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KICK BHIIIERS Would Bar Government from Stamped Envelope Business. fight Is Once Mora Before Congress and Long-Standing Question ; May Be 8ettled at 1 This Session. Washington. The question as to tvhether congress ahull take the gov ernment out of the business of deal ing In stamped envelopes Is likely to be definitely settled at this session. There has been considerable agitation over the question. Petitions either for or against legislation on the sub ject have been coming In by the thou sands every day since congress met There has been established here at the national capital an organization known as the national Joint commit tee, whose function is to persuade congress, if possible, to enact a law which will make It impossible for the post office department to contract for a new supply of these envelopes. This so-called national Joint com mittee represents the American En velope Manufacturers' association, the International Association of Photo Engravers, the National Association of Stationers and Manufacturers, the National Editorial association, the National Paper Trade association, the Printers' League of America and the United Typothetae of America. This organization Is seeing to It that every Job printer In the country forwards a petition asking that the government be no longer permitted to engage In the stamped envelope business. On the other side of the controversy are the big mercantile houses of the coun- try, and, generally speaking, the pub lic. Of the thousands of letters and petitions that are coming In, many are from Individuals who express the hope that the government will con tinue to deal In stamped envelopes and sell them at the low rate now prevailing. Last June, what Is known as the Tou Velle-Nelson bill, which prohibits the printing of special requests or stamped envelopes under the auspices of the post office department after June 30, 1911, passed the bouse of representatives ' by a vote of 192 for and 27 against. This bill Is now pend ing before the senate committee on post offices and post roads, and It Is In the neighborhood of this commit tee that the fight is now raging. The existing contract with the Mer cantile corporation of Dayton, O., was entered Into In March, 1907, and took effect July 1 of that year. It expires by limitation June 30, next year. With the view of Inviting competition In the manufacture of these envelopes, the postmaster general asked for bids that were to be opened September 29 of this year. He explained In the specification that machinery of a par ticular kind was necessary to the manufacture of the stamped envel opes, and his Idea was that by open ing bids so far In advance new con cerns would have an opportunity to equip their plants In case they were successful bidders. The specifications called for the delivery to the post of fice department of 4,600,000,000 print- ed envelopes during a four-year pe riod. The Mercantile corporation of Dayton was the only bidder. Immediately after the bid was opened, the national Joint committee, representing the organizations that are fighting the department on this question, petitioned the postmaster general to defer awarding the con tract until March 4, 1911. It was point ed out that the senate ought to have an opportunity to pans on the Tou Velio-Nelson hill before the contract was awarded. The postmaster gneral has never said that he would withhold the award of the contract in accordance with the petition of the so-called national Joint committee, but he has not awarded It up to the time this is written. While be will not say what be proposes to do, the understanding about the post office department is that he will hold off until the senate has an opportu nity to express Its view of the con troversy. CHARTING FOOD VALUES. The department of agriculture, tvhich has been experimenting to de termine the nutritive value of the food on the American breakfast, din ner and supper table, has Issued a series of charts which show the re sults of its Investigations. Scientifically, food Is that which, taken Into the body, builds tissue or yields energy. Every constituent of food has its purpose. One part re pairs the tissues, another forms the bones and another assists In diges tion. The value of any food article, therefore, is measured by its perform ance of these functions. The nutrients In food are pioteln, fats, carbohy drates and mineral matter or ash. From these the several parts of the human machine take what they re quire for upkeep and fuel energy and the waste Is eliminated. Scientific feeding of cattle and hogs Is nothing new. The secret of It was discovered early, because It was found there was money In It The scientific feeding of human beings has not made the same progress because the stake was only human life, which has been cheap in all ages of the world. H. J. Waters, president of the Kan sas state agricultural college, dis turbed many people when he said that too much attention was being paid to breeding sleek cattle and roly-poly bogs and too little to the proper rear Irm of healthy and muscular