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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
President Taft'S Salary

After long contention between the two houses of Congress the salary of the President has been made s75,000 and he is to pay his own travelling ex- penses. These expenses averaged 5000 a year during MT. Roosevelt's term, so that the Presidents salary has been increased to about s66,000, after standing many years at $59,0O0. The increase is but s7000, and 1t is not such an increase as a great country should provide for its chief officer.
 The Senate stood for a higher sal ary. It first inserted in the legislative, executive and judicial bill an item giv ing the President a salary of S100,000 a year. The House reduced the amount to $75,000, and the contention of the House was sustained in the conference committee. The Senate then put in the sundry civil bill an item providing S25, 1000 for the payment of the Presi- dents travelling expenses, but it was compelled to recede from this amend ment in order to pass the big supply bill
 The President will therefore receive fiat salary of $75,000 during the next four years. There is nothing, however, to prevent the new Congress from foot ing his travelling expenses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Mr. Tafi'S Fiscal Programme

After hastening in his inaugural message to place himself on the Roose- welt corporation platform President Taft proceeds to discuss fiscal affairs the tariff and the deficit He asks Congress to transact no other busi- ness, quite forgetting that at the least a census bill must be passed.
 MT. Taft wants new tariff, and he wants it quickly. He wants a maxi mum tariff for reyenge's sake, and he wants more revenue. He puts the deficit of the treasury this year at $100 900 O00, but no one else puts 1t so low by at least s30,o0O, 900. It stood at $S6, ,361, ,98O on March 1. The better opinion seems to be that it will go to $1SO, O,O00,OO0, and no one feels at all sure that it will be less in the fiscal year that will begin on July 1.
 President Taft asks Congress to put an end to deficits. It is its impera- tive duty, he says, to do so He inti- mates that prohibitive duties should be abolished. and that all duties should be supplemented with a graduated in- heritance tax. No income tax, but a graduated inheritance tax, which, he says, is correct in principle and easy of collection. As much certainly could be said of an income tax, but the Presi- dent does not say it.
 The meaning of these recommends tions is plain-they are to reappear in the Payne general plan, and they are to have the support of the new Presi- dent. The general scope of the new scheme that Payne and Dalzell and Cannon and Aldrich are incubating is thus made known.
 One of two things is sure-either prohib1t1ve duties must De supplanled by revenue duties, or else the tax on inheritances must be graduated up sharply in order to stop current defi- cits. The chances are that both would be insufficient. and all know the real tariff makers want more prohibitive than revenue duties.
 An income tax in addition to an in- heritance would have fitted the case and it would have given the govern ment what the President calls ''an adequate income It is plain, how ever, that the order has gone forth that no income tax shall be imposed. Those who have taxable incomes have more "pull' than those who have none.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
ENFORCEMENT OF
 LAW PREVENTED

New Orleans, March 4.-By ordering the release today of two syrians, helo for deportation on recommendation oi a special board of inquiry. Judge Fos- ter of the federal court created an un- usual situation as to the enforcement of immigration laws at this port.
 The attorney of the Syrians, In ap- plying for a writ of habeas corpus, pointed out that under an act of Con gress of February, 1907, the office Of commissioner of immigration was pro- vided at New Orleans and to thls com missioner was delegated the authority to convene special boards Of inquiry. It was contended that no~such appolhe= men was made and that P. Il. Strettoh' who is in charge of the immigration office here, being an inspector and not a commissioner, had no authority 10 appoint a special board of 1nqulry. The court unheld this view.
 It Is inferred that the immigration department at Washington will thus be forced to arrange for the immediate appointment of a commissioner if the immigration laws are to be enforced at this port.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
STANZAS TO AUGUSTA,
By Lord Byron.


