Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 147, 5 April 1911 — Page 1

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SITX-TFXF.GR A"M. VOL. XXXVI. NO. 11 T. RICHMOND, IND., WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL ,. 1911. SINGLE COPY CENTS.

GORDON TALKS ON THE LEGISLATURE BEFORE Y, M. B, C

Former Richmond Editor Calls Body Just Adjourned One Above the Average in Honesty. CITY ATTORNEY IN INTERESTING TALK Gardner Comes Out for Permanent Improvement of Streets and Gives Warning as to Franchises. At h meeting of tho Young Men's Business clnli lant evening at the MaKonlr. building, a very Interesting talk, from a lion ai t Isjui Mandpolnt, on the host Msslnn of the legislature, which hhed nuieh light on the work that wan done, ami which gave local men a glimpse of the inside workings of that important hody in the state government, was delivered hy J. Henmtt Cordon, formerly a prominent Richmond newspaper man and now as-not-late editor of the Indianapolis Sun. City Attorney, A. M. Gardner uL-o made a hhort talk in which he made a plea for the arousing of public sentiment to demand the permanent Imjtrovement of city (streets instead of the macadamizing system, now followed. lie declared the city had been wasting money lor years in this manner. Address by Gordon. Pronouncing the last legislature one that was above the average in honesty and equal to tho average In mentality, Mr. Cordon Ha id it had passed nioro good lawn and fewer bad ones than Hny legislature for years. Me said neither party could make much poll I leu I capita! out of the legislature, for the Democratic members did not. pHtia the best luws until forced by public opinion ami the governor's "big stick" to come across In the last ten days, while tho Republican helped to kill all the good legislation that wan killed and voted for the bad laws that did get through. Party lines cut less figure than for years. Mr. Cordon gave a careful review of all the legislation affecting business and manufacturing Interests, and told of some of the methods used to kill blll.i or to Jam measures through. After reviewing the work of the legislature In an absolutely nou partinan talk, Mr. Gordon advocated the employment of a legislative1 representative or lobbyist" by the club to attend the nesslons of the legislature and study the bills from the standpoint of the average business and manufacturing concern. Had No Information. "Notwithstanding the fact that the legislature paired laws affecting the interests of every industrial and commercial enterprise in the state, but comparatively few of these concerns had any one at the legislature to represent them or to keep them informed as to the bills affecting their interest that were introduced. "Two extremes are always represented at legislative sessions the highly organized and powerful corporation as the traction syndicate or the Vnlted States steel plant at Gary and the labor unions. These interests representing the extremes in our modern Industrial world, have their well paid legislative representatives on hand throughout the session to watch every bill that may affect them and to tiso their Influence in getting leglslaitlon or in preventing it.. As a rule these Interests are antagonistic, and 'legislation reflects the wishes of one w the other faction. "Hut the business interests, as generally understood. the average mercantile establishment and the average manufacturing concern, which constitute the great bulk of the business Investments of the state and represent the great middle class industrially have no one on the ground to Keep them posted regarding proposed laws rr to express to the legislators from .their community their wishes. Why the Surprise? is it any wonder, then, that cftcr the legislature adjourns business Interests find laws upon the statute (Continued on Paste Kifiht.) THE WEATHER 6T ATE Unsettled tonight and Thursday; colder tonight.

LOCAL Cloudy tonight and Thursday; slightly cooler. HIGH SCHOOL OBSERVATORY. Highest temperature. 60 degrees at S o'clock yesterday afternoon and remained statlouary until 11:43 o'clock last night when the temperature began to fall accompanied by the rain. Lowest temperature 4ti degrees. Temperature at 11:30 a. m. today. 46 degrees and falling. Parometer low and rising. Weather will probably clear and be colder. High barometric pressure Indicates fair weather but coolrlow barometric prtsaure indicates warm weather but raia. i

Clark on the Speaker's Throne

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Champ Clark, as he stepped to the rostrum of the House and formally took over the. speakership on the opening day of the present special session of Congress.

