Heppner gazette., June 14, 1906, Image 7

DOINGS OF OUR NATIONAL
BODY OF LAWMAKERS
Saturday, June 9.
Washngton, June 9. The bill pro
h bitng corporations from making cam
paign contributions was passed by the
senate without debate this afternoon.
It makes it unlawful for any national
bank or any corporation under a gov
ernment charter to make a contribution
in connection with any election and also
unlawful f r any corporation whatever
to make a contribution to any presi
dential,, senatorial or congressional
election whatever.
A fine not exceeding $5,009 is the
penalty for offending corporations, and
a fine of not exceeding $1,000 for every
officer or director who shall consent to
the granting of any contribution.
Washington, June 9. The item in
the sundry civil appropriation bill ap
propriating $25,000 for the pre si Jen t
went out in the bouse of representatives
on a point made by Whlicms, of Mis
sissippi. The decision, however, that
the matter was new legislation came
after a free discussion, Democrats and
Republicans generally expressing them
elves in sympathy with the idea of giv
ing the president a fund for railroad
expenses.
Biyond the debate on the president's
traveling expenses, the houBe devoted
the ('ay to the sundry civil bill. Sul
zer, i f New York, talked on good roads
and Sims, of Tennessee, discussed the
rural free delivery box question, which
lie said, will grow into a tcandal should
the government persist fn compcllir g
rural patrons to purchase certain styltg
of boxes.
Washington, June 6. Theconsidera
tion by tne nouse of the sundry civil
appropriation bill in committee of the
whole today was made the occasion of
some severe strictures by Democrats of
the beads of departments for exceeding
their legal powers, Sullivan, of MaBBa
chusetts, leading the attack.
Tawney, in explaining the provisions
of the bill, which deals with all depart
ments 'of the government and is the
next to the last money bill to be acted
on by the house, stated that the total
appropriation for the sundry civil ex
penses for the fiscal year 1907 carried
by this bill is $94,342,156. Of the
total amount $25,456,575 is for the
Panama canal and is reimbursable
from the proceeds of the Bale of bonds.
In addition to this sum, the amount
carried for river and harbor acts, and
especially by tbe act passed at the last
session of congress, is in ecxess of the
amount appropriated in the current
law for that parpoae by 6,774,044.
Friday, June 8."
Washington, June 8. Tbe senate to
day listened to two set speeches, one
bv Morgan in support of his resolution
providing for an investigation by a sen
ate committee of the affairs of the Isle
of Pines, and the other by Hopkins in
opposition to the sea level canal bill.
Neither measure was acted on. Some
time was also spent in considering the
District of Columbia appropriation
bill.
Wahington. June 8. With tbe ex
ception of an hour spent on pension
legislation, in which time 327 bills for
tbe relief of Civil and Spanish Ameri
can war veterans were passed, tbe
bouse labored today on the sundry civil
bill, making much headway.
Under the lead of Keifer, of Ohio,
the house refused to transport silver
coins and other money by registered
mail, insisting that their transporta
tion should be handled by the express
companies. During the arguments it
was contended that the West and South
need silver dollars for circulation.
Thursday, June 7.
Washington, June 7. The senate to
day sent the rate bill back to confer
ence, after a debate on several topics,
which ended in the rejection of the con
ference report.
Objection was made by Tillman to
anv effort to instruct the conferees, as
proposed, bv Hale, who then withdrew
his motion that it was the sense of the
senate that no railroad employes and
their families should be exempt from
the anti-pass amendment.
Daniel and Carter opposed stringent
anti pass lrgislation, the latter saying
that the postm aster general shoul i have
authority to lesue passes over every
railroad in the United States to mem
bers of congress, to afford opportunity
to obtain information of the railroads.
Washington, June 7. Representa
tive Prince in the house today during
the discussion of the sundry civil bill
spoke of the anti-pass amendment to
the railroad bill and of the bill itself
and ins Eted that the country wonld
bold the house primarily renponsible
for depriving 1,296,121 railway em
ployes, as well as member of their
families, of free transportation; like
wise persons actually and necessarily in
charge of livestock, who are deprived
of free transportation when going to
point of shipment or returning from
point o! delivery.
