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Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
MORE CRITICISM OF THE LOCK CANAL
Senators Continue to Say Unpleasant Things About the President.

Washington, March 2.-During the reading of the conference report on the penal code bill in the senate to- day, Senator Teller spoke on the Pan anna canal He .contended that the sentiment in congress had been for level canal at Panama until the Spooner act of 1902 was adopted. Since then every six months the plan for the canal had been changed and each time the new plan was heralded as the very best one that could be adopted They had moved the loca- ton of the dam from Bohillo to Ga tun because they found the rock they had depended upon was mere bould- CT which, together with drift wood, had been washed there at some early period. The president, he asserted, had sent to Panama only those en- gineers known to be in favor of a lock project.
 Senator Kittridge remarked that the site of the Gatun dam had been changed eleven times.
 Senator Hopkins declared that the present foundation was "as solid as the rock of ages"
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
TENNESSEE COAL CASE.

Washington, March 2.-Seven mem bers of the committee on judiciary signed a report that President Roose- welt was without authority of law when he sanctioned the absorption Of the Tennessee Coal and Iron company by the United States Steel corporation This merger, they say, was a violation of the Sherman antitrust law. TWO of the majority committee, however attached certain individual views which to a degree minimize the effect of the declaration. Under an agree ment reached in the committee on Ju- dietary yesterday, any views submitted have the standing of individual opln- ions yesterday. The majority repOr was signed by Senators Nelson, Kit tredge, Foraker, Culberson, Bacon Rayner and Overman, the last foul democrats. Bacon and Nelson signed additional views.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
Barely Succeeded In OVePrid-
 ing Governors Veto &l& &4,.zl - H|GHTOWER BILL PASSED
But In a Form Which Will Not Be Acceptable to the House--Bill For Creation of Smith County With Mesa as County Seat.

Several incidents of greater or min- or interest developed in the course of yesterdays legislative session and in most cases the development of them had not been planned
 It is true that the final passage of Mir. Hampton's educational qualifica- tions bill over the governors veto was not an unexpected accident. The council was ready for the veto and knew precisely what it would do. It also knew that the veto would ap- pear yesterday or never.
 The accompanying message which is printed elsewhere, was long one, ably presenting a variety of reasons why the bill should not become a law. The council paid little attention to the reading of the message, for what was the use2 the caucus had fore ordain- ed that the bill should pass, moral or legal objections to the contrary notwithstanding. The vote on the veto was just what everybody knew it would be, a party vote.
 It has been said that the passage of the bill of the council was not an unexpected accident, but an unexpect- ed accident arose which all but over turned the plans of the caucus in the house as is hereinafter related.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
ELEVEN JURORS IN
 THE CALHOUN CASE
San Francisco Again Speculating on the Date of the Completion of the Panel.

San Francisco, March 2.-The ac- ceptance of a single juror in the case of Patrick Calhoun, charged with bribery. will again prepare the way for exercise of peremptory challenges di- rected against the jurors already ac- cepted.
 John T. Costello, an insurance brOk- CT, was accepted by both sides today to occupy the eleventh seat in the box, and for the third time since the trial commenced. on January F, there was reason to believe that the next few days will make it possible to estimate the time required to complete the jury.
 T am prejudiced against all cases where jurors are locked up" was the unexpected declaration of Morris Mitau, who conducts millinery busi- ness. 'I would not be sworn. I con slider it an indignity to be sworn and then imprisoned in order that I be obliged to keep m oath. I could not render a fair decision"
 Who would you take it out of?" asked MT. Heney.
 T don't know" replied the tales man, warmly, but would undoubted- ly be influenced by the fact of being deprived of my liberty It would be the same as it was in a murder case. where, with the prospect of being locked up a second night confronting me, was influenced to agree to a yer dict where I had already made up my mind to another decision upon the evidence"
 Could you try the case fairly un- der other circumstances, where you would not be likely to be locked up?" asked Stanley Moore.
 T think l could" replied the tales man. If the court will assure me that I may go home every night. I think I could qualify"
 Mitau was passed by the defense and challenged by the prosecution.
 Lester E. James, an employing coop CT, declared that he had "too much respect for Mir. Calhoun to convict him." He had previously stated that he had no use for union men and that he had mot been afflicted with the acquaintance of Ruef." Challenge was allowed.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
A STRAIN ON THE CAUCUS
That institution Was Never Nearer
 the Breaking Point.

