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i "THE MORNING ASTOItlAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. SATURDAY, DECIM8KR 10, 1904. 9 ..... - ! I I THEY I Charges of Congressmen Result in Overhauling the Service. FIGHT IS ON CONGRESSMEN Complaint Made Thai Rural Mail Carrier Interfered in Politic in Sever! State. ' Washington. Dec. . Several wk ago, In the heat of the presidential campaign, complaint were made to the prealdent and the postmaster gen eral by several members of congress who were candidates for re-election that they were being made the victims of a systematic plan on the Prt ot tn rural letter carriers' association. One of these demands was that the carriers .should have an Increase of pay. A special effort was made by mem bers of the association to embarrass Representative Overstreet, of Indiana, chairman of the house committee on post offices and post roads, because. It Is alleged, he had not done for the rural carriers what they thought he ought President Cunningham, of the association, is said to have been one of those who made demands on candidates for congress, of course on behalf of the members of the associa tion. The complaints filed with the .,.. tti. nnatmaster general prcniuciit n"" j mentioned President Cunningham as one of those responsioie ior mt v tempted "hold up." as it was termed by the victims. By direction of the president an In vestigation of the matter was begun ... tVa tnatmftHtr reneral. It has been In progress for two or three weeks and the intimation is given that, thus far. it tends to substantiate we , cnr . i. nrantnfiva In congress. mauc uj in.. - What the result of the investigation - ..... . .V. ItUll. may be Is not aiscioseo. oui u ..... . m .v it th. rharres are main nuvu is uu.. - tallied, as Is now expected, there will be a general overnaunng oi free delivery carrier cervlce. OONT WANT BRYAN. ' Prefer Republican Tariff to Bryan I FrM Silver. .Washington. Dec. 10Southern democrats, who are arriving m "" ington in anticipation of the coming session of congress, are disposed to how anything but enthusiasm over the efforts of William Jennings Bryan to have an early conference of the leaders of democracy on the subject of "reorganization." They express the ' opinion that the "peerless leader" is a little "too previous." Moreover the term "reorganfcatlon" has an unpleas ant sound In their ears and they are loath to admit that the party they have followed from Infancy is in need of re organization. There was too much f it, they say. In 18 and 1900. "I think Mr. Bryan la unwise to start reorgani sation until we know ''where we are at'" said one of the southerners. "A casual glance at the election returns would Indicate that unless we are careful we may build ur house, not on a rock but on a quicksand. From the way the vote went in the north, it would seem that the democratic party is not unlike the little boy's apple, of which there 'was'nt no core.' " The defection of the free sllverltes Is but one of several significant events in the recent election. In Louisiana there was -a long fight over the municipal ticket in New Orleans and on certain executive acts of Gov. Blanchard that totally obsecure the national issues. Now that Louisiana has quieted down over the negro question the state Is on the verge of a split The interests of a great majority of the people there are strongly republican. They are par ticularly desirous of sugar legislation and protection in many directions. 8MOKINQ PROHIBITED. Order Issued at Stanford University by Prof. Jordon. Stanford University, Dec. J. "Until very recently the students of the uni versity have respected the unwritten law against smoking In and about the Inner quadrangle. Recently this has been disregarded at the ends of the ar cades and at different places. I trust that the students will not make It necessary to change this unwritten law Into a written one, but In any case the university will not tolerate smoking about the recitation buildings nor on the steps leading to them. "DAVID STARR JORDAN." Such was the order issued by the president's office this morning. It caused a commotion among the stu dents, who did not know that they had been breaking any of the university rules. It seems that when Stanford was in Its first stages of construction Mrs. Stanford expressed the wish that as the university was to be a co-educational institution there should be no smoking on the quadrangle or near foe recitation buildings. This never was a written law, but it has been sacredly lived up to by the students. Only at times has it been broken and then