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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
TEMPORARY SETBACK
Received, Thursday, by Senator Lo'i
mer's Defence in Bribery Case.

Washington. Dec Ex-senator Lori
mer's defence received a temporary set
back, today. E.lbridge Hanecey, his
counsel, had announced that he expected
TO prove that the charges of corruption
against the senator were inspired oy
owners and officials of the international
Harvester Co. because they believed SEN
ator Lormer was connected with the le-
gal effort in Chicago TO increase the
companys taxes. The committee inves-
tigating Mr.. Lorimers election ordered
stricken from the record all the testimo'
ny concerning the tax fight given by
Maxwell Edgar, Chicago lawyer. I'd
gar caused sensation. last Saturday
by testifying that he received from Car
ence barrow, the lawyer, an offer of $l0,'
600 of he would cease the opposition tc
the Harvester Co.
Chairman Dillingham; ruled that Ed
gar's testimony could not be received un-
less counsel for Senator Lorimer cou.e
connect 1t with proof that the Harvester
Co. officials believed Mr.. Lorimer was i'll
terested in the fight against them. Clar
ence Funk, general manager of the In
ternational Harvester Co., testified thai
sometime in February Hines approached
him In the Union League Club, in Chicl
go, and asked him to contribute $4,000 L
the fund alleged to have been used L
put Lorimer over at Springfield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
BEGINS.
Continued from Page One.)

Ms. Hulls appearance at the federal
! building followed that OF II. S. Hook
| in, acting secretary of the Iron Work
ers Association, who has been con-
| ferring with Frank NJ. Ryan, the
president. Hockin now occupies the
| position in the union formerly held
by John ]. Mcnamara. Police officials
of Indianapolis. who were present
when records were taken out of the
| Iron Workers headquarters and for
mer stenographers of Mcnamara, We're
also present McManigal spoke in his
confession of having been paid at
least $4,000 and he said some person
other than John J. Mcnamara did the
paying; but after he and James b.
Mcnamara blew up vaiduct in
Cleveland in June, 1910, he had had a
dispute with them over the amount
he was to receive and in consequence
]. j. took the matter in hand himself
all the way through" For the Cleve-
land job McManigal said he and
james b. were paid 500 each.
Referring to an explosion at the
Iroquois Steel Plant at South Chicago,
McManigal said he used 50 pounds
of dynamite and added: When
went TO Indianapolis, J. ]. Mcnamara
paid me 800 in cash, as that was all
the cash he had in the office. | saw
him pay J. B. Mcnamara for the
job"
That the records We're kept of the
sums of the money paid out was in
dictated in that part of the confession
in which MeManigal refers to his COM
plant as to the small pay he received
before he dealt directly with McNa
mara. He said that previously he re-
ceived only 1925 each for the jobs but
on the train between Cincinnati and
indianapolis he discussed places that
were still to be blown up with J. b.
Mcnamara. u. B. told me he had
seen the stubs for the Mount Vernon,
H.. job, and that they were made
for 1925 while 1 received only $50. At
ter that ]. ]. Mcnamara handled the
money" he said.
Among the other items mentioned
by MeManigal were 5000 cash for jobs
at Greenville, n. j., McKee's Rocks,
Pa, Superior, Wis. Omaha Neb.. Los
Angeles. Cal, Hoboken. n. J.. Wor-
cester, Mass, and Milwaukee, Wis.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
CRIMINAL, IF TRUE.
Charged That Most Atlantic Steamers
Are Under manned

Washington, Dec. 14.-William II. Fra
sier, secretary of the International sea-
mems Union of Boston, Mass. startled
the House committee on merchant ma
rine and fisheries, today, by saying that
on a majority of the passenger carrying
ships on the Atlantic coast there were
not enough of the crew to man the life
boats. He said most of the ships carry
only boats enough for 10 per cent OF
their passenger-carrying capacity.
The witness said that in all of his ex-
periences he never saw boat drill at
sea where the lifeboats were swung out
ON the davits.
Mr. Fraser also declared that the Slo-
cum disaster was due to an insufficient
crew. The loss of life would have bee:
reduced one-half with a proper crew, he
said
The witness was one of a score of sail
ors in the various trades who urged the
passage of the Wilson bill to improve the
conditions of the men in the seafarine
trade The bill would increase from {.
10 100 cubic feet the space for each mem
Der OF the crew and from IL to 16 fee
the deck space. 1t would provide NOR,
efficient men in the fire rooms and othe,
reforms.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
ARRAlGNS MILLiONAIRES.
Works of California Criticises Manner
OF Making Benefactions.