men aad women. Boys and girls com out of school and college with a smattering of many things, but with less knowl edge of their bodily structure and how to take care of It than of anything else taught them. The loss of human life, efficiency and happiness through the Ignorant eating of food and al leged food has never been computed Hut the Increasing cost of living has now brought the question of proper food to a basis where the American people are beginning to consider it, Where hygiene failed to make Its call heard, bacon at 35 cents a pound attracting attention to the need of cheaper and better fuel for the human body. When the American consumer Is educated to the point where he will Inquire of the' butcher how many calories of energy pork Is running now, Instead of asking how much it Is a pound, the era of scientific feed Ing will have come, and the bugaboo of high prices may no longer have terror for the man who must eat. The department of agriculture ex perts have fixed the dietary standard for a man of full vigor and engaged in moderate muscular work at 3,200 calories. That represents the energy he should derive from his dally bread ninety-five grams of protein. Be sides this amount of protein he re quires a certain amount of mineral matter, four to six grams of sodium twice as much chlorln and a small amount of Iron. The protein Is In the white of eggs, the curd of milk, lean meat and the gluten of wheat. This, with the fats of meat, butter, olive oil and the oils of corn and wheat, serves as fuel for the body and yields energy In the form of . heat and muscular power. The mineral matter goes to form bone. Taking meats first, there will be found In lamb chops 17.6 per cent, of protein, which Is a fair yield, although more than half this chop will be wa ter. That, however. Is true of most meats. Of fat the chop has 28.3 per cent, and of mineral matter but 1 per cent. Its fuel value Is 1,540 calories a pound. Two pounds of lamb chops, therefore, would yield nearly the amount of energy prescribed for a day's use, but no one cares to eat two pounds of lamb chops every day, and there are plenty of other food ar ticles to supply a variety. Dried beef, although It contains fewer calo ries to the pound .than any meat shown on the chart, owing to Its small percentage of fat, contains a greater amount of protein thany any 20 per cent. The percentage of mineral wa- tef also Is larger than any of the five 9.1 per cent Dried beef, there fore, is a good tissue and bone build er, but does not supply much heat or muscular power. BREAKS RECORD FOR BILLS All records will be broken when the present house of representatives sceres a total of approximately 35.000 public and private bills Introduced up to Its close on March 4 next This Is a leap of more than 7,500 over the record established by the last con gress, the sixtieth. These figures are exclusive of resolutions, which so far In the three sessions of the present congress have numbered 883 simple resolutions, 278 Joint resolutions and fifty-six concurrent. Back In the earlier congresses there were comparatively few measures pre sented, but, with the extension of the sway of the American flag to various Insular possessions and with the host of river and harbor and public build ing developments, with pet projects for a multitude of streams almost never before heard of, the bulk of bills and resolutions has been increas ing rapidly. In the fifty-fourth congress 10,000 bills introduced outdistanced all other records. This was raised by a thou sand a little later and four years ago the house files were flooded with 11,000 bills. During the two preceding sessions of this congress 27,284 bills were presented and up to today the present session has registered 3,011. A flood of measures probabiy will be Introduced in the few days following the reassembling of congress on Jan uary 6, and then the tide will recede. Is Watching the Permles. Unci" Sam has got mighty saving. Stamped envelopes bought one at a time make a return to the government of nearly $400,000 a year above what the government would get for them If people bought them In packages of 25. You can buy 24 two-cent stamped en velopes for 64 cents, but If the post master sells them at three cents each or two for five cents you can see that several pennies are realized on each package. Once upon a time, "In the good old times, postmasters gobbled up these extra pennies themselves. Of course, when they are buying the stamped envelopes they pay their ex act worth to the United States govern ment, which Is Just a trifle over two cents for each two-cent stamp and en velope. Postmaster General Hitchcock, however, has changed the old order of things, and requires postmasters to turn over extra pennies to the govern ment, and postmasters are complain ing about what they call this trivial sort of keeping books on fractional parts of a cent a day, but they have been shown that the 60,000 post offices yield enough on these small amounts to reduce the post office deficit several hundred thousand a year. These 8wlft Times. "What Is that building you are put ting