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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-02

udy DdSScu OU VI ~ INSTANTANEOUS piA'
and gave several hours time to the
consideration of the shipping bill.
Among the bills passed was one pro-
yiding for n delegate in Congress from
Alaska. The greater part of the time
devoted to the shipping bill was con-
sumed by Mr.. Penrose in a set speech
in support of the measure.
The Senate devoted the first part of
its session TO a discussion of methods
anG practices regarding filing of pa
pers. This and routine proceedings took
sometime.
Humans resolution calling on the
President to send the Senate all the
letters from the United States minis
ter at Santo Domingo to the state de-
partment in 1904, was referred to the
committee on foreign relations. Till
man made no objection. but said that
he only wanted light on the question
as to whether the government of Santo
Domingo had been coerced into the
present arrangements. He said the
newspapers had said that this was the
case while Patterson had said yester-
day that the arrangement was made at
the solicitation of the Dominican gov
ernmcnt.
After Tillman had made a brief state
ment concerning the bills holding rail-
roads responsible for injuries to en-
ployes, Elkins withdrew his motion for
their reference to the committee on the
judiciary. thus leaving them with the
committee on interstate commerce.
Authorizing the construction of n
sea-Soing tug for the revenue cutter
service at New Bedford, Mass.
At O'Clock the ship subsidy bill was
taken w. Bacon said that he would be
inclined to support the shipping bill II
its operations were confined to grant
ing aid in the way of liberal mail sub
sides to steamship lines between ports
of the United States and other ports
with which there is now no direct COM
munication. such. for instance, as the
the ports of South America. He be-
lieved that such lines should be en-
couraged.
SpooEer suggested that the bill would
afford encouragement to only large
concerns, suggesting that by Its
terms vessels would receive subsidy for
only 10 years and then would come into
competition with the big lines with the
results that they would have to be sold
to the large companies operating sub
sidiZed vessels.
GallinScr acknowledged the force OF
the suggestion and intimated Il willing
hess to amend the bill so as TO meet
the objection. PenrOse made n speecf
in support of the bill. He said that FOL
20 years after 1873 no transatlantic
vessels had been launched on the Del
aware and that the record for 80 year:
was only 10. while the Clyde nae
launched hundreds. This discrepancy
he attributed to the failure to protec
the shipbuilding industry and content
that American labor should be protect
ed in the shipyards as well as In tn
factories. I'VE have waited 40 years,
he said. "to see our merchant mafln'
revive without protection. only to SCI
our tonnage fall to one-third what l
WIS in 1850. The situation is desperate.
Carter interrupted Penrose with
brief speech in which he expressed
strCng support of the bill. expressing
the opinion that it would be endorsed
by the entire Rocky Mountain region
Continued on Page Two)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-02
PAUPUS ACQUITTED.
Charged With Assault With Dangerous
Weapon on Biddeford Man.

Saco. Me-, Feb. lin the superior
court this afternoon. E. James Paupus
of Biddeford, was acquitted, after a
trial lasting two days. of the charge
of assaulting with 4 dangerous weapon
upon Fred F. Doyle, at Biddeford Oct.
1 and upon motion of County Attorney
Emery was discharged from custody.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-02
FAIR-MUcH COLDER.

Washington, Feb. Forecast for
New England: Fair and much colder
Friday. cold wave by night; Saturday
fair and cold. brisk to high west TO
northwest winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-02

The dead:
Fire Captain Charles Dakin of En-
CINE 4.
Third Officer G. Wallace of the
Meade.
Hoseman Thomas Hennessy. Engine
No. 1. married.
The injured:
Capt. George Wilson Of the Meade,
shoulder broken.
Battalion Chief Fernandez of the fire
department.
Lieut.. John Gilbert Of Engine No. IL
Capt. d. 4. Sewall Of Engine No. r.
Lieut.. a. Mattlock of Engine No. 4.
First Officer Lassak.
+. Dale of the L.. S. TRANSPORT SER
service.
Louis Cook. fireman Truck No. 1.
Gabriel Ounce. fireman.
Alex. Lask of the Meade's crew.
Norris Fireman of the transport SER
vice.
Fl. j. McClOskey of Engine No. A.
Others whose names have not yet
been ascertained We're more or less in
jured.
The following are reported as miss
ing:
Charles Gill. operator for Chief Fer
nandez.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-02
Boston Forecast.

