Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 130, 18 March 1909 — Page 1

EICHMONB F AULABI AND SIJy-TFflYEGKAM. VOL. XXXIV. 0. 130. RICHMOND, IND., THURSDAY EVENING. MARCH 18, 1909. SINGLE COPY, 2 CENTS.

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REMEDY TARIFF . VERY UNEQUALLY is the opinion Revision Bill in Many Instances Is Dictated by New England and Opposed to Western Views.

ATTEMPT IS MADE Indiana Expatriates in New York City Paid Honor to Their Native State by Banquet Monday TO PROVE Kill WAS INSAIIE MAti

FATHER GAVISK SOUNDS PRAISES OF IRISH PEOPLE Indianapolis Divine at the Celebration of Local Hibernians, Delivers a Splendid Address.

MEASURE IS A BLOW TO WORKING PEOPLE

Rates on Limber and Steel Cut, But Prices of Dry Goods and Groceries Are Practically the Same. Washington, D. C, March 18. Looking at the new tariff bill, which was reported from Chairman Payne's committee yesterday, it is difficult to es- . cape the opinion that while there certainly is a large measure of reduction in duty, the plan of operation is ex ceedingly unequal. Certain things about which there has Tbeen a good deal of talk are given reduced rates, notably lumber and steel, 'which enter into the construction of buildings, but there are abundant signs that the tariff bill in some important particulars, at least, has been dictated by New England and New York and Pennsylvania interests, as opposed to the point of view of the western farmer and manufacturer, and especially of that elusive individual who is called by Representative Boutell of Chicago 'the ultimate consumer, .It will be a bitter disappointment to the workingroen and to the women of the country to learn that the tariff on cotton and woolen goods is practically untouched. The price on pretty much of everything to be found indry goods stores, at tailors, and evenat grocers !will remain much the same, . Small Reduction in Ski gar. There is a reduction in be tariff on Shoes, but to - offset that hides are placed on the free list. Lumber ia cut so that the duty on ordinary boards . Is reduced Just one-ha!fa3l steel rails ; and minor manufactr. steel and iron are all cut-dow a way that there ought to fin '. prices lor the consumers The sugar trust As made the victim . t)f a reduction in .the tariff on refined sugar no fractionally small that the housewife ncvcrwill discover the fact. Some l.inds of glass are reduced, while others are inceased. Gloves all will cost more than they ever did before, while barey, cabbage, bacon and hams, fresh meat, lard, tallow, and starch aro7 treated to a reduced tariff. On thewhole, the tariff bill is a fair redemption of the pledges made at the republican convention, but the failure to do what the people demanded in regard to cotton goods, woolen goods and refined sugar will make the measure subject to attacks npt only by democrats, but by many republicans who had hoped confidently to secure a reduction in the retail price of the actual necessities of life. Silence on Cotton Schedule. . It will be observed that the synopsis given out by the ways and means committee is ominously silent in regard to : the entire cotton schedule. The manufacturers in New England and ' the South have taken the ground all the time that the schedule as arranged in the Dingley bill was so scientific and fo complicated that it could not be interfered with without destroying their industries. The . was , and means committee has adopted this view and Ji as left the cotton schedule alone except in one extraordinary case, where . the rates have actually been increased. The farmer who builds a house probably will get the benefit of the reduction in tariff on lumber from $2 to $1 a thousand feet, but his wife will pay . more for her stockings than she has done before. The cotton schedule is supposed to e sacred and scientific whenever a proposition is made to reduce It, but that . argument does not seem to present an advance in rates, because the ways and means committee-bill, while leaving the rest of the schedule prac tically intact,, actually advances the tariff rate on stockings, hose, half hose, shaped wholly or in part by knit ting machines, composed of cotton or other vegetable fibre, whether finished 0r unfinished. Stocking Are Going Up. " Cotton socks and stockings valued at Hot more than $1 per dozen pairs at wholesale rates were taxed under the old Dingley bill, passed in 1807, at 50 cents per dozen pairs, or a maximum of SO per cent ad valorem. Under the Hew bill, prepared by the ways and tneans committee, this duty has been Advanced to 70 cents a dozen pairs, or per cent ad valorem, r . This increase In rate, which begins -with the poorest grade of stockings worn by the poorest people, is continued all through the list, and in addition to this specific duty there is in the Hew bill, as well as in the old law, an Additional duty of 15 per cent ad valorem. ; Throughout the rest of the cotton schedule, the old Dingley rates, which were excessively high in the first place, .(Continued, on Face Two.)

