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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-03-13
PUBLICITY BILL is
GIVEN APPROVAL
HOUSE COMMITTEE FAV0RS
CAMPAIGN MEASURE
NOTED MEN USE INFLUENCE TO
FORCE SOME ACTION
If 1t Becomes Law, congressman Who
Run Next Fall Must File Sworn
Statements of All Sums
Expended by Them

WASHINGTON, March 12.-The bill
ton campaign contributions and ex-
penses was reported out today by the
house committee on election of the
president, vice president and members
of congress with a favorable recon-
mendation.
The bill was introduced by Mr. Nc
Call, Republican. of Massachusetts. Ac-
ton on the measure was accomplished
only after prominent men who have
been advocates of the measure had
brought much pressure to bear The
bill had been in the committee since
the session began.
Recently Perry Belmont Of New
York, Governor Judson Harmon of
Ohio and DR.. Charles w. Eliot, former
president of Harvard university, adj
dressed letters which have appeared in
print deploring the inactivity in the
matter and demanding that the COM
mittee take some action.
The Democratic members of the COM
mittee, led by Mr.. Rucker of Missouri,
after petitloning Chairman Gaines sew
eral times to call a meeting of the
committee to consider the bill a few
days ago gave out statements strongly
denouncing the Republicans for hold
When the committee convened today
it was with great difficulty that a quo
rum was obtained. After waiting for
an hour and a half sufficient Republi-
can absentees were found. The bill
was taken up at once. and with slight
amendment was approved the Demo-
Gratis voting for it and the Republicans
being divided.
Those voting for the bill were
Of Missouri a ipl
of Georgia and Conroy of New York,
Democrats, and Ellis Of Oregon, Re
publican. Mr. Sulloway of New Hamp-
shire and Madden of Illinois, Repub-
leans, voted in the negative. Chair
man Gaines refrained from voting.
The reporting of the bill insures that
1t will be taken up by the house at
an early date, and according to the
claims Of both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis. will pass the house. If it be-
comes a law it will apply to the coll
gressional elections this fall.
The bill makes it mandatory for the
treasurer of every political commit
tee in any con ressional campaign
where two or more states are affected
to file, not more than fifteen days nor
less than ten days before an election,
with the clerk of the house of repre-
sentatives a complete detailed state
ment of all campaign contributions in
excess of $40 and their disbursements.
He must also file within thirty days
following the election a final sworn
statement The statement must con-
tain the names of donors and amounts
given in cases where more than 500 is
given. In cases of less than that
amount the aggregate must be fur
nished.
In the case of expenditures the
names Of persons to whom money is
paid must be given in all cases where
the amount exceeds $40 and in cases
of amounts less than $40 the aggre-
gate must be published.
The penalty provided for a violation
of the law is a fine of not more than
$1,000 or Imprisonment for one year.
or both.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-03-13
COMMISSION MAY
VALUE RAILWAYS
AMENDMENT DELEGATES DRAS-
TIC POWER to- BODY
WOULD AFFECT ALL COMPANIES
PLANNING MERGERS
Federal Government Seeks to Prevent
Taxing of Public to Pay Heavy
Dividends on Watered
Stock
Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, March 12.-The ad-
ministration railroad bill was amend
ed today in the senate committee on
commerce so as to make commercial
or market valuation of railroad prop
critics by the interstate commerce
commission a condition precedent TO
the merging, consolidation or reor-
ganization Of roads subject to the in
terstate commerce law.
This change, one of the most drastic
yet made, opens the doors only to
valuation of properties whose merger
is contemplated. The committee has
not by this action Endorsed the various
schemes for physical valuation of all
railroad properties in accordance with
many bills introduced in both houses
of congress
The amendment imposes a handicap
on such consultations as the Harri-
man merger of the Union and Southern
Pacific lines.
The bill. in section IA. authorizes a
new combination in cases of reorgani-
cation, consolidation or merging of two
or more railroads. to issue stock or
bonds up to the par value of the
welded corporations.
It was contended today that to per-
init the managers of mergers to issue
stocks or bonds up TO the par value
of securities of the two roads would
WOTK an injustice anu Woulu result
in taxing the public to pay dividends
on watered stools.
The committee amended materially
the section prescribing conditions un-
der which a railroad corporation may
acquire the stocks or bonds of an
other and non-competing railroad by
the issue of it's own stocks and bonds.
Representative Washburne of Massa-
chusetts offered an amendment pro-
viding that the interstate commerce
commission shall supervise the Issue
of stocks and bonds and fix the price
at which they shall be offered for
sale.
This amendment and others were not
acted upon. The committee hopes to
report the bill To the house next
UpcE
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-03-13
JURY FAILS, TO AGREE