 Tho the day of my destny's over, And tile star of my fate hath declined, Thy soft heart refused to discover The faults that so many could find; Tho thy soul with my grief was &C.,
 quainted,
 It shrunk not to share it with me, And the love which my spirit hath
 painted
 It never hath found but in thee Then when nature around me Is smiling, The last smile which answers to mine, l do not believe 1t beguiling, Because it reminds me of thine; As when winds are at war with the
 ocean,
 As the breasts I believe in with me, If their pillows excite an emotion. It is that they bear me from thee. Tho the rock of my last hope is shivered' And its fragments are sunk in the wave, Tho I feel that my soul is delivered To pain-it shall not be it's slave There is many a pang to pursue me, They may crush but they shall not con-
 demn-. They may torture, but shall not supous
 me;
 iris of thee that think-not of them. The human, thou didst not deceive me, Tho woman, tnOu uluSt not 1OrSake, Tho loved, thou forbodest to grieve me, Tho slandered, thou ne'er couldst for
 sake,
 Tho trusted, thou didst not discaim me, Tho parted, it was not to fly, Tho watchful, twas not to defame me, Nor mute, that the world might belle. Yet I blame not the world nor despise it, Nor the war of the many with one If my soul was not fitted to prize it, Twas my folly not sooner to shun; And if dearly that error has cost me. And more than I once could foresee, l have found that, whatever it lost me. It could not deprive me of thee. From the wreck of the past which hath
 perished
 Thus much I at least may recall, It hath taught me that what most cher
 ished Deserved to be dearest of all In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wild waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of hate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
CROWD SUFFERS GREATLY.
Snow and SIush Cause Death to Wash
 ington Visitors.

Washington, March 4.-Much suffering was caused among the vast inauguration crowd here today by the wintry winds, the slush under foot and freezing tenn perature. Two persons were reported dead as a result of exposure and many other persons are seriously i'll. The dead are; Andrew Doran, 55 years old, Pullman conductor, who died at the Union station tonight; Norman A Stall, 45 years old, of Richmond, who was seized with an at tack of apoplexy
 All of the hospitals tonight report that they have treated numerous cases of ex- haustion among persons who stood for many hours in the slush and snow view ing the inaugural parade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
STREET MUST RIDE
 ON WATER WAGON

Atlanta, March IA Washington spe- cial to the Constitution says:
 Charles Street, the Alabama boy who is a catcher for the Washington team, and who distinguished himself by catching a ball dropped from the top of the Wash- ington monument, has signed what he re- fers to as Sliding contract with Man ager Cantillon. He left his home in Tus- cumbia, Ala, today to report to Man ager Cantillon at the training grounds in Galveston. Street explained that his contract calls for $500 additional in the event that he goes through the entire season astride the water wagon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
The Iron Market.

While the pig iron market is still dull a buying movement is expected during the present month. There is no settled price. Some furnace interests are offering iron at S12 on a No. ? basis and few are quoting even less. With anything like an active market is believed that the price would go up to SIS. It is pointed out that there is no good reason for iron being as low as 1t is now. Following the panic of 1907 the price dropped S7 or $S a ton, while steel prices were stiffly maintained all through the depression until recently. The head of one promi- nent iron concern here says that rather than shade s12 he will pile all his output on the yard. Rogers, Brown & Co., Cincinnati report says;
 ''The week has been of small interest in the iron trade and inquiry and buying are quiet There are so many elements at work which are of interest to con- sumers of pig iron that the almost uni versal sentiment seems to be to wait while and follow the trend of these af- fairs.
 .'It is reported that in the last few days there has been an increase in the volume of new orders for fabricated and structural steel, but this Is all that can be claimed.
 Some concerns report practically noth- ing at all in the. way of new business. Each day brings the possibility of better business for March nearer at hand, as there are several good contracts pend ing which have been under negotiation and which still are in the air.
 ePrfces are somewhat easier, but there is no undue effort on the part of sellers to influence an artificial buying move ment by any radical price reductions of pig iron. It is highly probable that should this waiting attitude manifest itself much longer, curtailment in product will be the result rather than sales baow cost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Horseback Ridino.

