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The Washington times., 1909-05-18
INDEPENDENT OIL
MEN UP ON EDGE
Just What Aldrich Will Do
in Matter of Tariff
e. Problematical.

The independent oil producers Of the
country are greatly wrought up over
the uncertainty about the tariff treat
ment of their product. They have
been pretty thoroughly convinced that
the Standard company is in favor OF
free oil, and they conclude that 1t
wants this because it is now so sit
uated that free oil viii mean bigger
profits than could be made from pro-
tccted petroleum
The duty has been one of the storm
centers from the beginning of the
tariff consideration in the House. Sew
era1 things are established beyond
much doubt; but the attitude Of the
Standard Is stin uncertain, and equally
doubtful is the attitude Of Chairman
Aldrich Of the Senate Finance Com
mittee.
On Free List.
The House Ways and Means Com
mittee put oil on the free list and
struck out the countervailing duty IN
SIS original consideration of the sub
ject At the very last minute, before
the bin was reported. this was recon
sidered and the counterYailing duty re-
stored. II was widely charged that
this was done in order to secure i'm
portant influence IN favor Of the re-
election of Cannon and the readoption
of the old rules for government Of the
House.
The House. after a long and sensa-
tional fight, finally forced oil on the
free list. It was regarded as a great
victory. A good many independent
producers came to Washington and
earnestly protested. but they were
waved aside as mere emissaries of
Standard and entitled to 10 considera-
ton.
Did Not Agree.
The bill went to the Senate. and when
II was reported out of committee oil
was one Of the items on which the body
had not agreed. A later report was
promised on it. That has not yet come
At first it was generally expected that
the duty would be preserved when the
committee got ready to act. But re-
Gently the impression has grown that
the body viii finally report in favor
Of free oil. and that the Standard will
be entirely satisfied with this. The
Independents have been trying desper-
ately to learn Senator Aldrich's mind
and purpose, and they have been
baked at every effort. They don I
know what he intends TO do. and they
are tired of guessing. But their theory
is this:
The Standard knows more about oil
and oil fields. all over the world than
anybody else. It is fully Informed OF
the extent and richness of the i'm
mense Mexican oil field. whose develop
ment has just begun. but which IS
generally believed by experts TO be the
greatest field in the world. Just how
far the Standard has become inter
csted IS likewise not known. and IL Is
not very important The independents
insist that Mexican oil from this field
win be the cheapest crude oil the
world has ever known; 50 cheap that
unless there is protection TO prevent
its free introduction. II viii be bought
up by the Standard and hauled ir
great tank steamers to the States fo1
refinement. shutting out the mora ex
pensfve domestic Oil.
The Washington times., 1909-05-18

Our dsiries arc sanitary. Our ereameries.
where the milk is evaporated, are built with
out wood. We make business OF cles1Ii-
ness.
We employ every means knowr to science
TO guard our milk from infection.
Then the milk is paseeurized.
Every drop of raw milk contains : rnx-is4
OF germs. And those germs are h,irnsnitv,,
most terrible foes.
Van Camps contains none at all Il is
The Washington times., 1909-05-18
Students To Meet.
PASTOR Will MOVE.

MONTCLAIR, n. J.. May 18-The
Rev. George Jeffrey Russell, son OF
Thomas Russell, Of this town, has re-
ceived a call TO the Presbyterian
Church in Southampton, Long Island,
and will 20 there in June.
The Washington times., 1909-05-18
BUSINESS MEN PLAN
TO FIX c. TANGLE
Substantial Citizens Will Set
University Straight Upon
Onward Course.