Wednesday, June 6.
Washington, June 6. When the
conference report on the railroad rate
hill was taken up by the senate today,
tbe anti-pass conference amendment re
ceived the attention of Bpooner. In
the main he endorsed the prohibition
of passes, but he contended that there
ehould be exceptions, including railroad
employes. Congress had no right, he
said, to step between empolyer and
mp'oye.
Tuesday, June 5.
Washington, June 5. Before the
uenate had begun business in earnest
today Senator Hale took tbe floor to
urge the importance of all possible
promptness in the disposition of the
appropriation bills.
"This, he said, "is absolutely ne
cessary it we are going to adjourn ee-
fore the end of this month, and do the
very best we may it will be the very
last days of the month before we can
possibly get through."
He gave notice that immediately
after the close of the routinj morning
business today he would m)ve to take
up the nival appropriation bill, and be
suggested that this hill should be fal
lowed by other appropriation bills,
even to the exclusion of conference re
ports. He called attention to the fact
that there are six of tbe big appropria
tion bills still unacted on by the senate.
par-
day
Washington, June 5. In many
ticulars today was a "red letter"
in tbe house, not only in the number
of bills passed, but in the general char
acter of the legislation enacted. What
bids fair to cause endless trouble, the
naturalization bill, was passed under
suspension of the rules, tbe speaker
and tbe gentleman in charge of tbe bill,
Bonynge, of Colorado, doing team work
of a superior kind. .
The house refused to pass a bill leas
ing to a private firm or corporation tbe
right to mine coal on the island of Ba
tan, in tbe Philippine group, although
it was stated that such a lease would
decrease the amount paid by the gov
ernment for coal very considerably.
For two hours the house worked un
der suspension of the rules. Tbe rest
of tbe day was taken up with the pass
age of bills by unanimous consent.
MUST STILL FEED 25,000.
Bread Line Gradually Thinned, but
Problem Continues Large.
San Francisco, June 11. Thursday's
distribution of rations showed a reduc
tion of nearly 4,000 in the bread line
which now numbers approximately
36,000. Tbe exact number fed by the
raw food distribution on Thursday was
31,486, against 85,386 on Tuesday, and
the number of meal tickets given out
had increased from 11,095 to 11,254.
By tbe time tbe army leaves the
work, it is expected that the number
will have been reduced to 25,000, and
that many of that residue will have to
be . cared for an indefinite time. As
long as any of the quarters in tbe bar
racks which have been built at the
speedway in Golden Gate park remain
unoccupied, there will always be tbe
proposition of relief in excess of the de
mand. Theie is still room for 700 or
800 more persons.
How to manage the relief work after
the army withdraws at the end of the
month is the problem. One plan con
templates tbe centralization of all the
supply distribution in each neighbor
hood at the soup kitibei, where hot
meals and supplies of raw food could be
distributed to families whose needy
condition has been determined, the
tickets for different supplies, including
clothing, to be given out under, the
management of the Red Cross.
"The Associated Charities will do
the work of investigation in whatever
form of relief is determined upon after
the army leaves," said General Greely,
and he added: "I have not yet seri
ouslv considered anv of the plans for
carrying on the work after the army
withdraws and I shall not do- so until
it is determined who is to be in con
trol."
WATCHING THE RfcVOLUTION.
Monday, June 4.
Washington, June 4. Arthur Pue
Gorman, United States senator from
Maryland, died suddenly at his resi
deuce in this city at 9:05 o'clock this
morning. While Senator Gorman had
been ill for many months, he had
shown some improvement lately. Heart
trouble was tbe immediate cause of
deat-h.
Washington, June 4. The senate ad
journed today immediately upon re
ceiving tne announcement of senator
Gorman's death. No business what
ever was. transacted, even tbe reading
of the journal being dispensed with.
