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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1906.
SENATE PASSES
DEFICIENCY BILL
Berry Explains Cherokee Claim
After La Follette Has Made
Severe Criticism.
TARIFF DUTIES LEGALIZED
Morgan's Motion to Strike House
Provision Regarding Moneys Col
lected In the'Phlllppines Prior
to 1902. is Laid on Table.
WASHINGTON, June 28. ---The Senate at
tonight's session passed the general de
ficiency appropriation bill, carrying about
$11,600,000. The amencljnent authorizing the
owners of vessels Injured In collision with
Government vessels to bring suit for dam
ages In United States District Courts
caused some debate and was withdrawn
to save time. An amendment offered by
Senator Gallinger providing that the eight
hour law shall not apply to superintend
ents and foremen of laborers on the Canal
Zone was accepted.
Senator La Follette criticised the pro
vision for the payment of the Cherokee
removal claim of $1,134,248, with interest
at 6 per cent since 1838. bringing the total
up to about $5.00O.C0O. He said the attor
neys would get about $750,000. Senator
Berry explained that the aprpopriation Is
to pay a judgment of -the Supreme Court
of the United States, and no further ob
jection was made. .
Senator Morgan moved to strike out the
House provision legalizing tariff duties
collected.' In the Philippine Islands prior
to W2. He said that the provision had
no place In an appropriation bill, and that
It was retroactive legislation of the worst
possible character. He regarded it as in
contravention of the Supreme Court de
cision in the aWrner-aBrnes case. Mr.
Morgan said that itiany of the claims are
held by foreigners, and he expressed the
opinion that the proposed legislation
would cause disagreeable complications.
The motion to strike out' was laid on the
table.
An amendment appropriating $30,500 for
the expenses of the United States Court
in China was accepted. The bill was then
passed.
After passing the general deficiency bill
and the omnibus public building bill, the
Senate at 10:30 adjourned until tomorrow
at 11 o'clock.
OPENING THE PORK BARREL
Facetious Name Given Public Build
ing Bill by Senator Scott.
WASHINGTON. June -28. The Senate
consumed the greater part of the day
discussing the public building bill. Ef
forts by several Senators to secure in
creases for public buildings in cities and
towns of their respective states were in
no Instance successful. For San Juan,
Porto Rico, Senator Foraker Becured an
advance from $200,000 to $300,000. In re
porting the bill. Senator Scott, chairman
of the committee on public buildings and
grounds, referred to it as "the pork bar
rel." The agricultural bill reappeared In a
partial conference report. The report
was complete except with reference to
the meat inspection provision, and on
that another conference was ordered.
There was some desultory discussion of
the conference report on the pure-food
bill, but its disposition was postponed un
til tomorrow.
The conference committee's report of
the Lake Erie & Ohio River ship canal
bill was accepted without debate.
The La Follette bill regulating hours
of employment for trainmen was dis
placed by the building bill.
Senator Tillman found opportunity to
make his long-deferred speech on the
ejection in March last of Mrs. Minor
Morris from the White House by direction
of Assistant Secretary Barnes. He reit
erated his charge that Mrs. Morris had
been outrageously treated, and said that
the President had indorsed the action by
appointing Barnes as Postmaster at
, Washington.
The last of the great appropriation bills,
the general deficiency, was reached dur
ing the day, and a night session was
held for its consideration.
THESE MAY BE, GIVEX PASSES
Conferees Agree on Portion of Rail
road Rate Bill.
WASHINGTON, June 2S. The conferees
on the railroad rate bill formulated their
third report today, and it will be signed
by Senators Elkins and Cullom and the
three House conferees. Senator Tillman
withholding his signature. . The McLaur
in commodity amendment was made to
apply to "railroad companies." the word
"companies" having been added to the
previous agreement, which changed the
application from common carriers" to
"railroads" In order to exempt pipe lln'es.
