Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 321, 18 December 1906 — Page 4

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM Entered at Richmond Postoffle as Second Class Matter TUECDAyIvIORNING, DECEMBER 18, 1906 RICHMOND, W. uNTn NUMBER 30I.

BAILEY IS COIIFIDEIIT MOODY IS HOW Oil SUPREME BEIICH FUEL FAMINE THBFftTEIJED GREAT CROWD SAW CARDINAL VACATE How CrSlicioiiG HOT CERTAIN OF ELECTION NORTHWEST MAY SUFFER COLATEls at Candy Store. issues Statement in Which He Shows Few Towns Have More Than a Very Small Supply of Coal and There is Likelihood of a Snow Blockade? Stopping Traffic. Former Attorney General of Archbishop of Paris Left Episcopal Palace While Three Thousand Sang. How Many Votes Are to Be Cast fo rs just iiKe an their . Him Received Numerous Inquiries the United States Has a New Berth. - 'hocolate Candies from Friends. They arejso good !

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President's Views on ThreeTopics Are Submitted to the Law MakersHIS TRIP TO PANAMA INSPECTION OF THE ISTHMIAN CANAL AND PLANS FOR ITS COMPLETION WOULD ACCELERATE NAVY PROMOTIONS. Publishers' Prcss.T Washington, nu-. 17. la his special message to congress on Panama canal, the president narrates in detail Incidents of the three days he spent on the isthmus. He sp?nt an etire day in Culehra cut, visited different villages, Innpected receiving hospitals, houses in which unmarried white workmen live, those in which unmarried colored workmen live; al quarters of white married employes and of married colored employes; the fommis.ary stores, bath -ioune.s, water closets, cook xheds for colored laborers, and government canteens,' or hotel, at which most of the white employes take their meals, went throuerh machine shops, taiked with scores of different men superintendents and heads rf departments, divisions and bureaus; fteam whovel men, machinists, conductor, engineers, clerks, wives of the American ?mr I'woa, health officers, colored attendants and managers of the commissary stores where food is sold to colored laborers: nnd wives of colored employes and colored employes not married, ile says he found ail in good condition, with few exceptions. At Ia Boca, without previous warning, he went into a government hotel and ate a 30-cent meal, which he sfys was as good as hotels In the states serve for 50 cents. The meal included soup, native beef (which was good, mashed potatoes, peas, beets, chill con cirne, plum pudding, tea, coffee, each man having as much of each dish 9 he desired. Discussing the character of laborers employed, he says: "It certainly ought to be tninece-iry to point out thnt the American workingman in the t'nited States has no concern in the question a to whether the rough work on the isthmus, which Is performed by aliens in -any event, is done by aliens from one country with a black skin or by alirns from another country with a yellow skin," and that he has arranged to try several thousand Chinese laborers., T F vntnlntt MnniA 'rn rl i t inn that ' hflvfl oeen criuciseu ana says: mere remains an immense amount of as reckless s'nnder as has even been published. Where the slanderers are of foreign origin I have no cencern with them. There tney are Americans, I feel for them the heirtlest contemot and Indignation; because, in a spirit of wanton dishonesty and malice, they are trying to Interfere with and hamper the execution thereof, the greatest work of the kind ever attempted, and are seeking to bring to naught the effort of their countrymen to put to the credit- of America one of the riant feats of the age. The outrageous ccusatlons of these slanderers constitute a grow libel upon body of public servants who. for trained Intelligence, expert ability, high character and devotion to duty, have never been excelled anywhere. There is not a man among those directing the work cn the Isthmus who - has obtained his position on any other basis than merit alone, and not one who has used his position In any way for his own personal or pecuniary advantage." He states that an effort will be made to let the construction work" to private contractors under the plan formulated by (he secretary of war; that a seven-headed ranal commission is cumbersone, and that he favors having but one commissioner; that he thinks the canal will be built in eight years, and that he is confident of ultimate success of the enterprise. A badge is to be given to every American citizen employed a definite time in the work. , The president sent to congress a (special message on naval personnel, in which he says: "In my last three annual messages I have invited the attention of congress to the urgent neresessity of such legislation as will cause officers of the line of the navy to reach the grades of captain and rear admiral at less advanced ages and will give them more experience end training in the important duties of. those grades. Under the present archaic system of promotion, without parallel in a navy of any other first-class power, captains are commissioned at the average age of 56 and rear admirals at the average age of 60. This system is the lesult of a long continuea prejuaice in iavor or a memoa or promotion by which all lieutenants In order of seniority pass through the several grades until they eventually become rear admirals; a method which sacrifices the good of the service to the interest of Individual mediocrity. As a direct consequence of the existing method naval officers obtain more than ample service in subordinate positions, but have a limited and Inadequate experience as captains in command of battleships and as flag officers in charge of fleets and squad rons; that is, in the very positions of greatest responsibility, where experience, skill and Initiative are essential to efficiency." A bill for more rapid promotion, prepared by the secretary of the navy, was submitted with the message, and its enactment was urgd. It would enable sea-going officers to reach the grade of captains at 4S, and rear admirals at 53, assuring their serving seven years In each grade before reaching the age for retirement. A special message was sent to congress by the president on the subject of public land laws, in which he says the present lands laws are unsatisfactory, and responsible for much of the fraud perpetrated. lie says: "The timber and stone act has demonstrated conclusively that its effect is to turn over the public timber .lands to great corporations. It has done enormous harm, it is nr lnnror eadt

