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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-12
COURT DESTROYS List
HOPE OF G.. ". BEAVERS

WASHINGTON, April lin an opinion
United States sustained and affirmed the
opinion of the Circuit Court of the United
States for the southern district of New
York in the habeas corpus proceedings of
George w. Beavers. late chief of the salary
and allowance division of the Postoffice
Department, against William Henkle,
United States marshal
This case grows out of the prosecution of
Beavers on the charge of having received
money from the Edward J. Brandt-Dent
Company for procuring a contract for the
government Beavers indicted in the
rant was served upon him in the southern
district Before an order of the southern
district could be executed Beavers pre-
scented a petition for writ of habeas
corpus 10 the Circuit Court for the south
ern district. This petition was refused and
the case was appealed to the Supreme
Court.
The case turned on the efficacy of an in
dictment in removal proceedings, and the
court held that within the spirit of the
rule giving full effect 10 the records and
judicial proceedings of other courts an in
dIctment found by the proper grand Jury
should be accepted everywhere through the
United States as at least prima facie evil
der ce of the existence of probable cause.
And the place where such inquiry must be
had and the decision of a grand jury OBJ
tanned is the locality in which, by the Con-
stitution and laws. the final trial must be
had"
The court held that the proceeding in
this case was very different from that i'm a
matter involving extradition and decided all
other points raised against Beavers.
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SON OF POSTMASTER
CONFESSES CRIME
Young Man Who Stole $1,000 Is
Caught After Long :
Search

NEVADA, Mo-, April u.-Edwin Griffith,
son Of the postmaster at Great Bend Kan,
has been arrested here charged with steal
ing a registered package of 5000 which
was sent by the Traders Bank at Kansas
City to a banking house at Great Bend
on Feb 8. Griffith, who has confessed
the crime, arrested last Friday, but
the postoffice inspectors did not make that
fact public until tonight Griffith was
an employee of the Great Bend post
office. and he had access TO the registered
packages. After taking the $1,000 he fled to
FL Paso, Tex A letter in the Nevada office
addressed to ED. Graham, known to be
Grffiths alias, led to his arrest. An in
spector went to FL PaSo and trailed Griffith
to Carthage, Mo-, and from there to Ne
vada, where Griffith came to meet a wom-
to whom he had given large part of
the money. The woman turned the money
over TO the inspector and her name was
not dvulged.
Griffith was taken to Carthage to appear
before the United States commissioner 1t
is said another man, who is now in Colo
RADIO, is connected with the robbery, and
the inspectors are looking for him.
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LABOR LEADERS TO
TRY TO END STRIKE

WASHINGTON. April 1l-President
Gompers, Vice Presidents Duncan and
O'Connell, Secretary Morrison and the other
members of the American Federation of
Labor, will leave here this week to attend
the meeting of the executive board of the
Federation at Denver April Is. A deter
mined effort will be made to settle the
Colorado miners strike. The board will
seek a conference with the mining off,
Gals. The question of means of settle
ment of the strike has been discussed by
the members of the board. but none of
them will say how much the Federation
will be willing to concede, although it is
admitted that a compromise might be
sought" Mr.. Gompers said to-day: lit
goes without saying that the Fedora tion
will do anything helpful that can be done
in the bringing about of a peaceful end OF
the labor troubles.
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DENMARK NAY BE
INCLUDED IN TREATY.

LONDON. April liking Edwards visit
to Copenhagen, according to the corre-
spondent of the Mail at that capital, has
resulted in the beginning of negotiations
for new treaty between Great Britain.
Denmark and Russia. replacing the con-
ventions with Denmark concluded by the
late Emperor, Alexander III. 1t is under.
stood that the proposed arrangement will
insure the neutrality of Denmark I'm the
event of an Anglo Russian conflict. or
at least that the Great Belt Ga wide chan.
mel in the Baltic separating Fuenen, the
second of the largest Of the Danish islands,
from Zealand the largest of the Danish
islands), and the sound between Zealand
and South Sweden). will be declared neu.
trail in the event OF war
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ODELL AND PLATT HAVE
ARRANGED PROGRAMME
Senator Depew Will Be Tempo
rary Chairman of Con-
vention To-Day.
FASSETT WINS FIGHT

