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The Washington times., 1911-01-10

The committees report suggests in,
tent to sustain Lorimer without re-
gard to the facts, while the testimony
impresses the reader that the majority
did not yearn for facts with which a
verdict for Lorimer would be incon-
sistent. The committee seems to have
proceeded on, the assumption that this
was a prosecution at law, with the
Chicago Tribune as prosecutor and
Lorimer as defendant. 1t seems to have
assumed that the Tribune must prove
the defendants guilt beyond rea-
sonable doubt, and to have thrown
every technicality of the strictest con-
struction of rules of evidence in the
way of the Tribune's lawyers.
Such technicality seems inconsistent
with the instruction which the Senate
issued to the committee. Indeed, the
methods of the investigation, aside
from the intelligent and pointed ques-
tions asked by Senator Frazier, were
such as to justify the general feeling
that the majority of the committee
started it's work with closed mind. A
more tenuous and devious reasoning
than that which convinced the ma
iority that the vote of the bribetake-s
might be thrown out, without tainting
the votes of the bribe-givers, has sell
dom been seriously INDUCED.
Whether a two-thirds vote shall be
required, to unseat Mr.. Lorimer, or
merely a majority vote, to exclude
him, is a detail which may prove i'm
portant later, but is of small interest
now. Whether Loriner ought to be
allowed his seat, and, no whit less i'm
portant, whether the committee made
earnest, open-minded inquiry
with sincere desire to report COM
pletely on the facts, are the present
questions. The committees majority
is quite as much on trial, at the bar
of national opinion, as is Mr.. Lorimer
himself.
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
SENATOR BEVERIDGE ON THE
LORIMER CASE.

Senator Beveridge makes an analy-
sis of the facts in the Lorimer case
which carries conviction, first, that
that there was scandalous corruption
in connection with the Lorimer cleo
ton; second, that good taste and its
own self-respect must make IL diff
ficult for the Senate to retain Mr.. Lori
mer as a member; third, that the law
seems to agree with these construc-
tions which simple horse sense must
place on the facts. -
Placed side by side, the Beveridge
minority report with the Burrows ma
jority report, it must be said that Mr..
Beveridge's statement gets the award
for clearness, sincerity, and evident
purpose of frankness with the facts.
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
Present Taxing System
Opposed By Citizens

The present system of taxation In
the District Is unfair to the owners
of small properties, 1t was declared
by E A. Boeger at the meeting of the
Georgetown Citizens Association last
night Mr.. Boeger harshly criticised
the system in vogue at the assessor's
office and gave instances which he said
were illustrative of discrepancies be-
tween the treatment of citizens by the
District government.
The association will use all its in
fluence> to secure the appropriation Of
$4,000 for the Montrose Park project,
which has already been included in the
Commissioners budget. The association
determined, after hearing a report OF
the legislation committee, that It
would work for the. appropriation, no
matter what was now the legal status
of previous bills.
The loan shark bill, passed by the
Senate and pending in the House, was
indorsed by the association.
The price of gas in Georgetown was
introduced by question for informa-
ton, but no formal proceedings were
had A member asked why Geor9r
town paid 81 a thousand for gas while
citizens of Washington paid only %
cents. 1t was explained Congressional
act had fixed the maximum at 81 for
Georgetown consumers and 80 cents for
Washington, and that the Washington
company had voluntarily reduced the
price to So cents. There was no further
discussion.
A resolution for the repaving Of Wis
consin avenue north of r street to rs
intersection with Thirty-fifth street was
referred to the committee on public
Improvement.
Senator Gallinger and Commissioner
Rudolph will be invited to attend the
next meeting of the association.
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Entertaining Program
Arranged By Policemen

What promises TO be an unusually
entertaining program has been arranged
for the seventh annual celebration OF
the Policemen's Association of the Dis
trict of Columbia at Pythiah Temple.
1912 Ninth street northwest, Thursday
evening. There will be several vaude-
Vile acts under the direction of II. E.
Horn. as we'll as vocal and instrumental
numbers
The speakers of the evening will be
the Rev. DR.. William T. Russell, pas
tor of st. Patrick's Catholic Church,
Representative Campbell of Kansas,
and Major Richard Sylvester, Superin-
tendent of Police.
Several hundred invitations have been
sent out to members and their friends,
nd the largest crowd in the history
of the organization is expected. Re
freshments will be served following the
entertainment.
The committee on arrangements is
composed of w. c. Farquhar, Henry
Gilbert, Gustav Lauten, j. E. Thomp-
son, NJ. e. Horn, and William s. Shell
by,
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
HITCHCOCK TAUGHT
BARNYARD CHORDS
Mississippian Appeals to
Postmaster General to Get
Back to Sanskrit.
The cat says Meow"
The dog says Wow wow"
The cow saws Moo"

