Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1906 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. •_ .. * • * Im . «=■_?,''.. i .?.'. , 75 , = / ~ ;'■■« 060. fi. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - • INDIANA.

CHURCHES TO UNITE

ONLY HITCH IS IN NAME OF CONSOLIDATED BODY. ’Trichnrch Connell Adjonrnn in Jlayton, Ohio, to Reconvene Within El*hteen Months—Brave Student ■- Drown* After Savin* Girl. In Dayton, Ohio, »he t-ri-cherch council which is seeking the union of the United Brethren. Congregational and Protestant Methodist denominations, ad--journed to meet, it was nnrfersmod. within a year and a half. The work, of preparing creed, polity and arranging property and vested interests had boen intrusted to committees. The only hitch hppareht was as to the nipuc thb iifitred denomination shall bear. Many names were proposed, the Gospel Christian church, the United Congregationa’l church; the United Christian church, the Chris: tian church, the United Church of America. The last name Was A).id. .to be the most generally accepted. The creed is a modification of the articles of faith now held by the several denominaTinns. Th* qpnunittee on polity recommends a* ay* =• ;7 4*m -0f church govoinnient that is ,not unlike that of the Congregatiunalists with the conference system added. The matter of name was left to a special committee of six. It is the belief of the delegates that union is practically aceom•fatedr ~ :

DIES WHILE SAVING GIRI.. Expert Swimmer Drown* While Skatin* nt Parkville, Mo. L. H. Wagener, aged 27 years, of Milton, Pa., a junior in Park college in Parkville, Mo., was drowned and a dozen other persons narrowly escaped drowning in the Missouri . there _ the other night when the ice priiler the weight Of a party of skaters, nwvstly students, gave way and let all pf -Lhe skaters into the water. Wageher voluntarily jumped into the water to save a young woman and, being an expert swimmer, he rescued the girl, but he was chilled so badly that he cotthl not get out —of the water alone and in the general work of rescue going on around him his struggles were unnoticed and he was drowned before his absence. wasjnof iced. WILLS A CHEST PROTECTOR. Eccentric Man Wills SOO,OOO Worth of Diamond* to Crippled Child. Eva Marsh, the crippled 5-yepr-old daughter of John Marsh of York, Wis.. has ju»t come into a fortune in a novel manner. It was left her by an aged man, known as James Yarnell, who lived in a little hut on Marsh's land. Yarnell went there several years ago, apparently poor and friendless, and was always fond of the lit.’e girl. Eva’s parents supported him. A few hours before his death Yarnell presented Eva a chest protectoh between the folds of which were s£wed $60,000 worth of diamonds. Beneath his cot were found numerous expensive suits and everythmg that goes to equip a society man. Z . - • ■

I.ooka for N»w Continent. Hoping to discover a new continent, or at lea.a a large archipelago. Captain Ejmar V.ikkelsen, a Dane, is planning an extra fi d arctic expedition under auspices of the Royal Geographic Society, and expects to plant the Atiieriean" flag on the newly found territory. Fire Wipes Ont n Town. Nearly every business house was destroyed, about SOO of the 1,500 inhabitants were left without homes and a financial loss of more than $200,000 was sustained by a fire in Littleton, an oil town ~ in West Virginia. Helen Kellar in Collapse. Helen Kellar, the deaf, dumb and blind girl whose career amazed the world, has collapsed as the result of her unceasing labors tor others afflicted as is she. and has been orderd to take a complete rest. Chlracnnn Slain in Saloon Bow. Thomas Johnson, traveling agent for a book company of Chicago, was shot and killed in a Denver saloon by Policeman Charles Secrest. Secrest had quarreled with Johnson over a game of dice.

