Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 48, Number 26, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 March 1906 — Page 2
WEEKLY COURIER
lit N t 1 IM. lt I'ublU'M.
JASPER
Ex-G -v. llcCS. ul 1"- iv. a J suddeely at Hmiii.uu, Tex, a:lc tu rauut It a armarium- Ilia tuu.a u were take-
The Kcrty-secc nd strvet ai bvn of
INDIANA I Metropolian r.i aj Si I York
were burned, together Ith between ii
an J 40 can. One man k his life and
er: persons were injured.
A nix rt fron; Borne. Idaho, says that Steve Adanis has made a full coneatton in the Steunenbera murder case, far
more iletailel and sweeping than Orchant a on the tt.Lvea.fL of thpirator John R. Walsh, president of the de-
Ab Epitome of the Maat Important ; fUuct coicao nan,- bank, was ar
IDE WEEK'S NEWS TERSELY OUTLINED
Events at Home and Abroad the Paat Week.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH. A .. i. ... at v ku t onfrfu ia Iralug and ait Llpltoatr ul Ihr Wwrr Importaul Stroit Ürriri throughout Ihr Merk. Uolh Uuluratlc ua.i I urrtaa.
i mu arssiea a i. oru. The senate passed Iba MM providing lor the l! ot ;he affairs X the live civilized tribes of ludiaa. The army appropriation bill. carrying over $6 , -, a passed by the house aiter rtt da:' consideration. The house pissed the Foraker bill, amid applause on buih aide, providing fvr marking the grave of costfederat; dead bur.e,i .a the ocrih. The senate has agreed to vote on the statehood bill beiors adjournment March
cn arced with maktug faSe returns t.J
the comptroller of the currency and converting to hia own use. wi'hout proper authority, funds of the bank to the amount of $3.0uVo. He was released OB bail pending hearing before I'mted States Commissioner Foote The ban has been placed on boxing mat. he and glove contests in Denver Charles H Brlckeruein. former treasurer of Conejos county, Colorado. ha confessed to a shortage of $62.000, of which $19.00D was on deposit in th defunct Alamos, bank .The Equitable Building. Loan 4 Saving association of Elkhart. Ind.. will go into liquidation in preference tc levying an assessmer. of seven per cent to make up losses The trade reviews foreshadow at enormous spring business and building
operations that will approximate, if not surpass, las: year's huge tatal As duke of Lancaster. King Edward of Great Britain has begun a two months" holiday in Part. Biarntx and
the Mediterranean. He is attended ! only by üen. Sir Saaniey Clarke and I
Hon. Sidney GrevillCapt William D. Ma thews, nation: head of the negro Masons, died at his home in Leavenworth. Kas.. aged N years He was prominent in "underground railway ' work n the fifties. Margaret, countess of Suffolk and Berkshire, daughter of the late L. Z. Leite-, of Chicago, has presented her husband with a s. n and heir. George Miinswllar, for years leader of the Ringling F' - reus ' ir.d. w -
I . a -M -1 I W A . t -a I MM
and horses, wer au oea at oioux ra.1 u..
rm into the Baltic sea. waepe n m3 ending the winter. 1 thev were all doomed! trom th rupture of a blood vessel near he heart S I j f BhaSM m u
-Meruiaa. .miss., ana adjacent terri-
orv was SWent hT fprrlht tnrnatr nn
THE TORNADO AT MERIDIAN
THE CASUALTIES NOW PLACED AT 24 DEAD. 4ti INJURLD.
DOWIPS DOCTRINES D0NT60 NEWS FROM INDIANA
THE MONEY LOSS. $1,250 000 la of Urn I M orU Irarla. Ihr trrrl. of rtc U a a c Hu -tla a ta of t'unrrili la Ihr Uf.
