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the order the bill prohibits a defence upon the
ground Of It's unlawfulness.

the order the bill prohibits a defence upon the
ground Of It's unlawfulness.
The sole ground upon which a claim TO
relief at the hands OF a court OF equity could
rest would seem to be that the continued
existence OF the order was n menace to the
carrier because of the penalties that might
be recoverable for its failure to comply there
with. But how could a court of equity inter-
fere merely to relieve the carrier from an
action to recover penalties or to restrain the
United States from prosecuting such an
action?
Mr.. President. men of our inheritances
repel summary and arbitrary methods, and
none the less II these proceed from aoknoWl-
edged power, accompanied by the mere empty
professions and forms Of law. Judicial
review Of every substantial controversy
affecting persons and property is a right.
This right was painfully won from tyrannles
of the past and Is established now beyond
the power of any present tyrannies to destroy
in whatever guise they may come, and even
II masqderading in the name Of the people.
This right is to have tn e rights of the parties
in every controversy determined by the
courts, Why. then. should there be any
doubt on that point in this bill: why should
the relative provisions not be clear and en-
plicit? Is it because the friends of this bill
doubt the character or capacity OF the oourts2
! have heard that doubt suggested in and
out of this chamber and | now take leave
TO raise my voice In protest against the shallow
and dangerous notion. Is the relation Of
the courts to government by the people for
gotten? The courts are an integral and vital
part of our Government and 1t would be a
sad day for American civilization II their
function we're degraded or weakened. They
are the balance wheel and check In our sys-
TEN between contending passions and poll
cies.
This is not idle rhetoric. 1t is the sober
truth that the courts are the guardians Of
our rights and liberties. 1t is high time that
the people should remember this and should
soberly reflect upon the current heresies.
II is high time that public sentiment and con-
viction should Loyalty support the judicial
power, recognize the patriotism and good
faith of the courts and maintain their author
ity and Independence.
At the conclusion Of MIR. KnoK's speech
Mr.. Newlands of Nevada inquired if Mr..
Knox held the Hepburn bill to be unconsti-
tutional because it made no provision for a
court review.
Mr.. Knox said he contended hat the
omission, taken in connection with other
features OF the bill, would render it unoonsti-
t%utional.
Mr.. Lodge proposed an amendment
to the rate bill TO include within the juris-
diction OF the Interstate Commerce Com
mission corporations and persons o perating
pipe lines to pipe oil between States.
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PLEA FOR AN INFANT INDUSTRY.
Manufacturer OF wooden shoes Wants a
Duty or At Least I2B Per Cent.

WASHINGTON, March 2s.-Representative
william Alden Smith Of the Grand Rapids,
Mich, district to-day received a most un-
usual petition. which went to the ON
mittee on Ways and Means, Of which he
is a member. 1t recites:
The undersigned. manufacturers Of wooden
shoes, most respectfully petition and request
that the import duty on wooden shoes be
Increased so that your petitioners may be
able to SCH their own product at a reasonable
price. and at such q price as will enable them
10 make a respectable living. They repre-
Gent that said article can be imported into this
country and sold at q price for which your
petitioners cannot AFFORD TO make said article
and sell It at a reasonable proft. The labor
and material are considerably greater in this
country than in Netherlands and Europe,
and they firmly believe that there should be
a duty placed on wooden shoes OF at least l25
per cent. so that the industry may be properly
protected and encouraged.
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ONCE CALLED MRS. UINANS.
Large Trust Fund set Aside for Mrs. Will
Jams, Whose Sanity Is Doubted.

Sylvester S. Taylor, as counsel for Mrs.
Ella B. Williams, who was arrested on
March IA near the Office of j. Pierpont
Morgan d Co., and whose sanity is the
subject of an inquiry pending before james
j. Nealis as referee. applied TO Supreme
Court Justice Greenbaum yesterday for
the appointment of two alienists, sug-
costing Drs. John H. Girdner and Jonas
Jacobs, to examine the woman. Justice
Greenbaum reserved decision.
John +. Scenes, a Baltimore lawyer,
was the only witness examined yesterday
before Referee Nealis. Mr.. Scenes is
attorney for the trustees Of the estate
Of De Witt Clinton Winans, who died twelve
years ago. He said that under the Winans
will, a trust fund of $3.50, 900 was set apar
for Mrs. Williams, who represented her
self to be tie testator's widow. She vas
known, Scenes says, as Mrs. Winans. out
has since taken the name of her tirst hus-
band, Williams.
Mrs. Wiliiams's gross income under the
trust, Scenes said, amounted to about
5000 a year, but there were heavy insur-
ance premiums and other expenses which
brought the net income down to 50. 800.
Scenes produced in evidence a number
of letters which Mrs. Williams had written
him. There were threats against his person
in some Of them. The reference goes on
o-day
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FOR FREE
Bill Ordered TO BE Reported 10 the House
and Is Expected to Pass.