There was an unusual number of sen
ators present, and all were impressed
hy tbe solmenily of the occasion. Ap
propriate resolutions were adopted and
a committee to attend the funeral was
appointed, as follows: Rayner, Alli
son, Morgan. Hale, Aldrich, Teller,
Gal'inger, Elkins, Martin, Tillman,
Clay, epooner, Kean, Bailey, Black
burn, Claik, of Montana, and Overman
After the senate adjourned the desk
and chair formerly occupied by Senator
uormau were arapea in black, in ac
cordance with the custom in such cases
The house also appointed a committee
to attend the funeral.
The house adjourned when the an
nouncement of the death of Mr. Gor
man was made.
Tbe house passed a bill creating a
United States District court for China.
The judge is to receive an appointment
for 15 years at a salary of $8,000 and
expenses when on circuit. The district
attorney is to receive $4,000 and ex
penses and the marshal $3,000 and expenses.
Cruiser Marblehead Shadows Move
ments of Filibuster.
Washington. June 11. secrecy no
longer surrounds the movements of the
United States cruiser Marblebead,
which has Bailed north from Panama
At the request of the State department,
the Marblehead Bailed for San Jose,
Guatemala, to investigate the move
ments of the American steamer Empire,
wLich is reported to have landed re
cruits from San Francisco and arms and
ammunition for the use of tbe revolu
tionists against President Cabrera.
Disquieting dispatches reached the
State department today from Guatema
la regarding the revolution. The mem
bers of the present administration are
active in parts of the republic, but it is
mpossible to discover the exact cause
of the movement and tbe directing
force.
Both the Salvadorean and Mexican
borders have been lending support to
the revolution, and it is the desire of
this government that the Marblehead
shall find out exactly what tbe situation
is and have care that there be no par
ticipation in the revolution by Ameri
cans which may involve the United
States in an international dispute.
The Empire coaled at Corinto, Nica
ragua, before sailing for San Jose, ac
cording to dispatches from Panama.
CAN HE DEPEND ON UNCLE SAM
Nebraska Balks at Drydock.
Seattle, June 55 Tbe battleship Ne
braska, building, at Moran Bros., tried
twice this morning to get back to her
dork and each time was swung away
from the slip by a heavy wind ami a
strong ebb tide. Once she came near
ramming the company's dry dork and
the second time narrowly escaped crasr
ing into the Pacific Coast company's
coal bunkers. Then the attempt was
given up and the boat taken out to a
city buoy. The battleship was taken
nut Saturday for a preliminary trial
apin.
No Mail for Seward Peninsula.
Seattle, June 5. Because of the fact
that tbe postal department made no ar
rangements for the forwarding of mails
from Seattle to Nome this year, no mail
will be forwarded to the Seward penin
sula for some time. Last year the gov
ernment paid 4 cents a pound on mai
from Seattle to Nome and St. Michael.
The steamship companies advanced the
rate to 8 cents this year. Tbe depart
ment has asked for bids for tbe con
tract, to be opened Jane 19.
Oppose Wickersham's Confirmation,
Washington, June 4. Senators Nel
son and McCumber are preparing to
make a long filibuster in executive ses
sion to defeat the confirmation of Judge
Wickresham, of Alaska. They are
compiling pamphlets and documents
bearing on tbe case in any manner
whatsoever, and propose having tbem
read at length to consume t'me. One
senator said today that if this filibus
ter keeps up Wickersham will get every
vote in the senate save those of Nelson
and McCumber. Their play for time
is decidedly unpopular.
Puts Cost on Government.
Washington, June 4. The Wads
worth substitute for the Beveridge beef
inpsection amendment to the agricul
tural appropriation bill, has been com
pleted and printed for the information
of tbe house committee on agriculture.
The substitute is eaid to follow tbe
lines of the Beveridge amendment with
the vital exception that it places the
cost of inspection upon the government.
It also provides a court review. De
tails will not be given.
John Bull Inquiring About American
Inspection System.