*135,000 Fire in New York. Farrington & Whitney, importers and spice grinders, occupying a five-story brick building at Greenwich and North Moore streets, New York, were burned out. The loss was estimated at $135,000. Bi* Store* to Qnlt Downtown. Chicago’s large downtown stores are moving to- outlying districts t<s, gain better traffic facilities. Sprague. Warner & Co. %nd Montgomery Ward & Co. are the latest to join the procession. Blow with the Fiat Prove* Fatal. In a fight between Andrew Dirker, a wealthy farmer, and Robert Copeley in Ironton, Ohio, the latter struck Dirker with his fist, killing him instantly. Cope- - -ley was arrested. Caatro Bar* All Forei*nera. The Ascania; on arriving at Port of S]>ain from Laguayra, rejwrts that President Castro orders that no foreigners be allowed to land on Venezuelan soil. Wr Church Riot In Chlca*o. Four persons were shot and many others inji.iea in a church riot over the new system of control In the Chicago Roman Catholic archdiocese. HUM by Fail from Thala. Frits Lafen, while returning from his father's funeral in Swanville, Pa., was standing on a train platform in Saybrook. Ohio, wavidg a farewell to his sister, when he fell and was instantly killed. ' . St. Lout* Slabber * Walter. "Jack the Stabber,” who for several weeks had been terrorizing the women of St. Louis by his mysterious attacks, was arrested, proved to lie a waiter, and confessed that an. uncontrollable impulse prompted him to wield his knife '

PREACHER BANKER A SUICIDE.

Rev. Simmons, of Peoria, 111., Takes Life When Scandal la Revealed. Death by suicide has ended the career of Rev. George ill. Simmons, clergyman and banker, one of the lending cltiens of Peoria, 111. A startling scandal In which Dr. Simmons had become Involved made him see a welcome relief in death. As a direct result of the revelations .one bank closed and a run was mads on another. When the body of ths minister yvas found the climax was reached in a sensation which has shaken Peoria religious, financial and political circles worse than did thn case of N. C. Dougherty, the superintendent of schools, last falL Simmons had been pastor of the First Baptist Church for five years. Rev. Simmons had an extraordinary career. He educated himself in a Kentucky theological sdhooL His first business venture was about five years ago, when he organized a company with SIOO,OOO capital to manufacture cereal coffee. He then organized the Interstate Bank & Trust Company of Peoria, with a capital stock of $200,000. In addition to tills be was at the head of a movement to beautify the city and conducted a flower festival. One of his innovations was hulding religious services in the Coliseum, holding 7,000 people.His father was a farmer, and he himself Jived and labored on the farm un-

til he was past twelve years of age. TJie father and mother being dead, the lad went to Louisville, Ky., to secure an education. At an early age he decided to enter the ministry, and began making preparation by attending the public schools In Louisville, and later in Georgetown College, in Georgetown, Ky. He held pastorates in Henderson, Ky.. Louisville, Jackson, Tenn., and at Terre Haute, Ind. He began preaching at the age of seventeen.

MAKING MONEY, TOO.

Trappers of the Northwest Included in General Prosperity. ' The many trappers operating In northern Minnesota-will reap- a-rich harvest during the present winter. ~ This side sweep- of the general wave <?f prosperity that has rolled over the land means many comforts, - even luxuries, in the log cabins" of scores of sturdy settlers in the wild? of the northern country, who are mainly dependent upon their traps during the cold months for a livelihood. The setflera — ttHa~'pfofessioniils in "Hie" country directly tributary to Duluth look for the most part to mink, marten and otter to make their trapping operations profitable atffl the ’pelts of these little animals at present command a higher price than at any time during the past 33 years, though there has been a decided slump in the prices paid for furs from the black, blue and silver fox, which bring only SSO each now, where a year or two ago they were as high as S3OO apiece. Last winter $4.50 was considered a good price for a mink pelt and it wasn’t more than a season or two back that $2.50 was the highest paid for a single, pelt of this kind. Now a choice raw mink fur will bring sll and a marten pelt from $lB to S2O. where $6 or $7 was paid last winter. An otter skin is worth $22 just as it comes from the trapper’s hands, which is away above any price paid for more than thirty years. Quite a few fisher are caught through northern Minnesota- and these are worth from $S to $lO. Beaver are very scarce and are ■worth from $7 to sovach. The highest prices paid for furs will also prove a boon to the Minnesota Indians, or such of them at least as have any business ability. A great many of the Indians trap during the winter, but the trouble with the majority of them is that they do not know the value of their catch and are likely to sell a $22 otter pelt for $4 or $5 and a sll mink for sl, or perhaps a pint of whisky. The white man is well aware of this fact and some agents make it their business during the winter to do nothing but buy furs from the Indians, selling them later at a handsome margin of profit.

EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES.

Sweepin* over New York and All the Cities of the East. A suicide wave for which there is no satisfactory accounting is sweeping over New York and the entire eastern portion of the country, says the New York Times. Experts who day by day compile and tabulate the vital statistics of our cities have adduced this fact from their columns of comparative facts and figures and have presented it for public consideration without opinion or comment, which is a way peculiar to statisticians and others of their kind who deal in cold, hard actualities. And perhaps it is just as well, for selfmurder at best is one of the most illusive and generally unsatisfactory problems which the health department of a great city is called upon to face. There is no adequate explanation for it in any of its general aspects. If there is a decrease, that decrease cannot be accounted for, unless theoretically; if increase there bo in the number of suicides the health authorities are equally at sea. save, of course, in times of economic distress. But in the accepted sense of the term there is no economic distress in this city, in any city of the country, at the present time. Times are economically propitious, never better, and hence" the fact that New Y’ork’s suicide rate in the present month has gone far above the average for the months of last year—22.7 per 100,000 —and that other cities report similar conditions cannot be explained on the basis of economics, of hard times.

From Far and Near.

Geronimo, the Apache warrier, has just been married for the eighth time at the age of 70.

John J. Cram, aged 67* years, at one •time one of the leading rifle shots of the country, died in Kennebec, Me.

Albert F. Springsteen, connected with the i»cnsion Office, claims to have been the youngest enlisted and mustered soldier in the United States army during the war of the .rebellion. He enlisted at Indianapolis on Oct. 15, 1861, at the age as 11 years and 2 months. .c. ..

WALLACE HITS BACK.

THE FORMER CANAL ENGINEER GIVES TESTIMONY. Say* Attorney Cromwell, the Goternment'a Adviaer, Haa Tt»o Many Jobs—Telia Senate Committee He la to Blame for Claah with Taft.

Because of the multiplicity of his Interests, which run tjountpF'to the interests of the governmerft, John F.

J. F. WALLACE.

Fiscal agent of the Panama Republic. . . ‘ Director of the Panama Railroad. Counsel for the Panama Railroad. General adviser in all canal matters by order of the President. Counsel for the Panama legation. Interested in the Panama American Company.• -r— : Counsel for the French Panama Canal Company. The remark about Mr. Cromwell being a “dangerous man,” made to the I canal investigating committee and coming as a climax to Mr; Warfare's: description of the important™part Mr. Cromwell plays us Pooh-Bah of the canal enterprise, created a sensation. It led to Mr. Wallace being closely questioned by Senator Morgan and other members of the committee concerning the apparently dominating influence Mr. Cromwell from the first has exerciseC In the affairs of the cabal, although, according to the testimony • -of Secretary Taft and Chairman Shouts, Mr. Cromwell has no official connection with the commission. To substantiate his statement of this close, If not dominating relationship, Mr. Wallace quoted the official statement issued by Secretary Taft in passing criticism upon the Wallace resignation, in which Secretary Taft, referring to the presence of Mr. Cromwell at the famous Manhattan Hotel conference, spoke of him as “Mr. Cromwell, who for some time has been charged by the President and the Secretary of War with general advisory duties in all Panama Canal affairs.” Gives Inner Details. This strong bit of corroborative testimony added keen zest to the already whetted appetite of the canal investigators for light upon the peculiar relationship of Mr. Cromwell to this nal enterprise, and Mr. Wallace was not backward in giving ik to them. Mr. Wallace attributes nis clash with Secertary Taft to the machinations of Mr. Cromwell. That be feefls keenly the position in which Secretary Taft’s published criticism of his action in resigning his position as chief engineer have placed him before the county and that he believes he was very badly treated in that attack upon his motives and character and integrity, was made plain by Mr. Wallace.