CARTER HARRISON WAS EASY Defeats Merriam by Plurality of Over 17,000 Inau gurated Monday. tAmerlran News Service) Chicago. April For the rifth time Carter Harrison today is Chicago's choice for mayor. He was elected over Charles K. Merriam (Republican) by a plurality of 17. l:;-' and Monday will be inaugurated for a four-year term. He received 177,D2:i votes against Merriam ldO.T'.tl. The big plurality was more or less of a surprise to politicians who expected the race to be much closer. Hy his election for the fifth time, Harrison has equaled the feat of his father, the first Carter H. Harrison, who also served four terms running, and then was elected for a fifth term. The election will result in a clean out of the city hall which for several yei'rs has been the center of a number of graft charges. Merriam. whose candidacy for mayor was made possible by his work at the head of the Merriam commission in the city council, which spent $60,000 in exposing city graft, probably owes his defeat to his connection with that body. He was appointed to the chairmanship by Husse and was regarded as friendly to the Husse administration. The other three mayoralty candidates "also ran." With the exception of William K. Rodriguez, socialist, who polled votes, the other candidates had scarcely enough to count. They were William A. Rrubaker. Prohibitionist, with :?:!: votes, and Anthony Prince. Social-labor, with 1.0:7. Harrison carried with him 41 Democratic candidates for the City Council, leaving a majority of twelve in that body for his administration. Hesides this. Francis O. Connery. IVmocrat. was elected city clerk, and Henry Stuckart. Democrat, city treasurer. The election was the quietest for many years. According to officers of the election commission and county courts, the balloting was free from election frauds. FREIGHTJAR HUNT Kidnapped Boy May Be in Missing Car. (American News Service) Philadelphia. Pa.. April 3. Lehigh Valley Railroad freight car number 79.40. in which Hernard Rogers, aged twelve, nephew of Assistant District Attorney Rogers is supposed to have been locked without food or water, is being searched for all over the I'nited States today. The loy has been missing since Monday. March Twenty-seventh. His uncle received a postal card saying the boy was locked in a car to carry out a "vow of vengeance" by a man the attorney had convicted. It 1 (eared the boy has perished.

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SOCIALISTS GET A CAN ATTACHED Women Win Victory in Milwaukee Results of the Other Elections.

fAmerlean News Service) Milwaukee. April After a year's trial of Socialistic doctrine. Milwaukee has figuratively "tied the can'' to Victor Merger's party. Kvcry Socialist candidate for judge and member of the school board went down to overwhelming defeat yesterday and politicians declare the rebuke presages the overthrow of the party at the next city election. The victory over the Socialists is a woman's victory. Women voted only in the selic? board election ami defeated the two Socialist candidates, hands down. Five non-partisan candidates were elected. In the judicial election Judge 1,. W. Halsey, non-partisan, was re-elected circuit judge by a 12,'MM) plurality over .1. C. Kleisv Socialist, and civil judge John F. Donovan was re-elected by a lesser plurality over Julius Kiefcr, Socialist. SOCI: LIST WINNER. Pasadena. ,Cal., April 5. Pasadena today has a socialist mayor. He is William Thum the millionaire inventor of sticky fly paper, who was elected by a plurality of ISO over the two other . candidates. Thum is a socialist of the first water. Out of his big income he spends only $M.."itM a year. Keeps no servants and lives very simply. He explains that it is very un-Deniocratic to do otherwise. He spends most of his income on philanthropic work. ELECTION A DRAW. Tacoma. Wash., April T. The special election here yesterday resulted in a majority for none of the candidates and as a result a second election will be held here on April 1. at wliich Mayor Fawcett and W. W. Seymour will be the opposing candidates. The election yesterday was to recall Mayor Fawcett. Seymour received S.6G.1 votes; Fawcett received 7.ot;2 votes, and A. H. Harth. Socialist. :i,o03. More than half the votes polled were necessary for election. PRELATE'S JUBILEE MARKED WITH POMP (Amcr'uan News Service) Baltimore. April 5. Services rivaling in magnificence any heretofore held in the Roman Catholic church in America will mark the celebration next June of the fiftieth anniversary of Cardinal Gibbons' ordination to the priesthood and the coincident twenty-fifth anniversary of his elevation to the cardinalate. Plans for the double jubilee already are well under way. The celebration will be participated in not only by all the distinguished dignitaries of the church in America but also by a delegation of eminent churchmen sent from Rome. One of the chief features of the observance will be a solemn pontification mass at which an offering will be taken up, which will be added to the building fund for the Cardinal Gibbons memorial hall at the Catholic university In Washington.

SHELBYVILLE WAS STRUCK BY STORMs TWO WERE KILLED Bodies of Man and Young Daughter Recovered Today, Following the Cyclone of Last Evening.