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This is a flashlight picture showing the Sneakers table and noted guests at the dinner of the Indiana Society of New York, given at the Waldorf Astoria, on Monday. The men indicated by numbers are: 1, Horace Hord; 2, William I. Overstreet; 3. William DeM. Hooper; 4, Dr. Lyman Abbott; 5, John P. Overton; 6, U. N. Bethell; 7, William Hepburn Russell; 8, James B. Curtis; 9, Benjamin F. Shively; 10, John Fox; 11, David Graham Phillips; 12, Otis H. Cutler; 13, Stephen B. Fleming; 14, Elmer P. Morris; '15, A. F. Riegger; 16, Thomas Pitt Grace; 17, William Threlkeld; 18, James E.- Walker; 19, Charles H. Wells; 20, C. E. W. Gardner; 21, Kenneth Gardner; 22, R. W. Smith; 23, James H. O'Neil.

ALL SERVIANS 111 TO RETURN HOME - : . Berlin Official Circles Believe That War Between Austria And Servia Is a Probability. FIELD OF CONFLICT HAS BEEN LOCALIZED Belligerent Balkan State and The Dual Monarchy Continue to Make Preparation for Conflict. BULLETIN. Berlin, March 18. All Servians living in Germany have been notified to return home for military service. In official circles . here the prospects of an Austro-Servian war appears as sured. ; - BELLIGERENT REPORTS. Vienna, March 18. It is believed in Austrian official circles that in the event of an outbreak of hostilities between Austria-Hungary and. Servia, the powers of Europe will localize the field of conflict, leaving the settlement of international . questions to a later date. This encourages the friends of peace to believe that Servia will give way to the expected representations from Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy. j The reports received here from Belgrade continue to be belligerent In their nature, and Austria-Hungary is making military preparations. Premier von Bienerth said that the (Continued on Page Two.)

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TARIFF CHANGES URGED. Changes in many existing schedules are -recommended in the Payne tariff bill Introduced into congress yesterday. The chief articles affected and the change urged in each case are as follows:

INCREASED. Tea. Lithograph paper. Watch movements. Envelopes Perfumes, Feathers. . Fancy soanv. Cocoa. ' Coal tar dyes Lemons. Pineapples. Mercerized cotton. Furs. Stockings. Polished plate glass. Gypsum cement Asphalt. Fancy pins. REDUCED. Tin plates. . 8teel rails.

Lumber, all kinds Print paper. Linseed oil. Varnishes. White lead. Sponges. .Sulphur. Pig iron. Charcoal iron. Sheet steel. ' Firebrick. Window glass. Plate glass mirrors. Wire. Boiler tubes. Table knives. Horseshoe nails. Wire nails. Aluminium, crude ' Aluminium, plates. Cash registers. Printing machinery. Typewriters. ;

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BE John Thurman Suspects Him Of Being Guilty of Horse Stealing. MAKES REPORT TO POLICE i SUSPECTED MAN SAID TO HAVE TRADED ANIMAL RESEMBLING THURMAN'S, WHICH WAS MISSED LAST SATURDAY. After four days search for his horse, John ThurmanL living at 222 South West Third stn t, has unearthed information which nay lead to the arrest of a well kno n citizen on a charge of horse ste; ing. Mr. lnurvidence against but has such he has turned man has no direct the suspected par strong suspicion the case over to tae police for investigation. Found Horse Gone ; Last Saturday evening when aft-. Thurman returned to his home to feed his horsf he found it missing. He thought at the time that' it had gotten out ofl the stable and strayed away. He searched for it Saturday night but abandoned it later to go to Milton. On Sunday he returned and took up the search again and has been doing so ever since. Ke covered nearly all parts of the county. Either by visit or telephone, but found no one who had seen the animal. Yesterday In investigating the case, he was lead to believe that the horse had been traded by a well known local man. He was informed that the suspected man traded a horse greatly resembling Thurman's animal. What increased Mr. Thurman's suspicions was the fact that the man whom he suspects did not have a horse on Saturday. Steam engines. Electrical apparatus. Steel ingots. Agricultural implements. Gunpowder. Sole leather. Upper leather. Patent leather. Wool. Barley. - Barley malt." Cabbages. Racon and hams. Fresh meats. Refined sugar. ON FREE LIST. Wood pulp. i". Iron ore. Hides. Old works of art. Cottonseed oil. Licorice.