The cat says Meow"
The dog says Wow wow"
The cow says Moo"
No, patient reader, the foregoing is
not the primer lesson for the first grade.
II is the lesson given no less a person.
age than the Postmaster General of
the United States this morning.
The instructor, who took it upon him
self to give this high official a cor
respondence course in the derivation OF
familiar barn-yard chords, is Lamar
Fontaine, c. f. and S. and PHI D., of
civil engineering and real estate firm
which bears the title OF Lamar Fontaine
& Sons.
His Reasons.
OF course, Mr.. Fontaiue had a reason
for writing Postmaster General Hitch
cock about the sounds made by cats,
dogs, and cattle. He wants the spelling
of the name of Yazoo, Mississippi
delta town changed SO that II will give
the sound of the things represented in
its name.
According TO Mr. Fontaine. the post
office at Hushpuckana, Boliver county,
Miss. should be spelled Hush-put-ena,
and he asks the Postoffice Department
To order the change in spelling in the
interest of archaeology and the preserva-
ton of al original Sanskrit word. The
original Sanskrit word. so Mr.. FOntaI1e
relates. meant Flying Turkey" and
literally interpreted, Hush! Turkeys
gone"
In the Original.
'ln the naming OF animals in the orr
ginal Sanskrit, each bird or animal
took the name of the sound commonly
made by It," explained the writer.
Titus a COW was MOO bull, 'Boo.'
dog, 'Wow-wow,' a cat. Meow and so
on. II you and / were hunting and were
conversing and you should see turkev
close by. you would exclaim. 'Hushr
The turkey would say, Put and
would say 'Ena,' which in Sanskrit
means Gone.
1T is to preserve the only Sanskrit
word in our delta region that I ask this
favor" says Mr.. Fontaine in conclud-
ing his letter.
The suggestion will be referred to the
First Assistant Postmaster General for
his consideration.
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
Washington Plan
Philadelphia Model

That Washington is one of the best
planned cities in the world. and that
its plan will be followed to a large ex-
tent in the future development Of Phila-
delphia is the statement made by Ar
thur F. Bucholz, OF the tenement inspec-
ton bureau of Philadelphia, who is in
Washington studying the city's plan.
Mr.. Bucholz has called on the Com
mIssioners. Senator Gallinger, and Rep
resentative ]. Hampton Moore for city
planning material for an exposition he
IL organizing for the end of May In
Philadelphia for the purpose of showing
how that city's future growth can best
be directed. He will send home a num-
Der of models of Washington TO illus
tTate how the ideas can be adapted 10
Philadelphia's needs.
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
DISTRICT BUSINESS AGAIN
GOES BY BOARD.

District of Columbia day in the
House again went by the board yester,
day, being chucked overheard by war,
ring factions that selected the after.
noon for a wrangle over the rules.
This thing of turning the attention
of the House to petty quarreling over
technicalities on every District day
and wasting two or three hours in
fruitless hair-splitting is getting rather
monotonous; also, it is getting rather
suspicious. 1t cannot help putting
those responsible for it in all exceed
ingly embarrassing position.
Pending in the House are several
bills to which powerful financial in
terests are opposed. One of them is
the so-called loan shark" bill, to
limit the rate of interest charged by
loan agencies in the District and to
place these institutions under the most
rigid regulation.
1t is commonly reported that the big
loan agencies throughout the country
have raised large fund to defeat this
bill, and have planted representatives
here to see that no legislation is
enacted at the short session.
Whether or not these influences are
responsible for the ridiculous treat
ment of pending District bills, and for
the growing possibility that the loan
shark bill, together with other i'm
portant measures, will not be reached
at this session, it is a fact that what
has happened has produced exactly
what they are seeking-delay.
Two District days have been thrown
away But three more remain on the
calendar before adjournment. Chair
man Smith, with his usual show of
courage, permitted these rank alb
surdities with his usual feeble protest.
If he makes the same display Of nerve
throughout the session the District
will be mighty lucky if its appropria
ton bills get through.
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
THOSE WHO FLY A LITTLE
WAY ONLY.

