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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1907)
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 100. THE MORNING ASTOIUAN. ASTOIUA, OKECON. JUST RECEIVED Our large line of cut glass intended for the Holiday trade has just arrived, being de layed on account of the car shortage. The celebrated H. C. Fry's, which took Gold Medal at Lewis and ClarkFair. Latest Designs. Special Prices. A. V. ALLEN, CROCKERY DEPARTMENT. A SHAMELESS TRICK How the People arc AVulcted by Their Reputable Servants. CONTEMPTIBLE KUSF EXPOSED OLD TIME CONGRESSES (Continued from pag 1) was Vice President, and under the law governing the counting and recording soiM'coy should be observed. Tin bat tle lasted for several days, but, like the modern executive sessions of the Son ate. there was a leak soiwwhore. and day, which aroused anew the anger of ; each day the enterprising Mr. Smith the Speaker. j was able to give an exact account of That session of 1S01 was a famous j what took place, and the result of each one, and a very exciting one. For j ballot. the first time this new-trade Uulon of. Among the Incidents of those ex ours was In the throes of disruption, citing days was one where Mr. Jef In those "good old" days the method ferson steadily closed his eyes to a of selectine a President and Vice Pros- ! very grave Infraction of the law. He ldent was a very crude political affair. Electors were chosen by the legislatu res, and the electors voted for two men. J the Electoral votes It was his duty to the one having the highest number of j open the envelopes containing the cer votes to be President, and the one hav- j tlflcates, and after they had been ex lng the next highest number to be amlned by the tellers to announce the Vive President. vote. When the envelope for Oeorgla In 1S00 the Federal party was going was opened It was discovered that It was' a candidate to succeed himself, did not contain such a certificate as with Pickering for a running n;.- 1 was required by the law; In fact that Hamilton, the founder of the Federal no certificate of any kind was enclos party. who secretly endeavored to ed. The certificate should have record have Pickering receive more votes pj the actual number of vote') cast for than Adams, and thus give Pickering Mr. Jefferson and the number for Mr. the first place while relegating Adams Burr, and should have been signed by to the position he held under the two each of the four electors casting the administrations of Washington. By votes. Instead of such a certificate almost universal acclaim Jefferson was there was nothing but a scrap of pa the choice of the opponents of Fede- j per stating that "Georgia casts the rallsm. With him was associated Aa- , votes for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron ron Burr, perhaps the most astute po- i Burr, and It was not signed by any ltlclan of his day. When the States body. The tellers talked the matter bad cast their votes It was found that ; over and passed the paper to the Vice Jefferson and Burr had each received j President, quietly calling his attention the same number, and that both had j to Its Incomplete character. Without received more than Adams and Pick- , looking at it, Mr. Jefferson firmly an erngr. Under the constitution In such j nounced, "Georgia casts four votes for cases the House was to decide who ! Thomas Jefferson and four votes for was to be President, and, as the votes j Aaron Burr." The enterprising Mr. were reported, the choice of the House j Smith caught even this little departure was confined to Jefferson and Burr, ' from strict politics, and when It came to counting and re- j It was a crisis in the political fate cording the votes of the Electors a j of Mr. Jefferson and he closed his eyes crisis In his political fate confronted ' to the infraction of the law. Had the Jefferson. , ; vote of Georgia been thrown out for The constitution required that in i the informality, both he and Burr case of a tie the choice should be made would still have had more votes than from the two being tied, unless no one Mr. Adams, but it would have reduced had received a majority of all the vo- them to sixty nine votes, Just a maj tes cast. In such a case the choice ority of the Electoral College. If nn should be made from the Ave receiv- informality should be found in another lng the highest number of votes cast, state it would reduce th- m to If a than The law was specific as to how the a majority and that would prmit the votes should be cast and certified. It House to rhooso from all th'' c;mdl provided that the Electors should meet dates, voted for, and Mr. .V'.irrw would on a fixed day, cast their votes, and be chos-n. Mr. Jefferson would t ike give a certificate showing the number of votes cast for