up on the corner of your lotr we ask of our neighbor, whose wife la fond of automobiles, while he la go ing in for aeroplanes. "That? Oh, that's going to b our ba&f ara," explains. Judge. LANDS 5 HP Aviator Ely Hakes New Record M Curtiss Machine. Alights Easily On Platform and Stops With Room to'Spare Returns to Shore. San Francisco,, Jan. 19. History was made in the science of war today when Eugene Ely, the brilliant Ore gon aviator, diopped from the skfes upon the after-deck of the cruiser Pennsylvania, at 11 o'clock this morn ing. Mrs. Ely was the first to greet her husband as he alighted. Sbe climbed through the intricate rigging of the biplane to where her husband sat stoically, and impressed two kisses on his face. Then she took from her corsage a glowing bouquet of Cali fornia violets and quickly fastened them to the aeroplane. It was the first time in history that an airship alighted on an ocean craft. Ely, a year ago, at Hampton Roads, flew from the deck of the cruiser Birmingham over ffve miles of water to land. Ely accomplished the, thrilling and memorable feat with the latest type of "fantail" Cur tiss biplane, especially fitted with extra wide wings, pontoons and grap pling hooks. "It was far easier than I thought it would be," was the first declaration of the daring but modest aviator, who was surrounded by a cheering crowd on board the cruiser. Ely landed on the improvised wood en runway on the after-deck of the cruiser with all the grace of a gull, and apparently with as much preci sion. Three minutes before 12 o'clock one hour to the second from time of alighting "the bird" was again on the wing and off for the aviation field, 12 miles away. , Ely left the staging on the battle ship with the same grace and ease as he had alighted an hour before. There was no testing of the motor. He simply listened for a few seconds to convince his trained ear that the engine was "hitting" properly, then, spreading his arms as a signal, he sailed away. In leaving the runway the biplane did not dip with the downward incline of the approach, but arose under his guilding hand to a height of several hundred feet, then to a thousand feet, and winged Its way southward over Hunter's Point at a speed of 60 miles an hour. In 12 minutes he alighted on Selfrldge Field, thereby completing the not able feet. Ely was seized by the cheering sol diers of the Thirteenth Infantry and hoisted on their shoulders. "I think the trick could be successtully turned nine time out of ten," said the avi ator. BUBONIC PLAGUE MENACES. Epidemic Decimating Manchurian Provinces Spreads Terror. Harbin, Manchuria. The epidemic of bubonic plague threatens to be come an international danger unless foreign control is introduced, be cause of the ignorance of the Chinese authorities. The Taitai remains coop ed tip in the center of the city, hir residence guarded by troops, and the extent of the plague is concealed. In the suburb of Fudziadian, the Chinese and European physicians have been beaten by the soldiers. Refugees from fudziadian have carried eontagian troughout a rad- us of 70 miles from the railway and have infected Kwanchengfze, where the mortality Is almost as great as at Fudziadian. Mukden, Kirin and Tieling have been seriously invaded by the dis ease. Deaths among the Chinese em ployes of the Harbin mills are likely to result in the infection being car ried in the foodstuffs exported to Amur and the maritime provinces. Twenty-four bodies have been pick ed up In the streets here. The vic tims in this city and Fudziadian nura ber man hundreds. Mine Explosion Kills Six. Helena, Mont. As a result of an explosion In the Keating mine at Radersburg, 40 miles from here, six miners are dead, two are badly In jured, and there Is an unconfirmed rumor that two more men are some where in the workings. Pending an Investigation of the ex plosion, the officials of the Keating Gold Mining Company said only that the men namel had been killed and injured; that no one below the 300 foot level of the mine was injured. All the bodies were recovered. Foss Approves Credentials. Boston. Notwithstanding repeated assertions by Governor Foss, in his campaign against the return of Henry Cabot Lodge to the United States Senate, that he would not approve the credentials of Mr. Lodge, the Gover nor formally affixed his signature and the state seal tonight to Senator I-odge's certificate of election. The Governor's private secretary said Gov ernor Foss had no statement to make. Another Body Found In Ruins. Cincinnati. O. Another body was recovered from the ruins of the Chamber of Commerce building, which was destroyed by fire ' on January 10 last It was that of Christy Meents, fireman of the build ing. Two Indies have now been re covered. Four others are believed to be under the wreckage. 