Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 79, 27 January 1911 — Page 1

E BIGiiiOlB FAIXAHDIIJM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 70. RICHMOND, IXD., FRIDATf EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1911. SINGLE COPT 8 CENTS.

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DHIVER COIITESTS CEL7 TRAFFIC LAW AI1DKAWI1IIER Phillip Mercurio, Arrested for Having a Rig Standing on Left Side of Street, Makes Fight.

ARGUMENTS GIVEN TAX DODGERS ARE JUST THIEVES ill M'CARDLE'S EYES KNOCKOUT GIVEN THE OPTIOII LAW Latest Screams" in Paris Styles TODAY IN FAMOUS LABOR LITIGATION III LOWER HOUSE

MAYOR THINKS THAT ORDINANCE IS GOOD

Jiowever, He Believes It ' Should Not Be Enforced Everywhere City Attorney Gives Opinion The first time the right and left traffic ordinance was contested It was defeated. This morning In police court Phillip Mercurio, an Italian fruit dealer, charged with having hitched his horse and wagon on the left side of South Fifth atreet, was found not guilty by Mayor Zimmerman. Mercurio was quite wrathy when arrested, lie retained the legal services of Attorney William H. Kelley, who found a loop hole In the ordinance. The bill provides that driving or riding on the left aide of a atreet is a violation of one of its sections. There Is no reference to rigs standing on streets. Attorney Kelley told the . court that as the evidence did not show that Mercurio had driven any place on the street there should be finding of not guilty. Besides this. Patrolman Vogelsong, who made the arrest, could not swear that Mercurio himself had driven the vehicle to where It waa hitched. The Italian denied having bitched it but refused to say whd,dld. The mayor 'said be wished to be fair In the case and th atM.npfl rilri nnt Inntifv a. conviction, on the advice of city attorney A. M. Gardner he dismissed the case. , - v Statement by Mayor. This morning Mayor Zimmerman Issued special statement to the press In which he said: ' "I think this ordinance Is one of the, best that has ever been passed In the' city of Richmond. It should be kept as It Is. covering the entire city, and enforced on the principal business thoroughfares, Including Main; all streets within a square of Main running north and south; North E street and North D street between Port Wayne avenue and the Doran Bridge." The right and left ordinance was drawn up by city attorney A. M. Gardner, under instructions of the ordinance committee of which Prank Waldele is the chairman. The ordinance first provided that all vehicles must go to corners before turning around, but at the advice of the city attorney 'this was changed to read that vehicles might turn at any point City attorney Gardner said this morning that he thought the provision that vehicles must go to the nearest corner to turn around whenever the drivers wished to cross the street was unnecessary. Mr. Gardner said that the object of the new ordinance Is to avoid congestion of trade. What Gardner Says. "When a rig turns around about Ive times on a square," said the attorney. "It obviously Is on the street longer and congests traffic more than if the drivers would cross the street without turning. There Is no use in making prosecutions when drivers are on unimportant streets. The spirit of the law, not the exact words, should be observed and probably will in the future." Councllmen are being very generally laughed at by officials at the city ball for disowning an ordinance which waa passed unanimously. HIT BY COAL CHUNK Otto Hoffman Injured at Dublin. (Palladium Special) Cambridge City, Ind., Jan. 27. Otto Hoffman, of Straughn's, who Is employed by the Pennsylvania railroad company as night watchman at Dublin, where the work of double tracking Is under way, was seriously Injured Thursday when a large lump of coal fell from a tank car of the early mornIns train, east bound, striking him on the bead. He was picked up by railroad employes In an unconscious condition and Uken to his borne. He waa reported aa somewhat Improved today, but Is still in a serious condition. '. Mr. Hoffman is a son-lo-law of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Haydea" of Btraughns. and a nephew of Mrs. Templln. of Milton. TIIB WEATHER 6TATE AND LOCAL Haln and colder tanlaht: Saturday colder.

