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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
ELECTIONS ARE
 NEARLY ENDED

London, December 16.-With only 2s seats in the new house of commons yet to be filled, the general elections are prac- tically ended and the exhausted polltlcai orators have begun much needed rest. Of the 2s vacant seats, 20 already nave been boiled for, although the results VIII not be known until tomorrow.
 The position of the contending parues tonight Is as follows;
 Government coalition, S77; unionlst, zoo.
 The members of the house or loros party are agreed to call the result or the lalloting draw, but there is no uanimi- ty among them as how best to meet the new situation when parliament meets Some of them want the house Of lords straight away to reject the government veto bill, while others favor policy or delay by discussing the bill and eventually inserting wholesale amendments
 The unionists' Saturday Review declares that King George was badly advised in consenting to the dissolution of parlia- rnent. but it says 1t cannot see how his majesty can now avoid coming to a de- cision in favor of one party or the other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
Champ CInrk's Statement

Washington. December 16.-Representa- tive Champ Clark gave out statement tonight fully outlining his platform as the prospective speaker of the democratic House of Representatives in the next Congress. He proclaims himself in favor of the appointment of committees of the House by committee rather than by the speaker, and he states his belief that the tariff should be revised, schedule by schedule, rather than In one single bill Those two subjects. says MT. Clark, are the ones upon which he has been con- tinuaiiy importuned to make some state ment
 The democratic members of the House sent out a call today for a caucus Jan uary 19 of the democratic membership of the next House of Representatives MT Clark's statement is both an explana- ton of the call for that caucus and a declaration of his own platform as the probable speaker of the House.
 The caucus will select a ways and means committee and rules committee somewhat larger than the present com- mittees MT. Clark believes that one of the committees should be then empow- cred to select the other committees of the House. There are two theories of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
PROMOTER HELD
 ON FRAUD CHARGE

Washington, December 16.-Information was received late tonight by Postmaster General Hitchcock and Chief Inspector Sharp of the arrest of E. c. Drew. pres ident of the Alabama Electric Service company at Fort Payne. Ala, on charges of using the mails for alleged fraudu- lent enterprises.
 Departmental officials say Drew Is known widely as promoter of various industrial corporations. and that he has operated not only in the south, but also in the west
 The arrest of Drew was made by Post office Inspectors Reid and Pemberton who were assisted in their investigations by the United States district attorneS the Fort Payne district.
 The general charge against Drew is that he sent attractive circulars and other advertising matter through the malls to induce the recipients to purchase stock in his companies. He represented, it is charged, that he proposed through the Alabama Electric Service company to supply electric power to Birmingham and various places in northeastern Alabama, Chattanooga and Atlanta.
 His company, of which 1t is stated he is practically the mainstay, was repre- sented to have a capital of s, 900 900, being incorporated for that amount It fur ther was represented that it had taken over the Fort Payne Fuel and Iron coni- pany a Louisiana corporation, with a nominal capital of $5,000,00O The latter corporation is said to have been organ zed by Drew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
STEAMER ICE BOUND
 UPON LAKE ERIE

Sandusky, O., December lo.-lhe pas senger steamer Lakeside, bound rom Kelleys island and Put-in-Bay, with 7o passengers, is fast in the ice about two miles off Cedar Point and five miles from here. About half the passengers are women and children.
 Several passengers walked across the ice today to get aid for the ice bound ship and her passengers.
 If the ice remains firm sleds will be sent after the passengers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17

tariff revision," says Mir. Clark in his statement. Revision by one general bill and revision by separate bills for sepa- rate schedules. This Is a matter not of principle, but of method.
 Individually I prefer the scheme on separate bills for separate schedules, talk ing the schedules with the most obnox- ious features first, perhaps, in certain cases having separate bills for particular items"
 The statement proceeds to say that whatever method is decided upon full hearing as comprehensive as that which preceded the framing of the Payne--4l- drich law will be had by the new ways and means committee.
 The assumption growing out of ig- norance in certain quarters" says MT. Clark, that President Taft or Senator Cummins or any other republican has dis covered something new in tariff revision by the separate scheme is preposterous. As far back as the Fifty-second Con gress MT. Chairman Springer introduced separate bills for separate schedules, and even for particular items, which were derisively denominated Springer's pop gun hills by republican speakers and writers; and several years before Judge Springer was chairman of the committee on ways and means MT. Mckenzie of Kentucky achieved both great renown and the sobriquet of 'Quinine Jim by se- curing the passage of a bill putting qui- nine on the free list and touching no ether item whatsoever in any tariff sched- ule."
 MT. Clark declares he Is heartily in favor of inviting to the caucus all the democratic members-elect. He goes on to say that his efforts for the last two years have been directed largely to the ratification of the democrats in the House and for that reason the members-eect should be given every opportunity, if that uniflcation is to be maintained, to express their choice in the naming of the members of the committees.
 Two questions" MT. Clark says, "in- terest the country: How the democrats will select its committees and what the party will do with the tariff" This last question has been answered and proceed ing to the first the statement says:
 "As to the mode of selecting commit tees in the event of my own election to the speakership I would not care the snap of my finger to exercise the power of appointing them. I have stated that to every democratic member who cared to inquire my opinion. The exercise of that power would undoubtedly have cer- tain unpleasant features"
 Of the two plans for the election of committees by the democratic caucus or directly by the House itself. MT. Clark favors the last named
 This Is based on the fact that in de- hatable states the independent voters ap- pear to favor 1t and the future speaker of the House frankly acknowledges that 1t may be adopted because of the infiu- ence 1t would have in returning demo- cratic President and democratic Con- gress in 1912.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
BRIBERY CHARGES
 FAIL TO DEVELOP

