Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 92, 8 February 1909 — Page 2

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, MONDAY, FEBRUARY .8, 1909,

SAID TO

CONTROL SUNDAY BALLS1TUATI0M Wayne County Senator on Committee Which Has Bill In Charge and Both Sides Are Claiming Him.

COMMITTEE IS EVENLY DIVIDED ON QUESTION

Which Ever Report Kirkman

Signs Will Make It the Ma

ioritv Renort He Is Not

Communicative.

Palladium Bureau Indianapolis, Feb. 8.

Senate- committer on judiciary B, of

Which.- Senator Kirkman is a member, Is-expected to make a report on the

Sunday basebalfcblll ta the senate this Afternoon or Tuesday, and this , is

where Kirkman bobs Into the lime-

llgbU By Agreement the committee has decided to .return two reports on the

Brolley bill, passed by the house last week. One report will be favorable to

thexas8age of. the bill and the other

wilKbevagainst. What Will Kirkman Do.

There are5 eleven members of. the committee. Five of these, Senators

Royse, Wood, Durre, Bingham and

Proctorre for Sunday ball, bavins bo expressed themselves. Five other

Senators Mattingly, Strange, H. L. Hanna and Moore are against Sunday ball, and wilL sign one of the reports.

"What will Kirkman -o?" Is asked. If he signs either report It will make it a

majority report. Senator Kirkman voted against Sunday baseball two

years ago and ministers and others

who have been lobbying against the

passage of the Sunday baseball bill, claim Kirkman. Baseballists wink and

say they think Kirkman will flop from his stand two years ago. Should he

flop, the majority committee report wil be for the passage of the Sunday baseball bill. Danger for Measure. Majority reports are not always concurred in by the senate, but in most Instances on important measures they are, and it is expected that a majority report on baseball would, go a long way in either killing or passing it. Kirkman when asked as to his stand on the baseball question Bald: "Wait until the time comes and you will see.; He absolutely refuses to make a

statement on the question he stating

that when the time cornea everybody will know soon enough anyway. raMilu PiS wiHaH

The senate is about evenly divided

on the baseball question and it ia generally predicted . that when the bill

comes up' for final consideration its life or death will be decided by a majority of about two votes. Several senators who voted against the measure at the last session are expected, to vote for it this time but there are a few new senators who are opposed to the passage of the bill making matters about even. .

GILLETT TO MAKE

FIGHT TO PREVENT BILL1 PASSAGE Chairman of House Committee on Reform with, the President in War Against Census Measure. SPOILS SYSTEM DOES NOT MEET HIS FAVOR

A"cup of, coffee, a bit of sausage, and Mrs. Austin's buckwheat cakes Is a-breaKTast;fitfor a king.

GOOD GAME TO BE

PLAYEB WW

Representative Underwood of Alabama Will Also Help to Prevent Enactment of Bill Over Veto.

Washington, Feb. 8. Representative Frederic H. Gillett, of Springfield,

Mass., has his loins girdled for the(

greatest fight of his life. Congress isn't going to pass the census bill over President Roosevelt's veto if Mr. Gillett can help it, and when the Springfield Congressman starts in to make a fight the opposition knows it has been in a fracis. Against Spoils System. Mr. Gillett is chairman of the House committee on reform in the civil service and is one bf the most ardent and best-known civil service reformers in Congress. He doesn't believe in the spoils system in any measure or degree, and when the census bill originally passed he did his best to prevent the 3,000 odd jobs it provided from being placed at the disposal of Senators and Representatives. He wasn't able to prevent original passage of the bill, but he is confident the two-thirds majority necessary to pass it over the President's veto cannot be secured. House Expected Veto. It was known for some time before the President sent in his message that the census bill would be vetoed, but advocates of the measure felt very confident of being able to make the measure law without the President's approval. They admitted that in the Senate the vote on the civil service feature was very close, but they counted on enough Senators being anxious to take a slap at the President to secure a two-thirds vote in that body. - In the House it was ex

pected the Democrats would vote solidly to overrule the President and that there were enough Republicans who needed the patronage to make up the two-thirds. But now it develops that the Democrats are not a unit in demanding non-competitive census appointments. Underwood Is Ally. Representative Underwood of Alabama disclosed the break when he declared after a visit to the white house that he would stand with the president in demanding that census ap

pointments be made in accordance

with civil service regulations. He had

always - opposed the spoils system he

declared and to change his attitude now merely to oppose the president

would be-to convict himself of inconsistency. Other democrats have since expressed-themselves in the same vein

and there is now very serious doubt

whether even the house can muster a

two-thirds vote for the census bill in

opposition to the president's veto.

