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REP, MURDOCH GETS OTHERS SQUIRMING

Matter of Publication of Expense Accounts Source of Worry. MOTION WAS CAUSE Discussion Started When ; Murdock Introduced ? . Resolution. (Palladium Special) i WASHINGTON, April 23. Representative Murdock, of Kansas, the floor leader of the Progressives in the House, has got both Democrats and Republicans squirming over the publication of their expense accounts for the last campaign, together with the statements of contributions and expenditures filed by the treasurers of the Progressive, Democratic and Republican national committees. The Democrats especially are up against a plain problem of keeping faith with their widely trumpeted demand for campaign fund publicity or demonstrating by their actions now that their talk has been buncombe for campaign consumption alone. For eight or ten years, the Democrats have been loud in their demands for camDaizn fund publicity. Mr. Bryan, especially, has been a most ardent advocate of the plan of compelting all candidates to make explicit statements of contributions both Tbefore and after election. A law was passed which was hailed by Democrats all over the counttry as a great triumph for the principle of publicity. But the law has been drawn with extreme cleverness, so that it merely provided for the filing of statements vith the clerk of the House and said lever a word about the printing or 'publication of them. It did not even provide against their destruction, vhich will take place automatically, inder the general practice with such tecords, after eighteen months. All the national committee treasurers filed their statements last fall as fceauired, and most of the candidates for congress filed theirs. For a day or two, at the prescribed times of filing, the newspaper men In Washington had access to these statements, and articles of varying length were printed, confined almostwholly to the mere statement of total contributions And expenditures, with the names of the largest contributors to the various funds. Such publicity as there was dealt almost wholly with the national funds, and there was next to no comment about the congressional statements. There was no examination of any of the statements in detail, and there never has been any real publicity of them, nor was it ever possible for Individuals away from Washington to examine them. All of which was very satisfactory to both Democrats and Republicans. 1 The Progressives have not made anything like the hullaballoo over campaign publicity that has distinguished the Democratic campaigns, but they declared in favor of the principle In their platforms and in numerous cases where publicity of contributions only was demanded they filed statements giving expenditures as well. Mr. Murdock is a believer in giving practical effect to the platform declarations as well as theoretical support to them during a campaign. So he prepared a resolution providing for the printing of the records on file with the clerk of the House as a public document. He had his resolution ready on the first day of the session and at the earliest opportunity sought the floor to bring It up. Both the Democratic and Republican leaders had been informed of his purpose. The result was that as -soon as he addressed the Speaker, a motion to adjourn was motion is always in order and is not debatable, so that there was no oppor tunity for Mr. Murdock to tell the Hou.se what he wanted to do. The Democrats followed their leader and voted to adjourn, cutting Mr. Murdock off for that day. .Then Mr. Murdock formally introduced his resolution. Such matters usually go to the committee on printing, but for some reason this one was referred to the committee on accounts, where it is still slumbering. This was the status of the matter when, at the opening of the session on April 17th, the Speaker laid before the house the report of the clerk, for the purpose of having it printed. '-. Mr. Murdock promptly asked Mr. Clark if the report included there statements of contributions and expenditures. The Speaker replied that It did not, and explained that he did not think he had authority to direct the clerk to include them, but he would entertain a motion to have that done. Immediately Mr. Murdock made that motion, and then the fun began. : Hardwick of Georgia, a Democrat of the old school, promptly raised a point tit order against the motion. He said that if Mr. Murdock would ask unanimous consent to have the statements printed he would not object. Mr. Murdock knew plenty of other Democrats who "would object, however, so he did not fall Into that trap. - Sherley, of Kentucky, one of the most adroit members of the Democratic machine, jumped to Hardwick's support. He declared that the duty laid on the clerk by the law was to file the statements, not to print them, and that if it was desired to have the I statements printed the proper proced ure would be to change the law. Mr. Sherley Is a firm believer in the literal observation of the law. Mr. Murdock replied that the House has complete power over the clerk and could direct him to print the statements if it desired. Mr. Lloyd of Missouri, another old school Democrat, who, from having been chairman of the Democratic Congressional committee knew pretty

well what sort of disclosures will be made if these statements of congressional campaign funds are ever printed, got into the fracas then with the assertion that publicity had been given already. Mr. Murdock at once exploded that by showing how little publicity there really had been. He added that the statements should put into document form so that the constituents of members and the people generally could gain easy access to them, and so that they could be permanently preserved. All this time the Republicans had sat silent. But now Mr. Mann, their astnte floor leader. Jumped in with a cogent argument to show that the Murdock motion was in order. Having done that he went on to complicate the situation by injecting a new technicality as a reason why the statements should not be printed.

