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was also menu per, With two or ms own party, carefully selected to work in harmony with himself, and two of the minority party. No measure could be reported for con- sideration without rule from the committee on rules. With his two faithful colleagues from his own party upon that committee the Speaker could shut out from con- slderation any measure he did not want and advance anything he wanted. There was wherein laid the autocratic power which the Speaker was alleged to possess. By appointing all the committees the Speaker could frame them all in such a way that each would be responsive greatly to his will in shaping the legislation referred to its consideration. And if a com mittee reported to the House measure the Speaker did not like, or had altered it so it met his dis approval, his potent influence in the committee on rules could bar it's further consideration.
 That there must rest somewhere power to discriminate between the measures which may be con- sidered by Congress may be under stood or explained by mention of the fact that into the Sixty.6rst Congress there were introduced thirty-four thousand bills and resolutions. During the first fifty years of the federal government. the total number was but eight thousand seven hundred for the entire period). To consider all of those thirty-four thousand bills within the two years of the life of the Congress would have required that fourteen hundred should be considered every month-more than forty every day, counting Sundays and holidays-a physical impossibility. Somewhere there has to rest the responsibility for killing the great mass of those measures. Under the old rules that responsibility rested with the Speaker And those hurt could curse that functionary. Now it will rest upon the majority in an enlarged committee on rules with tLe Speaker eliminated. The responsibility will be divided. And the power to act promptly will be weakened by that very division of responsibility. That it will facilitate despatch of business seems doubtful.
 In the same way the responsi- bility for appointment of commit tees will be divided under the new arrangement, and it will work a similar weakness. Instead of one man appointing all the committees there are fourteen to consult, and do all that. Formerly an infuen- tial congressman omitted from a
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Minor Mention.

Colorados population now numbers
about 100000.
Work on the cannery for Milliken
will begin at once.
Twenty-threc carloads OF sheep left
/ ort Collins recently.
Rodney Marsh. a veteran of the Civil
War died In Fort Collins.
S. P. Madeira. a Colorado pioneer.
died at Colorado Springs.
Elmer Conner of Colorado Springs
has been adjudsed insane.
Work on the sanitary sewer will be
started soon in Colorado Springs.
Burglars entered Pueblo pawn
shop and took $3.50 worth Of jewels.
A human skeleton has been discov.
cred in the old mines near Aguilar.
The Rocky Mountain store at vii.
liamsburg was burglariZed recently.
A $4,000 ice and storage plant 10
being erected in Grand Junction.
An effort will be made this year to
give Sterling good base ball team.
The Farmers Union has closed d
two days session In Colorado Springs.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook will lecture
III Grand Junction OH February 9th.
With Mrs. J. S. Harrison as post
mistress the postoffice at Gil has been
opened.
Frederick Kruse. former mayor Of
Central City and a Colorado pioneer.
Is dead.
Fresh ranch eggs have dropped in
price from As cents a dozen to 20
cents.
During the year 1910 Colorado shoe
factories turned out S35O,OOO worth Of
shoes.
Mrs. l.. H. Newman. aged "A. a
wealthy resident of Evans since 1879.
Is dead.
The Southern Colorado Hardware &
Implements Association will meet in
Pueblo.
The Western Slope Teachers Con-
yention will be held in Grand Junction
April LIST.
Wholesalers and jobbers In Grand
Junction do an annual business OF
s75O,OOO.
The Ohio Society of Colorado will
hold its annual meeting in Denver
March 4th.
Thirteen families from Kansas have
rented sugar beet land in the vicinity
OF Grand Junction.
Oil has been struck In well near
Lamar. as a result OF years of labor
and much expense.
Much interest Is taken In the farm
crs' institute to be held at Fort Col.
Inns February 1925.
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FOREIGN.

The Morning Post OF London, says
there are isolated cases of the bu-
bcnic plague at Glasgow and East
Anglea.
Plague has caused n total of 800
deaths at Chefoo. China, and over / :.
900 in the province OF Shantung in
which Chefoo Is situated, according to
a cablegram received by the state de.
partment in Washington.
Baron Albert S. Rothschild, head of
the Austrian branch of the Rothschild
house. is dead at Vienna. He was
horn In 1874.
In collision near Courville. France
on the western section of the state
railroad, ten workers are known to
have perished.
Strained to the breaking point are
relations between Russia and China
and Russia has notified Great Britain
France and Germany of her intention
of making military display on the
Chinese frontier.
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To Relieve Chinese Famine,

Seattle. Wash.-The United States
Army transport Buford. which will
carry a cargo of provisions for the re-
lief OF the famine victims in North
China. will sail from Seattle March
10th, according to an announcement:
made by the relief committee of the
Seattle Commercial Club. 1t was in.
tended to dispatch the relief expedi.
tion February 25th. but the Buford
could not be loaded in time to depart
on the original sailing date. The cargo
is being assembled here and reports Of
new shipments from the East are be-
ing received daily.
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SPORT.