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" OP THE DAIRYMEN IS TO COME HERE AGAIN However, This Time Dairy Inspector Owens Will Confine His Energies to Making an Address. ' HIS LOCAL CRUSADE IS WELli REMEMBERED i He Struck Terror to Hearts of Milk Dealers and as Climax Had Mixup With the Prosecutor. s John Owens, state food and dairy inspector, who became very much disgusted with Wilfred jessup, ex-prosecuting attorney, . last summer and attempted to 'have, hi mi removed from office by state authorities because he would not file charges against certain 'dairymen,, who failed to comply with Owen's instructions, will speak at the Commercial club rooms, April 19, on some phase of the pure food laws. The Domestic Science clubs of the city -were anxious for Mr. Owens to lecture here and turned the proposition over to the Commercial club, which organization is instrumental in having Mr. Owens to come to the city. Mr. Owens in accepting the invitation, asked secretary E. M. Haas of the club to invite all organizations who were interested in the work. The meeting will be, open to the public He Made Impression. Last summer Mr. Owens spent several weeks in the city inspecting the dairies of the vicinity furnishing milk ; to local residents . and created quite a stir among the dairymen by dumping out milk which they were selling because he declared it was unfit for use. He warned nearly every dairyman to clean up his dairy premises. Mr. Card, a dairyman living south of the city was warned but refused to comply with his orders, claiming afterwards that, he did not hear Mr. Owens give the orders because ho is deaf. Mr. Owens presented the matter to Jessup, but he refused to prosecute Gard. which resulted in the friendly relations of the two state officers being severed. Owens went to Indianapolis and consulted with, state officials In that city as to the advisability of drawing up mandamus nroceedings to remove Jessup from of fice. Tne charges did not meet with the Approval of the state officers and they were never formally drawn up. THE WEATHER PROPHET. JNOiANA FrWy-fair and varmeiv

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TO MEET FRIDAY Actfon Will Be Taken on the Appointment of Members of Force. CONSIDERABLE BUSINESS REPORTED THAT Mc MANUS, WESTENBERG, WINTERS AND CULLY, LAST THREE REPUBLI CANS, SLATED FOR AX. Action on the resignations of mem bers of the police Xorce and applica tions for positions! also the selection of the new police chief, will be the order of business atthe meeting of the newly selected police board Friday evening. The selectjbns of first and second sergeants may also be made, but the members of he board stated today that there was so much business before them that they' probably would no be able to finish the work at the session. The police board is not even going to give Daniel McManus a chance to act in his capacity as secretary of the board, which position he really holds by reason of the fact that he is still first sergeant George Staubach, the chief of police-to-be, will act as secre tary Instead. It would not be sur prising if McManus was let out entirely. The selection of G. M. Little as first sergeant, to succeed McManus, it is understood, is practically assured. Little is a republican and has always proved capable arid efficient, as well as a fearless officer. , . y Westenberg May Go. The second sergeant will be a democrat, but it is difficult to foretell who will secure the position. Members of the board are not expressing themselves on the subject. "' It is very probable that for the present the board will allow certain members of the force who have handed in their resignations, to continue as members until other men can be chosen. . At the meeting Friday, some - of the applications for position as patrolmen will be acted upon by the board. However, there are certain members of the force who are hanging on the ragged edge as far as their positions are concerned. Included in these are said to be Henry Westenberg, the oldest man, from the point of service, on "the force; Scott Winters, second sergeant and John Cully. All republicans. GOLDA BASS ASKS FOR SEPARATION She Charges Cruel and Inhus man Treatment. '" - ; Alleging cruel and inhuman treatment from the time of their marriage. Go Ida R. Bass has entered suit in the Wayne circuit court for divorce from Ellsworth "T. Bass. The couple was married in November. 1907. The defendant is a well known young man engaged in the plumbing trade. Form-erly-be was a callrosaler- . '