The controversy finally brought the Democratic leaders, Underwood and Fitzgerald to the floor. Fitzgerald is the Pat McCarren machinist who deserted his party to help Uncle Joe Cannon the last time the ex-czar from Danville was elected speaker. Since then Fitzgerald has been made chairman of the great committee on appropriations and now he is being good as far as the Democratic machine in the House is concerned. With this array of leaders in action it was apparent that the motion of Mr. Murdock was doomed, and it occasioned no surprise, therefore, when Speaker Clark sustained Mr. Hardwick's point and declared out of order the motion which he had invited Mr. Murdock to make. Thus for the second time Mr. Murdock had put the Democrats to a test of their sincerity on campaign fund publicity and they had gone on record as against it. But he is not through with the matter yet, and other opportunities will arise. In the end, not only will the statements be printed but the whole country will understand the hollowness of the Democratic pretense in favor of campaign publicity. MONTENEGRO WILL NOT GET SCUTARI Powers to Deprive Little Nation of City Which Cost It So Heavily. (National News Association) VIENNA April 23. Montenegro will not be allowed to keep Scutari, despite the terrible sacrifice of human life made for its capture. This was the ultimatum of the powers today. Diplomats here announced that the decision of the European powers to retain Scutari as an Albanian city would not be altered. If Europe's smallest kingdom persists in defying the powers complications of a serious nature will follow. SCUTARI CAPTURED. GETTINJE, Montenegro, April 23. King Nicholas of Montenegro, accompanied by Crown Prince Danilo and the Montenegrin staff, entered the captured city of Scutari in triumph today. After a long siege which 'began October 20, when Montenegro declared war against Turkey, the Montenegrin flaff finally flies over Scutari. Three thousand Montegrins were killed in the final assault Tuesday, and 5,000 Turks fell. Twenty-two thousand Turkish prisoners of war were taken. Since the siege began 1,000 Montengrins have been killed or wounded. The accault upon the Turkish city was one of the most remarkable of modern times. Despite the repeated demands the European powers made that the bombardment cease, the Montenegrins grimly continued their attacks upon city assisted in the last few weeks by the Servians. The final fall of the city is chiefly due to the Servian artillery. The Servians moved several batteries of powerful siege guns to the firing line. Almost continuously day and night for three weeks the Servian guns kept up a terrific ire upon the fortress surrounding the city. The Montenegrins fought with great bravery. Repeated attacks upon the citadel of Tarabousch, the Montenegrin soldiers sacrificed their lives with a recklessness which commanded the admiration of all Europe. A corps of 200 Montenegrins climbed the steps of Tarabosch to cut the wire renoes which the Turks had erected to impede charges. Each soldier knew he was going to his death and not a man of the 200 survived. Scutari fell before a grand assault made by the Montenegrins and their Servian allies after a final general bombardment of 48 hours, during which the city was set on fire. The flames were communicated to an im mense powder magazine, which ploded. exGen. Martinovitch, the Montenegrin minister of war, who has been in the field at the head of the western division of the Montenegrin army, since the Balkan war broke out, led the first column which entered the fallen city Famine, disease and violent death was seen on ever hand. PYTHIAN CALENDAR Coeur De Lion lodge meeting Tuesday evening, April 22, 7:30 p. m. Some Old Beliefs. The old beliefs persist in southern Europe, and a tragic comic instance reaches me from Venice. A cockatoo, kept by a British resident as a pet. had been accustomed to promenade about the roof garden when the family went up there. But one day recently it extended its constitutional to a neighbor's roof and was promptly shot by him. He subsequently offered as a complete explanation the plea that he thought It was an owl and that there was a very young baby In bis household. Now, students of ancient Greek and Roman augury know that the perching of an owl on the roof foreboded death to one of the inmates, while Ovid is among those who charge screech owls with sucking the blood of infants. London Express.

