Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-27


board OF a man of war. AT one time
he happened to discover one of the
officers in compromising association
with a woman on board the ship and
at the first opportunity the officer took
him ashore, bought him some clothes,
gave him some money and told him
skip. He thus removed the only one
who could testify to his guilt. Glass
was only an ignorant boy and had been
taught to obey orders above everything
else. He obeyed this one and the
charge of desertion was consequently
set down after his name. When he
applied for a pension this was brought
up against him and though he told his
story well and special bill was pass
ed congress President Roosevelt vetoed
the measure. 1t was his first veto aft
er becoming President. Mr.. Roosevelt
also vetoed another bill of almost ex-
actly the same nature few days after
the applicant in that case being a rel
alive of Senator Hawley. This bill
was taken up again by the latter, plac-
ed on the calendar and the other day
reached the Presidents hand and
was signed. Whether or not the Presi-
dent knew just what he was signing is
not known but the fact shows that per-
sistence certainly has its own reward,
in prosecuting such claims before con-
gress.
Hepburn really warmed up the 9th
er day in the house when an attack
was made on the insurance clause of
the new commerce department bill.
This section was pet one with the
colonel, as he regards matters of in
Surane as coming closer to all the
people than almost any other class OF
corporations. The insurance section
was quite generally opposed and in
the debate that followed Mr.. Hep
burn jumped into his well known
fighting harness and made things
lively for while. He took up the OPP
ponents of the measure one by one
quence. He took an especially hard
shot at one of the New Jersey con-
gressmen saying that 'he did not
wonder that the gentleman from New
Jersey opposed the measure since his
state secured a large portion of her
revenue through the medium of legal
ling snide corporations to go forth
and prey on the public. The odds
were against the colonel, however,
and in spite of all he could this Sec
ton was knocked out 1t is said that
Representative Corliss of Michigan
who was one of the opponents, was
especially pleased at the result. Mr.
Corliss took it much to heart some
months ago when Col. Hepburn
swooped down on his pet project for
the construction of the Pacific cable
Mr.. Corliss has been lying low since
then and in return went cunning aft.
er Col. Hepburn's insurance project
with the foregoing success.
Col. Hepburn is a past master in
the art of sarcasm and he often uses
this method for exploiting his rock
ribbed convictions. Evidently he is
not exactly an enthusiastic supporter
of Andrew Carnegie in his library
gift plan. When the District of Co.
lumbia appropriation bill was up the
other day Mr.. Hepburn asked regard
ing the appropriations for maintain
ing the new Carnegie library building
He asked simply to bring out the eX
act cost to the taxpayers. He made
no attempt to amend the bill but sale
he merely wanted to know "hoM
much of a blessing the people were
to credit to Mr.. Carnegie
Representative Lacey introduced
his son-in-law, J. B. Brewster, OF
Nome, Alaska, to the President the
other day. Mr.. Brewster has lived in
Alaska three years and is familiar
with the country and the mining
prospects. The President questioned
him about the many reports of new
finds and he answered: There are
always rumors of fabulous finds il
| Alaska, and most OF them are OF
course founded on nothing but imagi
nation. | know, however, that there
is gold everywhere in Alaska. What
the miners call color can be found ii
almost any place and l would not BIZ
surprised ii there were many new anC
rich discoveries yet to be made
Washington, D. g.. Jan. 22.-If low;
does not have some good roads with
4 in the next two years it will not b.
the fault of some OF its loyal resi-
4 dents. The next road law will go int
effect this spring. Under this law tn,
old system of allowing man to worl
out mis- poll tax is to be abolished
This tax will now have to be paid il
money and this money will be eS
pended for road improvement by tn
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