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The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
AIT WORK UPON
DISTRICT BILLS
Evidences of Consideration
in House Committee.

Preparation is being made for summon
ing the House Committee on the District
of Columbia int session on some con-
venient day after the House resumes a
quorum basis 1t is believed that by the
latter part Of next week the committee
Will be in action on various District
measures which stand chance Of pas
sage through the House.
A scheme which may be adopted was
advanced yesterday whereby the Dis
trict Committee shall sit continuously
until the most important measures are
out of the way. This system will call
for recesses instead of adjournment and
will have the effect Of doing away with
the necessity of a twenty-four-hour
notice to members for each new session
of the body. The District Committee
was denied the privilege Of meeting dur
ing the sessions Of the House and there
fore 1t will be necessary to cease action
every time the House sessions conflict
with its meetings. BY simply calling
recess for these interims the committee
will be able to resume work Immediately
on the close of House session, and
unless the point of no quorum is raised
it will be able to continue business with
a limited number of members present.
There is every indication that the live
liest sort of activity in regard to Dis
trict affairs will be apparent at the
Capitol within the next ten days.
District Commissioner Judson conferred
with Chairman johnson yesterday on
several measures upon which the District
board hopes to obtain legislation before
the extra session ends.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
No Designs Upon Cuba.

Of course, the United States has no
designs upon Cuba, but it was wise for
President Taft to give additional as
srrances to the Cubans to that effect.
The Cuban people are suspicious.
They have grown up in an atmosphere
of official duplicity. Straight dealing
and honesty were unknown under the
old Spanish regime. 1t is not surpris-
ing that they view the United States
with watchful eye
Ready and willing to greet with open
pocketbooks the American tourist, anx-
ious to sell to the American in
vestor as many acres for sugar plan
tations and banana groves as money
will buy, the average Cuban, neverthe-
less, hsrbors in his inrnost soul a fear
that some day he will be deprived of
his nationality and converted into an
American adjunct, like the Porto Rican
and the Filipino.
The proclamation of the Secretary of
State will be duly published and read
in Havana. 1t will satisfy the intelli-
gent minority of the population; but
the vast number, who have no appre-
citation of Anglo-Saxon directness, will
not have their doubts removed.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
TEXAS AND MAINE.

To Vote on Prohibition from Oppo-
site Points of View.
| From the Boston Transcript.
Texas and Maine are paired in the Do
litical betting, this year.
On next Saturday. July % Texas Will
vote upon a proposition to adopt con-
stitutional Statewide prohibition OF the
manufacture and sale Of intoxicating
liquors.
On September II Maine will vote upon
proposition to repeal constitutional pro-
hibition. ..
The people OF each State are watching
with keen interest the development of
the campaign in the other State Gov
Colquitt. of Texas, an opponent Of State
wide prohibition. has invited Gov. Plais-
ted, or Maine, to visit Texas and make
several speeches upon the subject Of pro-
hibition. Gov. Plaisted has the invita-
ton under consideration, and IL he does
not go In person, he will send message
to the Texas Democracy, setting forth
those causes which lead the Maine De,
mocracy to desire the repeal OF consti-
tutional prohibition in Maine, after test
lasting fifty-seven years.
Texas has never had Statewide prohi-
bition.
Maine has had Statewide prohibition
since 1S54-statutory from 1854 to 1884.
constitutional since 1854.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
WORK Is BEGUN
AT San DIEGO
Exposition Promoters Cele-
brate Event Here.

The Californians IN Washington ars IN
considerable glee because work has actu-
ally begun on the Panama California
Exposition, which IL to be held In San
Diego in 1915. Moreover, President Taft
last Wednesday evening at o'clock,
which was 4 p. m. in San Diego, stood
in the East Room of the White House
and pressed a telegraph key, thereby
closing circuit and causing a big nag
to unfold in San Diego. 5000 miles away,
over the spot where the ground-breakins
ceremonies were being held. The flag.
especially made for the occasion. is
replica of the Presidents flag. but much
larger. After the ceremony in Washing
ton, those who had been invited to wit
ness It repaired to the shoreham Hotel
as dinner guests Of Col. D. C. Collier,
the director general Of the exposition
Around the board with Col Col
lier sat Senators Works, Of California,
and Newlands. of Nevada; Representa-
tives Hefiin, Stephens, Collier, Knowland.
Kent. Cullop. Wood. Hayes, Sweet, and
Bowman; Delegates Andrews and Cam
eron, and G. Grosvenor Dave, secretary
Of the Southern Commercial Congress
gress.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
WEATHER BUREAU
UNDER CHARGES

