass county, which it is to be hoped does not exist in many counties. It develops that a loan of some $7 ,000 of county funds has been passed along through the terms of four county treasurers, being carried along and passed from one to the other as cash on band. Such a proceeding furnishes a strong argument in favor of frequent official examinations of the books and funds of all public officers handling the people’s money. An officer who will be a party to such misuse of public funds has a badly warped idea of individual or official probity.

RESENTS A WARNING

Senate Offended at the President's Letter to Cullom on the Treaties. DOES JUST WHAT HE OPPPOSED Proposed Treaties Made a “Step Back* ward”, in His Stated Views. Pointed Extracts from the letter, Which Foretell the Death of All the Conventions Negotiated. Washington, Feb. 13.—The friction between the president nnd the senate over the arbitration treaties, although there is no acrimony developed so far, is the question of the hour here. The president's letter to Senator Cullom, chairman of the senate foreign affairs committee, was like a “red rag to a hull,” and made certain tne action of the senate (which was almost certain before) in insisting upon modifying these treaties. Colonel John W. Foster, president of the National Arbitration Conference, says that so far as his colleagues were concerned the word “agreement” in the promised treaties meant the same as “treaty,” and they never contemplated the president making these “agreements” without the advice and consent of the senate. He hoped the president would find n way to reconcile the difference between himself and the senate. Reprenenta a Step Backward. But the president's letter to Cullom, does not look that way, and when Cullom read It to the senate In executive session it caused a mild sensation. The salient points of his letter follow: ‘‘l learn that the senate committee on foreign relations lias reported the arbitration treaties to the senate, amending them by substituting for the word ‘agreement’ in the second article the word ‘treaty.’ The effect of the amendment is to make it no longer possible, as between the contracting parties, to submit any matter whatever to arbitration without first obtaining a special treaty to cover the case. This will represent not n step forward, but a step backward.” Will Drop the Whole Batch. “If the word 'treaty' be substituted the result is that every such agreement must be submitted to the senate, and these general arbitration treaties would then cease to be such, and, indeed, in their amended form, they would amount to a specific pronouncement against the whole principle of a general arbitration treaty. * * * If, however, in the judgment of the president, a given amendment nullifies a proposed treaty it seems to me that it is no less clearly his duty to refrain from endeavoring to secure a ratification by the other contracting power or powers of the amende.! treaty; and after much thought I have come to the conclusion that I ought to write nnd tell you that such is my Judgment in this case,” Nothing Whatever Accomplished. “It would not, in my judgment, he wise or exiWHlient to try to secure the assent of the other contracting powers to the amended treaties, for even if such assent were secured we should still remain precisely where we were before, save where the situation may be changed a little for the worse. * * * Personally it is not my opinion that this government lacks the power to enter into general treaties of arbitration, but if lam in error, and it this government has no power t enter into such geneal treaties then it seems to me that it is better not to attempt to make them rather than to make the attempt in such shape that they shall accomplish literally nothing whatever when made.”

SENATE PUTS IN THE WORD Prealdenl’* Action in Writing the Letter I* Not Taken Kindly. When the senate met in executive session Saturday Cullom read the president’s letter and it was sharply criticised as a usurpation of the right* of the senate. Even Spooner insisted that tile senate Should uphold its dignity as a co-ordinate branch of the government and that it could not accept the view of any other branch of the government in the matter of exercising its constitutional functions as a part of the treaty making power. There were no defenders of the propriety, from a constitutional stand-point, of the letter. I.odge, the president’s bosom friend, declared, while bolding that the senate should stand to its rights, that he was sure the president was not willfully trying to usurp the powers of the senate nor to gather to himself any powers other than that.which constitutionally belonged to the executive, and that the differences were confined to phraseology in the treaties. There was no acrimony in the discussion, but the writing of the letter was generally resented. ■* The result was that when it came to | vote the word ‘'agreement” was struck out and “treaty” put in its place, making it necessary to negotiate a treaty for every case that is arbitrated. As the purpose of the treaty was plainly to eliminate this process, the so-called arbitration treaties become only a declaration that the United States is willing to negotiate treaties to arbitrate questions in dispute. The only votes in the negative were those of Dolliver, Fairbanks, Hopkins, McCumber, Nelson, Platt of Connecticut, Stewart, Warren and Wetmore. The clause of the proposed treaties

