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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06
AUTHORSHIP OF THE BILL.
Mr.. Tawney Says 1t Was Drafted by
Secretary Root.

Mr.. Tawney Says 1t Was Drafted by
Secretary Root.
WASHINGTON, March 5.-The Post to-
morrow will print interviews with the Re-
publican members of the ways and means
committee on the authorship of the Porto
Rican tariff bill. Representative Tawney
made the direct statement that the bill was
drafted by Secretary Root but his COL
leagues on the committee were more or
less non-committal as to the bills author
ship.
Representative Payne. of New York.
chairman of the committee, said that he
brought the bill to the committee on his
own responsibility. 1--WE became con-
WINGED" said Mr.. Payne, that some reve-
nue. must be raised for the island of Porto
Rico. The enactment of tariff law seemed
to be the best way to raise it. / received
some suggestions. favoring a tariff, from
members of the ways and means commit
tee, and also from certain letters that were
written to me- Many of these came from
farmers. was convinced that the bill was
a proper one, and / am still of that opin-
ion."
1T has been said that you stated i'm the
Republican conference that the bill was
drawn by Secretary Root?"
Il was asked in the Republican confer
ence," replied Mr.. Payne, "is the bill had
not been drawn by Mr.. Root. 1 did not an
swer that question"
Representative John Dalzell. of Pennsyl-
vania, who ranks next to Chairman Payne
on the ways and means committee de-
clined to discuss the bill or say whence its
draft was received as did Representatives
Hopkins and Long.
Representative Tawney. of Minnesota,
said: THE first that the Republican mem
bers of the ways and means committee
saw OF the Porto Rican tariff bill was at
a conference on the measure. Only Repub-
lican members Of the committee were pres
ent at that conference The bill was pre-
sented by Chairman Payne There were
but two other Republicans on the commit
tee-Messrs. Dalzell and Russell-who, be-
fore its presentation, knew anything of the
existence of such bill or of any plan to
depart from the free-trade proposition"
Where did the bill come from?''
From the secretary of war, Mr.. Root -
replied Mr.. Tawney. II was at the White
House and saw the President before the
Republican conference was called and told
him that a statment would likely be made
TO the Republicans of the House that the
tariff bill had been drawn by Secretary
Root, and that the ways and means COM
mittee. In trying to secure its passage
was only following out Secretary Root 8
suggestions. The President answered that
IL such statement were made IL should be
coupled with explanation that Secre-
tary Root had drawn the bill I'm the line of
the duties OF his office, just as heads of
departments often do, upon request"
Representative Russell of Connecticut
said: THE Porto Rican tariff bill was
the result Of conferences and suggestions
of legislators and executive officials
don't think could pin down any one man
as its author" Mr. Russell said II was not
true that he had taken the bill from the
Office of Secretary Root to the ways and
| means committee.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06
Notes of the Stage.

Mcvicker's Theater. Chicago. has be-
come the Western ticket office for the
Broadway Theater, New York. and its
present attraction. "Ben-Hur."
Bronson Towards famous war play,
Shenandoah" has been revived again
this season and played to large audiences
at the Boston Theater last week.
The vocal contingent OF vogel & Dem
ings Minstrels. coming TO the Park Thurs
day, is said to be unusually strong. Charles
Fales. Edward Dicken, Bob Price. George
Goeway, Charles Foreman and Master
George Jones will all be heard to good adj
vantage.
Mark Hamburg. the famous Russian
piano virtuoso. and concert by the Am
phion Club are to be the drawing cards at
the German House tonight The advance
sale of seats for this event has been ex-
ceptionally heavy.
Madge Leasing. who scored triumphs in
Jack and the Beanstalk" and 1.-THE Dan
gerous Maid" has been engaged by Man
ager George W. Lederer TO play the part
of Priscilla. the demure young Quakeress
in The Founders.
Hearts of Oak" play dealing with life
in New England. about the period of 1859.
will be the attraction at Englshs Opera
at a special Thursday matinee. A compe-
tent cast has been provided, headed by
Miss Ida Hamilton and Mr.. +. p. Sullivan.
cinderella" the beautiful spectacle re-
Gently presented at the Drury Lane The
alter. London. is being reproduced at the
Haymarket Theater, Chicago, this week.
by means of moving pictures The machine
employed is called the kindrome and has
been perfected so that II shows each color
distinctly.
be presented at English's Opera House to-
night, Mr.. Crane brings out the character
istics OF the fiery Major Fairfax with fine
skill and a great deal of genuine humor.
He Is supported by a company OF unsur-
passed excellence including such we'll
known stage people as Miss Percy Has
well. William Courtleigh. William Inger-
SOIL George +. De We're. Selene Johnson,
Sandol Milliken and Evelyn Carter.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06
STORM OF ICY PELLETS.


