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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-27
nr. HyIlllnm ID. Sale.

Especial to The Times Dispatch.J
I fredericksburg, Va, June 26.-Dr
William cambridge Sale. a prominent
physician of Essex county, died yes
terday at his home after n brief III
ness. aged seventy two years. He was
never married but Is survived by a
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-27
DEATHS

BoLTZ.- Died. al, Brook Hill, Juna
&c. 1911, CATHERINE ELIZABETH
ROLTZ, daughter of Augustus and
Catherine Elizabeth Boltz.
Funeral from the First Presby-
terian Church WEDNESDAY AF-
TERNOOS at 1 o'clock 481
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-27
Denths Mt Hampton.
[Specialto The Times -plspatcb

Especial to The Times -Dlspatch.l H
Hampton. Va, June 26.-Mrs. Annie
Adler WinternltZ. wife of David Win
ternItz, a retired merchant OF Balti-
more. died here to-day In the home
OF her nephew Charles S. Kaufman
She was xty-two years old. The re-
mains will be taken to Baltimore foi
burial morrow evening.
Mrs. Mary Anne Foster, eighty-seven
years old, widow of Elijah Foster. is
dead a her home, near Buckroe Beach.
Three sons survive her.
jacob Heffelhnger to-day received
telegram announcing the death Of
his father. Lawrence HeffelnnGer,
which occurred In fredericksburg. Pa,
this afternoon. Mr. Henclfnger was
ninety four years old i ..llt
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-27
MEETS VIEWS OF
PRESIDENT TAFT I.
Amendment to Pure Food and
Drugs Act by Representa-
81 i tive Richardson.

Il
Washington, June e6.--Representa-
tive Richardson. of Alabama, has in
| PRODUCED bill in the House to amend
| the pure food and drugs act in con-
formity With the suggestions of the
| President in his recent message to
Congress In explanation of his bill
! Mr.. Richardson said to-day:
Il prepared and introduced. by the
| request OF the chairman OF the Inter
state and Foreign Commerce Commit
! tee of the House, the bill to amend
EscctIons 6 and OF the food and drugs
! act.
| Primary Purpose of Measure.
| primarily, the chief purpose OF the
amendment is TO meet the decision OF
| the Supreme Court of the United
| States. handed down May 80. 1911, in
| the case of the United States against
johnson. which held In substance as l
Interpreted II that statement on a
label on n patent medicine bottle APP
piled to the Identity Of the contents or
ingredients but that the vendor could
make any statement about the curn :
tive properties OF the article on the
label, however false and misleading II
might be.
Yet the court held that the vendor
for such misrepresentation OF It's cur
tive properties could not be amenable
under the la W. The President OF the
United States in special messn ge,
called the attention OF the Congress
to the Importance of this decision. 1t
can be seen At once what a vast field
of wrong and injury to the people is
opened up by this decision. Some OF
the very best effects OF this great law
as wrought in the past will be an
nulled.
70 Correct Befccts.
The amendment that have pre-
pared seeks to correct. and believe
will correct, the defects pointed out BY
our court. AS an ally TO the prcserva-
ton Of the integrity of The food and
drugs act. the amendment requires
such compounders OF vendors to have
o lirense under the law of the State
or community, In medicine or pharm-
acy.
disconnected with the above con
sideratlon, the amendment proposes to
include in section OF the law, and
! soda and potash lye.' Many very strong
reasons it seems to me, demand this
addition to the law. The hill pre-
pared goes TO the Committee on Com
| merce Of the House for discussion or
such change as the committee may de-
termine. and then will doubtless be re-
ported promptly to the House"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-27
John Thomas wooI.

Especial % The TImes-DIspatch.I N
John Thomas Wood, aged thirty-two
years. OF South Richmond, died at
the home o, r. w. Woodbridge, father
Of Mrs. Wood. near otterdale. at 9
hawk Cemetery on Tuesday Mr.. Wood
leaves a wife, formerly Miss Lottie
Al Woodbridge, and one child. Rudolph,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-27
Mrs. Minnie Hoy.
~ frt, mr. Df.

