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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-14
BabcOck Praises Senate's
Course Before His
Associates.
HOUSES ACT SCORED
Grosyenor Declares Spoils Sys-
tenn Remedy for Public
Service Evils.

Washington, March 1.-THE legisla
tive bill was laid before the house to
day and BabcOck of Wisconsin took
the floor for speech on the statehood
bill. He said the house bill was one
of the greatest legislative outrages
ever enacted, and that the senate had
properly amended the bill. He favor
ed the senate amendment
He dealt at length on the reasons
why Arizona and New Mexico should
not be united as one state. Applause
on both sides OF the chamber greeted
Babcock's conclusion.
GroSvenor on Civil Service.
Announcing he wished TO discuss
civil service of the government. Gros-
venor of Ohio remarked he did noe
wish to say Il told you So" One-half
of the money that is squandered annu-
ally to support civil service, he said,
would supply needed public buildings
and provide for ship Subsidy which,
after two years, he maintained, would
put more money in the treasury than
it took out
Based on Life Term.
THE life term of Office" he said,
that is the principle upon which the
present system is based
Rotation of office, he said, was the
correct underlying principle, and while
he was not particularly proud of his
constituency in that respect, he ac-
cepted their conclusions. He did not
favor turning out SIS clerks over 7OI
years of age, whose only fault was age.
Regulating Live stock Shipping.
Washington, March 14-Warren ad-
dressed the senate on the bill extend
ing from rs to So hours the time dur
ing which live stock in transit on rail-
road trains may be confined without
change. saying the measure was in the
interest of humanitarianism and should
be passed.
More Money for Appropriations
The fortifications bill was reported
by Senator Perkins. 1t carries appro-
priatiOns aggregating S5.619. 900. an in
crease of $780, 900 over the amount ap-
propriated by the house bill Rayner
then addressed the senate in support
OF the railroad rate bill.
The president today nominated Lieu
tenant Colonel Charles F. Powell to be !
brigadier general.
Wants Facts from Philippines.
Washington. March 1.-THE senate |
passed a resolution calling upon the sec
retary of war 10 send to the senate |
copies of all reports on the recent at /
tack by United States troops on Mount |
Dajo, JoIo islands.
May Accept Gifts.
Washington, March 1.-THE senate |
today passed a bill authorizing Rear |
Admiral Davis to accept gifts rendered |
him by the British and Russian gov
ernments.
May Refer Statehood.
Washington, March IL There are
indications that the statehood bill may
be referred by Speaker Cannon to the
committee on territories. This action,
friends of statehood for Indian Terri
tory and Oklahoma fear, will entirely
defeat the measure. The committee
can retain the bill Indefinitely. and
should it appear and there are "insur-
gent" votes enough to concur with the
senate. the bill would not, they say, be
brought into the house.
Under rules of the house, a senate
amendment to a house bill which
changes the charge on the treasury
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-14
Rope Jumping Fatal to Girl.

Philadelphia, Pa, March IA Lena
Fisher, Z years old, skipped rope 100
times without stopping, resulting in
her death at Mount Sinai hospital from
brain fever. brought on by violent ex-
ertion.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-14
ANOTHER PROBE FOR
TRACTION AFFAIRS
New York Railroad Commission De
cides to Investigate Big City
Merger.

Buffalo, n. Y, March 14.-The state
railroad commissioners in secret Ses-
sion here today considered charges in
connection with the RyanrBelmont
traction merger in New York City and
on adjournment announced they had
decided to make an investigation.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-14
Violates Interstate Commerce Law.

Louisville, March 14-Hollis II.
Price, formerly of the Price Barton
Hay company, who pleaded guilty in
the federal court to falsifying weights
and conspiracy to violate the interstate
commerce laws, was fined S1,025.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-14
22 Below at Butte.

Butte, Mont, March 14.-Butte and
the state generally yesterday expert
enced one of the severest storms in
years. The temperature dropped as
low as % below zero
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-14
Aqain the Heaviest.

