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as did a couple OF Irish laborers who
were suddenly surprised by their boss.
What are you doing. Pat? he sharp
ly demanded of one.
.Nothin', was the answer
"'And what are you doing, Mike?
I'm helpin' Pat
Twenty years ago an acquaintance OF
mine was running for Congress in one
of the ST Louis districts. Agitation for
so-called tariff reform was getting to be
quite fierce. One evening while address,
ing on the usual political lines large
audience up in the manufacturing por-
ton of the district an Irishman inter-
rlpted him to know what his views were
on the tariff He pretended not to hear
the question and kept on. Soon 1t was
repeated by many other men. Realizing
that factories were all about him, the
candidate folded his arms and said: Now.
look here, my fellow-citizens: 1t is not
so important for you to ascertain my
views on the tariff as it is for me to
know YOUR views; and If you will only tell
me how YOU stand ! do not think there
will be the slightest difficulty in my being
able TO adjust my views SO they Will be
in thorough accord with yours.
THE crowd shouted satisfaction, and
later in the evening as many of the
horpy-handed sons of toll were irrigating
their arid glands in the nearby saloons
they voted their member to be brainy
man and in every way duaiihed TO rep
resent them in Congress"
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\ conference took place last night be-
tween Senators Aldrich and Hale and
Representative Watson. republican whip
of the House, looking to the arrangement
of a program for legislation for the re-
mainder of the session.
The Senate leaders made it clear that
they did not purpose to enact any laws
of a general character. as the appropri-
alton bills will occupy practically all OF
the remaining time.
Mr.. Watson said that the House would
pass the statehood bills for Arizona and
New Mexico and possibly the Knox bill
regulating shipments of Intoxicating
LIQUORS into dry" communities.
1t was suggested by the Senate leaders
that If the latter measure should come
over from the House the Senate might
amend it by adopting a more radical
measure Such a measure Is not desired
bv the House leaders, and 1t Is likely
that the question Of passing the Knox
bill will be considered fully before de-
cision is reached.
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PROTECTING THE HORSES.
Transfers Will Not Be Allowed to
Ill-Treat Their Teams.

Under direction Of Commissioner West
policemen are paying special attention
to teams hauling wagons up the steep
grades in the vicinity of California ave-
nue. to see that the regulations prohib-
iting cruelty to animals are not violated.
A member Of the New York Humane
Society recently called the attention of
the police to an incident which came
under her notice in that vicinity. and
added that she had noticed a number of
cases of cruelty to animals in this city
recently.
Capt Elliott of the tenth precinct has
reported to the Commissioners. through
Mai. Sylvester. that the officers doing
duty in the vicinity Of California avenue
have required number of drivers to
put on double teams where heavy loads
were hauled up the steep grades. and
that some arrests have been made for
cruelty to animals.
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Paper Making From Cornstalks.

The Secretary of Agriculture Will be
enabled to conduct experiments to de-
termine the practicability of making
paper material from cornstalks. if a bill
favorably acted upon by the House COM
mttee on agriculture yesterday be-
comes a law. The bill, which was intro
duced by Representative Stanley of Ken
lucky appropriates $4,000 to be used by
the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct
the experiments. put in operation and
improve the processes now in use for
making paper material from cornstalks,
and to purchase site near Henderson.
KY, erect buildings and purchase the
necessary apparatus.
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TAxICAB STRIKES POLE.
Passengers Cut Severely by Pieces
of Broken Glass.

Bessie Scott and Kate Sullivan were re-
moved to the Emergency Hospital about
$40 o'clock this morning suffering from
severe cuts about the face received when
a taxicab in which they were passengers.
collided with an electric light pole at Sth
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
The cab. which was operated by Albert
Hamilton, had turned across the street
when it skidded and struck the pole. The
glass in the front of the machine was
broken and several pieces struck the
passengers. The operator escaped injury.
The machine sustained damage amount
ing to about 500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-29

Congress in the proposed compulsory
equipment of ocean going steamers with
the wireless telegraph apparatus was
evidenced yesterday when Representative
Peters of Massachusetts, INTRODUCED bill
more general In its application than the
first bill on the subject. introduced by
Representative Burke of Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Peters proposes to require the wire
less telegraph on all ocean going vessels.
both in the foreign and domestic services.
plying between ports more than 100 miles
distant. The Burke bill applies only to
vessels in the foreign service. A maxi
mum penalty of $1,000 is provided in the
Peters bill
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Buying Forest Reserves.