so radically amended is in article 2, as follows: "In each Individual case the high contracting parties, before appealing to the permanent court of arbitration, shall conclude a special ‘treaty’ defining clearly the matter in dispute,” etc. The word “treaty” takes the place of “agreement” in the treaties as they were negotiated. In discussing the letter to Cullom Morgan spoke of it as another evidence of the president’s tendency toward the usurpation of the senatorial prerogative and said that the president had no more right to interfere with the senate’s consideration of the subject at this stage of the preceeding than the senate would have had to interfere with him while the treaty was In process of preparation.

ARBITRATION TREATIES ARE DEAD

President Think* the Senate Aetloa Made Them • Closed Incident. Washington, Feb. 14. President Roosevelt will not present the arbitration treaties as amended by the senate to the countries with which they were negotiated. In reply to numerous inquiries by representatives of the press at the state department Secretary Hay made in substance the following statement: “The president regards the matter of the general arbitration treaties as concluded by the action of the senate Saturday. He recognizes the right of the senate to reject a treaty either by a direct vote in that sense or indirectly by changes which are incompatible with its spirit and purpose. He considers that with the senate amendment the treaties not only cease to be a step forward in the cause of general arbi tration, but are really a step backward. and therefore lie is unable to pesent them in this altered form to the countries with which we have been in negotiation.” The treaties were received at the White House yesterday, and following the usual procedure they will be recorded and forwarded to the state department. They will be sent to the librarian where, in accordance with the statement issued by Secretary Hay, they will remain.

MRS. EDWARDS IS GIVEN A RESPITE

Governor Pennypacker Withdraws Death Warrants in Case of Woman and Negro. Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 10.—On recommendation of the board of pardons Governor Pennypacker withdrew the death warrants in the case of Mrs. Kate Edwards, the white woman, and Samuel Greason, the negro, who were under sentence to hang together in the Berks county jail at Reading, for the murder of Mrs. Edward’s husband in 1901. The case of Greason will now be again taken to the Pennsylvania supreme court and if that tribunal refuses to reopen the case the attorneys for Mrs. Edwards and Greason will have to appear before the board of pardons next month.

TO INVESTIGATE STANDARD OIL

House Passes Resolution and President Roosevelt Acts Immediately. Washington, Feb. 16. —President Roosevelt has directed James R. Garfield, commissioner of corporations of the department of commerce and labor, to begin immediately the oil investigation requested by the house of representatives in a resolution adopted unanimously. The investigation, by direction of the president, will he rigid and comprehensive. The president has directed a letter to Commissioner Garfield in which lie has given his directions and presented in outline his views.

CHICAGO REPUBLICAN TICKET

Greenebaum. Smalakl and Brady Aro Harlftn'i Running Mutes - Platform lor City Ownership. Chicago. Feb. 16. The ticket nominated at the Republican city conven tion was: For mayor, John M. Har lan; city treasurer, Moses E. Greenebaum; city attorney, John F. Smulski; city clerk, Francis P. Brady. The platform is for city ownership of the street railways, but favors first the elimination of all obstacles, such as the rights of the present companies, and the formulation of a comprehensive plan to that end, which shall include municipal ownership.

Plan of Chadwick Trial Is Out.

Cleveland, 0., Feb. 15.—J. P. Dawley, counsel for Mrs. Chadwick, asked in Judge Taylor's court upon, what charge liis client would first be tried. District Attorney Sullivan said Mrs. Chadwick probably would be placed ou trial first on the charge of conspiracy with President Beckwith and Cashier Spear of the Citizens’ National bank of Oberlin to violate the statutes of the United States with regard to that hank.

What Railway Presidents Fear.

New York, Feb. 14.—Railroad presidents fear that if President Roosevelt decides to call an extra session of congress to consider rail rate legislation a radical law may be passed on account of the presence of new members of congress who are pledged to support Roosevelt in his fight.

Head Consul Woodmen Dead.

Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 15. —F. A. Falkenberg, bead consul Woodmen of the World, Is dead here after a long illness.

STRIKE OVER IN ST. PETERSBURG

Employes of the Putiloff Iron Works Have Returned to Work. GREAT CONFIDENCE PREVAILS Governor General Trepoff Says There Is No Danger of Renewal of Trouble. Preparing for Flection of Representatives on the Mixed Commission of Masters and Workmen Disorder at Moscow. St. Petersburg, Feb. 15. —The last visible vestige of the great St Peters burg stride disappeared Tuesday when the employes of the Putiloff iron works

GOVERNOR GENERAL TREPOFF.

returned. In all the works, ballots are being distributed for the election Sunday of representatives on the mixed commission of masters and workmen. Current rumors of trouble on the holiday, on which occasion it has been reported that the revolutionaries had planned an armed uprising, seem to be totally without foundation. The Associated Press has been informed at the headquarters of the governor general there is not the slightest apprehension as to a renewal of the disorders. Greatest Confidence Prevails. On the contrary, it is reported the greatest confidence prevails that the measures taken will prove satisfactory to the workmen, as the latter will be heard regarding the formulation of new laws and the adjustment of existing differences. The political side of the situation is considered no longer a serious factor at present. Rumors that General Trepoff will be appointed minister of the interior are not confirmed in the best-informed circles, where it is believed the post of governor general will be continued for several months at least. The holy synod has directed all priests to communicate the terms of the imperial ukase regarding the mixinl commission to their parishioners. In quiries made at the ministry of the interior show no confirmation has been received there of the report from Per lin that further anti-Semite riots have occurred at Gomel. Moscow Still In Revolt. London, Feb. 15.—The Standards Moscow correspondent reports that as tonishing demonstrations occurred at file annual ball of the engineering institutes. held in the hall where the as sembly of nobles sits. After the customary concert, instead of dancing, the whole gathering drowned the orchestra bj singing "The Marseillaise.” Then students arose in quick succession and made revolutionary harangues, which were enthusiastically applauded. Proclamations were distributed broadcast and cries of ‘‘Stop the war” and “Down with the autocracy” were made. The scenes continued, increasing in intensity, for two hours. The police formed a cordon around the hall, but were powerless to Interfere, as the nobles’ assembly hall possesses on ancient privilege against arrest.

Cabinet Members Resign.

Washington, Feb. 13.—The following statement was made public at the White House during the day: “The members of the cabinet have 5:11 tendered their resignations and on the 6th of March they will all be nominated for reappointment, with the exception of Mr. Wynne, who is to be appointed consul general at London. Mr. Cortelyou will be nominated on March 6th for postmaster general.”

Reduction of Rates on Lumber.

Detroit, Mich., Feb. 15.—The board of managers of the Lumber Carriers’ Association of the Great Lakes, in session here, ha ve voted to reduce carrying charges on pine lumber from Lake Superior to Chicago and Lake Erie ports 10 per cent., from $2.50 per thousand feet to $2.25 per thousand. Rates from Georgian bay and Lake Huron ports remain practically unchanged from last year.

Senator Mitchell Again Indicted.

Portland, Ore., Feb. 15,—United States Senator Mitchell Congressmen John N. Williamson and Binger Hermann and others have again been indicted by the federal grand Jury, on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the government of land.

BLAST ON A SUBMARINE

Aueideet ea a BrltUh Beat Which Cod* Fear Urw aad Weaad* Foartaaa Other Mea. v Queenstown, Feb. 17.—Four daen killed and fourteen Injured, of whom three are In a critical condition, was the result of two explosion* on board the British submarine boat “A-5” In the harbor here/ Tttie killed Included Engineer Artificer Chaffee, a leading stoker and a stoker. Lieutenant H. G. Good, comiflander of the vessel, was blinded. His condition is critical. Lieutenant Skinner, an officer of the submarine boat, subsequently died of his injuries. Only one man of the entire crew escaped uninjured. The first explosion is believed to have occurred while the crew were engaged in tilling the gasoline tanks preparatory to proceeding outside the harbor, but how no one knows. The “A-5” was a new boat, and had been tried extensively and satisfactorily, and was brought here to let military men see how she worked. The vessel suffered little damage.