The pass provision is redrafted along
the lines of the amendment as passed by
the Senate. It prohibits broadly and gen
erally the issuance of any free transpor
tation for interstate passage and then
provides an excepted class, which is as
follows:
"No common carrier subject to the
provisions of this act shall, after Jan
uary 1, 1907, directly for indirectly is
sue or give any interstate free trans
portation for passengers, except to its
employes and their families, Its offi
cers, agents, surgeons, physicians and
attorneys-at-law, to ministers of re
ligion and traveling secretaries of
Raiiroad Young Men's christian Asso
ciation, to inmates of hospitals and
charitable and eleemosynary Institu
tions and persons exclusively engaged
In charitable and eleemosynary work,
to indigent, destitute and homeless
persons, and to such persons when
transported by charitable societies or
hospitals, and the necessary agents
employed in such transportation; to
inmates of the National homes or state
homes for disabled volunteer soldiers
and soldiers' and sailors' homes, In
cluding those about to enter and those
returning home, after discharging, and
of boards of managers of such homes;
to necessary, caretakers of livestock,
poultry and fruit; employes on sleeping-cars,
express-cars, and to linemen
of telegraph or telephone companies;
to railway mail service employes, post
office inspectors, customs inspectors
and Immigrant inspectors; to news
boys on trains, baggage agents; to wit
nesses attending any legal investiga
tion in which the common carrier is
interested: to persons injured in
wrecks and physicians and nurses at
tending such persons."
NEW ITEMS PUT IN THE BILL
Public Buildings Are Provided for
In Pacific Northwest.
WASHINGTON. June 28. Senator Scott,
chairman of the Senate committee on pub
lic buildings and grounds, today reported
the omnibus public buildings bill. He
asked for its immediate consideration, and
said in explanation that the committee
had been engaged on the measure all last
night and that there had been reductions
of $1,638,000 and increases of $5,522,000, mak
ing a net increase of $4,084,500 over the
total reported by the bill as It passed the
House.
New Items were included as follows:
Ogden, Utah, $120,000; Salem. Or., $15,000;
Butte, Mont., $15,000; Baker City, Or.,
$65,000; Kueene. Or., $50,000; Denver, $500,
000; Lewiston. Idaho, $5000. Reductions In
appropriations made by the House bill
are in part as follows: Spokane, Wash.,
$100,000 to $75,000; Tacoma, Wash., from
$100,000 to $75,000; Eureka, Chi., $130,000 to
$100,000; Moscow, Idaho, $100,000 to $90.0dbu
Great Falls, Mont.. $225,000 to $150,000; Mis
soula, Mont.. $20,000 to $10,000; Bellingham,
Wash., $25,000 to $10,000; North Takima,
Wash., $20,000 to $10,000.
To the general legislation of the House
is added a provision appropriating $3,000,000
for condemnation proceedings for a build
ing in Washington for the Departments
of State, Justice and Commerce and Labor.
PUBLIC BUILDING BILL PASSES
Sum for Assay Office In New Vork
Added at Secretary's Suggestion.
WASHINGTON. June " 28. The public
buildings bill was passed at 10:15 o'clock
tonight. It was still under consideration
when, at 6 o'clock, the Senate took .a
recess until 8 o'clock and was resumed at
the night session.
On the suggestion of Secretary Shaw a
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SUCCESSOR TO GORMAN IN THE SENATE
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WILLIAM PINKSJEY WHYTE.
Ex-Goveror William Plnkney Whyte, ot Maryland, is Arthur Pue Gor
man's successor in the United States Senate. Senator Whyte was a mem
ber of that body from 1869 to 1881. Three Senators were present when he
was sworn with whom he had served when he was In the Senate before
Morgan of Alabama. Teller of Colorado and Allison of Iowa, Senator Whyte
is 82 years old.
provision appropriating $350,000 for an
assay office in New York was added.
Numerous efforts were made to secure
increases, but to no avail, except a $100,000
increase for San Juan, Porto. Rico,
La Toilette's Bill Displaced.
WASHINGTON, June 28. Senator La
Follette's bill limiting the time of em
ployment on railroad trains was today
temporarily laid aside in order to permit
the continued consideration of the public
building bill. The ax-tion was taken at
the instance of La Follette after he had
tried in vain to secure unanimous con
sent, taking a vote on the bill at 4 P. M.
tomorrow.
In moving the displacement of his bill,
the Wisconsin Senator remarked sarcasti
cally, "that, as the bill Is only in the
interest of the public safety. I could not
hope to hold it before the Senate in place
of the public building bill."
Confirmed by Senate.
WASHINGTON. June 28. The Senate, In
executive session, confirmed the following
nominations:
Clarence Rice Slocum, of New York, Consul-General
at Boma, Congo Free State.
To be member of the Mississippi River
Commission Major James L. Lusk.
Tob chief of the Bureau of Insular Af
fairs of the War Department, with the rank
of Brigadier-General Colonel Clarence R.
Edwards.
