Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 52, 10 January 1913 — Page 1

RIG. MONB PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM VOL. XXXVIII. XO. T2. RICHMOND, IXD., FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10. 1913. SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS IS ROCKEFELLER A NEW BASIC LAW FOR THE STATE ASKED GREATER LIBERTY BRINGS HEW ENEMY Temptation Assails Young Womanhood, Boards Say in Report. PROGRESSIVES ARE TO KEEPJJP FIGHT Serve Notice that Progressive Legislation Is Expected by the People. QUITS RICH HUBBY; RAISING CHICKENS AGAINST THE T E BILL HE IS SICK

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duces a Resolution Practically Remodeling the Indiana Constitution. WOULD HAVE WOMEN VOTE ON SUFFRAGE Would Leave It to Them to Decide This Question. Bill for Direct Primaries Is Entered. CNational News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 10. The introduction of a joint resolution by Senator Stotsenburg amending the Indiana constitution in many respects, practically taking the place of the proposed Marshall constitution, and the introduction of a resolution by Senator Curtis, the floor leader, which it la believed will prevent the atifling of j objectionable bills in committee, were the features of the thirty minute session of the senate today. The resolution by Stotsenburg, which is number two, following another resolution of his withdrawing from consideration the old lawyer's qualification amendment, provides for practically new constitution along the lines indicated last session by Governor Marshall, but it is done in accordance with the opinions of the Indiana supreme court. The resolution calls for the adoption of the laws providing for the initiative, referendum and recall, with state and local application, and the submission to the women of the state of an amendment giving women the right to vote. Men are to have no voice in this matter. Taxation Problems. Taxation problems are taken up with the provision that the general assembly may classify properties for taxation purposes while the terms of offices for all state and county officers are made four years and the incumbents are" not eligible for re-election. It provides for twelve supreme court judges instead of five, with the understanding that the appellate court will be done away with. It provides that the assembly on petition of 50 per cent of the legal voters at the last general election shall pass laws for the initiative, referendum and recall and the barrier to compulsory compensation laws is removed. The resolution introduced by Curtis provides that bills submitted to committees must be reported out in six days unless the majority of the senate grant an extension of six days. It was expected that an effort would be made to put the resolution through at once but Lieutenant Governor Hall referred it to the rules committee to be reported. FOR DIRECT PRIMARIES. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 10. Declaring that if the Democratic party in the Indiana legislature really desires to let the people rule they will pass the bill. Representative Jones (Marshall county) today introduced, a direct primary bill, which will make party caucuses and nominating conventions a thing of the past In Indiana. The measure follows the Oregon and Wisconsin primary laws but contains several features that are original with Mr. Jones. One of the latter is the plan provided for adopting party platforms. It stipulates that on the fourth Tuesday in September candidates for state offices and the General Assembly who were nominated at the preceding primary, together with the hold-over senators shall meet in the capital and formulate party platforms. The nomination of all elective, and delegates to national conventions shall be by direct vote of the electors. Also it gives them an opportunity to express a direct preference between candidates for presidential nominations. Provision is made for a preferrnce vote on candidates for United States senator. The Other Features. Parties receiving less than ten per cent of the total vote at the last gen- ( Continued on Pag Eight)

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PRESIDENT YUAN SHI KAI. CHICAGO, Jan. 10. Mrs. Mable Corrigan Doak, wife of a former resident of Penang, called absurd and impracticable the edict of President Yuan Shi Kai, compelling Chinese women to abandon trousers and wear skirts. "I wonder," said Mrs. Doak, "just what 250,000 boatwomen in China will do about this new order. These women certainly will never be able to work in shirt waists and kimonos, as the edl requires. How do you suppose the thousands of women carriers who coal ships in the Eastern ports will be able to trot up and down the loading planks in skirts? They need their trousers for practical reasons." CLUB WILL ELECT DIRECTORS BOARD Two Tickets Are Nominated --W. H. Stackhouse Will Speak. Directors to act during the year will be chosen at the meeting of the Commercial club Monday evening. Two tickets have been prepared. The "Blue" ticket contains the names of eight members of the club who have not served as directors and the "Red" ticket contains the names of those who have served. The purpose of nominating former directors is to give the members of the club the opportunity of re-electing men who are acquainted with the workings of the board. Those on the "Blue" ticket are George Ballinger, Fred J. Bartel, George II. Eggemeyer, H. C. . Hasemeier, A. L. Jenkins, Fred Krone, Stephen Kuth and Everett Lemon. Those on the "Red" ticket are James A. Carr, Demas S. Coe, Henry Gennett, H. A. Dill, Lee B. Nusbaum, Wm. H. Qulgg, John L. Rupe and George E. Seidel. Following the business meeting the club will be addressed by W. H. Stackhouse of Sprinefield. O.. on the sub- ' -; . . p nrn.i.inAnn . : Insurance." Mr. Stackhouse is at the head of a large manufacturing concern in Springfield and has made a study of workingmen's compensation insurance for several years. He is well prepared to discuss this subject. He is president of the Springfield Commercial club. The public is invited to hear this lecture which will be held at 8 o'clock. MEN TO ELWOOD A special train carrying - five carloads of men from Pittsburg to Anderson passed through this city this morning. It is said that the tinplate mills will be reopened in Elwood soon and men are being brought there to work for the tinplate company. .