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Two views of the latest creation In dress wear for women worn by a Parisian actress. On the left Is a front view of the new pantaloon skirt and on the right a side view. It is predicted by, the moat prominent Parisian and New York modistes that the Immensely popular hobble skirt, which has only existed a short time, will have to give way to the new pantaloon effect. The divided skirt, which resembles a man's trousers made two or three times too wide for him, is bo arranged that it gives freedom of motion and at the same time protects from the cold.

PROCTOR ENTERED IIEWUPR BILL Measure Is a Compromise Regulation Act and It Was Not Expected. (Palladium Special) Indktnapolls, Jan. 27. A new and unexpected compromise liquor regulation and restriction was introduced In the senate late Thursday by Senator Proctor. Its main features are a license fee of $500, and the following restrictions as to population: One saloon to the first five hundred people in a town; one saloon to the second five hundred; and one saloon to each one thousand additional people. Senator Proctor said this bill does not represent bis personal ideas as to license for he still believes that should be $1,000. He worked hard to prevent the Fleming bill, for $500, license and one saloon to 500 people, from being reported out to the senate. .Thursday. It was not reported ont as had' been expected. ' Senator Proctor said he bad let down on his high-license idea, and held up his 1000-restriction Idea, in order to get a bill which the morals committee will report with unanimous favor. He expected the morals committee to report It at once for passage. That Senator Fleming has consented to the limitation phase of the new Proctor bill, was stated by the author after a conference between the two senators. Senator Proctor also said Governor Marshall is in favor of one saloon to a thousand people. Received $96 a Ends His Days (Palladium Special) Hagerstown, Ind., Jan. 27. Richard Jones, aged 72, who for almost thirtyfive years carried the mall to and from the railroad station at this place died at the county infirmary Wednesday evening after a short Illness of pneumonia. ' Jones had been an Inmate of the county farm for about four weeks. He had been compelled to go there to be cared for In his old age because of the meager salary which he had received for his services 4n the employ of the government, preventing him from saving any money for maintenance when the ravages of time would leave him unable to work. o . For about twenty years Jones salary was $70 a year. It was then Increased to $96 a year. ' While Jones, decrepit and feeble, was being cared for at the Infirmary, his aged wife supported herself, and will continue to do so. by taking in washings. What funds she secured from this source were barely enough

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ALLEGED SLAYER GAVE HIMSELF UP Man Wanted in Cincinnati Surrenders to the Indianapolis Police. (American News Service) . v Indianapolis, Jan. 27. Oliver P. Smith, wanted, in Cincinnati, on a charge of killing his wife gave himself up to the police here this morning after reading a newspaper account of the alleged murder. He believes his wife suicided. He left home after a quarrel with his wife Tuesday and visited several Indiana towns and arrived herehis morning. He was formerly in the ' postcard business in Indianapolis. EVIDENCE OF MURDER. ! Cincinnati, Jan. 27. The dead body of Mrs. Smith, who was fifteen years older than her husband, was found on a bed. She evidently had been beaten to death. .There was a bloody flatiron wound. The apartments apparently had been ransacked. The couple had been interested in mission work, but owing to frequent quarrels the woman had consulted a lawyer regarding -a divorce, alleging cruelty and non-support. She kept a rooming house recently. TO BE EXAMINED Between twenty and. thirty teachers will take the examination for licenses In the office of county superintendent, C. O. Williams on Saturday. . : . . . Year From U.S.; at County Farm to care for her own needs, and she was forced to have her husband taken from her when his salary ceased. "Dick" Jones, as he was known to all throughout this vicinity, resigned from his position several months ago on account of failing health. About a year ago for fear bf losing his position, Jones refused to allow his friends to circulate a petition asking for an increase in his salary or a pension on which he might retire. Jones entered into the duties of his position when comparatively a young man. During the latter months of his service he made the trips oftentimes when he was hardly able to . walk. Several times he was overcome in his work. . It is estimated that Mr. Jones in his trips to and from the depot, making five a day, walked twice the distance around the earth. The funeral was held today at the home of his wife, who alone survives him. Burial was In West Lawn cemetery.

