Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 245, 12 July 1909 — Page 1

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TIFT WILL FORCE COllGRESS ACCEPT CORPORATION TAX

Levy Will Be Reduced to One Per Cent and Holding Companies Made Exempt From The Provisions. MORE CONTROL THE PLAN OF PRESIDENT Executive Is to Ignore Pro- ; tests in Order to Give the Government Greater Power To Stop Abuses. Chicago, July 12. John Callan O'Laughlin In the Tribune says today: The corporation tax amendment will remain in the tariff act as it will be signed by President Taft. The tax will be reduced from 2 to 1 per cent. Holding companies will not be subject to tax. . J Thus, in spite of the protests which are flooding Washington from all sections of the country, the president is standing firm for the principle which lie enunciated in his message to congress. The reduction in the rate the president does not consider important. What he is concerned about is the extension of the government control over the corporations doing an interstate business. This is the first step in the plan of economic reform for which he proposes to make his administration notable. ' Mr. Taft believes that with the publicity feature of ; the provision he drafted in consultation with the members of his cabinet and Senator Root he will be in a position to obtain facts in regard to the way in which the corporations .conduct their business that will be valuable In enabling government elimination of abuses injurious to the people. Decision Made After Inquiry. The president has considered with great care the views expressed in the senate, and in telegrams and letters he has received in - favor of and against the corporation tax. In his Judgment, however,, .the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, and he believes it would be a good policy to enact his recommendation. Nor should the fact be lost sight of that if the president were to abandon the corporation tax at this Juncture the charge would be leveled against him that he made the recommenda tion only for tbe purpose . of killing the Income tax and drawing from, the standpatters in the senate the fire of criticism which their general increase of the house rates provoked. It would be easy, consequently, for Mr. Taft to place himself in an equi vocal t position. He does not propose to permit himself to be so embarrass ed. He is unchanged in his Btand in pits of the fact that he was told by Representative Payne at a conference last night that he and other members of the house conference .committee were - being : deluged with protests against the corporation tax. These protests come for the most part from corporations which have been organ' Ised for a more convenient conduct of comparatively small business opera tions. As has been stated, the objection of Mr. Taft to the Clapp amendment, applying the tax to the holding companies, is that it involves the principle of a double taxation, and in his view such a ' provision would imperil the constitutionality of the entire amendment. Holding Companies Face Fire. It probably will give some slight satisfaction to the small corporation to know that under the Taft plan of reform the holding companies will not escape. The president is understood to be giving consideration to this aspect of corporate existence, and in his forthcoming annual message will present some well . considered ideas respecting their regulation and control. FVr the sake of clearness in examining into the character of the evils and abuses which need restraint and punishment the president long ago divided the corporations guilty of them into Industrial corporations, organised for the purpose of manufacture and sale of merchandise, and into railroad and other corporations organised for the transportation of passengers and goods. . . Mr. Taft does not believe that the anti-trust law is sufficiently full of useful details In the description of the offenses which were denounced In that act. He does not lose sight of the fact that all corporations doing a commercial business are engaged in Interstate commerce, and if they all were required to take out a federal license, or a federal charter, the burden upon tbe interstate business of the country would become intolerable. Taft Urges Double Prosecution. Daring the campaign, he stated he believed it to be necessary, therelore, to devise some means for classifying and Insuring the federal supervision of such corporations as have the power and temptation to effect ' : Continued on Page .Eight.) (

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ANDREW T GIB Local Police Asked to Assist In the Search for Young Woman. MAKES HOME IN CAMDEN The; assistance of the local police department has been asked to locate Catherine Phares, who disappeared from her home near Camden last night. She is described as eighteen years old, brown hair, large brown eyes, fine features, of delicate appearance, and usually wears glasses. She was wearing a gingham dress and had with her a heavy winter coat. The police did not know why the girl left home. ; She is of a nervous disposition and it is believed may have been distracted. "She went tstairs last evening, as if to retire for that night and has not been seen 6ince. HEW LIDS FOR COPS "Where did you get that hatr " Have you seen them? The lid was on today, good and tight. It was a new lid, too, and worn by the members of the police force. It is light in weight and also In color, and the policemen call it a "common sense" lid. I The heavy old black helmets such as. make the perspiration roll down the cheeks of the coppers and are a genuine burden have been discarded for the summer season by members of the day force. This is the first time the force has been privileged to wear hats of the crusher type. -On

