Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1905 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. QEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

PUZZLES ARE SOLVED.

arrest of a demented man WITH DYNAMITE BOMB. Fonnd to Be Person Who Attempted to Destroy Frederick the Great Statue in Washington—Big Starch Plant in Oswego, N. Y., Damaged by Fire. Armed with an infernal machine, a man who saiu he Was Gessler Rosseau of Chicago was arrested in Philadelphia at the home of Patrick Kelly, brother of Owen Kelly, who mysteriously disappeared Oct. 25. He was taken into custody, and his arrest has solved the attack on the Frederick the Great statue In Washington and the attempt two years ago to blow up the ocean liner Umbria. Rosseau called on Patrick Kelly and said that he knew Owen was in New York and offered to take Patrick to him for |SOO. Rosseau aaid he was a member of a Fenian society and had in his possession a machine that would enable him to blow up British warships and merchantmen. Becoming alarmed, Kelly put Rosseau off, telling him to call the next day at 10 o’clock. Kelly notified police headquarters and Detective Miller was sent to his house. Promptly on t|me Rosseau appeared with his infernal machine and was arrested. The machine was found to be in perfect order, but the wire leading from the battery to the detonating fuse was disconnected. Roseeau confessed to the police authorities that he Is the man who attempted to blow up the statue of Frederick the Great in Washington. POSTAL ROBBER 9HOT IN FIGHT. Masked Men Rob Michigan Poetoffice and One Is Wounded. Four masked robbers, with the aid of dynamite, blew up the postofflee safe in the hardware storo of F. J. Miller & Brother In Center Line, Mich., secured S4BO and SIOO worth of stamps and escaped in a sleigh after a pitched battle with F. J, Miller, who discovered the men at work. Miller, who lives over the store, armed himself and upon reaching the street came in contact with a robber stationed in front of the store. A battle in the darkness followed, in which one robber was shot in the leg. In the excitement the safe was blown open and two members of the gang, with their plunder, rusned from the building, aided their wounded companion into the sleigh and made good their escape. STARCH PLANT IS BURNED. Big Property of Corn Products Company Destroyed by Fire. The slafch plant of the Corn Products Company in Oswego, N. Y., was damaged to the extent of $225,000 by a fire which destroyed the packing department, kiln room and scraping room. A portion of the granary was also burned. The fire was,. caused by the explosion of a boiler. With great rapidity it swept through the main building, and employes escaped with difficulty. Jeremiah Sweeney jumped from the fourth story and received a fractured hip, and several persons were slightly burned. Emblems for Brave Soldlera. General orders issued by the War Department announce that by authority of the President a badge with ribbon will be issued to each officer and enlisted man in the service to whom a certificate of merit has been or hereafter may be issued, and that campaign badges with ribbons will be issued as articles of the uniform to officers and enlisted men in the service entitled thereto. Russia’s War Fund Full. The imperial budget issued in St. Petersburg shows that $310,500,000 has been set aside to prosecute the war against Japan in 1903. The expenditure for 1904 is given as $358,700,000. In addition, $5,000,000 will he used to dots-" ble-track the Trans-Siberian Railway and $900,000 to finish the Circum-Baikal line. Farmer Forced to Open Safe. John Thornton, a wealthy retired farmer living in Elkhart, Ind., and his wife were bound and gagged by four masked robbers at 3 o’clock the other morning. Thornton • was compelled to open his safe, from which SGOO was taken. Mrs. Thornton liberated herself after a time. When the alarm was given the robbers had escaped. May Involve Uncle Bam. Diplomats in Washington show disquiet over the latest complication between Russia and China in the far eastern, war. It is hinted that China may demand protection of the United States and thus involve this government in the trouble. Philippine Commission Report. The annual report of the Philippine commission, made public in Washington, urges a reduction in tli'c tariff on sugar and tobacco Imported into the United States to not more than 25 per cent of the Dingley rate. Attempted Killing in Moncow. An attempt hns bee - * made ‘to assassinate General Trepoff, former chief of police of Moscow, who aroused enmity by his course in putting down the recent anti-government demonstrations there. Jerome After tlie Gamblers. District Attorney Jerome declares he will banish gambling from New York and hundreds of professionals are preparing to leave. Bold Act of Masked Robber. A masked robber entered the home of Ernest G. W. Woerz, a wealthy brewer lu New York, and after terrorizing the aervnnts and family at the point of a Revolver forced Mr. Woerz to give him SIOO in cash. Fire Drill Saves Children. The Phoebe street public school, located in the west end of Toronto, Ont., was burned to the ground. The children, following the fire drill taught in the schools, marched out without mishap. Loss $70,000, insured.

