Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 127, 8 April 1913 — Page 1

BICHMONB A ABIUM A AND SUN-TELEGRAM Vol. xxxviii. no. 127 RICHMOND, IND, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1913 SINGLE COPY 2 CENTS

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CONDEMN ALL HAPPYHOLLDW At Council Meeting He Suggested That City Force the Residents To Move on Ground Provided By City. COUNCIL AGAINST 17th STREET DAM Councilmanic Committee Will Take Matter Up With Park and Lake Officials This Evening. The city council last night devoted Its time to discussing the advisability of condemning the dam to be built in the Whitewater river and trauing the ground in that section of the city, known as "Happy Hollow" for city building lots, using that land for parking purposes. The sum of $250 for the flood sufferers find $800 for rebuilding the bridges and roads in Glen Miller park were appropriated.J In a communication from Mayor Zimmerman to the council last night, the city's executive rtated that he believes it advisable to take some action towards protecting the factories and residents who live in the river bottom, saying that the dam which is being built at Seventeenth street may prove a menace to the people' and recommending immediate action on the matter. "If that dam should break during Ihigh water," stated the mayor," what jwould become of our light plant, the i Starr Piano company, the traction j power house and the plant of the Light, Heat and Power company, to say nothing of the persons who live in the path which the river takes during high water? While I am not opposing the building of the dam, I believe that some precautions should be taken for the protection of these factories, even though we must condemn the dam before any further steps are taken to build it. Mayor's Opinion. "I believe that a committee should he appointed at once to discuss the dam proposition and to lay before the promoters of the plan, the danger to which the factories and residents of the river bottom will be subjected. A body of water which will back up to New Paris, according to Information received, if released, would wash every thing in front of it as it swept through the river bottom below." City Engineer Fred Charles and City Attorney Bond defended the dam saying that, It would act as a check for the high: water instead of being a menace to the people as the mayor represented. ."The lake formed by the dam," said .City Engineer Charles, "will be three-fourths of a mile long and nine teen feet deep in the deepest part. The dam itself will be 400 feet in width and at the widest part, the like will be only 1,000 feet wide. This Is a comparatively small lake and dam. The government is building retaining dams to lessen the flood pressure of the water all over the. country." Councilmen did not agree with Engineer Charles but endorsed the stand of Mayor Zimmerman. "What's the uee of having that dam anyway?" askied one. "It don't do the city any good, jits only for a little pleasure and we don't need it. I believe that we might as well condemn it." Other councilmen expressed the same opinion. Discuss Matter Tonight. The committee composed of Councilmen Bartel, King and Weasel with City ' Attorney Bond and Mr. Charles will make an immediate investigation of the dam and the plans, employing an expert on the matter if necessary to examine the plans and specifications and determine the strength of the proposed dam. The committee will meet tonight at the Commercial club rooms with Ray Robinson, president of the Hawkins Lake and Park project. ? Plans for the condemnation of Happy Hollow were discussed but no action was taken in the matter. The councilmen did not seem enthusiastic over the proposition presentedby the mayor who believes that the city should condemn the property, order every resident off of it and give the property owners, good city lots in exchange for the property in Harpy Hollow. Flood In "Hollow." "In order to save loss of life which Is sure to occur some time," said the mayor, "we should condemn the build- " Ings In Happy Hollow. We know that the floods are bigger every year and there will be a time when the water - sweeps Happy Hollow every spring as it has done this year. We own the top of the hill, which we purchased for the purpose of erecting a pest house." he stated, "and we could pass an ordinance requiring , the residents of Happy Hollow "to move to the city property above." "What if we would make a park of It." said one councilman. "Every year all our swings would be washed away by the floods." Appropriation Made. Jn accordance with council's agreement with the Commercial club, $250 was appropriated to go into the fund which will be contributed to the cities f Continued on Pace Font)

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POPE PIUS X. ROME, Italy, April 8. Pope Pius X, who is seriously ill, was visited by his sisters between the hours of 8 and 10 o'clock this morning and the demeanor of the women upon leaving the Vatican gave rise to the gravest fears over the aged pontiff's condition. The women wept unconsolably as they departed. The pope was constantly attended by his physicians since midnight. His temperature had risen to 100. It was unofficially reported that the pope is suffering from Bright's disease.