He related the details of his selection as chief engineer and said he made a protest particularly against what he called red tape methods and a multiplicity of masters, and then read a long statement. He first spoke of the “violent attack upon me which Secretary Taft and Mr. Cromwell gave to the newspapers last June," and ssked that judgment upon the justice of that attack be suspended until he “had an opportunity to explain to you why I think it was absolutely uncalled for and unjustifiable.” He declared that the only 1 basis for this attack was a difference of opinion between them “as to my right to decide for myself when. I thought the welfare of the enterprise and my own welfare justified me in resigning my position.”

POLITICS and POLITICIANS

Gen. Theodore Alfred Bingham, New York’s new police commissioner, is a West Point graduate, 47 years of age, and as brisk as a dynamo. Henry Labouchere, who is about to retire from Parliament, has spent more than $1,000,000-in defending libel suits brought against him as editor of Truth. Representatives Huff of Pennsylvania, Haskins of Vermont and Connor of New York so closely resemble one another that only their mdst intimate friends distinguish them Apart; The remark attributed to Jacob Riis, that the President would accept another term if he should not have been successful in his contest with the money power, appears to have been incorrectly reported. What he did say was that the President would continue his fight, not in the White House, perhaps, but in Congress. M. Fallieres. the newly elected president of France, has been seven times minister.’ Power though he is in the republic, he is by no means of an impressive appearance, being short and low set. But he wins the people by bis pleasing eloquence. « , A bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Senate asking for legal proceedings a&ainat the Standard Oil Company and its subsidiary corporations, for the purpose of forfeiting their charters, upon grounds of violating the common law as to monopolies and the Elkins law as to taleratato commerce.

Wallace, former chief engineer of the Panama Canal, gave it as his opinion before the Senate interoceaffic canal committee that WiHiam Nielson Cromwell is a “dangerousman.” From Mr. lace's statement it would appear that Mr. Cromwell was:

TREATY HAS A JOKER.

Makes $7,000,000 Worthless DoI mingo Scrip Good; The attention of Secretary Root and of members of the Senate committee on foreign relations has been called to a “joker” in the Santo Domingo treaty and, according to a Washington correspond ent, it la causing them worry. The “joker” is in article 1, which reads: “The United States undertakes to secure an arrangement of all obligations of the Dominican government, foreign as well as domestic; the arrangement for payment and the conditions of amortization ; the consideration of conflicting and unreasonable claims and the decision as to the validity and amount of all pending claims already liquidated and™ accepted or whjch may be established.” P It was the original intention of the President that the money collected from the Dominican custotaa should be used in settlement of the foreign claims only. Under the heading of domestic claims will come between $8,000,000 and $9,000,000 of scripof “La Dauda Deforida,” the deferred debt. This scrip for forty years has been of practically no value —not worth five cents on the dollar’because of the doubt whether it ever would be redeemed. ’ , Now, the officials of the Dominican government have bought all this scrip they could reach, paying ah the way from 2to 30 cents on the dollar. Emilio Joubert, the minister from Santo Domingo, himself has admitted that he would not now sell the scrip fee holds for 75 cents on the dollar, as he believes it will be paid in full. lie says it will be worth par the minute the treaty is ratified by the Senate of the United States. This “deferred debt” is the outgrowth of the Dominican revolutions of the last forty years, which, except the last one headed by Morales, all have been successful. Whenever a revolutionary while operating in the field requisitioned cattle or services a voucher was given. After the revolution was won this voucher would be exchanged at the capital for scrip of “La Deuda Deferida,” duly registered in the treasury books. The obligations of both sides always were recognized because no successful faction was oyer sure it would not be among the ‘‘outs’’ the next day.

. Scrip also has been used by the government Ah’ the paytnent of the salaries of officials and many, influential men of the republic- now ! have considerable sums of this paper. Revolutionary chiefs have used it liberally to reward friend's for “services.”

ARMY SNOB SCORED.