10,000 RETURN TO THEIR WORK Hart, Sehaffner & Marx To Arbl trate Strike. Chicago. By an agreement to sub mit their differences to an arbitration committee of three members, the strike of the garmer 'kers in the shops of Hart, SchanV r i Marx, the largest of the independent clothing concerns, is settled and 10,000 em ployes will return to work within the next few days. At a' conference between Joseph taciiartner of the firm and a sub-com mittee of the joint conference board articles were signed by both sides. These call for one member of the ar bitration committee by the firm, one by the employes of the firm and one to be chosen by the two members thus selected. Subject to the pro visions of the agreement, the com mittee must take up, consider and adjust whatever grievances, If any, the employes of Hart, Sehaffner & warx snail nave, ana snail nx a method for the settlement of griev ances, if there are any, in the future. The finding of an arbitration com mittee, or a majority thereof, shall be binding upon both parties. Among the demands to be made by the employes are: A 30 per cent increase in wages for ail employes. Reduction In hours; demands will be made for a 48-hour week for cut ters and a 54-hour week for tailors. Abolition of the system of fines. Shop committees for the possible adjustment of future grievances hile this arrangement returns 10,000 striking men and women to work, fully 12,000 additional garment workers still 'remain unemployed as a result of the inability to come to terms with the employers. HUMPHREY SEES PERIL AHEAD, Pacific Coast Defenseless For Lack of Ships. Detroit. "Japan could seize Seat tle, Tacoma, Portland, the Bremerton Government Navy Yard, five great transcontinental railways, fortify mountain passes and have an empire upon which to live before the United States could get 75,000 troops to the Pacific Ocean," declared Representa tive W. E. Mumphrey, of Washington, in an address at the annual banquet Of the Lake Carriers' Association. He added: "The nations of the earth know our condition and they know that we are utterly unprepared for war. They know that our army is too small, that our navy is practically helpless be cause we have no merchant vessels as an auxiliary. They know we have no transports for the one and not aux iliaries for the other. "The War Department will fell you that in case of contest we would need for transports 250 vessels. We have not, in both oceans combined, 20 ves sels fit for this purpose. We are more helpless today than was Russia at the beginning of the war with Japan. 'I do not prophesy a war with ja pan. It would be a crime against humanity. But the only guarantee of peace on the Pacific Ocean is to be prepared for war. "Japan has 600 merchant vessels on the Pacific fit for transportation. The United States has six. Japan can transport 500,000 troops at one time, the United States not more than 10,000." CHINESE MAKES AERIAL FLIGHT. Fung Joe Guey Sails Gracefully in the Air. San Francisco. Wheeling his ma chine out on a level field near the bay at Elmhurst, Fung Joe Guey, a Chinese aviator and inventor, started the 75-horsepower engine' on bis lat est aeroplane, jumped into the seat and after running along the ground for 100 feet, rose gracefully in the air to a height of 40 feet. At this elevation, the Chinese aviator circled the big field, nearly a mile in circum ference, and then struck off, towards the bay, swinging back in a long curve and landing with a slight jar four minutes later, about 100 feet or so from the -starting point It was Guev's first really successful flight and lie was heartily cheered by his fellow-workers and mechanics. all Chinese. In previous attempts, the aeroplane had always come to grief, necessitat ing weeks of repair before another trial could be made. Ecuador Evades Hague Tribunal. Washington. Ecuador prefers to make another attempt to settle her long-standing boundary dispute with Peru by direct negotiations Instead of through appeal to The Hague Tribu nal, as suggested by Argentina, Bra zil and the United States. Advices received by the State Department indicate that Ecuador is demurring to the suggestion. Peru already had indicated its willingness to submit the boundary controversy to The Hague for settlement. John Bull Scores One. London. A diplomatic setback for Japan is the view generally taken here of the tariff concessions offered England by Japan and which are now being made the basis of a new commercial treaty. English mer chants brought tremendous pressure to bear to have Japan recede from her stand of heavily Increasing the duty on goods that England exports to Japan. It Is now said Tokio has yielded most of the material points. Mad Coyotes Invade City. Baker, Or. A band of coyotes af flicted with rabies charged into the village of Durkee near here. Several persons were attacked and many dogs bitten by the brutes. Fearing that the dogs would go made, citizens armed themselves and the tattle on coyotes and dogs was waged, result ing In the annihilation of every dog in the village. DOINGS OF OUR NATIONAL LAWMAKERS Saturday, January 21. Washington, Jan. 21. The consti tutional amendment providing for direct election of United States sen ators Is in danger of going to wreck through the injection of the race issue of the south into the debate in the senate and the smoldering party feeling on this subject was aroused still further today by a speech made by Carter