Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1905 — COMMISSION NAMED [ARTICLE]

COMMISSION NAMED

At last we can boast of a billion and a half congress, and the watch dog of the Treasury, seems unable to either bark or bite. It is reported that Dowie’s followers are losing their faith. This is pitiable, in view of the fact that Dowie long ago relieved them of their cash. Kuropatkin confidently assures the Czar that he proposes to strike "a decisive blow” just as soon as he can get the Japs to stand still long enough to receive it.

The great religious revival being held in Philadelphia is alarming the politicans, as it is thought that if the results are permanent, the vote of the city will be greatly reduced. The distributors of pie at Washington are finding that “forty acres and a mule” does not satisfy the negro politician; he wants an int/rnal revenue collectorship or something equally as good. Now that Japan has captured Port Arthur and Oyama has "took” Mukden and routed Kuropatkin, the wily little Japs want to know if Russia has any other valuable goods concealed around Manchuria. When Mr. Roosevelt takes his proi>osed trip through Texas and Oklahoma, if he wants to have a good time he had better carry substantial proofs that Oklahoma and Indian Territory will promptly be admitted to Statehood upon the assemblage of Congress in December. The expert examination of the accounts of Frank Oberchain, the absconding treasurer of Cass county, shows a shortage of $60,220.30. A part of this shortage is supposed to have been during his first term, but the matter of determining if such was the case seems to be a difficult one. Considerable litigation will probably result before the county’s money is again back in the treasury. During the closing days of the late congress the followfng resolution was passed which has been but little commented upon or attracted much attention: Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby authorized to deliver to the proper authorities of the respective states in which the regiments that bore these colors were organized, certain Union and Confederate battle flags now in the custody of the War Department for such final disposition as the aforesaid pioper authorities may determine.

We remember some years ago when a democratic administration proposed this very thing, and what a great hullaballoo was raised! Every republican newspaper in the country devoted columns of editorial space to vituperation and abuse, while most every old soldier in the country jumped up in the air, cracked his heels together and yelled “Rebel!” “Traitors!” and many other unkind things. And now a republican administration has done the very thing that the republicans so vigorously condemmed when proposed by a democratic administration several years ago. Well, well. The world do move, and the republicans move along with it, after receiving pointers from their friends, the enemy.

Men Who Will Be on the New Railway Board Selected by the Governor. NONE WORKED FOR THE PLACE Hunt, McAdams and Wood Are the Ones—Dastard Attempt to Z-Z Kill a Man. Indianapolis, March 17. Governor Hanly has announced the members of the state railroad commission under the new law, naming Union B. Hunt, of Winchester, and Charles B. McAdams, of Williamsport, as the two Republican members, and William J. Wood, of Evansville, as the Democratic member. McAdams is to serve the two-year term. Hunt the three-year term and Wo<sl the four-year term. The governor at the time of making the announcement said that the positions of secretary and clerk of the commission would he left for the members of the commission to choose. McAdamt’ Name a Surprise. All three members of the commission as thus named are lawyers. It has been known for some time that Hunt was to lw‘ one of the members of the commission,and the name of Wood had been mentioned in connection with the minority [dace, but the appointment of McAdams came as a surprise. McAdams lias been a life-long friend of Governor Hanly, the acquaintance extending over a period of twenty-five years, during which time, as Governor Hanly said, they hud "pulled together and fought each other, gaining a knowledge of each other’s loyalty and realizing each other’s ability.” None of tlie Appointees Sought the .Job. In speaking of the appointments. Governor Hanly said none of the men had sought the position. “W. J. Wootl’s friends,”said he. "have pressed his claims to some extent. Mr. McAdams did not push his own claims, or make an application, nor, when his name was mentioned, did friends take tip his claims to the position. The same is true of Mr. Hunt. He wns not at any time a candidate for the place. These gentlemen I appoint on my own responsibility, knowing their special fitness for the important positions they are to occupy.” They Take Otttce In May. Tin 1 salary of each member of the commission is $4,000 a year. As a matter of fact, these appointments are to lie made officially within sixty days after the publication of the acts, about May 1. The members are to take office the Monday following their appointment. WAS IT A JEALOCS IJA9TARII? 0 Some Cowardly Asnanslu Shoots at a Man at Night, and Luckily Misses Him. Marion. Ind., March 17. —Charles M. Hayes, 25 years old.employed as miller In the Millard Pearson mill, Converse. was sitting In the office of the mill at night when some unknown person attempted to assassinate him. Hayes was in a chair, with his hack to a window, and the would-be assassin climbed on a porch, about six feet above the street, and shot through a window which was about three feet above the porch. The bullet crashed through the window glass and split a round of the chair in which Hayes was seated, and glanced away. Hayes said he heard a buggy pass the mill, and a few minutes later the shot was fired. He thinks the person who fired the shot escaped in the buggy. Hayes has lived in Converse only four months, and lias no enemies, unless some young man is jealous of him; lie having attended some social functions and being popular with the young women. Xeir WitneM In the Schafer Cane. Bloomington. Ind.. March 17,—Under an order from the Lawrence county grand jury which is investigating the Schafer murder case at Bedford local officials examined Mrs. Henrietta Holder, who it is alleged, was a nurse in a certain hospital at Indianapolis prior to the death of Miss Schafer. It is said that Mrs. Holder will be summoned to appear before the grand jury Griffith* Starts May V. Indianapolis. March 17. John L. Griffiths, appointed by President Roosevelt to be United States consul at Liverpool, will sail from New York on the Celtic. May 5. to take up the duties of his new office in the English city. Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths will leave Indianapolis, however, about April 20. Relations Are Strained. Terre Haute. Ind., March 17. —The Indiana Operators' association has notified the miners’ convention that all relations are to be considered at an end until the miners' officers order the men at Jackson Hill mine to resume work. The mine workers say the trouble will be settled this week. Kennedy Re-Elected Socrotary. Terre Haute, Ind., March 17.—The Indiana Mine Workers have re-elected John H. Kennedy secretary. William Stimson, of Princeton, was elected | state executive board member. Death or Two Old Ladles. Dublin. Ind., March 17.—Mrs. Elizabeth Cook, 88 years old, Is dead; also Mrs. William Girard, 77.