and it should be repealed, Tne aesert land act results so frequently in fraud and so comparatively seldom in making homes on the land that it demands radical amendment. That provision which permits assignment before patents should be repealed and the entryman should be required to live fo not les3 than two years at home on the land before patent issues. Otherwise the desert land law will continue to assist speculators and other large holders to get control of land and water oa the public domain by indefensible means. The ocmmutation clause of the Homestead act serves in a majority of cases to 'defeat the purpose of the Homestead 'act itself,, which is to facilitate settlement and create homes. In theory the commutation clause should assist the honest settler, and doubtless in some cases it does so. Far more often it supplies the means by which, specula tors and loaa and mortgage companies secure possession of the land actual not constructive living at home on the land vfor three years should be required before commutations, unless it should appear wiser to repeal the "commutation clause altogether." Also: "The secretary of Interior should be enabled to employ enough mining experts to examine the validity of all mineral land claims, and to undertake the supervision and control of the use of the mineral fuel still belonging to the United States. The present coal law limiting the individual entry to 160 acres puts a premium on fraud by making it impossible to develop certain types ot c. . fields and yet comply with the law. It is a scandal to maintain laws which sound well, but which make fraud the key without which great natural resources must remain closed. The law should give individuals and corporations under proper government regulation and control (the details of which I shall not at present disclose), the right to work bodies of coal land large enough for profitable development. My own belief is that there should be provision for leasing coal, oil and gas rights under proper re

strictions. If the additional force of special agents and mining experts I recommend is provided and well used, the result will be not only to stop the land frauds, but to prevent "delays in patenting land claims and to conserve the indispensable, fuel resources of the nation. It Is recommended that laws affect ing rights of way and privileges be reenacted; that exchanges be made with railroads of alternate sections of timber lands in forest reserves for outlying portions of reserved forests; that the secretary of treasury be authorized to advance $5,000,000 at Interest for 10 years to provide working capital for national forests; transfer of national parks in care of the secretary of interior to the secretary of agriculture; government control of grazing on government ranges through the department of agriculture. SPAIN DECLINES OFFER DON'T WANT THE ARCHIVES Fearing a Rupture of Diplomatic Rela tions with France, Proposition Made by the Vatican is Turned Down A Bad Delay. Publlsnev.V Press. -Rome, Dec. 17. The Spanish government notified the Vatican that it objects to taking charge at present of the archives of the papal nunciature at Paris, owing to the rupture of diplomatic relations between France and the Vatican. Spain certainly would have accepted the, task requested by the Vatican to do so when the papal nuncio at Paris, Monsignor Lorenzelll, was recalled, as France then could not have made any objection. But after the expulsion of Monsignor Montagnin,, secretary of the nunciature, and the search of the archives such a step as taking charge of the papal interests In France might be regarded as taking charge of the papal interests in France might be regarded as hostile to the French government, which would be contrary to the policy of fhe Spanish government. It is said in this connection that the Vatican authorities made a mistake in not .applying immediately after the search of the archives to Count Tor' nielli, the Italian ambassador at PariJ, not as ambassador of Italy, but Is dean of the diplomatic corps. whse duty it Is to protect the privileges of the corpse CHRISTMAS ANDf NEW AR HOLIDAY KATES. One and one-balf fare- for thelound j trip will be made between allG. R. j & I. stations for the I Holiday Tick-) ets will be on sale December 22, 23, ! 24, 25, 29, SO amd 31,11906, cftid Jan-j uary 1, 1907, good fr return "until j January 2, 190i. For full information! ask Any G. R. & I. agent. . G. C. L. Lokwood, G. P. A. 18 and 20 Jack Doughty, Homer Morgan, S. K. Morgan and Sam Percifield went hunting last Thursday and got thirty-one rabbit3, one bird and a quart of milk. Percifield has recovered. B. TV". Thornton will be in Dayton for Christmas turkej'. Thornton says that the Buckeye has the call over the UuosJer bird- " .