DAMAGE TO HOUSES BY HARD DOWNPOUR Property Damage in the City Will Run Up into Thousands Many People Had Narrow Escapes. (PallaJium Special) Shelbyville, Ind., April G.-Thc worst wind storm that has ever visited this county, took a toll of two lives at lo o'clock last night, the victims being Timothy Lewis, ft. and his daughter, Louise, 7. They were buried beneath the ruins of their home one and a half miles northeast of the city. Mrs. Lewis had a miraculous escape. The bodies of the two were taken from I the ruins about 6 a. m. today. Shelbyville presented a sorry spectacle when day dawned. Her once clean streets were blocked with rubbish. House and barn roofs were scattered in the mud. Hundreds of homes were damaged by the heavy rains which swept through the open roofs and broken windows and doors. The rain laid open nearly every business house along Broadway and Harrison street and the damage to property in the city alone will run up into thousands of dollars. Some Narrow Escapes. Many people were injured, and others report narrow escapes from death by falling walls or flying debris. Several missed electrocution by a margin from contact with the electric light wires before the employes realized the situation and shut off the current. The storm took a northeasterly direction, taking In a swath about a mile wide beginning southwest of the city, and ranging two miles to the northeast. Considerable damage was done outside this belt. Live stock suffered to an extent as yet unknown, but. estimated in the thousands of dollars. Mrs. Lewis, who escaped from the falling walls of her home, remembers only that she dug herself to freedom after the crash. Mr. Lewis was with I her, and he hurried back to the bed room to save his sleeping daughter. That was the last Mrs. Lewis saw of him. She ran in her night clothing to the home of James Vice, a neighbor living an eighth of a mile away and collapsed. Her condition is critical. Killed by Chimney. The chimney of the home had crushed in the head of Mr. Lewis when his body was found. The litjtle girl's neck was broken. I The home of Edward Mobcrly, one of the finest country residences in the county, was scattered over their farm. Mr. and Mrs. Moberly were badly hurt, but will recover. They made their way to the home of Jacob Darling after the storm. The home of Jack Walton and wife they awoke with the roof gone, but they were uninjured. Other residences were damaged in the Walton neighborhood. Several barns were razed. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Cherry and son. northeast of the city, escaped by a hair's breadth when their homes were carried away. Mrs. Cherry was injured, but not seriously. The barn on this farm collapsed and buried a half dozen horses, but they were later saved. The home of Samuel Robinson and Isaac Wallace north of the city also were carried away and a number of other families suffered to a great extent in this community. Commodore Alley's barn was demolished but his horse was left in the stall, hitched to the manger. The storm combined with fire, almost destroyed the residence of James Phillips, and the barn was rolled out into Shelby street. WILL EXPLORE THE OCEAN WILDERNESS (American News Service) Iowa City. Ia.. April 3. Today saw the departure of the most important scientific expedition ever sent out by the State Universitv of Iowa. The exJ pedition consists of a party of four, j headed by Prof. Homer D. Dill. The i objective point is the Laysan Island, j located S00 miles southwest of the Hawaiian group. The party will remain on the islatjd three months, collecting scientific material relative to the study of bird life. The material secured w ill be brought to the university, mounted and assembled into a realistic reproduction or cyclorama of the scene of Laysan. More than 400 mounted birds will be used in the reproduction, with countless others painted on the scenery forming the background. The undertaking is believed to be the largest and most important of its kind ever attempted by any American educational institution.

PRESIDENT WANTS QUICK ACTION ON RECIPROCITY ACT

Chief Executive Sends Communication to Congress Today Urging the Solons to Pass Bill. MESSAGE SHORTEST OF ANY PRESIDENT Reciprocity the Only Topic Discussed and He Savs the Bill Will Benefit 'Both Countries. (American News Service) Washington, April 5. President William H. Taft today sent to the con gress a message urging immediate consideration of the reciprocity pact with Canada. He urged the passage of the bill for the benefit of both nations. The message was the shortest ever sent by any president at the opening of congress, conntaining only 578 words. Reciprocity was the only issue taken up by the president. The message follows: President's Message. To the Senate and House of Representatives: "I transmitted to the Sixty-irst congress on January 0 last the text of the reciprocity trade agreement which had been negotiated under my direction by the secretary of state with the representatives of the Dominion of Canada. This agreement was the consummation of earnest efforts extending over a period of nearly a year on the part of both governments to effect a trade arrangement which supplementing as it did the amicable settlement of various questions of a diplomatic and political character that had been reached would mutually promote commerce and would strengthen the friendly relations now existing. "The agreement in its intent and in its terms was purely economic and commercial. While the general subject was under discussion by the commissioners I felt assured that the