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Furnished by Correll and Thompson. I. O. O. F. Bldg. Phone 1446. NEW YORK STOCK QUOTATIONS Open Am. Can. ..34 Amal Copper ... 71 Am. Stmelter 70 U. S. Steel 6214 Atchison 101 St. Paul 109 Gt. No. Pfd 128 Lehigh Valley 160 N. Y. Cen 102 No. Pac 116 Pa 114 Reading 164 M So. Pac 99 Union Pac 1544 Close 34tf 77 694 624 101 109 128 160 103 116 115 164 99 154 Hogs, 2,000; light, $8.658.90; mixed, $8.608.92; heavy, $8.40 8.85; rough, $8.408.55. Cattle, 2200; steady. Sheep, 18,000; steady. CHICAGO GRAIN WHEAT. Open May 91 V July 91 Sept 9014 CORN. May 56 July 56 Sept 56 OATS. May 34 July 34 Sept 341; Close 92 92 91 55 56 57 34 34 34 CHICAGO LIVESTOCK CHICAGO, April 23. Hogs, receipts, 32,000, market, 10 to 15c lower; top price, $8.90; bulk of sales, $8.708.85. Cattle, receipts, 22,000, market, 10 to 15c lower; beeves, $7.40 9.15. Calves, $6.508.25. Sheep, receipts, 18,000; natives and westerns, $5.507.10; lambs, $6.658.75. PITTSBURG LIVESTOCK PITTSBURG, April 23. Cattle, supply light; market steady; choice beeves $8.60 8.80; tidy butchers, $7.758.10; veal calves. $8.509.00. Sheep and lambs, supply, 1,500; market, higher; prime sheep, $6.306.50; lambs, $8.2511.00. Hogs, receipts, 2,000, market, lower; prime heavies, $8.059.10; pigs, $9.359.40. CINCINNATI LIVESTOCK CINCINNATI, April 23. Cattle, receipts, $3.75; market, slow; choice steers, $8.25. Calves, $9.50. Hogs, receipts, 1,500; market, slow; top prices, $9.15. Sheep, receipts, 25; prime, $6.50; lambs, $8.25. INDIANAPOLIS LIVE STOCK INDIANAPOLIS, April 23. Hogs, receipts, 5,500, market 20c lower; tops, $8.95; bulk of sales,. $8.90. Cattle, receipts, 1100; choice steers, $8.25; other grades, $2.00 8.00. Sheep and lambs, receipts 100, market steady; prime sheep $6.00; lambs, $7.75; spring lambs, $11.00. INDIANAPOLIS GRAIN INDIANAPOLIS, April 23. Wheat, Cash No. 2 red, $1.07. Corn, Cash No. 3 white, 60. Oats, Cash No. 2 white, $7. TOLEDO GRAIN TOLEDO, April 23. Cash grain: Wheat, $1.09; Corn, 57 ; Oats, 37; Cloverseed, cash, $13.50. RICHMOND MARKET PRODUCE. (Corrected daily by Ed. phone 2577.) Cooper, Old Hens, per lb 15c Old Roosters, per lb 8c Young Chickens, per lb. ...18c to 20c Eggs, per dozen , 14c Country Butter, per lb 28c GRAIN MARKET. (Corrected daily by Richmond Roller Mills, phone 2019.) Wheat, per bu $1.05 Oats, per bu 30c Corn, per bu 58c Rye, per bu 50c Bran, per ton $24.00 Middlings, per ton $26.00 WAGON MARKET. (Corrected daily by Omer Whelan, phone 1679.) Corn, per bu 55c Oats, per bu 30c Timothy hay, per ton $14.00 Clover hay $10.00 Rye straw $6.00 Oats or wheat straw $5.00 "Pall Mall." Even the British, the London British, are not agreed upon the proper pronunciation of -Pall Mall." The Pall Mall Gazette has published scores of letters on the subject, one from J. Henderson Couter, being ia part as follows: "It really does not seem to matter much whether Pall Mall used to be 'Paille Ma ill e' or 'Pawl Mawl. Both are probably Incorrect ety Biologically. I had an old grandmother, one of the old school. Were she alive today she would be about 110. She always spoke of it as 'Pell MelL Bot, then, she preserved most of the old fashioned- pronunciations, such as Taylock for lilac, 'obleege for oblige, sassingers' for sausages and 'gould for gold. This may have been, and probably was. a sheer affectation on her part. Anyhow, she tested a new manservant by hearing how he could knock on a front door."