To be Brlf-aiiler-Generals and retired
Colonel Walter L. Duggan, Colonel Oswald
H. Ernst. Colonel John Pitman.
United States Marshal Rural Rounds, for
the District of Idaho.
Postmaster Washington. N. O. Baldwin.
Disagree on Meat Inspection.
WASHINGTON, June 28. The conferees
on the agricultural bill at 2:10 today re
ported a disagreement in regard to the
meat - inspection amendment. Senator
Proctor reported to the Senate the agree
ment reached as to the other provisions'
of the fill.
FLOOD ON THE COLORADO
Settlement of Palo Verde Under
Water From Broken Levee.
RIVERSIDE. Cal., June 28. The levee
built around the town of Palo Verde, in
the east end of Riverside County, has
given away, and the entire settlement is
flooded. People have driven their stock
to the hills and deserted their homes.
The Colorado River is eight miles wide
and thousands of acres of alfalfa and
grain are under water and will be total
losses.
Palo Verde is a town of about 200 peo
ple, located on the Colorado River, in the
southeastern corner of Riverside County,
and about 75 miles from the Mexican bor
der. It was settled about five years ago,
by people principally from Fresno and
Los Angeles.
The land there Is extremely fertile and
the valley was reaching a high standard
of cultivation.
California "Floods Receding.
STOCKTON. Cal., June 28. Information
from the flood center today is to the ef
fect that the water in the riv appears
to be receding. The water level on Union
Island is still about two feet below the
river. It has reached the cross levee
separating the two reclamations, but
those in charge of the levee are sanguine
that it will hold.
SLIGHT Iff HOUSE
Senator Fulton Complains of
Lack of Recognition.
NO MENTION IN HOUSE BILL
Chairman Scott, of the Senate Public
Buildings Committee Says That
Both Oregon's Representatives
Are Unavoidably Absent.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, June 28. Senator Fulton made an
effort this evening to secure an increase In
the appropriations for public buildings for
Baker City and Eugene to $100,000 each,
but the objection of the committee pre
vailed and the appropriations stand at
$65,000 and $5000, respectively. In making
his plea Fulton said that Oregon had re
ceived no recognition whatever in the
House bill, and therefore he was Justiflci
In asking a liberal recognition at the
hands of the Senate. .
"That slight in the House," replied
Chairman Scott, significantly, "was due
to the, fact that both Oregon Congressmen
were unavoidably absent."
The $15,000 for grading grounds at Sa
lem remains in the bill.
The Senate committee cut down the al
lowance for Tacoma and Spokane build
ings to $75,000 each, and reduced the cost
of sites at North Yakima and Bellingham
to $10,0& each. Senator Pllee made a brief
speech, asking that these appropriations
be restored, as provided in the House bill,
but he lost out.
The committee cut the appropriation for
the Moscow (Idaho) building to $00,000, and
adopted the Heyburn amendment by ap
propriation of $5000 to purchase a site at
Lewiston.
Money for District Court In China.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash
ington, June 28. The Senate tonight ap
propriated $20,500 to pay the salaries and
MAN WHO EXPOSED PACKING
HOUSE EVILS.
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J. B. Reynolds.
J. B. Reynolds, with Commissioner
of Labor Nelll, visited Chicago at the
request of the President and Inspected
the methods of preparing food products.
In their report it was shown that a
revolting state of affairs existed. Ap
pearing; before the House committee
on apiculture, Mr. Reynolds went into
details as to what he saw while on
the tour of Inspection.
expenses of officials of the United States
District Court in 'China, authorized by the
Fulton-Denby bill, just passed. Of this
amount, $8000 is salary of the Judge, $4000
for the District Attorney, $3000 each for a
Marsha and a Clerk, and $2500 for genera!
expenses.
Bristol May Xot Be Confirmed.
OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash
ington, June 28. Secretary Hitchcock for
several weeks past has been using his In
fluence to induce the Senate committee
on Judiciary to report favorably the nomi
nation of United States District Attorney
W. C. Eristol, but without avail. Secre
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tary Hitchcock has reported to the Sena
tors that Bristol will be stronger in the
prosecution of the land-fraud cases if he
is confirmed than if he has to serve under
a recess appointment, but the committee
Is not inclined to give heed to his sug
gestions, and in all probability Congress
will adjourn, leaving this nomination un
acted upon.
If so, it Is understood the President will
promptly reappoint Bristol, in order that
he may prosecute the land cases along
with F. J. Heney.