Boston. Feb. Forecast for BoS-
tor and vicinity: Fair and colder Fri
day; Saturday fair and continued cold
brisk westerly winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-02

Emil ZerkowitZ has written a book
dealing with American commerce from
the Hungarian point of view. He trav.
eled 1900 miles collecting data.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-02
Worth knowing

that Allcock's are the original and gen.
uine porous plasters; all others are imita-
tons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-02
MANY THRILLING ACTS OF HERoISM,
Two City Firemen and Ships Third
Officer Dead---Hard Fight Keeps
Flames from Magazine.

San Francisco, Feb. 1.-Three men
We're killed and IS injured, mostly by
suffocation, in fire that damaged the
United States transport Meade to the
extent OF $4,000 as she lay at the Fol-
som street pier earley today. For three
hours after midnight the forward hold
OF the big troop ship was a suffocating
furnace from which firemen were borne
in an almost continuous stream. Re-
lays Of men promptly stepped forward
to take the places of those who were
carried out unconscious.
Tons Of heavy explosives were loaded
in the after part of the vessel and the
firemen worked with the possibility
before them that the flames would
reach this compartment.
Owing probably to the fact that an
internal machine was found in the
bunkers Of the transport Thomas on
her last voyage the rumor was circu-
lated that plot had been laid to fire
the Meade at sea as she was to have
departed for Manila today. Maj. c. A.
Devol, chief of the transport service, is
investigating this theory with great
care. He is having the cargo taken
- ~AAA 'oi''l 'o' eiiiCiI A>O. WHeTe the IRE
was confined, with a view of discover
ing the real cause of the disaster Dock
Captain Dun gave il as his opinion that
some Of the officers had packed matches
in their trunks and that these were ig-
nited in loading.
The property loss amounted to only
s25, according to Maj. Devol. When
the water had been pumped from the
hold and the debris removed, il was
ascertained that the fire had been con-
fined to space about six feet square
The fire was of a smouldering nature
that emitted great volumes of smoke.
The officers effects We're found to be
safe.
1t is believed by some of the officials
that the fire was due to spontaneous
combustion of gun oil and cotton.
Rifles were in the vicinity OF the fire
and it is thought that after cleaning
the weapons. the men had carelessly
tossed the oil-soaked waste into a
heap.
The vessel is not seriously injured
and will be ready to sail for Manila
Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-02
Tennessee Coming for Trial Trip.

Philadelphia. Feb. 1.-The armored
cruiser Tennessee left Cramps ship
yard today for the government trial
trip off the coast of Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-02
IN THE SENATE.

Washington, Feb. 1.-The Senate to-
day passed 30 or 40 miscellaneous bills
and gave several hours time to the
consideration of the shipping bill.
Among the bills passed was one pro-
viding for n delegate in Congress from
Alaska. The greater part of the time
devoted to the shipping bill was con-
sumed by Mr.. PenrOse i'm a set speech
in support of the measure.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-19
Personal NOTES.