BOMB FOR ROYAL GIFT.

Stranger Tries to Blow Up Statne of Frederick the Great at Capital. International excitement was occasioned the otl;)r day by an attempt to blow up the statue of Frederick the Great, presented to the United States by Emperor William of Germany and erected in the arsenal grounds of the War College in Washington. Because the explosive was contained in a light, hand bag, the "Sides of’which burst easily, no damage was done to the shaft, although windows in adjacent buildings were broken. Secret service men and tlxe Washington police arc searching for a who ! attached the bomb to the fence surrounding the base of the statue. Immediately after the attempted outrage the German embassy asked for and received confirmation of the affair from the State Department. The news was cabled to the Kaiser, who promptly ask*

STATUE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT.

id for more details. The State Depart* meat also informed the German ruler if the affair, and assured him that evsrything was being done to arrest the culprit. The statue of Frederick the Great was unveiled in November in the pres?nce of the President and a large number of army and navy officers and tha diplomatic corps. The monument is a oronze replica of a marble statue erected in Berlin. Tlie figure is seven feet high, ind the only inscription on the base is the title: "Frederick the Great.” For the pedestal and for the expenses of ths unveiling Congress appropriated the sum sf SIO,OOO.

SLAV RESERVES IN BATTLE.

Soldiers on Way to Seat of War Loot Smolensk and Engage Regular*. Two hundred Russian reservists, on their way to the far East, were killed and hundreds wounded in a battle with the local garrison at Smolensk, Russia. As a result, six officers committed suicide. Reservists, to the number of 3,000, were moving an to the seat of war, when the train stopped at Smolensk. They immediately started to plunder the town. They broke into homes, stole provisions and whatever they could find in the way of valuables. Townspeople formed mobs and tried to stop the onslaught of the soldiers, and riots followed. * The Governor, seeing the local police were helpless to restore order, called out the local garrison. The soldiers attacked the reservists with a rush. Wild fighting between the two forces followed. Before the reservists were conquered, 200 were killed outright, and several hundred wounded. The colonel commanding the reservists and five of liis officers, who had been unable to prevent the outbreak. committed suicide from shame. The battle raged several hours. Tlie streets were filled with a mob of excited people, who were afraid to take part in the conflict either way. The soldiers from the garrison, called suddenly from the post, marched into the city ill double quick step. The reservists prepared for the attack, and when the Czar’s regular aie'.i charged, they were met with stern resistance. Driven back, they renewed their onslaught, and their superior numbers, after several of these movements, bore down on the reservists, and the latter fell back. When the line fell back tbe ground was strewn with dead, dying and injured men. The shattered body of reservists was ordered back on the train, and the journey to the far East resumed.

OLD WORLD NOTABLES

Premier Balfour is getting fleshy. He has been slender heretofore. It is understood that Admiral Alexieff will be appointed Governor of Moscow. Israel Zangwill is confident of the success of his scheme to colonize Jews in South Africa. An international fund has been started to carry on the work of the late Prof. Finsen of Sweden. “The late Louis de Moulin, Denmark’s prolific novelist, used to write half a dozen stories at once. John Hare, the well-known English actor, denies that lie contemplates retirement Iroru the stage. Field Marshal Sir Henry Wylie Norman, who died recently, once refused tlie office of viceroy of India. Premier Balfour sleeps twelve,hours a day, and, while a notoriously lazy man, is one of tlie best golf players in England. * Alfred De Rothschild of the famous banking family has a private circus at his country scat, Hnlton house, in England. The ring is about 100 yards in diameter. Maxim Gorki attended the performance of one of his plays at Helsingfors recently, and was accorded a tumultuous reception, showing that one Russian is popular in Finland. The third volume of Prince Bismarck’s memoirs will not* be published until after the death of the present German emperor. Special reasons govern the Bisninrck family in this matter. Dr. Guermonprez of Dille, France, favors an international understanding between physicians and authorities whereby tbe former may put an end to tbe Urea of those incurably afflicted.

AFTER SURRENDER.