N Z. Especial 20 TING Times DIspatch.
Staunton, Va, June 26.-Mrs. Minnie
Hoy, wife of John /. Hoy, died this
morning, after an illness of less than
two days. aged ithirty-one years. leav-
ing husband and three children. Mr..
Hoy is prominent miller. F,
Mrs. Emma G.. Cox.
ilF Especial TO The Times Dispatch.1
fredericksburg, Va, June 28.-Mrs
Emma G., Cox, widow Of Howard X
after lingering illness, aged fifty
four years.. She Is survived by five
daughters. FIVE sisters and three broth
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-12
ST. ANDREWS BAY COLONY.

The National Tribune receiving subscriptions
colony
Washington County
trucking Florida yet far north
grapefruit oranges and other subropical products
The first will be located ST. Andrews Bay the largest
and best natural harbor the Florida coast.
The United States has authorized the expenditure OF
quarter million dollars for the Of this
harbo heeeperng This work began December
1910
The following prices hold good for a short time only:
One lot 5oxI veacre of farming land outside
the townste and of the capital stock par value 100000 OF
the St Andrews Bay Development Company for $4,000
Two lots hve-acre tracts the latter constituting
solid body shares Of the capital stock Par value
$4,000 each) of the St Andrews Bay Development Company For
$4,000.
Three lots three five the latter constituting
solid body of fifteen and three shares Of tie Capital stock w
value $4,000 eac Bay Development Company for
100000.
-Four lots and four veace the latter constituting
capital stock
eac of the St Andrews Bay Development Company for
100000.
holds good only until the first of prop
The share of stock will be offered to later
subscribers Prices will also be sharply advanced.
Surveys Colony lands rapidly nearing completion
Assignment property Immediately after the
completed
opportunity these prices
Address THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, Washington D. C.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-12
PASSAGE OF THE SULLOWAY BILL BY A DECISIVE VOTE
OF 111 TO s.

Tuesday
debate 20
Illinois called bill
would
Fitzgerald of
Representative
something
should
OF
So The
including
bill will conadea-
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-12
PENSION ATTORNEYS.

The following communication brings
out some facts in relation to pension
attorneys. which are Of the utmost i'm
portance. In no class of cases before
the Departments of the Government
are the eXactions so rigid, and the
punishment for wrongdoing so heavy
and certain as in the case of pension
attorneys. A man who undertakes the
prosecution of a pension case does 50
at the risk of his reputation and liberty.
Editor National Tribune: I note
your articles in The National Tribune
on the pension attorney. The United
States Revised Statutes is the best an
swer to the Worlds Work. Section
4746 provides mandatory penalty of
$500 or Imprisonment for five years for
presenting q false affidavit concerning
any claims within the Jurisdiction of
the Commissioner OF Pensions, and
Sections 1850 and 1892 provide pen
atty for perjury of $4,000 OF imprison-
lnent for five years, and Section 5303
provides that every person who pro-
cures another to commit perjury shall
be punished by the same penalty. Sec
ton 1921 provides 4 punishment of five
years Imprisonment with fine of
$1,000 for forgery Section 543S pro-
videJ a penalty of $4,000 and impris-
onrent for five years for making or
presenting false claim. Section 1886
provides punishment of fine of $500
and Imprisonment for two years for
asking or receiving an Illegal attorney
fec for prosecuting 4 claim. Sections
$3.50 and 545I provide fine and i'm
prisonment OF three years fer attempt
ing to bride any United States officer.
All statements made to the Department
in order to be admitted to practice
have to be certified by n Judge and his
signature attested by the seal of the
court. II pension vouchers are post
dated it must be by the magistrate be-
fore whom they are sworn to- not by
any pension agent. The following
named officers may acknowledge a PEN
sicner's signature to his voucher: Su-
premc Judges, County Judges, Surro-
gate Judges. Clerks of the Court,
County Clerks. Town Clerks, Justices
of the Peace, Fourth-class Postmasters,
Rural Delivery Mail Carriers and No
taries Public
All the offenses charged by the
Worlds Work present questions of fact
on which the accused is entitled to q
hearing in court. and if the writer of
those accusations knows them to be
facts. it is his duty to prosecute the
offenders. which embraces not only the
pension attorneys and magistrates, but
the pensioner also and, unless he does
prosecute or lay his Information be-
fore the United States Attorney he also
is q participation in the crimt be-
cause knowing, ne conceafs the GRIM
inal--Miles Fl. belong, Schuylerville,
n. Y.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-12
ROUGH ON THE REyfSIONIsTS.