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Some Merchants Say Company Should Stand Loss of Freight in Flood. Who will be responsible for freight lost or damaged during the floods is a question which is interesting local merchants. The railroad company is said to be responsible by the merchants but railroad officials state that clauses in their bills of lading release them from liability in case of floods. The Adam H. Bartel company shipped merchandise amounting to $1,300 shortly before the flood and the cars in which the goods were shipped were submerged under water for five days at Dayton. Ben Bartel, an officer of the company stated, "We are not liable for the goods which we shipped but the question of liability for the goods lies with the merchant to whom the goods were consigned and the railroad company. Much of the goods was confiscated by the relief committee at Dayton and we believe the railroad can be held responsible for the loss. We will assist our customers in filing and obtaining claims for goods lost in that way." Walter McConaha of the McConaha company, stated that although they had lost no freight during the floods, he does not believe that railroad cdmpanies can be held responsible as it is clearly stated in the bills of lading that the companies will not stand responsible. Other local merchants are divided on the question. Charles D. Slifer, freight agent of the Pennsylvania railroad company in this city stated that he knew of no merchants in Richmond who lost any freight during the flood. "The railroad company could not be held responsible for goods lost during the flood as the shipper releases the railroad company from any liability when he signs the bill of lading. In the conditions to which the shipper agrees is a clause which says that the company shall not be responsible for any delay, loss or damage which may result from 'any act of God,' under which floods would be classed." BELGIUM REJOICES ON STRIKE RESULT End of Clerical Control of the Government Is the Prediction Now Made. (National News Association) BRUSSELS, April 23. There was national rejoicing today on the part of the socialist workmen over their victory in the Manhood suffrage strike. The laboring class has won a great victory and it is predicted that the end of the clerical control of the government is in sight. King Albert is reported to have played a strong hand in guiding the government's policy. The King is also said to have spoken to Premier Broqueville against the plural voting power of rich Belgians calling it "arbitrary and unconstitutional." The newspapers were published here today, all the printers and sterotypers having returned to work. While 20,000 workmen resumed their posts, there will not be a complete resumption until Monday. The strike committee, headed by M. Vandervelde, met today and adopted a resolution ordering the men to return to work unless it develops that a political trick has been attempted to break the strike without giving the men their demands. Even the most radical of the. strike leaders do not believe, however, the the government rsorted to an artifice to overcome the strik. The language of the resolution was merely precautionary. The commission appointed by the government to draft electoral reforms held Its first meeting today. A great parade was held here by thousands of socialist workmen. Banners were displayed bearing such inscriptions as "victory in peace is greater tahn victory in war." This was based on the methods used by the strikers. In consequence of the workmen's victory it is said that the government will abolish plural voting and extend suffrage to all males possessing voting qualifications. There is a possibility that the socialists may control the government in the course of a fewyears. When Join Rimsd With Vine. Some mispronounciations of today once enjoyed the highest standing. We must not think that Shakespeare was sinning when he rimed groin, swine. Indeed, ol, like long i (as in ice I. sur vived regularly through the eighteenth century. When a countrywoman of our time watches the kettle bile or jines the church she has behind her Cowley's join, vine: Gray's shine. Join: Pope's join, divine; Dryden's join, design: Addison's find, joined; Coleridge's joined, mind; Wordsworth's Joined, kind, and Byron's aisles, toils. Indeed, so late a writer as Bulwer gives us mind, enjoined, which sounds as dialectical as Gray's toll, smile. It Is no wonder that Joel Barlow, the author of our own great typographical epic, The Columbtad." jined join and divine. Yale Review. . . Ab-ntminded La Fontaine. delight of adult Frenchmen and their children's earliest task, -was very absentmmded. He went to the court of Louts XVI. to present a copy of his rabies to the king. And be forgot the book. Fortunately, the king knw La Fontaine, his fables and his foibles and gave him a thousand pistoles (about $250). Unfortunately, though. La Fontaine left the money in bis hired carriage on his way back to Paris.

