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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-22
Every Scheme Introduced Meets
 With Serious Consideration
VERNON WILL PROBABLY WIN
Bill Is Introduced Providing for Ma tIonaI Park Near Petersburg, Va, to Commemorate Last
 Act of the War

Washington. February a-(SpeeiaL)- when they cut off the passes" said member of Congress today. 'I do not mean that all this congressional agita- ton and action against the railroads is due to the fact that they stopped hand ing out passes but 1t Is somewhat coin cidental that up to the beginning of the present session of Congress 1t was absolutely impossible to get an anti-rail road measure out of a Senate committee, and as for the House. member would be laughed at for introducing anything like the kind of bills which have passed"
 And the member quoted added 1t really begins to look as though Congress were quite willing to go to the other extreme in matters pertaining to railroads. In fact very few railroad bills are intro duced these days which are certain to be plgeonholed and they come in every day. That of Representative McNary of Mas saehusetts is the last and provides for an investigation of the anthracite coal carrying roads. In the last Congress the bill would have been considered joke. In this Congress 1t is a serious prop osition-for the railroads and Is just ss apt to pass as not.
 Biggest Investigation Yet.
 It is now practically certain that the joint resolution providing for an inves- tigation by the interstate commerce com mission of the question whether common carriers own or control the coal and oil fields. and whether they discriminate against Independent shippers of these commodities will be passed by both House and Senate. This inves tigation will, of course, be the most sweeping ever made in the history of railroading fn the United States. Members are also talking of defeating the extra coinpen- sation for carrying the mall With this and score of other measures before the several committees, the bill to regulate rates is being fought to a conclusion In the Senate interstate commerce com mittee and when a vote is taken day after tomorrow, it Is the confident pre- diction that bill will come out of the committee.
 Just at present the whole struggle seems to hinge on the review" amendment and the declaration is made that this amend ment will be placed upon a bill to be re- ported py the majority of the committee. Those who are classed as the radical mem bers are confident, however, that they will in this amendment secure at least a provision that the rate fixed by the com mission shall remain in force until the court decides the case. Over on the House side the same degree of uncertainty about the wisdom of accepting such an amendment exists. The democrats say they will soidly oppose such an amend ment as they understand the Senate is trying to agree upon. There is also ground for the belief that Colonel Hep burn will not stand for such an amend ment. At any rate the situation is in- tensely interesting, and the general tenn per of Congress against the railroads Is new feature at the capitol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-22
HOCH INDIFFERENT
 OVER THE ACTION
He Laughs DerisiveIy Over Governor Deneen's Refusal to Commute
 His Sentence.


 Deneen, acting on the recommendation of the state board of pardons. has de- nied Johann Hochs petition for eommu- tation of sentence to Imprisonment.
 Chicago, February A.-Johann Hoch took the news of his impending death in- differently.
 q have been sacrificed" he said. ito save the regulations of three men-State Attorney Healy. Assistant State Attor- ney Olson and Governor Deneen. Jus tice Is all a mockery. If l had been tried on that evidence before the Czar of Russia l would have been acquitted I am innocent, just as innocent as State Attorney Healy or Governor Deneen. but they have ordered that my life shall be taken to give them a reputation. Had I been acquitted or given a life sen- tence the people would have laughed at them.
 Never mind: Johann Hoch Is not dead yet and he will have justice"
 After making this statement Hoch turned to enter his cell. As he did so he looked back and laughed sarcastically. saying;
 ''Ha! Hal Hal They are going to hang Johann HochI'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-22
DATE IS CHANGED.

Macon. Ga. February 21.- Through the efforts of Ma. j.-Gen c. NJ. Wiley. commander Georgia division, Confederate veterans. the dates for the general reunion of veterans at New Orleans have been changed from April 24, 25 and 26 to the following week in May. so as not to conflict with memorial day in Georgia, which is April 26.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-22
GLOOMY FEELING
 IN ST. PETERSBURG
HOPE OF FAVORABLE coNCLU- SION OF ALGEClRAS CONFER ENCE IS FAST VANISHING. ROOSEVELT MAY INTERVENE.