If advocates of the non-competitive

plan of appointment decide it impossible to pass the bill over the veto they probably will let it die a! natural

death on March 4 and immediately on

the convening of the extra session will pass a hew bill and. send it to President Taft hoping that his devotion to the civil service idea will not lead him

trto the extent of a veto.

i T AILIL TO . TOW,

Hirng (Shaft ff- IBunsSfinsss afl IFo (So JFH&illEIDCSIEEsT m S)o 918 MAIN STREET

IMPORTANT WAS DECISION MADE Today the Indiana Railroad Commission Rules Against Big Railroads.

tfariorv and Richmond,, of the

StateLeague, Will Come , Togethei?at Coliseum.

MARION-HAS LOCAL STARS

AS CURTAIN-RAISER TO LEAGUE

CONTEST THE FAIRV.IEWS AND

SMITHS WILL PLAY A HOT

CONTEST,

,FaIrview, the;new recruit in the-city polo league will play the Smiths the

curtain-raiser, for - the Marion-Rich

mond game at the coliseum, this evening. The Fairview team is expect

ed to prove up to the standard of form

er teams that have been developed in that suburb and which were always

winners in local circles.

The presence of Quigley and Parry, of this city, in the Marion lineup is expected to prove a drawing card fbr

local fans. -The two ex-Quakers have

proved a winning combination for the up-state team, and, it is their work

the locals have most to fear. How

ever, the locals' have practiced faithfully and are certain of making the

visitors play for everything they get. . , r- : Closed on Thursday.

On account of the Lincoln centenary commemoration, ; at the -coliseum

Thursday i evening, there will -be no

skating that night. Instead the man

agement has arranged for another of

the popular moonlight carnivals on

Wednesday evening.' -

Team Are Bunched,

Elwood's victory . over New " Castle

Saturday evening bunches the teams In tho percent column. a remarkable

IT FINDS DISCRIMINATION.

REDUCTION IN FREIGHT RATES BY AFFECTED ROADS IS THE ORDER PROMULGATED BY THE BODY.

granted a divorce. Six Months Courtship. After an acquaintance of six months Josephine Kendall became so favorably impressed with Oliver Frame that she married him. Upon becoming Josephine Frame, she invited Oliver down and the two assumed marital relations in the home provided by her. Things went well for three weeks and then the trouble began that consumated the following October, when Oliver, frenzied with liquor shot at his" wife as she was hiding from him. in the corn patch. Oliver is a well known character from the northern part of the county and has been in trouble with the local police. At one time he was arrested for public intoxication by the deputy sheriff, after he had lain about the streets of Fountain City for two days in a drunken condition. Sober Three Weeks.

S After being sober for three weeks

and treating his wife nice for that length of time. Oliver began to hit the high places. In the story told Judge Fox by Mrs. Frame, she said that after that first three weeks, all the days added together that Oliver was sober wouldn't make two weeks. Tilings about the Frame premises were not very congenial. Oliver was accustomed to take whisky home by tho quart bottle supply. He hid it about the premises, but did not t?ke it into the house. He became accustomed to use cocaine and morphine and then things livened up even more. Came Home "Lit Up." On one occasion Frame came home all "lit up" for sure. In a grip he carried a supply of dynamite, in bis stomach a supply of whisky, a reserve supply bottled and in his pocket and

in another pocket a revolver. The combination forbode no real good for

Mrs. Frame. When her darling threat

ened to make use of the aggregate, she aad fears for her entire annihilation. She was informed very directly by her husband he intended to shoot her. By kind treatment and soothing words, he was dissuaded and nothing very serious was attempted. Drew a Revolver. Upon another occasion, however, Frame returned home with h!s mind

made up. He was drunk so his wife stated, and soon after making his ap

pearance, he drew a revolver. lie ad

mired the weapon for a few minutes and then in softly modulated tones in

formed his helpmeet he intended to shoot her. This time remonstrance was to no avail. Oliver became obdur

ate and Mrs. Frame's sister who was present advised her to take to the tall

and uncut. Instead she made haste for the corn patch. Oliver followed

and while his wife was crouching be

gan to fire at her. Three shots were discharged and each time the zip of

the bullet was heard by the woman.