Steps are being taken by the friends
and supporters of the George Washlng-
ton University among the business men
of the city to straighten out the tangled
financial affairs of the institution, and
to put an end to the agitation among
the students and alumni which has been
disturbing the progress Of the university
during the last few days.
These men are formulating plans on a
practical basis for strengthening the re-
sources Of the institution that viii make
possible the carrying out Of the pro-
gram of expansion which has been for
These men. it is said. have great faith
n the future of the university and re-
gard 1t as essential to the city S growth
and progress. For this reason, they are
determined 10 make every effort to put
an end TO the unsettled condition OF
affairs that now exists.
Will Be Improved.
Their first move will be to give salts
factory assurances TO the alumni and
students that matters will be improved.
The next step viii be the Inauguration
of a vigorous campaign for financial
contributions with which TO provide an
endowment fund. The men who sub
scribed originally 10 the fund for the
purchase of a new site, doubtless, will
De called upon at once to make good
on their pledges, and then other wealthy
men interested in educational progress
will be asked TO give assistance.
Students To Meet.
Resolutions were drawn up this morn
ing BY students in the law department
of the university for Presentation at z
,.,~-- -,,oo4fre. 4tfc evening Those racO-
Iutions, il is understood, express the
appreciation Of the students for the
/ higher standards set for the law depart
I ment and of the enlargement Of the
| general scope OF the university.
] A meeting Of the executive committee
| of the board Of trustees viii be held this
/ evening to consider changes in the fac.
] ulty. On. Ehe board are DT. Charles W
| Needham. president of the university
| William r Mattingly, John y. Larner
| Hennen Jennings, Edward NJ Gallaudet
/ and $. W. Woodward.
The Washington times., 1909-05-18
Marriage Licenses.

Charles X. Gillian. Clarion, Pa, and
Katorah Hampton. 3e Washington
Alfred Purxs ard Mamie Purks. OF
Summit, Va.
B.rfrarl L. Bond and Florence o.
Bracket, or Richmond. Va.
William VI. Watkins, OF Buffalo juno
fiOn. Va, and Edna Oliver, Of Hall
&x county. Va.
Zen l. Winn and Sudie J.. overly, Of
Lunenberg county, Va.
Gurnon r. Scott and Elnora c. Burgess
OF Washington
The Washington times., 1909-05-18

It's not reculiarrfilk.
1t is taken fresh from the COW and evapo-
rated, close to our numerous dairies
1t is sterilized after the can is sealed. So
1t comes to you as fresh as it leaves us.
The slight almond Aavor-apparent only
when one drinks the milk colds due to
ste-i ization.
Fer cooking or coffee, Van Camps tastes
exactly the same as raw milk or cream, save
for additional richness.
The Washington times., 1909-05-18

BALTIMORE May 1s.-The follow
ing marriage licenses were issued here
to-day .IOhn A. Proctor and Annie
Nicholson. Of Washington; Frank /.
I(ersten. OF Washington, and Ida n.
Kelly, Of New Haven, Conn.
The Washington times., 1909-05-18
Not Altered

Van Camps is simply rich Hoistein milk,
with two-thirds the water evaporated. Moth
ing whatever is added. Nothing is subtracted,
save water.
The Washington times., 1909-05-18
There's No Other Milk
Like Van Camps

When you away from the man you to have the
finest milk In the world Don't think that all are alike
milk be half rich Van Camps still be labeled
The Washington times., 1909-05-18
It's Economical

Van Camps is as thick as thick cream-so
thicA that You add one part water for coffee.
Yet it doesn't cost half what you pay your
milkman for cream
Add two parts water and you have rich
milk The cost of such milk, when you buy
Van Camps by the case, is about six cents
per quart
Then you have no wsste-no milk left
over. Fer Van Camps means COW in your
kitchen.
One often spends for Van Camps Mix
about half what she paid the mikman.
Think of buying milk from hand to mouth
buying a half-rniTk laden with germs-apd
paying more than one pays for Van Camps
The Washington times., 1909-05-18

Van Camps Milk comes
in 5 and lO-cent cans. at
your grocer's. It Is put
up at our dairies, in FIVE
states, where we milk
20, 900 Holstein COWS.
The Washington times., 1909-05-18
Free From Germs

Van Camps is perfectly sterile.
We milk no tubercular cows.
no sickly mlkmen.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13

life tenure and spread prosperity broad
cast over the country.
A natty little woman, who always
dressed In deep mourning, and who repre-
scented herself as the widow Of a Cuban
patriot who was killed during the struggle
between Cuba and Spain. was another fire.
quenter at the capital during the sessions
of congress. She claimed to be In poverty.
and succeeded in securing cash from rep
resentatives and senators until her true
character became known. 1t finally was
learned that she was an adventures from
New York City. Thereafter she was re-
fused admittance to the capital.
There was a young man who visited the
east front Of the capital daily to witness
a most marvellous performance which was
never enacted. on the central portico is
a large statue OF Columbus, holding aloft
in his right hand the atlas "a great round
marble BALD. Opposite Columbus on the
plaza, about 200 yards distant, is a colossal
statue of General George Washington,
represented as a Roman senator and seated
in a broad chair. The young man had
been informed by some joker that promptly
at noon each day Columbus tossed the big
marble ball to General Washington, who
caught and held II until l o'clock, when
he tossed it back to the great discoverer.
OF course, no such ball tossing occurred
but the young man faithfully kept his
vigils until a capital policeman convinced
him that he had been hoaxed.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13
The French Postal Strike.