Lewiston Will Give a Site.
LEWISTON, Idaho, June 28. (Special.)
Resolutions were passed tonight at a pub
lic mass meeting asking that the City
Council advise Idaho's representatives in
Congress that it will give the Government
a fine site in the City Park, centrally lo
cated, and worth $40,000, providing Con
gress will make an appropriation for the
erection of a public building here.
This action was taken after advices
were received here that the omnibus ap
propriation bill contained an amendment
allowing $10,000 for the purchase of & site
here.
THAW HELD FOR MURDER
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to Thaw. The contents have not been
disclosed. A representative of Mr. Corn
stock called during the afternoon, but he
was not permitted to see Thaw.
Dr. Allen McLane Hamilton, the ex
pert on mental disorders who has been
retained by the defense, spent an hour
and a half with Thaw today. At the end
of his examination Dr. Hamilton Bald he
would make a confidential report of his
examination to Judge Olcott.
BEFORE THE CORONER'S JURY
Witness Says Thaw's Face "Was
White and EyesStarlng.
-NEW YORK, June 28. Thaw passed a
rather restless night in the Tombs. He
seemed in fairly good spirits when he
arose. Every seat in the Coroner's Court
was filled at 10:30. The Coroner's jury
was assembled and sworn and the ex
amination of witnesses was hegun with
out delay. Nicholas L. Stokes, a wealthy
coal dealer, was foreman of the jury.
The first witness called was Coroner's
physician. Dr. Timothy Lehan, who per
formed the autopsy on White's body. He
declared that death was caused by a
gunshot wound in the right eye.
The most important testimony at the
Inquest was given by Lionel Lawrence,
stage director at the Madison-Square
Garden Tbeater. Lawrence said that im
mediately after the shooting, Mrs. Thaw
rushed up to her husband, and, throw
ing her arms around his neck, said: "Nev
er mind. Harry; I will stick to you
through thick and thin." Thaw turned
to the crowd which surrounded them and
said, with an oath:
"That man ruined my wife, and I got
him and I fixed him for It."
Edward H. Conway, a foreman of la
borers at Madison Square Garden, said
he saw both White and Thaw the night
of the murder. He described Thaw's go
ing back and forth behind the table at
which White eat. The second time Thaw
approached White's table he saw him ex
tend his arm and then three shots fol
lowed in quick succession. White fell and
a fireman seized Thaw, who was walking
away, and took away the revolver. The
witness then told of the arrest and of
the actions of the prisoner as he was
being taken down the elevator. Conway
said he noticed Thaw particularly that
night.
"His eyes were bulging and dilated,"
said he, "and his face was very white.
After the shooting I heard him say: "He
ruined my wife and I did it.' "
Paul Bruden, the fireman, who seized
Thaw after the shooting, had very little
to add to what Conway had testified, ex
cept that two men wept down the ele
vator with Thaw and Mrs. Thaw.
Warner Paxtori, an engineer, testified
that he accompanied the prisoner and
Mrs. Thaw down in the elevator, and when
asked as to what conversation passed be
tween Mr. Thaw and Mrs. Thaw said:
"The woman said: 'Look at the fix you
have ' pushed yourself into now." "
"What did Thaw say?"
"He said: 'It's all right, dearie. I have
probably saved your life.' "
The witness said the prisoner was not
excited, but appeared cool and calm.
Anthony L. Debes, the policeman who
arrested Thaw, said the prisoner was very
cool and calm before he was taken from
the building.
"Did you notice anything irrational
about him?" asked the Assistant District
Attorney.
"No, nothing irrational," replied Debes.
The next witness was Lionel Lawrence,
stage manager of the Madison Square
Roof Garden Theater. He said he knew
White and Thaw, that he saw White 25
minutes before he was killed, and saw
Thaw two minutes before the fatal shots
were fired.
"Did you see the shooting?"
"Yes; that is, I heard the first shot
and turning around I saw the second and
third shots tired, and then I saw Mr.
White fall from the chair."
"What did you do next?"
"I immediately ran to the stage and
called to the company to go on with
the play. Then I ran back, and saw Fire,
man Bruden take the gun away from
Thaw. Then I put my hand on Thaw's
shoulder."
"Did you see Mrs. ThawJ"
"Yes. She threw her arms around
Thaw, and exclaimed: "Never mind,
Harry, I'll stick to you through thick and
thin." "
"Did Thaw say anything?"
