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The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
WOMAN SITS IN PRESS
GALLERIES AT CAPITOL
Unusual Sight Greets Correspondents
When Miss Mary Brookes Ex-
ercises Privilege as Representa-
tive of Texas Papers.

The unusual sight of woman occupy
ing seat in the Capitol press galleries
was witnessed yesterday, when Miss
Mary Kouncelor Brookes, the Washing
ton correspondent of the Fort Worth
Record and the Houston Post, exercised
her privilege as a member of the press
gallery.
Miss Brookes has been in Washington
for some time as correspondent of these
papers, but did not make her request
for admission to the gallery until ten
days ago, when she was promptly admit
ted by Maurice Splain, chairman of the
standing committee of correspondents.
She has been cordially welcomed by other
members of the gallery, and it is pre-
dicted that her presence there will con-
tribute a pleasing novelty to the daily
routine of newspaper work.
Miss BrookeS wins this honor after only
four years newspaper experience. during
which time she has made brilliant rec
ord in both editorial and reportorial
work. Entering the service OF the Fort
Worth Record four years ago in the ca
pacity of society editor. she quickly de-
veloped an ability for varied newspaper
work
One of the striking features of her
work on the Record was her dramatic
and musical criticisms, in the course of
which she established the first Sunday
dramatic page in Texas journalism.
Within eighteen months her skill in po-
litical reporting led the managing editor,
Clarence Ousley. one of the most bril-
liant editorial writer's in the South. to
utilize her abilities on the editorial page
The natural outcome of successful eX-
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
HOUSE WILL VOTE
ON TREATY TO-DAY
Reciprocity Bill TOGO Before
the Senate Tomorrow.

A test vote taken in the House of Rep
resentatives yesterday on the Mccall
bill, embodying the terms of the Canadian
agreement demonstrated conclusively
that the measure will be passed by that
body by a substantial majority. The
bill will be taken up for disposition by
the House to-day. The plan of the
leaders is to pass it before adjournment
and hurry it over to the Senate. Things
are now looking up for Canadian reci-
procity in the Senate. While it is by
no means certain that the pact will be
concurred in by that body. the outlook
for favorable action is more promising
now than it has been at any time since
President Taft transmitted his special
message to Congress on the subject.
Just before the House adjourned last
night Representative Samuel w. Mccall.
of MaSsa chusettS, who is in charge of the
agreement, offered a resolution that calls
for vote on the measure tonight. This
resolution. which was referred to the
Rules Committee, and which will be re-
ported and passed by the House, provides
that at ; o'clock this afternoon the House
shall proceed to a vote.
No doubt IS expressed that the Mccall
bill will be passed before adjournment to-
day. That is the plan Of the supporters
of reciprocity, and they will brook no
further delay. Administration leaders are
anxious that the measure shall be sub
mitted to the Senate by Wednesday. The
supporters Of the agreement in that body
will then become active in an effort to
get an agreement for vote.
Formal notice was given the Presi-
dent by a Democrat during the course
of the debate on the Mccall bill in the
House yesterday that a special session
for the consideration of Canadian reCi-
prOCity, in event that it fails this
time held no terrOrS for the members
of that party. The DemmOCrat who in
jeCtcd this thought into the discussion
was Representative a. Mitchell Palmer,
Of Pennsylvania. who declared that the
Democrats will welcome a special ses-
sion as it would give theG an oppOr-
tunity to begin earlier than they had
planned a general revision of the tariff.
Six speeches were made on the Mccall
hill in the House Yesterday. Representa-
tive Hill. of Connecticut, Republican, and
Rcprese natives Harrison, of New York,
and Palmer. of Pennsylvania. Democrats,
spoke in advocacy CT the measures. Rep
resentatives Gaines. Of West Virginia;
Martin. of South Dakota, and Kendall,
of Iowa, spoke in opposition to it. The
debate was marked by sharp exchanges
between those who advocated Canadian
reciprocity and Republicans identified
with the opposition
The burden OF the remarks of the Dem
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
DISTRICT MEASURES
PASSED BY SENATE
Amendments Agreed To and
; Other Provisions Added.

The District appropriation bill was
passed by the Senate yesterday almost
as rapidly as the clerk could read the
various amendments reported by the
Committee on Appropriations.
All the amendments included in the bill
were agreed 70 without discussion, save
the proposition authorizing the District
Commissioners to take over the super
vision and work of cleaning the streets,
now performed by contract and purchase
the equipment of the contractor in the
event that they could do the work more
expeditiously and economically. The
amendment went out on a point Of order
made by Senator Shively. of Indiana.
A few additions were made to the bill,
including provision giving the COmmis-
sioners SpeCific authority to grant thirty
davs' annual leave of absence to annual
salaried officials and employees of the
District.
Another amendment, suggested by Sen
ator Martin. makes still more definite
the prohibition against the location of
any District penal institution within ten
miles of Mount Vernon. AS passed by
the House. the bill prohibited the use
of any money appropriated in the act for
a penal institution in the ten-mile i'm
munity zone. The amendment adopted
yesterday prohibits the use of any money
previously appropriated in any former
act for any 'reformatOry or asylum or
workhouse' in Maryland or Virginia
within ten miles of Mount Vernon.
An amendment was also adopted au-
thorizing a new highway plan for the
section near the Piney Branch parkway
and limiting the replanning of the streets
to two sections, defined as follows:
Between Shepherd street, Fourteenth
street, Fourteenth street road, Spring
road, and Rock Creek Park.
Between Van Buren, street, Georgia
avenue, Nicholson street, and Rock Greek
Park.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14