CHICAGO. March 5.-The most disagree
able storm of the winter set I'm this after
noon and at midnight showed no sign Of
abatement. Snow fell during the afternoon
mot IN fakes-but In little icy pellets that
almost cut the skin when the. were car
ried along by the full force OF the thirty
mile wind that blew during the afternoon.
At night the snow turned TO sleet and
from that into rain and then back 10 sleet
again, and then both at once. The rain
froze as IL fell and caused dozens OF per-
sons to injure themselves on the icy side
walks and seriously menaced all branches
OF the public service in which wires are
used.
Dispatches from Milwaukee. Detroit and
elsewhere report severe snow and sieet
storms raging. with a strong wind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
GREENSBURG, Ind, March 5.-The !. o.
o. F. Home committee received and ac-
cepted Of the contractors, o. L. Pulse &
Co., the beautiful new building of 200
rooms. The generosity of the order toward
this worthy enterprise has been excep-
tional, and has enabled the committee to
meet promptly all its obligations with the
contractors. The building has been fur
nished throughout by the lodges of the
State. and will be formally opened April
for the reception of occupants The ded-
icatory services will be held May l6, and
the grand sire will deliver the address.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06
One trial will convince
you of its excellence.
Indianapolis
Drug Co.
Estate Agents
Estate Agents,

ural resources and sell their products, to
which end, expectations now i'm a state OF
stagnation, should be facilitated by means
of free trade. What Porto Rico needs
rather than degrading aims. which Is In
sulting TO human dignity, Is 90 be able "a
sell its sugar and tobacco. But this would
not suit the American producers Of to-
bacco and sugar; IL would run counter to
the protected interests which have great
influence i'm the federal congress. and Nc
Kinley, in order not 10 offend those inter-
ested. has found a way out Of IL by offer
ing charity"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
BLOOMFIELD. Ind. March 5-Mary
Ann Anderson. charged with completely in
the murder of her idiotic daughter. Clara
waggoner. Oct. 10. 1891. was found guilty,
and given life sentence to-day after the
jury had been out fifty-three hours. The
defendant is seventy years old and IL in
the last stages OF consumption. The verdict
Was a surprise. William waggoner. hus-
band OF the murdered girl. Is serving a
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
VALPARAISO, Ind, March 5.-The Board
of County Commissioners to-day granted
franchise to Grant Kitchener, of this city,
for an interurban railway from Valparaiso
via Chesterton TO Michigan City and to the
west county line. where IL will connect with
line to Chicago. Chicago and Eastern
capitalists are back OF the enterprise, and
work on the road will begin early in the
spring The line will connect with the
Northern Indiana Railway, at Michigan
City.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06
Porto Rican. Pleased.

SAN JUAN DE PORTO RICO. March s
Porto Ricans are jubilant over the new9
of the passing OF the bill returning the
Porto Rican duties. The people generally
are satisfied and approve the IS per cent.
measure. They are feverishly awaiting the
action OF the Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06
Block Coal wage Conference.