President Saya that Special Consideration Is Due Enlisted Men. That the uniform of an enlisted man in the a rmy or mavy is a badge. honor which entitles its wearer to peculiar consideration is the position taken by President Roosevelt. The President himself made it known in a letter to Secretary Taft commenting on the court martial of Lieut. Roy I. Taylor, who was reduced twe've files recently for ordering an enlisted man in his command to change his seat in a theater because he was seated in front of the lieutenant’s party. The President in his letter said in part:

“In my judgment Lieut. Taylor committed one of the most serious faults which any officer can commit. I am glad that he was reduced twelve files. It is a pleasure to record the fact that his offense was altogether exceptional in the body to which he belongs. “There is no body of men in this country of similar size which merits so well of the country as the body of officers and enlisted men in the army and navy of the United States. Not only should the country as a whole jealously guard the Interests of these men and regard their honor as being identified to a peculiar degree and in a peculiar sense with his own, but the members of the body should themselves feel the same jealous eagerness to uphold the honor and standing" of all connected with it. Above all this should be the object of the officers as regards the enlisted man. “To strive to discriminate against him in any way is literally an infamy; for it is in reality one of the most serious offenses which can be committed against the stability and greatness of our nation. If a hotel keeper or the owner of a theater or any other public resort attempts such discrimination, everything possible should be done by all good citizens to make the man attempting it feel the full weight of a just popular resentment, and if possible legal proceedings should be taken against him.”

AWFUL MURDER RECORD.

With Exception of Italians, Americana Are Moat Homicidal Nation. According to the unofficial statistics gathered in 1905, as in previous years, by the Chicago Tribune, there were 9,212 homicides committed in the United States during the twelvemonth just ended. This country remains on the bad eminence it has long occupied in the history of crime; indeed, we have increased our lead, for the number of homicides was greater by 840. in 1905 than it was in the previous year. The record constitutes a shocking indictment. With the single exception of the Italians, the American people are the most homicidal nation in the civilized world. In fact, we are running neck and neck with Italy with respect to the ratio of violent crimes resulting in death. In the latter country the homicides number 105 per million of inhabitants per year; in this country last year the ratio was 115 per milliop. A comparison with the criminal statistics of other leading nations will servo to emphasize the indictment and make it positively terrifying. Thus the annual average ratio of homicides to population is 13 per million to German, 19 per million in France and 27 per million in the United Kingdom.

Destruetive Irrigattion.

Irrigation on the western Colorado river has reached a point where the stream is creating a big lake not wanted and that will be destructive. Engineers are trying to get the current back into the old bed, and say it is a difficult problem. The science of reclamation ought to be sure It is right before going ahead. A society, headed by the Rev. Dr. Charles E. Jefferson of the Broadway tabernacle. New York, was formed for the promotion of the movement for penes and arbitration.

ANÆMIA CAN BE CURED

Dr. William** Pink Pills Make New Blood and Strike Straight at the Root of Disease. Anaemia is just the doctor’s name for bloodlessiiess. Dr. Williams’Pink Pills actually make new blood. They cure anaemia just as food cures hunger. They cured Mrs. Thos. J. McGann, of 17 Lincoln Place, Plainfield, N.J.,and they can do as much for any other pale, weak, ailing, bloodless person. “ In the spring of 1903 I did my usual house cleaning,” says Mrs. McGann, * * and soon afterward I began to have the most terrible headaches. My heart , would beat so irregularly that it was ’painful and there came a morning when I could not get up. My doctor said I had anaemia and he was surprised that I had continued to live in the condition I was in. I was confined’ to my bed for nearly two months, the doctor coming every day for the first few weeks, but I did not improve to amount to anything. “Altogether I was sick for nearly two J ears. I was as weak as a rag, had eadaches, irregular heart bents, loss of appetite, cramps iii the limbs and was unable to get a good night’s sleep. My legs and feet were so swollen that I feared they would burst. “ Ono day, while I was wonderinghow long I could live, feeling ns I did, I received a booklet telling about Pr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I read it and told my husband to get me some of the pills. Before the first box was gone I felt a change for the better. I have taken about twelve boxes and although I was as nearthegraveaslcould be, I now feel-as if I had a new lease of 1 ife. I have no m ore headache, the heart beats regularly, my cheeks are pink and I feel ten years younger. I feel that I have been cured very cheaply and I have recommended Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills to lots of my friends.” For further information address the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.