Art Edenfield. wrestling champion
Of Kansas, threw Jack Brauman of
Denver twice within an hour at Wich,
ita.
Willie Gibbs of Philadelphia and
Tommy Dixon of Memphis, feather.
weights, fought ten fast rounds to q
draw in Kansas City.
In ninety minutes wrestling, Hack.
enschmidt failed to throw Stanislaus
Ebyszko. in New York, and the match
went to the latter.
The Denver Athletic Club boxing
and wrestling tournament closed in a
whirlwind of classy work. 1t ended
the most successful tournament ever
conducted by the club. Winners were
picked as a result of the finals and
the prizes distributed.
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
WASHINGTON.

All the developments now favor a
vote in the Senate on the Canadian
reciprocity agreement before adjourn
ment. March 4th.
In the court room OF the United
States Court of Customs Appeals. the
recently established Commerce Court
held its first public session.
The Senate committee on Interstate
commerce. after spirited contest, de-
cided to give additional hearings on
the House bill to prevent speculation
IN cotton futures.
DR.. Edwin Powell. noted surgeon
OF the Civil War and who was in
charge OF clinical surgery at Rush col.
lege in Chicago for several years, died
in Washington Of heart disease.
President Taft's reciprocity agree.
ment with Canada was ratified In the
House through the support of an al.
most solid Democratic vote. The Nc.
Call bill. carrying the agreement into
effect. was passed. 221 to %.
Postmaster General Hitchcock. in
asking Congress for an appropriation
u Sl,uuU,vOD LOT tHe eStaDllSNIneHt Ol
500 additional postal savings banks.
declares the forty-eight banks already
established have proven entirely sue
&C ssful.
Enmeshed in an apparently hopeless
tangle over the joint resolution provid-
ing for the election Of United States
| senators by direct vote. and IN the
face of positive opposition from the
| champions of the measure. the Senate
has appealed to President Taft to as
| sist in getting a night session in the
interest of dispatch of business.
Secretary Dickinson has given no.
t!ce to the Pacific Mail Steamship
| Company and the California & Atlantic
Steamship Company Of the termina.
ton of the existing arrangement
whereby those carriers are allowed 70
rer cent of the total freight charge
en- goods transported between New
York and San Francisco via the Pana.
ma railroad.
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Farmers, Demonstration Train.

Fort Collins.-Never has there been
more complete institute train sen,
out in any part Of the country to the
farmers than the one which will start
from the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege AMI carry to the farmers of Colo
RADIO liberal education, both by ex
hibits. illustrations and lectures by eX
perts OF the college. Over three rail
road lines this train. with four cars o:
exhibits. and another carrying the lee
turers. this train will travel, and 1t will
be out for four weeks. Deep interesr
Is already being manifested in the trip
and every farmer in all sections OF the
state will eagerly await the coming o.
the train.
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THE WEEKS NEWS EPITOMIZED

w. S. O'Brien. forty-two years old,
enc Of the best known trainers Of trot.
/ ting horses in the United States. died
/ al Waukegan, Ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman 9erkowitZ and
ineir five children were killed by H.
Eliminating gas in their home in the
| Ghetto In Philadelphia.
| Pressed by the Rockefeller and
Kuhn-I.ocb interests George !. Gould Is
shortly to relinquish the presidency Of
the Missouri Pacific Railway Compa.
ny. n POSITION In which HIS father
placed him eighteen years ago.
| In fulfillment OF compact made
with her husband during his lingering
illness, which death ended. Mrs. Lyn.
wood 8. Keene OF Oxford. Me-, took
her own life after having fatally shot
Ler fourteen.year.old son Gerald.
To provide pure milk for New York
children the Sinking Fund Commits.
sion has authorized the leasing OF
twelve sites for depots. The work Of
distributing the milk supply is to be
under tho Jurisdiction of the Board Of
Health.
Thomas j. Ham, one of the Oldest
newspaper men in Pennsylvania and
probably the last survivor of the din.
rcr given to Charles Dickens In New
York in 1852, by newspaper editors
and publishers, died at Lakewood,
New Jersey. following stroke OF par.
alysis. He was seventy-five years old.
Milton ]. Durham, former comptrol.
ler of the treasury and former con.
sressman from the Eighth district of
Kentucky. died In Lexington of pneu.
monia. Judge Durham was eighty.
seven years old. He was leading
Cdd Fellow, having once served as
grandslre of the order in the United
States.
Neutrality-suspicious. Benne.
of New York. one of the Republicans
who voted against Canadian reciproc.
ity. has introduced in the House res
olution requesting the President to EN-
ter into negotiations with the British
government looking to the annexation
of Canada by the United States. The
resolution was referred to the commit.
tee on foreign affairs.
The high cost of living received n
setback when eggs in the Kansas City
market declined two cents dozen
ard hog prices werft twenty cents a
Eundred pounds lower. Eggs were
fourteen to sixteen cents wholesale,
v hich is sixteen cents lower than at
the beginning of the year. Hogs are
selling S1.25 lower than last year; cat
tie fifty cents to one dollar lower, and
sheep 81 lower.
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Storm CrippIes Business.