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TROOPS DISPATCHED Canadian Government Takes Action in the Great , Coal Strike. BELGIANS START TROUBLE Halifax, N. S., July 12. The second military train to be sent by the authorities here at the request of the coal companies of Cape Breton, whose min ers are on a strike, arrived today at Inverness. The first train took 5X) troops and machine guns to Glace bay where 4,000 men are out and 6,000 affected. At Inverness, C. B., 600 men are employed in the coal mines owned by Mackenzie and Mann of the Canadian Northern railroad. It is chiefly Belgians who are making trouble at this point. At Inverness the companies have been working in a desultory way since the strike was " Inaugurated. The striking miners declared yesterday that they would make one supreme effort today to gain their ends either by force or strategy. It was this which resulted in the bringing of soldiers. WOMEN DRAW FINE London, July 12. Fourteen suffragettes who smashed windows of the government offices during the big raid on the house of parliament on June 9 were arraigned today. Each was fined $25 and given the option of a month's imprisonment. Bartering or Exchanging Anything

WEEDS FLOURISH

T CITY City Ordinance Requiring Cut ting Is Not Generally Observed. A HARVEST IS EXPECTED IT IS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC HEALTH TO REQUIRE CUTTING OF WEEDS. Weeds in the gutter, weeds along the curbing and weeds all over the vacant lots. It is not a very desirable condition that prevails in the city at present. Weeds are growing every' where and the city ordinance that requires cutting has become covered with cob webs so far as enforcement ia concerned. But it is probable that a change will become effective in a short time and there will be a general cut ting of weeds in all parts of the city follow. Duty of the Board. It is within the jurisdiction of the board of health to require weeds to be cut. If they are not cut by the property owners the city has the right to have them cut and the cost of the work placed against the property own er for collection at tax paying time This custom has been in vogue for sev eral years and always has proved ef fective. But each year there are some owners who are careless and pay no attention to their lots. If the city cuts the weeds, they complain, but so far as weilding a sickle themselves is concerned they never deign to under take it. The growth of weeds on vacant lots and along the streets and a detriment to public health. Certain kinds of weeds are noxious. Sufferers from hay fever and lung diseases are afflicted by the pollen and dust that collects on weeds. Consideration for them might lead owners of vacant lots overgrown with weeds to attend to the cutting. ABBOTt INVITED TO HOME COMING His Old School Intends to Have Reunion. Squire Abbott has been invited to at tend the home coming of the district school at North Dana, Mass, in which he taught sixty years ago. The event will be held July 30. The Judge will be unable to attend bjit will write a let ter of regret. He has been asked, also, to attend the reunion of the New Salem Academy. He attended school here when a youth. The institution celebrated its centennial several years ago. TOUR HAS STARTED Glidden Contestants Leave De troit Today on Hard Packed Roads. ARE THIRTY-ONE CARS ireui duij X4. neavy ram j throughout the night packed Michi-; T-kAHM4- T. 1 -.A T 1 gans sandy roads into hard boulevards for the first days run of Glidden tourists from Detroit to Kalamazoo. Chairman Hower with Charles J. Glidden, left in the pace making car at 9:20. ' Twenty minutes later the first contesting car, with Webb Jay at the wheel, departed and was followed at one minute intervals by thirty-one contesting cars, ranging from little runabouts to great touring cars. Several press cars and others accompanied them. Three trophies are hung up for three different classes of cars. The trip will embrace 2,600 miles to Denver via Minneapolis and back to Kansas City. s Two Indianapolis Marmon cars are in the touring car contest. SHE WILL TESTIFY AGAI1IST HUSBAND Evelyn Says Thaw Threatened Her Life. New York, July 12. The principal barrier to the liberation of Harry Thaw from Mattewan asylum devel oped late today when it was learned that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has decided to take the stand against Harry and swear that on the occasion of several of her visits to the asylum Harry has declared that when he get free he in