Special 20 the Indianapolis Journal
BRAZIL, Ind. March 5.-A committee
meeting of block coal operators and miners
will be held here tomorrow to adopt the
mining scale for one year, beginning the
first of next month. Many knotty ques-
tons will come up for discussion. the prin-
cipal one being the enforcement of the
weekly pay law The miners probably will
insist on weekly pay day and ii is evident
the operators will oppose its adoption, as II
will cause more expense for them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06

MEMPHIS. Tenn. March 5.-H. A. Steph-
enson travelling representative of the St
Louis Globe-Democrat, was shot and Sc
riously wounded at 2:30 o'clock this after
room in the rotunda OF the Peabody Hotel
by Frank Williamson. q deputy sheriff of
Crittenden county, Arkansas. The injured
man was taken 10 ST. Joseph's Hospital
Stevenson had difficulty with F. NJ.
Embry, an old Memphis citizen. and VIII
hanson. on interfering in the melee. shot
Stevenson in the abdomen. Williamson is
nd
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06

Special TO the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW ALBANY, Ind, March 5.-The Rev.
c. r. Stearns. of San Antonio, Tex. has
been engaged as rector of st. Paul's Episco-
pal Church in this city. and will conduct
services March %. He will succeed the Rev.
Roger II. Peters, who recently was ap-
pointed dean of the cathedral at Indian
apolis by Bishop Francis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06

George Benadum, of the Muncie Po-
lice from BLOOD Poison.

GEORGE Benadum, OF the MuHcie To
lice, from Blood Poison.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
MUNCIE, Ind, March 5.-Policeman
George Benadum, aged forty-two years,
died tonight of blood poison. death COM
ing at a time when his condition was SEEM
ingly improving. For ten years he has been
one of the most popular on the force, wide
ly known in official circles throughout east
ern Indiana.
Last Fourth of July while some young
men were shooting sky rockets down the
paved street the big officer went. to the
rescue of woman and was himself struck
on the leg. The injury has since bothered
him greatly. Twice, recently. while arrest
ing drunken men the officer was kicked
on the leg, irritating the old wound with
the above result.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06
DobIe's Racing Plans.

RICHMOND. Ind. March Sit is an
nounced that Charles Doble, the Indiana
horseman, will train for George Tod, OF
Youngstown, o., this year. On the Fourth
of July Doble contemplates sending Lord
Vincent to beat the half-mile track wagon
record of 2:13, held by Wynema, and made
over the Toledo track.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06
Large Oil Territory Bought.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
SULLIVAN, Ind. March 5.-A number Of
Terre Haute men have bought large tract
of land near Hymera, eight miles north
east of Sullivan, and will drill for oil. Coal
men had been trying to secure options on
the land. but were unsuccessful. 1t is be-
lieved the Standard Oil Company is back
Of the present enterprise.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06

SYDNEY, N. s. w. March 5.--Accor6ing
TO mail advices from Samoa the Samoa
Herald predicts grave complications I'm con-
nection with a serious native disturbance
In the island of Savaii on Feb. >
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06
Alienation of Affection. Alleged.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
MARTINSVILLE. Ind, March 5.-Mrs.
Dora Bromwell, wife of George Cromwell.
a well-known farmer near here. has filed
suit In the Circuit Court against Mrs.
Charlotte Cunningham for $4,000 for alien
ating her husbands affections. Mrs. Cum
ningham is wealthy and the suit promises
bitter contest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06
Mrs. Stanford Improving.

NEW YORK. March 5.-Mrs. Leland STAN
ford who has been i'll at the Fifth-avenue
Hotel with symptoms of pneumonia, is
somewhat better. She was able to sit UP
for short time last night. Her physi-
clans express the hope that the turning
point in her Illness has been reached and
pneumonia is averted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06

RICHMOND. Va. March 5.-John West
ervelt. his wife and six-year-old daughter
troyed their home at Thafiins' Blur to-
day.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06

George Watson, another son-in-law of Mrs.
Anderson. is to be tried on an identical
charge.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06

III you visit the metropolis. the ad OF the
Hotel Empire on Page will interest you.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-06
NEW SOLUTION.

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE)
bearance on all sides, we may fully ex-
pect an honest and satisfactory con-
clusion."
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-11
THE LITTLEF1ELD AMENDMENT.