"He said to me: 'That man ruined my
wife, and I got him and fixed him for
it.' "
"What was the appearance of Thaw?"
"He was Very white, and his eyes were
staring out of his head."-
Coroner Dooley then gave the case to
the jury, and retired. While the Jury was
out Thaw, his counsel and the policemen
conversed together, the prisoner laughing
and chatting naturally with them. He
seemed to have become thoroughly at
ease and to be quite self-composed.
The jury returned after an absence of
about three minutes, and announced that
it had reached a verdict. The Jury's re
port follows:
"We find that the said Stanford White
came to his death on the 25th day of
June, 1906, at Madison Square Roof Gar
den, Twenty-sixth street and Madison av
enue, by cerebro hemorrhage, caused by
a pistol shot wound of the skull, inflicted
at the time and place aforesaid by Harry
Kendall Thaw."
Thaw was called to the bar, and was
committed to the city prison without bail
to await the action of the grand jury.
The prisoner was taken back to his cell
in the Tombs.
TALES LACK CONFIRMATION.
Attorney Investigates Alleged De
scription of Actors In .Tragedy.
NEW YORK, June 28. The District At
torney's office has completed the exam
ination of the more important witnesses
po far discovered yesterday and directed
its attention to the investigation of the
relations existing between Evelyn Nesbit
and Stanford White prior to the girl's
marriage and the -attitude assumed by
Thaw after he had made her his wife.
"I am Investigating every story regard
ing the life and dissipations of the par
ties to the tragedy," Mr. Nott said.
"There are many of them. I get a new
tale every minute and so far neither the
police nor the force of this offioe has
been able to substantiate one of them.
"The report that White made an insult
ing remark about Mrs. Thaw on the
night of the shooting, which was over
heard by her husband, is groundless, so
far as I have been able to learn.
"I am perfectly satisfied that nothing
iKiit harmATipr! Mondav night had any-
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thing- to do with the shooting. The deed
was planned before ' then. That White
talked about, Mrs. Thaw after her mar
riage is heard on all sides, but I have
been unable to run down a single speciflo
instance In which her name was men
tioned by him in a derogatory manner. I
never knew of a case In which there were
so many rumors which were without a
grain of truth."
White Was Heavily Ifisnred.
NEW YORK, June 28. A man con
nected with the Equitable Life As
surance Society said .last . night that
Stanford White's life was Insured in
that company for $199,000 by policies taken
out at various times In the past-20 years.
During that period, it was said, Mr.
Vhite paid to the company $90,000 in
premiums. AH of the policies were made
payable to his wife. Mr. White was
heavily insured in other companies as
well. None of the Equitable policies had
been taken out recently, so far as could
be learned.
JOINT RATE ON DEBATE
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tlon against the shippers on the line of
the Eureka Flat branch of the W. & C.
R. R. Company, the commission is not
prepared at this time to announce what
its findings will be, and the matter will
be taken under advisement by the com
mission." Others Voluntarily Granted.
The reading of the foregoing memoranda
was followed by a statement of the chair
man to the effect that the grain bag rate;
the small shipment rate and .the Pasco
depot matters were being voluntarily ad
Justed by the railroads to the satisfac
tion of the commission.
Immediately on adjournment of the pro
ceedings, the Members of the commission
and the representatives of the railroads
present repaired to a room off the main
courtroom and entered upon a private con
ference for the purpose of discussing the
prospective distance tariff schedule, under
which it is proposed by the commission
to give relief to the Walla Walla jobbers.
This conference is in progress tonight at
the hotel, and will be continued tomorrow,
members of the commission and traffic
officials of the roads remaining over for
that- purpose.
This rate conference is declared to be
entirely friendly and harmonious, and all
concerned in It express their confidence
in an ultimate result that will prove sat
isfactory to the Commission, the rail
roads and to Walla Walla. Nothing has
resulted thus far, however, beyond dis
cussion for the purpose of arriving at a
basis on which the new distance tariff
can be built up on a uniform scale.
When today's proceedings began at 9
o'clock this morning, Traffic Manager
Woodworth, of the Northern Pacific, was
still on the stand, undergoing cross-examination
by Assistant Attorney-General
Faulknor. It was shown by Mr. Wood
worth that the Northern Pacific has
three separate distance tariff tables in
the State of Washington, One of them
runs north from Auburn, one south from
Auburn and the third east froro the same
point. Of the three, the one running east
and covering Eastern Washington was
admitted to be about 25 per cent higher
than either of the two others.