CREDITS ST. PATRICK

FOR IRISH VIRTUES Natives of the Emerald Isle Described as an Adaptable, Law Abiding and Peaceable Race. The memory of St. Patrick t!ie pat ron saint of Ireland was fittingly observed last evening by the Ancient Order of Hibernians, which organization held exercises at the St. Mary's hall. The chapel was crowded with members of the organization and their friends. The program included musical numbers, both vocal and in strumental, and an address by Rev. Father Gavisk of Indianapolis. Rev. Father Gavisk. in his address. spoke both, of St. Patrick and the Irish people. He pointed out that at the time of the coming of St. Pat rick to the Emerald Isle, the inhabi tants were a barbaric people. - In an increditably short time the people were converted by St. Patrick and since that time they have been deeply religious, he said. The nature of the country, being difficult for an invading army to reach, protected the inhabitants from attack in the mediaeval period. This had two effects, he said, one that the religion of the country was not mo lested but allowed to obtain a strong foot hold, and the other that it kept the blood of the people pure. St. Tat rick's efforts in Christianizing the people were such that for many years Ireland sent out the majority of the missionaries. Have Adaptibility. . Father Gavisk stated that one of the strong points of the Irish people is there ability to adapt themselves to their surroundings. - He stated that they made good cithtens wherever they- located. He attributed- much of the success of the United States to the Irish element. He also pointed out that the people as a race were law abiding and peaceable. The fact that the Irish have been cartooned as a rule, to bring out other than their good points was deplored by Father Gavisk. Father Gavisk was introduced by Michael J. O'Brien. M. J. Eagan act ed as chairman of the evening. Musi cal selections rendered included, vo cal solos by Miss Rhea Fitzgibbons and Miss Mabel Steinkamp and nam bers by the chorus of St. Mary's school. There were also orchestral selections. - TENTH 1110 MAUI SETS i SPRfflG Fire Department Tests New Nozzle and Deluges the Neighborhood. THE TEST IS SATISFACTORY THREE POWERFUL STREAMS SPRAYED THROUGH THE NOZ ZLE, SHOOTING IT HIGH OVER THE WESTCOTT HOTEL. Chief Miller and Assistant Chief Sinnez of the fire department, mem bers of the board of public works and the city clerk witnessed a test of a newly designed nozzle for a fire hose at Main and Tenth streets this noon. The display was conducted by a representative of the factory manufacturing the nozzle. Three lines of hose were attached to the one nozzle and water was thrown into the air for 100 feet. The top of the Hotel Westcott was reached with ease. The nozzle can be operated from a wagon. It is easily handled by one man and the stream can be directed in any direction with a great deal of ease. With the nozzles now in use by the department, no more force than that supplied by a single line of hose can be obtained. Two men are required to hold the nozzle, also. May Purchase One. The board of works will consider the proposition of the agent to purchase one of tbeae nozzles. Chief Killer has been recommending the purchase of an improved nozzle in his annual reports for two years. The great advantages to be obtained by the nse of the nozzle shown today were commented upon by the large crowd Oat wlineed the demonstra tion. - -

Husband of Plaintiff Produces

Pill Box to Substantiate Evidence and Jessup Appropriates It. COURT COMPELS THE ATTORNEY GIVE IT UP Witness Was Instructed to ' Recover "Swiped" Article, But Hesitates at FirstCase Dragging. All because of a pill fox It looked for a minute yesterday afternoon, as if there might be serious trouble in the hearing of the Hodgin will case. now on trial in the circuit court. The husband of Laura Flemming, .the plaintiff in the case, was on the stand. He had testified he believed that at the time the late Prof. Cyrus Hodgin made his will bis mind was deranged. "Why. of course he was crazy, exclaimed Mr. ; Flemming. "He was taking treatment ' at Spiceland, being treated by a regular physician here, and being attended ' also, by a magnetic healer all at the same time. And then he used capsules , or pills of some kind." "What were these pills?" the witness was asked. "Well,. I have them right here. he responded, and from his ' pocket he drew forth a pastboard box or the kind commonly known as a "pill box." The ' witness was endeavoring to convey the impression Prof. Hodgin had become addicted to the use of a narcotic. Wilfred Jessup. an attorney for the' defense, went "up to tbe witness and asked if be could look, at the box and. Its contents. It was handed him and returning to his seat, he deposited the box in his pocket. Thereupon the witness said he' wanted it back. . "If yon want it go and get it.- instructed J. V. ' Robbins, counsel for the Flemming. Flemming did not know whether court etiquette would permit such action and seemed nonplussed. 'But he left the witness chair and advanced upon Jessup. The latter mat with arms folded. Flemming's attitude showed his fixed purpose and the court instructed Jessup to give up the box. T. J. Study, chief counsel for the defense,' told Jessup to give up the box and avoid trouble and he complied. The court. Jury and spectators had been kept In a tremor of excitement by tbe episode. The case drags along very slowly and there is doubt if it will be completed by the end of tbe week. The plaintiff continues to present witnesses. PLUMBERS AT I'M Cold Snap This Week Caught . Many Richmond People -- Unprepared. : CONSIDERABLE SUFFERING The cold wave which passed over the city yesterday and , Tuesday caused considerable suffering and did much damage, also. People were entirely unprepared for the cold spelL Today plumbers did a large business repairing frozen pipes while the coal dealers delivered small orders to a large number of residents. - . , Tbe thermometer registered 14 degrees above early yesterday morning. This is tbe coldest that ft has been this month. About the only thing that the cold snap did not effect was the fruit crop. The fruit trees are still dormsat and the buds sufficiently well protected to stand any amount of cold weather for the present. -- -- .. OPTIOIIISTS ARE FIGUTine HARD Circulate Many Petitions in Delaware County. Local optionists are working hard fm Delaware county. 255 petitions aow being In circulation. , ilnncle is tbe county seat and it Is recognized that the hardest fight will be there! That city felt the influence of - Richmond voting wet. but this was In a measure offset when Marion voted dry- Aader son : optionists will , meet tcnir- - lsy.plans for a