VANCOUVER. B. C., March 12.-Un-
able to agree on a verdict, the coro-
ner's jury in the case of the Rogers
Pass avalanche, which killed sixty
three mon. was dismissed today. Some
other judicial inquiry will be held.
Three of the six turymen wished to
bring in a verdict of negligence against
the Canadian Pacific railway.
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ROBBERS BLOW BANK SAFE;
ESCAPE IN STOLEN BUGGY
institutions Vaults Withstand Ex-
pIosiVe-Burglars Take $40
from Till Then Flee

BLOOMFIELD, Cal, March IAN
unsuccessful attempt was made last
night to blow the safe of the Valley
Ford bank The burglars fled without
gaining access to the vaults of the
bank The only booty secured was $40
from the till. The robbers escaped in
a buggy which they stole.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-04

difference between nominations by
primary ami by convention is that in
the fOrrer the people speak directly
and without the Intervention OF theiI
deputies. while in the latter the voice
OF the people IS. theoretically at least
expressed through duly selected rep
resentatiyes. Then. why should a
plurality suffice in one event and a
majority be required when another
method is followed
The second primary feature Of the
rlan Of the Democratic Committee
should commend itself TO ey-
aly real Democrat and every pa
tfiotic citizen. 1t makes it impossi-
Die for plurality Of the people, a
small minority TO foist upon the great
majority Of the party candidates who
are persona non grata TO that majority.
without the run-of provision it would
be possible for 500 voters to nominate
the next Sheriff Of Maury county. This
Is assuming that the vote will be in
the neighborhool Of 1000, which is
admittedly a general estimate. In
Davidson county recently because of
the multiplicity OF candidates the NOM
inee for the mo, lucrative and i'm
portant Office af County Court Clerk
received less than 5000 out of $4,000
votes.
The candidate or the politician who
condemns the second or majority pri-
mary feature of the nominating ma
chinery is not willing to trust an ex-
preston of the people. He doubts his
ability to commend himself to a ma
iority of his fellow citizens.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-04

own party. The South is again being
recognized as an intregal part Of the
Union.
And President Taft's friendly inter-
est in the South is being reciprocated
by the people of Dixie. The fires OF
sectional hate have long ago burned
low and are all but extinguished. A
vast majority of the people OF the
South, while loyal to the memory Of
their heroic dead, are entirely recon-
cied to the result of the war between
the States. They approve the senti-
ment so well expressed by Secretary
Dickinson, himself Confederate sol
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-04
A BIG LAND DEAL.

| The offer of a prominent and wealthy
citizen Of Washington to pay the gov
eminent fifty cents per ton for the
coal on 5000 acres of land in Alaska
brings prominently to the public mind
the wealth and enormous resources of
this country which forty years ago
cost the government sum that is not
equal to it's annual fur trade. Alaska
was purchased from Russia in 1863
for a little over two cents an acre, the
total price being $7,2OO,O0O. At the
time there was severe criticism of the
administration for throwing away" so
large a sum of the public money. But
with the single exception of the Louis
lana purchase for $15OO0,00O, no land
deal in history of anything like it's
magnitude has ever proven so prof.
table.
1t is estimated that there are six
teen billion tons of coal in sight. At
a royalty of fifty cents ton this
would yield the government revenue
of $S,0O0OO0,OOO, or enough to pay the
National debt eight times. 1t is a sum
so vast that to get an accurate idea of
what it represents it is necessary for
one to resort to comparisons. 1t
would nay the debts of England and
France, the largest in the world 1t
is more than the war between the
states, Including ali the pensions paid
to Soldiers since its close, cost the PEG
pie of,the United. states, ~
The sold production in .one year
)aid for Alaskas initial cost and left
/, large balance. It's fur trade has
1een enormous and the timber re-
'esources represent an almost fabu-
Gus. store of wealth. Alaska is no
onger the bleak, ice-bound, uninhab-
table land that it was when 1t was
purchased by this country. TheI
americans brain and Drawn and
wealth has developed its resources and
made It one of the most profitable
ields for endeavor in all the world
t has proven to be veritable Ell
Dorado If it's natural resources are
properly conserved and save from
oy land and timber
hieves it will in the years to come
rove the most profitable investment
yer made by nation.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-04
ThElEE STATUE.

