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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
WEATHER FORECAST. Washington, March 28.-FOr Aia- fnir and colder. fresh south shifting to northeast winds.

com slittee on the election of Presi- dent. President and Representa- tiver in Congress proves that the bill of cx< Speaker Refer tc cut dowD Southern representation will certainly mt receive favorable consideration. The members differ as to what actioa ought to be taken. Some cf the Re- publicans tn their private conversa- tinns say that a scorching unfavorable report ought to be made to the House; {; uthers are of opinion that the best cauran tc be pursued is to let the misasure sleep in a pigeon hole.
 tk ia said that General Keller has t.ils5rtur < some of the Republican members 5f the committee to act either one way or the other on his proposition. It is evident that he thinks if the measure should get into the House he might have chance to make another speech ou the subject that has excited him SD much during the past few months. The very long speech the ex-Speaker delivered with in the past week or ten days on his pet hobby was not listened to by fifty of the members.
 President Roosevelt, Speaker Can non and leading Republicans generally are opposed to the Keller idea of cut ting down Southern representation. be- cause the negrOes have been dtSfran- chised in several of the States
 The Senate continues to pass bills that will be blocked by the House this session if the policy af the leaders in the latter body Is not changed. For instance the Senate is putting through United States Court bills. As mention- ed repeatedly In this correspondence there Is a strong demand from lawyers in many sections for additional judges, as the crowded condition of the dock cts show that the present number of judgop cannot keep up with the busi- ness The Senate by it's action the other day thinks that there would be two Judicial districts in Nebraska. but when the bill reaches the House Judi ciary Committee the majority according to their policy laid down, and which is said to have the indorsement of the Department of Justice. will hold up the measure Nebraska has about the same population as Maryland. for each State has six members of the lower branch of Congress.
 Represer tatfve Pearre has had bill l pending e7l this session to divide the I Judicial district of Maryland. Some | of the Alabama members also have bills before the committee to relieve l the situation In that State. but the in 1 dieations are that none will be fayora- biy reported this. session. Florida wltt 1 only one-half the population of Mary | land and Nebraska has two judicia districts and has had them for some | years.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
KENTUCKY REVENUE BILL.
License tax on RectiRed and Blended
 LfQuorssN

Frankfort. Ky. March 26.--The Ken lucky General Assembly late this af- ternoon adopted a bill imposing H. cense tax of 1 1-4 cents per gallon on all rectihed. compounded or blended liquor manufactured In the State or shipped into 1t for the purpose of branding Kentucky" The. bill was adopted in extra session and after a bitter struggle between the advocates of graded license and of gallon unit tax. Much was said during the session about lobby influence and bills and res olutions of investigation were intro duced, but not pressed and no specific charge was made by any one.
 It is estimated that If held to be constitutional the act will bring the state about S15O,O00 annually in reve- nue.
 Under the provisions of the act recti- fiers and blenders are to report every six months beginning June 30 next and failure to report and pay the tax means a closing up of the house refusing and a fine of from $50 to $100 per day. To shtp such spirits into the State of Ken lucky for the purpose of branding is denounced by the act as a misdemeanor punishable by 8 fine of from $500 to sI,0OO for each such shipment
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
NEW TEAM IS THIRD.
Brunswick-Balke Representatives New
 Among Leaders.

HrunSWtck-Baike RepreEentNtfves NoW
 Among Leaders.
 Louisville. March 26.--Amid the greatest enthusiasm manifested since the opening night the play of the five man teams in the national tournament of the American Bowling Congress came to an end tonight. the result of the evenings bowling being the in- stallation of a new team in third place, The Brunswick Bake Collender team of Chicago. rolled a grand total of 2.754 and thereby nosed out of third place the First National Bank team. also of Chicago, which for several days has been occupying the coveted place with a total of 2.750.
 Several of the teams started of to- night at a fast clip, and when the first game ended with several holding marks of 900 or over, and apparently playing steady game, the crowd rooted hard in the hope that one of the teams might win first place, It was not to be. how ever. and the end of the play left the Century No. i team of Chicago, the champions for 1906, and winners of first prize money. The five leading five man teams and the amount of money won is as follows:
 Century No. 1, Chicago, 2T94, $450; | Leisy, Peoria, H.. 27S1, $400; Bruns- wick Bake Collender Company, Chi cago, 2754. s35o; First National Bank, Chicago. 2750. $325; Hoffman, Chicago, and Birk Bros. Chicago. tied for fifty money of $500. with scores of 2745 each,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
TIME FOR A VOTE
PULLMAN WANTS SENATE TO sPEc-
 IFY A DAY.
overu,nu Makes mn Address in Favor of the State Bill, and Teller Argues Against Undue
 Haste.

