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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-17
BILL THAT IS EXPECTED
TO RAISE 100000. 900

Downward revision, maximum and mini
maximum duty ~ per cent i'll excess of
the present tariff, and numerous provi-
sions by which it is estimated that tile
revenue TO the government will be in
creased from forty to fifty million dollars
are the salient features of the new tariff
biz which was introduced in the House
today by Representative Serene K. Payne,
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee. The recommendations made by
President Taft-that an inheritance tax
tobacco and sugar be admitted free from
the Philippines-are included in the bill.
The measure also provides for the is
suance of Panama canal bonds to the
amount OF S4O.OOO.OOo to reimburse the
Treasury for the original purchase of the
canal and re-enacts the provision for
the issue OF Treasury certificates, the
amount being increased from 100000 600
10 s25O.OoO.0OO.
While there is no duty imposed upon
coffee. tea is taxed cents when imported
from the country where it is produced,
and . cents when from other than the
producing country. The internal revenue
tax on cigarettes is materially increased,
while the tax on beer and whisky Is un-
disturbed. A cut OF 80 per cent is made
in the steel and lumber schedules and
iron ore. hides. taIlow. cotton seed oil
and works OF art more than twenty years
old. are placed on the free list.
Boots, Shoes and Leather.
The tariff on boots and shoes is reduced
90 per cent. and on other leather manu-
factures in proportion. The pottery sched-
ule remains about the same. but the duties
window and plate glass OF the smaller
sizes are increased. while the duties on
the larger size are reduced. The tariff
on wool OF the first and second class
used principally in clothing. is not dis
turbed. but wool OF the third class.
known as carpet wool. il is reduced on the
cheaper grades y five-cent reduction i
made in the duties on shoddy and waste
while wool tops are assessed Il cents
pound more than the duty secured
wool. which is unchanged The recon-
mendations for placing wood pulp the
free list and reducing the duties print
paper. with certain restrictions. made by
the Mann committee of the House. are
incorporated in the bill.
The duty on refined sugar is reduced
five one-hundredths of a cent pound,
and on dextrin. one-half cent a pound. 4
reduction of one cent a pound is also
made in the duty on starch. with the ex-
ception OF potato starch Zinc in ore is
assessed one cent per pound for the zinc
contained. The tariff pig iron is re-
duced from 81 To $50 per ton.
The principal increases are made in the
eaties on lemons. cocoa and substitutes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-17
TAX ON INHERITANCES PROVIDED
AS RECOMMENDED BY PRESIDENT
Iron Ore, Hides and Coffee on Free List, With Re-
ductions on Sugar To Become Effective the
Day Following Its Enactment Statement
by Chairman Payne Explaining Provisions.
Principal Tariff Changes Proposed
In the Pavne Bi1l as Introduced

The tariff bill introduced in the House today by
Chairman Payne of the and committee is re
vision downward in good faith.
1t is a maximum and minimum bill in spirit, and is
pected raise estimated annual of
customs duties.
Coffee the free ist is taxed per pound
and when brought from other than the producing
country.
Iron the free list The duties
of iron and steel materially reduced Tin plate and steel
rails reduced.
Hides the free list and duties manufactured
leather reduced; and shoes reduced 40 per
Lumber and timber duties cut n half.
An inheritance tax is provided, estimated bring in
$2ooooooo.
There is to be reciprocal free trade with the Philippines,
with limitation the of sugar and tobacco annual
1y to be imported. Reciprocity with Cuba continues.
The internal cigarettes increased from
$500 to $780, and from $Ioo SI5o per thousand Beer
and whisky not touched.
Nails, wire hardware, TOOLS ETC.. reduced.
Changes in the pottery schedule material;
sizes of window glass reduced and others increased
Sugar reduced one-hunredtls cent per pound
The cheaper grades of wool are reduced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-17
THEIR FATE W!|THJUR
Trial of D. B. and Robin Cooper
and ]. D. Sharp Nears End.
COURTS REVIEW OF LAW
Whether Defendants Committed
Overt Act Jurors to Decide.
CHARGE REGARDED AS FAIR
Prisoners. Their Friends and Rela-
tives and Mrs. Carmack Listen
Intently to Judges Address.