News of the attempted suicide of an
ex-judge and politician of North
Carolina induces the pathetic refiec-
tion SO often obtaining to the poor
and uneducated who gain place by
strength and then fail of the moral
stamina to complete their education.
History, of course: would not be
what it is were it not for the thrilling
episodes of those who fought their way
up. But it would be less sorrowful if
it lacked the great company of those
who, tasting success, found it indigesti-
bic. For every one of the humble of
the earth who has battled way to
his star, there are thousand of those
whose ammunition ran out at the first
position gained. These are they who,
inspired to a new ambition, descend
again in bitterness to the depths for
trifing with that which it was their
strength to despise.
In the particular instance, the man
in question found in his ignorance and
incapacity the assurance to ask the
ermine as a reward for his part in a
political revolution. He went into a
iudgeship as he might have engaged in
fsticuffs, and won. He was appointed
TO a Federal -iudgeship, and returned
TO become the political boss of his
party in the State. He was recognized
at Washington, but he had flown too
high" He stopped to look around. He
paused to enjoy. He lacked the means
of gauging either his appetites or his
resistance So he fell
The hard thing is that such falls
create no splash. Hardly do they
occasion a ripple. The world which
such unfortunates have invaded smiles
like sunlit water above the place
whence they have sunk. Only, some
where in these heavy, wounded brains
somewhere in the agony of the self
revealed .conceit of those who have
gone only little way before they fell
lies a tragedy which the genius has
not yet appeared to translate.
The Washington times., 1911-01-10

Democrats and Republicans who have
beeu striving to-liberaIize the rules of
the House are today pondering over the
assertion of Speaker Cannon that. with
the exception OF depriving the Speaker
of his membership on the Committee on
Rules, the House is as powerless to
amend the rules as It was before the
Norris resolution of March II, 1910.
Incidentally, insurgent members of
the House take exceptions to the Ian
guage used by Speaker Cannon in sus-
tanning a point of order against the
resolution of Representative Fuller of
Illinois, providing that a motion to sus-
pend the rules shall take precedence
over a motion to discharge a commit
tee.
These same insurgents are charging
the Democrats with bad faith and with
playing politics in their refusal to stand
by them in voting against the Speakers
decision on the Fuller motion.
The Only Precedent.
Speaker Cannon declared that the
only precedent which would justify him
in permitting consideration Of the Full
Ter resolution was that established
when the House overruled him a year
ago. The insurgents point out that
Speaker Cannon himself established the
precedent on which their fight was
based year ago. and which-tustifed
Mr.. Fuller in demanding immediate
consideration OF his amendment to the
rules.
"So-called insurgents and a few DEM
ocrats were the only consistent mem
bers of the House on the vote to re-
verse the Speaker on his ruling against
the Fuller resolution, said Represen-
tat!ve Norris OF Nebraska, who led the
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
SMITH AND NORRIS
LEAD COURT RACE
Fight for Place Vacated by
Van Devanter Between
Two Representatives.
FRIENDS OF BOTH
ARE WORKING HARD
No Indication Given as to Presi-
dents Attitude in Lori
mer Case.