| charged forgery against those who
were prosecuting LUrimer. He exhibited
the printed brief Of the Chicago Tribune s
lawyer, in which appeared what pur-
ported to be a facsimile of a deposit
slip by which Senator Holtslaw,, of the
Illinois legislature. had placed to his
credit in Chicago bank $500 alleged
to be bribe money. Mr.. Bailey asserted
that this document bore evidence of being
a forgery, but the Texas Senator's sensa-
tion was punctured when Senator Cum
minis produced the original deposit slip
and it was asserted that the facsimile
in the brief was only a copy.
When the original of the slip was Of
fered in evidence by Senator Cummins,
Senator Bailey remarked:
IF they would forge one slip they
would not hesitate to forge an explana-
ton of it,
In Senator BaiIeys opinion, the fact
that Albert ]. Hopkins was a Republi-
can candidate for Senator against Lori
mer WAS sufficient justification for any
Democrat to swing his vote to Lorimer.
Mr.. Bailey declared further that ii was
no unusual thing for Democrats in the
Illinois Legislature TO vote for a Repub-
lican, and that corrupt methods could
not be inferred from this course He
declared that Abraham Lincoln, while a
member of the Illinois legislature, voted
for Senator Trumbull, a Democrat Three
other Republicans joined with Lincoln,
and Senator Bailey regarded that as a
precedent worthy of consideration by all
Republican statesmen.
The great Lincoln" said Senator
Bailey, did what the legislators in Illi-
nOis who voted for Lorimer have been
denounced here for doing"
Senator Bailey paid a glowing tribute
TO Lorimer as man He described him
as one whose habits of life would bear
comparison with the habits of any man
on either side of the chamber.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
CITIZENS DENOUNCE
SPEAKER CANNON
Resolution Declares They Are
Pleased at Coming Change.

Accusing Speaker Cannon OF defeating
District day in the House by his open
hostility to anything that resembled a
square deal to District legislation, the
Northeast Washington Citizens Associa-
ton last night administered a rebuke
to the Speaker by adopting a resolution
presented by S. Sowerbutts. secretary,
congratulating Washington ION the pleas
ure of d prospective change in the
Speakership.'
Speaker Cannon, the resolution declares.
has no love for the District, and asserts
he has always done his best to bring
about the defeat OF any measure of in
terest to Washington.
Referring to the defeat of District day,
W. S. Branson praised the stand taken
by The Washington Herald for the rights
of the District. He said:
Il note with great satisfaction the
stand of The Washington Herald for
District day., said Mr.. Branson. If
everybody had stood by the District as
well, Congress would not have iside-
stepped US the way 1t did
More conservative members thought
best to wait until Speaker Cannon had
completed his control of the House be-
fore denouncing him. They were backed
"S IiSSluehI Evan n IuCheF' VINO ue-
Clared that as long as the Speaker had
the power to kick back il would be
better to wait to catch a crumb from
the loaf.
a resolution addressed to the President
and Commissioners deplored the dis
charge of former Supt. James Wood, Of
the street-cleining department, and eX-
pressed their Indignation at the appoint
ment Of an outsider"
Attention also was called to the pres
cnt state of affairs in the assessme Mt
II taxes in the District, members de-
claring that the rate has been increased
121a per cent by the present board. on
property that is deteriorating in value.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
YESTERDAY IN CONGRESS.
SENATE.

The feature Of the Senate session was
speech Of Senator Bailey. Of Texas. defending
the title of Senator Lorimer, Of Illinois, to
Baileys speech, all the gallery space in the
Senate chamber was filed when the Senate
met at noon. although Senator Bailey did not
begin his sEeech until O'Clock. He spoke for
nearly three hours and then announced that he
would continue his remarks Tuesday, after which
the Senate adjourned.
In the frst two hours Of the session the
Senate considered and passed the District OF
Columbia appropriation bill
senator Charles Curtis. Of Kansas. spoke
briefly on the resolution for popular election Of
Senators, in which he defended the amendment
of Senator Sutherland. retaining Federal control
over such elections within the States
The bill creating tariff board was read and
the committees amendments adopted but no
further progress was made with the bill yes
teriay.
memorial from the Illinois legislature in
support of the Sulloway pension bill read.
Among the important committee reports was
one from the Committee Pensions which. by
a vote Of to I. reported farorably 70 the
Senate the Sulloway pension bill. The hin was
reported in the form in which il passed the
House EXCEPT that the maximum rate for vet
Grams who have reached the age Of seyenty-iTe
was reduced from SB a month in the House bill
N so a month.
The Senate adjourned at As p m, to meet at
noon Tuesday.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
PENSION BILL REPORTED.