In passing the army reorganization
bill the members of the lower house
in one particular set up their own
Judgment in opposition to that Of men
who can speak from observation and
experience. This refers to the amend
ment doing away with the canteen.
Army officers whose opinion was asked
without almost a single exception adj
vocated retention Of the canteen as
now conducted, a place at military
posts where soldiers may buy beer
and other similar drinks under certain
They testified that since
the introduction of the post exchange,
as it is known IN military terms,
among the enlisted men
has decreased to a proportionate i'm
in their behavior and sol
dierly department.. They argued that
the known ability to secure certain
forms of the milder classes Of stimu-
in reasonable amounts whenever
desired, tended to prevent indulgence
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-11

The democratic newspapers of the
state, those of the v~indication brand,
are still industriously trying to I'M
load F. Aug. Heinze onto the republic
cans. They might as we'll spare them
selves further trouble in that direc-
ton. The republican party does not
want the gentleman and, besides, it is
extremely doubtful if he will allow
himself to be thus dumped, after hav-
ing gained the victory for fusion,
credit for which he is now claiming.
While Mr.. Heinze may not be a demo-
GRAFT, and it is hard to think that one
of his brilliancy of mind could
affiliate with that party, still he is a
f~usionist and as such entitled to recog-
milton from the political hermaphrod-
tie now posing as the democratic
party OF Montana. He was welcomed
when his services were needed and
now to throw him overheard after his
usefulness has ceased would be the
sheerest sort of ingratitude and he
does not propose to submit to it with
out a very vigorous protest. When
the gentleman became a f%usionist he
knew what he was doing and what he
wanted, as some of those now trying
to force him out of the party will.
probably learn within the next few
months.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-11

to excess elsewhere whenever the en-
listed man secured leave to visit the
towns always to be found in the VIC
Unity Of nearly all posts. They also
showed that as long as soldiers would
drink it was for their own good that
they drink as little as possible and that
by continuing the canteen that modi-
um Of indulgence could be obtained.
OF course the members that voted
for the Littlef1eld amendment thought
they were acting for the good of the
service, but it is fair to assume that
none of them ever lived in the neigh
borhood of a military post especially
neal one located on what is still called
the frontier, or they would have seen
the wisdom of allowing themselves
to be guided by the advice of the
officers. BY voting as they did they
gladdened the heart Of every keeper Of
a groggery within a days ride of a
post.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-11
ITS VALUE DEMONSTRATED.

The value of the ''open door"-for
the maintenance of which the admin
i~stration is exerting its every effort
is greater than many persons or news
papers seem to realize. Those who
have been ~contending that as a nation
we would not lose much were we to
lose all our trade with China have evil
IDENTIFY paid slight heed to the figures
given out from time to time by the
government. The statement Of the
statistical bureau showing the ma
TONS exports for October contain
figures that are cause of reflection.
According to the official figures the
exports to China for that month were
only $57O, O05. as against 81, 1874, 314
for the same month last year. During
the first 10 months of the current year
the falling off in our trade with China,
al shown by the same authority,
amounted to So, 1876, IA, a sum not by
any means insignificant when COM
pared with an export trade which in
that direction reaches annually about
SIS, 600, 900. On the other hand our
exports to Australia, Japan, the Phil
ippines and British Indies have in
creased and for the present year will
probably reach 500, 900, 600.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-11

All true sportsmen will doff their
hats to the Colorado Springs lodge of
Elks. At a recent meeting it's men,
bers adopted a resolution ~doprecating
the use Of elk's teeth as an emblem of
the order. In doing so they pointed
out that the great demand for such
teeth which the custom created threat
ened the extinction of the noble ami
NAL from which the order derives it's
name, as it caused men to hunt them
in and out of the season for the sole
pun pose of obtaining the teeth.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-11
{ is possible that conditions ]