of Montana. The controversy has arisen over the control of elections for the choice of senators. As reported from com mittee, the resolution authorizing the submission of the amendment to the states includes In the amendment a provision that the state legislatures shall fix the times, places and man ner of holding the elections, but Sutherland moved 'an amendment giv ing congress power to regulate, the elections. This ha3 aroused the op position of the democrats and, though the republicans are strong enough In numbers to secure its adoption, as a bare majority suffices, they would thereby Imperil the adop tion of the resolution Itself, as this requires three-fifths majority, which cannot be secured without the aid of democratic votes. . Washington, Jan. 21. Charles D. Hilles, assistant secretary of the treasury, has been offered by Presi dent Taft the position of secretary to the president. This information came today from a reliable source. It was added that Mr. Hilles was considering It. The fact is well known that he contemplated retiring from public life March 4, but whether the offer will serve to keep him in the public service Is entirely con jectural. Friday, Jan. 20. Washington, Jan. 20. "That it is the sense of the1 senate that the Pan ama Canal should be fortified.1 Such Is the declaration of a resolu tion introduced in the senate today by Senator Money. The Mississippi senator announced his intention to speak on the resolution and It is probable that it will be used as a basis for general discussion of the question of canal fortifications. Senator Jones, of Washington, to day introduced a bill providing that where desert entrymen who have se cured extension of time, under the act of March 28, 1908, are unable through no fault of their own to com ply with the law as to irrigation and cultivation and the delay Is due to failure to complete the irrigation pro ject on which they are dependent for water, they may, upon proper show ing, secure a further extension of three years in the option of the Commissioner-General of the Land Office. "In some 14 instances states have gone without full representation in the senate because of deadlocks in the legislatures," said Borah, of Idaho, in the senate today, supporting the resolution providing for the popular election of United States senators. 'In other instances," he said, "bribery and corruption and scandal have at tached to the sessions. "It is not alone that direct and open bribery sometimes prevails; but that which is equally bad more often prevails bills and measures are trad ed upon or killed; the public interest is sacrificed, or actually bartered away; patronage and office enter into the deal and the whole affair becomes a disgrace and is of itself sufficient condemnation of the present system.' The senator specially cited the con tests in Pannsjivania in 1900; in Maryland in 1904, and in Missouri in 1905. "Prior to IS. 2, he declared, "we had but one case of alleged election bribery connected with a seat on this floor. Since that time we have had 10, to say nothing of a number of investigations before state legis latures' which, never reached this body." Thursday, January 19. Washington, Jan. 19. Challenging the remarks of Congressman Tawney of Minnesota and Hull of Iowa in the house that his statement to the United Press on the country's unpre paredness for war was the utterance of an alarmist, Frederick Louis Huidekuper today struck back. "My statement to the United Press." he said, "was based on the official records of the war depart ment. The assertions of Congress men Hull and Tawney were appar ently made either with a desire to suppress the real facts In the case or through sheer ignorance of the situation. Witn all due respect to Hull and Tawney. if they ask the war department for the records re lating to each and every statement I made, and will give to the country without reservation the facts those reports establish, they will be doing the nation a patriotic service. These records will bear out fully to any unbiased mind the statements of the country's present helplessness to which Congressman McLachlan of California referred in the house." On the floor of the house yesterday Congressmen Tawney of Minnesota and Hull of Iowa attacked the state ment of Huidekoper, made through the United Press, as misleading, and denied that the country was in any such state of unpreparedness for war as that critic alleged. Hull particu larly challenged the statement that the infantry has not enough ammu- Battleship Nearly R. Jy. Washington. Another dreadnaught will be added to the American navy the latter part of March, when the first class battleship Utah, now Hear ing completion at the plant of the New York Shipbuilding Company at Canden, N. J, will be delivered to the Government. She will be Im mediately put In commission and sent to the New York Navy Yard for a few minor cnanges. i ne oispiace nient of the Utah Is 23,033 tons. nitlon for a single engagement, de claring that the ordnance department had been accumulating a reserve of ammunition for years. Wednesday, January 18. Washington, Jan. 