WOMEN THROW TOWN INTO GREAT PANIC Attempt to Wreck ruins of Dudley Castle and People Thought It a Quake. IS LATEST OUTRAGE 'Votes For Women and D n the Consequences," Read the Placards Found. (National News Association) LONDON. April 8 During the night suffragettes attempted to blow up the ruins of Dudley castle but were foiled on, account of the, loud noise of the explosives. Persons liv'ng near the castle, aroused by the sound, at first thought it was workmen blasting for. rocks, but as the explosions became heavier they became alarmed and soon the glass was falling from the windows within a radius of a mile. - The authorities found suffragette literature and a can which evidently contained explosives, near the scene. 1 Pamphlets were found with this in scription, "Votes for Women and D n the Consequences." Others read,. "In Honor of Mrs. Pankhurst." The suffragettes also seized an old cannon on the lawn at Dudley, loaded and fired it and the whole town was shaken. Men and women in their nightclothing ran into the streets asking one another about the earthquake. Miss Olive Wherry was released from jail this afternoon because of ill health resulting from her hunger strike. She was serving one year's imprisonment for arson. It is reported that Mrs. Pankhurst is quite ill in prison and her release is under consideration. WIFE OF JOHNSON IS CRITICALLY ILL (National News Association) CHICAGO, April 8. Lucile Cameron Johnson, the white wife of the negro champion pugilist, is critically ill at a hospital. Physicians stated that an operation for appendicitis would be performed later in the day. Mrs. Johnson was taken to the hospital at midnight from the negro's home in Wabash avenue. PROGRESSIVE BILL ENTERED IN HOUSE (National News Association) WASHINGTON, April 8. Representative Heinbaugh, Progressive, of Hlinois, introduced a preferential presidential primary bill in the house today. It provides for national control of political parties and makes the holding of national conventions optional In presidential campaigns.

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It AMERICAN TROOPER SLAIN BY MEXICANS Three Others Wounded ina Brawl in Tenderloin Section of San Antonio. BATTLE NOW RAGING Across the Arizona Line and Bullets are Pouring Into City of Douglas. (National News Association) GALVESTON, Tex., April 8. One United States soldier was killed and three others injured, two probably fatally, in a fight in the segregated district today, following a clash between the Mexicans and American troopers. Feeling was high today and it is feared another outbreak may occur. The soldier killed was private ! George Cooley, company D, Nine teenth Infantly, married, home at Olew;ein, Iowa. He was stabbed to death. One other contestant was stabbed, one was beaten with rocks and another suffered a fractured skull as a result of a blow from an iron bar. U. S. SOLDIERS WOUNDED. DOUGLAS, Ariz., April 8. A general engagement of state troops was still on at noon. .Two American soldiers patrolling the border were wounded, one through the shoulder and the other through the leg. A terrific rain of bullets fell on the American side. All business houses were closed and nearly all the Inhabitants of Douglas sought shelter in the opera house and other strong buildings. AUTO BANDITS ROB BANK IN GEORGIA (National News Association) ROME, Ga., April 8. The Bank of Commerce at Sommerville was blown up . and robbed by auto bandits who escaped with , $5,000 early . today. Deputy Sheriffs William Alexander and Stephen Barrett were shot and perhaps fatally wounded during a running pistol battle with the escaping outlaws. The robbers at first cut all the telephone and telegraph wires on all sides of the town. ADOPT RESOLUTION ON AN AMENDMENT f National News Association) HARTFORD Conn., April 8. Both branches of the Connecticut general assembly passed a resolution today ratifying an amendment to the federal constitution calling for the election of U. S. Senators fcx direct Tote of the people.