NASHVILLE. Tenn, March 1.-THE
jury retired at Ills O'Clock this morning
to determine the fate of Col. Duncan b.
Cooper. his son. Robin Cooper, and John
d. Sharp. charged with the murder of
former United States Senator L. w. Car
mack
Judge Hart began his charge to the jury
at $50 o'clock. The court instructed the
jurors that they must decide whether or
not the Coopers committed an overt act
when they crossed the street to meet Car
mack. The jury retired Immediately on
conclusion of his address.
The stenographers worked all night and
had the completed document ready at
two typewriter pages of about 400 words
each.
Lawyers say it is the most comprehen-
sive and clear charge ever delivered in
a Tennessee court, and includes, in the
theories of state and defense. digest Of
the testimony of every witness who testi-
fed on either side.
The courtroom, when the judge began
to read, was packed
Judge Takes Witness Stand.
''The law makes the Judge the witness
of the law remarked Judge Hart. $50 I
will now take the witness stand and give
my testimony"
He left the bench. walked around to the
chair which has been the center of at
traction for two months and began to
read.
| Sheriff Borum had a dozen deputies
scattered through the room. In addition.
he asked for and received a detail OF ten
| uniformed patrolmen, who were stationed
around the bar.
| Il do not anticipate any demonstra-
tion," he said, 'but will run no risk OF
having one at the eleventh hour"
/ The defendants, neatly attired and
cleanly shaved had been brought in. For
a moment they held a levee near the bar.
Friends and relatives crowded around
| them shook hands and predicted that
they would all take dinner at home to-
night.
Daughters Show Emotion.
Mrs Burch and Mrs. Wilson, Col. Coop
ers daughters, eagerly listened to the
judges charge. AS the court declared
that no epithet. editorial or speech was
sufficient to justify an assault. both
frowned.
Mrs. Burch closed her eyes for a mo-
ment. When she opened them they were
| filled with tears. The words death by
| hanging made her vince.
| Mrs. Carmack, in black from head to
| foot, was again i'm court, her head upon
her sisters shoulder. her son on the arm
| of her chair. A half hundred woman
friends stood or sat behind her and ad-
| joining counsel for the state. Two pri
vate detectives stood near Attorney Gen.
eral McCarn's chair and kept a watchful
eye the crowd.
Judge Hart finished at Ills. having read
rapidly for nearly two hours. The jury
at once retired to its ROOM At 12:35 the
jurors declared they. were hungry, and
were taken to luncheon.
The jury returned to it's room for
further deliberation at 20 pm There
are no indications that a verdict will be
reached very soon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-17
CRASHED INTO TROLLEY CAR.
Three Injured in Auto Collision in
Brooklyn.

NEW YORK, March 11.-Col. A. P.
Hunter, a mine owner, of Albuquerque,
n. M; his daughter. Miss Mildred Hun
ter. and Miss Ray Phillips, who lives at
the Martha Washington Hotel here, were
painfully injured early today. when the
automobile in which the party was riding
collided with trolley car in Brooklyn.
Others In the party were not badly hurt.
The three persons named were pinned
in the tonneau Of the automobile when
the car slidded and crashed broadside
into the trolley car.
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Judge Hart, in Long Charge,
Instructs Jury in the Law