Representative ]. r. Mann, of Chi
cago, has nice little gridiron prepared
for the tariff revisionists. He has writ
ten some 200 or more bills which will
be introduced "by request" Six of
these have already been introduced.
Each of these proposes to take the tariff
off of some particular product in which
some one of the loudest of the tariff
revisionists is deeply interested, ard he
Eill be forced to Il vote as 10 whether
he is sincere for revision or not. Hides,
wool. barley, lumber, tobacco, pineap-
pies. coal, lead ore. etc, will be all
taken up. and the gentlemen who have
Teen making such a clamor about the
high and unreasonable tariff will be
asked to have the courage OF their con-
victions.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-12
THE SULLOWAY BILL.

In a well-considered editorial on PEN
sions generally the Newburyport
(Mass.) Herald says:
But there is no such liberal provision
for the veterans of the civil war in any
other State of the Union. Consequently
Congress has been overwhelmed with
private pension bills Cases of such
pitiful appeal have come UP from
worthy veterans in dire distress that
members of Congress could not resist,
knowing the promises which were made
to these men when they enlisted to go
to the war. Accordingly to meet this
crying want the Pension Committee of
the House of Representatives unani-
mousiy recommended the bill which
has been published which would wind
the whole matter up and put an end to
private pension bills. 1t would put the
veterans OF the civil war thruout the
Union on the same level with those of
Massachusetts. and would relieve our
Commonwealth Of the burden it has
hitherto borne OF providing for cases
eral pension laws.
But while Congress and our State
Legislature and the breat body of the
people have had the most generous
spirit towards the veterans of the civil
war, there is still minority with hearts
OF ice ana SOULS OF mice, VINO make an
outcry against the old soldiers as mer-
cenaries who served FOR gain and not
from patriotism, and these critics de-
nounce the pension law and every
amendment which has been made. They
point at the enormous amount that the
pension system has cost the country,
but forget the services rendered in saw
ing a country which could pay so much
and feel IL so little. But for the Union
armies and the men who supported it
and paid the bills this would have been
the most wretched land upon earth in
stead of the happiest, and Congress and
the mass of the people realize the fact.
But there are rockers. Just as there
were in the wartime, when we called
them Copperheads. These are the mean
est of all when they are Massachusetts
men, since they would deprive the vet
cram soldiers Of the rest of the country
of the benefit which Massachusetts SOL
diers have enjoyed for years.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-12
sANITATING THE PHILIPPINES.

The London Lancet has words of the
highest praise for what the Americans
have done in the Philippines since TAX
ing possession of the Archipelago The
work of cleaning up has been carried on
as vigorously and thoroly as in Cuba or
the Canal Zone, and one of the best re-
suits is reduction of the mortality rate
among Government employees to the low
fgure of $50 per thousand. The bu-
boaic plague has been eradicated in
spite Of its prevalence in the neighbor-
ing japanese and Indian ports; the
scourge of cholera has been greatly nit
igated. and leper colony has been es-
tablished, in which about 1000 IeDers
have been collected. Nearly 1000, O00
people are vaccinated every year. Ma
Mia has been given a new water supply
and sewerage system, and 500 artesian
wells have been sunk in other parts of
the island. The housing of the poor
has been greatly improved, filthy an
congested disease centers have been
cleaned up, and the Philippine General
Hospital is one of the largest institu-
tions in the Orient.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-12
TRIUMPH FOR UNCLE ZOE.