TELLS COUNCIL OF ITS POWERS City Attorney Reviews Public Utilities Act and Advises Passing Water Works Contract Bill. MUCH AUTHORITY IS GIVEN TO COUNCIL Can Dictate Terms and Conditions Under Which Any Corporation Can Use the Streets of City. City Attorney W. A. Bond last evening read a statement to council in which he explained the various provisions of the new public utilities commission law. He went into minute detail in his review of the statute and in conclusion advised council, at its first meeting in May, to introduce a contract-ordinance affecting the water works company which would regulate the operations of that corporation, and he further urged that council be assisted in the preparation of such an ordinance by commercial organizations and such citizens as are willing and able to give such assistance. Concerning the powers conferred on council by the public utilities commission act Mr. Bond said: Statement of Bond. Some of the most important provisions of this Act, so far as the same relate to the rights, duties and powers of city officials, especially to members of the common council, are set forth in Sec. 110, a part of which is as follows: "Every municipal council shall have power, (a) to determine by contract, ordinance or otherwise the quality and character of each kind of product or service to be furnished or rendered by any public utility furnishing any product or service within said municipality, and all other terms and con ditions, not inconsistent with this act, upon which such public utility may be permitted to occupy the streets, highways, or other pubttc'jproperty within such municipality, and such contract. ordinance or other determination of such municipality shall be' in force and prima facie ' reasonable, upon com plaint made by such public utility or in section 57 the commission shall et by any qualified complaint as provided a hearing as provided in section 57 to 71 and if it shall find such contract, ordinance or other determination to be unreasonable, suck contract, ordinance or other determination shall be void. (b) To require of any public utility by ordinance or otherwise such additions and extensions to its physical plant within said municipality as shall be reasonable and necessary in the Interest of the public, and to designate the location and nature of all such additions and extensions, the time within which they must be completed and all conditions under which they must be constructed subject to review by the commission as provided in subdivision (a) of this section. (c) "To provide for a penalty for non compliance with the provisions of any ordinance or resolution adopted pur suant to the provisions hereof, (d) The power and authority granted in this section shall exist and be vested in said municipalities anything in this act to the contrary notwithstanding." Reduced to its simplest form and stripped of all verbiage, and based only on action by ordinance, the first subdivision of this section would read as follows: Every municipal council shall .have power to determine by ordinance the quality and character of each product to be furnished, and all other terms and conditions upon which a public utility may be permitted to occupy the streets of such city, and such ordinance shall be in force and prima facie reasonable. If we specialize only with this city and the Water Works Company, using the words of the statute, then this power would be as follows: The common council of this city has power to determine by ordinance the quality and character of the water to be furnished and all other terms and conditions upon which the Richmond City Water Works Company may occupy the streets of this city, and such ordinance shall be in force and prima facie reasonable. This law, like all others, is not self acting; it requires something to be done by some body politic, corporation or individual or the commission itself, before its benefits are obtainable. The only question, perhaps, of much importance, which can arise concerning the powers of a city is: "Has it ! the autnomy to netermine ana nx rates by ordinance?" It undoubtedly can contract for rates under old laws, and I see no reason why It cannot do so when this law becomes effective, but any such (Continued on Page Eight) THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL Rain in south. Rain or snow in north portion tonight or Wednesday. Warmer Wednesday. , , "

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President's Message.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I have called the Congress together In extraordinary session because a duty was laid upon the party now In power at the recent elections which it ought to perform promptly, in order that the burden carried by the people under existing law may be lightened as soon as possible and in order also, that the business interests of the country may not be kept too long in suspense as to what the fiscal changes are to be to which they will be required to adjust themselves. It is clear to the whole country that the tariff duties must be altered. They must be changed to meet the radical alteration in the conditions of our economic life which the country has witnessed within the last generation. While the whole face and method of our industrial and commercial life were being changed beyond recognition he tariff schedules have remained what they were before the change began, or have moved in the direction they were given when no large circumstance of our industrial development was what it is today. Our task is to square them with the actual facts. The sooner that is done the Booner we shall escape from suffering from the facts and the sooner our men of business will be free to thrive by the law of nature (the nature of free business) InBtead of by the law of legislation and artificial arrangement. We have seen tariff legislation wander very far afield In our day very far indeed from the field In which our prosperity might have had a normal growth and stimulation. No one who looks the facts squarely in the face or knows anything that lies beneath the surface of action can fall to perceive the principles upon which recent tariff legislation has been based. We long ago passed beyond the modest notion of "protecting" the industries of the country and moved boldly forward to the idea that they were entitled to the direct patronage of the Government. For a long time a time so long that the men now active In public policy hardly remember the conditions that preceded It we have sought In our tariff schedules to give each group of manufacturers or producers what they themselves thought that they needed in order to maintain a practically exclusive market as