Special Dispatch to The Star
NASHVILLE. Tenn. March 17.-Judye
Hart's charge to the jury in the case Of
Col. D. B. Cooper, Robin J. Cooper and
John D. Sharp. charged with the mur-
der of ex-senator Carmack, was delivered
this morning. Court convened at 9:2J
o clock. and five minutes later Judge Hart
began reading the charge
The charge. which contained 1000
words set forth the indictment against
the defendants. and defined murder in
the first degree. in the second degree, vol
untary manslaughter and involuntary
manslaughter. What in law 1t took TO
constitute each of these different offenses
was explained.
Law Concerning Murder.
Quoting from the regular printed form
as to the law concerning murder. Judge
Hart said
The distinctive feature OF murder in
the first degree is generalization. This
element involves a previously formed de-
sign or actual intention to kill the per-
son slain. 1t is not necessary that such a
design should have been conceived or pre-
existed in the mind for any definite period
of time prior to its execution.
1T is sufficient, If ii precedes the actual
assault. how short soever the interval of
time may be. for the length of time is not
of the essence of this element OF this Of
fense.
The purpose to kill is no less premedi-
tated in the legal sense of the term IL Ii
was deliberately formed but a minute pre-
ceding the act by which death is pro-
duced than if il had been formed an hour
or other period of time before. The men,
tai state of the assailant at the time.
rather than the length of time the act
may have been premeditated. is the ma
terial point To be considered.
The question of vital Importance is:
Was the mind of the assailant at the
moment of the killing SO far free from ex
citement passion to be capable of
generalization. as before explained? and
Was the death of the party slain the OBJ
ject sought to be accomplished-the end
determined on?'
Malice as Native.
As to the question OF malice Judge Hart
said
Malice necessary to constitute murder
i'm the second degree is not confined to an
intention to take the life of the person
actually killed, as in the case of murder
i'm the first degree, but includes an inten-
tion to do any unlawful art which may
probably result in depriving a person of
life.
If one man kills another upon sud
den heat, produced by adequate provoca-
tomas il. upon a sudden quarrel, two
persons fight and one kills the other-this
is voluntary manslaughter In general, if
the person that Is struck strikes again
and death ensues from the blow IL Is vol
.untary manslaughter, the law regarding
the blow as sufficient provocation to ex-
cite the passion. The act Of killing will
be imputed to the heat of blood and pas
sion. rather than to malice, il no undue
advantage was taken by the party doing
the killing.
.'The law of self-defense is thus defined
by our supreme court: To excuse hS;ss.-
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for coffee. coal tar. dyes. gloves. and
coated papers and photographic prints.
Maximum and Minimum Basis.
As was expected, the new tariff bill is
made on maximum and minimum basis,
with the provision that the maximum
rates are not to go into effect until sixty
days after the passage of the bill. Reci-
proclty provisions are contained in the
paragraphs assessing duties on bituminous
coal and coke and agricultural imple-
nlents. by which these articles are given
entry free of duty when imported from
countries which permit the free importa-
ton of these articles from America
The Inheritance tax provision of the bill
is similar to the New York state law 1t
provides a tax of ) per cent on all in
heritances over $500 that are collateral
inheritances or in which strangers are the
legatees. In cases of direct inheritance the
taxes prescribed are: On $4,000 to $40. coo.
l per cent; on 100000 to $5oO,OO . per
cent. and on those over $500, 600, 3 per
cent. 1t Is estimated that $40 OOO, 600 an
nually will be derived from this tax
Abrogates Foreign Treaties.
The maximum and minimum provision
of the bill does away with the necessity
of continuing the foreign trade agree
ments. The abrogation of these is pro-
vided for in section which authorizes
the President to issue notices of the ter
mination Of these agreements within ten
days after the bill goes into effect. The
French agreement would therefore termi-
nate Immediately, while the German
a. ant to-
months. The time that must intervene
5efore the importation Of the other reci-
procity agreements would become effective
ranges from three months to one year
A provision in the bill is designed 10
meet the conditions resulting from the
patent laws of Great Britain. which re-
qure that patentees must manufacture
| their articles within Great Britain. This
provision applies the same rules to pat
ents taken out in this country by aliens
| as apply to Americans in the country
of the aliens. Drawback privileges are
extended by the bill. and the method of
valuation on articles upon which the
tarir imposes ad valorem duty Is
broadened for the purpose of preventing
| the practice of undervaluation
Mr.. Payne's Statement.
Representative Payne. chairman of the
ways and means committee In ntroduc-
ing the bill gave out the following state
ment:
one problem that confronted the COM
mittee was the question of revenue. The
business of all commercial nations has
! been depressed for nearly two years. anu
thus has affected our commerce and great
| ~ reduced our revenues. so that we have
large deficit. but the revenues under the
| present law are improving from month to
month. as business conditions are becom-
ing better
| The last normal year of imports was
the fiscal year ending June ~. 1906: 1907
was AN unusually prosperous year, and
Continued on Ninth Page)
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-17
Eliot Visits Charleston Schools.

CHARLESTON, g. c., March H.-For-
mer President Eliot of Harvard Univer-
sity. who arrived yesterday afternoon for
a three-day stay today visited the pub
lie schools, both white and colored. This
evening he will deliver a public address,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-17
Weather.

Fair tonight and Thursday.
Colder tonight. with tempera-
ture about 20 degrees.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23
(From the News-Letter.)

