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The Washington herald., 1909-02-09
FISHERY TREATY IN SENATE.
Agreement with Great Britain Sign
ed by Ambassador Bryce.

The arrangements between the United
States and Great Britain for the submis-
sion Of the Newfoundland fishery dispute
TO the arbitration Of The Hague court
was laid before the Senate yesterday in
executive session. Action vas deferred
on account Of the press OF business which
is in dispute. and which also has 10 be
considered behind closed doors. The
agreement was tentatively signed by for
mer Secretary OF State Root, snd the
Rt, Hon. James Bryce, the British An
bassador TO the United States -he sig
nature was subject 10 withdrawal or
amendment in the event that the terms
Of the agreement were not acceptable 70
the British foreign Office or 10 the New
foCndland colonial authorities.
Several amendments were made to meet
the demands OF the Newfoundland gov
ernment The agreement was put n
effect by an exchange Of notes which took
place at the State Department yesterday
between Secretary Of State Bacon and
Ambassador Bryce This contemplates an
Interpretation Of Article ]. Of the treaty
OF 1Sls which defined the rights OF the
American fishermen in Newfoundland
waters
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ADJUSTMENTS.
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THE PATRIOT ALE GRANT, &c- IMMENSE
Bill. Buy SEATS TO-DAY.
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CANAL WORKMEN PROTEST.
Panama Employees Object TO Treaty
Now Under Consideration.

The Senate Committee on Foreign Re
lations. which has under Consideration
the recent convention between the United
States and Panama. has before it a pro-
test from American workmen on the
canal against Article III. which recites
that all differences between the two
countries shall be submitted to a board
OF arbitration.
The canal workers take the stand that
the operation Of this provision may in
terfere with the privileges OF buying sup
plies at the canal commissaries.
The resolutions adopted BY the canal
workers requested the Senate not 10
ratify the treaty.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-09
CONGRESS BRIEFS.

The President yesterday sent 70 the
Senate the nori-atiou q Charlton Reid Besttis 70
be United Sates attorney ior the Eastern district
Of Loaisisas-
Automobiles for the use OF President
Taft ara q-oTids6 IN tie efficiency bsa us
agreed % by the Houss and Senate. Ths measure
carries the sun . zz50a 7; n5z goss q ths
President fx approval
The Washington herald., 1909-02-09
DISCOVER LINCOLN PORTRAIT.
Senator wetmore Informed of Pres
ence of Painting in This City.

Senator George D. wetmore. Of Rhode
Island. chairman Of the Committee on
the Library. has received a communica-
ton informing him OF the existence OF a
Lincoln portrait in this city. which is
regarded as one OF the best life SIZE oil
paintings ever made Of the uIartyred
President.
The portrait was painted Just al the
close Of NT. LincolE's first admlnistra-
ton and a short time before his assassi-
nation. The artist IS George " 2
Travis, OF Frankfort-on-the-Na Main
The Washington herald., 1909-02-09
PLAN HOUSE CHANGES
Commission Suggests Rear
rangement Of Seats.
MAY RETURN TO OLD SCHEME
Three Ways Of Obtaining More Room
and Better Ventilation Contained
In Repert-Commitfe on Library
Has Matter Under Consideration and
Action VIII Be Taken This Session.

A return TO the old seating arrange
ment that obtained in the House Of Rep
resentatives fifty years ago IS proposed
In report submitted yesterday By the
commission authorized by congress at the
last session to devise ways and means
for the reconstruction Of the present
House chamber. with a view 70 getting
better air. Hight. and acoustics.
In the old days the House held its ses-
sions in what IS now known as statuary
Hall. which is connected with the pres
ent chamber by a corridor. As the num-
Der Of Representative continued to
grow Il became necessary to construct
wing Of the Capitol. in which the lower
branch Of Congress Is now housed. The
air IN the House chamber Is bad AZ all
times. the light insufficient. and the
acoustic properties atrocious. Hence the
necessity for q change.
Three Plans.
The committee recommends three plans
of reconstruction. each involving an ex-
penditure Of about S5eQ000 All Of them
would decrease the size OF the House
chamber and increase the seating capacity
Of the galleries
Each plan IS designed 20 bring the floor
Of the House to the outer wall OF the
Capitol this admitting natural light and
air. Il Is proposed 70 introduce the bench
system Of the English House OF Com
mons. thus doing away with the approx
mately Sel desks. one for each member.
that take Up so much space under the
present arrangement
One plan contenplates return 70 the
seTni-clrcuiar arrangement Of seating
members which was used IN Statuary
Han. then the House of Representatives,
until the new wing of the Capitol was
completed, IN 1888.
Rectangular Chamber.
The two other plans caH for a chamber
rectangular In form. The report OF the
commission. OF witch Elliott Woods. su-
perintendent OF the Capitol. is chairman.
has been referred to the Committee on
the Library. and action VIII be taken on
Il at this session
Any attempt that may be made 70 re-
move the desks from the House chamber
will excite a good deal Of opposition
Many members Of the House express
the hope that whatever is done. the ven
tilstion viii be well cared for The air
at present is sitting at times and con-
stantly the cause OF complaint
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Tran.lt Report {. suhmIt.sd.