against the rest of the world. Consciously or unconsciously, we have built

up a set of privileges and exemptions from compeUtion behind which It was easy by any, even the crudest, forms of combination to organize monopoly; until at last nothing is normal, nothing is obliged to stand the tests of efficiency and economy, in our world of big business, but everything thrives by concerted arrangement. Only new principles of action will save us from a final hard crystallization of monopoly and a complete loss of the influences that qalcken enterprise and keep Independent energy alive. It is plain what those principles must be. We must abolish everything that bears even the semblance of privilege or of any kind" of artificial advantage, and put our business men and producers under the stimulation of a constant necess'ty to be efficient, economical, and enterprising, masters of competitive supremacy, better workers and merchants than any In the world. Aside from the duties laid upon articles which we do not, and probably can not, produce, therefore, and the duties laid upon luxuries and merely for the sake of the revenues they yield, the object of the tariff duties henceforth laid must be effective competition, the whetting of American wita by contest with the wits of the rest of the world. It would be unwise to move toward this end headlong, with reckless haste, or with strokes that cut at the very roots of what has grown up. amongst us by long process and at our own Invitation. It does not altar a thing to upset it and break it and deprive it of a chance to change. It destroys it. We must make changes In our fiscal laws, in our fiscal system, whose object is development, a more free and wholesome development, not revolution or upset-or confusion.- We. must build up trade, especially foreign trade. We need the outlet and the , enlarged field of energy more than we ever did before. We must build up Industry as well, and must adopt freedom In the place of artificial stimulation only so far as it will build, not pull down. In dealing with the tariff the method by which this may be done will be a matter of judgment, exercised Item by item. To soma not

accustomed to the excitements and methods may In some respects and at may be heroic and yet be remedies.

they are genuine remedies. Our object is clear. If our motive is above just challenge and only an occasional error of judgment is chargeable against

us, we shall be fortunate. . .I We are called upon to render the country a great service in more matters than one. Our responsibility should be met and our methods should be thorough as thorough as moderate and well considered, based upon the facts as they are, and not worked out as if we were beginners. We are to jdeal with the facts of bur own day, with the facts of no other, and to make laws which square with those facts. It Is best, indeed It is necessary, to begin with the tariff. I will urge nothing upon you now at the opening of your session which can obscure that first object or divert our energies from that clearly defined duty. At a later time I may take the liberty of calling your attention to reforms which should press close upon the heels of the tariff changes, if not accompany them, of which the chief is. the reform of our banking and currency laws; but just now I refrain. For the present. I put these matters on one side and think only of this one thing of the changes in our fiscal system which may best serve to open once more the free channels of prosperity to a great people whom we would serve to the utmost and throughout both rank and file. WOODROW WILSON. The White House, April 8, 1913.

SAYS CHILD MAY BE WITH WHITEjUVERS Father of Missing Girl Receives Letter From Cleveland Woman. (Palladium Special) NEWCASTLE, lnd April 8. Though the detectives in the case of the alleged abduction of Katherine Winters, of Newcastle, are still unable to give any definite Information, it la believed in Newcastle that they are confident she will be found with relatives. Even the legacy story Is not considered by detectives working on the case and it Is believed that the child was abducted by relatives either for revenge or the enmity said to be existing between Ivan Whialer, broth er-in-law- of . her father, or because of J the alleged ill feeling between, her i grandmother and her father. i Word was received from Cleveland from Mrs. Potter Gates who suggested that the child had been abducted by agents of the white slave traffic Tales of whlteslavery were told by Mrs. Gates who cited similar disappearances for which white slave agents are said to have been responsible. The authorities discredit this ' theory as well as the gypsy story." Many letters are being received by Dr. Winters stating that the child Is being seen traveling with gypsies through Ohio towns. CHAS. PUGH DEAD. (National News Association) NEWPORT NEWS, Va, April 8. Charles Pugh, 72 years of age, formerly vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad, died here today of apoplexy.