Only those near the inside were aware by what a slender thread the caucus was held together, and of the strain which a combination of cir cumstances had put upon the thread.
 These circumstances brought into juXtapositiOn were the education al qualifications bill and the local option segregation bill. The former had passed the council over the gov ernor's veto and was about to be transmitted to the house when word was received that the state of mind of MT. Sutter was such that the as sembly chamber was not a safe place for the bill.
 There was also received a propo- sition from MT. Sutter for co-opera- tion. If the council would pass his segregation bill; that is, if enough democrats would pledge themselves to pass it, regardless of what the re- publican members might do, the edu- cational qualifications bill would be passed over the governors veto. Oth- erwise. not. It was understood that MT. Bourne was acting with MT. Slut ter.
 The vote of MT. St. Charles would make the segregation bill safe and the proposition was delivered to him.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
THE SUGAR CASE.
Evidence for the Defense Practically
 All In.

New York, March 2.-The testimony given today by the officers of the American Sugar Refining company of New York, the corporations on trial for alleged false weighing of sugar inn ports, and of the American Sugar Re lining company of New Jersey, the parent corporation. virtually con- cluded the presentation of the evidence for the defense.
 All of the witnesses denied knowl- edge of any fraudulent weighing de vices in the company's possession. Secretary Helix testified that the av- craze profit of the company on the sale of 6 pound of sugar was Bc to Ac.
 Washington R. Thomas. president of the American Sugar Refining company of New Jersey, and several directors of the company. including Horace Havemeyer. son of its late president. Henry O. Havemeyer. were the other witnesses.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03

His reply was not polite and was dis couraging.
 There was then caucusing and hurrving to and fro between the ends of the capital, resulting in a somewhat complicated arrangement as follows: With the aid of the two republicans, who, by the way, were not parties to the arrangement, the Hightower bill liberally amended by the provisions of the Weedin bill should be passed. These amendments, it was. assumed would not be acceptable to the as- sembly and a conference would en- sue MT. Sutter was to be a conferee on the part of the house. If then, the council conferees could not overcome his objections to the admendments. the council would reeede. The segre- gation bill was then passed. and with the aforementioned understanding, a recess was taken at noon with the in tention of taking up the message of the governor at two o'clock. At that time. however, MT. Sutter had not been satisfied.
 The council might not be able to recede from it's amendments to the Hightower bill. If the four democrats who had opposed that bill should be joined by the two republican members there could be no recession. It was that Messrs. Sutter and Bourne would support the veto. That would mean the end of the caucus.
 There was a feverish fifteen min utes at the end of which the message was brought over from the council That was a sign that the caucus had weathered one more storm. The veto was overridden by a party vote.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
LAST OF COPPER WAR.
A. S. BgeIow Withdraws His Appeal
 in Calumet Hecla Case.