Washington, March 26.-There was a ,,tnt in the Senate today at an enort to fix a time for a final vote on the railroad rate bill but it was surround ed by so much circumstance ana douot that no prediction as to the tune WouIu be justified. Mir. Tillman stated thae ma, he would bring the matter up in the Senate tomorrow and unless objection yas then made he would ask to nave d day specified.
 The suggestion as to the time arose in connection with the more or iess serious effort on the part of num- her of senators to secure immediate consideration of amendments oHeree bv themselves. Mir. Ttllman reslsteu all attempts of that kind in the ap gence of many senators saying that votes ought not to be taken "leho"' full notice to senators.
 Mir. Overman made general speech in support of the bill and MT. Ieller smoke at length against undue haste in considering the question
 MT. Overman agreed with Mir Spoon ec that under the constitution congress could not destroy the existing lnte- rior courts without creating other courts in their place. He believed, however. that in railroad cases the limitation of Jurisdiction of the cir cuit court was possible and cited in- stances in which this had been done.
 Mir Overman declared that judges were sometimes partisan and mention ed an instance in support of his con tention. MT. TilIman made an ineffec- tual effort to have the North Carolina Senator give the officials name. l want a catalogue of these judges" said MT Tillman,
 MT. Overman objected to the use Of the words fairly remunerative as descriptive of railroad rates because it would involve complications ana instrumentation. Why not. he asked adopt the language of the constitu- tion?'' ,,.,- ..
 The consolidation of railroads was discussed to support the contention that if was much more important to regu- late the railroads now than 1t was when inc original interstate commerce law was enacted
 MT. Overman asserted that the en- fire railroad system of the country was controlled by six commissioners and furthermore that they were so blended in effect that they were practically one concern. "They are so banded and hound together by the closest ties for mutual advantage as to constitute one gigantic entity" he added.
 MT. Overman spoke for an hour. MT TiIlman made an effort to get the sen ate to fix a time for taking vote
 Mir. Kean arose while MT. Tillmar was speaking and the south Carolina senator addressed his remarks to him The New Jersey senator declared that he had no desire to hinder the fixing oi
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
WORK FOR THE WIRELESS.
BOatswaIn Isaac Tells of some SensR-
 tIonaI Performances.

Norfolk. Va.. March 26.-A letter re- ccived here today from T. M. Isaac, chief boatswain on the collier Glacier, accompanying the dry dock Dewey expedition, tells Of remarkable wireless telegraph feats accomplished by the apparatus on the Glacier and says these are now the talk of the British navy ships which were met by the expedition in the Canary Islands,
 Boatswain Isaac tells how on Jan uary II. with the Glacier l'loo mlles from Cane Hatteras he sent a message ordering a pair of eye glasses to take the place of broken ones, the glasses reaching him in the Canaries via Gi- braltar. Isaac says he thinks this the longest distance on record of the transmission of q private message by wireless telegraphy and adds that the wireless work on the Glacier has cer- tainly been unequaled before for con sistent results"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
NO REVISION OF THE TARIFF Final Pronouncement by
 MT. Payne. SAYS CHANCES ARE NEEDED But Now is Not the Time to Make
 Them. Thinks the DIngley Bill the Best Ever Passed By the Congress, But Ad-
 mIts Its Inequalities Are
 Now Noticeable. 
SAYS CHANCES ARE NEEDED

