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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
The Rate Bill.

The rate bill which recently passed
the senate is long step toward prop
err control of railroads by the United
States government The principal
points of the bill are as follows:
Prison penalty for all carriers con-
victed of giving rebates. Shippers
receiving rebates will pay a three
fold money penalty.
Interstate commerce commission to
|prescribe maximum just and reason
able rates.
Grants broad court review power
and where injunction is granted on
rates as fixed by the commission, a
direct appeal to tie United States SUI
preme court is expedited.
Makes pipe ines, express compan-
les and sleeping cars common car
riers.
Prohibits common carriers from
engaging in coal mining or the pro-
duction of any commodity transport
ed over their lines, after 1905.
The commission has authority to
prescribe all forms and accounts to
be kept by railroads. All books and
accounts are made public documents
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07

We talk very glibly about the pop
ular demand of the S0,000000 of peo-
pie of the country for this. that and
the other as applied to methods of
government. Men are declared wise
who listen to the opinion of the pub
lic." Those statesmen and politicians
who base their methods and stheir be-
liefs on popular demand are called
discriminating The man with his ear
to the ground is said to be the safest
leader.
How many men, or at least, how
large proportion of the population
of this country have wide enough
knowledge of its conditions and
broad enough outlook upon life in
general to be fitted even in small
measure to form real opinion upon
some of the great issues which CON-
front legislation? Even in small
communities the point of view of the
average man is too narrow to allow
him to estimate the results of certain
lines of action upon larger interests
and more important concerns. 1t is
no wonder that there is such little
real public opinion upon questions
of vital importance. Men of narrow
experiences cannot reason to wide
conclusions and the experiences of
the average man are confined to mar
row limitations.
What is public opinion? How is it
measured? In what way can we de-
termine what it is? Remember the
difference between opinion and senti-
ment. 1t is often easy to determine
what is the emotional sentiment of a
locality or of a large people on a
question that disturbs their peace and
quiet or their prosperity, but it is not
so easy to determine what is the
opinion, the result of real thought,
even if there be any opinion or
thought on certain questions.
Is there any practical way to de-
termine what is public opinion in a
nation of eighty millions of people
scattered over wide territory with es-
sentially varied interests to conserve,
even with wide racial differences,
with industrial conditions which
change and are sometimes antagon-
istic, with views of liberty that range
all the way from the just right of the
individual to the extreme of license?
If there be such measurement, is it a
safe guide for national legislation
Elkhart Review.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
WE'RE NOT POISONED.
So Says the Chemist Who Analysed
Stomachs of Rettinger's Hogs.

1t will be remembered that one
cause of the tragedy enacted on our
streets a short time ago was the
supposed idea that Rettinger's hogs
had been poisoned. Three of them
died at the stock yards and the trag-
edy followed The stomachs were
analysed by DIR. Rhamey at Fl.
Wayne and the following report has
been received which is given in this
paper exclusively 1t reads as fol-
lows:
| have completed the examination
OF hogs stomachs and contents re-
ceived for examination via Adams
Express May 18th, 1906 and have to
report the following findings:
There is no trace of any organic or
inorganic poison or substance which
might have been introduced into the
stomach with intent to do injury.
The stomachs were not corroded
or highly infamed as might be pro-
duced by irritant poisons. The food
contents were partly digested, show
ing that no substance was present
having embalming qualities which
would stop secretion of stomach
glands. The gastric juice was in nor
NAL condition, showing that no acid
or alkali had been administered The
food contents began to ferment on
removal, showing that no drug or
chemical having antiseptic proper
ties had been administered. The
stomach nucosa was in process of
self digestion showing that the stom-
ach functions were not impaired The
Emphatic glands in the walls of the
stomach were swollen and inflamed
about as we find Peyer's patches in
typhoid fever. This was undoubtedly
due to some infection. 1t is my opin-
ion therefore that these hogs died of
some acute infective disease of bac-
terial origin.-Bourbon News Mirror.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
The Neill-Rexnolds Report.