Frame returned to the house aad dis

charged the remaining cartridges In

his iron at different thing? about the premises. Finally his sister-in-law caught him off guard and disarmed . him. Is Unworthy of Her. Mrs. Frame declared O'iver treats ber well when sober, but that he had asserted he was unworthy of ber. She said ber husband said he loved h?r but whisky had cot the better of him and he could not leave it alone. He . told her to get a divorce and he would go away and leave her. She said whisky had such a hold on him that be would leave his bed at nixht and ' go to the woodhouse. or some other' place where the bottle bad been hidden and take lone. codIous draughts.

She said she did not know where he kept the lienor and she never found anything but the empty bottles. The divorce was granted. . .

fact. Each team has won one half the games played, demonstrating the even strength of the five contestants for the championship. The spell will be broken this evening, howeevr, eith

er Richmond or Marion taking the top,

the other going to the bottom.

MRS. HILL NOW

01)1 Of DANGER

Will Recover From a Danger

ous Illness.

Mrs. Anna P. Hill, teacher of music in the Garfield school, who is sufferine

from sciatic rheumatism, is reported

better today, and hopes of her recovery are entertained. Mrs. Hill has been suffering for many months and until recently her condition was improving. Last week she suffered a relapse and was unconscious. She will probably not return to ' her position this year.

Indianapolis, Feb. 8. The Indiana railroad commission handed down, to

day, one of the most important decisions it has yet made. It decides that

the Lake Shore, the Vandalia and the Southern Indiana railroads are discriminating against South Bend in the matter of freight rates on coal from the Indiana fields. The same ruling applies also to Mishawaka, which filed a similar petition with the commission for relief from the coal rates of the roads. The commission orders

the freight rate to South Bend reduced from 90 and 95 cents to 80 and 85 cents, and the rate to Mishawaka re

duced from $1.15 and $1.20 to 85 and

95 cents. No Local Application. But the decision applies to practically of northern and central Indiana. It was shown that in 1900 a board of arbitration composed of traffic managers of disinterested railroads met at Danville, 111., and fixed a rate of 67 cents a ton from Danville to Chicago, ,and all relative rates since then have had this Danville-Chicago rate as a basis. On this basis these roads fixed their rate for hauling coal from the Greene county field to South Bend. The commission found that the Vandalia, after reaching Logansport, carries coal to Chicago, a distance of 132 .miles, for a lower rate than it charges for carrying it to South Bend, a distance of 66 miles. The railroads said they were obliged to do this in order to not disturb the coal rate to other points as far east as Buffalo for shipments from the Indiana field over the same roads that carry coal to South Bend. Not a Good Reason. The commission says this is not a good reason for discrimination against South Bend and Mishawaka. The question involved in this case applies sto every point In northern and central Indiana to which coal is shipped from the Indiana fields on a rate based on the Danville-Chicago rate. It would be especially applicable to the manufacturing cities of the northwestern part of the state in case they should find they were being discriminated against. -

THE TUESDAY EVENING DANCING r CLASS Under the direction of Mrs. Kolp will be postponed for two weeks on account of the entertainment at the Gennett Opera House tomorrow evening. ' ,

"Getting old. isn't he? "I guess so. He's getting so he wears the same style of whiskers all the year round." Cleveland Leader Marion vs. Richmond, In

diana Polo League, Coliseum

this evening. , . . .

GAMUT OF HUMAN WOES WAS RUN IN DIVORCE COURT (Continued From Page One.)

that ensued was something, to be heard only at a distance. After a friend of the complainant testified that she is a perfect lady in every. . respect. ttaa Applicant was

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Wweir Sited- (Eaii fkms QJJ Come in and look them over while you are not busy. Ask your neighbor that has one how he likes it. Remember that we are closing out ROBES and BLANKETS at the RIGHT PRICES.

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