UEM.lt l i: I i I. MS. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas) Longwortb have returne i tu Washiogtcn from their brief honeymoon trip to Cuba, an are at . j twjrth residence on Eighteenth rreaat. Septem tier 21t-21 has been fixed as the date for the celebration of the center ary of the dtsccvery of P.ke s Peak, in Colorado by Capt iebulon M Pike It will be largely a military affair. By the breaking away of the ice from
the mainland Finnish fishermen
with their families
driven ty a st ax i It was fear to perish
By the daruacir.c by fire of the gen- ,
eral office builiing r.f the Seatx ari A.r
Lmr railway al Portsmouth. Va, a large quantity of valuable records aud Ofli :al pj, i wfi. William Leduc, the farmer who on October 28 kvst. shot and killed his brother-in-law Mayor Charles Nickel, cashier oi the iank at Chenoa. UL. and Hugh Jones, a depositor bis been sent to prison for life. Tac'.obaa. "he capital of tbe Ph'lippir.e island cf Leyte, has been destroyed by fire It was situated in an Important hemp district Augustin Nable, ordinary seaman, sra.- lost overtxiard from the transport Lswtoc. en route to San Francisco, hlle aasisticg in takins deep sea sour. lingHenry L Whitbeck. a physician and dentist of Buffalo. N Y . killed his inwslid wife by striking her on the temp as with a hammer, and Mast 'ff the t p of bis own head w ith a rifle The villaee of Tavernola. built on th pe:pndi' ular cliffs above Lake Izeo, in the pmvtaes of Brest ia. Italy, was alnnos. entirely destroyed by the rocks
Bddenly grvit-g way and plung.ng into
IS'
by a
the American minister.
load BriD- l Copenbacen.
the lake t. 1 ooa ife v inhabitants, being warned
rourinc fid
The postmaster getra! deci3 that the book "Patriotic Studis." issued by the Internat lonaxl P.efurm bureau is not a public document, and is nm. under the law. enM'Vel - tran-'m'sslon through the mails unler frank of a anem'.er of c n res King Edward of Great Britain received a cordial popular greeting in Par ? ev hmee 1 ristU wi h Pssa . Fallieres. wi h wh m he held an extended conversation axi enteruined forrr.er President Losbct at ainner. The king proceed to Biarr. z. where h will remata trs? rest of the m"t lint -Her. h n M. Rchoftelcl. I. S. A . retire' the last of the prominent elv'l war eommar.ders. iied at St Au-sj.-ilre. F.a . frcm an i'tick of aotnbml hemorrhar H w f- u - -viz ier cra w'-'h hin The Eprlln Tageblatt says that Emperor Wintam a'i'l Kine Edward wTll probably me- a? Bre'an durirrg the army manenven tn Silesia in September Em;r t KldsObai si repirted te have par : I. e .t Schn. .It who con; -snar.f51 the eraiser (n hakofl durir.e 'the v n- a' atid wh - a. saatencad todsatb by a eur-aiar-tia' Th -orm h-t swent the So-ieXy lalar.ds early in Febniary Is thought to feave cost the lives of l.f persms . in:- nf t IMKl ISV) It
L ;"' .7w r,.. m Wl.rwr for.pr.r.c-ip8jly acci int. I for Py a lar.- in-
fsrn or three years, as the breadfruit.
the evening of the 3d inst.. which cut a wide swath through the city, leaving a trail of devastation and death Fire added to the horrors of the situation. It was thought a number of persona were buried in the debris, but the search f. r the victims was badly ham pered by the prostration of the else trie iiehting wires. The Wheeler elevator, on Buffalo river, at Buffalo. N. Y.. was burned; loss 1175.000. J. W. W. Whlta, a weal hy farmer near Sparks. Okla . wa. shv.t and killed by James Crane, an employe whom he had accur 1 of stealing. Sifted down t j actual facts it appears that the recent trouble at Nanchan. China, was not a Boxer outbreak at all. but a purely 1-cil affair, the rioting and killings being the result of objection to French Catholic priests assuming to exercise eiil functions. A prairie fire swept 3" square mile of the ruhest fann.rc lands In Rice county. Kansas. re-u'.t;ng in damage estimated at tdd.noo, M.- K ith r.r. O'Brien, daughter of
Thomas J. and Henry
G Chilton secretary of the British le
gation there, are to be married April 21. In opening the Newfoundland tecislature. Gov Sir Wi 1 am Ma. Gregor, referred glowingly to the colony's unexampled prosperity. Mrs J. L. Brock the wife of a farmer, was awarded tV' damages in the district court at Independence Kas.. against George Francis, one of the wealthiest men in Kansas, for Injuries rece:-fi in a runaway raiissd by an automobile driver, by Francis. Walter So tt the lHa-h Valley m'ner and his bTrith'r. Warner Scott, were firfd upon from ambush at Windy Gap 1" miles from Btrs.ow. CaL. and Warner Scott wa dingerously wounded He is now n a hosjil'al at I s Angeles ladftS Worthineton. !n tbe clrcut court at Peoria. III., has ordered the -bt school Inspevtora of Peoria who have a yc.r yet t. v.rVe to appear In rt March 12 and show cause why thev shonld not w ajeetad from office C -'able Joseph Fleis was shot and HSStaJrttf Uttad by Mrs Iiwrenee Fa ker. in Chiraeo. while attempting to I'-vy up ;n some property in Mrs. Bakers home without having shown his The monthly ;avn ent t-f the public debt shows thit at the do-e of business February ZU ih" total debt, levs ah in the treasury, wa 7S JUtJUH, a d-rei-e for the month of ft .".'Ml.