St. Petersburg. February 21.-A gloomy feeling prevails in diplomatic circles here regarding the outlook at Algeciras. The hope of a favorable conclusion of the conference is fast vanishing At the for eign office the previous optimism has departed and was stated that the sltua- ton is regarded as distinctly serious. Re- gret was expressed that France and Ger many are unable to come to an agreement on so important a matter as the policing of Morocco. An official news agency dis patch from Paris which bears strong marks of inspiration suggests the possi- bility of intervention by President Roose welt as in the case of Russia and Japan. In diplomatic circles confidence is felt that failure of the conference will not lead to war
 London February 21.-Great Britain Is still pesslmistic in respect to the Mo- roccan conference. The officials here be- leve the delegates must leave A1geciras without policing Morocco unless Germany withdraws her demand for international control of the gendarmerie. Some sur prise is expressed at the fact that France should have even proposed giving Spain a hand in offlcering the project.
 In some quarters it is believed that Germany at the last moment finding that all the powers excepting possibly Aus tria, are sympathizing with France, will agree to the compromise offered by the French delegates. On this account France will be urged to allow a conference, giving the representatives of the powers an opportunity of expressing their views on which Germany and France could not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-22
Rockefeller Mail at Tampa.

Tampa, Fla, February 21.-A consid- erable amount of mail has been re- ceived at the postofcce here for John D. Rockefeller. "a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-22
National Park Near Petersbura, Va.

Under the terms of a bill introduced by Representative Southall the President is to appoint a committee of three one of whose members shall be a Confederate soldier, to pass upon the advisability of a National park in the neighborhood of Pe- tersburg Va, In commemoraton of the last act of the Civil war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-02-22

amendment by MT. Spooner authorizing the secretary of agriculture to fix stand ards of food, drugs and liquors were both voted down without calling the roll.
 On the final roll call the bill passed by a vote of 63 to 1, Messrs Bacon. Bailey, Foster and Tillman, all democrats, being the only senators to cast their votes in the negative.
 The Senate at 5:15 D. m adjourned.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-06
THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
of today accepts marriage with the pro-
vision of divorce
60 Dora, is hardly one of that set. ~ 80.


vision 81 OF divorce 80 .,
s "I hope she may keep out Of i, but
marriage Will give hef many opp9ul
s5. W eilssl am s ~ lol lug
young priest s., he he lsn NJ 70 ndnfasse
woman like Dora ilenning:; 80, anh e
afraid he Will get. the worst OF IT,; :.L
8 think you are very unkind, father.
Dora is my friend, and know her;
She is girl Of intense feelings and
very, affectionate. And she has dis
solved all her life and mind in Mr..
Stanhope 8 life and mind, Just as
lump of sugar is dissolved in water.
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more poetic smile, Ethe14 - - -
TT will do. This is an age or
matter; material symbol is the proper
thing ~ Il. -.
s1f am clad to hear she has dissolved
her. mind in Stanhope s, - said Judge
Rawdon- se.DoFa,s intellecti in itself is
that he should desire hertz
- seFather Won never tell how much
brains men like with their beauty.
Very little will do generally. And
Dora has beautv-great beauty; no one
can deny that. ] think Dora is giving
up a great deal. To her, at least,
nerfeet freedom into the comparative
condition If q slave giving M her own
1an ennat ol 90 fo, some one else "a
way >, -
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the lady's hands. She is not forced to
tarv T. no bardshin Now INV dear.
have a case n look over and Won must
excuse me tonight. Tomorrow we shall
know more CONCERNING MT Mostvn. and
it id easier to talk about certainties
than PROBABILITIES. ), - :.
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The Washington times., 1906-11-29
Senator Warren's Alleged Statement.

The affidavit continues, Senator War
rem then told me that the General Land
Office would not hurry the Wyoming
cases and that, Of course, 1 would not
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understood IL ! would not have done
what ] did
Clarence =. Sprague told the commits
sion THAI be had made cash entry,
eot his mother and sister 10 do the
same. and also his brother and his
brothers WIFE all OF whom secured
their $50 from Forrsster-
This completed the Ils- OF our family"
said the witness uaiVFly. II did not
complete the list OF SpTague's friends.
for. az the suggestion of Forester, he
s1read this good thing around among
h.- young women friends. among them
being Miss ThoTHe. Miss Allis. and Miss
Burke. all possibly Senator C. n Law
renee SFTaEuc, also made an entry on
go acres under the desert act This
land was gotten for the Pleasant Valley
Coal COMPANY which desired tO use IL
for a. town site. He also made a State
selection OF an entire section as agricul-
turaI lands. Despite the fact that they
were contiguous 20 Ihe Suuuysilc Coal
mine SuTaEue received S421 for his
services lu lle desert claim. and decided
the land over To the Utah Euel Com
p8uy zen days prior 10 the time the Gov
orunent had decided II 10 him.
The Washington times., 1906-11-29
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The Washington times., 1906-11-29
DELVING INTO HISTORY
OF OLD BURYING GROUND
Senator Burketts Job of Getting Facts About Congress
sonaI Cemetery a Hard One-MiXed Records
of Government Lots.