Washington, March 2s.-What may he regarded as final pronouncement against tariff revision at the present session of Congress is contained In 1 letter from Chairman Payne of the House Ways and Means Committee. in reply to a communication sent him by Representative Mccall on behalf of the Massachusetts delegation in Congress. Mir. Mccall calls attention in his communication to the declaration m the Republican State platform of Mas sachusetts for tariff revision with ad- herence to the policy of protection; and \ to the declaration in the Republican national platform regarding the read | tustment of duties when conditions | demand entrusting the question 10 Republican Congress. The Massachu- | setts view as presented is that condi- | tions have so changed Hs to demand changes over the Dingley rates which | have served nine years.
 In his reply Mr. Payne first calls at
 tention to the method which the tarin
 legislation must be brought about | bv a concurrent view of the majority
 of the party in power. He next points | out that this concurrent view does not
 exist. The House, he says. is divided l into groups of members, each group the modification of different schedules while he says a majority of the Kepup-
 Iicans in the House do not pelleVe
 that there should be any change at all. l Tariff Change of 1seO.
 He declared that the people have moi forgotten the disaster, politically
 and commercially, which followed the
 tariff change of 1890 and concludes
 with the following reasoning'
 Congress Is not prepared to review the tariff schedules in that caiin' 1uoi- 1 cial fraune of mind so necessary Tor l inc preparation of a tariff act at a time so near the coming congressionai I elections. Tho Dingiey bill was the most successful ever enacted. IL Wouiu 1 he unfortunate should any preclpltate action In the future result in tenn porary reversal in the policy or pro | tectIon in the United States.
 ''While it is true that some improve ment could well be made In the rates under the Dingley bill, 1t was probably l as free from defect at the time or us nassaee as any new law which oculd | now he enacted. During the nine years of it's operation the country has en- loved prosperity unparalleled, pros l nerity which at the present tune ls simply marvellous. We may well hesl- tate to take any chance of interrupt inc inc business of the country by a general revision of the tariff and we should never enter upon it until we are | satisfied that such a revision will &C., complish. results far outweighing any well grounded apprehension of bust- l ness depression and consequent evil ,l resuIts which would come even tenn porarily from such revision.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
THE MccuRpY SUITS.
Former President of the MufuAs and
 Others Charged With Fraud.

Others Charged with Fraud.
 New York. March 26.--Charges that a fraudulent and corrupt conspiracy ex- isted between Richard A. McCurdy, for mer President of the Mutual Life 1n- surance Company. his son-in-law. Louis A. Thebaud. and the latter's partner. Charles H. Raymond. arc made in the formal complaints in two suits insti- tuted today by the company against the men named for the recovery of si.- 750.000.
 These suits are in addition to the one brought last week by the company against Richard A. McCurdy alone for the recovery of $3,370.000. The total now sued for amounts to s5.120.000. The suits brought today in the opinion of lawyers form the basis for criminal prosecution.
 One of the suits is directed against the elder McCurdy. Thebaud and Ray mond and the other against Thebaud and Raymond alone. The charge is made that sums aggregating the total of $500.000 were paid Raymond and Company for no reason whatever except to enrich McCurdy's son-in-law and his partner and no services were rendered for this money, 1t is alleged, the pay ments being purely gratuftous. These gratuitfes and the enormous commits sion paid Raymond and Company as general agents for the Metropolitan district form the basis for the two suits.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
AMBITION OF TAFT
SECRETARY OF WAR WOULD LIKE
 TO BE PRESIDENT.
1t is Now Believed That He Will Not Accept the ProfHered Place Upon The Supreme Court
 Bench.
Ry Alfred J. stORer.