The annual report OF the Baltimore and
Washington Transit Company was re-
ceived in the Senate yesterday. The Gocu-'
ment states that 2000 shares Of the COM
panys stock are outstanding II does
not submit an account Of the corpora
tons receipts. inasmuch as no transfer
system has Jet been established in the
District
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HOUSE.

House convened a. noon-
Committee q the Whole spent frs hCurs dis
cussiug bills relating 70 the Distre Of Columbia.
which were passed when tie committee arose-
RepzesentstiEe SINS attempted 70 have Fas bil
considered b. The whole House. but vas p-e-
Tented from doing 30 By the objection ot kevre-
sentative Mann.
Representative John Wesley Gaines zssziied
delay IN passing Ezs legislation.
The President senf a SPECIAL message urEirg
equipment q Ocean-gOing vessels With wireless
tsiez7phy-
H0rss adjourned Al 50 O'clock until noon
to-day.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-09
YESTERDAY IN CONGRESS.


Tha seuste conFsned a. noon.
Senator WesmoFs offered bill 70 establish
PARK At Fifteenth and H streets nesgheast Al
cos; Of Sa0a
IN = f0aT-hou executive session the Cr1lm esse
vas revived. and after q brief debate The Cali
forn:a senators joined with Messrs Tllmsn and
Gay IN a dehste on tke japanese sitlsstiou-
senator Elkins from TIE interstate Commerce
Committee. reported adversely on the Fultca rsse
iii.
The President sent : special message relating
70 wireless teieEzp1y-
Ths senate adjourned at SO o'ciock.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-09
DELAY Or GAS BILL
SCORED GAINES
Takes Congress to Task for
Failure to Act.
URGES EARLY LEGISLATION

Representatfve Sims Attempts 10 Get
Bill Before House, but Is RuIed Out
by Objecfion-senate Wants Biii
Differing from sims Eeassre-Neo-
hers Confident of Action at Session
The Washington herald., 1909-02-09
FULTON RATE BILL
IS TURNED DOWN
Elkins Report Now Hints at
UnconstitutiOnality.
INDUSTRY DEMANDS REPOSE

In 10000 Word Report senate Inter
state Commerce Committee Ex-
plains the Oregon Senator'S Amend
ment 20 Rate Legislation Would
Give Commission Too Much Power.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-09
Recomrnitted to District Committee.

RecOmmttted 90 District COmmittee.
On the motion Of Senator Gallinger, the
BIN relating TO the practice Of medicine
and surgery in the District was recon-
mitted to the District Committee. The
measure had been favorably reported
from that committee several DAYS ago.
and provides that all honorably discharged
surgeons OF the army, navy, and Marine
Corps Of the United States may practice
in the District without first obtaining a
license 4 number OF other minor pro
visions are contained IN the bill
The Washington herald., 1909-02-09
URGES WIRELEOSLAW
President Sends Special Mes
sage FayOring Legislation.
SAYS IT Is NEED OF NATION

Tells of the Recent Successful Opera
tion and Insists that Congress Pass
Measure Providing for the Equip
ment on seaEOinE Steamers Carry
Ing Large Number Of Passengers.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-09
Reduce Fat
A Pound a Day
RengO Has Solved the Problem of
Fat Reduction Without Star
vation Diet or Tiresome
T-a~o5oor
EXerclses.