What is known as the Neill- Rey-
nolds report upon the packing indus
try at Chicago describes sanitary con-
ditions in and around the stock yards
as deplorable. 1t does not show that
the packers have been engaged in
marketing meats unfit for human food
Messrs. Nell and Reynolds are ex-
tremely vague and unsatisfactory in
dealing with this phase of the alleged
abuses in vogue at the stock yards.
Persons who have seen their report
assert that it presents absolutely no
evidence proving that the packers
have been guilty of violating munic-
ipal, state and federal laws through
marketing tainted or diseased meat.
What the report has to say about
the sanitary conditions at the stock
yards however, is so severe an in
dictment of the packers and their
agents that even the packers friends
concede that the packers desire to
suppress the document is based upon
prudential reasons. The action of the
big packing houses in publicly an
nouncing their willingness to coop
crate with the president and congress
10 secure the enactment of drastic
inspection law has served to clear the
atmosphere because it removes the
last doubt concerning the possibility
of tho packing concerns instituting a
fight to defeat the Beverage bill
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07

Steel rails have already been or
dered from the mills of the country
for delivery in 1906 and 1907 which
would lay single track road of 49,
900 miles in length. Two-thirds of
this is for delivery this year The
greater part of the orders which 1907
will be expected to fill will naturally
be given later on in 1906 and in the
early months of 1907 To some ex-
tent the dimensions of the demands
still to come will depend on the crops
this year and the general business
outlook
As can be radily guessed, these or
ders for 1907 delivery beat all the
records for that length of time ahead
The mills are crowded with work, and
although they are steadily increasing
their capacity, they must necessarily
have to refuse some of the appeals
which are made to them. The entire
iron and steel industry is expanding
to point never approached before
All the records in output are being
left far behind Yet the heaviest of
the orders are probably ahead of us
As the crops look favorable, corn,
cotton and wheat being likely to
score high figures, the railroads are
justified in taking a cheerful view of
the situation.
Railroad building in Arkansas, Ok
lahoma, Indian Territory, Texas and
the rest of the southwest is largely
responsible for the heavy demands
which arc being made on the steel
mills. lr the northwest, too, where
Hill and Hartman are in rivalry,
and where Hill is going to build z.
big road through Canada to connect
with the Great Northern, track laying
will be particularly active in the next
year or two. Unlike much of the
construction of twenty or twenty-five
years ago, that of the present is to
meet an Immediate need. Huntington,
Cakes Ames, Jay Cooke and other
railway builders of third of CEN
fury ago were building for the future,
and expected to lose money by. the
traffic of the first eight or ten years,
but supposed they would make all
this in the later time Gould, Hill,
Vanderbilt, Hartman and the rest of
the railway magnates of today, how
ever, find that they can not, with
their present facilities, meet the ex-
isting demands, and are trying to in
crease their mileage. This accounts
for the unexampled orders for steel
rails for delivery year or more
ahead which are pouring into the
mills.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
BOMBS END JOY.
Alfonso and His Bride Escape Death
by Seeming Miracle.

Madrid, May 31-Princess Ena o.
Battenberg became Queen Victori;
of Spain today and not ten minutes
afterward passed through the most
dreadful experience of her life. While
driving to the palace after the mar
riage ceremony bomb was thrown
directly at the carriage containing the
| fair young queen and her husband
King Alfonso, and only by seeming
miracle were the lives of the royal
bridal pair saved
Sixteen persons were killed before
Queen Victoria's eyes, two of the
horses drawing her royal coach were
felled in their tracks, the coach itself
was splashed with human blood and
its woodwork splintered by pieces OF
the exploded bomb.
Never in all recorded history has
a royal bride gone through such an
experience, but throughout it all Vic
toria remained remarkably composed
Not cream escaped her. AS soon
as possible she alighted from the
coach and, assisted by King Alfonso,
took her place in another carriage,
which was driven rapidly into the
palace court.
The bomb was thrown from an up
per window of house by which the
royal party was passing. The house
was charged by the police and sew
eral arrests were made, but the iden-
tity of the thrower has not yet been
established. A report that the bomb
was not thrown at Alfonso and Vic
toria but at the carriage of Grand
Duke Vladimir of Russia was not
credited. f
An official statement indicates the
possibility that two bombs were
thrown, one exploding in the air by
striking a telegraph wire and the
other falling so close to the royal car
riage that groom at the head of
the wheel horses was killed as also
were the wheel horses. Suspicion
points to Catalonian named Manuel
Duran as the leader of the regicidal
conspiracy and he is in prison await
ing examination.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07