Like so many things which the
French people do the the strike of the
government postal employees appears
at this distance as an outbreak of i'm
pulse. That It is fully as much a po-
litical as an Industrial character is
indicated in many ways, and as in all
cases where the a~scendancy of a min
istry is at stake all it's opponents, re-
CARELESS of party differences, are
found lined up behind the strikers.
The first and primary object of the
French opposition is always to over
throw the ministry. That the cabinet
prefers to fight 1t out as a strike of
government employees rather. than
meet the political phase is indicated by
its tactics which prevented a vote in
the chamber on the questions at issue.
Assuming that conditions in the
postal service are onerous and injus-
tice has been done the employees, the
resultant dissatisfaction, if it were in
the United States, would more likely
navy CBuiIOu IN lilulN ANoi5hs
tions from the service from time ia
time which would ultimately challenge
the attention of congress and the rem.
edy be applied. Change of employ.
ment is not so easy in France as here
but on the other hand the French gov.
eminent is supposed to be more easily
bent tc the demands of a popular up
rising than ours, and it is largely these
two conditions which have led up to
strike such as is only a remote posi-
bility with us .,.. g
The real lesson of French events IL
that the civil service should be 81
protected and conducted as to\rende'
it both unnecessary and unwise fot
those engaged in it to seek to become
political factors and consequent!
spoilsmen. The constantly growing
number Of those in the governmental
service renders this more imperative
with each succeeding year.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13
What Next

The afirmance by the United States
court of appeals of the judgment rem
dered in the lower court against the
city of Omaha in the hydrant rental
cases puts the Water board squarely
against the proposition of devising
some means of meeting these obliga-
tions. While the particular case de-
cided involves in round figures $115,-
600, the total aggregate hydrant rem
tai, with interest to January 1, 1903,
amounts to $4S6,663.77, and by July
1 an additional $50 900 or more of
hydrant rental and interest will be
added, making a grand total upward
of $55O,OOO.
The burning question is, What next?
The Water board should have levied
a tax of $1OO,0 900 a yea to take care
of this hydrant rental as it was mount
ing up, but in order to make a pre-
tense of economy and at the same
time embarrass the Water company
by Withholding on which 1t
depended the Water board refused to
levy the annual water tax, SO that II
the entire amount were to be raised
by a single levy now it would add so
per cent to the tax rate. AS this, of
course, is out of the question, If the
judgment is to be paid out of taxes 1t
will be necessary to do so on the in
stallment plan and carry the obliga-
ton along for several years.
One of the Water board lawyers is
reported as saying that it is the
boards plan to pay the hydrant rem
tai. which should have been met out
of current taxes, by an issue of bonds.
If so, we will soon have to vote an
other water bond issue, because the
SO, 900, 600 of water bonds authorized
in 1900 and the $6,50O,0OO of water
bonds authorized at the last election
must be devoted to the specific purpose
embraced in the proposition, which is
the acquisition of the water plant and
cannot legally be used to pay off by.
drant rental debts.
1t is up to the Water board.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13
PERSONAL NOTES.

Marion Avery, 10 years old, of Anderson,
Pa, recently shot an osprey or fish eagle,
measuring five feet four inches from tr
to tip, at Harvey's Lake.
James *. Hackett has failed with assets
of S1A and Liabilities of 1926, 457. Before
the exact status of the insolvent can be
figured out it will be necessary to know
whether the $744 is stage money.
Congress has lost its last member that
wore boots. He was Representative Charles
N. Brumm of Pennsylvania. He resigned
his seat on January 4, 1859. because he had
been elected Judge of the Schuylkill county
court in Pennsylvania.
Waste places of Chicago will be made
to bloom II the plans of Jacob H. FROST,
who has been appointed to the new office
OF city forester, are realized. Mr.. FROST
is 30 years old and a graduate OF the
Michigan Agricultural college at Lansing.
Charles Turner Hughes. to whom Thomas
a. Edison, his employer for many years,
gives credit for the development of tn
trolley car. died recently in East Orange.
n. ]. Edison said that IL II were not for
Hughes the trolley might not yet be de-
veloped, Hughes began work on a plan TO
apply electricity to the running OF surface
cars in 1879, the year that he Joined Edi-
sons staff.
Miss Ada Rehan was such a delight on
the American stage when in her prime, in
the great days OF Augustin DAILY, that her
present state of health is shocking to those
who have been unfamiliar with her break.
down.. She was 80 feeble when going on
board the steamer for England Saturday
that servants had to help her up the gang
plank. Miss Rehan has heart disease. She
hopes much from her summer to be spent
at her north of England country place.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13
Suitably Rewarded.