Senator Money OF Mississippi declares one
western man to be the equal OF Ave eastern
men, and Money talks.
The richest woman in England is now
married. and the richest woman in Ger
many and the world soon will be. The
grooms receive just bare mention.
A. w Benson. the new senator from Kan
sas. has joined the GLASS OF senators known
as the Short Leggers" II includes all the
senators whose bodies are long and whose
legs are short. SIa~r
The only member OF the United States
senate from the south who is rated as a
millionaire is James9P. raliaferro of Flor
ida. He made his money in lumber and
banking enterprisesDf
The heaviest cadet TO graduate at West
Point the other day was an Indiana youth
Charles A. Lewis Of Warwick county. who
tips the beam at 1Sepounds. He expects to
be sent to the Philippines shortly
A cousin OF Russell Sage has Just died
penniless and will be buried by the county
There Is too quick an Impulse to blame Mr..
Sage. Doubtless he would have let the rela-
tive have money had the request been ac-
companied by proper collateral.
]. o. Armour of Chicago, has given to the
Armour Institute Of Technology $4,000, the
money to be expended for equipment It
makes a total OF 100000 which Mr..
Armour has given in the last five years to
the institution which his father founded.
AZ was to be expected. William Pinckney
whyte. the venerable successor OF Senator
German, has made most favorable i'm
preston on his colleagues. Dressed fault
lessly and with his courtly bearing, fine
burgundy complexion and snow-white hair.
he attracts much attention.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-19
HRAT DID THEY MEAN


In rendering the opinion on the ro-
tation ballot case, declaring that this
form of ballot did not amount to such
an Interference with the free choice of
the voter as to be denial of his con-
stitutional rights of suffrage, the pre-
siding judge interjected this remark
for himself and his associates: I'VE
do not want to be understood as say
ing that a case might not be presented
in which conditions we're such that a
ballot as here asked would be a denial
of the constitutional rights Of the
voter"
Questioned further as to what this
side statement meant, the presiding
judge is said to have explained II by
citing as an example a case where so
many names might be filed as to make
it practically impossible for the voter
to pick out his preferred candidates on
the official ballot, or where the ballot
should thus be enlarged until 1t was
forty feet long.
The question arises. How long must
the ballot be to interfere with the free
choice of the voter to a degree that 1t
violates his constitutional rights? The
ballot in the forthcoming primaries,
containing the names filed for state
delegates only. will be seven feet four
inches long, and IL the strict letter Of
the law as enunciated by the court
were followed by the addition of the
candidates for delegates to the con-
gressional convention, the ballot would
be ten and a half feet long.
The question is, How long must 1t
be to violate the voters constitutional
rights? If forty-foot rotated ballot
would be clearly illegal, how about
twenty-foot ballot2 If a twenty-foot
rotated ballot would be only half as
illegal as forty-foot ballot, how about
ten-foot ballot? II what point of
the yardstick does injustice begin and
justice end? IL six more names had
been filed for the coming primary, add
ing three more inches to the ballot,
would it have made 1t illegal?
To a man up tree 1t looks as II tie
court, over-awed by the Fontanelles,
we're attempting to inflict this outrage
upon the voters at this time while
leaving a loop hole to crawl out and
reverse its decision next year when
delegates to a judicial convention are
to be chosen and the interests of the
judges themselves are at stake. We
are not only to have justice measured
out to us with tape line, but the tape
line is to be elastic SO it msy be
stretched to make 1t fit the case.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-19
THE FORTUNE TELLER.

Witter Bymer in Metropolitan Magazine.
Turning to the secrets from her pack OF
cards, ttFe
Warning of sickness. tracing out a
Guarding from danger as an omen guards,
deft.
Till in the stuffy parior where she lies,
Now to these clients. neighbors, debtors,
Truest Is proven. OF her prophecies
Y shall be dead before December ends"
That old man. facing US. who many years
Boosted the subtle wonders Of her art,
Now hear him how he tells US with his
The simpler, larger wisdom Of her heart
For she was quick to share the good that
30 that pale mothers turned at last and
slept,
{ iosfe.s grufhy reverenced her
ct, more than all she gave away. she
keptl
Kept red geraniums on her window sill.
Kept a gay garden in that narrow plot
Fenced in behind the house-youH ma
Her hoe, her rake, her rusty watering
pot
Bright. in the midst OF all these dinsy
Her roses. hollyhocks and pansies grew;
AS though some happy Jester In the CARDS
whispered the sweetest secret that he
knew.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-19
poL5cr AND COMMERCE. POWERS