co a:. ut. banana and plalntain gross Br ruined. The dea'h list by the tora a hler rfat Misc.. is placed st 24. w b 4f injured arcd a iron" of alxMtt S ' J-.0.000. Mary poi.r pe 'P'e are homslr ar. 1 Sjffl ba den- vH of euiploy-
tnen' Alt 1
rei von Stei.er of Wlltoa ft. D.. ported to have been killeJ by i In ' ans in the mountains of SoMexlu where he had gone lor
r hill This
-feit ta e fight ire. ass E
crease in the amount Of cash Of hand At last accounts the mob still held partial sway in Springfield. 0., seem-n-' t'l.t on d vlr.r the Majagag BfJ of town. The presence of several companies of state tmops was the only I that deterred them, and they didn t seem to be very mu h afraid of them as the military was bandied very gingerly. r Sheriff John II .-' -ho
ard killed at Hurley. Wis., by George Qraaaejeea a Wisconsin Central operator, who mistook Saly for a burglar. Stalv likewise miatook Crwiii wood for a burglsr who bad taken ref- , aaja in o statioi. VitJ.in five minutes after factory J girls ha.1 avtched otif of the big factory f if ?'.ar Shirt Co. at Unreport. jCuna, the Wilding was a sA'thrr fur-
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ff tu ttt York and bat OalajtQ They - nlont fer .aTtence
nau i' j. i o ! 'i a? p ne jr-i Um i era uynam; to t i n..c ai Grant
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safe In the IH., and go' a ! stimpa
MerlJlan Miss.. March 5 Before an army of determined mtn attacking Meridian's stotm-swept and debris strewn streets, the vast amount of wreckage is giving way slowly but Surely. The Sabbath following the f4s asm is storm of Friday was a day of funerals. The merchants and residents of Meridian had never pr. te.te i themselves with storm or cyclone insurance, so insurance agents will have little ot no auditing beyond the fire losses. A million and a quarter dollars ia now thought to be a c. nservative estimate of the damace wrought. After leaving Meridian and entering Macon, a suburban town, five miles distnat, all traces of the storm seemed tc have disappeared. Little if any dam
age is reported from the country. Ad
ditions to the casualty list have beer
made, estimates now standing 24 deac
and 4 injur. . some fatai'.y.