Washington, Dec. 14.-An investiga-
| ton of charges of oppression, negli-
genec and Indifference to the welfare
and comfort of inmates of the Nation
al Soldiers Home in Los Angeles
county, California. was urged. and
millianaires who make benefactions
conditioned on heralding of their
names were arraigned in the enate.
| today. in a speech of Mr.. Works Of
California.
Mr. Works, in dwelling on the debt
owed to the Civil War veterans, said
he favored extending to the remnant
of gallant Confederate army" the
same care and protection accorded 10
Union soldiers. He commented upon
the treatment of Civil War veterans
when they became old. friendless and
diseased, by comparison with pre-
vailing "garish and often vulgar dis
play of wealth and wild and unreason-
ing extravaganza"
Though not specifically naming any
millionaire, philanthropiSt, Mr.. Works
referred to the few citizens who have
amaased colossal fortunes ana whose
giving of small portion of their fab
ulous wealth was just as selfish as
their accumulation OF it.
TT is almost always heralded as
a public benefaction but it is used as
a means for personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT
in almost every instance" said he.
The library built with this surplus
of wealth or the institution founded
with the money that is worse tran
useless TO the donor must bear his
name and herald to the world this
seeming act of benefcence.
There are conspicuous and honor
able exceptions TO this rule. Some Of
the wealthy men and women of the
country are using a part of their sar-
plus wealth tor really practical benaii-
cenees. They seem MOTTO have forgot
ten the Injunction Let not thy left
hand know what thy right doeth.
Senator Works said the Amer. an
people had been striving madly for
wealth, that chasm between the > ich
and poor had grown wider and dep
er and that money has had gre ter
power than principle in the control OF
public affairs. He said that the ma
tion * keeping pace with private cit
liens in its lavish expenditure of
money, though not fer things So Ese-
less or demoralizng.
He cites published charges that 1t
Grams in the Pacific Branch. Nate AL
Home for Disabled Volunteer Sold -.
locaed at Sawtell. Los Angeles county.
Cal. were treated no better and in
some instances worse than man
county. treats its paupers in q .ns
houses. a magazine article sti ted
that the soldiers who failed To- APP
pear in the mess room by : O'Clock
had to go without breakfast: tat
the dining room was great barn.
barren of comfort: that the furnit@re
was crude, tie food monctonous md
usually cold or luke warm, and t'at
home refinement was lacking in the
institution. Mr.. Works said the matter
should be vigorously looked into. II
he had his way, he declared, the J.
eral government would not only man
tain Union veterans in peace I'd
comfort. bat the old and helpless Coz
fednrate veterans as we'll
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15

building bill This decision on which th'
committee vote was IA to 3, was made II
the face of opposition by Democratic
Leader Underwood.
An attack upon cotton spectators ii
New York" was made in the House
Thursday. by Representative Helm OF
Alabama. Mr.. Helm questioned the esti'
mate of the agricultural department that
the crop, this year, would be l4,5o,V'
bales. This estimate, he said, was be
ing used to beat down the price on 1.-THE
gambling exchange of New York
As a supplement to the laws of the va
rious states and in an effort further to
restrict the Importation sale and use OF
opium. morphine and cocaine, the pure
food and drug board of the department
of agriculture. Thursday, announced q
series of new regulations which will be-
come effective as soon as approved BY
the secretary of agriculture. The new
regulations define rather explicitly the
medicinal purposes for which the drugs
may be used This does not include the
admission of opiates for inducing sleep
i'm infants or similar purposes. 1t is de-
clared that the use must be strictly con-
fined to the treatment, mitigation or
prevention of disease of man or other
animals"
More than 100000 animals were in
speeted during the past fiscal year by the
United States bureau of animal industry,
and more than 100000 carcasses or parts
thereof were condemned as unfit for
food according to the annual report Of
DR. \ d. Melvin. head of the bureau,
submitted Thursday, to Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wilson. tuberculosis was the
cause of most of the concentrations. Dir,
Melvin says, nearly Al per cent, of adult
cattle COMBINATIONS and more than sc
per cent. of those of hogs being due 10
this disease. The number of animals in
spected was more than per cent great
err than last year. Laboratory examina-
tons were made of 25,s1s samples with a
view to detecting prohibited preserya-
tives. coloring matter or adulterants. 1t
was found, DIR. Melvin reports, that 1.-THE
use of prohibited personalities and col
oring matters was not practiced at In.
spected establishments.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
Missouri Apples
For New England.