MANY RECEIVE CARE

Boards of Home for Friendless Women Hold Annual Meeting. At the annual meeting of the board of managers and the trustees of the Home for Friendless Women, last evening, the report for the year at the home was read and unanimously accepted. "The members of the home wish to thank the citizens of the city who have so generously contributed to the supDort of the unfortunate inmates of the home," one member stated. The excellent work of Rose Dunn as chairman of the Sunday service committee was highly commended. Miss Dunn held religious services at the Home whenever the occasion demanded, besides the regular Sunday services. The report of Mrs. P. T. McLellan. secretary of the Home, was very interesting and encouraging. Many persons atended the meeting who are not affiliated with the actual work of the Home. The report is as follows: Those Cared For "As the year 1912 has drawn to a ' close. It Is again our duty to summarize the work accomplished. Though the summary falls short of our desires, let us give thanks to Him who gave us strength to give this share of relief to suffering humanity and ask j Him for guidance through the coming ! year. j "We began the year 1912 with seven in the Home department and two prisoners and one insane in the jail. Duri ing the year twenty-six women, fortysix children, thirty-eight prisoners and seven insane were cared for at intervals at the Home. Eight children were taken to White's Institute, two were adopted and one was committed to the Industrial School at Clermont, Indiana. We closed the year with tweny-three inmates. Enemies to Womankind. "We realize today as never before that the greater liberty which has come- to women Industrially, educa tionally and - socially, has brought many new enemies to young woman hood that cannot be ignored. Those of us who have reached our fourth and fifth decades have never been ex posed to the temptations that assail them, especially in city life. Co-education, office, store and factory work and the new social freedom that has come to bring them into contact with all sorts and conditions of people. Often hideous wrongs are perpetrated upon them. "The social evil has reached greater proportions in late years than ever before so alarming ha3 the White Slave traffic become that a commission was appolnted by congress to investigate the traffic me commission appointed reported that it was the most accurs ed business ever devised by man and a disgrace to American civilization. Hundreds of thousands of these poor prisoners of sin are in our land today and their exceeding great and bitter cry should find an echo in every Christian woman and the work of their rescue a place in every woman's organization." CASTRO FIGHTS TO REMAIN IN AMERICA (National News Association) NEW YORK, Jan. 10. Attired like a French dandy Cipriano Castro, exiled president and dictator of Venezuela, set foot on the soil of the United States today for the first time since he was driven out of Venezuela. He wore a broadcloth overcoat, lined with moelskin, a very tall silk hat, patent leather shoes, yellow gloves and carried a gold headed cain. Castro left Ellis Island in charge of Inspector of Immigration Moore and was immediately taken to the post office building for argument on his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. A valet accompanied Castro and wiped off every chair and bench before his master sat down. In crossing the bay Castro saluted the Statue df Liberty. CONFINED IN JAIL; HEALTH IS FAILING Raleigh Hahn, who was fined $10 and costs for obtaining money on false pretenses ana sentenced to 10 days in jail December 29 is still confined in the county jail as the promises of his relations to pay his fine were not made good. Hahn is in a very weak condition as his health Is falling. It Is said. Hahn stated recently that he did not think that he could stand the confinement as he has been under the care of a physician several times since he was arrested. DIPLOMAT SUICIDES (National News Association) CHICAGO. Jan. 10. Earnest Bodenheim, aged 44, vice consul for France at Cassel, Germany, committed suicide ,at the Blackstone hotel today by i shooting himself in the head. Despondency, due to ill health, is believed to fhave caused him to take his life. He was very wealthy and was traveling in this country for the benefit of his ! health.