WASHINGTON, March 2S.-The Committee
on Ways and Means to-day perfected the
free alcohol bill and directed Chairman
Payne to introduce it in the House. The
committee will meet again on Friday, when
the measure will be voted upon and reported
back to the House with a favorable recon-
mendation. The bill authorizes the with
drawal from bond without tax OF alcohol
which hes been rendered I'm fit for beverage
or liquid medicinal purposes. 1t provides
that the quantity Of the denaturiZing ele-
ment and the conditions shall be prescribed
by regular orders promulgated by the
Commissioner Of internal Revenue.
The penalty provided for the use Of dena-
turized alcohol for beverage or liquid medic
inal purposes, or for knowingly selling It for
such purposes, is a fine OF not more than
IS. 1000 or five years imprisonment. or both.
The bill appropriates S250, 900 to carry out
the provisions OF the act In providing such
force as may be required by the Commits
sioner Of Internal Revenue.
The friends Of the measure who have been
long advocating free alcohol for nse in the
arts and sciences, are elate6 over the pros
poets OF the bill and predict that it will
go through the House with little or no
opposition.
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WISCONSIN SENATOR'S AGREE.
Both Oppose the Lease Of Indian Territory
Coai Lands 10 the Railroads.

WASHINGTON, March rs. -Senator La Fol-
lette Of Wisconsin made a speech in the SEN
ate this afternoon attacking the report of
the conference committee on the bill closing
the tribal relations Of the five civilized
tribes of Indians.
For once Senator La Toilette found him
self in accord with his colleague, Mr..
Spooner. The objection raised by Mr.. La
Toilette was against the restoration to the
bill in conference of the claus authorizing
the Secretary of the Interior to lease the
coal lands in the Indian Territory that ara
held by the Government for the use Of the
Indians.
Mr.. La Toilette offered an amendment to
the bill when it was under consideration in
the Senate providing that non OF the leases
should be made to the transportation com
panies. 1t carried a limitation, also, upon
the right Of any lessee to assign his lease TO
a transportation company.
After a vigorous debate the Senate es-
caped a vote on Mr.. lie Follette's amend
ment by laying or the table the section Of
the bill to which it related. When the bill
came back from conference it contained
the original clause authorizing the leasing
of the coal lands. the Senate conferees
having consented to its restoration.
Mr.. la Toilette made an earnest speech
against the unrestricted leasing of the
lands, calling attention agnin to the fact
that railroads already held ifty-two Of the
1l3 leases. He declared that the value of
the coal lands was $175,0 900 900 and repre-
sented the largest deposit of bituminous
coal in the world. He submitted a report
from the United States geological survey
showing that the royalties received by the
Indians amounted to $500 per acre. Mr..
La Toilette said he would object TO author
izing the leasing of these valuable lands un-
less there. were restrictions put upon the
lea SEES to prevent them falling into the
control Of the railroads.
Mr.. Spooner supported Mr.. La Follette's
view. fe said there seemed to he undue
haste in seeking to lease the lands. The
bill will be returned 10 conference
The debate developed so much opposi-
ton to the conference report that it be-
came evident that the bill will be sent back
for further conference,
MIR. TillmAn called up and had passed
by unanimous consent the resolution pro.
posed yesterday ceiling on the Interstate
Commerce Commission for information
relative 10 the issuance Of TRANSPORTATION Il
newspapers in pay for advertising,
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DISPUTE.
Agreement Over water boundary Held
ID I'm House Committee.