Kansas City. Mo. Dec Ii-After carry
ing prosperity to the Ozarks, the Mis-
souri, big red apple" is now to reclaim
the abandoned farms of New England.
according to W. T.. Stark, louisiana
Missouri fruit grower, who addressed the
meeting of the Western Nurserymen'
Association here. today
Thousands of dozens of seeding ap.
pie trees are being shipped from Mis-
souri, to Maine and Connecticut, also 10
New York and North Carolina Mr..
Stark said
MANY thousands of acres which went
back 10 the state because the thrifty
Yankee farmer could not make enough
by cultivating them have been re-pur-
chased and set in this fruit. These seed
lings have proved to be the only ones
that will thrive on the land of the worm
out farms "
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15

of the character performed by the gov
eminent itself, such as shipbuilding, gun
and ammunition making. river and har-
Dor work and building construction.
Berger, Wisconsin, the Socialist men,
Der of the House, expressed the belief
that the bill would not "hold water" and
advised the House to "have a brickmaker
write an S-hour law about 10 lines in
LENGTH
For the first time in 80 years, you
Democrats are playing politics success
fully said Berger, amid laughter. Day
before yesterday you got the old soldier
vote; yesterday you got the Jewish vote
and today you have gone after the labor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
BELFAST.

The remains of John Avery, VINO way
drowned Tuesday night or WedlesoaS'
will be sent to his native place EAeter.
for burial An uncle. Frank hooper OF
Castine, came to Belfast. THURSDAY 10
make arrangements.
The Waldo County Medical Association
has elected the following officers: Fres-
ident, DIR. Elmer Small; vice PRESIDENT
DIR. Clarence r. Hines of Searsport; Sec,
DIR. Adelbert Millett; Treas, Dr. OrriS
s. Vickery; censors, DIR. Samuel w.
Johnson, one year; DIR. G. r. Hines, two
years; DIR. a. Z. Kilgore, Brooks, three
years; committee on health, DR.. Hines.
DR.. +. l.. stevens and Or. Vickery. The
meeting was presided over by Pres.
Small. Several interesting papers were
heard, among them one on "Mastoid
Work. by DR.. Frank Y. Gilbert of Port
land.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
FOR ANONYMOUS ATTACKS
Members of Michigan State Grange
Removed from Grange Politics.

kalamazoo. Mich, Dec. 14.-Taday's
session of the State Grange assembled
here took formal action, today, to re-
move both L. a. Holden and II. T..
Baker. Speaker of the Michigan House
OF Representatives. from State Grange
politics. This action followed dra-
matte scene. last night. in which before
1000 Changers Baker confessed to be-
ing the author of anonymous attacks
upon Holden, Mrs. d. NJ. Saunders or
Kent county and other Grange work
ers. After the confession. Holden and
Baker shook hands. apparently ending
a strife which has torn the organiza-
ton for eight years.
But the election, which was to have
been held. today, was postponed until
nominations can be made and new
ballots can be printed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
New Corporations.

The following corporations have
fled certificates Of organization at the
office of the secretary of State:
America Sign Co. of New England,
organized at Portland. for the pur-
pose of dealing in Illuminated signs.
electrical and gas appliances and
goods, with $4,000 capital stock, of
which nothing Is paid in. Officers:
President, Nathan A. Cushman of
Portland; treasurer, John T. Pagan of
Boston. Certificate filed, Dec H. 1911.
Carolina Terminal Co. organized at
Portland. for the purpose of carrying
on general freight and passenger
transportation business with SlO0. 0O0
capital stock, of which nothing is paid
in. Officers: President, Clarence E
Eaton of Portland; treasurer. T. L.
troteau of Portland. Certificate filed
Dec. Ii, 1911.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
LIVE STOCK BREEDERS
OF Maine Open Their Second Annual
Meeting at Orono.