In Interview Marshall Says that Pensions for Widows Is Still in the Experimental Stage.

CONTROVERSY OVER PROPOSED MEASURE Many Charitable Organizations Are Supporting It. State Universities Given a Turn Down. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan 10. Governor i Afiat Buetii luuav nriR uu x uiuaeaua''i the passage of a widow's pension bill by the legislature. Instead of sending a special message ot the legislature he gave out a long interview, advising that Indiana go slow in passing legislation of this character for the reason that it is still In the experimental stage. The Indiana poor relief laws are the best in the country, the governor declared, and under them there is no danger of any homes being broken up through poverty. Rep. Sands of St. Joseph county, has a widow's pension bill ready for introduction. Much controversy among charitable organizations has arisen over this measure. The board of state charities has opposed it consistently, while many prominent charity workers throughout Indiana are advocating its passage. An organization known as "Widow's Pension League" with headquarters in Chicago, is employing worn- J en in Indiana to solicit members. The solicitors receive one-half of the membership fee, the remainder being used for carrying on the work of the organization. Governor Marshall declares that many persons have wrongly interpreted the statement that organized charities would oppose such legislation for sellsh reasons. Indiana Board of State Charities is a non partlsanf unpaid board, and Is the official board of the state, being created by the legislature. Governor Marshall suggests that persons coming from other states know nothing of conditions here and do not appreciate the value of the laws we have. "Why should they seek to tell us what to do? Are we not able to deal with our own problems without gratuitous advice?" said the governor. ONLY GET THE CRUMBS. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 10. Indiana and Purdue universities had their hopes of vastly increased appropria tions blasted todav when the leelslajt,Te vjgltlng committee made public -ts recommendations for the seven teen state institutions. Indiana university asked for a total of $200,000 annually for maintenance and the committee recommended only $97,500. None of the new buildings asked for by the university, which brought its total demands up to $425,000, were recommended by the committee. Purdue university fared no better. She was given an annual maintenance fund of $32,500. The Purdue request for buildings and improvements, to cost over $500,000, was cut down to $1S3,000. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were knocked from the requests made by officials of the other state institutions. The committee has not yet completed its report. A DELUGEJF BILLS Was Begun in the Lower House Today. (National Xewa Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 10. The first bill introduced in the house today was by W. W. Spencer, of Marion county, to appropriate $120,000 to defray the expenses of the 6Sth General Assembly. Rep. Leyendecker. of Marion, introduced a blue sky law. Other bills introduced wer: By Spencer To, provide for the reimbursement of school townships j where school property belonging ; thereto has been or shall be annexed to any city or incorporated town. By McKennan That all lobbyists shall before beginning their work j register with the secretary of the state and within two months after the session ends shall file a true statement of expenses incurred. By Vorris To legalize all gravel road bonds issued during the last two years. By Van Horn To add four judges to the appellate court. By Adams A corrupt practices act. providing that no contributions shall be asked of private corporations, judges or policemen and amplifies the number of things money can be spent for at elections and primaries. By Leyendecker Regulating marriages, requiring girls under IS and men under 21 without parents or L guardians to file an application for a marriage license thirty.. days before the license Is granted, .

WANT NEW INDIANA

Tell Legislature This State Is Behind Its Sisters in Able Statutes. (National News Association) INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Jan. 10. The Indiana Progressive legislative committee, of which Oscar L. Pond, Indianapolis, is president and Edward R. Lewis, Indianapolis, secretary, today issued the following "open letter" to the Indiana legislature. "The present General Assembly must satisfy many urgent demands of the people. Those demands have not been satisfied by indifferent legislatures of the past. Their failure to do so has held the state bed-ridden while her more modern sister states have - - v. legislation in the great purpose of i making the people of their communities happier and better. Indiana needs and must have of this legislature- a, dire Primary law, a good roads law, advanced legislation for cities, state and municipal civil service, a public utilities commission, an inheritance tax, a blue sky law, minimum wage, free school books, vocational education, a constitutional convention to give equal suffrage, the initiative, referendum and recall. All these reforms are long overdue and further delay in obtaining them will be intolerable. What the People Want. "The Progressive party in the last campaign pledged itself to a platform including all these and other reforms. It fought that platform out before the people. It won its fight for ideas if not for candidates. The members of the Progressive party will continue to fight for that platform before the present legislature. They care not how the laws are secured. They only care that they be secured and that thy be effective. In the present session, the Progressives will aid all Democrats and Republicans who desire to make our state a modern and more just community. It will be the purpose of the Progressive committee to indors'e and support any bills introduced by Democrats or Republicans which adequately carry out Progressive platform pledges. It will be their further purpose when such bills are not introduced to cover any plank, to see that proper bills are prepared and introduced by Progressive legislative Bub-committees and brought to the attention of the legislature Bills covering every Hue of the platform will be Introduced and fought. The fight for their enactment W ,AbevEr!led n .8.earveSJ lD COm: mittee hearings and In the Press as If the Progressive party were In full con -