HO RECIPROCITY

WITH CANADIANS Terms of Proposed Agree ment Not Acceptable to the U. S. Congress. (American News Service) Washington, Jan. 27. There will be no reciprocity with Canada, at least at this session of congress, and probably neved under terms of the proposed agreement sent to congress yesterday by President Taft. This definite statement is made on the best of authority. Powerful Interests are arrayed against the agreement's ratification. The conflict in values features as important as those which characterized the long drawn out dispute over the Payne tariff bill. Agricultural interests in the west and the fish interests of the east, with a host of manufacturing interests,will fight the ratification of the treaty bitterly. Powerful Opposition. Because fish had been placed on the free list, such poverful senators as Crane and Lodge of Massachusetts will oppose the treaty. So far the president has received no direct assurances of support from one of the Republican party leaders. In the meantime, the present duties on pulp and paper imported from the United States will remain. Whenever pulp and paper enter the United States from all parts of Canada, free of duty, then similar articles will be admitted into Canada from the United States free of duty. This is as remote as ever. To be successful the treaty must be ratified in Its present ' form. No changes or modifications can be made in it. Congress must take it or leave it. If rejected merely because of objection to one or two schedules, further diplomatic procedure will stop. One senator by vigorous opposition can do much toward killing the treaty. VAIN SEARCH FOR ESCAPED CONVICTS (American News Servile) Ossinlng. N. Y., Jan. 27 Despite a search which lasted all night and continued today the three convicts who escaped from Sing Sing late yesterday among them a "lifer," are still at large.' . , " The three who escaped after beating a guard into insensibility with the mu sical instruments they used in the prison band are William Bush, serving 20 years for burglary, and Ralph Taylor, serving 20 years for burglary, and Charles McGlynn, sentenced for five years for burglary. -Armed guards with bloodhounds, patroled the country about Ossining for miles, beating through the woods and keeping close watch upon the highways.

Supreme Court of United

States Hears the Case Involving Gompers, Mitchell, Morrison. LABOR LEADERS ARE MAKING HARD FIGHT Are Now Under Sentences Imposed by District of Columbia Supreme Court Sketch of Case. (American News Service) Washington, Jan. 27. Arguments were begun today in the supreme court on the most famous labor case in the history of the country that in volving Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell, and Frank Morrison, president, former vice-president and sec retary respectively of the American Federation of Labor. Attorney Darl- .... ington.made the opening argument The arguments were on the appeal from the decision of the supreme court of the District of Columbia which on December 23, 1908, sent enced the three men to prison. The litigation which resulted in the sentences begun in August, 1907, when the Bucks Stove and Range, company of St Louis, brought suit in the supreme court of the District of Columbia to restrain the American Federation of Labor from boycotting its goods. To Stop Boycotting.; The company sought to stop the boycotting by an injunction - on the ground that it was illegal under the common law and a combination in restraint of trade. The suit was filed by the company through James VanCleave, its president, who is now dead. The bill told of the strike of the company's metal poliaJfcjjrvand.of the boycott which was declared by the Metal Polishers' Union when the company refused to grant its de mands. . Subsequently the American Federation of Labor made the boycott gen eral against the . company's - goods throughout the United States. Mr. VanCleave was also president of the National Association of Manu facturers, which backed the Bucks company in the fight The suit was brought in the District of Columbia because the headquarters of the . American Federation of Labor is In this city. The application for an injunction was argued in November, 1907. On December 17, 1907, Justice Ashley M. Gould granted a temporary injunction restraining the federation from continuing its boycott against the stove company. Made It Permanent. Chief Justice Harry M. Claybough of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, after a full hearing made the temporary injunction permanent on March 25, 1908. The final decree including the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison, John Mitchell and other members of the legislative council of the federation. It prohibits publishing the name of the Bucks company in the Federationist "WTe don't patronize" . list The defendants were also enjoined from conspiring, agreeing or combining in any manner to restrain, obstruct or destroy the business of the complainant and from publishing or distributing through the mails any matter referring to the business of the complainant as unfair or attempting to coerce others from patronizing the firm." - - Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison appealed to the court of appeals of the District of Columbia. They filed bond, but took no legal action to obtain a stay pending the determination of the appeal. In the January number of the Federationist published after the Injunction, the "unfair" list appeared as usual, containing the name of the Bucks company. On January 20, 1908, a petition was filed by the Bucks Stove and Range company in the supreme coutt of the District of Columbia, asking that Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison ' be required to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of court in violating the injunction. Found Them Guilty. - Justice Daniel T. Wright, the presiding judge, found the defendants guilty, and sentenced Gompers to serve one year, Mitchell cine months and Morrison six months in the United States jail here. The decision was sustained by the court of appeals of the District of Columbia March 11, last I An appeal in the case was taken tnen to tfte supreme court or tne united States. A decision In the case Is expected soon after the verdicts in the Tohaeco Trust Standard Oil and Corporartion tax cases are handed down, prob ably in ApriL Peace was declared several months ago between the' Bucks Stove and t Range company and the American I Federation of Labor in an agreement by which the boycott was withdrawn.