Jackson, Miss, December 16.-(SpeciaL) The Hinds county grand jury adjourned today after being in session since Decem- Der to meet again December 2S to at tend to any matters that may develop, This has been very active jury. It ex- amined hundreds of witnesses and broke the record on indictments, having III to its credit. Senator Bilbo and Attorney James of George county were not indict- ed Bilbo declared he has nothing to fell. that he never received any bribe from James, and James simply refused to testify. This perhaps ends what prom ised another sem-political sensation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17

Washington, December 16.-tSpeclai.) Representative Underwood will tomor- row introduce bill constituting Bir- mingham support of entry for im- portations and expectations. The pas sage of the bill will save Birmingham dealers both expense and time, as goods would reach them and be sent direct without delay at other ports of entry as Is now the case.
 MT. Underwood's bill is as follows'
 Be 1t enacted by the Senate ana House of Representatives of the United states of America in Congress as- sembled that Birmingham, In the s'a,e
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
HARLAN AND OTHERS
 MAY SECURE PARDON

Pensacola, Fla, December 16.--Ac- cording to a telegram received today from w. w. Flournoy, counsel for w. H. Harlan and others of the Jackson Lumber company who is in Washing ton, President Taft has consented to reopen the cases of the parties and again consider the application for a pardon.
 These applications have been pending for some time, but the President has declined heretofore to consider the cases, having once commuted the sen tences from 15 months to six months in the penitentiary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
Congressman Underwood Seeks To
 Make Birmingham Port Of Entry

of Alabama, be, and the same is here by. constituted support of entry in the customs collection district of Mo bile and that the privileges of section z of the act approved June 10, 1880, governing the immediate transportation of dutible merchandise without ap- praisement be and the same Is hereby extended to the said support of Bir- minghan, Ala"
 Representative Burnett was informed today that there will be no difficulty about his obtaining sufficient amount at this session to make Improvements on the Gadsden building. It Is pro- posed to add two stories on the building and work will be started In the spring.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
Tboma. Garrett Dies

Montgomery. December 16.-Thomas G. Garrett. for 20 years private secretary to Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama. and one of the best known men in Ala bama. died suddenly this morning at his home in this county. He was a graduate of the Naval academy in the class of '6l and cast his lot with the Confederates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
Sent to Naval Hospital

Norfolk, Va, December 16.-The cruiser Washington today rejoined the cruisers engaged In battle practice off the Virginia capes after having brought to the naval hospital three members of her crew, one of whom is suffer- ing from diphtheria and another from typhoid fever. Gunner Langfield is the typhoid patient and Musician F. Regio has diphtheria
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
Chine.e smu.gIers Caught

Fl Paso, December 16-Sixteen Chinese, concealed in a boxcar, we're arrested this morning at Ysleta, below Fl Paso. and two Americans were also arrested. charged with smuggling the Chinese in this country. The ear had been lined around the sides with baled hay leaving space in the middle of the car and into this space the Chinamen had been let down from the roof. V ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
Bolivians Show DisapprovnI

Buenos Ayres, Argentine, December Is. Today's papers publish telegram from La Paz announcing that the ministry of Bolivia has resigned because of its dis approval of the terms of the protocol which General Pando of Bolivia signed on December I3, re-establshing diplomatic relations between Bolivia and Argentina. These relations had been severed as the result of Bolivia's dissatisfaction over President Alcorta's arbitrament of the Bolivia. Peru. boundary dispute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
orranixing Travelling Men