LITTLE YET KNOWN OF CON. DITION3 IN PORT ARTHUR Japa Transporting Stoessel’* Soldiers to Japan as Military Prisoners—Report that the Baltic Fleet Will Re-turn-No Indications of Peace. Two weeks have passed since the fall of Port Arthur. The Japanese have beeri marching the Russian soldiers out preparatory to embarking them as military prisoners for Japan, and they have boon policing the city. As yet, however, we D§ve been permitted to hear little of the conditions that existed in the fortress during its last days of Russian power. Nevertheless, among the facts that have come to us through General Nogl’s official dispatches to his government there is at least one which has been a surprise to observers of the war in every part of the world, and which necessitates a decided change in our ideas of the conditions of the siege. It is contained in the brief phrase:'“Of the rank and file of the army, 22,434.” The 22,434 were the Russian private soldiers still able to bear arms at the time of the surrender. The naval forces are not included, nor are the sick and wounded in hospitals. This Is double or even triple the number of soldiers that it was supposed remained to Stoesscl for the defense. Moreover, it Indicates that he had a much larger garrison at the start than was suspected. The usual estimate of the forces under arms in Port Arthur at the beginning of the siege was 30,000 soldiers and 10,000 sailors. But now, including wounded, there must be at least 30,000 soldiers left, to say nothing of sailors. Stoessel himself, in the last dispatch he sent to the Czar before the surrender, said piteously: “Only one-quarter of the garrison is alive.” If he was speaking accurately, that means that he originally had 120,000 men under him, or more than General Nogi has ever used in the investment, but the figure is too great to be credible. However, the bare fact as to the number of surrendered soldiers makes it necessary to estimate at higher value than ever General Nogi’s great achievement. Whether it lessens the honor that has been attributed to General Stoessel for bis splendid defense cannot, however, be told till we know what supplies of ammunition and food remains available at the end. Return of the Baltic Fleet. The fall of Port Arthur is followed by a statement which is unofficial, but is said to be trustworthy, that, the Baltic fleet now at Madagascar is to return to European waters. If that be so the question arises as to .the reason for sending it to the east. If it was sent in the hope that it might reach Tort Arthur before its surrender, the Russians must have been illinformed as to the resisting capacity of the fortress. It may be that the original intention was that the Baltic fleet should go to the Pacific regardless of what happened to Tort Arthur, but that it has now been decided that the fleet is not strong enough to be depended on with certainty to get the better of the Japanese, and that it is expected to send to the Pacific the entire available Russian navy. A fleet can be sent a few months lionce which will be much stronger than the one commanded by Admiral Rojestvensky. In the meantime the Japanese can refit their vessels at leisure—and prepare in every, way possible for the struggle which awaits them at a later day. It hardly can be assumed that the Russians will make no effort to wrest from the Japanese tlie control of the seas. So long as they retain it it will be impossible for the Russians, no matter how large the army they put in the field, to force their adversaries out of Manchuria. The situation on the Shakhe River remains practically unchanged. The reports of a flanking movement by tlie i Japanese on their right flank have not been confirmed. Now that Port Arthur ! has been disposed of most of General Nogi’s veterans will be available for ■ervice in northern Manchuria. It will not take much time to transport them there. But even with these re-enforce-ments it is doubtful if General Oyama will attempt an active winter campaign against a strongly intrenched enemy, who must have about 225,000 j men, and who should be receiving j steadily re-enforcements sufficient to j make good his dally losses. There are no indications of peace. The Russian government lias announced that it will prosecute the war | with increased vigor, and that 200,000 I fresh troops will be sent to General i Kouropatkln before tbe end of February. ’This Is a promise of desperate fighting when spring begins and the J roads become passable. The Russian I government will expect Kouropatkln | to take the offensive and force back j the Japanese by outfighting or oufj maneuvering them, F. A. Bridgman, the American artist in Paris, has refused to accept tha silver medal awarded him by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition on the ground that, hating received first class medals and diplomas at continental expositions, he feels he deserves greater recognition from his own country. One of the women of the Vanderbilt family pays a maid $5,000 a year to dust the bric-a-brnc, and another equally wellknown New York woman gives the person who attends her toy dogs $3,000 a Tear.

PROPOSED NEW STATES.