Chicago Sweeping the entire
Southwest and the Mississippi valley.
a severe storm crippled telephone.
telegraph and train service In some
ylaces. Although Chicago and the
like region suffered but slightly from
the fall Of snow, Texas. Missouri and
Kansas were blanketed under heavy
fall of from one to ten inches. Ac-
cording to dispatches from Fort
Worth, Tex, the train service was
seriously interfered with by n five
inch fall Of snow. Wind swept the
snow into drifts eight feet deep near
Fort Worth. according to reports.
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MR.. MCCALL MAKES THIS AN.
NoUNcEMENT AS TO THE
SITUATION.
MUCH WORK AHEAD
ACTION MUST BE TAKEN ON
RECIPROCITY AGREE
MENT.

Washington.-The first authorita-
tive announcement that President
Taft will call an extra session II the
Senate fails to act on the Mccall Dill!
carrying into effect the Canadian
reciprocity agreement came from Mr.
Mccall himself following visit a
the White House.
According to Mr.. Mccall the Pres.
dent feels he is under an interna-
tonal obligation to summon an extra
session. II necessary. to secure action
on the reciprocity agreement.
That session would be called imme
diately after the adjournment OF Con
gress at noon March 18th.
Unless President Taft and the
friends of the Canadian reciprocity
agreement are able to bring more
than ordinary pressure to bear on the
Senate and avert the expenditure OF
time by the opponents OF the agree
mentor its friends-it Ia difficult to
see how the Senate can reach a vote
before adjournment.
Ahead of the Canadian agreement
for consideration, in addition to ten
general Appropriation Dilis, are meas
ures affecting these subjects:
Popular election OF senators: Sena-
tor Lorimer case; permanent tariff
board; general age pensions: congress
sional apportionm, Mt; fortification of
Panama canal.
Not one OF these can be sidctracked
without contest. Back of each Is
group Of senator's determined that 4
vote shall be taken.
Some Of the measures must be left
unpassed or the Canadian agreement
will die.
Those who hoped to avoid an extra
session by getting a vote on the Nc
Call bill see their chances for success
growing less and less as the close o..
the session draws nearer without any
of these controverted matters pushed
out Of the way.
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That twenty-five million OF the hun
dred million dollars rehabilitation
fund raised for the Gould lines would
be used to double track the Rio Grande
fiom Denver to Salt Lake was the
statement made ut Salt Lake by a
high official of the Gould system.
The work. he added. would be fin.
IL he'd by 1915.
Twenty years after the crime was
committed. Gov. Cruce has honored
the requisition for James Bremen. a
wealthy farmer OF Kiowa county,
Oklahoma. to be returned to Woods
county. Kansas. to stand trial for the
murder of Sam Woods. the founder OF
Woodsdale. Kan. and a pioneer Of
Stephens county.
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
GEN e RAI.

Joseph D. Rockefeller. cousin OF
John d. Rockefeller, died at his home
IN South Bend, Ind, at the age Of 90
The Tennessee Packing & Provision
Company, a $2.OOO,OOO corporation OF
Nashville, has been thrown into bank
ruptcy.
The condition of Miss Clara Bar
ton, founder of the Red Cross, who
has been i'll with bronchitis at her
rome in Glen Echo, Md, suburb oi
Washington, is greatly improved
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
NEWS OF COLORADO POINTS