Jackson, Miss, December 16.-(Special.) Ben H. Holder a leading light in the Mississippi Travellers. organized here three years ago and which now has membership in Mississippi of 12oO, left tonight for Montgomery, Ala, to put the travellers in that state to work. Geor- sia. Virginia. Tennessee and Arkansas are already organized and membership increasing rapidly. s. K. McAvoy Of Montgomery is now temporary chairman of the Alabama division.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
Many Small Vessels Are Lost In the Blizzard of Snow
 and Wind
NEW YORK CITY IS IN
 GRIP OF THE ICE KING
All New England and Middle Atlantic States Feel the Effect of the Sudden Drop in the
 Temperature

Boston, December 16.-The blizzard of last night and today brought disaster to shipping along the Massachusetts coast and tonight four schooners were known to have been wrecked, another was in tow disabled, one barge had foundered and other barges were reported adrift and missing. The revenue cutter Gresham which took aboard the crews of two sink ing schooners and assisted other ves- sells, spent the entire day and most of the night undoing the havoc of the storm. Up to tonight no definite report of loss of life had reached this city.
 The vessels which suffered from the storm included the following:
 Schooner Thomas B. Garland of Ports mouth, wrecked on Great Point bar, Nan tucket. The crew was rescued early to- day by the Coskata life saving crew.
 Schooner Abbie G. Cole of Machias, Me, stranded and waterlogged on Stone Horse shoal off Monomoy Point. The crew was rescued by the Gresham this morning.
 The two-masted schooner H. F. Aver, taken in tow by the Gresham off Old Harbor.
 The lumber-laden schooner Stephen G. Loud, abandoned 33 miles southeast of Boston Light. The crew was rescued this morning by the steamer A, A. Perry and brought here.
 At Portsmouth, N. H., the three-masted schooner Annie F. Conlon arrived today in a disabled condition, 21 days out from Philadelphia
 The barge Haywood. one of a tow of three behind the tug Margaret foundered last night off Cape Cod and the other two barges, the Cranton and Bng- hamton, are missing One of the barges in tow of the tug Cumberland is also reported missing.
 Anchorages ordinarily safe proved treacherous to vessels last night, owing to the strength of the blizzard The storm was also heavily laden with snow. Mariners were unprepared for the change From the mild southerly breeze of Wednesday to the gusty northwestern of V. --.-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
Blizzard at Syracuse

Syracuse, N. r., December 16.-A heavy snow fall, a gale of blizzard proportions, and a temperature below zero is causing much suffering throughout northern New York today. The cold snap Is the first severe one of the winter. A foot of snow has fallen in the past "A hours and hun dreds of roads are blocked by drifts, cut ting off communication with the rural dis trtcts Trains in the northern counties are running with difficulty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
Cxnr Bids Adieu to sIocum

peror Nicholas today gave farewell audience to Capt. S. L. H, Slocum, the American military attache, who Is tre- turning home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
Ten Below Zero

Utica, N. Y., December 16.-A cold wave has central and northern New York In it's grip today. Big Moose in the Adiron- dacks reports the thermometer 10 below zero At Tuppo Lake temperature of below is registered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
.HvERY LITTLE BIT HELPS

New York, December 16.-John D. Rockefeller is the largest pur- chaser of Red Cross seals in the United States. His order, filled by the New York Red Cross society, was for 50,o0O' of the Christmas stickers. which will be pasted on the reverse side of all mail mat ter sent out from the offices of the Standard Oil company during the holiday season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
Denth md Suffering

New York, December 16.-One death and much suffering resulted in New York from the sudden cold wave which today holds the northeastern sections of the country In its grip
 Nine degrees above zero was the mini mum temperature in this city today. Eight degrees below was the record at Canton, N. Y This was a drop of 26 degrees from the same hour yesterday. The mercury took fall from 20 to 32 de- grees in New England, the prevailing temperature running from zero to 10 above. The cold wave covers the entire lake region, the Ohio valley, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland and northern Virginia It's effect was not felt far south of Washington. Over the whole territory affected high north west winds prevailed, the maximum in New York being 61 miles. Light to mod crate snow fell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17
ohio River Closed

Gallipolis, Ohio. December 16.-The Ohio river is practically closed to navigation from this city to Pittsburg, Pa-, because of ice. Ice gorges have formed at a number of places and shipping Is in dan ger.
 The towboat Crescent of Pittsburg, with a tow of barges. was crowded on the rocks when gorge formed at Letart Falls, 36 miles above here.
 In some places the gorges are from 6 to 10 feet high and reach to the bottom of the river.
 Great damage to river craft is feared should the weather turn warm and the gorges move out suddenly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-17