Over in Wisconsin a movement is
on foot to secure the abolition OF
that provision in the election laws
whish permits aliens to vote upon
declaring their intention to become
citizens of the United States. En-
listed in this movement are the lead
ing Germans of Milwaukee and OF
other places where the German
American element predominates
Wisconsin, like Indiana, adopted the
one-year-residence probation plan at
a time when immigration was very
much desired to swell the sparse pop
ulation and help build up the new
country. The immigration of that
period was of very high type and
was blessing to the states that Sc
cured much thereof The situation
is entirely different today, and an ur-
gent necessity exists for doing away
with the one-year probation absur-
dity.-South Bend Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
Healing the Wounds of War

On Memorial Day in the City of
Mexico Grand Army men and Con-
iederate veterans with barred heads
reverently decorated with flowers the
monument erected to the memory OF
the youthful Mexican patriots who
fell at Chupultipec while defending
their country against the invading
army of the United States! Thus
does peace heal the wounds of war.
The incident recalls the decoration
of Clusters soldiers by the, Sioux
children in. reservation school three
or four years ago.-South Bend
Times.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
Lands in Trouble.

Representative Fred Lands is
threatened with all kinds of things
in Huntington county if he recon-
mends Henry Crevison for postmas-
ter at Warren. Warren is in Hunting
ton count and is the home of DIR.
Good, Silas Pulse and other promi-
nent opponents of Lands. Crevison
gets his mail at Warren, but happens
to live over the line in Grant county
Nothing is to be said against him ex-
cept his residence. 1t is now said
that all of the county candidates III
Huntington county have lined up and
laid down the law to Lands that he
must not have any man appointed TO
Office in that county who is not a
resident of the county.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
Claim Big Damages.

Claiming to have been damaged tc
the extent of half a million dollars
Daniel B. Shepp, Horace Rhawn and
Ned Arden Flood of Philadelphia
have sued the Mishawaka Wooler
Mills of Mishawaka in the fedora
court in indianapolis, alleging that
the stockholders have failed to pay
them a commission for selling the
company's holdings in the concern &c
the United States Rubber Company
The transaction is alleged to have
taken place several months ago and
the Philadelphia plaintiffs declare
that the rubber trust paid $7,O0O,00t
for the Mishawaka plant.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
Ballou Made a Speech.

Judge Otis l.. Balou addressed the
Lagrange county Democrats in con-
ventoin Friday and lambasted Jas.
NJ. Robinson, ex-congressman from
the Twelfth Fort Wayne) district
and attacked the Democratic press
of the district. Judge Ballous wa
forced TO retire as an aspirant for the
Democratic congressional nomination.
So was mayor Harrison of Columbia
City.
The twelfth district for more than
thirty years was good for a Demo
cratic majority of 5000 to 5000, but
the Democratic bosses and ring rule
have made it doubtful district and
it will probably elect Republican
congressman again this year as it did
two years ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
John Blubaugh's Death.

The remains of John Blubaugh
reached Plymouth Friday afternoon
and funeral services were held at the
Catholic church Saturday morning.
Deceased had charge of the electric
signals of the Southern Pacific Rail
way at Banning, Cal, and was on
his speeder going from one Signal
station to another when an engine
struck him it is said without giving
warning of any kind.
Mr. Blubaugh had been in Califor-
mia eighteen years and had been in
the employ of the Southern Pacific
eleven wears. He was Al years old
was not married, but he leaves a
mother, six brothers and two sisters
and other relatives in this county
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
EXPECTS DEATH.
Alfonso Says His Assassination Is
Only Question of Time.