1t is possible that conditions may
exist there serious enough to cause
the government to prepare itself to
meet force with force, but the proba-
bility is that the dispatch of warships
to South America was done for its
moral effect upon some of the obstre-
porous little fellows down that way.
At all events there is no cause, Of i'm
mediate alarm, and eve the antrim
perial1sts would better keep still until
further news is received from that
direction.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-11
Two more candidates for a seat j

Two more candidates for a seat in
the senate have posted their entry and
are awaiting the decision Of the
judges. One of them is c. E. Duer
Of Choteau county and the other the
only William M. Bickford of Missouri.
Both are submitting claims they be-
lieve worthy Of consideration. Mr.
Duer thinks that by reason of his
residence on the east side and his con
nection with banking and %stockrais-
ing he is eminently qualified to wear a
toga in addition to a pair of chaps and
lead pencil balanced on his right
ear. Mr.. Bickford is content to rest
on his record made two years ago
when he espoused the cause of Clark
and his continued fealty to that gentle
man ever since.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-11
Red Lodge Picket: The Billings

Red Lodge Picket: The Billings
Daily Gazette is a republican news
paper and has shown faith by it's
works. 1t has expanded. With it's
issue Of last Saturday morning it put
aside its swaddling clothes and came
forth enlarged to a seven-column
paper. The Daily Gazette is now a
permanently established institution
and, with it's increased Geographic
service, takes front rank with the
daily press of the state. It gets news
of the world to the people Of eastern
Montana from twelve to twenty-four
hours ahead of any other newspaper
and is therefore in a. position to fill
the local field better than it's more
pretentious contemporaries of Helena,
Butte and Anaconda.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-11

Some busybody must have been call
ing the attention of the Butte city
council to that part of the laws of
the state which prohibit gambling and
''hurdy" houses. That august body
has given strict orders to the chief of
police to suppress all such places as
may be running in the corporate
limits. What seems strange to an
outsider is that it should be necessary
by resolution to compel an officer to
do that which he obligates himself to
do upon assuming the duties imposed
by acceptance of the position for
which he qualified. .
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-11
A POOR DEFENSE.

The death of young Boose, a cadet
at West Point, from the effects of haz-
ing has caused the usual amount Of
editorial comment and criticism. In
attempting to shield those responsible
for the outrageous treatment the dead
youth received, the commandment Of
the academy says Boose declined to
resort to the tactics of the barroom
ruffian and refused to engage in fisti-
cuffs with a fellow cadet who had
challenged him to fight and for this
was branded a coward and subsequent
ly hazed to death. Colonel Miles says
the academy is maintained for the
purpose of training men for the army
aud make fighters of them. This is
all true enough, but it does not lessen
the truth of the charge made that in
order for a man to be brave in battle
it is not necessary for them to be a
tough and rufian. Many a man has
beed known to fearlessly face the
enemy's bullets, who yet shrank from
placing himself on the level of the
slugger and bully. According to
Colonel Miles opinion such men were
towards. -.
The worst of it is that the position
..
taken by the colonel tends to encour-
age brutality at the academy and to a
large extent nullifes the lessons in
gentlemanly department. taught there,
for every man deemed worthy of
wearing the insignia of an officer in
the United States army is supposed to
be a gentleman as we'll as a soldier.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-11

AS the entire country expected, New
York has again shown it's parsimony
and once more becomes a target for
ridicule and satire because of it's mean
ness. After all it's boasting and talk
it has decided not to build the Dewey
arch, which was to stand as a lasting
commemoration of the battle of Ma
Mia harbor and a tribute to the valor of
the American navy. The money which
was collected for that purpose is to be
returned to the contributors, as the
amount is not sufficient to undertake
erection of the arch. In respect to
the proposed arch New York only re-
peated it's action in connection with
the Grant tomb, except that after
acknowledging it's failure it did not
appeal to the country to help it out.
New Workers may continue their
sneers at Chicago, but it is safe to say
that had the breezy city on the shore
of Lake Michigan started out to build
an arch or other memorial it would
have completed it, and that within
the time that New York consumed in
collecting the few dollars which are
now to be returned to those that
offered them.