Semi-weekly herald., 1909-04-15
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

fuli committee this morning. All eli
Sort win be made to induce the mi
horiiy TO consent to reporting OF tn,
bill TO the senate at once, in which
event II will be allowed to 90 ovel
until Thursday when Chairman Al
drich will make detailed explanation
Of its provisions. The senate leaders
would not predict today how much
time would likely be occupied Ia .ts
discussion. number of important
items are to be submitted to the sen
ate without recommendation, the pur
pose being to convince the senate and
country that the committee has net
arbitrarily assumed power to make
the yariff bill.
WASHINGTON, April 12.-The sen
ate committee on finance, with all
members present. met today and
Chairman Aldrich presented the tariff
hill as amended by a majority of the
committee Many of the revenue pro.
ducing features to be reported subse-
quently as they are intertwined with
administrative features of the meas
ure which will be adopted later.
Senator Aldrich, when requested 20
make a brief summary of the general
character of changes proposed by the
senate finance committee of the house
tariff bill, furnished the following
statement:
In the main rates in the tariff bill
as reported from the senate finance
committee are lower than those in the
bill as passed by the house, the actual
number Of reductions being about
three times the number of increases.
Such increases as have been made
have been largely rendered necessary
TO preserve symmetry of schedules
A considerable number of articles IN
common use have been taken from
the dutiiable list OF the house bill and
restored TO the free list. The duty
Is La'Yn off of gloves and stockings" "
CIV YORK, April John Oh
berding, recently liberated from an in.
sante asylum, lies in critical con.
dition in Harlem hospital today with
his throat cut after a struggle with his
wife in their apartments last night,
in which he held her upon the floor
and cut both her wrists with razor
The police and neighbors finally bat
tered down the door and rescued the
woman. Mrs. Olberding's experience
with her husband is horrible in the
extreme. For more than ten minutes
he pursued her about the apartments,
brandishing a razor, and at last cor
nered her. After he had slashed her
wrists she feigned death and in this
way probably saved her life She
will recover, but there is but slight !
hope for the man.
TACOMA, Wash, April 12.-The |
Burlington train which left Tacoma
yesterday at $3.50 o'clock, east bound |
on the Northern Pacific, was derailed |
one mile west of Bristol, between |
Cleellum and Ellensburg last night, re-
sulting in the death of Engineer |
franklin ]. Harmon of Tacoma and |
Fireman John Johnson of Tacoma, and |
the injury of nine passengers, more or |
less seriously.
The cause of the accident is un.
known.
WASHINGTON. April 12.-UnapprJ- |
priated non mineral desert lands of |
the United States not contained in |
any Indian reservation, forest reserve, |
military post or United States reclama
lion district. may be sold to any citi- !
zen of the United States at the rate of |
$l25 per acre if the bill recently intro |
duced in the house by Delegate An
drews of New Mexico is enacted into |
a law. The money derived from the
sale of lands is to be deposited to the
credit of the reclamation service, 10
be used in the state in which lands
are sold.
PARIS, April l2.-Theodore Roose-
welt and a correspondent of lie Jour
nal are engaged in a controversy re-
garding the veracity of a correspond
ent. lie Journal sent its representa-
tive to Naples to see Mr.. Roosevelt
and subsequently the paper published
a long interview with the former
president, which was widely copied.
Upon arrival at Port Said last Fri
day MIR. Roosevelt sent cablegram
10 paris paper saying he had given
no such interview.
This was published, together with
the assertion of the correspondent that
he talked half an hour with Mr.. Roos-
evelt and that the text of the inter
view as given was strictly accurate.
This denial coming to the eye OF
Roosevelt at Suez, he again cabled
Paris, reiterating his denial and char
acterlzing the interview as an "impu-
dent fabrication without particle of
foundation" He also says that he
never saw correspondent of lie Jour
nal.
The correspondent has replied with
new affirmation of the truth OF the
interview and declares he is prepared
b bring further proof of his veracity