by freshmen, who were sfton toM by up. per classmen of the wish of Mrs. Plan ford. But smoking la a part of the stu dent's life that he never entirety gives up, and the long morning hours grew dull to the men when they could not And solace tn a quiet smoke. And ao between classes, when there la a ten minutes' recess, the men students would flock to the eastern entrances of the quadrangle, where they would puff happily away, not dreaming that they were breaking the spirit of the unwrit ten rule. Dr. Jordon saw this, was displeased, and so Issued the order. The students take the rule In good part. BIG SUIT FILED. Heir Want Half Billion Dollars for Property in Chicago. Chicago. Dec. 10. The largest suit ever filed In any city In the wortd. In volving 1500.009.000. will be begun be fore Judge Kohlsaat. of the United States court when the heirs of Alan son C. Stewart and Gen. Hart Stewart will attempt to make good their claim against the Pennsylvania railroad. The heirs seek to recover for the use by the railroad company of several mites 'of Stewart avenue, and as this ts the principal entrance of the rail road to the city, the action will be bitterly fought The property in dispute came to the original owners as government land, which they acquired when Chicago was a trading post and the land in question was ten miles or more from the center of the present city. They deedeJ the streets tn their south side sub-division to the city, the land to revert to their heirs tn case of diversion from Its ori ginal purposes. Several years later the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, now the Pennsylvania, asked the city coun cil for right of way on Stewart avenue, which was granted. The Stewarts died some forty years ago. The Penn sylvania road appropriated Stewart avenue from side to side. The land became enormously valuable. Presi dent Roosevelt's family and other abutting property owners protested against the Invasion. The Pennsylvania, to satisfy them bought up a lonely parallel strip and deeded it to the city In lieu of the ap crooriated throughfare and settled with the Roosevelts and others by paying 12.25 per square foot for land bought of them. GRAFT IS KILLED. Merchant and Newspapers of Seattle Jumped on Trading 8tamp Nuisance. The newspapers of Seattle are refus ing the advertising which contains any mention of the word trading stamp. There are four dally papers In Seat tle, three of which agreed not to en courage but rather discourage the trad ing stamp. When the trading stamps were plan ned for Seattle, the largest stores agreed to have nothing to do with them one argument being that If Smith's grocery had a green stamp, Jones' gro cery would have a brown, etc., until every grocery had a trading stamp and the effect would be lost The agreement has been adhered to. One store which was not in the agreement is using the stamps and has offered four papers advertising which contained mention of trading stamps. Three papers refused on the ground that their contracts read "copy must be furnished which Is unobjec tionable to the publishers." The fourth paper had no such clause and had to cary the advertising or stand a lawsuit. As the matter now stands, the trad ing stamp has practically no publicity in Seattle and Is a failure. Advertising builds up, lack of ad vertising kills. White's Sayings. TO VISIT ATLANTA. President Roosevelt Invited to See the Southern Metropolis. Atlanta, Ga. Dec. 10. Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States, will be Invited by the Atlantic Lchamber of commerce to visit this city during me convention ox me National Manufacturers' Association, which will be held In May. Resolutions to this effect were pre sented to the chamber by Us former president J. K. Orr, at the annual din ner of that organization, held at the Kimball house, last night They were seconded by A. C. Bruce and Indorsed In ringing speeches by Mayor Evan P. Howell, John B. Goodwin and H. E. W. Palmer, after which they were unani mously adopted by a rising vote. The reading of the resolutions, the succeeding speeches and the rising vote which followed were decidedly the feature of the chamber of commerce dinner last night, though Dr. Erich Zoepffel-Quellensteln, the German con sul to Atlantla, delivered a notable speech and other matters of the great est Interest took place. Radical Insurance Change. New York, Dec. 9. The executive committee of the International Asso ciation of Accident Underwriters, at a meeting here, has agreed to reduce the period for which weekly Indemnity will be paid under health policies from 62 to 26 - weeks. This