Washington, March 26.--(Special)- There is good authority for the state- meat that Secretary Taft within the past few days has intimated pretty strongly in private to some of his close friends that he will not accept the proffered position on the supreme court bench which will be vacant next fall when Associate Justice Brown retires. The general impression is abroad in fhe land that Secretary Taft is anxious to retire from the cabinet and become a member of the highest court of the land because he does not like the eX- citing life he has been leading since he ault the bench to become. at the special request of the late President Mckinley, governor of the Philippines; and many people go so far as to insist that if Judge Taft were reasonably certain he could be nominated for the presidency and elected he would stop the movement In his behalf If there were an opening for his appointment as Chief Justice. Many prominent men well acquainted with Secretary Taft understand that he is just like the balance of our leading citizens he considers the presidency the high est honor within the gift of the Amer ican people.
 The gossip in political circles is that not only does Secretary Taft feel that he will have to remain some time yet ir, the cabinet on account of the Phil ippines and tine Panama canal compli- cations, but the Ohio Republicans real ize that there are dangers ahead for their party in the Buckeye State. While a great many of the active Republi- can workers in Ohio do not like the Secretary on account of some things
 he has said and done of late 1t is said they recognize fully that Judge Taft
 is extremely popular with the plain people of Ohio. Some of the Ohio poli- ticians even go so far as to claim that
 big boom will start up next year in favor of Secretary Taft for governor oC the State. They fear that unless he is put up for this high office the | Democrats will again elect the gover- ] nor and they may also capture the l Legislature. On the eve of presl- | dentiaI election the Republicans argue | this would be bad for their party. May | or Tom l.. Johnson. of Cleveland, Is usually active in organizing the Dem l ocrats for the next fight.
 Many of the Ohio Republicans also
 assert that if Secretary Taft were to l be elected governor by pronounced ! vote no other man in the state could | possibly receive the indOrsement of tho | Ohio Republicans for the presidential i nomination in l90S--not even Senator | Foraker, recognized as able. vigilant | and shrewd politician.
 Mr. Keifer'S Bili.
 .
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
Recommended to Rome.

Nashville, Tenn, March 26.--Mon- signor John B. Morris, recommended by the Propaganda at Rome for ap- pointment to the position of coadjutor bishop of Little Rock. Ark, is vicar general of the diocese of Nashville. He was born at Hendersonville, Tenn, June 29, 1S66, and was ordained for the diocese in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Rome, June II, 1892, after being graduated from the American College there. Bishop Byrne of Nash ville, said tonight that he had not been informed of the Propaganda's action but. supposed the published statement was Corrapt
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
FAvoRs LOCK CANAL.
Gen. Oswald IT. Ernst Before onamit-
 tee of Senate.

tee of Senate.
 Washington, March 26.-General os- wald II. Ernst, of the Isthmian canal commission was before the Senate com- mIttee on inter-oceanic canals today and made a statement in favor of the lock canal, which was favored by the minority members of the consulting board of engineers. He said that with three locks as proposed at Gatun, ships 900 feet long could be put through the locks with perfect safety and that two gates would be closed all the time to protect the summit level.
 He said that each lock in the clear. would be 2S0 feet long with all locks closed, but that one of the safety guards gates could be closed and the ship sent ahead so feet when another would be opened. This process would take eight or ten minutes more. All these gates would not be shut when there was nine feet free water in the lock.
 He endorsed the statement of Engi- neer Stevens that longer locks could be constructed at Gatun if necessary. General Ernst declared that the lock canal would cost less than one-half as much as a sea level and could be built in half the time. Both projects, Gem eral Ernst said, would be vulnerable, and he did not favor making the wa- tcrway a military proposition. He said the foreign commanders would be afraid to use the canal if engaged in war with the United States.
 Senator Morgan asked the witness what would be the rights of Germany or Great Britain. if in war with the Tinted states they should ask to send battleships through canal to attack San Francisco, General Ernst said that his undars 'unding of the definition of neutrality was these foreign powers would have the right to use the canal but he did not think they would care to do so.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
Mor.nnn. fnr Al. .nn0. .oon.

Columbus, Ga. March 26.-The Co., lumbus Power Company today filed in Muskogee Superior Court a mortgage for four million dollars to the Com monwealth Trust Company of Boston to secure an issue of five per cent. gold bonds The mortgage covers all the property the company now owns or may acquire. All the bonds will not be issued at once. Bonds aggre- rating one and quarter millions will be issued immediately and the pro- ceeds will he used In carrying out the companys plans for gigantic devel- ODunCut.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
Killed Ills Own Father.

Valdosta. G0.. March 26--NeWe WRs received here today of the death Of John Brant, eighty-one years old, at his home at Nashville. Berrien county, as the result of injuries inflicted by hts son. Bob Brant, aged 37 years. The re~ port SAYS that the younger man. under fine influence of liquor, Saturday night attacked and abused his father and left him for dead. Bob Brant defied arrest but finally was overpowered and lodged in Jail. with the charge of mur- CT againFt him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
Nine Are Reported KIIIed.