Salina, Kan. March 1.-THE worst
snow storm of the winter prevailed in
western Kansas today with the tenn
perature falling fast.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-14
sends the bill to the committee auto
PASSES Bills.

matically.
PASSES Bills.
Washington, March IA The senate
yesterday passed a number of bills,
some of which were of considerable
importance One provides for the pun
.silinent of government officials for the
premature. divulgence of secret infor-
nation of the government bureaus in
such matters as crop reports; another
grants executive authority in the mat
ter of construction of bridges over
navigable streams, and still another
gives congressional sanction to the eff
fort on the part of Delaware and New
Jersey to adjust their long pending
boundary dispute.
Tillman announced that after today
ne would seek to have the rate bill
taken up for consideration each day
Immediately after disposing of the rou-
tine business of the senate instead of
waiting until o'clock.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-14
Up Goes Gasoline,

Cleveland. Ohio, March 1.-THE
Standard Oil company today advanced
the price of gasoline half a cent per
gallon. "A
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-14
CUMMINS CALLED
Iowa House Wants Proof 1t
Charges Railroad influ~
ence Was Used
TO DEFEAT PRIMARY BILL
Resolution Previously Adopted by Sen
ate Child Labor Act to
Become Law.

Des Moines, March IL The house
yesterday afternoon. with only six dis
senting votes. passed the Gilliland res
olution, previously adopted by the sen
ate. calling upon Governor Cummins to
prove the charges he made in his letter
accepting the nomination Tor a third
term. that railroad influence was used
to defeat the primary bill in the Iowa
Legislature.
Amendment Voted Down.
An amendment providing for a com
mittee of investigation was voted down,
after a hot debate on the ground that
it was beneath the dignity of the leg
islature TO go into charges which so
far have no foundation except the I'M
supported word of one man, even if he
is the governor of the state. Proof
that the charges are true is demanded
before any such action is taken.
The governor, in his letter which so
aroused the solons, said that every
power at the command of the railroads
was used 10 defeat the primary bill
and intimated that some members Of
the lawmaking body had been bribed.
He promises TO make some sensational
revelations and his response to the
resolution of inquiry is looked forward
to with much interest.
Child Labor Bill PASSES.
With the passage by the senate of
the child labor bill the measure will
become a law, as Governor Cummins
will sign it at once. The bill prohibits
the employment of children in any
gainful occupation which would injure
their health. The law also is aimed at
department stores, prohibiting the en-
ployment of children in positions which
compel them to remain standing for
any length of time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-14
AIgeciras Conference Has
Gone to Its
Limits.
MEETINGS SUSPENDED
German and French DELEGATES
Compelled to Ask Further
Instructions.

Algeciras, March 14.-The Moroccan
conference has reached peculiar
stage. 1t is completely helpless to
solve the deadlock which has arisen
over the remaining details of the police
and bank questions.
Sessions Suspended.
The sessions are temporarily sus-
pended without knowing when they
will be resumed. French and German
delegates are bound by their instruc-
tions and therefore unable to make any
further concession and the conference
not having judicial or legislative pow
ers cannot settle the differences by a
majority.
Neutral Delegates Bulkcd.
Therefore neutral delegates who
have heretofore sought to secure an
agreement between the parties which
the conference could unanimously con-
firm now recognize if the conference
is left to itself it is incapable of get
ting out of the present difficulty.
Therefore it remains for the govern
ments themselves to intervene for the
purpose of reaching an agreement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-14
THlRTY-ONE ARE DROWNED

Fatal EquinoctiaI Tides Strike Ant,
Werp.
Antwerp, March 14.-Thirty-one per-
sons were drowned yesterday, owing
to the equinoctial tides overfiowing or
bursting dikes on the Scheldt river.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-14
EPITOME OF DOINGS IN
CONGRESS YESTERDAY

Washington, ID. c., March 14.-Follow-
ing is a brief resume taken from the
official records of yesterdays proceed
ings in both houses of congress:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-26
VALUE OF WATER TRANSPORTATION.