J Willis Il Moore. chief OF the United
States weather Bureau. has been
charged with unlawful expenditure OF
money for the employment of experts.
The charges are identical with those
brought against DR.. Havey w. Wiley.
James Berry, former chief of the dis
tributing division of the bureau, yes
terday filed formal charges against
Moore with the Department Of Justice.
He charges the head of the Weather
Bureau with unlawful expenditure of
government money in connection with
seismographical observations made by
the Rev. F. L. Odenback, Of Cleveland.
Ohio. Attorney General wickersham
Agriculture Wilson. The case. is in
every way similar to the Wiley case.
Berry charges Moore with employing
Mr.. Odenback to make observations at
Cleveland, and paying him for his serv-
ices from the exigency fund. Berry
declares this was an unlawful expendi-
ture, as there is no provision In the
Weather Bureau appropriation for the
employment Of special observers.
An attempt was made to conceal the
facts in the case at the Department Of
Justice. Secretary Wilson refused to
discuss the case.
Attorney General Wickersham, It was
made no recommendation con-
cerning the charges before sending
them to Secretary Wilson.
Berry resigned from the Weather Bu-
reau some time ago.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
CONSIDER PLANS
FOR NEW STRUCTURE
Bureau of Engraving Build
ing to Be of Granite.

A conference between members of the
House Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds and officials of the Treasur
Department, held yesterday afternoon IN
the Office of Representative Sheppard,
was productive of an UNDERSTANDING
which is to result in the inception of
work at an early day on the new build
ing for the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing.
Supervising Architect Taylor. Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury Bailey, and
Architect Won Erde took part in the con-
ference and exhibited to the committee
members various drafts OF plans for
the new building. As the result Of a
tentative agreement, which will no
doubt be ratified at a meeting Of the
Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds to be held tomorrow, and de-
pending upon the passage by Congress
of a resolution affecting a minor detail
of the structure. 1t may be stated that a
handsome granite building sufficiently
large to meet all the requirements Of
Uncle Sans money factory will be
erected on the Mall near the present
bureau. Difficulties as to conformation
with the terms of the statute and the size
of the appropriation-s2, 100 0oo-which
have been besetting the Treasury De-
partment for months, apparently have
been overcome.
The conference yesterday had the effect
of clearing up differences which existed
Jointly between the Director of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, the Treasury
Department, the National Fine Arts
Commission, and Congress.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
ALDRICH ANSWERS HINES
IN THE LORIMER HEARING
Position of President Taft in Illinois Senatorial Elec
ton Made Clear by Witness

Former Senator Nelson w. Aldrich, of
Rhode island. testifying yesterday before
the Lorimer investigating committee, ex-
planned the attitude Of President Taft
toward the deadlock In the Illinois legis-
lature from January to May, 1908. which
eliminated in the election Of william
Lorimer as United States Senator from
Illinois.
Mr.. Aldrich made II plain that Mr..
Taft was in favor Of the election of a
Republican and declined to lend his as
sistance to any Of the candidates whose
names were suggested to him as pros
pective candidates. Senator Aidrich's
testimony was at variance in several i'm
portant particulars with that of Edward
Hines, who testified several weeks ago
that President Taft and Senator AIdricn
authorized him to carry a message to
Gov. Deneen. OF Illinois. to the effect
that the administration looked with
favor upon the election of Mr.. Lorimer.
Mr.. Aldrich said that this statement
was not true. and that Mr.. Hines was
not authorized to carry any political
message to Springfield on the Senator
ship question. Senator Aldrich said that
he advised Mr.. Hines that the President
favored the election Of a Republican, but
would not aid the candidacy Of any one.
Early in the Senatorial fight. Mr.. AID
rich testified. President Taft expressed
personal preference for the reelection of
former Senator Albert J. Hopkins, be-
cause he had received the largest vote
In the Senatorial primaries in Illinois.
Later Mr.. Taft expressed the opinion,
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21