State Tax Board Commissioner Talks to County Officials and He Does Not Mince His Words.

ADVISES TREASURER TO EMPLOY A WAGON Should Gather in Household Goods of Those Who Refuse to Pay Would Prove Certain Cure. Declaring that many of the citizens of Wayne county were nothing but thieves and that others were dishonest in their principles, John W. McCardle of the Indiana state board of tax commissioners, addressed township and deputy assessors at the court house on Friday morning in which he also dwelt on the importance of many conditions surrounding the assessing problem. There were about fifty township and deputy assessors pre sent William Mathews, county asses sor presided at the meeting. Those property owners who attempt to be unfair with the assessing official by putting him off from day to day, then failing to give in all of their property, and that which they do, list ed at a very low cash value, then prob ably failing to pay " even the tax on this, Mr. McCardle said, were cheating the state and were in reality common thieves. He believed there should be a penal law which would make it possible to jail such offenders. Tbobe who fail to pay their taxes on personal property and their poll tax are dls honest he said. Talks to Treasurer. County Treasurer, AlberVAlbertaon, with whom he had a long conversation before the assessors meeting, ; said McCardle had advised him to take stringent measures in collection of de linquent tax on personal property. If necessary, McCardle believes the treasurer should take a wagon, back it up to the residences of those who are delinquent, take out the house hold goods and hold them until the tax liens against the goods are met by the owner. If they fail to pay the goods should be sold for no less than the tax liens. He believes if a few examples of this kind were made the non payment of personal tax would be a solved problem. The treasurer objected to following out this advice. He did not absolutely refuse, it is understood, but to 'friends he said he did not have the heart to go that far la the collection of delinquent taxes on personal property. . Money on deposit in banks, notes and mortgages which are worth their full face value but which are not earning anything and which are usually sequestered from taxation by the owner for this reason, so the tax commissioner believes, should be assessed from 75 to 85 per cent of their face value. The law says full face value. He told the assessors, however, that If assessed at less than the face value there would be hundreds of thousands of dollars of such personal property added to the tax duplicates. Since real estate is not assessed at its full sales value, he believes that assessing officials should regard personal property in the same attitude. The principle of the tax laws, he said, was that all assessments should be equitable and uniform as nearly as possible. On Property Values. His advice on determining the value of property is, when possible, to get a gross earning capacity of it, and to fix the rating on this basis. In making assessments on real estate he said the official would have a graduating scale of from sixty to eighty per .cent on the true sales. value. Richmond property which lies in the outskirts and is nothing more than a pasture, Mr. McCardle said, should be assessed cheaply and little more than that property wbich lies on the outside of the corporate limits but close to the city. He said there were many things which must be taken in consideration in the assessment of property of this sort The present tax rate of the city, which is $2.87 per hundred dollars assessed valuation, would be lowered by careful and complete assessments, because such an assessment would greatly Increase the value of taxables in the city he declared. For good farm lands, the present assessed valuation should be increased this spring at the regular quadrennial real estate assessment Assessments on poor and bad lands should be reduced he said. The average assessment on farm lands in this county during the past four years was $36.29 he said. Some officials claim that as the . farmer is netting excel lent-returns from his farm property and farm values hare increased wonderfully, that the assessment on farms should be increased greatly but he said he felt that an increase of 10 to 15 per cent was sufficient..