sentiment of the people of the United States was such that they would welcome a measure which would result in the increase of trade of both sides of the boundary line, would open up the reserve productive resources of Canada to the great mass of our own consumers on advantageous conditions and at the same time offer a broader outlet for the excess products of our farms and many of our industries. Details regarding a negotiation of this kind necessarily could not be made public while the conferences were pending. However, the full text of the agreement with the accompanying correspondence and data explaining both its purpose and its scope became known to the people. Throughout the message transmitted to congress it was immediately apparent that the ripened fruits of the careful labors of the commissioners met with widespread approval. This approval has been strengthened by further consideration of the terms of the agreement in all their particulars. The volume of support which has developed shows that its broadly national scope is fully appreciated and is responsive to the popular will. Action on First Bill. "The house of r resentat ives of the Sixty-first congress after the full text of the arrangement with all the details in regard to the different provisions had been before it, as they were before the American people, passed a bill confirming the agreement as negotiated and as transmitted to congress. This measure failed of action in the senate. In my transmitting message of the 26th of January, I fully set forth the character of the agreement and emphasized its appropriateness and necessity as a response to the mutual needs of the people of the two countries, as well as its common advantages. I now lay that message and the reciprocal trade agreement, as integrally a part of the present message, before the Sixty-second congress and again invite earnest attention to the considerations therein expressed. "I am constrained in deference to popular sentiment and with a realizing sense of my duty to the great masses of our people whose welfare is involved, to urge upon your consideration early action on this agreement. In concluding the negotiations the representatives of the two countries bound themselves to use their utmost efforts to bring about the tariff changes provided for in the agreement by concurrent legislation at Washington and Ottawa. I have felt it my duty, therefore, not to acquiesce in relegation of action until the opening of congress in December, but use my constitutional prerogative and convoke the Sixty-second congress in extra session in order that there shall be no break in continuity in considering and acting upon this most important subject. (Signed) "Wm. H. Taft. -. "The White House, April 5, 191L" A

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EXTREMELY ANGRY Republican Congressmen Beat Them to It with Reciprocity' Bill, but Majoritv Will Have One. OUTLOOK FOR BILL IN SENATE STORMY Bipartisan Outfit in Upper Body Ready to Stick Knife Into Measure President Confident. (American Now? Service) Washington, April .". Angry because the Republicans stole a march on them by McCall of Massachusetts, introducing the McCall reciprocity bill in the house, the Democrats set out today to offset this theft of Democratic thunder by framing a recipro city bill of their own, which they will substitute for the original McCall bill. Despite the fact that Speaker Clark did not mention reciprocity in his "speech of pledges," in accepting the Speakership, the Democrats are apparently committed to it through their platform of tariff changes. President Taft is quoted to be entirely satisfied with the outlook for his pet measure in the present congress, his feeling of security being strengthened by the compact organization of the Progressive Republicans in the upper chamber. According to the tentative plans under discussion by Democratic leaders, a new reciprocity bill, framed for introduction by a Democrat will embody all the principles of the original McCall bill, the changes being of no primary importance and only written into the measure to allow its introduction and precedence over the McCall bill. To Be Underwood Bill. The new reciprocity bill will probably be introduced in the house within the next fortnight by Representative Underwood, of Alabama, chairman of the Ways and Means committee. President Taft desires quick action on the measure on account of the fact that business in the Canadian parliament is being held up, pending action of the American congress upon reciprocity. The Democratic reciprocity pact, will not encounter real danger until it reaches the senate. There are both Democrats and Insurgents in the upper house who are hostile to the measure and they are carefully planning its annihilation, just as it was killed in the senate in the last congress. The plan in the senate is to defeat the measure with an amendment, including articles not mentioned in the original draft. Discussions of "most favorite nation" feature of the Canadian reciprocity ace in both Paris and London since the adjournment of the last congress, will be used by the opponents of reciprocity. They will point to the posibility of tariff embroilments with foreign nations, however, despite all these features, Taft evidently looks for success in the senate as well as in the house. A new element w hich gave rise to considerable discussion today developed from the Democratis plan of introducing the new reciprocity measure. The main question which is being asked is "will President Taft affix his signature to a Democratic measure." It is generally believed however, that in some form will be established at the present session. PORTLAND IS HAPPY Has Ex-president Roosevelt as a Guest Today. (American News Service) Portland, Ore., April 5. Upon his arrival in Portland this afternoon former President Roosevelt faced a formidable program of public meetings and receptions that promised him fewleisure moments until his departure from the city at midnight. A reception committee of public officials and representative business men was on hand to greet him at the station and many of the hotels and business houses displayed flags and bunting in honor of the distinguished guest. Leaving Portland shortly after midnight tonight Colonel Roosevelt will spend tomorrow forenoon in Tacoma and from that city he will proceed to Seattle. SEATTLE IS READY. Seattle, Wash., April 5. Colonel Roosevelt will spend tomorrow after-1 noon and tomorrow night in Seattle, i and extensive arrangements have been perfected for his reception and entertainment. He is scheduled to make two public addresses while in this city, one before the students of the university of Washington and the other at a meeting to be held under the auspices of the SeatUe Municipal i league. j