FUNERAL OF GEN. WALLACE

Will It* Private Adopts Resolutions In Els Memory— Menage of Condolence. Crawfordsville, Ind., Feb. 17. Arrangements were completed for the funeral of General Lew Wallace. The body will lie in the library building at his residence today and will he v iewed from 2 to sp. m. The funeral will be held tomorrow and will be pri\ate. 5 Indianapolis, Feb. 17. The Indiana legislature has adopted resolutions of respect to the memory of General Wallace. Governor Hanly sent a message of condolence to Mrs. Wallace on behalf of the state, and Commander Lucas on the behalf of the G. A. R. The flag over the state house will be at half-mast for thirty days.

One Killed and Three Injured.

Omaha, Neb., Feb. 17. —One man was killed and three persons injured, one seriously, in the overturning of three passenger cars of a Missouri Pacific train near Avoca. The dead man is Rollins, fireman. Injured—D. I. Dean, engineer. Auburn, Neb., seriously: Miss Nellie Johnson and Express Messenger Foster, of Syracuse.

Gen. Stakelberg Wounded.

London, Feb. 17. —The Daily Telegraph's Shanghai corespondent reports that General Stakelberg and three Russian infantry colonels were wounded in the fighting on the Hun river.

THE WEATHER

Following is the official weather forecast up to 8 o’clock tonight: Illinois and Indiana —Partly cloudy, with possibly light snow- flurries in south portion; brisk southwest winds. Lower Michigan—Partly cloudy, with probably light snow flurries in north and west portions; brisk and high southwest, shifting to northwest winds. Wisconsin —Generally fair; colder; brisk, shifting to northwest winds. lowa —Generally fair; colder; brisk west to northwest winds.

THE MARKETS

Chicago Grain. Chicago, Feb. 10. Following were the quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat— Open. High. Low. Close. May ...*l.lO $1.21% $1.10%, $121% July ... 1.02% 1.02% 1-01% 102% Sept 04% .04% .03% .03% Corn — May ... .47% .47% .40% .40% July ... .47% .47% .47% .47% Sept 48 .48 .47% .47% Oats —• May ... .31% .31% .31% .31% July ... .31% .31% .31% .31% Sept 20% .20% .20% .29% Pork — May ... 12.00 12.95 12.82% 12.82% July ...13.00 13.00 12.92% 12.92% LariL — May ... 7.00 7.00 6.92% 6.92% July ... 7.10 7.12% 7.05 7.05 Short Ribs— May ... 6.87% 6.90 6.85 6.85 July ... 7.02% 7.02% 6.97% 6.97%

Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Feb. 16. Hogs—Estimated receipts for the day, 23,000. Sales ranged at $4.40® 4.85 for pigs, $4.80®5.05 for light, $4.85 @4.90 for rough packing, [email protected]% for mixed, and [email protected] for heavy packing and shipping loss, with the bulk of the sales at [email protected] for fair to good averages. Cattle —Estimated receipts for the day, 10,000. Quotations ranged at $5.90 @6.40 for extra steers, [email protected] good to choice steers. [email protected] good to fancy yearlings, [email protected] fancy cows and heifers, $2.00®4.20 bulls, oxen and stags, [email protected] native veal calves. Sheep—Estimated receipts for the day, 15,000. Quotations ranged at $5.60 @6.10 for pood to prime export wethere, [email protected] medium to good native sheep, [email protected] range sheep and yeaTlings, [email protected] good to fancy native lambs, [email protected] western range lambs. Bast Buffalo Lire Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 16* Dunning & Stevens, Live Sttibk Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle —Receipts, 5 cars, market firm. Hogs—Receipts, 20 cars, market strong; pig s’.lo; yorkers, [email protected]; mediums, [email protected]; heavy, [email protected]. Sheep and Lambs —Receipts, 80 cars, market active; best lambe, [email protected]; fair to good, sß.oo({j 8.20; beat westerns, $7.75 @8.00; best sheep, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; yearlings, [email protected]. Calves—Market, strong; best, $8.50@ 8.75; fair to good, [email protected].