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MANY IfUURED BY A WESTERN STORM Ortonville, Minn., Was Nearly Devastated by Its Fury and Other Points Report Great Damage. , HURLED FROM RAILS WERE NUMEROUS CARS Kansas Reports a Tornado Accompanied by Waterspout and Also Two Inches Rain in Five Minutes. Minneapolis, Minn., July 12. It is now believed that at least six were killed and from 20 to 25 fatally Injured in the tornado which sweirt. over Eastern South Dakota and Western Minnesota late yesterday, nearly devastating Ortonville, Minn., and Big Stone, S. D. The storm swept with unusual fury out of the southwest across Big Stone Lake, hitting the eastern part of the town. An idea of the velocity of the wind is gained from the fact that a string of box cars housing a gang of Italian railroad workmen were over 'turned. Three of the men were in stantly killed and nineteen others maimed. Cars were lifted from the rails. buildings crumpled up like cardboard and trees torn up and sent sailing through the air. Telephone and telegraph wires were blown down and to day communication is so badly hand! capped that details of the full dam age is hard to obtain. It Is believed that the loss will go to $250,000. At Big Stone, railroad roundhouses were demolished and many families rendered homeless. John Degriff an aged resident, was killed by flying debris. William E. Chamberlain was seriously hurt when the wind literally blew his home to pieces. - KANSAS TORNADO. , , Abilene, Kan., July 12. A tornado with a waterspout in its wake struck this city doing great damage last night. In five minutes two inches of rain fell. Hundreds of trees were blown down and business was at standstill today until the debris could be cleared from the streets. Parker warehouse, the Abilene Mill proper ties and St. Joseph's Academy were badly wrecked. Crops have suffered greatly from rain. CROPS INJURED. Pana, 111., July 12. Thousands of dollars damage to crops was done by a severe storm which swept this region. Houses were unroofed and all electric light wires were blown down in this town, leaving the place in total darkness through the night. The rain fall was exceedingly heavy. CYCLONE HIT8 XENIA. Xenia, 111., July' 12. Half a dozen people were injured by flying debris In the cyclone which swept out of the west early today carrying destruc tion in its path. Although . only of thirty seconds duration the storm's damage was heavy. The residences of Robert Holman and Edward Davis were demolished. Barns owned by Frederick Holman and Emmet Coldasure were blown down. Robert Hol man had his arm broken. Mrs. Davis and daughter were knocked uncon scious by flying timbers. A cloudburst following the storm practically leveled all telephone and telegraph wires. The home and all the buildings on the farm of J. E. Tully near here were swept away. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS Local Postoffice to Be Brightened Up. O. H. Dirham, of Washington, D. C. superintendent of the Public Buildings of the Treasury Department, is in the city getting specifications for the repainting of the interior of the local postoffice. Bids will be submitted! as soon as possible, but it will perhaps be a month before the work will be completed. New furnishings will also be installed and a general overhauling will take place. FIERCE FIRE RAGE - Washington, Pa, July 12. Fire has been raging since Saturday morning in Mine No. 4 of the Vesta Coal company, three miles from , California, Peniw and shows no signs of abating. Forts are now being made to flood, the mine. A four-inch line is being laid from the month of the mine to the Monongahela river three miles away where a temporary pumping station is being erected. Four hundred men are working day and night to guish the fire. The cams of the

M. HTZGIBBOIIS DIEDYESTERDAY One of the, Best Known Residents Passes Into the Great Beyond. WAS NATIVE OF IRELAND

IN HIS YOUTH WON MANY HONORS As" ILETE OECEASED WAS FA1 OF THIR TEEN CHILDREN. t Fitzglbbons, aged 76 years. terday afternoon About 1 his home on Railroad ath wasd1ie to senility. bbone was perhaps one of the best known of the older residents of the city. - He was born in Nockawene. County Clare, Ireland in 1S33. On August 15, 1852, he left Ireland and came to this country. He remained in NewYork for about three years but in 1855 he moved to New Castle, Ind., where he engaged in the milling business. , On October 3, 1857, he was married to Miss Margaret Allen, a native of LIstowel, County Kerry, Ireland. He moved to Richmond in 183 and became head miller in the Union mills. situated on what was then North Sixth and Elm streets. Remaining here un til 1877 he then purchased the mill ing business of Harmon Ahaus. In 1879 .he engaged in the grocery business on Fort Wayne avenue but sold out In a few years and together with Henry Harvey of New Castle, started a fruit farm in West Richmond. Later he bought Mr. Harvey's interest and carried on the business up to the time of his death. Mr. Fitzglbbons was known as one of the strongest men in the county. In his youth he was recognized as an ath lete of considerable repute and won many prizes in the old country. Thirteen children survive him. six of whom reside in this city: Thomas, St. Paul; Harry, East St. Louis, 111.: Michael, Houston, Tex.; Mrs. Adolf Williams, Richmond; John 8., Rich mond; Hannorah, who is now Sister Thomas Marie of the Order of Provl dence; Francis, Sioux City; Edward and William, Richmond: Mrs. Margar et . Mans,- Sioax City; Mrs. Catherine Williams. Sioux City; Joseph, Sioux City; Charles,. Clinton. Iowa. Funeral services will be conducted from the St Mary's Catholic church Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock, the Rev. Father Shea officiating. Burial will be in St Mary's cemetery, v WANTS WITHDRAW PETfTIOIl FILED Guardian for Whittaker Not Necessary Now. . Indianapolis, July 1. Arthur Bradshaw of Indianapolis, who filed a petition last week asking for a temporary guardian for W. H. Whittaker,' has notified the probate court . that he wishes to withdrew the same. Whittaker has improved greatly since the petition was filed. PRINCIPAL IN A PECULIAR TRIAL XXXA GINQLE8. THE 1S-TKABS-OLD atlSH LACEMAKKB. WHO SOMB MOKTH8 AOO WAS FOUND UNCOJf-' ClOnS IN A BATHROOM IK WEU OVGTOH BOTH W CHICAGO. AND WHOSE TESTIMOWr IN HE TBIAU STOW IN PROGRESS IN THAT CTTT, HAS PROTEO SSMUTIOXAl. SHE IS DECLARED BT 'PHYSICIANS TO KB. A TXCng OS HISfBSUA. I