Senator Rayner was specially active to day in urging upon the committee tn,
Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-17

The name and title OF this corpora
ton snail be PELICAN MERCANTILE
COMPANY and Unuer tiat corporate
name, it snail have and enjoy a corpor-
ate existence and succession for the
term Of Ninety-Niue Years from and
after the date hereof; to contract, sue
and he sued; to make and use a ccrpor-
ate seal. and the Same to break or
change at pleasure; to hold in fee or
otherwise, receive, hypothrcatc, pledge
and sell property, real and personal; t.
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therefor; TO name and appoint Surh
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corporation.
Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-17

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Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-17

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Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-17

WITNESSES.
CHARLES LhNIGNETTE,
e. =. GkOLEAU.
ERNEST ALBERT,
Clerk Of OF the 10Th JuGicia
District Court for the Parish
Of P.aqucmINcs, and EX.
C1icio Recorder OF Mort,
cages.
I, the undersigned Clerk Of theTwen-
ty-NHth Judicial District Court for tht
Parish Of P~laquemines. and EX-Ohicic
Recorder Of Mortgages in and for The
Parish Of .PiaQuemino:, 10 hereby GER
tify that the above alI foregoing act
OF incorporation Of the Pelican Ntr-
camille Company. is a true and correct
copy oi the original on file and # record
in my Office and recorded in NJ. 0. 2.
3, No. 81, Folio 272, Augugt l6. 1HlC.
ERNEST ALEERTI.
[2NAI Clerk Of Court and EN-Olicio
Recorder Of Mortgages.
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Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-17
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Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-17

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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-11-18

Until within the last twenty-one years
each community used its own local time
but as travel became more extensive IL
was found quite inconvenient TO alter
ones watch and system OF time reckoning
for every few miles Of travel east and
west Accordingly. late in the year 1888
the United State adopted the present
system Of standard time. II required
several months TO adjust matters but
this system went into effect on March
%. 1854. since which time this system OF
standard time has been adopted all over
the country. Il was necessary TO divide
the whole country into time belts OF ap-
proximately Is degrees in width.
The Eastern" belt, extending as far
west as Buffalo. Pittsburg, and line
directly south, uses the time OF the sew
enty-ffth meridian, which is very nearly
that of the Atlantic coast cities. Cross
ing into the Central" belt, watches are
set one hour earlier, as the time employed
IS that of the ninetieth meridian, six hours
behind the Greenwich time. Similarly.
Mountain time uses the l05th meridian,
seven hours behind. and the Pacific
belt adopts the 10th meridian. just eight
hours slower than that of Greenwich.
Standard time is uniform inside each
of these sections, and the time of each
section differs from that next to IL by
exactly one hour. Thus, at u noon in
New York City the time at Chicago is IL
a. m; at Denver, 10 a. m, and at San
Francisco, 9 a. m.
At present almost every civilized coun-
try is using some system OF standard
time. usually under the control of its
own government.
The chief source for standard time in
the United States is the Naval Observa-
tory at Washington. D. c. Here high
grade clocks are carefully regulated by
observation OF the stars at night and
all necessary corrections applied. For
five minutes preceding noon, of each day,
Eastern time, the Western Union and
Sbstal Telegraph companies suspend all
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-11-18
LORDS PASS BILL
TO REFORM HOUSE
ROSebery Resolutions Find
Little Opposition.

London, Nov. 17.-Without division to-
night the House OF Lords passed Lord
Rosebery's resolutions for the reform of
the Upper House, except the one dealing
with tenure. which was withdrawn. Lord
Rosebery, in urging the adoption OF the
resolutions, said: THE time is short. my
lords. Your may have no opportunity
after tonight TO discuss any resolutions
affecting This house
The warning. however was not needed.
There was no serious opposition. while
many speakers strongly supported the
resolutions. Among these was Lord Cur
zon. who said: I'VE want TO place this
chamber on a democratic basis"
The gist OF Lord Rosebery's resolutions
is that the House in the future shall
consist of lords OF Parliament, compris-
ing some chosen by all the hereditary
peers from among themselves. some NOM
mated by the Crown, others sitting by
virtue Of their offices. and still others
chosen from outside.
The tenure resolution provided that the
terms Of all the lords of Parliament
should be identical. with the exception
OF the ex officio members, whose mem
bership should coincide with their tenure
OF Office
Premier Asquith having informed the
suffragettes OF his inability TO give fur
Their time 10 the Cancellation bill this
year, the militant suffragettes propose
10 try TO force an entry into the
House OF Commons tomorrow and Gre
ate trouble involving an embarrassing
number of arrests.