The Rio Grande railway has taken
over the Pitkin-Baldwin branch OF the
Colorado 4 Southern.
Il. II. Wisden. aged SO. OF Montrose.
uied from the effects of injuries re.
teived In a runaway.
Mrs. Rafael Esper, a Mexican wom'
an 1Os years old. was burned to death
recently in Florence.
Mrs. Richard Pearce. wife Of Gen
Richard Pearce. for years British vice
consul OF Denver. Is dead In London.
Don't drink" is the personal mes.
sage from President Taft to the Sun.
day school children OF Grand juno
tion.
The Grand Valley Poultry Club has
been organized and eacn member Is
required to raise 500 chickens each
year.
Logan county's first Annual Poultry
Show which has just closed. was one
CT the most successful ever held In
the state.
Charles d. Simonson. Eastern gener
al agent OF the Santa Fe and Colorado
Midland since the early sos, Is dead In
New York.
Three big steam shovels are at
ork on the grade for the Colorado &
Southern extension from Wellington
TO Cheyenne.
The Secretary OF the Interior has
been authorized to sell the city OF
Trinidad 100 acres of public land for
water storage purposes.
Contracts have been signed which
assure the immediate commencement
of work on the Stanley Lake irrigation
project north OF Denver.
"Al together" will be the slogan
with which the residents OF the Grand
valley will battle with spring frosts to
save the $3.OO0.OO0 fruit crop.
Through the finding OF the body OF
Wilson l.. Davis. prominent ranch.
man of Paonia. the mystery surround
ing his disappearance. March 6. 1907.
Is solved. His decomposed body was
found where he had hanged himself.
At meeting OF the Colorado State
Automobile Association in Denver
Ralph W. Smith was elected president
! Elmer f.. Sommers. secretary and
manager. and John W. Springer. treas
urer.
The Montrose Fruit Orchards Com.
rany has leased 1000 acres to an
eastern slope man. The tract Is in
the vicinity OF Shenandoah. and ia
partly set to young fruit tree.
I Col af hn ,
Car bondale. comprising l.5OO acres
vas completed when title deeds
passed to Howard W. Yeoman OF
Cleveland. Ohio. In exchange for $125.
COO cash.
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try Psruna, and after using four BET.
ties can say was entirely cured"
Unable to Work.
Mr.. Gustav Himmslreich. Hochhsina.
Texas. writes:
For q number Of years suffered
whenever took cold. with severe at
tacks Of asthma, which usually yielded
to tho common homo remedies.
Last year. however. suffered FOE
eight months without Interruption 20
that I could not do any work at all.
Tho various medicines that were pre-
scribed brought mo no relief. j!
AFTER taking six bottles Of Peruna,
two Of Lacupia and two Of Manalin. :
am free Of my trouble 10 that can do
all my farm work again. I can heart-
lily recommend this medicine to any
ono who suffers with this annoyina
complaint and believe that they VIII
obtain good results."
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
Bio Project Commenced.

Grand Junction.-Fo!lowin the or
ders Of Secretary Ballinger. local Off.
GERS of the reclamation service have
begun establishment OF farm units for
the Grand Valley project. The total
i,rigable area is $4,000 acres. OF which
1880 is public land withdrawn from
entry: 1880 acres land entered un.
der the reclamation act, making a
total Of 3O.07O acres subject to this
act. There is 2O.72O acres OF private
lands. of which l5.l00 acres has been
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
WESTERN

a general rain has fallen in Nebrns-
ka and western Kansas. This was the
first rain OF consequence in five
Tonths.
Fire destroyed the garage OF the
htchson Motor Company. Atch!son.
Kan. with a loss OF $5O.O00. Twenty
autos burned
The gasoline schooner Oshkosh was
Nrccked on the south spit of the Co.
lumbia river. Portland. Ore. and seven
lives were lost.
Overcome by an irresistible desire
10 shoot something. John Cash. a
street vendcr from Denver. shot and
killed Frank Harris. at Los Angeles.
Declaring persons guilty OF small
citizens of Fort I.upton, Colo. are
planning vigilance committee to
crive thieves out of town.
The summer hotel at Moclips.
Wash, containing 325 rooms. one-half
OF which was washed into the sea,
probably will have to be abandoned.
as a large part of the remaining wing
iall with high tide.
The most brutal and revolving
crime ever committed in Nevada has
been pcrpetrated in northern Washoe
county, four men being butchered.
their bodies being stripped and piled
III a heap in the snow and left for
beasts to prey upon.
yol, oil
hich is the number of the fishing
license issued to the boat by the state
of Washington. was found bottom VI
la Admiralty Inlet on the west coast
| ct WILDLY Island. All who were In
the sloop when it was struck by last
Sundays furious storm must have per
| ished.
Western members of the Senate
representing sheep and wool growing
states, are considerably concerned
over that part Of the proposed recip
rocity treaty with Canada which pro
vide for free admission into the United
States OF Canadian sheep. The Presi
dent, in transmitting the proposed
treaty to Congress, called attention t
the fact that Canada raises compare
lively few wool sheep and that her tex
tile manufacturers are unimportant
The Western senators familiar will
the sheep and wool growing business
are apprehensive that with the stimu
las which will be given to the growtl
OF the industry in Canada by remov
ing the duty on the admission Of sheel
into the United States, the raising o
sheep there will increase at the eX
pense of the industry in this country
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
Lawyers Decide Upon Fees.