The whirligig Of time brings strange
revenge. but It was hardly expected that
SO early in the session would come such
a vindication for Speaker Cannon as his
opponents won for him last Monday.
The echoes of the virulent campaign
against "Cannonism" still resounds thru
the remoter districts OF the couatfs',
and many of the less well-informed are
vet firm in the belief that he represents
everything that they should hate. Last
March the enemies of "Cannonism, -
after a three days fight, gained what
they trumpeted as an overwhelming
victory, and had shorn the Speaker of
nearly all his power. Last Monday
the tables were completely turned, and
by an overwhelming majority Cannons
rulings were restored and parliament
tary things were put back very much in
the same place they were before the
great battle. The insurgents were still
among the irreconcilables, and poIled
81 votes against the Speaker, but the
Democrats went over to him bodily. and
Champ Clark was among them. Rep
and Fitzgerald, of New York. frankly
admitted that they thought the Speaker
was right last March in his rulings, but
they voted with their party merely to
down him and give color to all that
was being said against him. Repre-
sentative Simms, of Tennessee, was the
leading Democrat who felt that he
would rather be consistent than right.
and persevercd in his opposition to the
Speaker. The final test came on a
point of order which was appealed to
the House, and the Speaker was sus-
tanned by vote of 235 to SO. In an
nouncing the decision the Speaker took
occasion to remind the House and the
country of the hollowness of the charges
of despotism and to say what The Ma
tional Tribune has continually said with
reference to this subject. He said:
Now. tine chair desires to say in this
connection that it is within the power
of the House, acting by IL majority, to
do anything that majority votes for,
having complete power in the premises.
whether justified by the fixed law of
the land. the Constitution or otherwise.
There was way, however, without yio-
lating either the letter or the spirit OF
the Constitution, without violating any
rule of the House, By which a major
ity of this House. when this precedent
was made, might have worked its Will
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-12
EMINENTLY SATISFACTORY.

We can assure every member of Con-
gress that the Sulloway bill is eminent
ly satisfactory to the veterans and their
relatives all over the country. No pen
sion bill ever presented to Congress has
received such earnest and widespread
Endorsement, and it is regarded by all
as filling the honest measure of the
Nations provision for the veterans who
saved its existence. If it shall pass, it
will bring to those who have been in
strumental in putting it thru Congress
the fullest gratitude of all who are in
terested in righteous treatment Of the
veterans. 1t makes just provision for
the disabilities which follow the in
crease of age, and therefore meets in
the fullest the ideas as to what is the
proper thing for the country to do. 1t
follows the line of previous legislation,
and is firmly based upon the principle
of the McCumber bill that an advance
in rates should be made to correspond
with the advance in years. 1t will vir
tually end general pension legislation,
and it will relieve Congress of the food
caused by the inadequacy of the pres
ent laws to meet the sore needs of so
many veterans 1t viii take thousands
from the Soldiers Homes, restore them
10 their own families and save the Gov
eminent great amounts of money which
it is now paying out for the support of
the inmates of these Homes. 1t is emf
nently the right thing to pass, and,
equally eminent,it is the wise thing from
every point of view from which it can be
examined. 1t makes only a temporary
enlargement of the amount of pension
expenditures, and thenceforward these
will decrease monthly with the greatest
toll from the thinning ranks of the vet
Grams eff the civil war
There are now 5000 veterans dying
every month. At the present rate of
s170 year average pension this makes
a loss to the pension roll of $4,000 a
month, or $6,120.000 year. The death
rate must naturally increase every month
until the reduction of the expenditure
can be counted by millions of dollars
To pass this bill will bring unnum-
bered comforts and illimitable soIace to
old and broken men in every part of
the country. 1t will give them medi-
cine, food, fuel and clothes. that they
and their families sorely need, and
make their last sad hours brighter and
more cheerful by banishing the specter
of want from their bedside5. Nothing
that Congress can do will be as helpful
TO the whole country as this measure.
Other interests which are clamoring
for appropriations can wait They will
lose nothing by il. But the veterans
cannot wait The Grim Conqueror is
advancing upon them with a slow, re-
sistIess tread, and whatever is done for
them must be done at once or it will be
forever too late.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-12
BEFORE THE SENATE.