The storm performed its worst work on Front street and In the Georgetown and Fewell Survey suburbs. On Fronl ft.oet the principal wholesale house? were located. The Georgetown community is inhabited chiefly by cottoc fauory employes, while tbe Fewell survey U the residence district for employes of the railroad shops. 4 wee ! Homes M rrrkrd. Fifteen buildings on Front street are wrecked. The fertilizer factory, electric light plant and cotton mills are in rums, while " . '.. r.ces in the path of the storm were either unroofed or totally destroyed. Fortunately, however, the tornadc did not pass over either the newer and larger business portions of the city, or th principal residence district. Generally defir.el. the storm followed the lines of the Alabama ft Vi.ksburg and Mobile Sc Ohio railroads. Passing from southwest to northent ft.-r striking the Queen & Crescent freight depot and utterly demolishing that structure, the cloud diverted its course somewhat and passed along Fr.nt (.treet. Its outer edge also touthins: Front street, where qui'e a number of buildings w ere greatly damaged. Hundre Is of families are either homeless or left without employment, owing to the destruction of wholesale houses, frcieht office and manufacturing plants. In fact, the poor people of the city are the greatest sufferers, tbe list of dead and injured containing the names of only a few persons of prominence Numerous hairbreadth escapes are reported, and it is nothfng short of a miracle that more lives were not lost, when the extent of the storm and the destruction wrought is considered. Th work of clearing the debris from the stree's is necetarlly slow Numerous brick buildings, from two tc five stories in height, were dumped Into the street, none of the walls above the first floor being left standing. Many of the homeless families are nerroes. their little cabins being torn nnd twisted to splinters, and they are either roaming the streets or seeking temporary she ter among their fellows. F rtunately, the several fires that followed tbe storm did not add greatly to th des- true, ion. They were extinhed through the prompt work of the fire department and volunteer citizens. Seven companies of state militia are still on guard and enforcing work by nesrees. !" Mag at work Sunday removing the debrK An ordr was issued ordering the removal of the troops on T". aibf. r-- ' f relief was contlued all day nnd h in ire Is of mechanic i will beain work of rebuilding at once Kejiorti received from Macon. Marien and Maataa Junction, all of whUh were rapOCtOd destroyed, stated that there were no fatalities at those pi tee Mehr.r. Jum on escaped entirely. FINNISH FISHERS IN PERIL I Igttf lliinilr.-.l I f I lh. nm a. Mill. H.lr SattlB V.Irl ft In llir II -I Hra.
He'fdncrfors. Finland. March 5.--U 1 feared that S00 fishermen with thir families who are afloat on the ice In the fajf of Fin ian.l. are doomed to perish A fortnight ago about l.otK) persots. who had with them th'ir horses, were flshinc off the east land when the Ice parted ard wis driven by a storm into the Baltic sea Iau r the Ice split nrd the win! changed to the et. and Saturlay a block on which there were 200 persons came ashor at Frederb kaharr.. The fate of the others is uakrown BaetsaisiHataai Japaatsss itniir!. Tokio. March 5 - A hill intro !u..d In th-- provides for the nation I'atl n Of the rsilwiv, and authorizes the government to compel companies to sell to it at a price baed on he cost of bulblinc. plus twenty-fold the average
)f th
An Mhl-ll.- PtSfd I or nliinihla. New YorU Mareh ." A apacioni md
inlrsraat; ta p ars n. -i with ivedeat s'ml'r by the trmniitte. be appointor jfu IfsM tfO o U'Ke the n:"or up
PRAYLR IN LIEU OF MLDIC1NK IS NOT UP. TO DATE. Coi rallou I sei I ' sd i.i.-w-fpm I iholila IfhS rttf llrallk PS pitrliiin I I I irr frrl nn . Chicago The mut.u pa! health department is justified in forcibly interfering In case, of extreme sickness, wheie the services of a pliysit lan ar refused, according to an opinion rendered by QwpfsTtlhW Counsel Lewis. Since the advent of John Alexander IV w ie in Chicago, many cases of this nature hae been brought to the notice of the city authorities, but no definite action has even been taken in such i-'S until now. when prayer instead of BMdttfaa was being used in the treatment of Mrs. Ella Turner, who la a believer in Doartoa teachings. The woman had ben suffering for over 24 hours, and her Ufa wast iu imminent peril, as her condition called for an Immediate operation. Instead of calling a physician the woman's husband and rea'ivts appealed to Overseer Voliva of Eton City, who sent one of his deacons to pray for her The woman's pain increased so much that her cries attracted the attention of a neighbor, who reported the case to the polite. The police at once placed the mater in the hands of the health department, and wast referred to Corporatit n Counsel Lewis, who expressed the opinion that the health department was Justified in interfering in such extreme ea- s. A physician wa.s at once sent to atter. 1 th.- woman anil her suffering was stopped. COMMITTEE RANKS FULL