! It is to be regretted that a few
Southern editors and politicians have
allowed themselves to be worked into
frenzy Of passion over the protests
of a handful of Northern fanatics
against the placing of Robert e. Lees
statue in the Nations valhalla. The
violent outburst of the Chicago g. A.
r. and the demagogic mouthings OF
one or two self-advertising members
of Congress are not representative OF
the sentiment of the Northern people.
This is evident from the press COM
ments of that section. Nor do these
expressions truly reflect the sentiment
of surviving Federal soldiers. With
vast majority of them the war ended
at Appomattox. They honor the men,
DRY of Robert e. Lee; they revere
his high character and they would not,
If they could, deny Virginia the right
to place his statue among the Nations
immortals.
Sectional feeling is rapidly dying
out on both sides of Mason and Dix
on's line; 1t exists alone in the hearts
OF the few irreconcilables; the dis
gruntled; the dyspeptic and the poll
ticians who expect to profit by
bloody shirt revival The Republican
party. which was conceived in section
al hate and born amid the gathering
storms of the bloodiest internecine
war that the world ever saw. is no
longer the sectional organization that
II was in the DAYS ~ Thad Stevens and
Morton and Wade and Butler. Presi-
dent Taft has conferred the highest
honors upon Confederate veterans and
there has been no criticism from his
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-04
THE RuN-oFF PRIMARY.

While occasionally one hears a
voice lifted in complaint against the
majority or "run-off" feature OF the
Democratic primary, there is really
less opposition to this feature OF the
machinery provided for the county
nominations than was anticipated in
view of the fact that locally the sec
ond election is a decided innovation.
There is always opposition to the
Inauguration of changes or the institu-
ton of reforms, but it is gratifying to
know that there has been general ac-
uuiesence in the provision of the Dem
ocratic plan of making nominations
which makes minority nomination
impossible.
Although the majority plan in rri-
mary nominations has never before
been adopted in this section 1t has
been the universal custom of all politi-
cal parties in this country to require a
majority vote to effect nominations In
convention. In every parliamentary
body recognized under the laws OF
either the National or State govern
ments majority is requisite to an
election. The Speaker of the National
House, the presiding officers of the
State Legislature United States Sen
ators chosen by the General Assem-
blies, must all have a majority to insure
their election. The only fundamental
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-04

der, ON the historic field Of Gettys-
burg when he declared that the people
of the South would not, If they could,
reverse the issue Of tnat conflict. All
rejoice that this is one Nation; with
a common heritage which is the glory
of all and common destiny. And 1t
is infinitely better that It should be
so than that this people should be
divided into warning nations. The
war between the States was an "irre-
pressible conflict" but in common
with large majority of our fellow
citizens we have no regret over the
result of the issue and rejoice that
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-04

every star in Old Glory shines with
undimmed lustre.
Gen. Lees STATUE will go in the
American hall OF fame 1t will stand
with those of Washington and Lin.
coin, the first characters and the fore
most men of American history. Lee
was the greatest General that Ameri-
ca ever produced, but great as he was
when commanding an army he was an
infinitely greater man. Lee is the
finest character in our history. His
noble heroic, gentle, silent, grand fig-
ure needs no monument to give 1t
immortality. His most lasting memo
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-04
rial is written upon the brightes\ page
of our history.