PROVES PARENTAGE AND GETS $400,000. Mrs. Dorothea McVickar, who has been awarded $400,000 after years of litigation to establish her identity as a daughter of D, Edgar Grouse, a Syracuse millionaire. She was contested by twenty-seven other heirs. PLAINTIFF TESTIFIES In His Suit Against Physicians. The malpractice suit of Earl A. Savage against Dr. Richard Schillinger and Dr. Charles Marvel was continued today. The main witnesses were attendants and patients at the hospital at the time Savage was confined there. Savage took the stand for a short time. One of the main witnesses was Wm. H. Richie who testified that he was an inmate of the hospital at the time Savage was there. He told the court that a small weight was placed on Savage's leg and that eight or nine days later another additional weight was placed there. It is alleged in the Interrogatories that a weight of twenty pounds was placed on the limb to keep It properly in place. The plaintiff alleges that this is not a fact but that only a weight of eight or nine pounds was placed on his limb. Richie's testimony substantiated that of the plaintiff. The jury obtained yesterday afternoon is composed of W. S. Eliason, Fred E. Smith, Thomas B. Martin, Frank W. Leighton, John Ward. Frank Allison, Samuel Barnes, John W. Retz, Chas. Knollenberg, J. E. Dunham, Frank Eliason and Oliver Spencer. PROVIDE WORK FOR RELEASED CONVICTS Aid Will Be Given Men Just Out of Prison By Chicago Society. (Palladium Special) CHICAGO, April 23 Jobs for released prinoners will be supplied in Chicago by an organization which devotes itself to their assistance, the Central Howard association, which soon will add a department to be known as the "Howard Industries." The first work installed will oe envelope addressing' which does not re quire skill or training, which many of the released men lack. "Unless a man gets some means for immediate support it is not hard to understand why some revert to old ways." Superintendent Lyon said "The fact that they are juts out of prison closes many doors which should be open, and with no money, the sense of disgrace and the feeling of helplessness that comes with lack of a trade keeping straight is made too hard, and our plan is to have work that such men can do right away, getting their pay at night if they want or need it, and working right under our eye so that we can help them and have them at call when a permanent job has been secured for them." The association made a convincing record last year as to the value to society of giving the prisoners aid when they are released, the earnings of those under observation having been 89 times the cost of the maintenance the association, although It has nad but meager puDiic support, Based upon the earnings of paroled j men the total was nearly a million dollars for the 1612 men under obserCASE IS DISMISSED The case of George G. Wright against Jay, Dye. Price and Harris, for $10,000, filed in the United States court at Indianapolis, has been dismissed at the plaintiffs cost. A rat proof corn crib is made of concrete and wire mesh, with tin root.