The appointment by Governor Shall
lenberger of DR.. E. Arthur Carr to a
place on the new State Board of
Health is a fitting reward for the dirty
work which this eminent political
cure-all did for the democratic ticket
in the campaign last fall.
DR.. Carr, it should be remembered,
is the author of a circular letter at
lacking Mr.. Taft as an enemy of re-
ligion and of temperance which was
printed on a beautiful two-color letter
head entitled United Civic League
bearing the names of a number of well
known a%nti-saloon workers who after
ward repudiated 1t.
Such distinguished service in the
cause of democracy and reform is en-
titled to recognition and we are glad
that Governor Shallenberger has paid
the score. OF course, no one will
blame DR.. Carr for his action, because
as an unsuccessful applicant for a
Board of Health appointment he was
doubtless led to believe that in nc
other way could he satisfy his ambi-
ton and the success which has
crowned his efforts is sufficient proof
that he pursued the right course to in.
gratiate himself with Governor Shall
lenberger.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13
President to Porto Rieans.

President Taft's communication to
congress is also directed in a pointed
manner to the people of Porto Rico.
II thoroughly aecords with all his ut
terances in regard to the government
of our island dependencies. AS COM
missioner to and governor general of
the Philippines, as cabinet officer and
as president he has at all times been
on record as favoring the greatest
amount of self-government that the
people of these dependencies are eapa-
BILE Of. His Porto Rican message not
only afirms this, but points out the
natural c%orollary, that they are enti-
tied to no more local autonomy than
they are able to appreciate and use in
diligently. That the politicians of
| Porto Rico have not divorced them
selves from the traditional Spanish
methods is evident from the action of
the lower house of the legislature and
the president simply serves notice on
them they must cease from abusing
the power given them if they expect
to retain It.,
Habits of thought which are the
growth of centuries cannot be ex-
pected to disappear in a day, or even
in a few years, but the change will be
hastened by just such methods az
those pursued by the president. Par
tisan advantage is the sole basis of the
Spanish idea OF politics and govern.
ment and when good government. oil
the existence OF any government. con
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13
Warning Against war.

Boston transcript.
Public opinion Is changing. The world
has its eyes opened. The war doctrine, the
p~reachment of international murder, has
surfeited mankind. The evils have multi
piled until the results of war, If not the
direct thought Of war itself. have turned
popular sentiment. in the better pathway.
rock at the base of the peace move
ment is moral. But mankind, unfortunately,
cannot be reached as effectively as should
be the case on a moral foundation alone.
Thus the warfare against war is now
waged on more unitarian, more practical
grounds. The problem is treated s%cientif-
ically. economically. The appeal Is to the
understanding, to the brains of man. It
Is a course of cold argument, irrefutable
and ultimately convincing.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13
SMILING REMARKS.

Experience said Uncle Eben, may be
a good teacher, but she's liable TO make
folks spend a heap o. valuable time stayin'
after school, learnin' de rudiments OF COM
mon sense.'-Washington Star.
HE has a mighty strong imagination for
a real estate dealer"
Yes. He'd lay out an allotment on Mars
and get husky tracking up the canal privi-
leges. cleveland Plain Dealer.
II hear that the new tenor is a great
success-that he can hold one OF his notes
half a minute"
That's nothing. I've held one Of his
notes for over a ~year.'-Judge's Library.
Didn't you telephone us that your wife
was ready to go with us when we started?'
Yes, but she's upstairs now changing
her mind. '-BaltimCre American.
I'm hunting up all my famous ances-
tors
rive got your scheme skinned. I'm
hunting up all my ancestors who were
crooks"
but why?"
ITO prove what a fine fellow l am in
spite of my handicap. cleveland Leader.
They were arranging their plans for the
What l should like" said Gwendolin,
lis a large shady place where | could
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13
Sentence of the Kidnaners.