We Gladly send Trial Box Free to All.
RengO is perfectly safe. You eat II Ike
fruit or candy and easily and safely re-
duce your Eat a pound a day.
You will never need anything else 20 re-
duce yourself 10 perfectly normal form
and size.
For sale by All druggists at $50 per full
sized box. OF By mail prepaid by the
Rengo Co, S2E Rengo Bldg. Detroit.
Mich The company viii gladly send YOU
a trial package free by maii. If you write
them direct 10 Detroit; no free packages
al drug stores.
Washington by II. Evans, a24 F ST. NV;
Af7ieck's Drug Store, IzZ9 Pa. ave. NV.
Peoples Drug store. 50 7th ST.
The Washington herald., 1909-02-09
DISTRICT MEASURES
PASSED BY HOUSE
Committee Directed to InyeS-
tigate Market Company.
INSANE ASYLUM BILL HELD UP

Permission to Change Tracks Near
District Line and Haul Parcels,
MIX, Ice. and Fuel for Its own
Use Granted the City and Subur-
ban Railway Company.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-22
YOUNG WOMEN'S
CONVENTION OPENS
Several Hundred Delegates As.
Semb|e in ST. Paul.

st. Paul, April 22.-Several hundred
young women from all parts of the
United States, delegates to the Sec
ond biennial convention of the Young
Women's Christian Associations of
the United States, assembled today
in the Central Presbyterian church OF
this city for the opening of the con-
vention. The convention will last un-
til next Tuesday morning.
The programme of the convention
provides for a general address on the
association movement by Miss Mary
E. Wooley, president of Mount Holy
oke college; Professor Rauschen-
busch of the Baptist Theological SEM
mary, Rochester, N. Y, will speak on
the social teachings of Jesus, and
Rev. DR.. Samuel M. Zwemer of the
student volunteer movement will de-
liver an address on missions. The
speaker on the church will be Rev.
DR.. Francis J. Mcconnell, president of
De PAW university, Indiana. Rev.
John Douglas Adam, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church at East
Orange, N. j.. will deliver three ad-
dresses.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-22
The Leopard and the Pan.

One day a worthy Kulu housewife
came out from her cooking and, stand
ing en- the ledge Of rock at her door,
emptied a pan of boiling water into the
rank heritage growing below. 1t fell,
splash, on the back of a sleeping leop-
ard, who jumped perpendicularly into
the air as high as the roof Of the hut.
What might have happened next?
Who can say? But the astonished wo-
man dropped the pan with clang up
on the rock, and the leopard took one
leap downhill. The pan followed, and
the leopard's downward leaps became
longer and swifter as the pan bounded
after it from rock to rock.
When last seen the leopard had just
achieved a leap Of about $50 feet to
the very bottom of the ravine, thou
sands Of feet below, and the pan had
whirled about 500 feet over it on the
opposite side. The leopard would have
eaten the old woman with pleasure,
but pan which first scalded half the
hide off him and then bounded changing
in his wake from the top Of the Hima.
layas to the plains below was some.
thing which he could not faction
don Chronicle.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-22
CONVENTION OF WISE MEN
Americas Oldest and Most Famous
Learned Society Holds Meetings.

Americas Oldest and Most Famous
Learned Society Holds Meetings.
Philadelphia, April 22-America's
Oldest and most famous learned asso-
citation, the American Philosophical
society, founded by Benjamin Frank
lin in this city in 1743 for the purpose
of promoting useful knowledge, began
today it's regular annual meeting in
the hall of the society on Independ-
ence square. The meeting, which will
last three days, is attended by men
eminent in scholarship and scientific
ability in all parts of the United
States.
The papers to be read before the
society cover the widest possible
range of scientific research, including,
among other matters, subjects so
widely diverse as geology, Biblical in
vestigation, physics and anthropology.
Friday evenings session will be de-
voted to a commemoration Of the cen
tenary of the birth of Charles Darwin.
The president Of the society is DR..
William W. Keen, the famous sur
geon of this city. Candidates for
membership are balloted for at the
annual meeting, and the proceedings
close with the annual dinner of the
society,"
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-22
Court Progressing Slowly.