Time Ripe for Changes.
It was also admitted by Mr. Woodworth
that no material reduction or change has
been made in this particular distance
tariff during the past 15 years. The wit
ness frankly admitted that the time had
probably arrived when changes could be
made in it to. advantage.
The last witness called was R. B. Mil
ler, general freight agent of the O. R.
& N.. who made a strong defense of the
Eureka branch wheat rate maintained by
the Washington & Columbia River Rail
way. On cross-examination by Commis
sioner Lawrence, Mr. Miller, like Mr.
Woodworth, admitted that there were
numerous flaws in the present distance
tariff affecting Walla Walla.
Representatives of the railroads indi
cate that their respective companies will
acquiesce in all orders of the Commission
promulgated today, unless It be the Joint
wheat rate order. An appeal to the
courts Is not Improbable on this ques
tion, and if taken, it will open up the
whole question as to .the powers of the
Railroad Commission and the constitu
tionality . of the law under which they
were appointed,
Wind Tpsets Train of Cars.
CHEYENNE, Wyo.. June 28. A high
wind early this morning blew over a train
of 11 cars at Weir, a small station east
of Cheyenne. The cars were used as
quarters for Japanese laborers and were
on a siding at the lir.ie of the accident.
Twenty laborers were injured, seven seri
ously. The wind also blew down about a
mile of telegraph poles and did other
damage.
Suits
OF
Independent Oil Dealers of the
South Testify.
HEARING AT NEW ORLEANS
Interstate Commerce Commission Is
Told That State Inspectors Dis
criminated Against Dealers
Not In the Trust.
NEW ORLEANS, June 28. Testimony
on oil freight rates, affecting seven
Southern States, was taken today by
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
All the witnesses were independent oil
dealers. A book on oil tariff rates Is
sued by the Southern Railway, was
put in evidence. W. O. Hudson, a for
mer employe of the Standard Oil Com
pany, testified that every rate published
in the book is between Standard Oil
stations.
Martin Csry, of Buffalo, representing
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FOURTH AND MORRISON STREETS
Umbrella Specia
iyiT,
Ladies' White Wash Shirts
Linen, Indian Head and Hep WASH SKIRTS, come in plain gored,
circular and plaited styles, tailor-made and fancy open-worked,
from $2.00 to $10.00
Sensation Sale of
Ladies Suits
50 Suits we want to sell in the next two days.
Styles are the very latest, colors include
black and all plain shades, prices were np to
$25.00; Friday and Saturday. ... .$14.55
Ladies' White Suits
Hundreds of Linen, Indian Head and Duck
Suits to select from.
WAISTS
Three lots to select from
LOT 1 Waists, values up to $3.00. ,
LOT 2 Waists, values up to S4.50. .
LOT 3 Waists, values np to $7.00. .
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Hart Schaffner (J Mux
the Standard OH Company, pointed out
a proviso in this book, that rates will
be made to any station when proper
facilities for unloading are furnished.
Commissioner Charles A. Prouty, re
plying, said:
"I understand that proper facilities
for unloading means storage tanks,
and that small dealers cannot build
such tanks."
Hudson testified that Woodward,
Wight & Co., of New Orleans, when
about to enter the oil business, ac
cepted $30,000 from the Standard Oil
Company, for which they gave a con
tract agreeing not to sell oil for five
years. This contract terminates next
Saturday, witness said.
M. Milburn, secretary-treasurer of the
National Refining Company, of Mem
phis, Tenn., said that at Fayetteville,
Tenn., his employer had been informed
by an oil inspector that their oil must
be Inspected, at a cost of 60 cents a
barrel, although it had been previously
inspected by a Tennessee Inspector. At
Memphis, he said, he had caused the
discharge of an employe of the Frisco
Railroad whom he accused of showing
bills of lading to Standard Oil agents.
In Arkansas, witness said, his sales
men had been arrested by State Oil In
spectors, on charges that their oil was
below standard. These arrests had
never been prosecuted. The salesmen
freauently had been told that if they
wouIJ leave town there would be no
prosecution. At Walnut Ridge, Ark.,
witness said, one Inspector had been
also a distributor for the Waters
Pierce Oil Company.
Boston official statistics show the popu
lation of the Huh In 1!05 was 5US.3S0, of"
whom 139,ti.'13 were legal voters, or some
thing 1ps than one In four.
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