1t became generally known at the
White House today that the judgeship
appointment for the Eighth circuit, to
fill the vacancy caunsed by the pro-
motion of Judge Willis Van Devanter,
CT Wyoming. to the Supreme bench,
has narrowed down to Representative
Walter !. Smith of Iowa and George
". Norris of Nebraska
Friends Of these two able Represen-
tatives have been urging the consid-
GRAFTON of their names with such per-
sistency that the President has prac-
tically eliminated the other names
which were brought to his attention
some time ago.
Representative Madison of Kansas
called to see the President this morn
ing concerning this appointment. He
unqualifiedly indorsed Representative
Norris.
Friends of Judge Smith are equally
as active In his behalf 1t is known that
they have impressed The President VIII
the IoWan's fitness for judicial appoint
ment.
Bishop Foley introduced.
Mgr. Falconio. papaI delegate to the
United States, called upon the President
p. Foley, of Tuguegarao, Philippine Isl
ands. Bishop Foley has only recently
been consecrated and his diocese in t1hs
orient recently created by the church.
He is preparing to go to the islands
within short time, and wished to meet
the President before leaving Washing
ton.
Representative Humphrey of wash
lnston, author of the Humphrey ship
subsidy bill and one of the strongest
advocates of that policy in the House,
called at the White House this morn
ing Mr.. Humphrey said that he would
support the new Gallinger bill for mail
subvention but that he had understood
that other interests on the Pacific coast
would not do So
The objection which has been raised
to the BILL" said Mr.. Humphrey, is
that no subsidy is provided for lines
of vessels running from our coast to
Australia, Japan, and China"
Expects Bill to Pass.
Mr.. Humphrey said that he had not
been able to feel the pulse of the House
on the Gallinger measure, but from the
support which had been promised II
through the President. he said he ex-
pected to see the bill go through.
= No indication came out today at the
White House concerning the attitude
the President has taken toward the
Lorimer case. The visit yesterday OF
Senator Beveridge, the first he has made
to the President this session, led some
to believe that the Administration was
not favorable to the Illinois Senator.
Senator Beveridge talked the situation
over with the President, and explained
to him why he could not vote with other
members of the committee.
Representative Sharp Of Ohio today
called on the President and indorsed
Judge Washburn of Eleria, Ohio, for ap-
pointment TO the United States district
court for the Northern district of Ohio.
Mr. Sharp said that Judge Washburn
was from the section of the district
from which the President wishes to Sc
lect the new judge.
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
RIGHT OF TRIAL IN THE
VICINAGE

The utter cave-in of the Govern
ment's contention in the Panama libel
suit against the New York World, in
stead of meaning a license to the press,
rather preserves a liberty to the people.
By unanimous decision the Supreme
Court holds that it is incompetent for
the Government to punish, as it were,
for a constructive crime. 1t holds it
impossible that under any circum
stances the individual shall be denied
his right to trial in the vicinage in
which his crime is alleged to have
been committed. The final result of
the spectacular prosecutions is that
the line of jurisdiction between Fed
eral and State authority is re-estab-
lished and confirmed.
In short, the decision of the highest
court is founded upon the basic prin-
ciple of the strict construction of
criminal statutes. Under the terms of
an old act of Congress the United
States was given exclusive jurisdiction
over offenses committed upon its own
reserved property, whether reserya-
tions in the sense of army posts or
buildings, as postoffices and customs
houses. Such reservations are an
alogous to the District of Columbia
they are a part of the central govern
ment, and it is in every way reason
able that the Government should be
powerful to punish according to its
own law offenses committed thereon.
But the offense must be one de-
clared by national legislation, and
where it is not so declared the juris-
diction is that of the State in which
the reservation is situate, instead OF
the reservation upon which the offense
against the State law is committed.
Otherwise the United States, through
the Federal courts, could punish for an
act which it had never declared a
crime on the ground that some other
sovereignty had declared such an act
criminal. In essence, the proposition
was logically to invest the Federal
courts with sort of adaptive legisla-
tive power.
In the beginning it was attempted
to remove the publisher of the In
News to the District of Co.
lumbia for trial upon an indictment
charging libel against the Government
by reason of the circulation of the
paper in the District. That effort
having failed, it was sought to indict
the New York World in the State of
New York, but in the Federal court.
The decision of the Supreme Court
now makes positive the perfectly ap-
parent failure of reasonable distinc-
ton between the two attempts. A
crime is the offense against the pro-
hibition of sovereignty; and where
the act committed on a reservation
is not crime declared by the Gov
ernment, the only jurisdiction is that
of the State in which the reservation
is situate.
All this, however, in nowise gives
further license to libel to the press.
It in no way affects either the right
of the injured party to hold the Of
The Washington times., 1911-01-10

Tending paper to damages, or the right
of the State in which the, offense is
committed to punish it as for crime.
1t merely interposes what we con-
slider the same constitutional check
upon an effort to throw the power of
the Government in the scales against
the individual.
The Washington times., 1911-01-10

so judge wherever held
success although
Copenhagen snuff"
don't see why people inquire
spend money" objected Imogene
Dearie sad will publish that! This
neod our bills the Government
These things which
because are the
EIere on page item reading
Senate March 80
Apenta $475
1872 of Apolinars water l,456OO
You 81 45O worth Of kind of water in less
than two months Now the Senate
through from to though and
don't items am looking for
hey?" inquired Imogene
I'm hunting manuring and scalp treatment from Katie
Dunn don't although it's in here
place"
the other item?' she asked
I'm looking whewash brushes and unsacked ime
committee whewash Lormer but haven't
found although $751; something which reads like
it might have beenus that committee:
gallons
4 -.
IF that's il. it was cheap i0b!
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
NeedleWOrk Exhibit
At st. Roses School