Before finally reporting the Weeks BILL
looking to the establishment of forest re-
serves In the White mountains of New
England and the Appalachian mountains
of the south, the House committee on
agriculture yesterday placed limitation
on the amount of money that may be
expended under the bill AS finally agreed
upon the bill provides that not more than
ST 100000 shall be expended during the
coming fiscal year for the purchase of
land for reserves. and not more than 3d..
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OHIO PIONEER DYING.
Caused Sensation by Turning Cleve.
lands Picture to the Wall.

SANDUSKY, Ohio. January 29.-Reuben
Turner one of the oldest. wealthiest and
most prominent of Erie county's pioneers,
is dying at his home in Avery from ure-
mic poisoning. In 1883. as delegate to
the democratic national convention i'm
Chicago, he advocated populistic theories
and caused sensation by turning toward
the wall a picture of Grover Cleveland
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ARMY officers Win Prizes.

The Military Service Institution of the
United States has awarded the first prize
for 1908, gold medal, life membership
and 500 to Maj. Wilmot E. Ellis, Coast
Artillery. Corps. Cor an essay entitled
What Is the Cause of the Recent Fall
ing Off in the Enlisted Strength OF the
Army and Navy. and What Means Should
be Taken to Remedy It. The second
prize, a silver medal and $50, has been
awarded to Capt. Harrison S. Kerrick.
Coast Artillery Corps, for an essay on
the same subject.
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For Bureau of Fine Arts.

Representative Barthodt of Missouri
has introduced a bill patterned after the
Senate bill introduced by Senator New
lands creating a bureau of fine arts in
the Treasury Department and an advisory
council Of thirty architects, painters and
Sculptors.
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Omnibus Claims Bill.
Local Measures in the Senate.

Senator Gallinser has introduced bill
providing for the establishment of a pro-
baton system in the District. The
measure authorizes the appointment of
two chief probation officers at salaries
of $500 and $3.50. respectively. They
are to have as many assistants as neces-
sary.
By request Senator Paynter of Ken
lucky has introduced bill authorizing an
appropriation Of 1900 for the paving of
23d street from Kalorama road to S
street, and for the paving of Kalorama
road from I'D street to Connecticut ave
nue., this city.
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Geological Survey Photographs.

Senator Flint of California has submit
ted an amendment proposed to be added
to the sundry civil appropriation bill,
which provides that the director of the
geological survey shall furnish photo
graphs or slides to educational 1nstltu-
tons that pay for them in advance.
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c. P. Taft Contradicts Rainey.

Charles p Taft has entered vigorous
denial in connection with the charges of
Representative Rainey Of Illinois that
he was in any way identified with the
Panama canal purchase In a telegram
to Mr.. Rainey yesterday Mr.. Taft de-
clares as unfounded the statements as
sociating him with the transaction
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Work on West Point Buildings.

Owing to the rapid progress that has
been made at West Point in the work of
erecting additional quarters and other
buildings as well as in the construction
of other improvements the estimates for
the next fiscal year have been increased
from $1.7OO.OOO to 100000 by the Sec
rotary of War for continuing the i'm
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Jail in Default of Fine.

John w. Buckingham, whose address
is given as 1917 Wards alley. was in the
Police Court today a result of police
raid at his home last night. He was
charged with disorderly conduct, con-
victed and in default of payment Of So
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Discussing the Census Bill.

Almost the entire session of the House
of Representatives was taken up yester-
day with a discussion of the conference
report on the bill providing for the TAX
ing of the next census. The army appro-
priation bill was called up and had been
but briefly discussed when the House at
4:45 adjourned.
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Vetoed by the President.