Prrxinm I of llir lie ino.-ra t Ic I na (rrialimil I n m iu lu n Coiuraltiff lanomrrd. Washington. D. C The new democratic congressional campaign committee Lh now fully made up and the following men will l entitled to vo'e at the meeting called for this morning to elect a chairman and other officers. Representatives. Alabama, Burnett: Akansas Little; Florida. Clark; Georgia. Griggs. Iliinds. Rainey; Indiana, Zenor; Kentucky. Hopkins; Louisiana, Brouseard: Maryland. Gill. Ma.-vsa.hu-"efts. Keliher; Mississippi. Bowers; Missouri. Lloyd; Nevada Van Duser; New Jersey. M. Dermo! t . New- York. Ryan; North Carolina. W. V. Kit. hilt; Ohio. Garber; Pennsylvania, Kline; Rhode Island. Granger; South Carolina. Finley; Tennessee, chines; Texas, Smith: Virginia. Southall; West Virginia. Davis; Wisconsin. Wele. Senators Arkansas. Berry: Idaho, Dnbote; T.nnesBee. Carniaok, Montana. Clark; Texas. Culberson; Virginia, Martin, ilia Ida. Taliaffero; Missouri, Stone; Nevada. Newlands. Delegate Smith. Arizona TREES HISONLY MONUMENT Walnut anil I'rran Trrfi the Oal atosssuatesK t viarw ih- at cats nf former Lot. Ilouar-
Ltest Happenings Wuhin the Bo ders oi Our Owd State. Will Camp with Regulars. South Bend. Ind. March Semiorflclal lutorni.it i. in b.is reu bed officers of the Indiana national guard that order will soon be isMied l the war depaitui. in to prepare tor the iuooiliation of federal tr.H.ps ami uational guardhuicn during the coining summer. Camp will be established at Fort Benjamin Harrison, twomilea northeast of liwreu. e 'I he camp w;ll represent the department of the lakes, with Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston .a oonini.ind. The depart meut included Wisconsin, Michigan. Illinois, Indiana, t)blo ard Kentucky. The national guard of Hits , -Mtes will join the regulars of the department at the cam p. Terminal Suit Up in Indiana. Indianapolls. Ind.. March 2. A bll of complaint was filed m the federal court by the I'nited States Trust company, of New York, and John A. Stew art as trustees, against the Chbag) Transfer Railroad company and several other railroads, to foreclose on property that the Hatfigft Terminal Transfer company mortgaged to the complainants, as trustee, to secure payment of a bond Issue of $16.5J0,Ooo made in 1897. The other defendants are made party to the suit il an effort to restrain th?m from enforcing their real or pretended rights to property covered by the mortgage.
Lid Tightens on South Bend. South Bend, lnd , March 2 South Bend is under the lid and the cover has been screwed on so tight that there is little likelihood of any vilatlons of the law tor some time to come. Last week orders went out from the city hall for a "closed" Sunday. The instructions were regarded as a Joke, however, and little attention was given them. Now, because the saloon-keepers, poolroom owners, proprietors of cigar stores, biliiarl halls, and gaming places refused to meet the city administration half way, all week-day privileges have been revoked.
Houston. Tex Deciduous tree are the only monument that will mark the grave of former Gov. Hogg at Austin. Monday morning the body lying in state In the reception, room of the state capltol. was viewed by thousands. The funeral took place in the afternoon. Interment was made by the side of hia wife In accordance with a request made by the ex-governor several month- ago. when he was thought to be dying in Fort Worth, the only monument that will mark the grave will be pe-an and walnut trees, one planted at the head ar.d the other at the foot of the grave. It was the dying wish of the deceased that the poop Of Texas might come ard gather nuts from the trees for plant .nt' in jthr 1 xalities. WAS TOO MUCH DIVERGENCE Political Hrformrm I nil to Hit I'lun to DettVCf l' ...l- I rota Political Vultarra. New York The mu h-hera!ded congress of political reformers at the country residence of J. (j. Phelps St kes at Noroton Point. Conn . broke up. a failun in its intended purpose. The prlmarv object -to hit up.r. some way to deliver the masses from the grip of the so- ailed political vultures fell through because there were too many alfSrpeai ideas as to how tha thing ouitht to be worked. WILL MOVE FROM NEBRASKA YVoo.l men of lh,- nnrlil RSSWSat Ihr I'ropoaril Taxation of I lirlr ltr-..-r I it ml.
Couple Reconciled by Child. South Bend. Ind. Mar-h 2 For the sake or their eight-year-old daughter. Arthur M. Sherw.io.l. of Chicago, has withdrawn the suit for divorce he had died against his wife, and the whole family have returned to their farm. The reconciliation took place in the county Jail, where Sherwood had gone to see his child, who had been U a porarliy placed in the care of the sheriff, pending the resalt of the fight for her possession. Frank Ely Elected Chairman. Petersburg. Ind . Man h 2 Frank Ely, son of Judge Ely. of this city, has been elected chairman of the count?