I
| An excellent record for comparison
in freight carrying is afforded by the
cargo of 1924 gross tons of iron ore
just brought down from Escanaba by
the steamer ]. Pierpont Morgan. This
load absorbed the contents of $50 cars.
which brought the ore from the mines.
nary trains, requiring as many loco
motives, and they would have stretch
ed out over two and a half miles Of
the record made in ore carrying be-
tween Escanaba and South Chicago
was 1920 tons, and the fuel consump-
ton of the steamer Mariana, which
carried the load, is said to have been
about the same as that of the Morgan.
Several lines of progress are appar-
ent in the performance. Carrying ca
pacity has increased more than three
fold in fourteen years, while boiler and
that the greater work is performed at
about the same cost. The demonstra
ton proves that the great lakes furnish
a highway of commerce that has by no
means reached limit. But for the
recent development in ocean building.
the inland steamers might have soon
surpassed the greatest carriers on salt
water. The Mediterranean, which once
carried the commerce of the world, and
lions than the great lakes border
states, never saw such business when
Rome and Carthage We're struggling
for commercial supremacy, nor when
Venice, Genoa, and Marseilles were the
chief commercial ports Of the world.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-26
Topics Of the Times

A man in California has had his
heart taken out and washed and re-
placed Here's chance for LATE
Young to get right again.
Is Attorney korte's announcement to
the Carroll county convention that his
duties to the Milwaukee railroad will
prevent him from continuing as chair
man of the county central committee
to be taken as a public acknowledge
ment that after election the railroads
will have no further use for county
chairmen?
The Waterloo Reporter figures that
Monday nights rain, which was gener-
al over the state, added at least ST.
100000 to the wealth of Iowa. If the
Reporter will figure out how much the
standpat fight at Black Hawk added
to the wealth of certain Waterloo
voters it's figures would command con-
fidence.
European newspapers have been
printing advertisements declaring it to
be to the advantage of Count Monte
cucoli to make known his whereabouts.
AT last he was brought to light in ST.
IBERIA. acting as q railway guard.
Broken by wildness and extravaganza
he had to quit the Austrian navy and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-26
sIncLAIR's COLONY.

Upton Sinclair the author, whose
book stirred up the stockyards investi-
CATION. has new scheme for trouble
in his proposal to found colony with
in an hours run of New York city,
where plain living and the higher life
shall be exemplified. His plan is for 8
colony of 100 families and 300 or 400
acres of land, healthfully located near
some body of water, and as unspoiled
by the hand of man as possible.
ct should have an abundant water
supply and a filtering plant, an electric
Hight and power plant, and a large gar
den and farm, raising its own stock,
meat, poultry, fruit and vegetables and
canning the last wir winter use. 1t
should be administered by board of
directors, democratically elected.
For the management of it's various
departments salaried experts should be
employed, machinery should be in
stalled wherever it could be made to
pay and the best modern methods
should be applied in every industry"
Every family of the. colony will live
in it's own abode, which it shall erect to
suit itself But there shall be COM
munity kitchen. large and beautiful
dining hail. with separate tables for
families or for congenial groups, with
vegetarian service for those who pre-
fer simple life.
The child side is featured in the ar
ticle in the current issue of the Inde-
pendent:
1.-TWO separate observation-disclosures
for infants who like to sleeep and one
for children who like to run and shout.
Both should be scientifically construct
ed and kept as clean as an up-to-date
hospital: the food should be prepared
under the general care of physician.
These establishments should be UNI
der the supervision of a board of wo-
men directors and the actual work of
caring for the children and playing
with them should be done by trained
nurses and kindergarten teachers. who
shall live in the colony IS the friends
and social equals of it's members.
an other words, caring for children
should be recognized as profession
and servants should have nothing to do
with It,"
Mr. Sinclair believes there are thou
sands of young men and women in
New York city, students Of art and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-26
KEEP TO THE POINT,