goes into effect on January 1, RQ0SEVELTDEGL1NES No Authority to Interfere In Steel Workers' Strike. UNION MEN ARE SATISFIED Was in Hopes However That President Roosevelt Could In duce Arbitration. Washington. Dec. . President Roosevelt today Informed a delegation representing the Amalgamated asso ciation of Iron. Steel and Tlnplate Workers that he saw no way by which he could properly or legally Interfere to bring about a settlement ot the strike of the union employes of the Carnegie Steel company at Youngs- town and Glrard Ohio. The company la one of the constituent companies or the United Steel Corporation. The delegation consisted of Representative Aubrey Thomas, of Youngstown; Da vid Evans, organiser of the Youngs town district ot the Amalgamated As sociation, and President Shaffer or the same organisation. The president listened to what his callers had to say. expressing regret that the differences between the men and the company ap parently were not susceptible of amic able adjustment. He said, however, that he had no authority which wouiu warrant him In Interfering, glad as he would be to see the strike settled. "I knew very well when I came here. said Mr. Shaffer, "that the president could not Interfere In our strike any more than he could out In Colorado or lover In Massachusetts. The men were anxious, however, that we lay the mat- tr before the president, so we did It. That is all there ts to It. I shall go back to Pittsburg this afternoon, and Mr. Evans will return to Youngstown, All the men want Is a chance to talk the matter over with the managers or the works, but this has been denied to ithem. Their wages have been almply chopped down, and they are tola to iAk them or leave them. The men hoped that the president would suggest to the owners that, the matter oe ar hitmted. but as It's out of his province there Is no use looking for help In his direction. The president was very kind to us and heard our story through, and suggested that all the facts In the case be laid before the department or memorandum setting forth the faots before we leave Washington." TEDDY ANGRY. Tskes a Fall Out of a Remarkable Boston Newspaper. The Boston Herald, a stuld news paper, so fur forgot Itself rJi to print a yellow story about the maltreatment of the Roosevelt Thanksgiving turkey. Here is an extract: When the" bird was released they (two of the president's children) began their fun. They chased the turkey all over the white house grounds, pluck ing at It, yelling and laughing, until the bird was well-nigh exhausted. When they became tired of their sport they left the bird to retire In peace un der the rear portico of the white house. The president witnessed part of the proceedings and laughed. The president was highly incensed when he saw this astonishing yarn, and caused an official denial to be Is sued by Secretary Loeb. He did not care about Inventions of Imaginative corespondents that concerned only himself but as to his children, that was another matter. Now the Boston paper Is denied access to sources of public information. The Incident would seem not to be very Important, but It has attracted wide notice in the east. Gambling in Sesttle. Seattle, Dec. 9. Dave W. Argyle, who before the state law making gambling a felony went Into effect, was one of the big gamblers of Seattle, will be trie d before a Jury tn Judge Tall- man's court on December 12. Argyle was arrested In a raid on a big gamb ling establishment at Georgetown on June 9 of this year. Faro bank was In full blast and a large amount of gambling material was seized as evidence. Argyle, as the re puted proprietor of the games, was ar rested and a complaint was filed against him In the criminal court by Pmnenutine Attorney Scott, on infor mation furnished by a member of he civic union. , While no declaration has been made it Is expected that In the event an ad verse verdict is rendered that the case ,Mi h annpnled to the supreme court, and the question of the constitutional ity of the law settled once ana tor an time. . . mother criminal case down for trial this month Is that of Mrs. Charlotte Thompson who Is charged with arson. lit is alleged that on uciooer i ". she set fire to a bouse at B10 Yesler o th iroterty of C. P. Dose. The woman has been tn Jail ever since her arest and claims that she win nave-. . .... i laMl.hlnir her In no- I Utile irouoie i cence. .The police say that they havej a strong case against her. Correct Qothcsjorfkm You murt not neglect your ctreu neither, but take care to be bltn mis, Lord CktttcridJ lo kit ton. 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