London, June 11. John Burns, pres
ident of the local government board,
has requested the Foreign office to com
municate with the State depaitment at
Washington and ascertain to what ex
tent reliance can be placed on the sys
tem of meat inspection undertaken by
the bureau of Animal industry. In
announcing that he had taken this ac
tion through the medium of a reply to
a question put in the house of com
mons by William Field, Nationalist
member of the St. Patrick's division of
Dublin, and president of tbe Irish
Cattle Traders and Stock Owners' asso
ciation, Mr. Barus said he had ascer
tained that a quantity of boneless beef
and pork is imported into this country
from America anl converted into sau
sages, whicn are eold as English pro
ducts. He admitted that there were
serious difficulties in the way of effect
ive British inspection of some of these
imported foods, but eaid the local gov
ernment board bad taken action to see
that the local authorities exercised
their powers to tbe full extent.
Head Off Yellow Fever.
New Orleans, June 11. A summer
sanitary campaign against mosquih es
which transmit yellow fever was plan
ned here todav. The city proposes to
'pend aboui $900 a day during tbe
summer months. The work is based
largely upon the experience gained last
summer. Mayor Behrman and a com
mittee decided to use 125 laborers and
40 carts in addition to the regular
cleaning force in flushing sewers and
drains, cutting and burning grass an l
weeus on vacant property and spreading
oil over the surface of stagnant pools.
Will Veto "Sooners" Bill.
Washington, June 8. President
Roosevelt is very apt to veto the bill of
Se ia'or Dubois which has passed the
house permitting sooners at Rupert on
the Minidoka irrigation tract in Idaho
to have a - preference right to purchae
lot tbey now ocenpy with permanent
improvements. This bill was passed
over the vigorous protest of the Interior
department, the objection being made
that such legislation would induce soon
ers to rush in and grab the best land.
PACKERS WILL
LOSE HEAVILY
A HIDEOUS MARRIAGE MOCKERY.
foreign Trade Will Be Hard to Win
Back Again.
Armour Says the Entire Country Will
Show Loss of at Least $150.
000,000 Says Only the Superi
ority of Goods Has Won and
Held Market.
Kansas City, June 7. Tbe Journal
will say:
It is estimated that the business done
by the packing houses located here will
suffer to the extent of $10,000,000 as a
result of the agitation in connection
with the president's crusade against
canned meats. Representatives of the
various plants seen yesterday agreed
with tbe estimate in the telegraphic
dispatches of yesterday that the busi
ness of the whole country would show
a loss of at least $150,000,000. Charles
W. Armour said yesterday:
"All this agitation is going to do an
immense amount of damage and in
quarters where it will be the hardest to
overcome tbe prejudice aroueeu. it
will be a long time before tbe prejudice
against American meats in England is
allayed and it will be still longer on
tbe continent. The packing industries
of the country have enough obstacles
to contend with without increasing the
number unjustly or mischievously.
"Everybody knows how hard it is to
control the meat trad9 in Germany and
France Tbe world is allied commer
cially against the United States. It is
only by dint of sheer superiority of pro
ducts, better methods and American
strenuosity that America holds her own
and is conquering the markets of tbe
world. It is not from any commercial
hospitality.
"I do not think the estimate of
$150,000,000 loss to the packers in the
whole country is exaggerated. That is
only a strinkage of about 10 per cent
on tbe total volume of business done,
which I think easily $1,500,003,000 in
all branches of the trade. We have
complaints from England that the can
ned meat trade is decreasing."
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL.
by a
Case.
Long-
Hermann Trial Delayed
Drawn-Out Postal
Washington, June 7. Representa
tive Hermann's trial in this city on the
letter book indictment has finally been
postponed until the fall term of tbe
court and under the agreement made
today will probably not be called until
the latter part of November or Decem
ber. The case, which had been set for
trial June 18, was today postponed by
Justice Gould on motion of United
States District Attorney Baker, the mo
tion being concurred in by A. S. Worth
ing for the defense. The latter stated
that he had agreed to the postponement
of the United States attorney with the
explicit understanding that the trial
should fol'ow immediately after the
trial of the Hyde-Diamond Benson land
fraud rases. The postponement was
necessitated by tbe fact that tbe Green-
Doremus poptomce case gives promise
of consuming much more of the court s
time than was originally anticipated
CASH RAINS ON HIM.