VIEWS OF DR. HURTV

Docs Not Think Much of the Cf« garette Bill Now Before the Legislature. THIHHS IT PROBABLY IH VALID Also Impossible of EnforcementBrute Attempts to Kill His Mile— State Items. * Indianapolis, Feb. 17. believe that the proposed anti-cigarette bill now before the legislature would go far toward regulating the cigarette evil. Ido not believe that if the bill should be passed the courtswould hold it constitutional, and it would be no more effective thun is the present cigarette law. The bill is an invasion of personal liberty, and public opinion behind it is not strong enough to make it ojierutive. I am in favor of any legislation that would lessen the cigarette evil, but I do not believe the proposed bill will do it.” Freaeut Law Not Enforced. This, in itrief, is the position of Ur. J. N. Hurt}-, secretary of the state board of health, with respect to Parks’ anti-cigarette bill, which has passed the senate, and will be bunded down on second reading in the house within a few days. I>r. Hurty says that he believes something should be done to undermine the habit, but he does not know what methods would reach it. “It seems to me that we have a fairly good cigarette law in this state,” he continued, “if it would only be enforced. The trouble is that the boys tun get the cigarettes any time they want them, because the sellers do not observe the law.

Would Fill the Jolla with llojk “The law proposed would not keep the cigarettes from the boys. They would get them from other states, and I think we would find that the law would not be strictly enough enforced to keep them from getting them right here in the state. If every boy who is found with a cigarette is dragged into court, our courts and prisons will be overflowing with them. There are thousands upon thousands of cigarettes smoked by older men aftd I do not believe a law' to prohibit their using the cigarettes has the public opinion to demand its enforcements.”

HE TRIED TO KILL HlB WIFE Shot at Her Twice, One Ballet Entering Her Head—Then He Cate Her Throat. Richmond, lud., Feb. 17. William W. Medlin, aged 30, surrendered to the police after having attempted to kill his wife. Medlin met his wife on the street and without saying a word drew a revolver and shot at her twice, one bullet entering the young woman’s head near her right eye. After she had fallen to the ground the husband drew a-Jackknife from his pocket and cut a long gash in her throat Believing that his purpose had been accomplished he went to the police station, entering the building just as officers were starting after him. His wife’s condition is critical, but the chances are favorable for her recovery. -Medlin and his wife have been living apart for a year.

Ice Stall* a Train. Seymour, Ind.. Feb. 17. The fast mail train on the Pennsylvania road stuck fast in the ice here and was delayed two hours. The train pulled in twenty minutes late, stopping at the station, but when the engineer turned on the steam the train refused to move the train an inch. He could neither get forward nor backward until another train came in and sent its engine to pull the stranded train over the icy place. Tallent Man'* Heart Wo* Weak. Bloomington, Ind., Feb. 17. Riley Smith, aged 68 years, said to be the tallest man in Indiana, 7 feet 2 inches, was found dead In bed of heart failure. He was an old soldier. He died at the home of his brother, Jefferson Smith. A special coffin had to be made for his body. Woman Wander* from Hama. Rlufftou, Ind., Feb. 17.—Mrs. Fred Hostetter wandered from her home and jumped or fell from the Clover Leaf railroad bridge over the Wabash river. She was found unconscious and almost frozen to death. She was resuscitated and it is thought she will recover. Mayor’* Home I* Looted. Washington, Ind., Feb. 17. A tramp entered the home of Mayor Will K. Penrod, of Loogootee, near this city, and forced two women, members of the family, who were then alone, to supply him with food, clothing and some pocket change. He escaped. Repeal of the Bose Ball Law. Indianapolis, Feb. 17. After less than ten minutes’ consideration, the committee on criminal code made unanimous report in the house for the passage of Ruick's bill to repeal the law prohibiting the playing of base ball for pay on Sunday. Bojolna a Go* Kate Ordinance. Indianapolis, Feb. 17.—Federal Judge Anderson has enjoined the city of Indianapolis from enforcing an ordinance recently passed to compel the Indianapolis Gas company to sell sued gas at 50 cents per 1,000 cubic feet.