Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1903 — Page 7

ROUTINE WORK IN CONGRESS

Outline of Business Transacted by the Members of Both ' Houses. WITH NATIONAL LAWMAKERS Brief Summary of the Doings of the People’s Servants in Session at Washington Cleverly Condensed by Special Correspondents. Tuesday, Jan. 13. Soon after the senate met Mr. Jones (Nev.) favorably reported the resolution of Mr. Stewart authorizing the committee on the District of Columbia to send for witnesses in connection with the coal investigation, to administer oaths and to compel the attendance of witnesses if necessary. The resolution was agreed to. Consideration of the Vest resolution directing the finance committee to prepare and report a bill removing the duty on coal then was resumed and continued until 2 o’clock, when the resolution went over until to-morrow, after Mr. Tillman had given notice that he would then “string a live wire” and lay the blame for the present coal situation at the door of the president and the attorney general. Mr. Nelson concluded his remarks in opposition to the statehood bill. In the house, on motion of Mr. Cushman (Wash.) the bill providing for a delegate to congress from Alaska was made a continuing order, beginning on Wednesday, Jan. 21. The house then went into committee ot the whole and took up the consideration of the army appropriation bill. The bill carried $73,875,276, being $4,613,065 less than the current law. The debate on the measure was carried on by Mr. Hull (Rep., Iowa), who argued against the abandonment of the army transport service; Mr. Shattuc (Rep., Ohio); Mr. Moon (Dem., Tenn.), who announced a policy of obstruction which he intended to pursue unless consideration was given to the Indian Territory bill; Mr. Payne, from the committee on ways and means, reported the bill to provide a rebate on coal. The proceedings were enlivened by a lively political debate between Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) and Mr. Clara (Mo.) Wednesday, Jan. 14. The senate unanimously passed the house bill providing for a rebate on coal. It was passed without debate a few minutes after it was brought over from the house. The militia bill was also passed, with an amendment striking out the section providing for a reserve force of trained men, thus removing the objection made against it. Mr. Tillman occupied the attention of the senate for an hour and a half in a characteristic speech in which he denounced trusts and monopolies and severely criticised the Attorney General. The statehood bill v, as up for short time, during wblch Mr. McCumber spoke in favor of admitting Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. The bill rei orted from the ways and means committee providing for a rebate on the duties on foreign coal for a period of one year was passed in short order in the house by the practically unanimous vote of 258 to 5. Rapid progress was made with the army appropriation bill after the coal till had been passed. The most important amendments adopted were to increase the number of officers in the signal corps by twenty-three, and another to prevent the discontinuance of the army transport service without action by Congress. Thursday, Jan. 15. The resolution introduced by Mr. Hoar (Mass.) calling on the President to inform the Senate what government is now existing in Guam and asking why Mabini is detained on the island was passed. The Vest resolution was called up and Mr. Tillman continued his arraignment of trusts and monopolies and again charged that the Attorney General was responsible primarily for lack of action against the trusts. Mr. Spooner announced that several other Senators wished to speak on the resolution, and it went over. Mr. Foraker (Ohio) then spoke in favor of the omnibus statehood bill. McLaurin (Miss.) called attention to the charge that the people of Indianola, Miss., has been guilty of threats and intimidation against the postmaster and declared the charges to be untrue, remarking that his object in bringing the matter to the attention of the Senate was in order that his denial might go into the Congressional Record as an answer to those who made the charge. Without further amendment the army appropriation bill was passed by the House. The consideration of the department of commerce bill was thefi begun under a special rule making it a continuing order until disposed of. The Democrats opposed

Hahn’s Case Is Continued.

Mansfield, Ohio, special: The Circuit court has granted a continuance of the extradition case of former Insurance Commissioner Hahn, wanted by the New York authorities, until the next September term of court.

Breakfast Food Factory Burns.

Battle Creek, Mich., special: The plant of the Commercial Travelers’ and Farmers’ National Food compuny burned. The loss is $75,000. An overheated furnace caused the fire.

the measure on the ground that the transfer of the bureau of labor to the new department would subordinate that department to a department which would represent capitalistic interests. The Republicans denied this assumption. Friday, Jan. 16. • The House devoted the day to private war claims, passing about twenty. The two features of the day were the defeat of a claim of B. F. Moody & Co. of Keokuk, lowa, for the payment of the amount deducted from their contract for furnishing equEfiment to the Third lowa cavalry by the famous commission which unearthed the army contract frauds in St. Louis in 1863, and the fight of Mr. Payne, the floor leader of the majority, against an omnibus resolution to refer ninety Southern claims, aggregating $400,000, for stores and supplies taken by the Union army during the civil war, to the Court of Claims for finding of fact under the Tucker act. The former bill led to a lively controversy between two lowa members, Messrs. Smith and Hedge. Mr. Hitt of Illinois, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee, was the stenographer of the commission, and was able personally to corroborate Mr. Hedge in his opposition to the bill. The combination in favor of the omnibus claims resolution was too strong for Mr. Payne, but on the final vote the quorum failed. As the previous question has been ordered, the vote on the adoption of the resolution will be the first thing in order on the next claims day. Among the bills passed was one to pay $5,683 to Mrs. Mora A. Darling for damages growing out of her arrest by the military authorities of New Orleans in 1864, while she was on a flag of truce boat under safe conduct. The senate was not in session. Saturday, Jan. 17. , The day in the house was devoted to debate upon the Senate bill to establish a Department of Commerce and Labor, a substitute being finally passed by a vote of 137 to 40. The senate was not in session.

