Evening star., 1909-05-01
WEEK ENDING MAY /, 1909.

President Taft appointed James T. Will
Hams. jr., member of the civil service
commission. Secretary Meyer issued an
order prohibiting naval officers from sug-
gesting or influencing legislation except
through the Navy Department. Mr.. Bailey
spoke in favor Of his income tax amend
ment to the tariff bill. Senator Overman
proposed a twelve-dollar tax on each i'm
migrant. Senator Scott spoke against
tariff revision: Senator Rayner attacked
the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill as framed In
the interest of the trusts. James H. Cas-
sidy, former clerk of the rivers and har--
bors committee. was sworn in to succeed
Mr.. Burton of Ohio. now senator. Repre-
sentative Dwight of New York introduced
bill providing train for the exclusive
use OF the President, and Mr.. Tawney in
dorsed the bill to appropriate $4,000
year for the Presidents travelling ex-
penses. The sugar trust paid the last Of
a two million one hundred -and-thirty-
four-thousand-dollar fine for false weight
when the government threatened suit for
So. .OOO, 900 more. A new three-year con-
tract with the anthracite miners was
signed. The jury In the case of Capt. Peter
c.. Hams. jr... on trial for the murder of
William E. Annis, was completed. The
motion of Col. Duncan B. Cooper and his
son. convicted of killing ex-senator Car
mack, for a new trial was overruled and
they appealed to the supreme court.
Beach Hargis was given a life sentence
for the murder of his father. Storm In
the middle west killed over $50 persons
and did widespread damage.
Foreign Affairs.
Abdul Hamid was deposed as ruler of
Turkey and Mehemmed Reschad. who
will be known as Mehmed v. was placed
on the throne: the change was accom-
plished without further disorder; the de-
posed sultan was taken to Saloniki, to- be
kept prisoner: Tewfik Pasha announced
the names of the cabinet. with himself
as grand vizier The International Wom-
ans Suffrage Congress was opened in
London. David Lloyd-George. chancellor
of the exchequer. introduced the budget
in the house OF commons, showing deficit
of about s7s.O0O.O0O. to be provided chiefly
by increased taxation. Four suffra gettes
succeeded in entering the outer lobby of
the house of parliament in London and
chained themselves to statues; the police
cut the chains and elected the women.
Miss Muriel White. daughter of the
American ambassador to France was
married by civil ceremony in Paris to
Count Hermann SeherrThoss. an officer
OF the Royal Prussian Cuirassiers The
French government took great precau-
orders in Paris. Whole villages were
wiped out by the earthquake in Spain and
many persons were killed in the ruins,
while two vessels with thirty-eight per-
sons foundered. M. Zinovieff, Russian
ambassador to Turkey. was recalled and
Gen. Palitizin appointed to the post The
Russian expedition into Persia continued
it's march to TabriZ. the government at
St Petersburg refusing to trust the prom
ises of the shah. Eleven men were killed
Italian submarine Foco, at Naples. The
Queen of Holland gave birth to girl.
Three more members of the Japanese
diet were arrested In connection with the
sugar company scandal.
In the District.
High honors were paid to the memory
of Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the re-
mains. with military escort, being taken
to Arlington cemetery. The Washington
Gas Company announced that after July
l the rate will be 30 cents a thousand
cubic feet. Corporation Counsel Thomas
prepared to appeal from the District Su-
preme Court the cases against the gas
companies. acquitted in the lower court of
violating the standards. Justice Stafford
of the District Supreme Court declined to
compel Secretary Wilson to vacate his
decision to institute prosecutions against
the "bleaehed' flour process. The excise
Dodru, On TenearlIS OF the Application
of the jolly Fat Mems Club for a re-
newal Of its liquor license, granted the
application with certain stipulations
Francis E. Bliss was indicted by the
grand jury for forgery and embezzlement
John A. Benson was acquitted of the
charge of bribing two clerks in the gem
eral land office to divulge the contents Of
a secret report filed In the Office Gott-
lieb Ehninger was decapitated by a rail-
road train. The following persons com
mitted suicide: Martha Douglas, by
acid; Maud Kelly. by shooting: Charles
S. Whitman. by cutting his wrist, and
Wiley r. Cook. by laudanum Among
those who died were former Representa-.
tive Joseph w. Babcock. Dr. Henry NJ
Pinkard and James B. Austin