lrul- memuel" "l LU rniBrCTniT-j of the company. Legislative committee, we are confid- j SeveraI of the machin win t ent that the Democratic leaders will in operatIon upon the arrlTal of the give the members of the new sub- party ln order tQ demon8trate theIr committee in charge of our various 8mootn runninK and excellent gearlng. measures the recognition to which the cawmlll has been set up and attachvotes and the deep sentiment they ! j , , ,K t.,i

represent, entitles them. " We look forward to the present session as a splendid field of contest to make for us all a new Indiana. In this contest we call on all the people, public bodies, and the press, to help." 'Progressive Legislative Committee" LITTLE GIRL INJURED Thersia Stimmel Fell, Dislocating Hip. While running from other children who were chasing her, Thersia Stimmel, the seven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Stimmel 916H Main street, fell at Seventh and North D street about 11:30 o'clock this morning dislocating her right hip. The little girl was taken into a nearby home and medical aid summoned. Little Miss Stimmel had just left the Warner school building where she attends school when playmates started to chase her, she says. As she started to run across the street she fell HALPIN'S RIFLES MISS ONE ROBBER tKatlonal News Association) CHICAGO, Jan. 10. Halpin's fles. the detachment of taxicab poL'ce armed with riot guns who have scour - ed the city under direction of Captain of Detectives Halpin in search of the auto bandits still have a task before them. Just after they had stepped Into their automobiles and started out on the night's hunt a gray automobile stopped at the curb in front of John Lannes & Company's jewelry store in Halstead street. A man jumped out of the car, walked up to the window, threw a brick through it, helped, bimself to $1,000 worth of diamonds, reentered the car and the chauffeur whisked him away. The robber and the chauffeur were the only occupants of the car. The robbery occurred within a block of a police station. The depredation is the nineteenth since the auto-bandits began their campaign bere. The police are working harder than ver on the caBe todayA - - - -

' ,,1'fi - . X -.v!.ltv - MRS. J. M. MUNYON. PHILIDELPHIA. Pan. 10. "From Parisian thousand dollar gowns to farm frocks," might be the title of the latest chapter in Mrs. J. M. Munyon's Interesting career. Although not divorced from Dr.'Munyon, the multi-millionaire medicine man, she has adopted her maiden name of Pauline Neff, by which she is known to the countryfolk in Point Pleasant, Pa., near which the farm is situated on which she is now busily engaged raising chickens. Mrs. Munyon denied the story that she had left the stage because Dr. Munyon had paid her a large sum of money to do so, but said she was sick of the artificial life and longed to get back to the country in which she lived as a child. DISPLAY PRODUCTS OF LOCAL FACTORY ' " "4. Exhibit Arranged for Rumelv Men Who Visit Here . Tomorrow. hm. wm k f the M Rumely ,nBpectlon tour wnen the party arrives here tomorrow from ! MIchlgaQ The new ware. house has been set aside in which to j ichIne( manufactured Dy thls brancn j w. 1 J - ...... gines and the party will see practical demonstrations of the workings at ; both product8. Gne of the large ty, ., , TV,,fcI , w ,-,i oi its aides and will be operated by a 40-80 horse power gas tractor. Steam engines are exhibited, ranging in size from the small models used in this vicinity to the large models that are used for plowing the larre western farms. Portable sawmill engines, from 6 horse power to 50 horse power win aiso De on exnimiion. me party, who win arrive here tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock on a 12-coach Pullman train pulled by two engines, will be taken immediately to me uaar acou piani wnere tney win stay until i:4o o ciock. Tney wm then be taken to the Koblnson factory and

