Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-03-31


ment. and Superintendent Church /
Of the Philadelphia mint, who will |
have charge of the exhibit. The |
win be on a greater scale |
and more complete than has ever
before been attempted.
This is made possible only by the
fact that a new mint is being equip
ped at Denver. The machinery
therefor, which is produced in the
East, viii be sent TO st. Louis and
exhibited there. and then sent TO the
Mountain City. The entire process
Of minting will be shown, and in
stead OF turning out money, medals
will be minted, which will be sold as
souvenirs. in conversation the 9TH
er day with one OF the highest Off
Gals of the St. Louis Exposition, he
gave me some information that every
one should know who contemplates
visit to the Worlds Fair. IAN
impression prevails, said he. that
there may be lack of accommoda-
tons at reasonable prices for the
attendance which promises TO break
all exposition presidents. Not only
will there be sufficient room for all
who come, but the rates will be more
reasonable, | think, than atany pre-
vious exposition. Under contract,
the exposition controls the rates of,
the hotel of 1900 rooms within the
grounds, known as the Inside Inn.
'The exposition has furnished
free sites and other inducements to
several additional hotels under
agreements which regulate the rates
of such hotels. The proprietors of
the leading hotels have signed writ
ten guarantees that their rates will
not be increased during the Worlds
Fair period, from April 30 to De-
cember !, 1904"
There was a scene enacted in the
room of the House Judiciary Com
mittee the other day that showed
conclusively TO what base uses is
the Christian religion put. and that
tore the veil completely from the
face Of brazen hypocrisy masquerad-
ing in the name of reform.
The bill under consideration : by
the committee was the so-called
Hepburn Dolliver bill, q bill to give
the police power of each state where
in prohibition exists the power, I'M
der the interstate commerce act, to
seize any liquor of any kind in ori-
ginal packages, that may come into
the state and consigned toany point
therein. In other words, these
states ask the Congress to do for
them what their own police power
and their state laws are powerless
to do for them. They hide behind
the Interstate Commerce act and
interfere with states rights by ask
ing the strong arm of the national
government to reach in and enforce
a law which they cannot enforce
This bill has been Professionally tout
ed by the Rev. Wilbar F. Crafts,
who calls himself the Legislative
superintendent of some sort of o re-
form league, and by the Rev. DR..
Dinwiddie, Of the anti-saloon league.
They have flooded the country with
all sorts of stuff sent out from here
under the franked envelopes of diff
ferent members Of Congress, all of
them Republicans except one, in
their advocacy of this bill, thereby
violating the law by the violation OF
the franking privilege which allows
nothing to go out in a franked en-
velope except a part of the Congress
sional Record or public document.
They have in this manner robbed
the government out of hundreds of
thousands of dollars in postage and
have done it with the assistance of
Republican members of Congress
who have furnished them with mil
lions of franked envelopes, also
printed at government expense. No
one knew anything of this fraud
being practiced on the people and
the government and the bill was get
ting along swimmingly with every
Likelihood that it would be reported
favorably and pass the House, when
the vigilant agent of associated
brewers of the country, in the per-
son OF Major Duncan B. Harrison,
threw bomb into their camp at
this hearing in the shape of the
proof of the foregoing, and it simply
ripped the sawdust out of the bill
and let it down into its little tomb.
Major Harrison not only produced
the envelopes, dozens of them, con-
tanning the nonfrankable matter,
but he produced the affidavits from
the persons receiving the envelope
that they found in it exactly what it |
on inspection by members |
Of the committee. He simply put |