Messrs. Sadler and Booth left We'd
nesday for Clear Lake, where they
will visit with their families until their
bowling supplies arrive.
Born-To Mr.. and Mrs. Blain or
Thursday, December 16, 1909, a girl.
Secretary Barrett has about compile
ted paying the County Fair premiums
for 1909.
M. j. Bever came in from Grand
Rapids Saturday evening to spend few
days with relatives and friends in Bruce
and vicinity. Martin informs us that
he has resigned his pos ton with the
Arpin Hardwood Lumber Co., and will
GO to Houston, Texas, where he has
been given responsible position with
John Arpin, who is engaged in dredge
work for the state of Texas.
Ira Stenson returned home Tuesday
from Iowa, where he has been working
during the past year.
Will Cline returned to his work at
Ladysmith Tuesday, after spending a
couple of days with his brother Claude.
On Monday the 18th daughter was
born to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn H. Will
Jams, formerly of this village but now
residing at Grand Rapids.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23
INGRAM
(From the Ingram Advanc,

Mrs. A. E. Huffman has been con-
fined to her bed this week with severe
cold, but is some better at this writing.
F. H. Pardoe, Vice President of the
Ingram Lbr. Co., made Ingram bust
ness visit on Monday of this week.
Thos. Clark is now working for the
Main Greek Lbr. Co.
M. Y. Cliff is reported to be very
sick at this writing.
The Commercial Club met Wednesday
evening with a good attendance. The
creamery question was taken up again
and its various phases discussed. The
committee was instructed to secure def
mite information regarding the number
of cows available, cost of plant, etc.,
and to report at the next meeting. A
communication regarding the establish
ment of an Excelsior factory here was
read
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23
Has Necklace Worn by Queen.

The beautiful American Princess
Rospigliosi amazed the republican
aristocracy" by wearing a priceless
pearl necklace, which was once the
property of an English queen and a
French king. The princess was for
merly Miss Marie Reid of Washington.
and later Mrs Frederick Hale Park
hurst before she married the head of
the great Roman house OF Rospigliosi.
The necklace originally belonged to
Queen Henrietta vi Elg.@nd Louis
XIV bought it as love token for
Mile Mancini II Passed into the
Colonna family and thence to the
house of Rospigliosi The famous
heirloom was a wedding present to
the American princess
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23

sion. There is also to be Christmas
Tree, which to the young er ones is prob
ably the greatest attraction
Fred Books, who has been away from
here nearly year, has returned lately
accompanied by brother.
Geo. Scott is visiting relatives in this
vicinity.
Thos. Briscoe and family have moved
into their new abode in Sheldon, from
the Frost place, where they have lived
since coming to this county.
Our schools have a two weeks holiday
vacation beginning Thursday, Dec %
The Sergeant school-house is now
occupied by family who recent,
moved in here.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23
The Comma in Law.

The comma is a very important
item. and, if omitted the reading mat.
ter cuts queer capers. AS an instance,
note the following act of the last leg.
islature Of Massachusetts: Whoever
operates an automobile or a motor
cycle on any public way laid ont un,
der the authority OF law recklessly or
while under tho influence of liquor,
or so as to endanger the lives or safety
OF the public etc Evidently the
reckless motorist can go as he
pleases on highways which have not
been laid out under the influence of
liquor". Legislators should not only
mind their p's and as, but the periods
and commas
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23
n ths chlldren,s lnterests.

Mrs. Emma Garrett Boyd of Allan
Ia, Ca, has been active in getting Sig
natures to the petition from the WON.
en- of Georgia to the legislature de-
handing better education for the chill
dren of the state. More than five thou.
sand names have been secured to the
petition, and the leading workers will
march with it into the hall of the
house of representatives. The signers
also demand that the children of Geor.
gia be relieved from work in factories.
The petition has the solid support OF
the Daughters of the American Revo.
luton, the Womans Christian Temper.
ance union and every other body Of
representative Georgia women.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23
Electric Surgery.