An elaborate exhibit of fancy needle
work will be held at st. Roses Tech
nicsl School on the afternoon Of jan
uary % by the Association of Ladies
of Charity, which was founded to as
sist the school. Its officers are: Nine
Jusserand, honorary president; Sister
Clara, superior of the house, presi-
dent; Mrs. Montgomery, acting presi-
dent; Miss Riggs, first vice president; !;
Mrs. Story, second vice president; Mrs
Hannis Taylor, third vice president;
Mrs. Carr, fourth vice president; Mrs.
Mccarthy, fifth. vice presidents Miss
Redfern, recording secretary; Wis
countess Benoist dAzy, corresponding
secretary, and Sister Rose, treasurer.
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
CHARGE BADFAITH
TO THE DEMOCRATS
Insurgents Claim They Are Playing Politics Refusing
to Stand by Them in Voting Against Speaker Can
mons Ruling on Fuller Motion

fight year ago to deprive the Speaker
of his membership on the Rules Com
mittee.
We went into the rules fight year
;agC,:s said Mr.. Norris, ION the belief
that We were justified and that we were
acting as a matter OF constitutional
privilege. Speaker Cannon declared
that faction was revolutionary. As q
matter OF fact. we began our fight after
the Speaker ruled that a report from
the census Committee was privileged
under the Constitution. and, therefore,
could displace other business because
constitution.
Mentioned In Constitution.
fhe rules of the House also are
mentioned in the Constitution, and.
taking the Speakers ruling as a prece-
dent, introduced my amendment to
the rules and claimed for 1t the same
constitutional privilege as that grant
cd the census report. We won that
f,ght," continued Mr.. Norris. 'If
Speaker Cannon was right when he
ruled that the census report was privi-
legged under the Constitution, the insur-
Gents were right when they insisted
that the rules amendment. based on his
precedent, was privileged. If We were
both right at that time, then the
Speaker was wrong when he ruled
against the Fuller amendment, and the
insurgents and a hand full of Demo-
Gratis were right when they voted
against him. 1t is now apparent that
the Democrats were with us then for
other reasons. Now that they are about
to get into power, they no longer de-
sire to see the rules amended, nor do
they desire to see a ruling made by the
Speaker which may prove embarrassing
IN the next Congress when a motion is
made to lfberaliZe the rules"
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
Suffragettes Aroused
By Mrs. Kelley's Speech

Suffragettes are today widely aroused
over the statement by Mrs. Florence
Kelley, of New York, that the public
schools of that city are merely training
schools for the sweatshops, and that
the schools were indirectly responsible
for so many young people being sent
to Blackwell's Island. Mrs. Kelley.
who spoke at Flynn's Hall last night,
alleged that the remedy for this evil
lay In allowing women to vote.
"women's Law and the Home" deal
ing with child labor, was the subject
upon which Mrs. Kelley addressed the
Congressional Club in the afternoon.
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
Wilnge or Callahan?
Christian EndeavorerS
Plan a Great Chorus

A movement is under way for the or
ganization of a chorus in Washington
to sing at the International Christian
Endeavor convention in Atlantic City
next July. Impetus was given the move
ment last night at a meeting of the
District Union at st. PauIs Lutheran
the plans.
1t was reported that E. P. Gates soon
would give up his duties as president of
the District union, having accepted the
presidency of the State union Of Illinois.
The Washington times., 1911-01-10
Urges High School
For Colored Youths

Richard R. Horner, Of the Board Of
Education, will address the Colored
Anacostia Citizens Association tonight
at the Campbell A. NJ. E. Church upon
the imperative necessity of a new and
well-equipped commercial high school
for colored youths. The church is To-
Gated on Nichols avenue, Anacostia Mr.
Horner is very active in organizing sem
timent among all classes in the city
upon this matter, and this meeting Is
the second of its kind which has been
held within the last month.