Frederick W. Whitridge, the spec
ial envoy from the United States to
the wedding of Alfonso and Victoria,
Sunday described remarkable con-
versation which he had with King AL
fonso during the reception at the pal
ace Saturday night. The converse
ton naturally turned to the attempt
on the king and queen, when King
Alfonso shrugged his shoulders and
made most significant statement,
showing how he views the future.
Eyes, fortunately, it was not success
full" he said, but it will come again.
1t may be anytime-perhaps tomor-
row, perhaps within a month, per-
haps within year-but it will come I"
The face of the king, Mr.. Whitridge
says, wore look of calm resigna-
ton as he gave this forecast of the
future.
Although he bore himself splendid
ly throughout the terrible experience,
the courtiers witnessed a trying
scene as King Alfonso and Queen
Victoria hurried within the castle af-
ter the attempt was made to assas-
sinate them. For a moment Alfonso's
nerves were completely unstrung and,
turning to Queen Victoria, her dress
spattered with blood, he exclaimed:
why did | bring you to this coun-
try? 1t was wrong; you never should
have come here"
the infantas claimed the overweight
nerves of the king and the bridal
couple repaired sadly to the nuptial
chambers.
The capture and suicide Saturday
night at Torrejon de Ardos of Manuel
Morales, the chief suspect in the
bomb outrage against King Alfonso
and Queen Victoria, adds another
dramatic chapter to the incidents sur
rounding the royal wedding.
Morales was recognized in the lit
tie town of Torrejon de Ardos. A
guard sought to detain him, but Mo-
rales, drawing revolver, shot the
guard dead. Then he turned to flee,
but number of the inhabitants of
the town were upon him and turning
the revolver upon himself he sent
shot in the region of his heart, ex-
piring a few minutes later.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07

San Francisco's misfortune bids
fair to have more than one compen-
sation. 1t is generally conceded that
the city will regain the commercial
prestige temporarily eclipsed by the
disaster and will become more truly
than before the metropolis of the
Pacific coast Ii is now deemed prob
able that there will be movement oil
population into the suburbs, thus con-
stituting new residential region
This latter consummation is one oil
the great compensations for the ca
tastrophe of month ago.
OF course, the old site of San Fran
cisco is not going to be deserted
The large residential district which
escaped the flames will continue to
furnish homes for many thousands OF
people. But it is becoming pretty
clear that new homes will be built
not on the site of old ones but al
together away from the city proper
A new suburban San Francisco is to
be created, and though Oakland and
the other neighborhood across the
bay will profit somewhat the main
trend of the movement will be toward
the Santa Clara valley.
For the most part that valley south
of San Francisco is level. From San
Mateo to San Jose it is one of the
most charming parts of the state, and
with an up-to-date electric car service
San Jose, fifty miles away, is prac-
tically as near to San Francisco's
business center az are the outskirts
of Oakland and Berkeley.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
A Brave Girl.

Irene Newburg, of New York city
twelve years old, deserves honorable
mention everywhere for bravery and
presence of mind. She took her baby
brother from the couch where their
frantic mother had dropped him when
she found the house on fire, and car
ried him down three fights of stairs
to SAFETY then finding that her moth
err had not followed, sac returned
through binding smoke and rescued
her. How much the fire drills of the
public school had contributed to this
resourceful presence of mind is an
interesting question, worth the atten-
ton of school boards.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
sMooT MUST GO.
Committee Decides Utah Man is Not
Enlisted to His Seat.