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Charges Were Preferred Against Him At Presbytery Meeting. SESSIONS CLOSE TODAY Sullivan or Vincennes May Be Chosen As Place For Assembly. (National News Association) EVAXSVILLE, Ind.. April 23 Complete dismissal from the ministry was voted by the Indiana Presbytery yesterday in the case of Dr. Winfield O. Helt. formerly superintendent of the Evansville district of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. Dr. Helt's sudden desertion of the league three years ago, after several t years of - successful work, with his explanation that he believed the organization was defeating its purpose by a too radical program, caused natlan.vflA ertmrriATit nii hrnnht rnm. I mendation from the liberal organizations of the country and censure from temperance people. Charges preferred against him at a Presbytery meeting in Vincennes were canvassed and the committee recommended more than a year ago, that on his failure to make a defense a suspension from the ministry be ordered. Opportunity for a defense and an exoneration was offered the former antisaloon worker, but it was said in the Presbytery meeting that he had failed to communicate with the church body at all and the step, removing him from the ministry permanently, was taken. Dr. Helt oroDOsed organizing a rational reform league, to put into effect his ideas of an educational campaign preceding abolition of the saloon, but dropped the project. He went to Mississippi as a planter and is reported now to be in business in Fort Worth, Tex. Delegates chosen for the General Assembly at Atlanta. Ga.. in May, are the Rev. John Kennedy, of Evansville, the Rev. Henry M. Rogers, of Vincennes, and the elders. W. S. Aldridge, of Farmersburg, and J. Elmer McCarty of Fort Branch. Progress in home mission work was reported by the committee . supervis ing that branch of church activity. Nearly all of the pastors in mission charges have had an increase of salary In the last year. The Rev. G. H. L. Beeman of Greencastle, Ind., state field secretary of the National Reform Association, ad dressed the Presbytery on the World's Christian Citizenship Conference to be held in Portland. Ore., in June. Features last night were addressed by John C. Chaney of Sullivan on "The Preacher's Home" and the Rev. S. W. Hlnitt, president of Central University, Danville, Ky., on "Church EducaUon." The Rev. Benjamin H. Rankin of Worthington, Ind., is moderator. The concluding sessions are being held. Sullivan and Vincennes are mentioned as cities where the next assembly will f be held. Theodore Ruff, a teamster, has been In the employ of the Cudahy Bros, com-1 pany In Milwaukee for the last twentyfive years. He has missed only three days in that time. Edward G. Acheson, whose discoveries with the electrical furnace have been of immense value to the industrial world, has received an important decoratidn from the czar of Russia. CENTER VI

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No suitable applicant can be found to take the place of Truant Officer George Bishop, who recently resigned. The salary connected with the office id but $2 per day. This sum the official of the schools believe Inadequate. According to Trustee James Howarth, $5 per day should be paid. County Supt. Williams commended the work done by Bishop and stated today he would attempt to have the former official reconsider his resignation. AN APPROPRIATION BILL WAS PASSED (National Nw AsaocUtlen) WASHINGTON. April The house yesterday passed the Indlajt appropriation bill, which was defeatVd last March by a senate filibuster, and then adjourned until today at noon. The senate finance committee hat definitely decided to grant no hearings on the tariff bill, not even to senators or members of the house. The committee will consider any statement or brief submitted In writing. Hearings on currency legislation were decided upon by the senate committee on banking and currency, with authorized the presentation of a resolution granting the necessary authorization to send for persona and papers. The hearings will begin within two weeks. BAR TANGO DANCE FROM FRAT HOUSES (National News Association) CHICAGO. April 23. The Tango and other kindred dances will be barred out of Northwestern University sorority houses permanently as the result of a referendum vote taken by fourteen girls societies. "We will not dance the Tango at our sorority houses, said Miss Paul j ine Person, head of the Pan-Hallenic conference when she announced the vote to Miss Irene Blanchard, dean of women, "but please understand that the girls are not pledged not to dance it elsewhere at fraternity houses, for example." TAKE DR. SIMPSON'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND to put your blood in "fit" condition for the hot weather. If there should be a diseased condition, of course you need it. If not, it will take less as a thorough cleanser, and "Spring tonic," than of any other. - All Drug Stores Sterling Silver TEA SPOONS Good heavy weights, nice patterns. 75c, SI S1.25 up V The Jeweler 810 Main Street LLE, INDIANA. FOR YOU IVO 1017 AND 1019 MAIN STREET

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