As evidence OF its high appreciation
of his numerous literary productions
and moral essays the City Council Of
Nashville has provided Mayor Howse
with a stenographer. This will doubt
less enable the Mayor to suspend q
few more OF the city's laws.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-04

The candidates are furnishing the
people some mighty good reading mat
ter and contributing no little 10 the
caiety Of the local political situation
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-04
BEGINNING FEBRUARY list

We give away Magazine Tickets with all cash
purchases Seventy-ive Dollars in Tickets gets $lOO
Maqazine or Newspaper. Ask for Tickets when you
make your purchase, them and present them in
our Office before Dec 3lst 1910 and select your Maya
zine
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-14
CALDWELL M R

The annual banquet of the Caldwell
Borough Improvement Association will
be held at Association Hall tomorrow.
Miss Ruth Benjamin, of Cedar Grove,
is ill with typhoid pneumonia.
The young people of West Caldwell
Chapel will give a play for the benefit
of the chapel Friday evening, March %.
The Cedar Grove Improvement AS
ISOLATION will hold it's monthly meeting
Thursday night in the Bromer build
ing.
Edwin Wickenhoefer and James
Berne, of Newark, were the guests yes
terday of Lester ID. Baldwin, of Whit
field street, Caldwell.
The annual meeting of the Ladies'
Aid Society Of the Caldwell Presby-
terrain Church will be held all day
Thursday. Dinner will be served at
noon, and the election of officers will
take place at $3.50 o'clock.
The West Caldwell Cleaning Circle
will meet Thursday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. zenas Crane, of West
vile venue
Miss Morgan is visiting Miss Mildred
williams, of Bloomfield avenue, We
roma.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-14
OPPOSITION TO
TOWN CHARTER
BILL DEVELOPS
Montclair Official Claims Meas
ure Is Scheme to Put Demo-
Gratis in Office.

Considerable opposition is being mani
tested in certain quarters of Montclalr
against the passage of the bill now be-
fore the Legislature providing for q
new town charter for Montclair. The
new charter, if it becomes a law, would
do away with all ward elections. The
only officers elected would be the mayor
and members of the Town Council
The latter would be elected at large,
and not by wards, as at present. All
other town officers would be appointed
by the mayor with the consent of the
council.
A town official told a reporter for the
STAR last night that the bill win never
pass. "Why, just look at the PROPOSE
ton! Here in Montclair we have a
Republican majority of about four to
one, and a lot of Democrats have
drawn up a new town charter, which
they expect the Republicans to indorse.
1t is simply a scheme to get them
selves into Office. | intend interview
ing or writing to every Essex county
assemblyman and show them the game
that is being put up against U.S..
The men who drafted the new town
charter are Starr j. Murphy, Charles
H. H%artshorne, Herbert M. Lloyd, John
B. Wight and Otto c. Wierum, jr. Mr.
Murphy was elected a member OF the
Montclair Town Council some years
age on the Democratic ticket. Mr..
Hartshorne, it is said, vas a Democrat
until he went to Montclair to live a
few years ago
Mr.. Lloyd ran on the Democratic
ticket a few years G for member OF
Assembly and was defeated. MI
Wierum is president of the Upper
Montclair Democratic Club and was the
Democratic candidate for mayor in
1908. Mr.. Wight is presumably a Re-
publican.
At a dinner given in Club Hall in
March. 1908. under the auspices of the
Montclair Civic Association the presi-
dent of the association, who at that
time was Mr.. Wight, was authorizeeN,
by a vote of those at the dinner. to APP
point a committee of fifteen, which
should be known as 1.-THE Commission
on the Future Form of Government for
Montclair.' Mr.. Wight appointed the
following to compose the commission
Howard Ayres, Robert NJ. Boyd. jrpl
George j. Carr. l. Seymour Crane,
Edwin B. Goodell, Benjamin v. Har-
rison. Charles H. H~artshorne. Herbert
M. Lloyd, Starr J. Murphy. George
Wildwood Murray Nathan Todd Por.-
ter, Decatur NJ. Sawyer, Martin j.
Synnott, Otto c. Wierum. jr. John 3.
Wight and the mayor of Montclair lex
~oficio).
The men who drafted 'he new char
ter were appointed a committee to do
so by the members of the commission.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-14
SOUTH ORANGE.