That Reed Smoot is not entitled to
his seat in the United States Senate
as a Senator from Utah, was the de-
cision of the Senate committee on
privileges and elections, declared by
a vote of to s.
The decision was on Senator Du-
bois's resolution offered at the meet
ing two weeks ago, which was carried
by Senator Burrows, Deliver, Pettus,
Overman, Bailey and Dubois and
Frazier voting in the affirmative, and
Senators Foraker, Dillingham;, Hop
kins, Beverage and Knox in the neg
alive. The vote of Senator Depew
was not cast. Votes were had on
the constitutional questions of ex-
pulsion and exclusion, after which
the members of the committee ex-
pressed themselves in favor of vote
IN the Senate at the present .scssion
of Congress.
The resolution on the subject of
exclusion was offered BY Senator
Foraker as test of the question
whether Senator Smoot should be
ousted from his seat by a majority
vote of the Senate or whether by
two-thirds vote of the Senate he shall
be expelled from his seat. The reso-
luton declared that it is the sense
of the committee that Senator
Shoots seat shall be declared vacant.
If carried this would be equivalent
to recommendation that he be ex-s
cluded by majority VOTE 1t was
lost by a vote of to 5, the afirma-
tive votes being Senators Burrows,
Dolliver, Pettus, Dubois and Frazer
and the negative votes being Senators
Foraker, Dillingham;, Hopkins, Bever-
idge, Knox, Bailey and Overman
Senator Bailey then offered a reso-
luton declaring the sense of the COM
mittee to be that Senator Smoot
should be expelled from his seat,
which would be recommendation
that the Senate take the course re-
curing two-thirds vote of the SEN
ate tC unseat him. The result was
tie vote, Senator'S Burrows, Pettus,
Dubois. Bailey, Oyerman and Frazier
in the affirmative, and Senators For
akcr, Deliver, Beverage, Dilling-
ham, Hopkins and KNOX in the mega.
tive.
The debate during the deliberation
was INDUCED in by nearly every SEN
a.or. That devoted to the constitu-
tional question of expulsion q ex-
clusion was the most heated. Sen
ators' Bailey and Ove-man, who ar
gued in favor of the resolution de-
claring that the Utah Senator is not
entitled to his seat, were of the opin-
ion that after the oath has been adj
ministered to Senator the only pos
sible procedure against him is to ex-
pei him from his seat, and that there
could be no question as to this pro-
cedure requiring two-thirds vote of
the Senate
The Senators voting in favor of
the method requesting only major
ity of the Senate to unseat him, ar
gued that the offense, if any has been
committed, existed at the time the
oath of Office was taken, and that
the protests are not in relation to any
offense of origin since the oath was
taken.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07

Governor Hoch has appointed Fos-
per Dwight Coburn United States
senator to succeed Joseph r Burton,
who sent his resignation to the gov
ernor Monday.
Mr.. Coburn's appointment is a
happy solution of the problem pre-
scented by Burton's retirement. He
is not affiliated with any of the fac
tons in the Republican party, is
closer to the agricultural interests
,f the state than any other man and
ms one of the most popular men in
Kansas. Politicians admit that the
appointment will add 10000 votes to
the Republican ticket in November
1t is not believed that the new sena-
tor will be candidate for election
before the legislature, but the pre-
diction is made that his great popu-
arity will force him into the race
and that he will stand a good chance
to win.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
Indiana Gets Appropriation.

The sundry civil appropriation bill,
recently reported in the house at
Washington, provides $2s5,O0O for the
Marion Soldiers Home, $4,000 for
the completion of the public building
at Hammond, $4,000 for the compile
ton of the public building at Muncie,
and $4,000 for the Improvement of
the Calumet river in Indiana and ILL
nois. The bill sets aside 100000 for
the continuation of the coal testing
by the United States Geological Sar-
vey, a work in which Indiana is nc-h
interested.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
Cemeteries Are Sacred.

The supreme court has decided that
a railroad may not>be built through
any graveyard or cemetery, whether
there are any graves in the part to be
crossed and without regard to wheth-
er the ground is owned by a ceme-
terry association, by trustees or by
an individual. A judgment of the
Monroe circuit court forbidding the
construction of the Indianapolis
Southern railroad across a corner of
the Mt. Gilead cemetery was affirmed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
Presbyterian Churches Unite.

The general assembly of the Pres
byterian church, having recently
adopted the necessary resolution with
only two negative votes, the modera-
tor of that body made the following
important formal announcement: 81
do solemnly declare and here pub
licly announce that the basis of re-
union and union is now in full force
and effect, and that the Cumberland
Presbyterian church is now reunited
with the Presbyterian church in the
United States as one church.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07

With the dissension existing in
both the Democratic and Republican
parties in this county, there has never
been such an opportunity for an in
dependent ticket to sweep the field,
and everlastingly bury the ringsters
that have controlled county politics
for SO long. Bremen Enquirer.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-06-07
Kellogg is Missing.

u. B. Kellogg, candidate for sur
veyor of Pulaski county, has disap-
peared with about $1,000 which he
had collected from persons who ex-
pected transportation as excursion
lists to investigate into the sale of
lands in northwestern Canada.