Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 333, 5 December 1914 — Page 10

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T&E RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, DEC. 6, 1914.

FRENCH REPORT ADVANCE NORTH OFJYS RIVER Infantry Attack at Dawn Captures Two Lines of Trenches and Make 500 Metre Gain.

Turkish Artillery in Action

FIGHTING IS TERRIFIC

Paris Claims Heavy Cannonading: of German Artillery

Brings No Appreciable Results in Battle. BY FRANKLIN P. MERRICK Staff Correspondent The International News Service. PARIS, Dec. 5. Successful results cf the offensive operations by the allies in the northern arena is reported in the official statement issued this afternoon. It states that appreciable progress has been made against the Germans north of the river L,ys. The French infantry, making an attack at dawn captured with one charge two

lines of the enemy's trenches and made a gain of 500 meters (about one third of a mile.) The fighting has become apparently terrific, the various opposing forces ndvancing from village to village. The Tho statement says that the allies hold part of the village of Weidendrcft, northwest of Langemaick. The official statement follows: "To the north of the Tys, we have Tealized appreciable progress. Our infantry, attacking at dawn, took some of tho enemy's lines of trenches. The gain was 500 meters. Capture Road. "Before Poesele half way between IMxmude and Ypres, we have taken on the right bank of the canal a road, over which there has been sharp fighting for a month. "The enemy has tried without succeps. with a violent attack of heavy artillery, to force us to evacuate the ground we have won. "In the region of Arras and in the Champagne district, there have been Intermittent cannonades here and there. Rhelms has been bombarded with particular intensity. "For our part we have destroyed with our heavy artillery numerous earthworks.

in tta Argotine region, the fighting

In very hot all the time. We have captured numerous trenches and have repulsed all counter-attacks. in Lorraine and in Alsace there Is

nothing important to report.

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The photograph shows a gun crew of the light field artillery of the Turkish army, photo

graphed during the Balkan war.

after the merger the patterns of the Gaar-Scott machines were Junked. All of this is taken to mean that it is the intention of the company to

abandon its Richmond plant, which a few years ago was Richmond's largest manufacturing industry. Runs on Small Scale. After the merger thousands of dollars were spent In improvements at the local plant, to be followed almost at once by the bottom dropping out of Rumely stocks. Since that time operations at the Richmond factory have been on a very small scale. The story was told today of how a vast sum of money was spent by the Rumelys at the Richmond plant, fol

lowing the merger, for the purpose of manufacturing gasoline engines. A large factory building was constructed and equipped to manufacture the engine perfected by the Gaar-Scott

BOMB EXPLOSION IGNITES FACTORY NEW YORK, Dec. 6. Score of lives were Imperilled early today by a fire which is believed to have been started by the explosion of a bomb placed in the hat factory at 311 Third stret, Jersey City. The flames spread rapidly to two frame buildings in the rear and caught the tenement house adjoining, where forty families were sleeping. The Jersey City Synagogue was also badly damaged. The fire was discovered by a policemen whose attention was attracted by a violent explosion.

company. Then one of the experts of the corporation produced an engine that was expected to revolutionize the industry, so the local engine factory was re-equipped to manufacture this

type. Before any were placed on the market a reorganization was effected and operations at the Richmond plant brought to a halt. Carload after carload of material which had been shipped into Richmond for the manufacture of the new engines was reloaded and sent to Laporte.

REPORT Oil ACCOUNTS

The funeral of Claude Cooper was held yesterday In Eaton while auditors from Pittsburg inspected the books of the young man who admitted that his accounts as station agent at Campbellstown, O- were short. The report of the auditors waa returned to Pittsburg. C. A. John has been appointed station agent to succeed Cooper. He assumed his duties yesterday morning. The auditors went through Cooper's accounts and then turned them over to the new agent. A shark's teeth are movable at will, and become erect at the moment the enimal is seizing its prey.

Falmouth is probably the oldest port in Kngland. It was used by the Phoenicans at least 2.500 years ago. Under British rule alone there are more than three hundred and twentyfive million dwellers in the tropics.

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Under the law the employment of any employe over the specified namw sTcnnt bv specific resolution

wniiM have been illegal. Any certifi

cate Issued for remuneration of such rtiminnal employe, employed in such

Illegal way would constitute the mak

ing out of a false claim. Basis of Indictments

The Indictments are based on war

rants drawn and certified to by the men who are Indicted. In several of them more than one of the indicted persons are named. The grand jury in making these Indictments took up first one warrant and then another, as they had been issued to employes, and

in the indictment named an me oiri iftlB who had either drawn or certii

fled to them. There were thirty-four

counts In all the indictments drawn

The report of the grand jury, in

Tart, follows:

To the Hon. Joseph T. Markey, Judge

of the Marion Crimical Court:

We. the grand Jurors for the county of Marion and state of Indiana, beg leave to make the following special

renort by renuest of Hon. Samuel M

Ralston, governor:

nn the Sth dav of October. 1914 the

rrand jury began an investigation o

matters which transpired during the

session of the legislature of 1913. as

uer your instructions. This investiga

tion continued uninterruptedly until

the 17th day of November. 1914, during which time we called before us and

heard the testimony of 157 witnesses,

as follows: The matter which was practically called to our attention, and concerning which practically all of the witnesses were interrogated, was in reference to Senate Hills 423 and 499. Laws on Statutes. On Page 711 of the acts of the general assembly of 1913. occurs as an ait of the legislature what is known as Chapter 24, which would have the effect to increase the salaries of certain deputy assessors. On Page 838 of the same acts there occurs as Chapter 310 what appears to be an act of the general assembly that would have the effect of Increasing the salary of the recorder of Iake county. In the session of the general assembly of 1913 these two hills were known respectively, as Senate Bills 499 and 423. Neither one of these bills, in fact, passed the assembly, although

they were signed by both the speaker of the house and the president of the senate and afterward presented to the Governor and signed by him. On the afternoon of March 71 1913, said Bill 49? was killed by being indefinitely postponed in the houseOn the afternoon of Monday. March 10. 1SH. aid Bill 42?. was killed in the house by being indefinitely post-poned-Messages Said Bills Passed. On March 7th 1913, at 5:10 p. in., a message froiji Use house to the senate under the haiid of the principal clerk. Samuel Qulllin. announced to the senate Uhai aSd Bill 4S9 had passed the house and that the Maine was transmitted to the senate. On March XOOi, 1S13. at 5:45 p. ttl, a Dits-ssage from the limine undr the baud of sakl Qutllin, cl-rk. announced to the senate that said Bill 423 had passed the bxruae and h same was thcreraritli transmitted to th senate. Rota thse bills were receipted for ly tb presirAejst of tti swn&te as coining fivm th-e Itonse paswed.. T"h.ey

Free, to the enrolling room. Subsequently enrolled bills, purporting to

be, and in fact being copies of the Bills 499 and 423, respectively, were

returned to the clerk of the senate as enrolled. Said clerk thereupon presented them to the presiding officer of the senate for his signature who

signed the same as passed. Said clerk then took said bills, respectively, to

the Speaker of the house, who also signed the same as passed, and the same clerk subsequently took them to the Governor carrying the signatures of the two presiding officers, and the Governor signed them as acts of the legislature.

Joint Committee. The joint rules of the senate and

nouse, require the appointment of a

joint committee ou enrolled bills, con

sisting of three members from the senate, and six from the house. Such committee so appointed in the assembly of 1913, consisted of Senators R.

H. Jackson, Carlton and Gavit, and in the house of Messrs. Bos, Carter, J. R.

Jones, Judkins, Gardner, McKenna,

Chapman, Sale and Ensle.

Under the rules of the general as

sembly every enrolled bill or joint res olution, before being presented to eith

er the president of the senate or Speaker of the house for their signa

ture, should have gone to the joint

committee on enrolled bills. The rules

authorize not less than three of these

members to act with reference to a

bill, at least one of whom must be

from the senate and two from the

house. It is the duty of this committee to examine the enrolled bills, check them and see if they have passed and have been correctly enrolled,

and if so, then present them to the

Speaker of the house for his signature, and thereafter to the president of the senate for his signature, and then carry to the Governor for his action there

on. This joint committee on enrolled

bills during the session of 1913 wholly

failed to act or discharge its duty ex

cept Senator Jackson, who examined

enrolled bills in the senate. He, however, made no examination as to whether bills had passed the house. Introduced by Gavit. Senate bill 423 was introduced by Senator Gavit, of Lake county, who was on the committee on enrolled bills for the senate, but as before stated, failed to discharge any of the duties thereof. The failure of the committee on enrolled bills to act made it possible, if not probable, that bills might

be authenticated as passed, which, in point of fact, never had been passed. Had that committee done their duty it would have rendered it highly improbable that bills could got through by mistake, and impossible for them to have gotten through by corruption without leaving evidence of the corruption. Shows Money Was Paid. The evidence shows that money was

paid to procure at least Bill 123, to be placed in the acts as a bill passed by the legislature. We, the grand jury, have very care

fully investigated every line of inquiry suggesting itself to ascertain whether money was paid to any member, officer or employe of the legislature, either directly or through the medium of any individual. If money was paid to a member, officer or employe, we have not been able to obtain definite evidence as to whom the individual was, although the evidence strongly tends to show that it was a clerk or an assistant of the principal clerk. There is evidence to show that the Speaker, Homer 1,. Cook, and the minute clerk, Mason J. Niblack, failed to keen a record of action on all bills

that came to the Speaker for his signature, and if a check had been kept on all bills that passed it would haTe been impossible for Bills 499 and 423 to have gotten through by mistake. Legislation Urged. The evidence in this investigation discloses a situation that calls aloud for penal legislation upon the subject

of what is called "lobbying" about tne legislature. It shows that men oi great political influence, on account of their position in some instances, and their relation to party organization, do not hesitate to demand and receive large sums of money, running into thousands of dollars, to influence and control the legislation of the state. Among the men so demanding and receiving large sums of money at the last legislature was the chairman of tlie Democratic state central committee, Bernard Korbly; the present mayor of the city, Joseph E. Bell, who is well known to be in close relation with the political organizations of county and state, and Mr. Kuchelshaus. who was at the time a member of the Republican state central committee, and a mau of no small political iuilut'iioe, Tne eVWiajce slums tihat the Mamiv facfcuTers Association, through Fred C. Gardner, treasurer of the K, C, At kins & Company, saw manufacturers, euavtoyed the gentlemen above mimed at an aggregate of $fl.000. Be 11 Asked $3,000 for Jb.