Topeka, Kan.-Two hundred lawyers
in all parts Of the country acted as n
jury to determine the proper fees T.
be allowed attorneys in Kansas case.
and one firm which asked $4,000 will
get $4,000; another firm that sought
$4,000 will receive $500, and third
who asked $4,000 will get what he
asked.
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
EnaIand's Oldest School,

A controversy has arisen in England
~ to which school has the right to
claim greatest age. There are two
schools which were founded In the
early part Of the seventh century-ths
Kings school. Rochester. and the
Kings school. Canterbury. Justus. ON
his appointment to the see Of Roches.
ter in 604, made provision for a school
in connection with the cathedral. Au.
gustine established the Canterbury
school about the same time. St. Pc
ter's at York dates back to the elsv-
epth century,
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
Portugal Having Trouble.

Lisbon. Relations between the
government and the navy have
reached almost the breaking point as
tor the reinstatement and appoint
ment to command of the battleship
Almirante Refs of Capt. Jose Cerejo,
one Of the naval heroes of the revo-
luton,
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
Palisade Land High.

Grand Junction.-The high value OF
Falisade peach land may cause the
Grand Mesa Coal Company to close
It's mine 1t is hemmed in because it
has no road into Palisade from the
mountains to the north, and the
orchard land owned by Walter Stokes
Les between their mine and the town.
This strip of land. forty rods long and
sixty feet wide. which the mine own.
crs want for a road, Is held at $1,000.
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
Natural Gas At lift.

Iliff.-I. A. Collard who recently
struck flow of artesian water on
lis farm adjoining Tiff at depth of
400 feet reports enough natural gas
tc heat and light his buildings. Mr..
Collard and other property owners in
that locality are considering the or
ganiZation of company to bore Il
Gecp well In Tiff and believe that
there are good prospects for oil here.
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
Triple Tragedy In Denver.

Denver.-William McCrary shot
himself through the head and the bul.
let. continuing OH its course, struck
the head of Arthur Knowles, his
friend. inflicting mortal wound.
Mrs. Julia Sohn. said to have been Nc.
Crary's affinity" drank carbolic acid,
after hearing OF her lovers sui.
eide: and she is at the county hos
rital where she Is expected to die.
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
For Grain Experiments.

Keota.-This locality has begun ne.
sotiations to secure government en-
pertinent station. The idea is to try
various methods OF planting. cultivat-
ing and other farm work and also to
experiment in growing grains and
grasses suitable for eastern Weld
county.
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Would Pay $4,000.

Washingion.-Senat Guggenheim
introduced a bill appropriating $780,
COO to Paul Mulock OF Leadville. to
he full satisfaction and compensation
for use by the United States OF GER
tain inventions OF his used In rifling
for firearms.
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
Farmers Own Coal Mine.

Eaton.-Through the work OF the
Farmers Union. fifty Eaton farmers
have taken an interest in the Farm
,rs' Union coal mine at Erie. The
lnrmers shipped in their first carload
and laid 1t down for $685. ton.
The coal is said to be OF excellent
quality.
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
Denver Mans silver Mine,

Winnipeg.-The shaft Of the silver
mine owned by Cyrus w. Baker, Den
yer, is now down fifty feet and the
GRE Is improving in value.
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a meeting similar to the grasshOp-
per meetings on the eastern slope has
been called for February 25th at
truita. when plans for concerted
fight against the codling moth kall be
laid by the orchardists Of the Grand
valley
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
Aviators Violate Law.

Tampa, Fla.-Aviators McCurdy and
Beachy and promoters Of the aviation
exhibition here were arrested after
the flight on charge of unlaw-
fully giving an exhibition on Sunday
to which admission was charged. Ar.
rests follow ministers protests.
The Ordway new era., 1911-02-24
COMING EVENTS IN COLORADO.
March 2-3-Colorado Stockgrowers AS
sociation Convention. Denver.
Farmers Fight Prairie Dogs.

Greeley.-Farmers of the Fosston
and Briggsdale districts have organ
lied to fight prairie dogs. which in
large numbers are destroying hun
dreds of acres of winter wheat by up
roofing 1t.