There seems to be revival of the de- lightful and healthful exercise, horse back riding" said one who delights in ride in the saddle.
 'There are a number of very excellent saddle horses owned by private indiyid- uals, some of them of the High school class, with all the fancy gaits for parks and highways. l prefer the flat gait trot, the gallop and dashing eanter of the thor oughbred. No one becomes an expert rider on any other class of horses. And the fancy gaits, except the fox-trot, soon wear a horse out, Often when a horse seems unsteady, shifting from a pace or single-foot to a fox-trot, the animal is tired, or sometimes in distress from the saddle or too severe a bit. Many per sons do not know that a horse turns its head to one side from the pain of tooth or q sore in the mouth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
seventy-five Thousand.

"I am glad that Congress has at last increased the Presidents salary said a democrat. 'I am sorry that the sum originally inserted in the bill-$1oo, ,OOo-was cut down. Any President can live well on S75.0OO and save something besides, but in a great nation like ours the chief magis- trate should receive not less than $l0O'OOo.
 ''The item of $25 GOO for the Presidents travelling expenses was stricken out of the appropriation bill and now MT. Taft will be expected to pay for his railroad tickets and his private car out of his sal ary MT. Roosevelt was the only Presl- dent who had travelling expense allow ance. and he expended less than half of the s25O.O00 MT. Taft is not an extraV- agant mann and as the government main tains the White House, supplying fuel, light, water flowers, music and all the attendants except the purely private ser wants there Is little left for the President to pay for except what goes on his table President Taft will probably save S25,OOO A year, and at that rate, if he should be in office eight years, he would retire with S2000OO or more to the good. That would not make such bad showing, but in these days of costly living the interest on s9O0. GOO would not enable him to cut much of a figure in the way of maintain ing an establishment of his own"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
The Inauouration Date.

'Slnce the wretched weather played havoc with the inauguration, there should be a renewed agitation in favor of chang ing the date of inducting the President in office from March to some date in April or May said a man who. once lived in Washington.
 'Taft weather could not have been much worse, and as March is rarely ever bright or pleasant day in Wash ington. everybody will agree that Con gress should make the desired change But the chances are that the agitation will soon blow over and that the next inaugural ton and the next and the next will take place on March f. It is too bad. however, that Congress does not take serious view of the matter and give us an inauguration in the spring time.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Bishop Potters Widow Dead.

Scriven Potter, widow of Bishop Henry c. Potter, died today at her home here, after an illness extending over several days. She survived Bishop Potter only eight months. Mrs. Potter, whose first husband. Alfred Corning Clark, left her an estate of several millions, was very much interested in charity, and it was through her interest in charitable insti- tutions conducted by the Protestant Epis- copal church, that friendship was first formed which resulted in her marriage to the late bishop of New York. Three sons are abroad at present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
REFLECTIONS o "A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

T
 A girl can always fool man about what she thinks of him because he does 1t himself.
 The man who would rather stay home and lay ocloth for his wife than go to a baseball game hasn't got a wife.
 The mean thing about a holiday is all the disagreeable things you have to do then because you don't have the time other days.
 The time a girl feels she can really trust man not to kiss her Is before her father, and that's why she never lets him stay around.
 Lots of people who pray for a thing they want tire themselves all out that way, so they can't help 1t alons with a little work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
cWlLlTY OF CORNISH FOLK.
From the Antiquary.

From the Antiquary.
 Here let me record how pleasant 1t is 10 travel about in the country districts in Cornwall. Few of the people you meet cross your path without passing the time of day. If you ask the way you are in- variably answered civily. You are not told to go straight on and then ask again. No. you are directed with great minuteness. of detail as to the propet cause you should take. As likely as not, so l have found it, your casually picked up friend will say after an elaborate ex- planation of the right way that you will never find it alone and set off with you to the point you wish to gain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Steady Strides.