The subcommittee on judiciary of the
District Of Columbia Committee of the
House yesterday gave its sanction to
bills whose passage will have the effect
Of permitting a clearance Of title to hun
dreds of parcels Of land in the District
of Columbia, concerning which litigation
has been proceeding for years.
At hearing held in the District Com
mittee rooms Attorney H. c. Gauss, who
of Columbia in regard to the settlement
of titles, many of which are vested in
individuals, appeared before the subcom-
mittee and urged the passage of the bills
of Representative Sheppard, of Texas,
providing for the protection of the inter-
ests Of the United States In lands and
waters comprising any part of the Ana
costa River or Eastern Branch and lands
adjacent thereto. and for the repeal of
portion of an act relating to the a1iena-
ton OF the title OF the United States to
certain lands in the District. These
measures were previously approved by
the Commissioners Of the District of Co
lumbia. They will be submitted to the
full District Committee at meeting to
be held probably next week.
The judiciary subcommittee also ap-
proved the Sheppard bill requiring in
surance companies organized in the Dis
trict Of Columbia to make annual re-
ports to the superintendent of insurance.
District Insurance Commission Ingham
and others were before the committee.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
POWER PRESSES OPPOSED.

Plate Printers Take Action I'm Bos-
ton Convention.
Resolutions protesting against the dis.
continuance of the use of hand presses
in the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing, and the installation of power presses,
offered by George P. Foster, Of this city,
were unanimously adopted yesterday by
the convention of the International Plate
Printers Union OF North America, In
session In Boston.
1t was the sense of the convention that
such a course would lower the standard
Of the work of the bureau. besides inf1ict-
ing hardship on Washington plate print
ers, as a cutting down Of the present
force would be bound to ensue. Copies
Of the resolution will be sent to every
member Of Congress. At to-day's session
It is expected washington win be named
as the meeting place Of the convention
next year. Washington plate printers are
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
Summer Activity.

The Chamber of Commerce is not
allowing the summer weather to inter-
fere with its activities. 1t was ener-
getic in its effort to secure Atwood's
flight to this city; it has already agreed
to, initiate an elaborate programme for
the observance of the next Fourth of
July, and now it,is busying itself with
the matter of increased water rates.
The Washington Herald has been in
sistent and persistent in impressing
upon the people of Washington the abb
surdity of yielding to the popular but
unfounded belief that summer is a
period of enforced idleness. We have
already shown, by statistics carefully
gathered, that the summer population
of Washington is considerably more
than 100000 The notion that every
body leaves Washington in the, sum-
mer time has no foundation in fact
Washington is city-and a big city
in July and August, and the business
man who yields to the psychological
influence of the opposite idea makes a
serious error.
There are important public questions
to be discussed at this time-questions
which affect the material welfare of
the community. The Chamber of COM
merce is to be congratulated upon the
fact that it Is infusing into Washing
tons midsummer season a vitality
which makes for the city's progress.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
LAND TITLE AND INSURANCE
BILLS UNDER CONSIDERATION
Important District Measures Considered in House
Judiciary Committee

These individuals demonstrated to the
committee the need Of the passage OF
such an act, asserting that large num-
Der Of insurance associations organized
in the District took refuge behind a cer-
tain court decision and withheld all re-
ports from the insurance commissioner.
Representative Sheppard's measure
for the regulation of fraternal insur-
ance societies doing business in the
District Of Columbia was discussed at
length by the subcommittee. The bill
seeks to put all the fraternal insurance
organizations on a uniform and safe
rate basis by requiring an inventory OF
their assets and imposing means for
the improvement Of their conditions.
Representative Sheppard told the sub
committee that more than 100000,
male citizens Of the United States de-
pended upon these societies for their
and that, counting Eve MEM
bers TO family, more than s55e0o.0 900
individuals were dependent on them. 1t
was urged that action by the govern
ment in regard to these associations in
the District of Columbia would have q
beneficial effect on the operations OF
these societies throughout the country,
where but little as to their condition
could be ascertained by persons who
patronized them.
Sheppard bill prescribing annual regis
tration fees for corporations operating
in the District of Columbia.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
Hope for District Legislation.