MARRIAGE OF A SOCIETY DAME TO A CONDEMNED CRIMINAL.
In England, during the eighteenth century, women, by a curious legal
anomaly, were relieved of all debts upon their marriage. Women of fashion
who had become Involved in financial straits, used often to go to Newgate
prison and marry condemned criminals Just before the cart started with the
latter for Tyburn hill to be executed. This shocking mockery of the Christian
Institution of marriage seems to have had the approval of tbe corrupt society
of that period, and It Is an evidence of improved manners, morals and man
hood that such a hideous thing would be Impossible to-day. It Is recorded In
one case that a condemned criminal thus married was unexpectedly reprieved
and the society woman found herself In an unfortunate position, from which
she was ultimately released by the discovery that the man was already mar
ried, the second marriage being, accordingly, Invalid.
3TANFORD MEMORIAL CHAPEL.
Elaborately Decorated Chnrch Wa
Rained by Earthquake.
One of the most wonderful buildings
Jestroyed by the eartbquukc on the Pa
cific coast was the memorial chapel of
the Leland Stanford University. It
was erected by Mrs. Stanford to the
Pennsylvania Railroad Clerk Gets For
tune Without Question.
Philadelphia, June 7. That he ac
cepted gifts of stock amounting to $11,
000 and money aggregating more than
$46,000 from coal mining companies
during a period of about three years
was admitted today by Joseph Boyer,
chief clerk in the office of A. W. Gibbs,
superintendent of motive power of the
Pennsylvania railroad. Mr. Boyer
purchases the fuel used in the locomo
tives of the company, and the doners of
the gifts were thecoal companies which
furnish it. Mr. Boyer named five com
panies, which allowed him from 3 to 5
cents on each ton sold to the railroad
company.
He declared that he never asked
the allowance, but it was accepted
cause he believed be was following
custom of the department.
P .
the spire of which was 188 feet high.
On the exterior the tower was flanked
by corner turrets. It was engirdled at
the base by an outside gallery, and
strengthened by flying buttresses. In
the tower was a clock with a peal of
four bells tuned to the Westminster
chhr.es. The building was the special
care of Mrs. Leland Stanford, who
fIeut enormous sums uron Its decora
tion She never told what the build
In? had cost her, but the price was
fabulous.
STlKFOW chapel befoke the quake.
for
be-
Witte's Return Is Rumored.
Chicago. June II. A cablegram to
the Inter-Ocean from St. Petersburg
says: "It is rumored that Count
Witte, at the ctar's request, is return
ing in haste from abroad to resume the
premiership, from which be retired
M. Goremykni's appointment."
Call All to Account.
New York, June 7. The Mutual Life
Insurance company today brought suit
against it s former vice president, Rob
ert A. Granniss, for an accounting of
the funds of the company which were
expended under his direction. Mr.
Granniss is alleged to have directed the
use of part of the so cilled "yellow
dog" fund. James McKeen, consul for
the Mutual, said that suite doubtless
will be brought against all persons who
handled the company's money and who
have failed to give an accounting
for it.
Invite Everybody to Inspect.
Chicago, June 7. The Chicago pack
ers have iiserted in all of the daily pa
pers of this city a fall page advertise
ment inviting tbe general public to vis
it their plants and by means of a per
sonal inspection satisfy themselves re
girding tbe purity and wholesomeness
of their products and the cleanliness
and sanitary condition of the buildings.
Tbe invitstion is extended to everybody
in tbe United States, and particularly
to the residents of Cihcagoand vicinity.
Three Killed by Heat.