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RICHMOND

WOMAN WAS SLAIN BY AJAYTON MAN Discarded Lover, Sam Satcamp, in His Rooms at Dayton, Kills Mrs. Marie Grant, Then Suicided. SHE WAS FORMERLY MRS. ALONZO GRICE Murdered Woman Went to Room of Discarded Lover, Who Had Threatened Her If She Refused To. Mrs. Marie Grant, formerly Miss Marie Van Zant of this city and divorced wife of Alonzo Gricc, a well known Richmond printer, was murdered by her discarded lover, Samuel Sat cam p. at the rooms of the latter at Dayton, Ohio, yesterday afternoon about 3:I0 o'clock. Immediately after sending two bullets into the head of Mrs. Grant, Satcamp turned the revolver on himself, the bullet crashing through his temple. Both were dead when occupants of the saloon, over which Satcamp's rooms were located, broke into the room to learn the cause of the shots. Howard Van Zant and James IT. Van Zant of this city, brother and father of the murdered woman, respecitvely, went to Dayton last evening upon receiving word of the tragedy. Roy Van Zant of this city is a half brother. Man Threatened Her. According to information given one of the local relatives Satcamp called Mrs. Grant over the telephone yesterday morning and demanded that she come to see him, telling her that if she didn't, he would go to her house, kill both her and her husband and then shoot himself. It was in compliance with this demand, it is said, that Mrs. Grant visited Satcamp at his rooms in the afternoon. Mrs. Grant was divorced by Mr. Grice about ten years ago, after he had returned from service in the Spanish-American war. Upon his return, it Is said, Mrs. Grant, went to Cincinnati and had resided in that city and in Dayton ever since. She last had residence here at 227 North Sixteenth street. ' Mrs. Grant had a daughter by Mr. Grice. The daughter is now living at Dry Ridge, Ky. She has a child. STORY OF TRAGEDY. Dayton, O., April 5. Disregarding a threat of death, Mrs. Marie Grant 33. wire or Joseph Grant, 361 West Firth street, went to the room of Samuel Satcamp, 46, 232 Ziegler street, Tuesday afternoon and was killed. Satcamp turned the smoking weapon upon himself and ended bis own life. The two bodies, cold in death, were found by Motorcops Reiter and Yendes, answering a report that a shot had been fired in the room. Until the iwlicemen entered the room it wai not known by residents of the house that murder had been committed. Jealousy Believed Motive. Insane jealousy is the only motive that can be assigned in the double tragedy. Satcamp and the woman were lovers about a year, but four weeks ago the woman, who was formerly Mrs. Alonzo Grice, was married to Grant. The general belief is that her marriage angered Satcamp and that it was during the heat of anger accompanying a quarrel that he shot her and killed himself. Almost simultaneously two shots rang out in Satcamp's room, and before Mrs. Frank W. Dimito, who occupies the house with C. E. Manary, could reach her door the third shot was heard. She was afraid to enter the room and called the police. Shots Enter Head. Mrs. Grant was shot twice. One bullet, believed to have been the first fired, entered the left side of her neck. The other bullet penetrated her head about three-fourths of an inch above her left car. The supposition is that Satcamp, holding the weapon in his right hand, fired the first shot into her neck, and as she fell fired the second. Holding the weapon, which was a !22-caIiber cheap pistol in his right hand, ly? turned his face from the muzzle and sent the third ball into the back of his head. The bullet passed (Continued on Page Six) Palladium's Total Daily Average Circulation (Except Saturday) Including Complimentary Lists, for Week Ending April 1, 1911. 6,881 City Circulation showing net paid, news stands and regular complimentary list does not include sample copies. 5,859