Mrs. r. O'Connor Sloane, jr., Of Ryn-
da road, is at Atlantic City for a
week.
Edward Prizer, Of Centre street, has
Sailed for Europe on a business trip.
Miss Lucy eastman, Of New York,
has been visiting Miss Virginia Taylor,
Of Centre street.
Mrs. Oscar Schoenherr, Of Tillou road,
returned today from Boston.
Robert Hazeldine has sold his house
in Plymouth avenue to John Smith, OF
Newark.
Mrs. Arthur Delapierre will enter
tain at her home in Prospect street
Wednesday from 2 to 5 o'clock, in honor
OF Mrs. George Mooney.
Charles +. Knox, of Summit and
Madison avenues, has returned from a
trip through the Southern States.
Edwin A. Lee, of Prospect street, Is
having a new house erected In Oakland
road.
Miss Millicent Wood. of Vose avenue,
returned today from Yonkers.
Mrs. Edmund C. Stout, of Ralston
avenue, is entertaining today at tea.
Miss Ruth Sanford, of Academy
street, will entertain at a st. Patrick's
Day luncheon Thursday.
Members of Division No. 8, Ancient
Order of Hibernians, and Of the Holy
Name Society will receive communion
at the $3.50 o'clock mass in the Church
of Our Lady of Sorrows next Sunday
morning.
Vernon Lee, of Prospect street, is ILL.,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-14
EAGLES CALL TO
MOURN OVER THEIR
DEAD BROTHER
They Find Him, However, Very
Much Alive-HarrisOn
Corpse" Enjoys Joke.

To pay their last respects to a de-
parted member, members of Newark
Aerie No. Al, Fraternal Order of Eagles
marched to Harrison, twenty strong
yesterday. They a been informed
that Michael Bach. of SIS Harrison ave-
nue., Harrison, II of h oldest MEM
bers of the aerie, had passed away.
At the door of the Bach home the
would-be m%ourners were met by Mrs.
Bach. to whom they transmitted their
sympathy. They gained admission to
the place and went to the second floor,
where their supposedly dead brother
Eagle lay.
Their wonde knew no bounds, when
upon reaching the top of the staircase,
they were asked in no uncertain tones,
what right they had to invade a mans
home and break up the peace that
reigned therein. The Eagles looked at
each other. They were d-umbfounded,
for none but the dead man had ad-
dressed them.
one of the officers was the first to
recover from the surprise he and his
comrades had been given. Advancing
slowly and cautiously to an open door
and peeping in beheld the man hat
was to have been mourned for as dead.
Jfe was sitting up in bed and was try
ing hare to see his unexpected visi-
tors.
The Eagles went into the room, and
when they were able to catch their
breaths they told Bach in a chorus
how they had been informed that he
had died. a After explaining that. al
though i'll. he was very much alive,
and also eongratulating himself on the
pleasure. as he termed it. Of being
walked before he was dead, Bach or
dered that the visitors be served with
q round of drinks at his expense.
Instead Of mourning the Newarkers
rejoiced. and their death visit was made
q sick call. According to the state
ment of one of the officers of the lodge
information of Bach's death had been
given by George Minch. of 10T Mulberry
street. Newark. Minch is a personal
friend of the Harrison man and when
he announced the death the Eagles
thought that he knew whereof he
spoke.
Bach has been confined to his bed
over a week now and his illness came
upon him in a rather peculiar manner
A week ago he was in Newark with
a party of friends. Some one offered
TO BET 20 tnat Bacll, VINO Tor some
time had been telling how strong he
was. could not lift a man weighing 325
pounds. Bach was his own hacker, and
the bet was N.
The Harrison man accomplished tie
feat, but a few minutes later he fell to
the floor. a physician was summoned
and it was found that he had strained
himself. He was removed to his home,
and has since been confined TO his bed.
and the attending physician says that
it viii be many weeks before he will be
able to he about.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-14
OCTOGENARIAN DIES AFTER
ILLNESS OF TWO WEEKS.

Following an illness Of weeks.
Ira Christian. of II Ninth avenue. East
Orange, one of the best-known resi-
dents of the lower section OF the city,
and who WAS well known in Newark.
died last night at his home. lie was
attacked with grip, but his death had
not been expected. owing to his strong
physical condition. Mr.. Christian was
81 years old.
For thirty years he was secretary
and treasurer of the Stephens Trans
portation Company. He was 10 years
old when he retired with the old hands
of the company. when it changed hands.
After that he acted as bookkeeper for
seven years and then gave up business.
Irving with his daughter, Miss Eliza
beth Christian, in East Orange. lie
had lived in Roseville and East Orange
about forty years.
Mr.. Christian was born in the old
Ninth ward of New York city and
learned the carpenter trade. He en-
tered business for himself and on March
.. 1865, married Miss Catherine Forbes,
since deceased. owing to her health
they moved to Jersey and later he went
to work with the transportation COM
many.