The severe penalties inflicted upon
the %kidnapers of the Whitla boy will
strike a responsive chord with every
right-thinking person. With a lin
tied few it may be deprecated as an
exhibition of catering to wealth, but
this view is as shallow as 1t is heart
less. That it is as a rule the children
of the wealthy who are kidnapped is
true, but the act has not eve the poor
excuse of a protest against wealth. The
wealthy are the victims simply be-
cause they are able to pay a price for
ransom.
The crime of the kidRaper aims at
the home, the basis of all good citizen
ship, whether that home be a palace or
a cottage. 1t plays on the tenderest
Of all passions. That a crime so re-
pulsive to all human instincts should
until recently have been SO lightly
punished is somewhat strange, but its
repetition has wroughtZa change in
sentiment which has found voice in the
statutes and now in their enforcement
If extreme penalties are eve a deter
rent on heinous crimes, the limit Of
the law is due to the crafty perpetra
tors OF such a kidnapping plot.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13
Voting On the Tariff Bill.

The votes so far taken on the tariff
bill in the senate indicate almost be
yond question that with a few changes
the bill as recommended by the com
mittee on finance will be the one
which will pass the senate. So far
the committee has been sustained on
every test. and there is little ground
for belief more opposition will be mus
tered against the remaining schedules
than against those already sought to
be amended. There are so many and so
radical differences between the senate
and house bills, however, that the OPP
p~ortunity remains TO revise practically
the measure again in conference. 1t
is apparent that this fact has been a
potent influence in lining up senators
to support the bill as 1t came from the
committee.
When the bill comes back from con-
ference and the issue is squarely be-
tween the divergent house and sem
ate schedules the votes of the So
called insurgents are far more likely
to be in demand and their views to re-
ceive due consideration in threshing
II the differences. Trading stock will
be a practical necessity, for 1t is al
ways give and take In conference. In
this connection the views of the presi-
dent will also be a considerable factor
because the conference committee is
sure to be impressed with the require
ments for executive approval.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13
Penalty for Capital crime.

New 1Ork IGlpune.
Governor Stuart Of Pennsylvania has We
toed a hill to permit iuries in murder
cases to determine between the death pen
atty and life Imprisonment In view OF
the disregard Of human If which some
elements of our population continually
exhibit, I do not think that our criminal
law governing the punishment for murder
In the first degree should be relaxed" says
the governor. Approving the veto, the
Philadelphia Inquirer says: "When we
reach the point where juries. swayed mo-
mentarily by emotion or by sympathy, can
virtually destroy the death penalty we shall
arrive at the beginning Of an increasing
list of cold -blooded crimes"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13

travenes partisan advantage the latter
is the ruling factor. Mr.. Taft tells
the Porto Ricans that the result of
such tactics will be to deprive them of
power TO do harm.
The people of the Philippines and of
Porto Rico have never had a more con-
sistent friend than Mr.. Taft, or one
who responded more promptly to their
legitimate aspirations, and they will
do well to heed his warnings.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-13
GAME soNNETS,
New York Times.
THE PITCH ER.

THE PITCHER.
oh, say. the pitcher is the cheese, and he
Is fine to hang your lamps on when he
out there and twirls the leather In his
hBnds
A strike, or ball, or any other thlnS' oS
His jumps, the lobster, thinks he under~
Amt like it looks to all the bunch OF
But gaff him. Birdie, what's the mutt to
And. say. there's nothing punk about the
pitch;
It's him for what's the not; mes got the
To hang EN- at the batter. straight or
or rush EN- out to where the baggers
And they won't find him sleeping at the
switch!
Oh. Birdie; keep your eyes off; amt he
grand?
THE CATCHER.
Well. now, and will you please get onto
those?
And eat the leather goods right off the
bat? ,.
Say. Birdie, Amt he better than the Wild
! And don't he look like cork and cotton
All over h,m2 And, listen, If that masks
was FIAT,
How would the nose Of him do for a
mat?
ia for the catcher. Birdie, you and me,
too, knows
good thing when we see II, and we've
got
II right before US now. II / could be
A man like him, say, Birdie would you
what 81,
Wow. look at him! He's nipped a lick.
and see,
He's banged it down to second-hear EN-
shout!
Yell. Birdie; yelll He's put the whole
side out!