Court convened at 9 O'Clock this
morning but none of the attorneys
were ready with their cases so court
was adjourned until 2 o'clock this
afternoon.
The case of Laura p. Scrutcnin VS..
City of Bemidji will be taken up
some time during the present term
but the exact date has not been set
yet. Damages in the sum of $50
were allowed Mrs. Scrutchin in this
case year ago but new trial has
been granted.
Two other cases of interest which
will be tried during the present ses-
sion of the district court are Hatcher
VS.. Swedback, involving the CONVEX
sion of 10000 logs, and Brown VS..
the Douglass Lumber company, a
$4,000 damage suit brought by the
plaintiff for injuries received in the
company's local mill about a year
and half ago.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-22
A Mexican Tradition,

"Boys, what's the matter? Fever?
Die, then; die, then" That's the song
the doves sing down in old Mexico
when native has pneumonia, and
almost invariably he lies down, refuses
to swallow the medicine prescribed by
the physician, resigns himself to his
fate and in few weeks he dies. The
dove, however, sings the song in Span
ish. It is tradition among the Mex
leans that once the fever accompany
ing an attack of pneumonia seizes
them it is necessarily fatal, and be-
GAUGE of this all medicine and all ply
sicians are refused and the Mexican
usually dies. The dove brings the
story of death in it's weird cooling, &C.
cordlng to the belief of the natives,
and many who have been seized with
the fever who otherwise might have
recovered have succumbed owing to
their belief in the tradition. That is
the reason, it is said, why pneumonia
is fatal to so many Mexicans.-New
York Herald.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-22
CLIMB MOUNTAIN IN AUTOS
Drivers to Guide Machines Up His
toric Lookout Mountain

Chattanooga, Tenn, April 22.-Up
the steep slope of Lookout noun
tain, where Union and Confederate
soldiers struggled for mastery back in
the sixties, automobile drivers will
contest for prizes today, tomorrow
and the next day. The conditions of
the contests call for drives to the top
of the mountain, 1000 feet above sea
level, along path five miles in length
and Astounding in sharp turns. It is
not at all hill climb, but genuine
mountain climb calculated to test the
nerve and skill of the most expert
enced drivers. The road is stone
pike in fine condition.
While the climb is difficult, arrange
ments have been made to have gov
eminent troops guard the course, and
it is certain that both contestants and
spectators will be protected. The
events have been sanctioned by the
American Automobile association.
They are held under the auspices of
the Lookout Mountain Automobile
club of this city.
There will be eight events, six for
automobiles and two for motor cycles.
The first will be free for all con-
test for automobiles, without restric-
ton as to make, weight or construc-
ton.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-22
Whitehead Gunther Fiqht Called Off,

Local fight followers, who ex-
pected to go over to some town on
the iron range or elsewhere in this
section of the northwest to see a
fight between "Waltah" Whitehead,
the Duluth colored heavyweight
pugilist, and George Gunther, the
colored fighter from Australia, who
is known as the Melbourne Kan
garoo," are to be disappointed.
The fight between these two able
exponents of the padded mitts had
been arranged to be pulled off at
Eveleth tonight. The fighters and
their hackers demanded that the
Eveleth club promoting the fight
should post a guarantee of 500 that
the fight would occur. Owing to
the recent attitude of the governor
in calling off the fight scheduled
between Whitehead and Shrek, the
Eveleth sports were chary of posting
the required 500, with the result
that the fight between the colored
genemen" is off, for the present.
1t is intimated that the men may
get together at Calumet, Mich, or at
some nearby point in Wisconsin;
and if they do, some Bemidji sports
are going to be there, so they assert.
The Duluth sports have no one to
blame but themselves and the
sporting writer's on their two daily
papers, for the calling off of boxing
bouts. There was so much "hotair''
given out and faithfully reproduced
in the Duluth papers that no one
but wooden man could help taking
cognizance of the fact that there
was some small attempts at VIC
lating the state law, over there on
the range.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-22
About Eans.

In hens egg only one-ffth Of the
substance is nutritious, one-ninth part
is refuse, and the remainder, the great
er portion, is water.
White shelled eggs are not quite as
good as yellow ones, for they contain
trife more water and little less fat
But your purveyor knows this and fire.
quently colors his white eggs with COT
fee.
Judged by the amount Of nutriment,
goose's egg is the most valuable.
Next in order are ducks, guinea fowls,
hens, turkeys and plovers'. Eggs con-
tain large quantity of sulphur, which
is purifying to the blood and good for
the complexion.
TO get the best egg you must feed
your fowl on grain, and to cook it in
the most digestible way you must not
boil the water. Heat the water to 1SO
degrees and leave the egg in it for ten
minutes. You will then digest every
morsel. But If you boil it for three
minutes no less than one-twelfth of
it will fail to be digested Thus if you
eat two eggs boiled for three minutes
every day you waste five dozen in a
year.-London Mail.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-22
The Only Explanation

Old Mrs. Smith was a chronic COM
palmer and was constantly sending for
the family physician and giving him a
list of her fancied ailments. He al
ways listened quite patiently, but was
getting a little tired Of hearing the
same things over and over.
One day when the old lady consid-
cred herself in an unusually bad way
she sent for the doctor and, after 60
ing over the usual list, ended by say
Ing: REALLY, doctor, do not know
whxt in the world is wrong with me.
I can neither lay nor set"
The doctor looked at her moment,
then said in solemn tone, MADAM,
you must be rooster."-Kansas City
Independent.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-22
STATE PARK ROAD, FROM
BAGLEY TO PARK RAPIDS
Assured by $4,000 Appropriation
Passed by Legislature and Signed
by Governor Johnson.