each person, th cer tificate to be signed by all the Electors. Jefferson and Burr had f-ach re ceived seventy three votes, to sixty five for Adams and sixty four for Pickering. In the House each State was entitled to one vote, and the Fe deralists controlled a majority of the States but could not vote for Adams, as both Jefferson and Burr, on the face of the returns hafl a majority of all the Electors. The Federalists had, therfore to make a choice between two enemies, and It was readily seen the cont'-st would be a very S'xcitir.g one, and might possibly result in a dissolution of the Union, so It was de cided that the sessions should be held behind closed doors, and that absolute Do You Realize no ch-niifr CRY FROM CUBA. That you need shoes for the rainy season that has now made Its ap pearance. Just Arrived fer MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN .FALL 8TYLE8, 8MART DE8IQN8. That please the eye, lend comfort to ; the feet and give perfect durability, THE BEST MADE DR. A. REID'S CUSHIONED SHOES: Feet don't ache or tire. .Investigate the quality and be convinced OUR 8PECIALTY LINE ef Logger's Shoes Guarantees Satis faction to the Wearer None Better but a Leader of All. Natives Praying for an American Pro tectorate They Need It. HAVANA, Jan. 1. It is r'-ported that a petition for an American pro tectorate is ready to b" s:tit to Wash ington from Remedies, the wealthiest district in Cuba, sigr.i-d by i'''0 nativ Cubans, each of whom Is a man of wealth. Ai. other petition from Cien fuegos is soon to follow, signed by several hundred property owners. In other parts of th Island, it Is state 1, similar petitions are in course of prep aration. A weekly newspaper advo cating a protectorate, as a means of settling the Cuban situation, will prob ably be issued as money for the pro ject, it is stated, is rapidly being sub scribed. A banker of Havana has de clared that he will not advance a dol lar for sugar raising after June 1, 1907, unless the United States shows that It intends to guarantee peace In Cuba. Congressmen, Without Sand Enough to Fight for Salary Increase, Use the Shoulders of Their Clerk for Grabbing Perquisites. WASHINGTON. Jan. t. A K""d many Important questions await the reconvening of Congress, but none of them Is of such ubsoiblng Interest to the national lawmakers as the pro posed Increase of senators and repre sentatives. It Is believed, hopefully believed. In the House that the Sen ate will restore the extra $'.'.riO0 a year which the House cut out of the legis lative, executive and Judicial appro prlatlon bill. The matter is of more moment, of course, to House members than t senators, because as a rule senators are men of independent mean, while a great majority of representatives have little aside from their salaries. After years of cloak-room aultatlon, It was believed the House this year had gotten its courage up to the point of voting Its members the desired In crease, but at the last moment It was found Impossible to rally a majority to the standard. An attempt was made to get a Democratic caucus ac tion favorable to the Increase, and when the plan fell through a large number of Republicans, who wer.- sup posed to b? solidly for the project, suddenly discovered that $5.d0ft a year was adequate compensation. It Is not believed, however, that any of these "deserters," as they are called by the bolder colleagues, would raise any serious objection should the Sen ate restore the increase. Certainly. It Is not believed many of them would go to the point of refusing to accept the extra 12,500. It Is understood senators generally favor a J7.500 salary for memlers of Congress, but are strongly opposed to an indirect Increase which the Hous voted itself. In the ball as It passed the House, the allowance for clerk hire for representatives was Incrensi-d from $1,200 to $1,500 a year, and In stead of providing that the money should be paid actually to clerks It was given outright as an allowance to members. It is to this propusltlon that senators obb'ct. Th-y declnr.- that it is an attempt on the part i.f SllllH iil attended the tn'Vll iC of the Central Validation of Amateur Ath letic t'nl.m h-ld In Chlciiito and was ImpresMeil at the activity displayed by the oltb'ets an. I nienibct'.M, I'lvshlcnt Walter II. I.lr.ttmci, of C -nil il As sociation lepoite.l til H MMuailUe. I to have a municipal athletic an-ocla-tlon and he hoped thai the itmvr will accept (he presidency. Within a few week an effort will be made lo ots;. ni ls,,, a public school atbb'llc b acne. So far as tile hkh school of Cblcai;o arc concot"!ed. they bie been ornanlvied for some I hue and a bUh school or Manlat'd Is I'ccog: l.cd tit helm: one of of tile best In 111- Weil. IMPORTS INCREASE. Gees Fir Has Not Changed Import of San Fran-isco. SAN FRANCISCO, .Ian. I inIi ler Osborne, of the Custom House pre sented a report to Collector HlrattoM yesterday, showing for the year I'.H'tl. tiu-l'iiksrd receipt from duties over those collected in 1905. For the cal endar year Itttlii, the receipt were $!, 4tS2,tJM, as against $T,:'4..12i collected In 1905, For the month of December. 