mere eacu sra atfju$niuj iratuiniKieu wnsuh less man tti oavs or tne

fry derJk uf lbs mmsSn, IL clit? of the session. of 1H1Z tb&re were j

pending in the legislature a bill in

effect excluding auto test cars from the

use of the roads. The automobile manufacturers were anxious to defeat that bill, and Messrs. John K. Hollett and James K. Gavin were attorneys for the automobile manufacturers, and appeared in the legislature and urged objections to the bill. They recommended to the committee appointed by the automobile people interested, towit J. J. Cole, W. C. Teasdale and George Dixxon that Joseph K. Bell was a man who had powerful influence with the legislature. In pursuance of that recommendation, said committee called Mr. Bell to ask for his assistance and influence in opposing the hill in the legislature. He stated to them that he would do so for $3,000. The

committee looked upon the demand as exhorbitant. Mr. Bell was not employed. The bill failed to pass, however. Water Company Got Bill. Messrs. Dan Brown and Taylor Groninger were employed by the Moving Picture Show association to look after their interests in the legislature during the whole session thereof, at a

compensation of $50 a week each. Lobying Law Suggested. We, the grand jury, suggest that there ought to be prompt legislation preventing any state officer, county officer, city or township officer, chairman or other member of a state central committee or of a county central committee or of a city central committee or any other political committee from lobbying about the legislature for pay. That there should be legislation requiring every one who either lobbys about the legislature for pay or as a lawyer goes before a committee for pay to register his name and the fact of his employment, the name of his employer and, if it be an association or corporation, the name of the officer or agent through which he is employed, and for what specific purpose he is employed, and the amount of his compensation. Taggart's Request Obeyed. The evidence shows that recom

mendations for appointment of employes when made by Thomas Taggart and W. V. Spencer, that the applicants were appointed regardless of whether there was an opening or not. The evidence shows great liberality on the part of Senator Fleming and Senator Curtis with the state's money.

They introduced various resolutions by

RIFLE CEKTERViLLE STORE OF PENNIES

Three hundred pennies was the principal loot of burglars who broke into the candy store aud poolroom of Carl Sherer at Centerville last night. In addition to the three dollars in pennies, which Sherer had taken from penny vending machines, cigarettes, cigars and other forms of tobacco were stolen. The candy cases were opened and some of the sweets were removed.

The burglars broke into the store through a back door. They left no clue. The burglary was not discovered until Sherer opened his place today. He reported it to the police department here at once.

NICHOLSON TALKS ON CHURCH PAPER

S. Edgar Nicholson, editor of the American Friend, returned last night from Wilmington, where he attended yearly meeting. Yesterday morning he made a speech on "Our Church Periodical," the American Friend. In the afternoon the subject of evangelism was discussed by Mr. Nicholson, Charles Tebbetts of Richmond, and William C. Trueblood of Indianapolis. Mr. Tebbets remained in Wilmington to deliver a speech before the yearly meeting today.

THOMPSON TO TALK. Prof. John F. Thompson will speak on the subject "trees" at the Moore school building at 7:30 o'clock Monday evening under the auspices of the Southwest Improvement association.

In Korea widows never marry. Even though they have been married only a month, they must not take a second husband.

as expenses of the legislature was $160,000-plus, making $100,000 of expense outside the pay of the members of both bodies for their services. In the senate the total expense of per diem and mileage of the fifty sena-

which $850 of the state's money was j tors and of the presiding officer, the paid legislative employes in excess J lieutenant governor, was $20,573,60, of the amount which the state, j while there was drawn from the treasthrough its laws, has fixed I urer in fact as expenses, not including as their salary. Every resolution so the printing of bills in the legislature adopted was in the tace of statutory i or acts thereof, a total sum of $51,-

provisions on the subject. Large Sums Unlawfully Paid. Very large sums of money were unlawfully drawn out of the treasury of the state during the session of the legislature of 1913, under the claim that it was due to persons who were called employes of the house and senate respectively, and for other unlawful purposes. Some notion of the amount of money so unlawfully drawn will be conveyed by the following statement: The total amount of the 150 members of the legislature for their pet diem and mileage was $60, 903. GO. The total money drawn from the treasurer

454.20, or $31,000 in excess of the

pay of the members, of which sum more than $29,000 was drawn for and paid 1o persons called employes of the

j senate. I The total per diem and mileage of I the 100 members of the house was ! $40,330, while the total amount drawn

exclusive of printing bills and printing acts, was $77,439.80, or $37,000 more than the pay of members of the house., which sum was, in some shape, drawn for and paid to parties called officers and employes of the house, except the sum of $375 unlawfully drawn for postage stamps.

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