Bagley, April ~. Especial to the
Pioneer. Word was received today
from St. Paul that the special road
appropriation Of $4,000 for the con-
struction of good road from Bagley
to Park Rapids, via Itasca Park, had
safely passed both houses of the
Legislature and had been approved
by the Governor.
This measure was the only pri-
vate road appropriation that passed
the legislature this session, and too
much credit cannot be given to
Representatives ]. J. Opsahl,
of Bemidji, and E. R. Kinds, of Park
Rapids and Senators A. D. Stephens,
of Crookston, and A. L, Hanson, of
Ada, for the able manner in which
they engineered the measure through
the two houses.
The commercial clubs of Bagley
and Park Rapids are to haye charge
of the appointments of superintend-
ents to look after the construction
of the road, and the people of the
state can rest assured that every
dollar of the money will be spent to
the best advantage.
Clearwater county will add $4,000
to this appropriation-through
road funds of the commissioner
districts and towns effected and
through which the road will pass.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-04-22
PROVIDES FOR
AN INCOME TAX
CumminS Introduces Amend
ment to Tariff Bill.
IS ON GRADUATED BASIS

Measure Exempts Incomes Below
$4,000 and Provides for a Tax
Ranging from Two to Six Per Cent.
Author Believes That Revenue to
the Amount of Forty Million Dol.
lars Annually Would Be Realized.
Washington, April Ex-senator
Cymmins has introduced his amend.
ment to the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill,
providing for a graduated income tax,
which he believes would produce $780,.
100000 revenue. Mr.. Cummins point.
ed out that it differs in some i'm.
portant particulars from either the
law Of 1894 or the amendment offered
by Senator Bailey. It exempts in.
comes below $4,000 and authorizes the
deduction of that amount from every
dutiable income. The rate provided
for is as follows:
Upon incomes not exceeding $4,000,
per cent; not exceeding $4,000, III
per cent; not exceeding $4,000, per
cent; not exceeding 100000, 81 per
cent; not exceeding $4,000, 4 per
cent; not exceeding 100000, s per
cent; on all income exceeding 100000,
per cent.
Mr.. Cummins believes that the
graduated tax so provided for will
produce somewhat less revenue
than fiat tax of 3 per cent.
Only on Individual Incomes.
The duty is to be levied only on
Individual incomes. It treats corpo
rations as mere instrumentalities for
Individual profit and the chief rea
son for not including corporations is
that to put a tax on the incomes OF
corporations is to tax those who are
stockholders of the corporations but
whose total incomes would not reach
$4,000, precisely as though they had
dutiable incomes. This would be the
result with flat rate; but he points
out that when the graduated tax is
employed it is obvious that the indi
vidual income can alone be consid
cred; "otherwise," he says "the man
with the lowest dutiable income
would, in so far as it is derived from
corporation, oftentimes bear the
maximum rate levied on the highest
incomes"
The amendment proposed by Mr.
| Cummins further provides that al
corporations shall make annual re
ports, showing their gross and ne
earnings and the amounts paid as in
terest and dividends, and the persons
! to whom payments are made, and alst
! the names of all officers or employe:
receiving $4,000 per year or more. II
this way the undivided profits of {
corporation are ascertained and thu
! distributed share Of each stock i:
charged as a part of his income.
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tons for this purpose.

tons for this purpose.
The appropriation for the bureau
of immigration is $4,000 to com.
plete the present fiscal year and
$4,000 for each of the two follow
ing years. In addition to this there
is $4,000 for each of two years for
the state auditor to use in "adver.
Using state land and the resources
of the state" and $4,000 for each
of two years to be used by the state
auditor in examining, appraising
and selling state land" These
items make a.total of $85,OOO.
The commercial bodies started
out to get 100000 from the legis.
lature for encouraging immigration,
and they did not come far from
getting what they wanted"