Oklahoma, Indian Territory, New Mexico and Arizona Seek Admission. With the admission of Oklahoma and Arizona to statehood, it is probable that the story of their population, wealth and resources will come as a great surprise to the general run of Americans. The story will surely be told, because the granting of State rights to the last of continental America, barring Alaska, is bound to attract widespread attention. - Usually territories have been admitted when they approached the dignity of existing States in population. In thee ase of Nevada, Congress did not even wait until statehood size had been very seriously approached. The four territories that seek to be admitted as two States seem to have been kept waiting until long after the time when they were qualified for tlie honor. Unbiased men in Congress admit that the new State of Oklahoma will have a population of 1,000,000. Some of the more enthusiastic advocates of the new State that is to Ire declare that its population will be nearer 1,500,000. For Arizona it is claimed that the population will be between 500,000 and 000,000. High Rank in Resources. In railroads, banks, business and resources Oklahoma and Arizona will take high rank among the States. In the Indian territory there are only about 70,000 Indians and more than 400,000 white men. About two-fifths of the latter are from tlie south. There is less illiteracy than in many of the States.

THE PROPOSED NEW STATES.

This map shows the proposed new State *cf Arizona. Formed by corobini g Arizona and New Mexico, ; nd the proposed State of Oklahoma, taking in Oklahoma and Indian Terr tory.

Immigrants are descending upon the territory in a great flood, and its resources are being developed at an amazing rate. The territory is declared by some authorities to be the richest section of the Union. Its soil is so fertile and climatic conditions so varied that crops varying all the way from cotton to wheat can be raised within its borders. There are mineral deposits that have hardly been touched, but are already yielding great wealth. This is true particularly of the coal and oil lands. The Indians, as a rule, are intelligent, as the result of excellent schools scattered through the territory. They are engaged' in farming and mercantile pursuits. A man getting a letter from one of these Indian chiefs is liable to find that it is typewritten and has been dictated to a stenographer. In point of territory the new State of Arizona will comprise 235,000 and Oklahoma 70,430 square miles,. Their Railroad Facilities. Every county in Oklahoma has some railroad mileage and several cities have from three to eight lines. The assessed valuation of the railroad property exceeds $11,000,000. Flour mills in the territory have n capacity of 11,053 barrels per day. The capacity of the wheat elevators is 3,523,000. Returns made by the assessors this year place the taxable property in the territory at $00,000,073, but Gov. Ferguson estimates that the true value exceeds $500,000,000. Deposits in the national banks of Arizona exceed $5,000,000. The copper production last year was 250,000,000 pounds. The territory is rich in agriculture as well as mining and irrigation will soon add by many thousands to the acres of tillable lands. New Mexico shipped last year 200,000 head of cattle and 30,000,000 pounds of wool. It is traversed by three transcontinental railroads. The territory is rich in coal, iron and lumber, as well as the more valuable minerals, and it is claimed that when the waters now wasted art

COMPARATIVE SIZE OF NEW STATE.

Dotted area shows the outlines of the proposed State of Arizona, while the black lines are the boundaries of the State of Texas.

finally utilized for irrigation the area under cultivation will exceed 20,009,000 acres. The territory produces over 1,500,000 tons of coal per year and a lumber plant capitalized at $8,000,000 lias been established at Albuquerque. Will Change the Flag. The admission of Arizona and Oklahoma will cause a change in the United States flag by the insertion of two new stars. There are now forty-five stars arranged in six rows of seven and eight stars, alternately. The two stars cannot be added to the present arrangement without destroying the symmetry. But there is no arbitrary rule for arrangement in rows. Circles and even star arrangement of the stars have been resorted to in the past. Originally, a stripe as well ns a star was added for each new State. But, in 1818, the number of States having reached twenty, Congress reduced the number of stripes to thirteen, to typify the original States and enacted that “on the admission of every new State to the Union, one star be added to the union of the flag, and that such addition shall take sffcct on the Fourth of July next succeeding such admission.” H. C. Egan, ths Chicago golf champion, was elected chairman of the Harvard senior class day spread committee, saa of tha highest honors of ths college.

Kiwi the Oldest of Birds.

In New Zealand is found the klwL a strange bird of the ostrich family. Ostru-hes have two toes, but the extinct mans had three toes, so also have the existing emus, cassowaries and rheas or South American ostriches. The kiwi, however, differs from the other struthious birds ' r * having four toes. Further, the kiwi aunot be said to be quite ostrichlike, for in size it is not larger than an ordinary barnyard fowl. It has a small head, with aJarge and muscular neck ami a long, slender bill, with the distinguishing feature that the nostrils are placed close to its tip. The legs are short, but the muscles on the thighs are well developed and the feet are strong and powerful and provided with sharp claws. The kiwi is a bird devoid of any external trace of wings, and there is no trace of tail visible, while it is covered with long, narrow, hairlike feathers, and on the fore part of the- bead -and sides of the face are straggling hairlike feelers.