POLTCB AND COMMERCE POWERS.
BY raising against proposed inspec-
ton Legislation Of the constitutional
point that congress is precluded from
interference in matters comprehended
within what Is known as the police
power of the several states. one good
result has been secured. in more eff
cient exertion OF local police author
ity without narrowing the national
sanitary restrictions.
Whatever may be said as to state
police power, II is conceded that
congress has complete and indeed ex-
elusive constitutional power to regu-
late commerce between the states and
with foreign nations and therefore to
prohibit absolutely such commerce or
transportation of meats, canned goods
and packing house products not bear
ing the government label, inspected
and passed" Such inspection, IL con-
stitutional can require practically
every condition that could be en-
forced under any exertion of state po-
lice power.
Practically such legislation under
the interstate commerce power must
also go a long way to control the
character of meats consumed in the
states where they are prepared. be-
cause If sanitary conditions must be
established In a large packing plant
doing business outside of the state,
those conditions would in a measure
protect all the meat treated there for
whatever market. Nor would the do
nestle consumers long tolerate a meat
supply inferior to that sent outside
the state or handled under circum-
stances open to suspicion. The plenary
resources of the police power are at
hand to supplement as TO the local
supply any evasion of the national re-
strictions as to interstate and foreign
commerce, saying nothing of the reme-
dial potency of mere publicity.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-19
ullIfy AM adjournment forecasts.

nullify all adjournment forecasts.
With these and other appropriation
bills stu pending, with the certainty
of a time-consuming senate debate on
the Panama canal level question. and
with a number OF other measures like
immigration, restriction on any Of
which complications may arise, as in
the case of meat inspection, It may
well be doubted II congress can posi-
bly, dispose OF more than a small part
Of the business before Il by July l..
And for congress to quit before the
public business is reasonably disposed
of would hardly be safe or prudent
while Theodore Roosevelt occupies
the White House.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-19

The Fontanelle bosses arrogantly
assume that they have monopoly of
the intelligence of this community and
that by INJECTING unnecessary ballot
burdens upon the voters they can dis
franchise their opponents. In this
they are likely to be badly fooled. The
American public likes fair play and de-
tests trickery and underhanded meth
DDS. A man who is good enough to
vote for the party ticket after 1t is
nominated should be good enough TO
have voice in the choice of the party
nominees.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-19
RAILROAD EMPLOYERE' LIABILITY.
new Law Pronounced an Invasion OF
States Rights.

StnNeHF HN8nNhs
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The overshadowing importance OF the
railroad rate bill has excluded from general
notice another important measure affecting
interstate railroads This IL the railway
employers liability bill, which passed tho
house, with no discussion worth MENTION
ing. and has now been adopted by the SEN
ate without considerable change. 1t is &C.
manded by a great body OF organised rail-
road employees and is evidently going TO
become law at this session,
This measure is OF radical consequence
in two particulars. First. II sets aside the
common law principle Of an employers
liability for accidents to the employe and
substitutes the principle OF liability for all
damages TO any employees. whether caused
directly by the neglect OF the employer or
by the action or neglect Of fellow employee
OF servant and the burden OF proof, as We
understand the measure, is thrown upon
the employer or railroad Many OF the
American states have already by statute
greatly modified the old common law rule
in the direction noted, but this act lifts
railroad employees into a class subject 20
none Of the variations and neglects OF state
law in this particular and favors them with
a uniform rule drawn on the liberal lines
noteo-nDera Tor the efnplOye ana quite the
opposite for the railroad companies.
The second radical consequence OF the
measure is further TO invade the powers
of the states and limit their Jurisdiction In
a matter heretofore Supposed TO be exelu-
sively their own. And It 10 at this point
that the prospective law may meet with
trouble in the federal courts; for It is a
question whether the federal government
can consttutionally extend It's power over
interstate commerce TO the degree here In
volved. A great majority OF railroad EN-
ployes live and work exclusively within the
boundaries OF this and that state Com
paratively few Of them are trainmen NOV
ing between states. But under this act the
switchman. or track hand. or station man.
or Waterman. who works at a particular
point on a road engaged in interstate com
meree-as practically all roads are-will be
lifted out OF state and brought under federal
jurisdiction in damage cases; and the same
is true apparently OF shopmen and ma
chinists. ETC. employed by railroad CON-
panies. The connection OF all these local
railroad employees with interstate commerce
consists only OF touching II directly OF In
directly as Il passes by. and injuries re-
duties have no sort OF necessary relation
ship with federal jurisdiction In interstate
commerce.
Here IL apparently a case OF needless sx-
tension OF, the powers of the national gov
eminent Al the expense OF those OF the
/ states.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-19