In a very literal sense there is likely
to be q rafting Of dry bones when Sen
ator Burkett. OF Nebraska, makes his
report on the Congressional Cemetery,
one OF the ancient Institutions Of this
city. lie IS just now getting il finished,
and il is a most interesting and curious
history Of 100 pages or more Of type
written matter
The history Of the Congressional Gem
etery reaches into three centuries. II
was started about 1888 and Congress
early became Interested ia Il because il
was desired % have q cemetery Ia which
20 lay at res the bones Of Senators and
congressman. In those days when there
was no Refrigerator service aud embalm-
1ng was Ineffective, it took weeks 70
transport the remains Of q distinguished
man 10 Els home, IL he happened 10 die
IA w asHuEtou. There was nothing FOR
lt but 10 bury him here So the Con
gFtsslOHai Cemetery was taken under
the wing Of Congress. IN IL are buried
almost 40 men who have been Senator'S
Representative, or distinguished Ofnclals
of'thc Government officers Of army and
navy, etc There are some men. too.
who served foreign nations in notable
diplomatic posts
Senator's Difficult Task.
The cemetery plat, IN Southeast Wash
iHEioH, Is cut uD bE number OF streets.
These were long since vacated 10 the eX-
tent of permitting them 10 be closed in:
but they were never vac 4ted To the eX-
tent or permitting them 10 bc plated.
This right % plat them is asked ia a bill
before Congress. 10 has TWO or three
times passed the House, bat the Senate
has alWay~ been the sticking point.
Senator EUIkett was given the bill by
tine District of Columbia Committee and
proceed ded t0 prepare a history of the
ancient cemetery.
Immediately the lTmeusity Of his task
became evident There was nobody vino
could remember the beginning OF things
Records were Inaccessible or lost. Con-
cressl0nal action was uncertain. and
required luch effort 10 make accuracy
possible. Department records were
turned inside uur-
From its beginnings. the cemetery has
been in charge of the Vestry of ChrisJ's
church, EpizcoTaliau. There have been
transfers back and forth Of lots, from
the Government 90 the vestrymeu, and
the reverse Senator BUrketU can't find
an the lots the Government ought 10
own. The ycsJrymen present theory
ti.at these lots ELlf IaE. apparently dis
appeared. are represented by sidewalks
built in parts of The plat covering ranges
of bIrial pIatS that ought 20 De The
property of the Cove -umeut
There was au Investigation back in
1.sG. but nobody at that time could re-
member back To the reorganization in
The Washington times., 1906-11-29