The President has vetoed the act of
Congress providing that officers of the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps and OF the
revenue cutter service on the retired list
whose rank is advanced in accordance
with law shall receive commissions in ac-
cordance with such advance rank
The President based his veto upon the
objections made to the act by the Secre-
tary of the Navy and by Admiral Pills
bury, chief of the bureau of navigation.
They represented that should the act
become law, and the officers, who
have been transferred to the retired list
at an advanced rank be given commits
sions in the advanced rank the effect
would be not only to make them tenn
porarily senior to the officers of the
lower grade who were their seniors be-
fore their retirement. but it would also
make them permanently senior to those
officers who remain on the active lis.
as their commissions in the advanced
rank would be from the date of retire
ment. and the officers on the active list
would have commissions to that grade
from subsequent dates as vacancies
might occur.
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fine was sentenced to Jail for thirty DAYS.
The arrest of buckingham was made
shortly after o'clock last evening, based
on complaints against the house II was
testified that noises started at dusk and
continued until daylight every day of tho
week. Those in the ra:ding party were
Sergt. Lord and Policeman Livingston OF
the second precinct
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has been received by the Senate. The
communication Is signed by the presiding
officers of the Washington legislature and
was presented by Senator Piles of that
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Trunk Roads in Alaska.

A memorial praying that $1,000, 900 be
appropriated for trunk roads in Alaska
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Toilets Reduced.
re ACROSS Face Powder ........... SC
&c Eastman's Talcum Powder. ......... &c
zoe Hav's Hair Health. ................35
Cogate's Violet and Cashmere Powder. .I5c
re Witch Hazel COmDOund
nc Cremeline Carhphor Ice. &c
&c Woodbury's Facial Cream. ..15c
&c Woodburys Facial Soap. .I5c
1oc Violet Glycerine Soap. ............... &c
25c Sozpdont, liquid. ..................I5c
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Proposed Lincoln Memorials.

Senator Newlands has introduced a
bill indorsing the park commission site
for a Lincoln memorial. This makes
three measures now before Congress
favoring three distinct ideas for a ma
tional memorial to Lincoln. The other
two are-one for a peristyle in front of
and embellishinf Union station; the 9TH
er for fiftymile roadway to Gettys-
burg.
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Wireless on Coasting Vessels.

100000 in any subsequent year. The life
Of the proposed law is fixed at ten years.
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Only One "BROMO QUININE-
That is LAXATIVE BROMO QCININE. Look
for the signature OF e. W. GROVE. Used he
World over to Cure q Cold IN One Day. sc.
Oc9-f-n
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New EMPLOYERS Liability Bill.

thousand dollars is also asked with which
to install a new organ in the new cadet
chapel.
New Employers Liability Bill.
Senator Beverage has introduced a bill
to amend the employers liability act to
meet objections raised against it by labor
organizations. 1t is understood that the
measure in large part meets the approval
of President Roosevelt and Mr.. Taft. 1t
is not the intention of Mr.. Beveridge to
press the bill for passage at the present
session. but it is understood that labor or
ganizations will ask Mr.. Taft to indorse
the bill in his first presidential message.
Omnibus Claims Bill.
The omnibus claims bill was before the
Senate during almost all of the session
yesterday Various amendments were
offered to the measure and acted upon,
the vote on an amendment to repeal the
Tucker act, under which war claims are
sent to the Court of Claims, being post
poned until today.
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With the National Lawmakers
of the Sixtieth Congress
Senate and House Republican Leaders Discuss Pro
gram of Legislation for the Rest of
the Session Capitol Notes.

provements of the Military Academy. Ten
thousand dollars is also asked with which
to install a new organ in the new cadet
chapel.
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Stofer in Witty Vein.

sSASA AZ '" ASey SCAh.
Mr. Stofer of Washington told a num-
Der of witty anecdotes and kept his hear
ers in an uproar of laughter Two of
his best stories were as follows:
Things have been somewhat out of
JONI at Washington for the last three
years. They will hardly be put in shape
until the next administration is well un-
der way. The question is doubtless being
asked all over the country: What is
Congress really doing this winter Out
side of passing the regular appropriat :on
bills ii may possibly be said later on
as was related of the peers of England
in that delightful comic opera. Iolahthe
The house of lords did nothing in par
ticular and did ii very WE'LL A man
of large affairs. who was sadly d.sap-
pointed because he and his associates
had been unable to secure action on any
of their measures. was unreasonable
enough to remark in one of the corridors
of the Capitol the other day that IL you
questioned the managers OF the Senate
SD House they might truthfully reply
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-08-13
Trains Going West.
PREvARIcAToR AND BURKE.