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE Republican
state committee met tonight for the pur-
pose of arranging preliminaries for the
state convention tomorrow. United States
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew was selected
to be the temporary chairman OF the con-
vention tomorrow, and the temporary roll
of delegates, as presented by the state
committee, was adopted. This action seats
the Fassett delegation from Seneca coun-
~, and it is understood that an agreement
has been made whereby Congressman Gil
lett takes the place on the state committee
now occupied by Mr.. Fassett In view OF
this arrangement Mr.. Gilett is to retire
from the congressional field. leaving IL
open TO Mr.. Fassett as the sole Republican
candidate. Gov Il. Il. Odell Will be elected
chairman of the new state committee when
II assemblies tomorrow night.
Governor Odell Senator Plat, Senator
Depew and several other Of the prominent
party leaders held conference this after
noon, at which the platform was discussed.
The platform TO be presented. while strong
ly incorsing' the administration Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Governor Odell, will.
without going into details, point out the
great BENEFITS to the State and Nation OF
Republican administration
The delegates at large to the national
convention will be Thomas c. Platt OF
Tioga; Ben b. OdeIl. of Orange: Chauncey
Nj. Depew, of New York. and Frank s.
Black, of Rensselaer,. The alternates will
be Louis Stern. of New York: Erastus C
Knight. OF Erie; Henry c. Brewster. OF
Monroe. and one not yet selected
The permanent chairman of the conven-
ton will be Serene E. Payne and electors
at large former Mayor Schieren, of Brook
Ign, and George Urbar, jr.. of Buffalo.
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OPINION RENDERED
IN THE SLATER CASE

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE Supreme
Court of the United States to-day rendered
an opinion in the case of the heirs of Will
liam II. Slater against the Mexican Ma
tional Railroad Company. involving the
question of damages awarded by United
States Court on account of the killing of
Slater by the railroad. he being a switch
man and killed in Mexico. The case turned
on the application OF the Mexican law,
awarding damages in such cases very much
as alimony would be awarded in "A suit for
divorce. The Circuit Court for the Northern
district of Texas awarded damages I'm ac-
cordance with the Texas statute. but the
Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth cir
cult reversed the finding. That opinion was
affirmed by to-days opinion. The chief
justice and Justices Harlan and Peckham
united in a dissenting opinion.
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Merger Case IHrozVn Out Of the Supreme Court

teen years under eleven postmasters general
these publications were carried as second
class matter, though under protest from
the department. which made many efforts
to have the law modified or repealed, but
without success Failing in this the post
master general issued an order in 1902 ex
GLIDING the books from the second-claSS
rate. Thereupon the matter was taken to
the courts, the effect being that the post
master general was sustained by the final
decision as rendered to-day.
Speaking of the Houghton- Mifiin case,
Justice Brown said that ii involved the
publication of the Riverside series, and
after calling attention to the fact that the
publisher had complied with the law gov
erning the transmission of second-class
matter in all technical respects such as
the requirements for periodical publications
constitutes a periodical under the law. Adj
hitting the difficulty of reaching a salts
factory conclusion he said that such a
publication should be distinguishable from
the Riverside books by diversity of author
ship, "a periodical. as ordinarily under
stood" he said, is publication ap-
Der of which contains a variety of
original articles by different authors
devoted either To general literature or some
special branch or learning or TO special
class of subjects. Ordinarily each number is
incomplete in itself and indicates a relation
with prior or subsequent numbers of the
same series. The reason why books
of the Riverside literature series are issued
periodically is too palpable to require COM
ment or explanation. 1t is sufficient to OBJ
serve that in our opinion the fact that the
publication is issued at stated intervals
under a collective name does not neces-
sarily make it a periodical. Were it not
for the fact that they are so issued in con-
secutive numbers no one would imagine for
a moment that these publications were
periodicals and not books.
The case of Osmond G.. Smith was held
to be entirely similar to that of Houghton
and Miffiin. There was a difference in the
Bates and Guild case in which they under
took to publish periodically a work called
Masters in Music" each issue being de-
voted to an individual musician. The court.
however. held that it also came within the
inhibition.
The chief justice and Justice Harlan
united in a dissenting opinion, which was
delivered by Justice Harlan, in which the
course of the Postoffice Department in
changing its own system after sixteen
years was referred TO as an assuming OF
executive authority. Justice Harlan said
the department. order after Congress.
after a deliberate hearing had refused TO
| change the language of the law was "a
| mode of amending and making laws which
ought not 10 be encouraged or approved"
The reform of the second class rates.
which resulted In to-day's decision. was
| instituted by Third Assistant Postmaster
General Madden. who took the position
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FAVORABLE REPORT ON
THE CURRENCY MEASURE
Bill to Permit Deposit of Customs
Receipts in National
Banks.
PLAN TO COIN SILVER