OronO. Me. Dec. 14.--(SpeeiaD. -
The annual meeting of the Maine Live
Stock Breeders Association opened
at 1880. this morning, in Winslow
hall
Dean Leon S. Merrill of the College
Of Agriculture made the address of
welcome. Dean Merrill reviewed the
history of the various stock breeding
associations of the State and eouclud-
ed by expressing the hope that these
associations would meet at the Col
lege every year.
L. E McIntire of Waterford, pres
ident of the association, made the re-
Spouse. In his address he discussed 1T
some length the work which the asso-
citation has been doing and the plans
for the future.
The reports of the officers and com
mittees were then listened to. The
only other speaker in the forenoon was
II. W. Evans of North Bridgton, who
gave an interesting talk on Jersey Cat
tie
The afternoon session. was devoted
! te the discussion of the various breeds
of cattle and sheep by men who are
authority in their subjects. J. NJ
| Deering of Saco discussed Hereford
cattle and Lyman Blair of Greenville
spoke on the Guernsey type. The va
rious types of sheep and their suit
ability to Maine conditions were dis
cussed by +. A. Stanford. West Ken
nebunk. Ernest Hilton of Arson and
W. T. Merrill of Auburn. At O'Clock
the meeting adjourned and the visitors
spent the remainder of the afternoon
| inspecting the University campus.
| The evening session was opened by
an interesting lecture by President
Robert j. Alley of the University. DR.
Alley spoke of the importance of ag-
| riculture to the State and the adyan-
tages of such an association as the
Breeders Association to the farmers
of the State. The remainder of the
evening was spent in an open discus,
sion on Community Breeding The
talk was led by President l.. f. Nc
Intire and II. w. Evans.
The meeting will be continued al
day Friday. The forenoon meeting
will be devoted to lectures and the
election of officers and the Afternoon
session will be confined to practica
demonstrations in judging and scoring
of cattle.
About forty of the leading breeders
OF the State We're present, today
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
FURTHER TAX ABATEMENT
Asked of State Assessors by Bath May
or and Assessors.

Mayor Frank A. Small and Charles
A. Cooinbs and James A. Mulligan of
the Bath Board of Assessors appeared.
Thursday. before the State assessors
To ask for abatement in the State
taxes assessed upon that city.
Some rebate has already been
granted by the State assessors. but
1t was claimed by Mayor Small and
the assessors present that still fur
ther abatement should be granted on
account of the large amount of tax
able steamboat property. which was
going out of the city. The assessors
took the matter under advisement
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
THIS LOTION WILL
IMPROVE COMPILATIONS

Few women realize what d great
aid to beauty a plain spurmax lotion
IS" writes Mrs. Mae Martyr. in the
San francisco Record. This is easily
prepared-merely dissolve ounces
spurnax in II pint hot water and add
teaspoonfuls glycerine. If witch
hazel Is used it will dry quicker when
applied.
Employing this lotion instead OF
powder rids the skin OF pimples
blackheads and oiliness and gives q
gentility and refinement to the com
plexion obtainable no other way. Aside
from making the skin soft and velve.
~. and Of exquisite texture, the spur.
max lotion is invisible when on AND
does not rub or blow off.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15

from being worsted. However, he con-
tinuad. the chief advantage OF the
agreement is that 1t frees foreign pol
tiles from the Moroccan question
which has been a permanent source OF
conflict. This advantage is not a
small one at an hour when the eXter'
nal political situation demands paruc-
ular attention"
He then continued; we have nc
intention OF abandoning our friends
or or alliances. On the contrary VIC
shall bind them closer
In conclusion he said that the nego'
tiations with Spain had been taken
up in a friendly spirit.
Count De Nuns motion was defeat-
ed by 448 to 9S.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
STATE HOUSE.
CONTINUED from Page Nine.)