Life stock market papers and some
farm journals are persistently pointing
out the financial loss of the meat
packers thru the publicity given the
exposure and investigation of condi-
lions in the packing houses. II is as
serted that that business dropped off
twenty million dollars in ten days.
Newspapers publishing and comments
ing on the report are characterized as
yellow" and persistent effort has
continued the meat producer that the
investigation has been mistake, an
injury to the producing interests and a
persecution of the packers.
Let us stick to the point. If the revel-
atoms are true. il conditions exist that
have been reported officially there has
been too little instead of too much said
about it. The nub of the whole ques-
ton is in whether or not conditions at
the packing houses have been unsani-
tary. uncleanly and dangerous to pub
lie health. IT seems from the plain
evidence at hand that such conditions
had existed when the report was. made.
1t is not question of loss to the
packers, but of reform in these condi7
tons. This agitation has affected the
packers business. Perhaps somewhat
1t has affected prices to producers. The
way to avoid these losses is to reform
the abuses and make the packing
houses fit places for the preparation Of
animals for food
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-26

music and the professions, who would
be glad to earn their way in a COM
munity where class feeling did not
make labor degrading.
He figures the cost. with some elab-
Grafton of detail at 500 per year per
person, after all buildings, stock, ma :
chinery and plant generally are found.
The installation of these originally
shall be covered by subscriptions of
members who are also stockholders.
and who will draw dividends on their
stock.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-26
IS II YOUR ROY2
[Springville New Era. |

We often wonder why it is SO many
young men can be seen loafing about
our streets until a late hour at night.
Many of them are from our best homes.
The fathers of these young men, many
of them at least are numbered among
our best citizens. L. their COW or their
horse, or even their favor lie dog, was
away from home after dark they would
be out on search, but their own chill
dren can roam the town all night with
apparently no effort being made to find
them. The boys seem to be turned
loose at tender age to wander at will
into the paths of sin and vice and then
we wonder where all our tramps and
worthless specimens of humanity come
from. Ii is a regrettable fact that too
many of them come from good seed
terminated TN good homes and then
sown in "A careless manner upon our
streets and back alleys. Reader, is
your boy wasting his time upon our
streets? If so should you not, at least.
look after him as carefully as nightfall
as you would your horse and COW? We
do not intimate that this evil exists to
a greater extent in this community
than in our sister towns. but the 'vil
scenes universal and increases in
magnitude as the years roll by.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-26
Spend Your Vac alton in Mexico.

You have long desired to visit Old
Mexico. and now is the opportunity A
party of Iowa teachers and their friends
will leave Des Moines July 3 via the
Chicago Great Western Railway in
charge of County superintendent y. c.
Thornburg. Thirty days will be spent
at various points of interest in the re-
public including several days at Mexico
City. The rates are very low, less than
one-half the amount usually charged
for similar tours. Don't be afraid OF
the heat, as according to Mexican
weather reports the average tempera-
ture of the cities in the itinerary is
very much less than in Iowa for the
month of July. Full information from
y. C. Thornburg, GOT Youngerman
building. or E. j. Sawyer, c. T. A.. G. 6.
w. Railway, Des Moines. Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-26
An Effect of the Primary Law.