CAUSE AND CURE OF RHEUMATISM.

Shown by Numerous Cures Made by Dodd’s Kidney Pills—They Cure the Kidneys and the Cures ItseK—Remarkable Case of Maggie E. Deckert. Eagle River, Wis., Jan. lGth. —(Special.) —That rheumatism is caused by disordered kidneys is proved by the cures Dodd’s Kidney Pills are making in every state in the Union. They cure the Kidneys and tbe Rheumatism cures Itself. A cure that lias caused deep interest in this neighborhood Is that of Maggie E. Deckert. In speaking of it she says: “I had kidney trouble and rheumatism and was so lame I could not walk. I could not sleep, for I ached all over. I was in a terrible state and firmly believe that if I had not used Dodd's Kidney Pills I would be dead. I took nine boxes of them and they have done me more good than all the other medicines I ever took. Now my aches are all gone, I can eat and sleep and I am feeling good. I want all the world to know that Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me.”

FEATHERS ARE AIR ENGINES

How Birds Weighted with Prey Remain Motionless in Air for Honrs. The soaring flight of birds, like the condor and frigate bird, which remain suspended in the air for hours, even when weighted with prey, and without a single movement of their outstretched wings, has hitherto been unexplained. J. Lancaster, who has devoted fifteen years to finding an explanation for this apparent violation of physical law, making experiments from a cliff 1,000 feet high in Colorado, where yellow-tailed hawks are numerous, found that after a forest fire soot was found on a hawk’s quill between the spicules. This deposit showed the direction of air currents through the wing. Writing of his discovery in the London Engineer, he says: “What is a feather? It is an air engine and tlie bird surfaces are made of them. They have been looked on ns a light, flexible material for making an extended surface impervious to air, that would readily fold upon itself, and their exquisite mechanical structure has been overlooked. They consist of a quill arul two vanes made of spicules, between which are the plates. The plats cross a channel about one-forti-eth of an inch wide, made by the spicules. There are about 1,000 of them to the inch, being practically innumerable, and they are located at the outer surface, filling about one-fifth part of the depth of the channel. They areabout tbe twenty-thousandth part of an inch thick, as nearly as an amateur with the microscope could deetnhine, so that nineteen-twentieths of the space of the channels is open to the passage of air. They are beautifully curved at their outer edges. The mechanical service of the plates is obvious. The curve impinges against the air current through the feathers and drives the bird to the front. Pressure produced by the normal factor of weight is thus made to serve as the motive power of flight.”

MIGHT HAVE SAVED IT.

A Lot of Trouble from Too Much Starchy Food. A little boy of eight years whose parents (lid not feed him on the right kind of food, was always nervous and suffered from a weak condition of the stomach and bowels. Finally he was taken down with appendicitis and after the operation the doctor, knowing that his intestinal digestion tvns very weak, put him on Grape-Nuts twice a day. He rapidly recovered and about two months thereafter, his father states, “He lias grown to he strong, muscular, and sleeps soundly, weighs 02 pounds, and his whole, system is In a flue condition of health.” Name given by I’ostum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. It is plain that if he had been put on Grape-Nuts at nn earlier period In his life, and kept from the use of foods that he could not digest, he never would have had appendicitis. That disease is caused by undigested food decaying in the stomach and bowels, causing Irritation and making for the growth of all kinds of microbes, setting up u diseased condition which is the 'active enuse of appendicitis, and , this is more marked with people who do not properly digest white bread. Grape-Nuts is made of the selected parts of wheat and barley nnd by the peculiar processes of the cooking at the : factory, all of the starch is turned Into I sugar ready for immediate digestion and the more perfect nourishment of all parts of the body, particularly the brain nnd nerve centers. Rend the little book, “The Road to Wellvillo,” found in each pkg.