PreVaricator Packard of the after
noon paper at Valley City says The
Forums roasts of Burke resulted in the
election of the Devils Lake Celt He
has so frequently repeated this false
hood that he apparently believes it.
In the first campaign-when Burke
defeated Sarles-The Forum said very
little against the democratic candidate.
He was elected by over 5000 majority.
During Burke's first term of gov
ernor he showed his hand and in the
last campatgn-The Forum called at
tention to some of his official deIin-
quencies.
In the last election Burke won out
by less than 1000 majority-3,OOO less
than two years before.
The Forums roasts evidently re-
duced Burke's majority. If his vote
next time can be cut down another
3,0O0-even an imbecillic, half baked
monstrosity like Packard should be
able to see his defeat.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-08-13
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION.

The International Typographical un-
lon has been in existence fifty-seven
years. AS labor unions go-it is a
venerable organization. But its age
doesn't impair it's vitality and zeal.
This week it has been in annual ses-
sion at st. Joe. Mo. It's membership
is enthusiastic and earnest. 1t is
modern in thought-beneficial for the
living and providen: for It's dead. One
Of it's greatest achievements Is its
$1,O0O,O 900 home for the superanuated
members Of the craft
The success, the dignity, the finan-
icial responsibility and the future STA
bility of the typographical union are
not its greatest assets. 1t stands
firmly and stanchly because of it's strict
adherence to it's contracts-its opposi-
tion to senseless strikes. The agree
ment Of the union is most always kept
and its pledge usually regarded as
good as the bond of most institutions
It's members regarded strikes as dang
erOus as two edged swords that slash
and main both employers and employ
ed. Its watchwords for the adjustment
of labor troubles are most frequently
conciliation and arbitration. AS q re-
suit the members usually win-whert
men of other organizations, less in.
teIligently conducted, lose.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-08-13
BABIES TREATED BY
WITCH DOCTORS Die
SIX INFANTS sUccUMB, RED
STRINGS AND CHARMED BAGS
THEIR ONLY MEDICINE.

Reading, Pa, Aug 13. - Coroner
Strasser is busy procuring evidence
in the case Of six infants who died
since noon on Monday after alleged
treatment by witch doctors for sum-
mer complaint. He has reported the
matter to the district attorney.
Reading is known for It's many witch
doctors, and there have been cases in
court time and again of people who
asserted that neighbors "verhexed"
them. No sooner does child become
i'll in this region than the neighbors
rush in and declare the child is ''ver-
hexed." The result is that a pow WOW
doctor with incantatIons is sought.
Several of the children who died
were simply treated with mystic
words while a red cotton cord was
passed over the body. In other cases
a bag containing charmed words, was
hung about the neck.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-08-13
DoG-DAY NEWS.

A woman was drowned under very
suspicious circumstances at Cape May
Saturday. Just as a big wave struck
her-her husband turned her loose.
The name of his affinity has not yet
come out.
In New York a feminine merchant
sold a SO cent shirtwaist, and in wrap
ping it-enclosed a pocketbook con-
tanning $40. She would have left 1t
on the street car anyhow-so what's
the difference?
In Washington, Pa, boar, mad
dened by heat. attacked and bodily
wounded a man. Jealousy was the
cause of the attack-as the man was
an end-seat hog.
In Centralia, Pa, Mr.. Kuna's COW re-
fused to be milked-like the ultimate
consumer is being milked. A fortune
teller told Kuna that Mrs. Boda, his
next-door neighbor, had "witched" the
animal. Kuna tackled Mrs Boda-
who promptly empted a bucket OF
swill on his eyebrows. Kuna will now
sue the fortune teller for getting money
under false pretenses-as he is con-
vinced Mrs. Boda has no power to
charm.
The losing Of a So Panama hat in a
restaurant was the first act in chain
of events-that resulted in a New
Yorker being locked in Jail over night
and sued for $11,5OO in addition. This
is a sufficient statement Of the facts
to confirm the theory of the increase
in the cost of living-especially at a
restaurant-unless Tom Riley's sys-
tenn is generally adopted. To make
that win there must be a lot Of Finn
Leechs.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-08-13