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Gainesville, Tex., Dec. 17. Senator Bailey issued the following statement: "Answering numerous inquiries from my friends, I state that from letters and from telegrams to me and from signed statements in the newspapers by members of the senate and house. signed statements in the newspapers by members of the senate and house since my answer to Attorney General Davidson's statement, I count positive ly 23 members of the senate and 83 members of the house who are pledg ed to vote for me. Besides these vol untary pledges I hear from reliable friends that 12 other members have declared they will vote for me, as in structed by primaries. This makes a total of 116 on joint ballot. I am per fectly satisfied, as I declared several days ago that not 15 votes will oe ?st airajnat va"' CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST CASHIER New Developments in Refer ence to a Pittsburg Bank Was Recently Closed. IRREGULARITIES EVIDENT ALLEGED DISCREPANCIES OF . NEARLY A MILLION FALSE EN TRIES ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN MADE. tPublishers' Press. Pittsburg, i ., Dec. 17. In the in formation made bj the national bank examiner, John B. Cunningham, against J. B. F. Rinehart, cashier of the Farmers and Drovers National bank of Waynesburg, Pa., which was closed by order of the comptroller of currency Dec. 12, discrepancies amounting to $950,000 are alleged. Rinehart is charged on eight counts with "unlawfully and knowingly making false entries In a report of the financial condition of the bank made to the comptroller as required by law." Two reports are appended to the information which were furnished pursuatn to a request of the comptroller. One of these purports to give" the condition of the bank April 6, 1906, was signed by J. B. Rinehart, cashier, and Samuel Hervey, James Ingram and D. S. Walton, directors. It was sworn to April 11 before a notary public. The other report giving the condition of the bank June 18, 1906, was signed and sworn to June 22. Cunningham alleges that false entries of overdrafts were made, "notes and bills rediscounted," reported at $S0,000, when they amounted to $600,000, and $118,638.35 charged as coming from approved agents when in fact only $10,000 was due. Rinehart surrendered himself to the government authorities. He will wave a preliminary hearing and furnish bail for the May term of United States conr Burnham Sentenced. Publishers Press. New lork, Dec. 171 Ueorge Burnham, Jr., general counsel for the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance company, recently convicted of larceny, was sentenced to serve two years in state prison. Stay of execution was granted until Thursday, when proceedings In appeal will be considered. Struck by Train. Ada., O., Dec. 17. A Pennsylvania train struck a carriage occupied by J. W. Harper and Miss Mabel Meyer, student of the Ohio Northern university here. Miss Meyer was killed. Harper's right foot was crushed and his head severely cut. Receiver For Chicago Bank. Chicago, ec. 17, Judge Landis In the United States district court appointed the American Trust and Savings bank of this city receiver for the Lincoln bank of Morton Park, a suburb of this city. Alleged Shortage. Newark, O., Dec. 17. Edward Brown, agent of the Toledo and Ohio Central at Hebron, is tinder arrest, charged with being short in his accounts $1,108.64. Denounced by Hibernians.tPublishers Press. wasnington, Dec. 17. The Ancient Order of Hibernians of -Washington adopted , resolutions , denouncing France for the acticn taken in the controversy with the Vatican. The con fiscation of church property was termed "downright robbery." W. J. Sprusen, a member of the Australian parliament, who addressed the meeting, declared that the people of Australia aspire to Independence and in the end expect to occupy the same position in the orient , as the United States hold in the western continent. Rescuer Injured. Cincinnati, O., Dec. 17. In breaking the glass in the window through which he went to the rescue of Mrs. Carrie Rem my, a baker who caught fire when she tried to start a fire with kerosene, Frank' Johanning severed an artery In his wrist and nearly bled to death before help arrived. The woman is in the hospital in a critical ceadition. ,