FORMER MAYOR HEWITT IS DEAD

Noted New York Politician Passes Away at Age of 81. Abram S. Hewitt, former Mayor of New York and for many years representative in Congress, died at 6 o’clock Sunday morning in his eighty-first year, having been critically ill for ton days. With him at the moment of death were his wife, bis three sons and three daughters. Mr. Hewitt, who has been in feeble health for some months, was attacked with obstructive jaundice Jan. 8, and from the first it was realized by his attending physicians that there was practically no hope of the aged patient’s recovery. On the following Sunday it was thought that Mr. Hewitt could not survive the night and the members of nis family were summoned to his bedside, but his wonderful vitality kept him alive for a week longer.

MAN AND WOMAN BREAK JAIL

Prisoners in Peoria Prison Escape by Using a Case Knife. Peoria, 111., special: A daring jail delivery occurred here, two prisoners escaping from the third floor of the Peoria county jail by means of a rope made from the blankets on their beds. Fred Smith, accused of being a horse thief, and Veda White are the fugitives. Sheriff Potter had confined Smith, the White woman, Smith’s wife, who was allowed to visit him, and one other woman in a large cell. Smith got a case knife and removed the screws which held the bars in place. The prisoners were met outside the jail by Earl Updike, who drove them to a railroad station outside the city.

FINDS CITY OFFICIALS GUILTY

Jury Sustains Charge of Malfeasance in Office at Belleville, ill. Belleville, 111., special: Fred F. Vanderburg, mayor; William D. West, city clerk, and John Strycklin, commissioner of streets, charged with malfeasance In office, were found guilty In the St. Clair County Court. Vanderburg was given two years in prison and a fine of SSOO, Strycklin was sentenced to one year and West’s punishment was left to the court.

WRECKS JOLIET BARBER SHOP

Gas Explosion Injures Two of the Tonsorial Artists. Joliet, 111., special: An explosion ol gas in Joliet’s business center caused much excitement. A leak in the mains was under investigation when the explosion occurred, wrecking Zeigert’s barber shop and injuring two barbers. Scores of people had narrow escapes. A three-story business block at tae corner of Jefferson and Ottawa streets Is in a partial state of collapse.

Innkeeper Kills His Family.

Vienna cablegram: An innkeeper named Amler of Karlsberg, Bohemia shot and killed his wife and four children. He was in financial difficulties.

Gallinger Is Renominated.

Concord, N. H., special: Dr. Jacob H. Gallinger of Concord was nom inated by acclamation by the Re publican members of the legislature to succeed himself as United States senator from New Hampshire.

Death of Inventor Goubet.

Paris cable: M. Goubet, the in ventor of the submarine torpedo-boai bearing his name, who, as announce': Jan. 12, was recently confined in as asylum for the insane, is dead.

NO MORE TICKET SCALPING IN CHICAGO.

Illinois comes into line with New York and Pennsylvania In vigorous action against the ticket scalping thieves and forgers, three having boen sentenced on Saturday, In Chicago, after a fortnight’s trial, one of whom, profiting by his experience, pleaded guilty to a second indictment, while the trial of the others will doubtless proceed to another conviction. Chicago has long been a favorite field for ticket speculation, and a’ blow against the nefarious practice could nowhere have been landed more effectively. The persistent and united efforts of the leading railroads of the country to exterminate the business, which is simply one of petty larceny, robbing the poor and the wage earners, are bringing most satisfactory results.—From the Brooklyn Standard-Union.

De Hirsch's Witty Rejoinder.

The late Baron De Hirsch was once a guest at a well-known German nobleman’s mansion, who was noted for being a fierce anti-Semite. The prince treated the baron with marked disrespect. At dinner he remarked how he had been in Turkey and was favorably impressed by two of their customs. “All Jews and dogs that are caught are immediately killed.” The guests became pale with consternation, but Baron De Hirsch, maintaining his composure, turned to the prince with the retort, “How fortunate you and I don’t live there.” Emma Siboni, an American miniature painter, has received an order from Queen Alexandra to paint the portraits of the children of the duke of Fife, her grandchildren. Storekeepers report that the extra quantity, together with the superior quality, of Defiance Starch makes it next to impossible to sell any other brand. Funny, isn’t it? The Acre revolution in Bolivia extends over several hundred miles of territory.

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PREVENTB SMALLPOX.

Alabastine will not cure smallpox and other contagious diseases, once they have fastened their deadly grip upon their victims. It will do much, however, toward preventing their spread. It is a well recognized fact that certain wall coatings do much to harbor disease germs and propagate same; that of all coverings wall paper is the most likely to hold the germs of disease for months and years. There are well authenticated cases where smallpox, scarlet fever and other germs have lain dormant for years, and have attacked persons afterward when the paper was removed. Kalsomlnes stuck on the wall with decaying glue are not much better than wall paper with its vegetable paste. Alabastine is recommended generally by sanitarians, as a coating for walls in any style of work, as it is perfectly sanitary, is in the nature of a disinfectant, presents a perfectly hard surface, is manufactured from a cemeut base, and does not furnish a lodgment ground for disease germs. Years ago these matters received but little attention, but modern scientists becoming appalled at the spread of the dread disease, smallpox, and the difficulty in stamping it out, have gone to investigating causes, and unhesitatingly say that improper wall coatings have very much to do with this. Alabastine is recommended to be used on all infected walls, to destroy germs and to get walls once more in a healthy condition.

Julia Ward Howe Satirical.

At the dedication of the Woman’s Clubhouse last evening Julia Ward Howe very neatly introduced Gov. Bates as “one of the elect.” Mrs. Howe has been famous as a punster since the early days of her sojourn in the Hub, when, newly arrived from gay New York and disliking the censorious provincialism that was then, she once said to Charles Sumner: “What do you think, Mr. Sumner? I have discovered what I was sure did not exist in Boston. There Is a Charitable Eye and Ear on Charles street." —Boston Transcript.

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