Sizing Him Up.

“I’m glad to see you in our midst again,” said the village editor, who was built lik6 a pair of tongs, as he shook hands with the obese postmaster, who had just returned from a two weeks’ vacation. “Get out 1” exclaimed the p. M. as he looked the thin party over. “You haven’t any niiast.” ■

Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness-4a-caused by an Inflamed condition of the mucous lining of tho Eustachian Tube. When this tube is Inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed. Deafness is the result, and unless the Inflammation can be taken out and-this tube, restored.to its normal condition, hearing will fie destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh. which is nothing but an inflamed condition of tho mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.

An Indefinite Term.

“What do you understand by a ‘society climber’?” ' - ■ “It used to mean a person who tried to break into society.” . “Used to mean?” —‘Yes. Now it may mean a porchclimber in search of society news.”

Worth Knowing

—that ABcock’a are the original and only genuine porous plasters; all other so-called porous plasters are imitations.

Curions Medical Phenomena.

A Philadelphia physician, while making a social visit at the house of q friend, chanced to meet a colleague. After some general conversation, a remark was made that gave a professional turn to the talk. The first physician said:

“You know one may look into the throat of a child and determine upon which foot it is standing merely by the way in which the blood collects on the other side of the body.” “A more remarkable fact than that,” observed the second doctor, “is that by manual training you can actually increase the size of the brain of a stupid child, so that by proper mental exercise it develops a marked degree of intelligence.”

It is probable that the host began to suspect that his medical friends were trying to “chaff” him; at any rate, he, as a layman, contributed the following extraordinary addition to the stock of medical knowledge: “Gentlemen,” said he, “the facts you mention are nothing compared to one coming under my own obesrvation. I have actually seen a man who by looking in his pocketbook eould tell you what he was to have for dinner!” — Success Magazine.

A BOY’S BREAKFAST.

There** a Natural Food that Make* It* Own Way. There’s a boy up in Hooslck Falla, N. Y. w who is growing into sturdy manhood on Grape-Nuts breakfasts. It might have been different with him, as his mother explains: “My 11-year-old boy is large, well developed and active, and has been made so by »hls fondness for GrapeNuts food. At 5 years he was a very nervous child and was subject to frequent attacks of Indigestion which used to rob him of his strength and were very troublesome to deal with. He never seemed to care for anything for his breakfast until I tried GrapeNuts, and I have never bad to change from that. He makes his entire breakfast of Grape-Nuts food. It Is always relished by him and. he says that it satisfies him better than the ordinary kind of a meal. “Better than all he Is no longer troubled w-ith indigestion or nervousness, and has got to be a splendidly ddveloi>ed fellow since he began to use Grape-Nuts fobd.” Name given by Postum Company, Battle Creek, Mich.Thcre’s n reason. Read the little book, “The Road to Weilvllle,” in

CONGRESS

The Senate was treated ’to a sensation Monday When Mr. Patterson (Colo.) introduced a resolution in effect declaring the action of the Democratic caucus against the Santo Domingo treaty Saturday to haye-been contrary to the federal constitution. Consideration of tho resolution went over. It was decided that a vote should be taken on the shipping bill Wednesday, Feb. 14, at 5 P- m. Mr. Teller made a speech against the measure. SeveraL-brils were passeir and the Senate adopted a resolution calling pn the Postmaster for information as to the number of postal clerjks killed in , railroad accidents during ‘ the last five years. Considerable fault was, found with the railroad rate bill in the House. Mr. Littlefield (Me.) opened the session with an attack on the measure. Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) ridiculed the alleged popular demand for the legislation. Ten other speeches were made, all favorable to the bill. The fortifications appropriation bill was reported. The Senate Tuesdaj’ gave up the entire session to a revival of its prerogatives in the framing of treaties. The question was raised by Mr. Bacon in a speech on his resolution requesting information concerning the Algeciras; conference. He was followed by Mr. Spooner, and lUere - Were severaT sharp clashes between them. The discussion of the Patterson resolution concerning the Democratic caucus action went over. A resolution directing the committee on immigration to make an investigation of the Chinese boycott .was adopted. The House fixed the end of the genera! debate on the rate bill at 4:30 p. m. Wednesday, and then seventeen speeches were made, all of them for the measure.- Mr. Gillespie. (Texas) expressed dissatisfaction with the reply of the interstate commercecommission to his resolution concerning the Pennsylvania railroad combination, and announced that he Would address a request to the President to have the commission ’muke’ a thorough —-investigation™ along indicated lines.