The dark cloud which has hovered
over District legislation seems to be
lifting. The House managers an
nounce that they will grant opportunity
for its consideration, should the Dis
trict Committee bring it before the
House, and Chairman Johnson will, it
us reported, soon call his committee to-
gether.
District affairs are, as usual, Ian
gushing in Congress. Fully 200 local
bills are now before the House COM
mittee and thirty of these have been
passed by the Senate. The trouble is
that the Representatives do not feel
called upon to give strict attention to
purely local matters. They have their
own districts and constituents, besides
which, questions of national importance
occupy much of their time.
1t would be we'll if campaign, con-
Quoted upon an intelligent and compre-
hensive scale, could be undertaken with
VIC" VI hPSi lhN PSOPlS
who send Representatives to Congress
the dependence of the District of Co.
lurnbia upon the National Legislature.
If this could be done, it would help to-
ward removing the indifference now so
painfully manifest As the situation
now stands, it is discouraging to the
District Commissioners and to the Dis
trict citizens to find that measures
which are absolutely necessary receive
no attention. Congress is charged, un-
der the Constitution, with exclusive
legislation over the District Its duty
is plain
1t is sincerely to be hoped that the
promise of action will materialize The
people of the District do not enjoy idly
twirling their thumbs while Congress
ignores the work to which it ought
to give prompt and careful consider
alton.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21

according to Senator Aldrich. that IN.
candidacy Of Representative Henry q
Boutell. now Minister to Switzerland.
would be acceptable to him.
Later. when It was reported from
Illinois that Lorimer was the only can
didate who could be elected, Mr. AID
rich continued, the President told him
that the election of Mr.. Lorimer to the
United States Senate would not be cob
jectionsble." although he would not as
sist in his election. Mr.. Aldrich said
he personally was favorable to the
election of Mr.. Lorimer. as he regarded
him as good Republican"
Senator Aldrich denied that he au-
thorized Mr.. Hines to carry any politi-
cal message from Washington to
Springfield regarding the alleged friend
ly attitude of the administration to-
ward Mr.. Lorimers candidacy, or asked
Mr.. Hines to use his influence to have
Gov. Deneen assist in Mr.. Lorimer's
election. Mr.. Aldrich explained that he
had authorized Mr.. Hines to refer to
him any one who wished authoritative
as TO the attitude of Presi-
dent Taft toward the Senatorial fight.
Mr.. Aldrich said that Mr.. Hines came to
him and asked him to find out the
Presidents attitude on several different
occasions.
Mr. Aldrich also denied. as Mr.. Hines
testified, that he told Mr.. Hines that
Senator Lorimer's vote would be need
ed in the Senate because all the Repub-
Iican votes available would be required
In passfnr the Payne- Aldrtch tariff bill,
which was pending at that time.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
Woodrow Wilson and Pennsylvania

Woodrow Wilson wants the Demo-
cratic Presidential nomination in 1912,
and believing that what is worth having
is worth working for, he is gathering
in the Endorsements which may event
ually mean votes in the convention.
The success which attended his ef-
forts to secure. the favorable action. of
both of the Democratic State central
committees in Pennsylvania is not to be
niinimized because Pennsylvania is a
Republican State. 1t will be remem-
bcred that when the late Mark Hanna
undertook 20 secure the nomination of
Mckinley he did not begin work with
the States which were certain to cast
their electoral votes for the Republican
nominee. Upon the contrary, he went
into the South and captured practically
all of the delegates from that section.
Almost before the other candidates
were aware that there was Mckinley
organization, Mr.. Hanna had a nucleus
of several hundred delegates which
formed the band wagon upon which
all the other States were compelled
to climb.
And so Pennsylvania's sixty-eieht
votes, If they are given to Gov VIII
son, count in a Democratic convention,
so far as the nomination is concerned
just as the voies of the Texas delegates
IN Republican convention are factor
IN the final choice. Il is evident thAt
Cow Wilson's organization is efficient
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY
By A, w. MACY.
NO PAINT FOR THE puR1rANs.