Birmingham is making steady strides in spite of the recent business depres- son," said Charles Blach of Chicago, who is registered at the Florence. Since was here last fall several big buildings have taken shape
 With a revival of industrial prosperity Birmingham will go forward faster than ever Three or four years hence It will be vastly larger; It's business district will suggest city. of several hundred thou sand population."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
soRRLY woRsrEp:

TROUBLE soRBLY WORsTED. Trouble came to seek him out Glapped him on the shoulder Think you that he gan to pout?
 Only made him bolder. Smote he with a yeomans hand Trouble was the victim; Mopped the floor with Trouble and Out the door he kicked him! Truoble rose and limped away Should have heard him below; Said, T ne'er before today
 Met so stout fellow. Fool I was to tackle him
 Thought he was a quitter; Care will never shackle him
 Sorrows spies imbittert'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05

You taught me how to know the face
 of right. king John.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Insurance Suits Settled.

New York, March 4.-The Mutual Life Insurance company has settled suits ag- gregating nearly s6,OOo,OOO in 1906 against its former president, Richard A. Me- Curdy, and others, according to the Times today. The company has received from the defendants, it is said. total of $S15, GOO. The suits were brought for the re- covery of money alleged to have been ob- tained by the defendant officers and agents for the company and improperly eXpended by them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Charged With Gambling.

Lake Charles, La, March 4,-Warrants charging them with gambling were issued today against 25 prominent residents of Lake Charles. Two of the number pleaded guilty and were fined $50 and costs The others will be placed on trial Saturday. It Is believed that the warrants were instigated by the Good Government league.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05

The symbol of autocracy in foreign
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Blanche Walsh III Auain,

Kansas City, March 4-Miss Blanche Walsh, the actress, Is Ill at the Baltimore hotel here. Her physicians diagnose her case as lead poisoning This, they say, may have resulted from her eating canned fruit or may be due to cosmetics. Miss Walsh came here last month from Fort Smith, Ark, and it was then stated she was suffering from liver trouble.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
REGRETTABLE.

Do you suppose there were any pos sums aboard Noah's ark?"
 "There must have been."
 'I'm sorry"
 "Why?"
 If all the 'possums In the world had been drowned at the time of the flood we would have escaped the Billy 'Possum craze"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Servia's Reply to Russia.

London, March 4.-Semi-offical dis patches from St. Petersburg and Bel grade confirm the statement that Servia's 5 reply to Russia renounces territorial com pensations It further declares that Ser via does not desire to disturb friendly relations with Austria-Hungary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Old Confederate Is Dead.

Durant, Okla, March 4.--Col. Thomas D. Taliaferro, IT years old, died here today at the home of his daughter, Mrs z. c. Gibson. He was Confederate veteran, having been colonel of the Twen- tieth Texas cavalry in the Civil War. He was native of Virginia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05

Speaker Cannon declines to be the subject of every passing grouch. He protests and he asks for justice and reason. He speaks now from the water wagon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Lemp Decree Changed.

St. Louis, March 4.-Judge Hitchcock to- day changed the divorce decree awarded to Lillian Handlan Lemp so as to state specifically that the $60OO a year alimony shall be paid throughout Mrs. Lemp's life while she remains unmarried The motion for new trial was overruled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
SLIGHTLY HINpEREp.

q went to get away He said it every day In accents that were deeply fraught with
 pain. And yet, he had to stay He couldn't get away, Unless he took along ball and chain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Company to Be Reoreanized.

Chicago, March 4--Judge Grosscup en- tered an order in the United States circuit court today confirming the order of the chancery court of New Jersey authoriz- ing the reorganization of the United Box Board and Paper company
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05

The members of the Ananias club attended the inaugural in an individual capacity only. They recognize the fact that their greatness as an organization has departed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
rubercuIosis CampaIan.

Pensacola March 4.-In the .907day cam paign" against tuberculosis being oon- ducted in this state, Director Routzahn, Mayor Goodman and a number of physi- clans addressed audiences in various parts of the city today
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Nebraska Women May Vote.