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there make an inspection of the pro-1 tbe ranks of the Unionists and served ducts of that plant, until 4 o'clock. 1 unaer Sherman throughout the war. From 4 ociock until 6:30 o'clock, j though for a short time was transferwhen the welcome banquet will be jred to tne ArmT of the p0tomac under held at the V. M. C. A., the men will j Mcdellan. For some time prior to be at their leisure to Inspect the ! hia death he was one of the few sure-it y. At 6:30 o ciock the entire party virtlJg members of the army of solof almost 300 men will attend the wei- j dierB which marched with Sherman to come banquet given by the Commer-the Bea.)He was a corporaL He dlscial club. The party will leave for La ! tinguished bimself many times Porte, at 11 o ciock, where the trip will j ttrough the course of the war. ? He end- jhas lived in Richmond for the past W. H. Campbell." one of the" works j twenty-two years. ) managers of the Gaar-Scott branch of Dr wilson is survived by the widow, the M. Rumely company, accompanied Susan novd Wilson, four children.

the party until late last night, when 'he "turned to this city to complete the arrangements - for t;ne emercam - f ment of the men here. He stated this

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:d n(1 h,- b nt-rtain-d .TrrT , minute of their time. ELECT RAIFORD TO STUDENT COUNCIL T. Ernest Raiford was elected to the student' council of Bundy Hall, Earlham, ln the place of Allan Lancaster, who has left college, ptaiford's election was ratified by a meeting of the men yesterday and be will asadme his responsibilities immediately. They also decided to have a case built for Karlham trophies won on field track, or platform. It will be placed In the parlor in Bundy HalL ) THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Rain or snow tonight and probably Saturday; 0$ much change in temperature.

Pujo Money Trust Committee Orders that a Physician Examine the Oil Magnate at Miami, Fla.

WALL STREET BOSS IS WITNESS TODAY Thinks the Minority Railroad Stockholders Should Be Protected, but Can Offer No Remedy for Same. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. The money trust . investigating committee today ordered Chairman Pujo to select a physician to meet William Rockefeller at Miami, Fla., when he arrives from the West Indies to ascertain his exact physical condition. The chairman announced he would make public the name of the physician at a later date. HE URGES PROTECTION. WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. Protection for minority stockholders when a railroad is sold was urged by George -F. Baker, Wall street's leading financier, before the Pujo money trust committee today. He cited the Instance when he purchased the Central Railroad of New Jersey as evidence of his belief. While minority stockholders should be safeguarded, be said. It was hardly practical to enact a law which would j save the little man when a railroad changes hands. The "boss of Wall street" again protested against publicity of operations of banks and declined to give the committee the list of a pool syndicate for stock promotion which the First Securities company and the First National bank of New York have engineered. He could not say that publicity to prevent borrowing of bank funds by officers and dirceTtors was advisable. Mr. Baker could recall the details of none of his railroad deals, especially, in the anthracite coal regions, and did not remember the loan of millions on bonds Issued by the Southern railroad. He informed the committee that presnt da railroad president are prsctl j cal men and are selected uniformly by financial interests in control of tho road. The . committee today adopted the plan of placing witnesses under oath as a guard against extravagant and careless statements. WILSON DIED FROM PNEUMONIA ATTACK Prominent Dentist Was a Member of Sol Meredith Post G. A. R. After suffering from a serere attack of pneumonia for the past two weeks' Dr. C. S. Wilson, a prominent J member of the G. A R., and one of of Richmond. the otoneer dentists j passed away at an early hour this J morning at his home. 115 South Fourteenth street) j,r yjison mag born in Fayette county, Js January 13. 1842. When the Civil War broke out he enlisted with Pani aTwl Srnt. wilson. of Marion. Ill: j Meriam Miles Wilson, of Ft. Wayne, ; phv wiionn nf thl Ht nrl two brothers. George If. Wilson, of Elwood. Indiana, and Sanford Wilson, of Cambridge City. Eur.al will be in Earlham cemetery. The funeral will be held from the home, 115 South Fourteenth street at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The deceased was an active member of the First Christian church. PINS DOLLAR BILL ON A POSTAL CARD A postal card was received by Secretary Jordan of the Commercial club this morning from Stephen S. Kuth. of the State Line Fruit farm, nt of the city, upon which was pinned a . one-dollar bill, with the request that the secretary accept it in payment of admission to the banquet to be given j at the Y. M. C. A. tomorrow evening. 4 Postmaster Haas declared that this . was the first paper bill that has fr : ben sent through the local postoffloe : oa a card. . - " " 4