NO PAINT FOR THE PURITANS.
AS is we'll known, the Puritans
were extremely plain in their
! habits of living. and objected
to all forms Of ornamentation.
not only In clothing, but in
architecture and other things.
, To a certain extent they were
right, for Recommendation Is
never commendable: yet they
sometimes carried their ideas of
plainness to an extreme that
seems ridiculous. In 1889 the
Rev. Thomas Allen. clergyman
residing at Charlestown. Mass,
was called to account by the au-
thorities for having his house
painted. This was O serious
charge. but he succeeded In con-
vincing them that the painting
had been done before the house
came into his possession, and
that, therefore, he was not re-
sponsible fof It. Moreover. he
assured them that he did not APP
prove sfS It. The first church
building erected in Boston was
never painted. inside or out. In
1870 list Of all the mechanics
in the Massachusetts, colony was
made out by the authorities. but
It didn contain the name Of .
single painter.
toomrisht. lfsi. - JosspA , povisA,
Ts-nsssswI1sstssss First
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The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
DISCoUR AGING.

ordered some potatoes down groces store the price
something awf-I down and swore The grocer man
informs the price will stay up there the crop quite failure
everywhere And I'll have to subsist on
beans and and this it that gnds mel cannot blame the
trusts blame Pep Morgan and roast old Guggenhei
I'd do without POTATOES have bully time The has been
failure because the weates dry and the Wall street barons
can prove an ab Now must eat the pumpkin and chew the
mody prune and the robbe tariff like Wall street. is inn
n1ne No one win pay attention if should fuss and
my heart is brokerteres I've pondered till
I'm weary way see to charge the tater shortage to
iron-soued John could only work il to make John D. the
goat I'd surely for Office and ask for vote
,orvrnat M j. o.r.p mathew ad.n. WAR MASON.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
WANTS TO SEE HIS SON.

George F. Ormsby, Recently De-
clared Insane, Enters Plea.
George F.. Ormsby, a member Of the
local bar and an inmate, Of the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane. yesterday
filed an application for a writ of habeas
corpus before Justice Wright in an effort
to be allowed to see his nine-year-old
son, who was given to his wife with a
divorce decree.
The court refused to hear Ormsby's
petition until next Wednesday. then he
will afsu- ask the court for a new trial
in appeal from mis- recent conviction Of
insanity by jury In Chief Justice Cla-
baugh's court. Ormsby pleaded his
own case with all the outward appear
ances OF a man OF sound mind.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
Turnine back the Clock.

From the Brooklyn LIE.
81 am thirty-five years DID," announced
woman Of fifty-six at q tea last week.
"And I am twenty-six," said a woman
of forty-fve. Then turning to a girl
Of seventeen. who stood near by, she
asked: "How old are you. Ethei7"
"oh," replied Ethel. according TO the
present reckoning I'm not born yet"
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21
HOME NEWS WHlLEAwAY

TO keep IN touch w1tA horne
news swashinstonians lsaving the
city should not tan to Asvs re
Warrington Herald mailed to
tAen. II win be sent pronpsly,
ara addresses may - changed -
eftsn ss desired withsst inter
rupttsn of service.
Nan order oR ,phens 1Galn ssoo,
Eiving he old sad nsw aa6rsssss.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21

The revolution in Haiti is growing
worse. The private has deserted, and
should there have to be any fighting
done the generals win have to do 1t
themselves
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21

A reporter who takes notes In a music
store Is not q shoplifter.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21

A Missouri minister declares in public
that churches are poor because women
spend s. for pair of stockings, >but put
only cents into the contribution box.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-21

Local statesmen at Lawrence, Mass,
have come to the conclusion that just
now honesty is the best policy. The city
treasury is empty.