WASHINGTON, April ia report from
the House committee on banking and cur
rency recommending the passage of the
bill ito prove currency conditions" was
filed in the House to-day by Chairman
Fowler. The FIRST section of the bill re-
peals the law which prohibits customs re-
ceipts from being deposited in national
banks. The result of the present law in
this matter. the report says. is unnecessar-
lily to tie up the money of the country. The
report says that if States and municipali-
ties should lock up the proceeds of local
taxation as the national government locks
up its receipts the effect would be disas-
trous, and yet there is as much reason for
such a course in the one case as in the
other.
The second section repeats the monthly
100000 limit on bank note retirement The
report says the repeal of this restriction
will give to the national bank note circula-
ton all of the elasticity which it is posi-
BILE for bond-secured circulation to have.
The recoinage of silver dollars into subsi-
diary silver coins is provided in the third
section of the bill. The limit of 500. 900 900
as the total amount of subsidiary silver
coins that can be in existence at any one
time Is repealed by this section. The re-
port says that on July l next the bullion
from which subsidiary coins may be made
will be exhausted. There is in the treasury
5fS,Ol2Oy9 silver dollars, or, says the report,
according TO Secretary Shaw, 500 carloads
OF thirty tons each. 1t would cost 100000
10 recount this money and the secretary
says that IL is worth in bullion less than
half or its face value in dollars. Ii is this
money that the bill proposes to recon into
subsidiary silver as rapidly as the secre-
tary shall order. In this recOinage there is
estimated profit TO the government of
Z cents on each dollar.
Relief TO the Treasury Department in its
lnablllty to meet the demand for small
bills, owing TO the manner in which the
present law limits their issuance, is sought
to be remedied by the removal of these
limitations. On this point the report says:
1t is probably true that the inability of
the treasury to meet the demand for small
bills. combined with the shortage in sub
sidiary coin in recent years, has compelled
the retention of small bills in circulation
until much of that form of money has be-
come ragged and filthy and produced con-
ditions which have fully justified the vigor-
Gus crusade for clean money which has
been recently inaugurated. 1t is believed,
given to the treasury and the national
banks under the provisions of this bill, sup
plemented by an abundant supply of sub
sidiary coin. much of the cause for COM
plant will be removed. An ideal sanitary
currency, however, can only be secured
by the substitution of subsidiary coin for
all one and two-dollar bills and improved
methods of redemption for paper money
of denominations of s. and upward"
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LIND IS IN SEARCH
OF MORE INFORMATTON
Minnesota Congressman Makes
Requests Concerning Alleged
Land Frauds.

WASHINGTON. April misrepresentation
Lind. of Minnesota. to-day introduced a
resolution reciting the findings of Charles
]. Bonaparte and c. r. Woodruff. special
inspectors TO investigate certain alleged ir-
regularities in the Indian Territory and
making the following requests of the Sec
rotary of the interior for Information:
..F,irst-Whether the said Tams Bixby.
J. George Wright. A. l.. Aylesworth, III. "
" Smith, or any of them, are still retained
in the service; and Ii retained. the reasons
for. such retention.
Observation-Disclosures any of the persons in
the public service in the Indian Territory
mentioned in said report as having been
guilty of violation of law or of misconduct
in the discharge of their official duties are
still retained in the public service: and If
retained. the reasons for such retention.
."rhird-What steps. If any, have been
taken by the department to remedy the
evils pointed out In said report. and TO re-
store to the rightful owners the lands of
which they have been defrauded by the
acts or connivance of the officers of the
government.
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BURTON GETS 100000
FOR RIVERS AND HARBORS
Secures Passage of a Bill Appro-
priating Money for Contin-
ming improvements.
OTHER BILLS ADOPTED