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-Tbe dispute
between Della ware and New Jersey over the
water boundary at the head o! Delaware
BAY, which was supposed to be so nearly
settled that the thirty year suit III the United
States Supreme Court was abou to be dis
missed by mutual agreement, has appar-
emily broken out afresh. The controversy
h az existed for over a hundred years, and
the suit brought by New Jersey has been
kept before the Supreme Court since 1877.
The court recently granted a suspension OF
proceedings in the case for sixty days, pend
ing the ratification by Congress OF the legis-
latiye agreement between the States.
The agreement Of the Legislatures of the
two States has been approved by the United
States Senate and is now hung up in the
House Committee on the Judiciary at the
reques of the Delaware authorities. Each
State had enacted similar provisions, giving
the citizens of each equal rights in the dis
puted waters pending the adoption of uni
form fishing law, which were to be drafted
by a Joint commission. Della wa res repre-
sentatives, however, assert that there were
no assurances tina the Jersey Legislature
would e. act these laws and if the controversy
is left in it's present state New jersey would
have much the better of it so far as fishing
rights are concerned. Until they receive
such assurances the members Of the com
mission representing Delaware are dis
posed to fight the ratification of the agree
ment by TIE House. Attorney-General
MoCarter OF New jersey is coming 10 Wash
ington next week to straightea out the
tangle if possible.
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PRrLL FAMILY GOES TO COURT.
strains OF a PhOnOgraph Seduced Father
and Son From Daily Toll.

BLOOMFIELD, N. j., March pa phono-
graph was the cause Of the entire Prill
family being brought to the police court
in this town last night. There are seven
Prills, large and small.
Prill's first wife is dead and he married
a second time. His five children are by
his first wife, and they don't get along
well with their stepmother. The oldest
boy. John. recently won a photograph at
a rattle. Then he quit work to operate 1t.
The elder Prill likewise had a fondness
for the music. He did not work as often
as he form erlv did. Everybody Works
but Father" was particularly pleasing
to him.
The BOYS f~avorite was The Holy City"
and between the grinding out of the two
tunes all day long and far into the night
Mrs. Prill almost went insane. The neigh
bors also objected, and the dogs and cats
near the Prfll home began TO accompany
the monograph with their howls.
Mrs. Prill yesterday became so exas-
perated at the strains Of The Holy City"
that she could stand II no longer.
Enough of that" she cried, get out
and 60 to work" There was, no reply
from her sfepson; put Wo ore b p%mo Fofber, !
Mrs. Prill grabbed the p~honograph and
was about to throw it on the floor, when
the boys cries awoke his father in an
adjoining room. He ran in and a struggle
for possession OF the ma chine followed,
during which Mrs. Prill was pushed against
a stove and her arm and hand were burned.
She seized a pot of b oiling, potatoes from
the stove and laid about her right and
left. Down went the Prills, and as fast
as they got up she knocked them down
again.
The police came and Prill had his wife
arrested on a charge of assault. After hear
ing her story Recorder Cadmus dismissed
the case.
self would 90 out of my mind if compelled
to listen to those tunes all day long
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MISS DARBY BURNED TO DEATH
PORCELAIN PAINTER LOSES HER
LIFE IN HER HOME.
Lived Alone In Her House in Brielle. N. j.
House I'm Flames Half an Hour After
She Retired for the Nighttime Way TO
Save Her After Fire Vas Discovered.

House I'm Flames Half an Hour After
She Retired for the Nighttime Way TO
Save Her After Fire Was Discovered.
M~ANAsoUAN, N. j., March 2s.-The charred
remains Of Miss Elizabeth c.. Darby, a
painter of porcelain, we're found in the
ruins Of her home at Brielle early this morn
ing after a fire had destroyed the house
and also a cottage adjoining it. The fire
is supposed to have been caused by a de-
fective hue.
Miss Darby was 65 years old and had
lived alone in the house for sixteen years.
She was not a ~recluse, however, as she
frequently made trips to New York and
entertained friends at her house. The
house faced the Manasquan River and Miss
Darby had fixed it up to suit her tastes.
The upper floor was one big room, where
she did most Of her work. She was a deco
rator Of fine china and fred this herself in a
furnace she had made for the purpose.
She did work for several New York firms
and also for people hereabouts.
Miss Darby is believed to have retired
about IL O'Clock last night, as the lights
in the house we're extinguished about that
time. She slept in the room on the second
moor. ABOUT udu al uOuT ldVSI e. -. rlSc-
man, an artist, whose house is about fifty
yards from that Miss Darby occupied,
looked out of his window and saw that
the lower part of her house was on fire.
He ran to the place. The flames had cut
of escape by the staircase. He called
several times, but as there was no answer
from the house, he thought that Miss Darby
had escaped and gone to the house of q
n%eighbor.
Mr.. Freeman discharged his shotgun
several times TO give the alarm and the
fire department from here responded.
Before the fremen reached the fire the
cottage owned by the Rev. Arthur c.
bennett, pastor of a church at English
town, had caught fire, and both houses
were burned to the ground. A search of
the ruins later resulted in finding only
the trunk of Miss Darby's body.
A story was set afoot after the fire that
IL had been the work Of ~incendiaries who
had first robbed and murdered the painter.
Coroner Cravatt Of Freehold said that
the fire was plainly an accident, although
the exact cause could not be determined.
Mr.. Freeman, however, secuted the theory
of murder and ~incendiarism.
Miss Darby's only relative is a cousin
In New York whose name is not known
here. Her father, who died many years
ago, wac a steel engraver Of some note.
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BINGHAM MAS CANNING LIST.
He'll Make Fur Fly II Man Who Publishes
a smaller One VIII Oct Evidence.