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DISTP1BUTI0U OF

COMITY FIDS IS MADE BY AUDITOR Semi-annual Event Takes Place Today and Over. $200,000 Was Given Out With a Lavish Hand. - SOME OF TRUSTEES - WERE DISAPPOINTED Their Townships Did Not Re ceive as Much as Expected Local School Corporation Benefits. More than f 200.000 was disposed of by the county auditor this morning. It was handed out with a Uriah hand to tbe township trustees and treasur ers of towns and school corporations. It was tbe semi-annual distribution of funds of all sorts for the conduct of the government and support of bene ficiaries. In some cases there was an Increase orer the amount received a year ago, and In other cases the amount was considerably smaller. Richmond school corporation rs ceived the largest amount The check was given to I B. Kusbaum as treasurer. The city of Richmond had made several draws in advance and the check the treasurer was handed waa not for the full portion. State of Anxiety. County Treasurer Aibertson and Asdltor Coe were in a state of anxiety because they did not know where the money they were checking out would come from. The release for the money which is sent by the state auditor was not received when . trustees and treasurers began to come after their funds. The county was issuing more money than it had to its credit, but the arrival of the Indianapolis check was expected to make ererythlng right. The check was expected on this afternoon's mall at the latest. The county oOdala do not approve ' the methods of the state offlces when such delays are countenanced. If the county treasurer does not make his Installment of funds by the time specified he is fined. But the state authorities may hold back on their money until they see fit to send It without bcinr nenalimd. The county offlclala look upon this as nanny a fair exchange of courtesies. Some of the trustees were dis&n. pointed by the amounts they were giv en. All the trustees are new and this Is the first time they have received this distribution. In Webster town ship no cash road fund was provided for. The matter had not been certified for to the auditor. The tax had been levied and advertised, but was omitted from the statement to the auditor. - In Boston township the trustee found he had been cut about one halt on special school and. tuition; fund. His advisory board . had decided to make the reduction and he will find himself with less money for the conduct of the schools. ' ' The Apportionment. . The distribution was apportioned as follows: - - Corporations (Schools) Cambridge City.. .. .... ..$ 5064 01 Centerville. . .. .. .. .... 1,914 69 Dublin.. ., .. ........ 2433 OS Hagerstown.. .. .. ... .. .. 1136 SO Milton.. .. 1,790 S3 Richmond. ... ... . . . 67,455 87 Spring Grove.. .. .. .. . . .. 92 39 Boston.. .. .. .... .. . ..135 9 - Corporations (Towns) Cambridge City .. .. .. .. 8,042 57 Centerville .. .. .. . . .... . 1054 87 Dublin .. .. .. .... S30 10 But German town. . ... .... ,238 47 Fountain City. . .... . . . . 60S 49 Hagerstown.. .. 1,339 91 Milton.. .. .. .. .. .... .. 835 01 Mt. Auburn.. .; .. .. .. .. 183 16 Richmond.. 30,000 S3 Spring Grove.. .. .. .. 388 Ol Whitewater.. .. .... .. .. 43 86 Townships Abington. . .. 283 79 Boston 2.703 80 Center.. .. .. .. .. .. ... 6J00 64 Clay 4.253 65 Dal ton.... .. 1J863 24 4203 21 &871 25 2019 92 3.638 03 3J696 38 652 12 3.783 11 Franklin.. .. Greene . . . . Harrison.. .. Jackson.. .. , Jefferson. New Garden.. Perry. . . . - Washington.. .. 3JS20 73 wayne. . .. .. 17E3 79 Webster .. 2461 67 A DIG FISH CATCH Probably the best catch of Csh by local sportsmen this season wss that. of H. I Dickinson last foturdayf He returned to- the city In the evening with a string of twenty-one beautiful The string