18. After almost, a week of cessation, the senate to day resumed consideration of the ca.se of Senator Lorimer. There were two speeches, one by Burrows, chairman of the committee on priv ileges and elections, in support of the' Illinois senator, and the other by Borah, of Idaho, in opposition. Burrows strongly commended the course of Lorimer in demanding an investigation. Borali declared that corruption ha3 characterized the proceedings ever since Lorimer had decided to be come a candidate for the senate. Both addresses were sharply analyti cal and both went at length into the testimony. Frequently they quoted the same statements of witnesses, but their deductions were widely at variance. The speeches resembled each other In the fact that both de nounced the conduct of Representa tive White, whose statement in a Chicago newspaper led to the investi gation, but, while Senator Borah con tended for the probable truthfulness of his revelations as Indicated by supporting circumstances, the Michi gan senator found nothing to sustain him or give credence to his expo sition. The Burrows speech is the first that has been made in Lorimer's be half. Many opposing senators have been waiting for this presentation of the affirmative side of the case and it is believed the consideration will now proceed expeditiously. There are still many arguments to be heard before a vote can be reached. "There is absolutely no proof, di rect or indirect, from which a legiti mate inference could be drawn that a single member of the general as sembly was corruptly Influenced to vote for Lorimer," said Burrows. Tuesday, Jan. .17. Washington, Jan. 17. This was a field day for the so-called republican "insurgents" In the 'senate. "Hazing Hale" was the favorite pastime, but "grilling Gallinger" was a close sec ond in point of popularity. The occasion was offered when Gallinger sought to have a day fixed for a vote on his ocean mail ship subsidy bill. Immediately on Gdllin ger's motion, Clapp interposed an emphatic objection. He was followed by Cummins, who enjoyed himself at the expense of Gallinger. Then Hale arose and informed the senate that the fixing of days for votes naver would do; that, if such a practice were indulged in, no busi ness of a general nature could be transacted at the present session. He urged the senate to "get down to business." Borah intimated that In his own opinion the senator from Maine was not practicing what he preached; that the latter, when the resolution providing for direct election of United States senators was offered last Friday, sought to prevent con sideration by moving an adjournment. Secretary Ballinger was the object today of an attack by Senator Pur cell, of North Dakota. The senator delivered a speech in support of his resolution submitted yesterday to the senate, declaring that Secretary Ball inger was unfit to retain his office in the administration because of his alleged maladministration of depart mental affairs. Mr. Purceil was a member of the so-called Ballinger Pinchot investigating committee. Monday, January 16. Washington, Jan. 16. The stirring scenes of the last session of congress, when the house overthrew Speaker Cannon and took the making of the rules into its own hands, was re enacted in part on the floor of the house today. Threatened with what they believed to be an effort to "draw the teeth" of one of the most important of the new rules, Democrats and insurgents joined in the defeat of the speaker. By a vote of 145 to 126, the combined forces rallied to the support of Fitz gerald, Dem., New York, and sustain ed him in his appeal from the- Speak er's ruling. The fight developed as the result of the second attempt to use the new rule which gives the house power to discharge a committee from further consideration of a bill that has been referred to it It was started by Hardwick, of Georgia, who, when de nied the privilege of introducing a lengthy memorial, objected to every bill as it was brought up, thus pre venting its passage. The house passed a bill today au thorizing the dropping of army offic ers from the rolls when they have been absent without leave for more than three months. This would re move from the army list Captain Peter C. Haines, now serving a sen tence for the killing of William E. Annis, a civilian, three years ago. Renewal of the fight on Richard A. Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior, is contemplated in a resolution in troduced today by Senator Purceil, which seeks to force Into the open the report of the joint congressional committee that investigated the charges made against the cabinet officer by Gifford Finchot, ex-Chief Forester. "Abolish Senate." Chicago Say. Washington. Jan. 19. ''Abolish the Senate" Is the burden of a telegram addressed to Speaker Cannon and a number of representatives today by a Chioagoan. as an outgrowth of the In vestigation of the charges made against Senator Lorimer. The tele gram charges that every senator has paid for his votes In ways no better than the Illinois senator, and that there never can be a pure senate as long as .there is patronage.