Lincoln. Neb., March 1.-The Nebraska house this afternoon, by the necessary three-fifths vote of 62 to 34 passed the Howard bill, submitting a constitutional amendment, permitting women to vote in all elections.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
BEING so STRENUOUS.

President Roosevelt broke a great many precedents."
 "Indeed he did. And the wonder is how he got through without breaking his neck !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Glasscock Inauuurated.

Charleston, w. Va, March 4.-William F. Glasscock was today inaugurated gov ernor of West Virginia. The ceremony and the parade were the most elaborate ever held at a state inauguration in this Ia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05

Those who do not expect to hold offices in the reign of William Howard Taft stayed at home, earning their bread and letting the inauguration commotion take care of itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Child Chokes to Death.

New Orleans, March 1.-The 2-year-old child of James Mannese of 1915 Dauphn street choked to death this afternoon when a piece of bread became lodged in his throat
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05

Let us be glad MT. Roosevelt did not confer the command of the fleet on a Rough Rider before he went out of office Admiral Schroeder gets the iob
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05

A CHILD. Griselda with her smiling eyes Could win the world to folly, Her glance how hoydenish it flies, Her laugh now sweet and jolly. Iife's gravity must fade before A maid so like a fairy, So little versed in musty lore, So frolicsome and airy. Griselda's never serious Not even when she's sleeping Across her cheek half tremulous, The ghosts of smiles are creeping. All day the bitterly that goes Sun-skipping OCT the pillow, At eve she dreameth like a rose Upon a snow-white pillow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
THE MARVELS OF RADIUM

cers. Sir Frederick Treves mentions the case of a girl who had tumor on her eyelid, in size equal to a plum, which was removed by radium.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
figures of the bills that the partici-

This is too much to pay to see Presi- dent inaugurated in a chilly air amid snow and slush. Either the spectacle should be minimized or else it's date in the spring season should be post poned to April, or, better still, to May.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05

Mr. Bonaparte turned over to Attor- ney General Wickersham a ton or two of unfinished business directed against the trusts and monopolies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05

The crocus, which has been in bios som in Alabama ever since New Years Day, is beginning to march northward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
Local Option Bill Passes.

Olympia, Wash. March 4-With only two votes against it the local option measure passed the house today. The bill now goes to the senate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
In the Industrial World.

w M. Nixon, one of the Tennessee trustees for the creditors of the South ern Steel company, was in Birmingham yesterday, but returned home last night. He is mine operator and is prominent in the industrial world.
 'The coal trade has been dull all win ter and just now the iron trade Is in a waiting condition,' said MT. Nixon. Com paratively little pig iron is being offered and of course very little is being sold. Furnace interests are not disposed to lower prices and consumers are holding off, hoping they can buy cheaper later on. An improvement in the iron trade is expected soon.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
FATHER BLUNDERs AGAIN.

FATHER FOUNDERS AGAIN. When father said to mother,
 This coffee's cold my dear,' She didn't heave a little sigh,
 She didn't shed a tear. She simply gave him such look I'm sure, had he been able, Poor father would have left his place And crawled beneath the table!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05

The 'possum crop in Georgia has been cornered, and the price of a fat 'possum has been advanced to $14 It formerly stood at 60 cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05

Congressman John Wesley Gaines is one of those who have gone out of the limelight into Nashville obscurity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05

The uplift farm commission has lost it's great protector and founder. It will, no doubt, return to private life, unhonored and unannalled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
INCLUDING ME.

Most everybody loves the girl Who's careful with her kisses, And yet tis very sad to see
 How much a fellow misses. Fen though you hold me radical, An imbecile-a noddy, I really think a pretty girl
 Should kiss most everybody!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-05
PAINFUL.

'IIow did young Biffersly come out In his last love affair."?
 q understand he found another sis- ter"