The elect, ic surgical knife now be-
ing tested by Prof: Bier OF Berlin. mas
for a handle a glass rod six inches
long inclosing q conducting wire, and
the blade is probe-shaped and without
cutting edge. A half inch noiseless
spark appears at the end OF the probe
when a high-frequency current Is
passing. This spark cuts soft tissues
much as a hot knife sinks through
butter. operating more quickly than
the ordinary scalpel, while 1t Is
claimed that healing must follow
more rapidly than usual. More pro-
fuse bleeding than in ordinary opor-
atoms is a disadvantage.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23
BRUCE
Special correspondence to the News Budget

Special correspondence to the News Budget
B. F. Kepner, for several years res
ident of New Mexico, writes that the
mercury recently fell to 10 degrees be-
low zero, very remarkable circum-
stance in that warm country. Shall we
not say with the poet: 20 say can you
not well see that Wisconsin is good
enough for me. -
Walter Bowman came home to Apol-
lonia this week from the coast, where
he has been engaged in business for the
last five years. He was summoned by
the serious illness of his mother, whose
condition remains the same.
The public school closed with appro-
pirate exercises last Friday for a two
weeks vacation.
Eli Taylor, builder and contractor,
went to his home at Grand Rapids to
spend the holidays and will return when
the season opens for work.
Prof. E. j. Young went home to APP
pleton to spend vacation.
Rev. Thomas Biggan of Osceola con-
Quoted services at the M. E. church
Sunday morning.
H. M. Zentner has furnished couple
of nice trees for the Christmas enter
tainment to be given by the Congrega-
tional Sunday school.
Report comes that Rev. F. E. Cain,
formerly pastor of the Congregational
church here, has been unable to fill his
pulpit at Collbran, Colo., because of a
fracture of the rib.
Louis Stahman is hobbling about his
shop as result of "kick." We are
not sure whether Paul Olson's horse
kicked or was kicked-Louie says
kicked. F."
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23
French Police Doqs.

The Paris police dogs are constant
demonstrating their great use.
Ineir latest achievement is the cap
ture OF an ex-conVict who was leaving
a house in the Rue de la Chapelle. He
struck passing policeman, the blow
being so we'll aimed that the man fell.
hlsing, ne pursued the fugitive and
Kept him in siSht, Two other police
men, accompanied by their dog, saw
the 1ugltive--a fleet runner The dog
was sent after the suspect, and over.
TOOK him. A desperate struggle fol-
lowed, and the dog released his grip.
out only to take another naore effect
lvejy. He seized the man by the
throat. threw him to the ground, and
Kept him until the police took charge
Oh the recidiviste.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23

A new method of transmitting pho.
tographs to a distance has recently
been devised. A gelatine negative Is
used, in which the picture Is formed
In relief. A stylus travels over the
uneven surface of the negative and
operates rheostat in the main line.
At the receiving station a luminous
ray plays over sensitized plate. and
the intensity of It's light Is varied by
the rheostat. The reliefs and hollows
of the original are thus reproduced In
light and shadow on the sensitized
medium, and form the picture. This
recently tried with success on the line
between Paris and Lyons.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23
A ludicrous Experiment.

Holmes was one of the many emil
nent men who have attempted to
solve the riddle of the universe. In
his case the result was ludicrous.
From the sublime thoughts that came
to him while under the influence OF
chloroform he thought he might ar
rive at some solution. Placing him.
self in his armchair, with pen, ink
and paper at hand, he inhaled the an.
aesthetic. AS drOWsiness stole over
him the nature Of things seemed re-.
vealed. By vigorous effort he seized
his pen and wrote-he knew not what,
for before he had finished he fell back
unconscious. When he recovered he
turned with trembling anxiety to the
sheet OF paper, on which, written in
scrawling characters but quite legible.
he found the awful revelation: "A
strong smell of turpentine pervades
the wh0lei"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23
A Me- Flaot TX

An interrsl, ~, ~c lock. run
ny single dry eeli ala Qaite indie
pendent of extcrna: co2ne c.ion, has
Just be-. put on tac p'alEet in Eng.
land A heavy balance wheel is kept
in motion by AZ e4ectc:c magnet
mounted diametrically across it. AS
the balance wheel swings against
the action of the coiled spring stud
or the axle makes contact with a
Eight spring, this completing the cleo
trio circuit and enere.zing the mag
net, which acts for moment upon
the balance wheel This impulse Is
given once every four seconds. 1t is
said, that Dry cell viii run the clock
for LOCO consecutive hours The
movement is noseless and the clock
may be placed in any position without
interfering with its running Youths
Companion