When Police Commissioner Bingham
had his afternoon conference with re-
porten, yesterday afternoon, his attention
was called to an article in an afternoon
paper which gave a list Of places and the
names of proprietorsl where, the paper
asserted, gambling was going on. The
Commissioner took the list and said he
would investigate it, as no did every bit
of information Of a similar nature which
came to his attention.
Il have a list of my own a good deal
longer than that T." he said. at isn't 4 case
Of suspecting thai Ga gambling is going on
or of gcttirga .ingle affidavit to that effect.
legal evidence. If the mar who wrote
his article has such evidence. and will give
it 90 me, I'll promise to make the fur Ry
around here"
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HOUSE SUSPENDS ITS RULES.
Makes In Order All Provisions Of the Legiss
IRtiye Appropriation Bill.

lhufc OpEtAtto DIN
WASHINGTON, March 2s.-The House OF
Representatives to-day rescued its Commit
tee on Appropriations, which had been
under the fire OF Messrs. Prince (Rep.,
H. and Hardwick Dem, Ga.), who had
riddled the Legislative, Executive and
judicial Appropriation bill almost beyond
recognition by a steady fire Of points OF
order a gainst provisions inserted In violation
Of the rules Of the House.
BY a vote Of 1850 to 100 It agreed to a resolu-
ton reported from the Committee on Rules
making in order all provisions Of the bill,
the rules of the House to the contrary
notwithstanding, and also permitting the
Committee on Appropriations to offer as
amendments provisions already stricken
out OF the text. An exception was made
by the Committee on Rules OF the para;
graph proposing to retire clerks at 20 years
OF age, which Is thus left IN a position TO
be ruled out on a point Of order, avoiding
thereby all possible embarrassment which
o record vote might entail.
Such a sweeping and drastic suspension
OF the rules Is without precedent IN the
records OF the House. The rules nave
been set aside several times to enable the
House to consider some n proposition
In connection with an appropriation bill
otherwise ineligible, but nothing further
than that until now
Upon the first amendment, offered by
an "Uitlander, to increase the appropria-
ton for services at the Denver Mint from
SIS, 900 to $3.50, 600, the temper OF the COM
mittee of the whole toward the Approprla-
lions Committee was made apparent. By
a vote Of so to 81 ii made the Increase
over the objections Of the framers OF the
bill, the announcement of the result being
greeted with laughter and handclapping
The appropriation for incidentas and con-
tin gent expenses was also increased from
$50. 900 to $50, 900.
By the operation of the rule rapid progress
was made with the bill in committee OF the
whole and forty-two pa ges were disposed
Of before adjournment.
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ARMY Promotions.

WASHINGTON, March 2s.-The President
to-day sent the following nominations to
the Senate:
Second Lieutenant to be First Lieuten-
ant. George H. Baird. Eleventh Cavalry:
Iieutenant-ColoSSl to he Colonel, Harry
r. Anderson, Artillery Corps; Major to be
Lieutenant Colonel, Montgomery r. Macomb.
Colonel, Edward L. Hardin, seventh In
fantry Captain TO be Major, William H sage,
h" Cantains, Alfred Aloe, Twelfth Infantry;
Thomas j.. Fealy, First Infantry, Frank W.
Howell, Eleventh Infantry; Hugh \. Drum,
Twenty-th bird Infantry, and John Nj, Camp
bell, Fifth Infantry.
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To Rearrange AnchorlnE Grounds in New
York HRrbOr.