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE House to-
day passed the bill reported by the COM
mittee on rivers and harbors appropriating
100000 for the restoration or maintenance
OF channels or of other river and harbor
improvements. Mr. Burton. chairman of
the committee. in explaining the bill. urged
the adoption of settled principles with re-
gard to river and harbor work. Messrs.
Burgess, of Texas, and Ransdell, of Lousi-
ana. favored increases in the appropria-
tons for river and harbor improvements.
the former urging that they should be
doubled. and the latter regarding sl0O.00O0 900
as not too much. He charged that the
Republicans had been lavish and even reck-
less of expense in all matters, except river
end haTbor. Improvement. and called atten-
ton to the hundreds of millions which, he
said. mad been spent in connection with
the war with Spain and on criminal ag-
gression and passive warfare
Mr.. Clark of Missouri. made a plea for
the Improvement of the Missouri river.
Quite large number of bills of minor
Importance were passed. among them be-
Ing: authorizing the secretary of war to
transfer to the Columbia Military Academy
certain land in Maury county, Tennessee:
TO restrict the unlimited transfer of mer-
chandise In bonded warehouses: to author
lie the secretary OF the interior to correct
errors where double allotments of land
have been made to Indians and too correct
errors In land patents amending the st.
Louis exposition acts so as to admit. free
OF duty, articles imported from foreign
countries for exhibition, and authorizing
the sale or withdrawal of such imported
goods in the exposition buildings and on
the grounds subject TO the payment of i'm
port duties. and also providing that where
the articles have become worn damaged
the duties 10 De levied shall be based on
the value Of the article at the time of re-
moval or sale"
senate JOINT reSoiutlon was passed
authorizing the issue OF duplicate medals
for distinguished and meritorious service
where the originals have been lost or de-
stroyed.
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No Rest for Woods Men

WASHINGTON, April 1.-Soldiers serv-
ing under Major General Wood in the De-
partment of Mindanao. will lead strenu
Gus life If they strictly observe an order
just issued by the newly-promoted major
general. I'm order 10 have the troops in
this department, says General Wood,
placed in the hardened physical condition
needed by the best infantry for actual
field service. the following requirements
will be observed for the first month after
receipt of this order: Except during stormy
weather, for four days per week, every
infantry command will be drilled for at
least thirty minutes with full field equip
ment. including 100 rounds of ammunition.
full canteen of coffee. tea boiled water,
and the equivalent in weight of three days
field rations. One day in each week a
march of six miles will be made with the
same equipment. Similar drills will be con-
tinued after the first month for one hour
per day for four days each week and the
weekly march extended to ten miles"
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SULLV SAYS HE IS
NOT 4 BANKRUPT
Enters Demurrer in Proceedings
Instituted by Creditors Of
His Firm.

NEW YORK, April III. d. Sully &
Co. through their attorneys. Dos Passos
Brothers, have entered a demurrer in the
voluntary bankruptcy proceedings insti-
tuted by creditors Of the firm. The de-
murrer states that the petitioners are not
Just, true and lawful creditors; that it does
not appear upon the face of the petition
that Sully & Co. have committed an act of
bankruptcy; further, that it does not APP
pear that the petitioners have made such a
case as entitled them to any release. Dan
j. Sully, in a sworn appended statement
declares that the demurrer has not been in
terposed for the purpose OF delay. but has
been entered in good faith upon the advice
of counsel The demurrer was filed ac-
cording to the statements of John r. Dos
Passes, in the Federal Court for the south
ern district of New York. Mr.. Dos Passos
SAYS that If the action is sustained Sully
& Co will be freed from bankruptcy.
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COMPANY FORMED TO
TAKE CLARK REALTY