The Senate Committee on Pensions.
of which Senator =. J. McCumber, OF
North Dakota, is Chairman, has now
before it all the pension bills for con-
sideration. Senator Curtis is warm.
advocating his pension bill, which IL Z.
modification OF The National Tribune
bill. The other bills are the National
Encampment bill, the Sulloway bill ami
The National Tribune bill. Probably al
the next meeting of the committee ii
will make its decision as to which bill
it will support. The question is largely
what bill the country will accept in the
present condition of the National
finances. The present estimate is that
the National Encampment bill will cost
100000 extra, while some of IT,
figures make the cost of the Sullowa,
bill approximately $4,000, 600. As :, {
have said before, this latter is o Great
exaggeration, and the bill will probaLjy
cost less than $50, 900. This win 10
the very utmost. and hereafter the eg-
penditures will rapidly decrease.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-12
THE "uNkNoWN ARMY

How thoroly Commissioner Daven-
port has cleaned up the business in the
Pension Bureau is shown by the fact
that June 80. 1910. there were only 3o1
original invalid claims under the old
law pending and only 500 original in
valid claims under the act of June 81.
1890. This disposes most effectually of
that great bugbear of the opponents OF
increased pension legislation. the ''un-
known army" We know now to less than
a few thousand how many survivors OF
the civil war are living and are entitled
to pensions. The number must decrease
with great rapidity with every month
hereafter.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1911-01-12
A POLITICAL HOUSE CLEANING.

Adams County, Ohio, is one of those
Ohio RSySi C.1o.iss which passed from
the center of the stage when that river
ceased to be a main highway of COM
merce. While it is large County, fair
ly fertile and populated almost exclu-
sively by Americans, it's only celebrity
heretofore has been on account of the
West Union Bank and runaway mar
riages of Kentucky couples at Aber-
deem, opposite Maysville. The failure OF
the bank at West Union, the Capital of
the County, was SO monstrous that 1t
attracted attention even in the old DAYS
of wildcat banking. The% adventures
filled the whole West with their worth
less notes, and Illustrative of this is told
a story that a steamboat Captain. want
ing some wood, called out to the owner
for the price, and asked him If he
would take West Union bank notes. He
said that ne would, and the astopished
Captain asked him how, and he said:
cord for cord" Now, Adams County
is the center of the stage for the mo-
ment by the extraordinary revelations
as to the extent of vote buying. 1t is
believed that more than one-third of
the voters of the County have been
guilty of receiving money for their bal
lots, and fear the wholesale prosecution
now going on. More than 500 indict-
ments were returned by the Grand Jury
before Christmas, and the officers ex-
pect to see this number increased to
1000. The vote sellers are in panic,
and. are rushing into court to plead
guilty and receive their punishment of
$40 fine and five years disfranchise-
nlent. 1t appears that the prices range
all the way from drink of whisky 10
s25, and these voters market price was
kept on a memorandum in the election
booth
Judge Blair. who is sitting in the
cases, says that in his youth he bought
votes of which he was soon thoroly
ashamed. He has seen men stand in
front of the Court House and auction
eff their votes. and blocks of voter;
were openly bought and sold Judge
Blair says that the investigation shall
be continued until the last man who
sold his vote is brought into court, and
either paid his fine or served his sem
tence. This may take three months,
but when he is thru Adams County will
be thoroly dsinfected politically. The
press dispatches say that Judge Blair's
methods, while effective. are extremely
informal:
He knows large part ri
the voters of the County by their first
names, and when they. come into court
the scene is rather n social one. Tbs
Judge sits on one side of plain table,
the indicted man an the other.
How about it. John; are yoii
guilty?' asks the Judge.
- I reckon 1 am, Judge is the usual
reply.
"AIl right, John: I'll have to fine
yon $40, and you can't vote any more
for five years. I'll just put a six months
workh6use sentence on top of that, hui
l. won't enforce it as long as you lie
have
'All right, Judge. You've got tIs
goods on me-"