Cincinnati, Ohio. March 2.-Aibert S. Bigelow, president of the Osceola copper properties of Detroit. secured an order in the United States court of appeals here today to withdraw his motion to appeal his suit to restrain the stockholders of the Calumet com pany from voting Osceola stock on March 1.
 The decision rendered today ends all the litigation between Albert S. Bige- low and the Calumet & Hecla com pany. He abides by the decision of the lower court which dismissed his plea for an injunction. All pending litigation will be withdrawn and Bige- low has arranged to transfer all his holdings in the Osceola, Tamarack. Ahmeek, Seneca, Isle ROyale and Larium copper companies to the Calu- met-Hecla company The number of shares involved is 125,000, and the money in the copper merger is under stood to be s5,OOO, ,000
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
THE TAET FAMILY.

r Washington. D. C., March 2.-As the guests of President and Mrs. RoUse- welt, President elect Taft and Mrs. Taft will begin their occupancy of the White House tomorrow night, going there for dinner and remaining. After the inauguration there will be a re- union of the various members of the Taft family at the White House.
 Miss Helen, Robert and Charlie, the three children of the presiden- elect, arrived tonight.
 Miss Della Torrey. S2 years of age, of Millbury, Mass, the only represen- tative of the Taft family of the last generation, is here. She is a sister of Mir Taft's mother and has lived with his parents since his boyhood
 The Oregon delegation in congress called on Mir Taft with reference to a federal judgeship.
 After dinner today Taft called at the residence of Thomas F. Walsh, who is entertaining a large party for the inauguration.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
Interstate Commerce Com mission Decides al Last
 E: THE SEATTLE RATE STANDS
But the Commission Orders a Readjustment of Rates From Eastern Points as Far as Chicago of a Far Reach ing Character.

Washington. D. C.. March 2.-The interstate commerce commission today decided two points in the complaint filed by the city of Spokane against the Northern Pacific, the Great North ern and the Union Pacific, which were:
 First-That the rates from an eastern destination to Spokane were higher than to Seattle, a more distant point
 Second-That the rates to Spokane were inherently unreasonable
 On the first point the defendants maintained that water competition compelled them to charge the rates in effect to Seattle, and that they might charge a higher rate to Spokane without violating the long and short haul provision or without discriminat- ing against Spokane under the law.
 The commission sustains the defend ants in this respect and holds the rates to Spokane, although higher than to Seattle, are not unlawful
 On the second point the commission sustains the claim of the petitioner and holds that the rates from eastern destinations to Spokane are unjust and unreasonable. It reduces class rates from St Paul to Spokane 16 2-3 per cent and makes substantially the same reduction from Chicago to Sro- kane. The rates east of Chicago are not dealt with.
 The decision, if applied in principle to all commodities and to all interior points, must work a revolution in rates from eastern points of origin to all interior transcontinental territory. and in that view is one of the far most far reaching decisions ever ren- dered by the commission.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
THE SEGREGATION BILL
Some of the Objections to the Orisi
 nal Measure.

The Hightower bill providing for local option elections in towns, cities and villages was brought to its third reading, late in the morning session. Though it still retained it's name, the more important provisions of the Weedin bill had been engrafted upon it, making the bill provide for the calling of local option elections by precincts or towns, whereas the High tower bill had contemplated no such elections in precincts.
 The original bill made as require ment for the calling of an election by a board of supervisors, petition signed by twenty-five per cent of the voters of the town and petition by majority of the city council of an incorporated town. The provision with respect to petitions by city councils was dropped out of the amended bill. Other changes were of less import ance and the bill was passed.
 Smith County.
 MT. Finley of Pima and Santa Cruz made further inroads on Phoenix and the north side, by the introduction of q Maricopa county division bill. At whose instigation. other than his own, this bill found its way into the coun- cil is not known at the present writ ing. but the bill failed to excite in terest among representatives of either end of the county. The name of MT. Finley's new county is Smith. Why, Smith or what Smith, is not set forth in this incipient bit of legislation There are no less than half dozen people of the name of Smith in this world: all of them are worthy per sons and there is not one of them that does not deserve to have his memory perpetuated in the name of a county.
 The new county of Mir. Finley s embraces all creation south of the Salt and Gila rivers; that is all of creation not now organized into some other county The county seat IS Mesa. It is not the desire of MT. Fin lev to launch his new county govern ment until January l, 1911. In the meantime proposals will be received from furniture dealers, stationers, iail builders and others interested m the court house fixture trade. MT Finley would no doubt entertain pro positions for the feeding of the pris- oners of Smith county. Persons wlth ambition in the direction of holding county offices cannot apply to MT. Finley too soon. It is the early bird bird that catches the worm
 This is no newly matched plot oi MT. Finley's. It is the culmination or if He had this thing of creating Smith county in mind when he caus- ed the territorial fair to De moved from Phoenix to Tempe
 The Home of the Pioneers something was accomplished in the house yesterday that had been beiiev- ed to be impossible. the passage or Mr Morris bill establishing a home of arizona Pioneers at Prescott That it was pushed through was due en- tirely to the indefatigable industry ol the author and his personal appears to the members in and out of season. Waking or sleeping, Mir Morris had ! (CoptInuad on mage 4)
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03