been stopped. In the future, colonies and
lieutenant colonies on the retired list Of
the army, when assigned to active duty,
will receive the same pay and allowances
that a retired major would receive under
like assignment
A section of great interest to many ON
GERS provides that officers who have had
service outside Of the United States and
have not received the 10 per cent increase
in pay, or who have received II for service
in China, the Philippine islands and
Alaska can now be paid by paymasters for
such service while en- route to and from
the places named. Paymasters are not,
however, authorized to pay foreign service
pay 10 any oficer OF the army on duty
with the Panama canal. The act provides
that enlisted men, u in current enlist
ment. may be paid the 20 per cent increase
for service since July /, 1904. under the
same circumstances.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-19
one Thing ne n Time.


Every two or three weeks during the
last few months the Clarion has received
from Lincoln or some other place where
candidate boomers bask In comfort and
work country editors a batch Of machine
editorials booming Attorney General
Brown for United States senator. and this
week we received a long article from a
Furnas county citizen lauding the attorney
general for instituting suit against the
Nebraska Iumbermen and urging that for
this bit of activity and bravery Mr.. Brown
should be sent to the senate.
The machine editorials have not been
used for the reason. we are opposed 10 that
method Of campaigning The article re-
ceived this week is not published for two
reasons First because the author signs
a fictitious name 10 It, and, second, because
in the main II is fap-doodle
Norris Brown Is probably good man.
We believe he Is. But Il Is hard for pub
fishers who know Frank Harrison to warm
up to Mr.. Brown so long as Harrison IL
running a Brown press bureau, A man
who spent the better part Of his life lob
bying for an evil should confess his sins
to men before expecting them 10 have
faith in his boosted attempt to destroy the
evil.
A large per cent OF the people of Ne
braska believe the suit against the ium-
bermen and some others were started as
a grand stand play, and II the attorney
general is taken from his present position
and sent 10 the senate before he has time
10 prove himself they will always think
So II Mr.. Brown started these suits In
good faith he should want TO stay right
where he is until he has convinced null
titude Of soeptieal voters that he IL sin
cere and has been actuated by pure and
honest motives. Last fall when party Of
prominent politicians started a Folk presi-
Dental boom the splendid governor OF
Missouri said mo! The people have
chosen me governor Of this commonwealth
and my only ambition now IL 10 be gov
srnor; have commenced work which
want TO finish" The people OF Nebraska
have chosen Norris Brown as their at
tOrney general: he has commenced work
and should be retained In his present posi-
ton until that work IL finished. He IL
young able. vigorous and his future politi'
cal ascendancy or descendancy depends
largely upon how he finishes work be has
commenced as attorney general
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-19
BUSINESS AND ADJoURNMENT.

The date for adjournment of con-
gress, which q month ago was pre-
dlcted for about June 20. has now
been pushed forward about two weeks
by the Washington demonstrators.
They are, however, unable to assign
any satisfactory reasons for the latter
date. OF, indeed, for any specific date
In the near future.
There is little better ground for now
anticipating early adjournment than
there was when Senator Allison. a
recognized authority. made his pre-
diction. The routine business has
dragged and at the same time new
complications have arisen. The prog
ress even OF the supply bills is blocked
by legislative riders ON two OF them.
the pure food bill on sundry civil ap-
preparation and the meat inspection
bill on the agricultural appropriation.
The agitation and controversy over
the latter alone has been sufhcient to