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE w. A. Clark
Realty Company was incorporated at AL
bany to-day with capital OF 81. 500 900. The
incorporators are Senator William A.
Clark, of Montana, James A. Macdonald
and Pierre V. c. Miller. Both Macdonald
and Miller are associated with Senator
Clarke in the United Verde Copper Com
pany with Offices at 40 Wall street.
Henry c.. Atwater, of the law firm OF
Atwater and Cruikshank. TO whom inquir-
ers at Senator Clarks office were referred,
said that the company had been formed 10
take over the real estate holdings of Sem
ator Clark in this city. WASHINGTON and
in several Western cities.
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now sustained by the Supreme Court that
these libraries and serials were not law
fully entitled to favored rates Mr. Mad
den said to-day: THE decision of the
court to-day in these cases is highly graft
flying to the department. The chief OBJ
stacle which had 70 encounter was the
former lax administration of the law
whereby these and similar publications
We're admitted to the second class, but the
court practically decided that the statute
is not ambiguous and former application of
it clearly erroneous. The United
States Supreme Court has set the seal of
its approval upon the contention of the
department that the second class rates
were plainly designed for newspapers and
other periodical publications in the ordi-
nary and generally accepted meaning of
those terms, and not for books serial Ii
braries and other makeshifts disguised as
newspapers and periodicals"
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CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PACED

CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.)
trict Court cook jurisdiction without much
question and decided the case on its mer-
it's against the State. The United States
Supreme Court now says virtually that
Judge Lochren should not even have as
sumed Jurisdiction, much less decided that
the merger was a legal corporation that
could not be reached by the laws of Min
neSOta.
One of the attorneys for the State in the
merger suit said: 1.-THE Supreme Court in
deciding the federal case which involves
the same facts as liz the State case, spe-
cifically decided that the acquisition of the
capital stock of the two railway compan-
les bv the Northern Securities Company in
the manner complained of was in violation
of the laws of the State of Minnesota, thus
deciding the main contentious of the State
in the federal case. 1t is stated by at
torneys that the reversal of Judge Lochren
by the Supreme Court will compel the de-
PENDANTS to pay all costs incurred by the
State since the case was removed from
the state to the federal court.
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WORK OF BRITISH IS
WITNESSED BY KAISER
His German Majesty Sees Torpedo
Boats Put Through Maneu-
vers at Valetta.

VALETTA, Island of Malta. April H.
Emperor William this morning visited the
British fleet and witnessed torpedo boats
anchor and boats drill. He lunched on board
the battleship Bulwark Flagship of Admiral
Sir Compton L. Domville. commanding the
Mediterranean f1eet) and made a speech of
congra tulation to the officers and men on
their efficiency.
During the afternoon the Emperor re-
cefved the Roman Catholic archbishop OF
Malta, the Most Rev. p. Pace, upon the
German imperial yacht Hohenzollern and
later drove TO Citta Vecchia and visited
points of interest
This evening his Majesty officially dined
at the palace, afterwards held reception
on board the Bulwark of 200 invited guests
and viewed the Examinations of the fleet
in the harbor.
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SEVEN MEN TO WORK
FOR SCHOLARSHIP

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. April
n-Seven candidates have offered them
selves for examination in the competition
for the first California Rhodes scholarship
at Oxford According to the arrangements
made between the University of California,
Stanford University and the lesser colleges
in the State, the first scholar will be chosen
from Berkely men entirely, the others get
ting their turns later. OF these candidates
three are graduates and four undergradu-
ates The examination will take place
April Is and Ia. The examinat ton papers
will be corrected at Oxford and from the
successful contestant President Wheeler
will select the individual entitled TO enter
Oxford.
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CITY. SCANDAL IS
BREWING 1T BUFFALO

BUFFALO. n. Y, April 1i.-At the meet.
ing of the Board Of Council to-day a reso-
luton was adopted providing for a COM
mittee of three to investigate a statement
made at a recent meeting by President
Smith, of the board. 10 the effect that $780,
90 had been spent illegally.
Councimen Smith. Pankow and Bing-
ham were appointed on the COMMITTEES.
President Smith reiterated the assertion to
a reporter to-day, but refused TO explain his
statement any way. asserting merely that
il was a subject which should be investi-
gated.