WASHINGTON, March 2s,-Secretary Met
calf Of the Department OF and
Labor, has decided TO rearrange the anchor
aye grounds in the harbor of New York and
Vicinity to meet the requirements Of the in
creased commerce of the port. HI ,proposes
that all interests concerned shall have a
chanoe to be heard on the subject, and has
therefore appointed a comm ittee Of five to
Investigate and report to him. This cola
mittee Is arranging to meet in New York TO
give hearings, which will he held in the
Office of Capt. Harris, the supervising jim
spector for that district. The exact time Of
the hearing will be announced later.
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To re Reappc,nted for a Third Term.

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-President Mac
Farland of the Board Of Commissioners
the District of Columbia Is to be reap
pointed for a third term, beginning May S,
President Roosevelt having to-day notified
him 10 that effect. Mr.. mcfarland was
first appointed by President Mckinley in
400, and three years later WIS reappointed
by President Roosevelt,
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Gen. Bell for chief OF stan.

WASHINGTON, March 2s.-Jn accordance
with the a~nnouncemen made several
weeks ago, orders were issued at this War
Department to-day directing BriC. Gen.
j. Franklin Bell to assume the duties of
Chief Of staff Of the Army not later than
April O.
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Conference on Hazing Bill

WASHINGTON, March 2S.-The House Of
Representatives to-day agreed to the con-
ferenc, asked for on the bill Ia define and
punish haaing at Annapolis and MeSsrs.
Nreeland of New FORK, Loud OF Michigan
and Padgett of Tennessee were named az
managers.
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WASHINGTON, March Ex-senator William
p. Frye of Maine, President pro tenn of the
Senate, announces the enga cement of his
granddaughter, Miss Emma Frye White,
TO DrAHorace Payne Stevens Of the Massa-
chusetts General Hospital in Boston. The
engagdApent Of Miss Caroline Frye Briggs,
anothsN gra nddaughter OF Senator. Frye,
and Mn Jarrett A. Hobart. son OF the late
Vice-PI ident, was announced in Sep
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MORE EVIDENCE FOR MIR. SCOTT.
Tillman Names Another West Virginia Road
That Controls Coal Lands.

That Controls Coal Lands.
WASHINGTON, March 2s.-Mr. Tillman Of
South Carolina furnished his daily enter
tainment for Mr.. Scott (Rep., West Va.)
to-day by presenting a memorial reciting
that in 1901 the Kanawha and Michigan Rail-
road 0he F.. 4 o. Railroad and Hooking
Valley Railroad) had organized a coal com
rany-the Sunday Creek Coal Company
and purchased and now controlled most
of the coal lands lying along its lines. The
memorial recited that for three years the
company had refus ed to permit coal to be
trans ported over its line unless it had
been mined by its " company.
The charge was made that the company
caused the railroad tracks at Plymouth
and Black Diamond mines in the neigh
borhood Of Charleston to be torn up. The
names Of twelve witnesses were given
who were prepared to testify to the facts.
among them Charles Willis Ward of Queens
l.. l. The other witnesses were business
men Of West Virginia and Columbus,
Ohio.
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Mo, cmcnts of Naval Vessels.

WASHINGTON, March 2s.-The collier
Hannibal has arrived at Guantanamo.
The cruisers Galveston and Chattanooga
have sailed from Port Said for Colombo
and the cruiser Baltimore from Hongkong
for Cavitc.
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Army and Navy Orders.

WARRINGTON, March 2s.-These army orders
were issued TO day:
Capt. Bailey X. Ashford. assistant surg con,
from Cayey, p. r.. to Washington.
Brig, Den, J. FRANKLIN Bell, TO Washington,
Contract Surgeon Harrison W. Stuekey. detailed
as member OF examining board a. Fort Smelling
from Fort Crook 10 Fort Niche, relieving Contract
Surgeon Clemens W Mcmillan, who viii proceed
First Lieut.. Edward t. Donnel!y, Artillery, to
Washington,
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eco D.

a ing to the tn,
4 "a consular re-
ports, the
municipal tramways OF
Edinburgh charge a
maximum of two cents
a car mile. The
American fare in such
cities as New York,
Philadelphia and Bos-
ton averages less than
one cent a car mile. In
the American cities one
can travel as many as
twenty miles for five
cents.
Sec Concerning Municipal Owner
ship" for March. send Is cents Tor
a years subscription.
The VI. d. Publishing Bureau.
3Sl Fifth Avenue, New YORK.
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These naval orders were Issued
Lieut.. y. ". Dunn, 10 the Independence,
Lieut.. /. Swift, retired, 80 command United States
nsh ship Fish Hawk.
Passed Assistant surgeon c, c, Smith, from Mare
IAlAnd TO Honolulu.