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DOUBLY SWORN TO ADMINISTER JUSTICE WITHOUT IMPARTIAL ITY AND DEAL EQUALLY WITH THE POOR AND RICH. tPublishers Press. Washington, Dec. 17. W. H. Moody, formerly attorney general, entered on his duties as an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, thus bringing the court up to its full membeiship. He was inducted into office at the beginning of Monday sitting of the court. He took the regular oath;of office in the robing room before entering the court chambers, and was preceded into the court room by all the other members of the tribunal. Moody was garbed, as were all the other justices, in a long flowing robe. As soon as the opening of the session was announced by the court crier, Chief Justice Fuller proclaimed ihe presence of the new associate justice. Under Instructions of the chief justice, the clerk read Moody's commission, and administered to him a second oath. In this affirmation Moody made solemn promise to administer justice without partiality, to do equal rights to poor and rich, and to properly perform all the duties of the office in accord with the constitution of the Un .d States. He was then escorted to his seat at the extreme left of the bench. After the chief justice and all the associates bowed to him and Justice Holmes, his immediate neighbor, extended, the hand of welcome the court proceeded with the business of the day. Charles J. Bonaparte, former secre tary of navy, was introduced to the court by the solicitor general as the new attorney general. Secretary Metcalf arrived at the navy department in company with the retiring secretary, Charles J. Bonaparte, and the oath of office was administered by Solicitor Hannah of the navy department. Oscar S. Straus was inducted into office of secretary of commerce and labor. Wall Street Sinking. Publishers Press. new iorK, iec. 17. A strip of pave ment 20 feet wide and extending, 75 feet on Wall street sank from three to 11 feet below the surface. The depression was due to the breaking of a water main by which steam, gas and water pipes were undermined. Some alarm was felt lest tall buildings near by might have been affected, but so far as the contractors were able to learn this was not the case. Cuban Consul to Quite Service. Washington, Dec. 17. It Is under stood that Frank Steinhardt, consul general to Cuba since 1903. is about to relinquish that office 'to become resident agent In Cuba of a large New York financial concern. Steinhardt's salary Is $8,000 per annum and it is said that in his new capacity he will receive $25,000. He will remain In office until early next year at the re quest of Governor Maroon. Raisuli's Threat. Paris, Dec. 17. Raisuli, the bandit chief who terrorized people residing in the vicinity of Tangier, Morocco, according to an interview published here, indulged in open threats againsv French and Spanish residents. He is quoted as having declared that he will not tolerate the presence of foreign warships at Tangier, adding: "I have writte.i tc the authorities at Fej and will write to the legations, notifying them that before the expiration of five days the warships must depart." Train Derailed. - ' . New Orleans, Dec. 17. Andrew My ers, white, fireman, was killed, one was seriously hurt and two others slichtlv injured by the derailing of a Texas and Pacific passenger train, supposedly by train wreckers, at wa terport. This is said to be the third recent attempt to derail the same train. The train was going at full speed when it ran into the open switch. The engine turned over and the mail and baggage cars piled on top of It. TO MEET IN QUEEN CITY Intercollegiate Peace Association Has Provided Splendid Program For Meeting. Prof. Elbert Russell, of Earlham college, who attended the meeting of the executive committee of the In tercollegiate Peace Association, held at Cincinnati, announces that Cincinati was chosen as the meeting place for the next conference, next spring. A program for it was ar ranged. It provides "for many of the best known speakers of the country. and it is thought the conference will be the greatest of all separate movements in the interest of international peace. It is hoped that Cincinnati s the home of the son-in-law of Pres ident Roosevelt, it may be possible to induce the President to visit the Queen City at the time of the con ference. The Kind toil fare A tors feii

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tPublishers Tress. Grand ... D., Dec 17. The fuel situation presents the most critical condition that has existed in the history of the state Careful inpuire in every portion of the northern half of the state shows that there is not a town In which coal can be had except in small quantities and to supply immediate needs, and in dozens of places there is not a pound to be bought, the dealers having been out of fuel for days and in some cases a week or more. One of the most serious features Is the Tj--ibility of a snow blockade. Thee !s now more snow on the ground than at any time since 1896. Thus far the state has escaped high winds and bad drifts.