CONGRESS

Upon the convening of the House Wednesday Speaker Cannon announced as the committee on inaugural ceremonies Messrs. Dalzell (Pa.), Crumpacker (Ind.), and Williams( Miss.*. The army appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole, Mr. Boutell (III.) in the chair. It was agreed that there should be three hours’ general debate, Mr. Hull (Iowa), having tlie bill in charge, explained the several changes which the committee had made in existing legislation, the principal items of which already have been published. He offered an amendment reducing the pay of retired officers above the rank of major who had accepted commissions in the State militia. This Representative Cockran held was directed against General Miles, who lately accepted command of the Massachusetts militia, and a lively debate followed. The amendment was adopted. Consideration of the army bill \tas not concluded when the House adjourned. The attention of the Senate was divided between the statehood question and governmental regulation of railroads. Mr. Newlunds made a formal speech on the railroad subject, and at its close engaged in a spirited controversy over the points involved with Senators Spooner, Foraker and others. All amendments to the statehood hill except that relating to liquor traffic in Indian Territory were agreed to. The bill making the restriction on the transportation of lottery tickets between the States applicable to transportation between the States and Territories was taken up and passed. ' The House of Representatives Thursday devoted its entire session to discussion of the impeachment charges against Judge Charles Swayne of the Northern district of Florida. A dramatic incident occurred when Mr. Littlefield of Maine called on Mr. Lamar of Florida, who filed the charges against the judge, to admit or repudiate an alleged interview which tlie former claimed tended to incite the people to commit an act of violence against Jiidgejpwayne. Mr. Lamar admitted giving an interview, but emphatically denied any suggestion from him that could he construed into advising assassination or murder. He said that although Judge Swayne was known to be the most lawless man in Florida, he had remained secure from bodily harm. The Shackelford resolution authorizing the committee on interstate commerce to investigate the Panama Railway Company was passed, after which the House adjourned. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was read at length in tlie Senate, and there was considerable discussion of the civil service question and the provision for an investigation of foreign trade conditions by the Department of Commerce. The bill for the encouragement of the merchant marine was reported to the Senate, and Mr. Bailey made the point that the commission had been pledged to report in favor* of discriminating duties and not in favor of ship subsidies. The suggestion was combated by Senators Galliuger and Lodge, who were members of the commission.

In the House Frill ay tlie Senate amendments to the Philippine government bill were non-coneurred in and the measure was sent to conference. Mr, Sheppard of Texas introduced a bill prohibiting tlie payment of mileage to members and Senators who ride on free passes. Discussion of tlie charges against Judge Swayne occupied the time until adjournment. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was passed by the Senate after the chair had sustained a point of order against the amendment increasing the salaries of civil service commissioners from $3,500 to $4,000. Mr. Beveridge sought to have a day fixed for a vote on the statehood bill, but Mr. Gorman Objected and the calendar was taken up. Bills were passed amending tbe law governing the distribution of public documents, granting pensions to the families of Indian policemen killed in the capture of Sitting Bull in 1890, extending the law relative to the intimidation of witnesses in Federal courts to witnesses before United States commissioners and appropriating $3,000 for Charles S. Hooper, n blacksmith, who lost an eye while in l.lu* employ of the government. The question of policy involved in the last named measure was debated at length. Several private pension bills were passed. In the Senate Saturday another unavailing effort was made by Mr. Beveridge to secure unanimous consent to fix a day for taking a vote on t|je statehood bill. Mr. Bate spoke fur the opponents of the bill, saying there were still it number of speeches to be made. There was much discussion of a bill permitting American women who have married foreigners to regain citizenship in the United States, but it was deferred for a day. A bill was passed which makes it n felony to counterfeit the great seal of tin* United Slates. Pension legislation at the rate <>f 459 hills in 108. piinutes was the feature of the House session, all previous records for speed in legislation being smashed. Then unanimous consent legislation held sway for an hpur nnd not a measure presented under this head came under the ban of objection. Among the measures adopted was one revising the copyright law with reference io trademarks nnd another authorizing the use of stone, earth mid timber from forest reserves and public lands for the construction of irrigation works.

In the National Capital.

President Roosevelt hits accepted invitations to several important functions at which he will make speeches. The merchant marine commission urges Congress to enact laws to protect American shipping interests. A resolution has been offered in the House asking whether the President ought to retnin Secretary Morton. Congressman Mann of Chicago has a bill to transfer to the President the powers of the Panama canal board. Chaplain Joseph P. McGrnil has been dismissed from the navy by order of the President for alleged misconduct. President’s veto of n bill to take groves of giant trees from a California park may uucoyer a new land fraud.