I Democratic central committee, and
Stanley Krieg, prosecuting attorney, has been selected as vice chairman, with John Chappell, treasurer. A resolution prevailed, denouncing grafters and the graft system, and doing away with the usual campaign assessments. Anderson Fair Grounds Sold. Anderson. Ind., March 2. At a receiver's sale all the property and richts of the Anderson Fair association, including a five-year lease oa the fair grounds, were sold to C. W Hooven. a local capitalist, for $1.625. The fair grounds has a fine half-mile track with I pacing record over It of 2:07.
G.eek Held in Peonage. Evansvllle, Ind. Marth 2. Victor Man-do i-do, a Greek "shoe shiner," has brought suit against James an! William B. Otos. claiming they hell him In servitude against his wiil. The Grek alleges his Ignorance of the enntry s laws has presented him from taking action soner.
Omaha. Neb. On Monday. Sovereign Commander Root of tl. Woodmen of the World assounces (hat the headquarters of the order will be removed from Omaha, because this state proposes to tax she reserve fund-, or the order. The executive committee will de.ii th- new loiation WeOeMlay nxt It Is beliee,i Chicago or Detroit will be chosen Tils atllllaa -re Plasa, Rovwell, N M The sweeping prairie fire 1 i the panhandle of Texas i l-t twi c as bid as iiivi report' d Two million a rrs of grass r.ere haat. It I thought that the fire is now out. Th. loss I eisiu- $i ati an., for the gra - and a large numler of ritt re burned to death. Wllitln Slil iinn. .i I rum Istristafieltf Spiinjrfi'V'l. O.-P. . and qu! rel.ns In this city once me re. Ths mi'itia was withdrawn Monday. About 20o men ird boys have been aricsU4 ac a result of the Mesftt riots
Experimented with Powder. Cambridge City, Ind., March 2. Charles Wheeler, a shoe dealer, of tbla r-Ity. was badly burned about the face by a powder explosion While attempting to clean out the soot by dicing gunpowder in the stovepipe, an explosion followed, burning his fac in a terrible manner. Resigns Pastcrate. Shelhyvllle. lud, March 2 Rct. William J. II. Boe-rher. national )eo turer of the Citizens' allb.n. e. of which D M. Parry, of Indianapolis. js heaJ. resigned his position as pastor of the German Presbyterian church in Shelbyvllle. Two Killed by Train. Valparaiso. Ind. March 2 B"rt Ruley. aged 5. snd II II. Ora" hia son-in-law, aped 26, aratl killed here by n Pennsylvania railroad train. They recently came here from Loirsnsport. Ind Fires at F thor-ln-Law. Evanavllle, Ind . March 2 Frank Spnngler. of Evansvilje. fired several "hot at Emerson Balsdon. his father-in-law. because of family troubles. Bride a Suicide. Shcit.yvillc. In I . March 2 Mrs. R'irkhart. of th Mb) ville. a briia of tlx week . lotnmitted suicide, thinking ber In;-'.am! ; ;.,. w W:nitl, Womnn of 77 Burned to Death. FlTansvllle. jnd . afatxai 2 Mrs. Lottie Dietz. ate f Po,PT mn( ans burned t , death by hr l . hea catchlng fire Campni-n On in Jsrkson feytnour. Ind . March 2 The Demo. cnts of faeksoa eoaaty win hold thetr primary election Anrli g.
THE SHIP SUBSIDY BILL
h Mesa are Put Forward in tb La. t areata of Protected Monopoly.