their education. For every ignorant voter bought there is some fairly in telligent director who was the pur- chaser; and of the two, if a choice were compelled, the more ignorant is the less vicious and dangerous. It might be admitted, it is true, that if all men individually could be assigned to one of two classes, the intelligent or the ignorant. that 1t would be well to accord to the intelligent the right of suffrage and deny it to the ignorant. But to say that all men in Arizona who cannot read the constitution in the English language, are so ignorant and illiterate that they ought to be denied the right of suffrage, is gross ly unjust.
 For generations there have been set dement's in the older states of the union where the English language was seldom, if ever, spoken-where the German, or the. French, the Scanda- navian, or the Hebrew, are almost the only languages spoken. Because they do not speak or read or write English is not to denounce them as ignorant, illiterate, and hence venal dishonest and corrupt. Such conclusion would be an unjust imputation against thou sands of the best, most honest, most industrious and desirable citizens of our free, cosmopolitan country. They may not be able to read the constitu- tion in English, but they who are Germans understand it quite as well as most of those who are able to do so; and so of the French, the Scan danavian, etc.
 In many parts of the United States in the earlier days large numbers of immigrants of some particular na- tionality have settled. constituting practically all of the settlers in this or that particular locality. They brought with them, of course. their mother tongue. their notions, customs and habits. Naturally their communi- cation was confined amongst them selves. and of course that communica- ton was in their mother tongue. And that has been the history of some settlements for many generations. They had their schools. they read. they studied. they cultivated their minds and their talents, and they became and have remained amongst our most in telligent citizens.
 Not many years ago it was, and per
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
DEFENSE RESTS.
New Witnesses May Be Indicted in
 Cooper and Sharpe Trial.

Nashville, Tenn, March 2.-The de- fense rested it's case in chief today in the trial of Col. D. B. Cooper, Robin J. Cooper and John D. Skarpe, charged with murdering former Senator Car mack.
 Attorney Anderson of the defense stated that should the state cross ex- anime of the defenses' witness not heretofore put on the stand, the de- fense would reserve the right to in troduce new witnesses on any new is sues that might develop. Attorney General McCarn then se- cured an adjournment to Thursday.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
INAUGURAL PREPARATIONS
The Taft Family Will Occu- py the Spare Bedrooms In the White House Tonight. A Taft Family Reunion Tonight.

Washington, D. C., March 2.-With the inauguration day near at hand. the population of this city tonight is from 75.00O to 100000 larger than usual, and by tomorrow night the surplus prob ably will. have been doubled.
 Of the 31.OO0 members Of civic and military organizations who win par ticipate in the inaugural parade, about ,one-third have arrived. The West Point cadets will reach the city to- morrow afternoon and the Annapolis "Middies" Thursday morning.
 There is every indication that the weather will be favorable.
 Pennsylvania avenue was brilliantly illuminated tonight Long golden ropes of glittering electric lights. shields bearing in the midst of light the face of the president-elect and other simi- lar devices made the fronts of many buildings pictures of fairyland beauty.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
NUMEROUS CHANGES
 IN NAVAL COMMANDS
Sperry Relieved and Schroeder Ap. pointed to Succeed Him.