1906, the collections wire $1,043,413 for tho same month in 1905. the col lections wciv $5,75S,35N. and for the preceding six months the collections were $3,719,914, thus proving that the Stent lire bus not decreased the im ports ut this pott, and that Han Fran cisco lb mulully Is stronger than ever In Its history. SOMEBODY'S SONS. HACltFM KNTi '. Cat., .land At Trurkee tills afternoon the coroners jury brought In a verdict In the matter uf the death of the the ti.nnps ground to pieces In a train wreck SKutday exonerating to tin- railroad company from blanr. The names ..f the men killed were not learned. INITIAL BLAZE. CINCINNATI. Jan. 1. - The flrt tire of the New Year took place curly to day when the entire series of buildings operated by the Iilamond Distilleries Company from 417 to 4;5 Fust Pearl street, was gutted. The fire Is sup posed to have started from the com munleatlon of fumes of nplrlts or high wines with fire In the engine room on the ground floor. The Iosh I- etlma- te, $100,000. KEEPING DOWN EXPENSES. the House to inere-is.. their own sal aries by Indirection, while they lack d the courage directly to vote Mm- In crease. There is no special objection to givl-.g the . l-rks an -xtra JVi'i a y ar, but. senators an- !'( "rmi n 1 :t shall not go Into the pock'-t of thrifty representatives. PARIS. Jan. l. - The appr.ia. hlr.g trial of Die Viscount Chenay and his wife who are accused of murdering their Infant 1 exciting 'he I.emata district. An anonymous letter ums the in alis of exposing the crime. The Viscountess has .-i-sumed responsibil ity for the criuie. She t.i'.'l that ln-r husband killed tin- hi! I ! aiise of the expense it Would :( ill. CASTOR I A Tor Infant 3 ar.'l Children. The Kind Y?a Always Bought MERRY OLD MARK. S. A. G1MRE 543 Bond Street, Opposite. Fiacher Broa. CARRIE NATION certainly smashed a hole In t'ue bar rooms of Kansas, but Ballard's Hore hound Syrup has smashed all records as a cure for coughs, Bronchitis, In fluenza and all Pulmonary diseases, T. C. II, Horton, Kansas, writes: "J have never found a medicine that would cure a cough ro quickly as Bal lard's Ilorehound Syrup. I have used It for years." Hart's drug store. WORTHY OF ANY HONOR. NEW YORK, Jan. I. John W. Ooff. who has made an enviable record on the bench as New York's recorder re signed last night. He was elected to tho Supreme Court in November and becomes a Justice of that court today. Twain, the .Humorist. Engineers, the Burial of 1906. NF.W YORK. Jan. !. Mark Twain pave 1S01 what ho termed a merry fu.eral at his Fifth A v. nne home. The gathering that attend -d the ob sequies was made up of a group of relatives and about a score of literary contemporaries. Tie-re was as stage erected In the dra wlngroom, upon which Mark Twain appeared. Attired in grotesque costume, securely tb-d to a person In Satanic garb, Mark Twain explained that he and his friends were Siamese twins and that they repre sented his double personality. He said that when he was Mark Twain his original self, he was proper com pany for anybody but when the other part of him got upper hand, there was no accounting for what might hap pen. The humorist told of a long list of resolutions he had decided upon, but added that he was afraid the little bad man would upset his calculations. While Mr. Clemens was talking, a wa gon was drawn up on tin- stage, in It sat an old gentleman whom Mirk immediately recognized as the year 11)00. "Ther. he. comes butting In." said Twain. "He does r,ot know wle-n to quit." Old 1000 was seized and hurriedly escorted from the stage. . .sszr .' " , But for i' ' 1 " - - J Colds. Croap, I , i WhooDtno f , . 1 1 Cough, tic. JT' . J An esarli ivniM contalBlnc cplte eonrtJ. tit tbe ToweU. Bee' Liti Honer n Tax more the bowels and contains no odu tM. BOOMING ATHLETICS. Chicago .and Milwaukee .Organizing for School Games NEW YORK, Jan. 1. -President J. E. Sullivan, of th" Amateur Athletic Union of the Frilled States returned yesterday from Chicago. President 4 T) SPICES, (j' CeFFEEJEA, BAKING POWDER, FL&VGRING EXTRACTS Absolute Purity, Firvesr Flavor, Creates! Sf renth, foworvatlt Prices, G,C55T&DEVER5 r PORTLAND, OREGON, r .. u iiu' h . sf r X M'i 1 VJ.VVri i - V V v WATCH AND CLOCK REPAIRING A SPECIALTY J FRANK J. DONNERBERG 110 ELEVENTH STREET. NEAR BONO. Give Him Something to Smoke. Thai's what lie" Will Appreciate most. ! Christinas Cigars and Smokers requirements in great variety. 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