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responsibilities of greater freedom our some points seem heroic, but remedies It Is our business to make 'sure that FINAL CHAPTER 111 OTIS MRHS STORY Mrs. Helen Johnson Bailey and Former Local Man Married. (Palladium Special) INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. April 8. Cu pid brought Mrs. Helen Johnsou Bailey ; and Otis K. Kara into one of the parlors of the Y. W. C. A. yesterday! and assisted by a minister, The Rev. J. N. Greene, of the Broadway M. E. church and Clyde E. Titus sent them j away with In a few minutes as Mr.) and Mrs. Karns. Mr. Titus was the witness. Mr. Karns In a clerk in the railway mall service. Mr. and Mrs. Karnes will be at home after May 1 in Irvington. Mr. Karns formerly resided here and Is well known in Richmond. Mrs. Karnes has resided at 2004 South A street. ' Both have been married before. SWEDE EXPLORERS HAD TERRIBLE TIME (National Ntws Association) CHRISTIANA. Sweden. April 8 Four members of the Schroeder Stran Spitzenberger expedition arrived at Advance Bay today after a winter of almost unbearable suffering In the solitudes of Spltzbergen, where they were icebound. The explorers reported that an aviator and cook of the expedition aro dead and that Lieut. Schroeder Stranv, leader of the party, is missing and la believed to bestead.

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A PRECEDENT OF CENTURY WAS IGNORED President Quietly Motors To the National Capitol Today and Personally Delivers a Message. URGES REDUCTION IN TARIFF RATES House Chamber Was Crowded and the Greatest Attention Was Paid To Speaker. Was Cheered Enroute. (National News Association) WASHINGTON, April 8. I am very glad to have this opportunity to address the two houses directly and to verify for myself the impression that the president of the United States is a person, not a mere department of the government, hailing congress from an isolated island of jealous power, sending messages, not speaking naturally and with bis own voice that he Is a human being trying to co-operate with other human beings In a common service. After this pleasant experience I shall feel quite normal in all our dealings with one another." The above was President Wilson's impromptu Introductions to his formal message to congress, which he personally delivered today. HOUSE CHAMBER CROWDED. WASHINGTON. April 8. In the presence of senators and representatives attentively seated like a school class In the house chamber. President Wilson today shattered the precedent of a hundred years standing by ' personally reading, his first message tto congress. The galleries were Jammed, admission was chiefly by special card. The president arrived at the capltol a few minutes before 1 o'clock, accompanied only by Secretary Tumulty and a few secret service men. He hastily entered the east door and was escorted through the hallway to the private elevator which took him up to the speaker's private office. After greetings by Vice President Marshall and 8peaker Clark a committee of senators and representatives formally notified the president that the assembled lawmakers were ready to hear his message. The members In the chamber previously had been Instructed by Speaker Clark that they could not expect the usual freedom and must remain seated throughout the reading, like schoolboys. The warning waa taken In good spirit and the chamber and galleries were quite still when the president arose at the clerk's desk to speak. Seated on the speaker's rostrum were Speaker Champ Clark and Vice President Marshall. All members of the cabinet, except Secretary of State Bryan and Secretary of Commerce Redfleld followed the president to the capltol In carriages and occupied seats on the floor of the house. As soon as President Wilson had concluded he left the house, accompanied by the joint committee which had been appointed to escort him. He departed the same way he came, stepping into his automobile at 1:12 o'clock and returned to the white house. The president's visit to the capitol consumed scarcely more than a quarter of an hour. The president carried the text of his message written on small sheets of paper. Soon after the president had been escorted from the house chamber the senators and cabinet members departed. At 1:20 p. m. the house adjourned until Thursday and at the same moment the senate adjourned until noon tomorrow. For two blocks beyond the portico through which the president entered tbecapitol the asphalt road leading to the house waa lined with people who cheered and waved handkerchiefs and canes at his approach. Message Very Short One. The message was one of the shortest ever read before the United States congress. President Wilson called upon the national legislators to make good the promises of the Democratic party and devote the extraordinary session of Congress, called yesterday, to the revision of the tariff. President Wilson's message waa only about 1.200 words in length, and urged the national lawmakers to abolish everything that bears even the semblance or privilege or of any kind of artificial advantage. This revision, said the President, was necessary to meet the promises of the party and the altered conditions of economic life which the country had witnessed during the past generation. ( The President made it plainly evident that he wished to have the tariff revised before the legislators took nj any of the other reforms advocated by the Democratic party. He intimated, however, that the reform of banking and currency laws "might be taken up at the special session, -were the tariff snccesafully and speedily disposed of.