Brown Buried Beside Wife. tPublishers Press. Elkins, W. Va., Dec. 17. The remains of Commander S. M. G. Brown, United States navy, retired, son-in-law of H. G. Davis, who died at Washington, Dec. 13, were brought here, accompanied by many relatives and friends. After services at the Davis memorial church his remains were laid to rest in Maplewood, beside those of his wife, Mrs. Kate Davis trown. Clash in Naples. tPublishers Press. Naples, . A demonstration took place here to protest against prohibiting the presentation of Maxim Gorky's drama, "Children of the Sun." The demonstrators and the police collided. The Republican deputy, Signor Mirabelll made a speech and greetings were sent to the "martyrs" in Russia. Stand of Socialists in Italy. Milan, Dec. 17. The Socialist federation decided to organize throughout Italy for a simultaneous expression of s-mpathy with France and is forming a committee to be composed of all the democratic parties for anticlerical agitation. Negro Shot Salesman. tPublishers' Press. Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 17. S. Baruchman, a traveling salesman, formerly of Columbus, O., was seriously wounded in a street duel with Will Davis, a negro. Baruchman and Davis tried to cross a narrow path at a street Intersection, and neither would step to one side. The two men grappled on the path and in the struggle Davis shot Baruchman through the ear, then knocked him unconscious with the butt of the pistol. Baruchman travels for a. San Francisco firm, W. H. Huston from Louisville, Ken tucky, will locate in Richmond at tho corner of Main street and Ft. Wayne avenue. Mr. Huston is an expert on antique clocks, which he will buy. sell and repair. W. C. Pifer is In New Castle tod,ay on business!

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HORSES ARE DETACHED FROM HIS CARRIAGE AND HUMAN FORMS TAKE THE PLACE OF THE CARDINAL'S HORSES. tPublishers Press. Paris, ..v j.aal Richard, archbishop of Paris, voluntarily vacated the episcopal palace snd temporarily accepted the hospitality of Denys Cochin, the conservative deputy, at the later's residence. The departure of the primate was the occasion of an imposing manifestation on the part of the majority of bishops and priests of Paris, many members of "the nobility and about 3,000 men, women and children. The gathering completely blocked the street in front of the episcopal palace and those present sang the credo and other canticles as the cardinal was assisted into his carriage. The crowd knelt and chanted as the cardinal seated himself in the vehicle. The venerable prelate vas much affected and he arose and blessed the multitude. A number of Catholics thereupon approached the carriage, detached the horses and with difficulty dragged it through the dense masses of people lining the streets. On all sides were heard cries of "Lons live Pius X," and "Long live the Cardinal." About three quarters of an hour were consumed in pulling the carriage from the palace to the residence cf M. Cochin, a distance of about one mile. Detachments of mounted republican guards preceded and followed the procession in order to prevent any possible disorder, but there was not the slightest attempt on the part of the crowds to make any counter manifestation. The clerical crowd subsequently followed Monsignor Amiette to the church of St. Francis Xavier, where the coadJutor celebrated a benediction service, at the end of which he thanked those present for the sentiments they had manifested and exhorted them to presevere in their attitude in defense of the rights of the church. TO THE POINT George W. Walter, 78, once prominent actor, died in New Tork. Bank at Lincoln, Ark., dynamited and looted of $16,800, all the cash on hand. - Citizens Bank at Cedar Hill., Tex., robbed of $25,000 by cracksmen who dynamited safe. American House block at Burlington, Vt., burned. Mrs. Frank Coonrad perished. Loss $40,000. . E. D. Mather's private bank at Shortsville, N. Y.. dynamited and robj bed of $2,000 ca3h a-fid $6,000 checks, j Thomas Cast of Rochester, Ind., ' killed and JaraesThrush seriously Injured by boiler explosion In electric I light plant ajr Akron. Ind. tbsy, active, happy. BOc. AND Sl.OO. J Open Every Evening Until Christmas Jones Hardware Company.

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