Washington, March 2.-Sperry ap-
 piled to be relieved of duty today. Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder was appointed to succeed him. Sperry was rendered the presidency of the naval war college but declined the position. indicating a preference for subordi- nate duty. Rear Admiral Richard
 Wainwright will retain command of the second division of the fleet; Rear Admiral William T. Potter was trans ferred from the command of the fourth division. To command the
 third division, formerly in charge of Rear Admiral Schroeder, Rear Ad- miral Edward B. Barry, who has
 been supervisor of naval auXiliaries in New York, was appointed com mander of the fourth division.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
SPOKANE WILL CELEBRATE

Spokane, March 2.-The Spokane Merchants association is planning for Ia great celebration in view of the freight rate decision announced to- day. The decision, which comes aft Ter a campaign that has been waged by the shippers for IT years, is eX
 pected to add a vast territory to Spokane's jobbing field, and is de- clared by president A. w. Doland, of the Mercahnts association to be 'One of the greatest things that has ever
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
BENSoN-PERRIN CASE.
Transferred to Police Court on Shell
 Perjury Charges.

San Francisco. March 2.-The Ben- son-Perrin land fraud cases, which Oc- cupied the attention yesterday oi three judges of the federal district court of appeals. was transferred to- day to the police court. There the pre- liminary examination of Charles Shell the governments principal witness was begun on seven charges of per jury preferred by Robert Perrin, a brother of pr. Edward B. Perrin, de- fendant in the main case.
 Theodore Kytka, handwriting ex- pert, and Robert Perrin were on the witness stand today. The case was con tinued until next Monday.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
MAY ARREST CASTRO
President of Venezuela Indicted on
 Conspiracy Charge.

Caracas, March 2.-Should Cipriano Castro, former president of the re- public, attempt to return to Venezue- la. he will face the possibility of ar rest, he having been indicted on the charge of conspiracy to effect the as- sassination of Juan Vicente Gomez, the present president.
 In consequence of this contingency,
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
SHIP SUBSIDY DEFEATED.

Washington. March 2.-The shlp subsidy bill passed previously by the senate was defeated in the house to- day by the narrow margin of three, the vote being TIP to 175.
 The opponents of the measure cheered wildly. The conference re ports on the agricultural, rivers and harbors and. public building bills were agreed to, and the sundry CIVIL Dlh was sent to conference.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
GARDNER VS. McKlNNIAN.

Boston, Mass, March 2.-Jimmy Gardner of Lowell, Mass, won the de- cision tonight over Bill McKinnian of Boston in one of the fastest twelve round bouts ever seen here. While McKinnian evened up several rounds in none did he have a shade the better of it.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03

Ia report that Castro's purposes to embark at Bordeaux on March 2S, for La Guaira, has been received here with much interest. It is feared that Castro's presence in Venezuela would result in a dangerous demonstration against him.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
A DAYS WORK IN NEVADA.

Carson, New, March 2-The senate passed today an assembly bill creating a nine-hour dav in open cuts and ouarries. A bill establishing an eight hour day for plaster workers and gyp- sum men has already become law.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03
A THREE MONTHS

SneciaI course in Bookkeeping and Chortband has been arranged for at inc HANSON BUSINESS COLLEGE, beginning at the opening oi 'iie Spring Term, March l.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03

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Arizona republican., 1909-03-03

20 ACRES ALFALFA AT s1oo Der acre. less than three miles out Con sidering the distance from town. this is the cheapest alfalfa land listed this winter.
 E. E. PAscoE, 11o North Center St.
Arizona republican., 1909-03-03

CHANGE-I have nice IF story frame dwelling, fine location, rooms, furnished, bath, large lot, barn, 50 chickens, to trade for Phoenix prop
 erty. E. E. PASCOE, no N. Center.
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