The sc täte passed tbe ship sub . ly bill by a vote of Us ta :'T .. publican seuators voted with the DeIn. crata agaluat the bill Burk.tt. or Nebraska; lK)lliver, of Iowa. I. a .. lette and Spooner, of Wlaconsln. and Warner, of Missouri. These tn-u . the Indianapolis News (lnd.), not i :. i followed rubllc opinion on this j i . lion, but they were on the. right ade if It. We regret exceedingly that tha Indiana senators, one of whom oted for the bill, and tbe other of whom was paired In us favor, could not bring themselves to antagonise this subsidy rah. A rather remarkable thing i bout the vote is that It was ao small. Only ti.". senators voted, and only Jl ire recorded for tbe bill or 3S, inMuding Beverldge, who announ - I that be would have voted for it he not been pnired with Clark. ,f Montana The bill goea to the house discredited, as was the case with the bill passed a year or ao ago by t:. lenate. The proposition is to grant a - invention of five dollars per gross o.n per year to cargo vessels ntag i ia the foreign trade of the United Btafc -. and of $5 0 per ton to vessels enyac- d In the Philippine trade. A naval r"jerve of 10.000 officers and men Is provided for, all of whom are to receive 'retainers" Vessels sre to be r. quired to catry a certain proportion of this naval reserve smong their crews. The total compensation of mail Iii -Is about $3.000.000 annually. The bill establishes 13 new mail lines, and In?reases the "subvention" to the Oceanic line, which runs from the Pa itie "oast to Australasia. The new 1 are to run from Atlantic ports to Bratil. Uruguay. Argentina and South Africa; from Gulf of Mexico ports to Brazil. Cuba. Mexico. Central Am..and the Isthmus of Panama, and from Pacific ports to Japan. China, the Philippines. Hawaii. Mexico. Central America and Panama. No steam vessel of less than 1.000 tons Is to re--eve a - . -: !y B it ?a. ' rating as low as 20 tons are brought within the provisions of the bill. These, of course, are fishing vessels Other sailing vessels must be at 1- t 200 tons Such are the main provisions of thla measure. In apite of all the fine things said about it. In apite of the patriotic motives urged in Its behalf It Is simply a bill taxing all the pee.pi tt the United States for the rxmflt of a few men w ho seek to be hir d to go Into business That is all there o It. In th course of the debate S t.a tor Frye, of Maine, who has ben oao of the most persistent pusher for a subsidy, said that the $2".oA."nö pa. 1 annually to foreigners for arr. .: freight srseld be used in developing the Amcrir-an merehsnt marine This foolish argument shows how far astray our great men are Thry Is that this money Is lost to the nation indeed. It aeema to be th Idea that it is the nation that pays tt. The truth, of course, is that this money is paid for a aervlce rendered, an ! It Is psld hv the men who get the aervlce as an equivalent. Further t';an that It would not 1? paid to the men who get It unless they provided tha rl.es pest and most efficient servic available. It Is now proposed to tax the people to build up a service which shall be more costly, and thus acais '.o burden the people. Frye himself gave his whole ra jway when he said that the cost of 07rating American vessels was double the cost of operating foreign vessels, and that the difference ought to be finalised by a luntv For thU is to
admit that the only reason our people do not go Into the shipping aaata I Is that they are more BfWfttafctj I mployed Thia being the case. It is proposed to attract them from work which now pays them well, into work that would not pay them except for a subsidy. We hope that the house will make short work of thia measure The members of that body must know that 'he people sre opposed to it They aM see no reason why they shoul I be ;hus taxed to create an Instrument to serve ne.ls which are already served. We think that the question Is not on of crratlng a merchant marine, b tt of -resting a marine that shall be bwfH In this country If we would but throw down the bars, remove the present burdensome taxes, allow otir peoP1 to buy ships where thev ran bet) las "heapest and then have them admitted to American regtry. and lower I prohibitive tariff duties, we should soon have a manne Engineer Wallace has thrown nsldemble light on some dark spots la the Pi nama canal grafting game. The chief engineer says the Pantma canal can be ballt In seven years. Io which sven years doea he rffer? Cleveland Plain Dealer. If there Is anything really calculated to put Mr Roosevelt'e popularity n the wane it is precisely th fulsom adulation and .isrlptlon of morai and .ffleial infallibility of aonte of his fool frlen 1 Milwaukee Senf'nel. belligerent exchange threetvaa 'hat. In the next coal strike. ' th' consumer Is going to have somethin: ay about tb shutting off of hi upply " Yes. and bis remarks wi.l mve the sr. me weight as those of tlorocco nt the A I gee Iras conference. Philadelphia Inquirer. If the vnate amen Is H pburn täte bill so that the raKfoads will ' satisfied, there wMI be smue . bsJ la at te representation when the rotata (Cine to elect state legislators nevt t ill, although many Republican senators think they are beyond criticism sud independent of the voters.