lCh1cagO News
Amid the outlaws and the wagging
of heads now INDUCED in by persons
whose cue it is to condemn the new
and untried primary law, one signifi-
cant fact should not be overlooked. X
should serve, indeed, to silence the
critics, facetious or melancholy as the
case may be, who read into the present
activity of the politicians confession
that the voters will have nothing to
say at the primaries respecting the
party candidates for office. This sig
nificant fact is that the politicians ara
making up their states before the pri-
maries! Was such thing ever
known before in Cook county?
In the past the political bosses went
out and gathered in at the primaries
such devices as they deemed it expedi-
ent to employ. They much preferred
that these delegates should be un-
pledged. If the names of popular cam
didates We're used to gain votes there
was no certainty that the delegates
chosen as supporters of those candi-
dates would cast their votes in the
convention in accordance with the
wishes of the men who elected them
The slate of the politicians who gained
control was made up in some back
room late on the night intervening be-
tween the primaries and the conven-
ton.
Is there nothing gained by law
which compels the politicians to make
known in advance Of the primaries the
candidates whom they wish to have
nominated and to present the names
of those candidates, along with the
names of all the other candidates, to
be voted upon by the rank and file of
the party? The test of the candidates
strength is to be made in the OPEN
Men and their hackers are to be put
UP for the deliberate judgment of the
party voters. 1t is ridiculous to say
that these voters have no chance to
nominate the candidates whom they
prefer Already it is apparent that the
politicians expect the vote for candi-
dates at the primaries to decide the
nominations in the conventions
Consequently they have gone to work
to fix up states which they hope the
party voters will indorse. If they fall
out over their slatemaking, SO much
the better for the voters, since the
latter will have in that event wider
choice of candidates at the primaries.
Every candidate has an equal right to
appeal to the voters, and if the best
men do not win the nominations the
voters will have themselves to blame
for lack of interest or their lack of dis
elimination, or both.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-26
Distinguished Divine Pleads for Popu.
lar Beverage in the Home.

From staid old Fitchburg, Mass,
comes the voice of a rector pleading
for the sane use of wine and beer.
The Rev Alexis w. Stein, rector of
Christ Episcopal church of that city,
and formerly assistant to the Rev. DR..
Rainsford at ST. Georges church, New
York, and, previously, rector of
Christ's church, Cincinnati, believes in
one of those" he says, "who believe
in the use of wine and beer The sur
est cure for the misuse of them is the
proper use Of them. The man who
drinks beer in his home with his fam
lily and children about him will get no
harm himself nor do any harm to any
one else because he drinks. The man
who spends an hour with a group of
friends, among whom are women he re-
spects over one or two glasses of
beer or light wine, as do some Euro
pean people, will get no harm from it.
The beer gardens of Germany are pos
tive forces for good in the social life
of that country"
That is the reverend gentlemen's toll
Grant and rational attitude on the
question, and had he gone further and
examined into the merits of the vari-
Gus beers he would have agreed with
some of our most eminent physicians
that Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer is the
best means of temperance because of
its small percentage of alcohol and it's
great food value. He would also have
recommended Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer.
as do the doctors, Gin preference to all
others beers, because it is the abso-
lutely clean beer,-the beer that is abb
solutely pure never touched by human
hands and never in contact with any
air except sterilized and filtered air
from the time it is brewed till it is
poured into your glass That is what
one well-known doctor said of it.
Other doctors say Pabst Blue Ribbon
Beer is the cleanest. purest, most
wholesome beer brewed and our read
ers will agree with us that the doc
tors ought to know.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-26
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

"It is we'll known to our readers that
the Journal has always opposed q
state wide primary election law" says
the Newton Journal. Recent events
has caused US to modify our opinion.
and now if such law was enacted
taht would make it obligatory to hold
primary elections of all political parties
at the same time and place, and to
impose the same pains and penalties
for fraudulent voting at such elections
as are inflicted for a like offense at
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-26

general elections, we feel that it would
be an Improvement on the plans that
have recently been carrid out in this
state"
strange that each investigating
committee that takes up the matter III
these days finds conditions at the
hacking houses little better than the
previous one" observes the Creston
Advertiser Gazette. Can it be possi-
BILE that the packers have become busy
and have been doing some cleaning
since the first report was made and tn
agitation started"
The Fort Dodge Chronicle says
"rhere is no mistaking the intention
of Ed Hunter, manager of the Perkins
campaign. to stop at nothing in his al
tempt to bring about the success OF the
standpatters in the present campaign.
He will win if he can, by means fair
or foul
"Lawabee may write pleasing and
cordial personal letters to candidates
for office upon the score of old time
personal friend" observes the Mason
City Times Herald. But when he
makes speeches he points out the duty
of Iowa republicans in no uncertain
terms"
The Register and Leader advances
the theory that the vain person
thinks more of himself than of his
Creator, more of the present than OF
the future. Once the evangelist has
become convincing enough to make a
vain person think of something else
than personal appearance, he has his