cumberland district extending over
half the area of the State, will add
increased Democratic votes to his dis
triet and also increase the strength
Of Congressman McGillicuddy in the
second district.
Tile plan provides for the dividing
of the two counties of Cumberland
and Penobscot, which have in recent
elections shown strong Democratic
strength. The first district under this
plan is TO include the counties of
oxford, Franklin, York and northern
and western Cumberland, exclusive of
the coast towns. The second district
under this plan will include the eoun-
ties of Androseoggin, Knox. Lincoln,
and Sagadahoc and the coast towns
of Cumberland. including Portland.
Congressman Gould, according TO this
plan, will for his own district add to
the counties of Kennebec Somerset,
Hancock and Waldo the southern
part of Penobscot county. including
Bangor. The fourth district is to in
clude Aroostook, Piscataquis and
Washington and the northern part of
Penohscot county.
The report was current at the State
House, Thursday, that the Somerset
county delegation would oppose all
liquor laws that the dominant party
might try to pass at the special ses-
sion. if this new plan OF apportion,
ment was not given considera ton, 1t
is understood, however, that the
Democratic leaders propose to go
ahead with the plan finally adopted
by the State committee.
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CONGRESS.
Continued from Page One.)

a great battleship were turned inside
out and how parts of the bottom works
generally were displaced.
The debris of 1pounders, 6-pound-
ers. 6-inch and 10-ineh ammunition
was found widely scattered through
the wreck" said the report. THE To-
cation of much of this material bore
little relation to it's original stowa sc
condition. Powder tanks were tom
asunder or crushed and flattened.
THE condition of the vertical keel
and Hat keel at frame Is was ascribed
by the court of inquiry of 1898 (the
year of the war with Spain, which
followed the blowing up. of the Maine)
to the direct effect of an explosion
exterior to the ship in that vicinity
Because of its better opportunity for
detailed examination of this wreck
age now fully exposed. the present
board concluded that the external ex-
plosion, which ignited the magazines,
was not in the vicinity of this frame.
The protective deck and hull of the
ship" said the report, formed a
closed chamber in which the gases
We're generated and partially expand
ed before rupture"
The bow portion OF the Maine was
found pointed nose downward in the
mud to port and lying on it's star
board side. The upper part of that
portion of the ship in the vicinity of
the forward magazines was entirely
swept away. Only about one-half OF
the bottom was left IN position.
The disaster to the Maine occurred
almost n years ago. In it two officers
and 264 men persisted.
The report perfunctorily was ordered
printed and referred to the naval at
fairs committee of the two houses.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
CAPITAL JOTTINGS.

Declaring absinthe dangerous to health,
the pure food board of the department
of agriculture, Thursday, decided that it's
importation into the United States should
be prohibited after Jan. l next. The or
der awaits the signature of the secretary
of agriculture before becoming enective
Another large appropriation, which
may carry millions of dollars. was added
to the House program, Thursday, when
the House committee on public buildings
decided to report an omnibus public
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
Fought on Merri=
mac in March, 81.

Washington. Dec. "A Hardin &. Little
page, one of the few surviving partic-
pants in the great battle between the
Monitor and the Merrimac in Hampton
Roads in March, 1862. died. Thursday. at
his home here. He was 20 years old and
was born in Virginia. He resigned from
the Naval Academy as a midshipman 10
enter the Confederate navy at the out
break of the Civil War and participated
In number of engagements besides that
between the Monitor and the Merrimac.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
pELHrs PASSENGERS LANDED.
Only One Iniured-Three of the Crew
Were Drowned.

Tangier, Dec. 14.-All the passengers
OF the wrecked steamer Delhi have
now been landed only enc of the pas
sengers was injured in the most diff
cult task. of rescue. He had broken
leg Three Lascars, members of the
Delhis crew, were drowned by the
capsizing of a boat. which was return
ing to the shop after landing a batch
of passengers.
The sea continues to run high. to-
night The starboari side of the Delhi
is now completely stripped of its
planking. A tug from Gibralter, which
came to assist in the rescue. was driv-
en- ashore by the heavy sea. The crew
escaped
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
Cooperation Changes.

The Somerset worsted Mills has
filed a certificate of change at the Of
fee of the secretary of State. announ =
ing the creation of preferred stock to
the amount of $4,000. % take place Of
common stock of the same amount au-
thorized, but not issued.
The Wilton Electric Light, Gas &
Power Co. has filed a certificate Of
change. announcing change of name
to Wilton Light Co. and increase OF
capital stock from $4,000 to $4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-15
Needle Books Given Away.

A most useful little present, In
dispensable to every housekeeper, =
needle book, containing forty Of the
best needles made, will be sent free to
any address. with your request for
this needle book, enclose a yellow wrap.
per from bottle Of IL. F." Atwood's
medicine, stating your experience or
opinion Of the remedy. Write today
10 the L. F. Medicine Co., Portland.
Maine