In the nation, and giving to its owners
a species OF absolute domination over
the industries of a region 1000 square
miles in area.
Let IL be remembered that this is
but one OF many grabs" now being
clinched with Ballinger's aid, and the
magnitude Of the evil already wrought
by this man, in the five months OF his
tenancy of the interior department.
becomes partly apparent. II President
Taft shall retain him In office, after the
publicity given his course by the pro-
ceedings at Spokane, then we have
Iprobably seen the end of all pretenses
on the part OF the present administra-
tion that II has any regard whatever
for the policies Mr.. Taft's supposed
adherence to which afforded the prin-
cipal and most effective argument for
his election.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-08-13
RALLINGER'S BETRAYAL.

The editor of The st. Paul Pioneer
ficial work of Secretary Ballinger of
the department CT the interior. In a
recent editorial the following occurs:
The meeting of the national irriga-
tion congress at Spokane has been
made the occasion for such damning
revelations concerning the subserviency
of Richard A. Ballinger to the schemes
of a gang of "Skinners and Grabbers"
AS Roosevelt called them--as should
retire him from the office of secretary
of the interior. he seems to have been
put forward by the reactionaries op-
posed to the Roosevelt conservation
policies with the deliberate purpose Of
using him to forward their conspiracies
for robbing the nation and monopoliz-
ing the irrigation water-power and
other natural resources of the west.
How quickly he few to the perform
ance of the services assigned him by
the aforesaid Skinners and Grabbers,
is seen by the statement that on March
s, Immediately after he was sworn in
as secretary of the interior, he began
to restore to private entry some two
million acres or more of lands which
President Roosevelt had withdrawn be-
cause they included water-rights, pow
er sites, coal, minerals and other re-
sources of immense value. The reser-
walton of such lands for the benefit of
the nation at large had been one of
the most beneficent and popular of the
Roosevelt. policies.
Roosevelt's act in withdrawing those
lands had the sanction of lawyers at
least as good as any now employed by
the Taft administration. 1t had the
additional sanction of supreme re-
gard for the nations future welfare.
1T was prompted by the same broad
patriotism and statesmanlike vision
which actuated Jefferson In the pur-
chase of Louisiana and the sending of
the Lewis and Clarke expedition Legal
quibblers maintained that Jefferson
had no constitutional authority for the
purchase, just as Balhnger claims that
Roosevelt had none for withdrawing
the lands in question. But between in
terpretaticns of law which stand for
the general welfare and the basic prin-
cipIes OF right, and interpretations
whose effect Is to favor private at the
expense of public interests and to
throw over wrong the shield of legality
1.-The heart and intellect OF the nation
will steadfastly adhere to the former.
In one single instance water-power
company is shown. by the report from
Spokane, to have acquired, through
Ballinger's absolute possession OF the
Missouri river from Three Forks in
southwestern Montana to the allxali
plains west of Great Falls" holding
probably the most valuable power sites
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1909-08-13
PEAKE's METHODS.

Colonel Bloom OF The Devils Lake
Journal-an old-time newspaper man
is conversant with the proper amen
tiles. He recognizes the petty mean
ness OF "Commander-in-Ch Chief" Burke's
official mouth piece" in giving pub
lictty to a letter sent The Forum-be-
fore the letter reached the Office. He
says:
Colonel Brewer Of The Fargo Forum
claims to know something about eth
les" himself, and he says General
Peake did not do right in mailing to
other newspapers his recent reply TO
The Forum until he had first given
The Forum an opportunity to print it
and the colonel is right.