The Senate chamber Wednesday wait' made the scene of an effort.to administer party discipline to a member of thatbody and the proceedings were filled with dramatic interest. Mr. Patterson was the subject" of the effort- and Mr. Bailey the instrument of the Democratic party. The proceedings arose in connection with Mr. Patterson’s resolution of remonstrance against the Democratic; caucus action opposing the Santo Domingo t rea ty. and ui thongh the subject was thrashed over thoroughly no vote' was taken. The House concluded all preliminary steps to the passage of the railroad .rate bill, ordered a roll call on the measure, and put off the' final action until Thursday at noon. The closing speeches were made by Bourke Cockran, Mr. Mann (Ill.), Minority Leader Williams and Mr. Hepburn. The time for amendment came at 4 o’clock and for three hours scores of changes were offered, but all were defeated. The test came with the first one and the vote on this was 119 to 14G.

The Senate devoted a short session Thursday to routine business, the caucus question being sidetracked temporarily. Mr. Tillman again made reference to Mie charge that the railroads in West Virginia were discriminating against private coal mines and had read. a letter from the Governor of tire State, which was referred to the committee on interstate commerce. The urgent deficiency appropriation bill was reported and the railroad rate bill was received from the House. A number of bills were passed,' including the following: Placing telegraph operators of the Civil War on a pensionable basis; authorizing the use of $1,000,000 of the reclamation fund for the drainage of lands in North Dakota; authorizing the Construction of a dam across Rock river at Grand Detour, 111., and a large number of private pension bills. The House pased the railroad rate regulation bill by a vote of 340 to 7. The pension appropriation bill, carrying $139,. 000,000 for pensions and $1,245,000 for administration, also Was passed. Other measures passed were as follows : ;To prevent leaks in government crop reports; calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information regarding charges of irregularities in the Kingfisher, Okla., land office; to open for settlement 505,000 acres of land in the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache reservations in Oklahoma.

The Senate Friday passed the urgent deficiency appropriation bill practically as it came from the committee. The only discussion was over an amendment suggested by Mr. Patterson to strike out ths provision relieving alien workmen on tha Panama canal from the operations of the eight-hour law, the amendment being rejected. The House put out Its usual semi-monthly grist of pensions, passing in seventy-two minutes 429 bills for the benefit of veterans whp are barred for one reason or another from coming in under the general statute. Seventy-five per cent of the beneficiaries are either blind or bedridden. Two amendments to the Philippine tariff act of 1905 were passed, the purpose being to remove the discrimination against American goods. After passing a number of minor bills thb House adjourned until Monday.

Note* of the National Capital. The House committee will report bill carrying army appropriation of $70,000.000. President Roosevelt urges Senators to insist on the passage of rate bill similar to the Hepburn measure. Senator Carter, speaking for the ship subsidy bill, declared it is favored by tha entire Rocky Mountain region. China’s boycott of Amefican goods may be lifted if modifications of exclusion net favored by Secretory Metcalf are adopted by Congress. - • ; Secretary Root, after reading the Calhoun Venezuelan report, sent word to Minister Russell to insist on Castro settling the asphalt claims. Secretary Taft sent to Congress an urgent recommendation that the chief of the bureau of insular affairs should be given the rank and allowances of a brig, adier general to make the bureau conform to the others in the War Depart* ■wnt -----