Chicago, Jane 7. Y-sterday was the
hottest day so far experienced this year.
the mercury reaching 90 degrees at 2
Three deaths
on ' o'clock in the afternoon
and many prostrations were reported.
memory of her husband, and was dedi
cated on Jan. 25, 1903. The chapel was
of modified Moorish-Romanesque archi
tecture, nud was built In the form of a
cross with rounded arms. The mate
rial was buff sandstone rough-hewn
with tooled face on the Inside, relieved
hv plaborate carved designs and fif
teenth century mosaics of great beau
ty These mosaics suffered terribly
The design shown here Is the great coin
position over tbo main doorway. There
were also superb mosaics in the apse,
of which, unfortunately, no photo
graphs were available. In the apse also
were three great stained-glass win
dows, marble statutes of the Aostl?s,
and a bas-relief from (Jiulio CIserl's
painting of "The Entombment" Be
hind the altar was n replica of Coslmo
Koselli's "Last Supier" from the Sistlne
ChnjK! at Rome. To the right and left.
running to the arch of the npse. wore
long panels surmounted by reproduc-
JV fir'- I
fei. In li r, Jnaf
Some Queer Food Market.
"I see," said Capt Hopklnson of the
artillery, in the New York Fress, "that
they have a market up In Alaska, at a
place named Fairbanks, where they cut
your steaks with an ax from frozen
bears, and deer frozen stiff In a tem
perature, some 27 degrees below zero
and which stand about the market as
If they were alive.
'That Is a peculiar sort of market,
I will admit, but It Is no stranger thau
one I ran across In Cartagena, Colom
bia. It was awfully hot Instead of
awfully cold down there and things
were melting Instead of freezing, as
you can Imagine. And what do you
think the stock of that market consist
ed of? Well, there were dogs and cats
and some lard 'and some rice. You see
they happened to have a revolution on
and the city had been besieged for some
time when I got through the lines and
then wished myself out again. The
cats and dogs for sale were dressed and
skinned and, unless some one told you
what they were you would hardly
guess.
"I remember they charged $3 each
for the cats and when made Into a
stew you could not tell them from rab
bit. The dogs, on the other hand, were
pretty poor eating, being very tough
and stringy. As to the other delicacy,
lard and rice, a combination of these
two ingredients fried together does not
go bad when you are hungry.
"In Corsica once I saw a market es
tablished on the sidewalk It was la
AJaeclo at which nothing was for
sale except goats. They were the black
mountain goats of the Island and
mighty good eating."
MOSAICS OVER MAIN ENTRANCE.
tlons In mosaic of Michel Angola's
Prophets, In the nave, transept, and
apse were nineteen stainetl-glass wlii
Jows of K-autlful deslgu,deooratod with
soenes from the life of Christ The
windows of the clerestory held single
figures from the Old and New Testa
ments. The great rose window aNve
the organ-gallery had for Its center a
copy of Hoffman's "Christ Child." The
extreme length of the church, through
vestibule, nave, and apse, was icot;
the extreme width through the tran
sept wing. 155 foot; the four gables of
the nave, transept wings, and apse wre
uultt-d by t twelve-sided belfrr-towi-r.
Eiprranlon '-Fired Oat" In Claaalra.
Is "fired out" an Americanism? This
question is put by a London paper In
discussing the use of the expression by
the Vienna correspondent of the Tiuiesi
In connection with the dismissal of the
American ambassador to Austria-Hun
gary. Anything tuat seems slangy is
generally stamjied as an Americanism,
mt In this case, as In so many others
of a similar nature. It Is shown thnt
the phrase can be found embedded in
the classics of the English language.
"Fired out," an Americanism? Well,
In one of Shaksieare's sonnets, as on
of the London papers says, you may
read :
Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in
doubt.
Till my bad angel fire tny good one out.
An American school teacher, and
this Is another Illustration that cnun-s
to mind decided that his pupils should
drop the word "say" because It was In
elegant The tendency to begin a re
mark or a question with "say" may
certnluly be overdone." but as a bright
pupil iolnted out If "say" Is vulgar
how shall we regard the use of It lit
the first line of "The Star Spang'eJ
Banner" " say. can you we?"
Money cau be lost In more ways than
won.