1850 Likewise. It seems, VIXEN the re-
organization Of 1856 was made nobody
was then able 10 tell much about the
first beginnings. And now the same CON
dltion obtains-there is a demand fog
another reorganization. and the detailed
facts cant be had.
The Congressional Cemetery. by tie
way. afforded the late Senator Hoar op-
pOFtuniIy Tor one Of his choicest bon
mOts. He was telling the Senate IGg
horrors Of the monuments ana cenOtaUhs
placed ia cOmmemOratlCn of deceased
statesmen. A cenOtaph, by the way. b.
a monument over a man who isn't under
il. The Congressional Cemetery stones
are Of peculiarly atrOcious design. 1T
Is bat adding to the terrors of death, %
declared the Massachusetts sage, ''tl
compel a man 10 contemplate that he
may have one Of those things erected
above him"
Famous Men Buried There.
Among the famous men who lie in this
plat are Elbridge Gerry, once Vice Presi-
dent; Senator James Jones OF Georgia,
who was buried there in -sgl, and was
the first Senator 10 give Countenance 10
the institution Tobias Lear secretary
20 President Washington. Frederick
Gruehn, Prussian minister in this c0uu-
try died lS23; push-n a-ta-ha. a famous
old ChOCtaW chief. Ahsl +. UpshuT, once
Secretary OF State; Gen. John A.
Rawlins, Secretary Of War under Grant.
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10 be discovered. I would. therefore. re-
specttully recommend that / be directed
To investigate and examine personally
the character and conditions in the
/ Evanston. Wyo.. lana district and the
/ general condition Of affairs there8bOuts
relating 60 the cash coal declarations"
Agent Sewers Experience.
Special Agent Percy S. Sewers had a
similar experience with the Land
Office His first letter TO the Com
missioner. he testified. was written Ola
September g. 1850. asking for the sus-
pension OF patents 10 Orange Seeley and
others on $500 acres OF coaI-Casa en-
tries made apparently ia the interest OF
the Pleasant Valley Coal C0muany-
These lands went 10 patent eleven days
after the patent was filed by this
agent OF The Land Office. ON No
Vcmber S, 1900. me- called tle attention
( Of the land commissioner 10 wholesale
selections OF mineral lands by the State
OF Utah, and 10 the iladeIuaCy Of the
regulations TO protect the Government
by the system Ia vogue. This urgent
I letter Tor q change tn methods" de-
( Ciared the witness. ''GIu receive any
attention from the department" on
N0eVmEer II OF the same year he mailed
anidaFits OF L. L. IaEHey. deputy min
erdl surveyor. and OF 4. n MCEntiTe.
showing that thousands OF acres Of
4 land comprised 10 State selections were
I mineral lands, and not agricultural
N
/ titled 20 it. and also that these lands
/ were being conveyed 20 Robert For
/ roster, Cf the Pleasant Valley Coal Com
pauy- Up 10 December %, 1870. the wit
ues stated DE had written frequent let
I tsrs 10 the department calling attention
10 the fact that fraud and perjury were
/ being employed iu q wholesale robbery
/ of the Government. Absolutely no at
I tenti0n was paid 90 the AGENTS protest
and in every ca So the lands I'm question
/ went 10 patent and were delivered either
To the ItaH kueI Company or the Pleas
ant Valley Coal Company in Decem-
her. 1898. ne called the attention OF the
department 20 the alleged perjury OF
Robert Forester who had testified I'm
the Perry r. Cottuer case that certain
lands were coal lands. and a few weeks
later, when. securing these lands for
the coal company, had sworn that they
were agricultural lands.
Sewers Asked TO Resign.
The result of Sewers Iabors I'm this
/ direction was a request from the depart
ment for his resignation.
/ Sewers resigned from the service. but
/ was relustateG at the request of George
| A Sutherland, then attorney for the
The Washington times., 1906-11-29

have TO concern myself about them
He then produced from Eis pocket cop
les of my letters addressed 10 the COM
missioner relative 20 the Wyoming
csses which I Gsd been Investigating
Identified these letters as copies OF my
letters, because OF the fact that Sen
ator Warren held the press copy letters
in front of him upon the table and read
out Of them extracts which I recog-
nized as being from my letters written
to the commissioner"
Upon this occasion also. Chief Pollock
instructed the agent % burn the orig
iual eleven affidavits OF fraudulent land
entry which he had obtained in Denver.
He did not obey this instruction. nv
eHueIH iet,rfS 20 lEe Flinent re-
4arding Jle wyoming frauds began aFout
November q. 1898 The first one inform
ed the department that s. j. Smith Of
Denver, had athdaVits showing Illegal en-
tries and that he. could obtain hftv-siN
additional aftldGEits- The second lester
Informed the commissioner that GEORGE
householder the rluEl-ad-r iu the Wv
Omlug crimes. had learned Of tIIa threat
ered exposure and WAS hunting up his
dummies and paying them S2lD 90 Keep
their mouths shut on December =
1893. Myeud0rft wrote the department
giving legal description OF lands and
lent entries of the lands
Gave Names of "Iummies."
In Il he saws: "Artemus J. Smith and
John Herman are two Of the seventy
seven men who We're led by the hench-
men Of the Union Pacific Coal Com
pany TO the Union Depot where. for S3
to s. they gave their power Of attorney
20 some person representing the Union
Pacific Coal Company"
This letter drew "a reply from J. II.
Fimplc, Assistant Land Commissioner.
IN which Re stated that the Wyoming
matter was out of the Denver jurisdic-
tion. but that he had reported the facts
20 the Evanston, \Fyo, office. Myen-
dorm was told that IF al some time
I'm the future he thought he could do
so without injury 10 the Denver dis
trict, he could investigate the Wyoming
matter ON December 81 he again wrote
20 Flmple, urging that he be ordered
TO make a personal investigation of the
EEauston district and forwarded more
afftdavits and additional facts regard
ing the frauds. on December 81 he
wrote again. stating: Experience has
taught me that il anyone goes with
eyes and ears open around this locality
where some frauds are known 70 eX-
ist, other frauds are most likely liable
The Washington times., 1906-11-29
AMAZING TALE
OF LAND FRAUD
TOLD IN DETAIL
Agent Myendorfs Charge

Obstacles placed in my reqS"sts
formation official subjects completely ignored by the
Commission of the General Once.