Omaha, Neb., March 26.--A special to The Bee from Casper. Wyo., says nine men were killed and seventeen injured in the Northwestern wreck The dead: Charles Noll. section fore ma nat Casper; b. O. Blue. section foreman at Cadoma; Mike Roice; Stojan Sarcer: Mike KnovXice; Pete Vogno- vic; Mike Knoweweich, Malah Rodo- witch: Mike RadkoVic.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
BERNHARDT IN A TENT.
Famous Actress Plays to 5000 Persons in
 nnlIna. TexnR.


 Dallas. Tex. March 26.-In Dallas tonight for the first time in her long career Mime. Sarah Bernhardt the famous actress play ed in a tent. The play was Camille" Long before the hour of the beginning of the per= fe ermance the crowd began to gather in front of the tent. When admission was granted five thousand excited men and women rushed in. overwhelming forty-fiye ushers and a squad of twenty policemen.
 Seats were appropriated and 1t was impos- sibe to secure them for the ones to whom they belonged. The seats were benches made of canvass. with here and there wooden bench or a rattan chair. Sixty feet from the stage few oculd hear. There was no incline to the floor and many could not get a view of the actors. Added to these hand leaps there was great confusion among the audience. Although Mime. Bernhardt. her self. was given many curtain calls and heS appearance was greeted with the greatest enthusiasm a number of persons left the tent before the performance was oyer.
 Regret is expressed that Mime. Bernhardt did not appear here under more favorable condition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
cro,vds fin Atlanta.

Atlanta. March 26.-A large numbcr of Confederate. Union and Spanish war veterans are in the city to attend the Wheeler memorial here tomorrow. Corporal" Tanner of the Grand Army of the Republic; Major Miller. General Wheeler's three daughters and his sis ter. Mrs. Harris arrived tonight. EX- Congressman John W. Maddox and Gen, Clement A. Evans. the other prominent speakers of the occasion, are in the cltN
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
Flfteen pnanengerA Hurt.

Shreveport. La, March 26-A special from Carthage, Tex, says: A passen- ger train on the Texas and Gulf Rail- road, after running into a broken switch here last night collided with q log train and fifteen passengers were injured. A white man named Battles, another white man, name unknown, and Martha Haywood. colored, were fatally wounded. District Judge R. B. Levy was among the injured
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27

shot and instantly killed. and his son Eugene. fatally wounded by Jeff Saun- ders. merchant. on the depot platform here this afternoon. A previous dis agreement. 1t is said. was revived when the men met. The younger Bennett was shot first and while his father stopped over to assist him. he was killed. four bullets entering hts bodS< The parties are prominent and restF at Norwood. near Jefferson. Texas,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
kILLED DAUGHTER AND SELF.
J. r. Townsend Objected to His Daugh-
 ter's ChoIce Tor Hushand.

Ss A-s AOVnHtNO OnyeGNcu uO HIS DuuEn-
 ter's Choice for Husband.
 Everette, Mass. March 26,-Less than three hours before the time set for the wedding tonight, Pansy E. Townsend was shot and mortally wounded by her father, Joseph P. Townsend. in their home in this city. Townsend then ended his life with a bullet. Miss Townsend was to have been married to Francis E. Perry of Fort Myers. Fla, at. o'clock tonight at the Peo- ples Temple, Boston.
 The only clue to the cause of the tragedy was a note written by Town send. It was dated today and read:
 At $40 have taken my daughter s life and my own. l do this rather than see her the wife of Francis Perry
 So far as known Townsend had noth- ing against Perry and the supposition Is that Townsend's mind was unbal- anced by reason of his love for his daughter and his breeding over the prospect of separation from her.
 Miss Townsend was 25 years of age.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-27
Revenue Collections.

washington. March 26.-The monthly statement of the collections Of internal revc- nue shows that the total collections for Februarv. 1908. amounted to $lS343,eS9, which Ia an inrcease for the month Of S1.- 47Tss4 The receipts for the eight months of the present fiscal year show an increase ar compared with the corresponding period of last year ot $lOis2.4so.