Bill Amending Measure to

Town and Township Option, Having Passed Senate Is Up to Governor. DIRE THREATS WERE MADE BY MINORITY Brewers Were Damned; Ditto the Anti-saloon League and There Were Laughter and Wailing. (Palladium Special) Indianapolis, Jan. 27. All that now - remains to remove the county unit is the signature j o Governor Marshall to the Proctor-Keeney bill which passed the house late Thursday evening by a vote of 60 to 39, or one more than the regular Democratic major lty. The governor received the bill today. There was one absentee, Jo seph Cravens, floor leader of the Democrats, who hails from a dry county. Representatives Clore, : liiggtns and Merriman, Democrats, . Voted to re- ' tain the county unit Representatives Crieger, Grimmer, Van Home and Wider, Republicans, voted with the Democrats to change the unit The vote came at six o'clock after three hours of debate, which although not any more active upon general re ' suits than the senate debate of Tuesday, was more peppery and sensaUon-' al. The brewers were damned; ditto the Anti-Saloon league. Both were defended. The Republican party was referred to as a thing of ancient biscounty unit, and the Democratic party was prematurely Killed off and buried .beneath the weeping willows because It was upon the verge of repeal ing vne county unit, 'rne alabaster brows of both parties were branded ' with the stamp of shame. Mythology was quoted, . Shakespeare Invoked, . the Bible lugged in, God thanked and the devil congratulated. The p-e-e-p-u-1 were called upon to witness, men wished they had never lived to see the awful day, the farmer was in suited, the poor boy was saved, jails were filled, widows created and personal liberty triumphed.' Hanly was praised and Marshall tied to a stake, Elkhart county divided its vote and was correcUy represented either way. Speaker Veneman was guyed.. Air Sawed With Arms. ine air was sawea Dy frantic arms and rasped by excited voices, that were alternately tuned for. the benefit of the dog under the desk and the lady on the monument Election returns analysed, blind Ugers crushed under falling walls of court houses, saloons grew ud like Kimnson weeds in the hog lot, the nation was consigned to the deminitlon bowwows and the country was saved. Out of the wreck and debris the cat vage corps dug up the township and city option law saved by 21 votes, with Joe Cravens twenty miles away. It was a foiirfiit Mn . After the bill was called under the order of special business, Representative Faris of the Republicans, appeared on the horizon, no larger than a man's hand. Before the unsuspecting bystanders could take to the cyclone cellar however the air was full of flyine missiles and there was no chancit. Following him Representative Eschbach, minority lertler turned . loose another twister that apparently finished the demolition. After the storm had passed Representative McKennan of the classic village of Garrett, , arose, be-spectacled and debonnalre. to exclaim "Never. touched me," and he forthwith pro ceeded to repair the damage of the Republican' tornado. ; Cohee and Berry, Republicans, followed, but they were as balmy spring breezes compared with their more vociferous brothers, and It began to look as though the affair was degenerating into something stale and unprofitable when Rep. Troyer of Elkhart struggled to his full length to exclaim, "Esaa sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, but it was left to Indiana to sell tta l.trfKrts-lat fn a ..11 which all must concede to be a very short bargain under our present system of weights and measures. However, the speaker passed rapidly ; on , through the corridors and catacombs of history until he reached the Oer-'5 man alliance of 1910 which sent out 40,000 letters in Indiana urging Democratic victory, .000 of which went Into Vanderburg county, "Sow look at the result!" shouted Troyer as he pointed to Speaker Veneman. Everybody had a look while the Speaker did hist best to make it appear to the scrutinizing crowd that the German Alliance had great discernment and artistic temper-" ament . Troyer finished by conduct-' Inar whnlMulA fun oral nt t r Democratic lares and penates, at which grave the Republican minority appeared to be the only mourners; as the ribald Democrats laughed.

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