The Sulloway old age and service pen
sion bill for veterans of the Mexican and
civil wars, which it is estimated will add
s45.0O0.O0O annually to the expenditures
for pensions, was favorably reported to
the Senate yesterday from the Committee
on Pensions
The bill as reported makes the follow
ing increases in the present rate allowed
by law:
Age sixty-two and over, increased from
Sl2 to SIS; age sixty-five years and over
increased from s12 to $50; age seventy
years and over, increased from SIS to SIS
and age seventy-five and over, increased
from $40 TO $50.
The bill gives the increases enumerated
to men who served honorably in the
army or navy for sixty days in the Mex
lean war or for ninety days in the civil
war. and who were honorabiy discharged.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
ROAD REFUSES TO FURNISH
COMPARTMENT MAIL CARS

Special to The Washington Herald.
Bristol Tenn, Feb. 13.-As a result
of the retrenchment order of the Post
office Department. which went into ef-
feet to-day, the Southern Railway re-
fused to furnish compartment mail
cars between Bristol and Chattanooga
on through trains, and there was
great congestion of mail at this ter
minaL
All Eastern mail, which came t.
Bristol on the fast train No II this
morning at 11:15 o'clock was stopped
here because the Southern refused to
furnish a car. 1t refused a car to train
No. AZ, and there was further conges-
tion.
1t is said that the Southern abso-
lutely declines to furnish other than
the big cars for the fast trains and
that the Post-office Department, hav-
ing notified them that they will pay
for only the compartment cars for GER
tain fast trains, the Southern will fur
nish none
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
CONGRESSIONAL BRIEFS.

The Senate Committee Interstate Cuuimercf
will have a hearing on Friday on the Scott Oh
prohibiting dealing in cotton futures.
Senator jeff Davis. who has the record ot bcins
absent from the Senate more than any other mem
Der Of that body not the hospital list. wa
hack in his seat after lengthy stay in Arkansas
where he went to look after his political fcnos-
The GaIlinger ships subsidy bill which has beer
passed by the Senate. will he voted upnn by the
'Post-offcc Committee Of the House on "Wednesday
This is taken as an announcement that the bIl
will be faTurably reported at that time.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
UP TO COMMISSIONERS.
Bill to Punish Toters of Stolen Goods
Being Considered.

A bill introduced by Representative
Carlin, of Virginia. providing a fine and
imprisonment in the penitentiary for per-
sons caught bringing stolen goods into
the District, is being considered by the
Commissioners. This follows recent de-
cision of the Court of Appeals, which
left the District without any laws to
punish such offenders.
Maj Sylvester, superintendent OF po-
lice. urges the passage OF the bilL The
decision of the court was in the case of
a baggagemaster of the Southern Rail
road. who was sentenced to three months
in jail for rifling baggage while on his
run from Charlotte, n. c., to this city.
The decision was reversed by the Court
of Appeals.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14

mert as Washington correspondent for
her papers. Since she has been in Wash
ington Miss Brookes has landed several
notable beats for her papers. and thor
oughly JUSTIFIED the use of women as po-
litical correspondents.
Miss BroOkes is a native Texan. Her
father was the late III. II. BroOkes. editor
and publisher Of the Amarillo Champion,
so she comes naturally by her newspaper
faculty.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
WANT CANAL NEUTRAL.
ChOate. OIney, and Butler to Appear
Before House Committee.

Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia University, New York; Joseph
H Choate, former United States Ambas-
sador to Great Britain, and Richard
Oiney. Secretary of State under Grover
Cleveland, will appear before the House
Appropriations Committee on Monday of
next week to oppose any appropriation
by Congress for the fertilization of the
Panama Canal.
These three distinguished men will dis
Cuss the treaty obligations of the United
States with respect to the fOrtifcation
Of the Panama Canal, and will hold, it
Is understood, that the United States is
in honor bound at least to submit to
the other great nations OF the world.
whose interests are intimately connected
with the policy that will govern the
operation of the canal, a proposition
looking to the protection of the canal by
the process of naturalization.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
Labor Men Hear sunrasette.

At the meeting of the Central Labor
Union. last night, Miss Harriet Hilton
spoke on Suffrage" and extended an
invitation to the union to hear Miss
Sylvia Pankhurst, the English suffragette,
at the Columbia Theater on February n
The plate printers stated they are con-
fident the law win remain as II is re-
garding the printing Of notes and bonds
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14

ocrats who indorsed the Taft agreement
was that it was a step in the right direc-
ton, and that it would be followed in due
season by further revision tending to re-
ductions in tariff rates and the transfer
of other necessaries of life to the free
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
WILL FIRE AT WAR SHIP.
Ordnance Experts to Use the Texas
I'm Making Experiments.

I'm Making Experiments.
The Navy Department has decided to
perform additional ordnance experiments
shortly to determine the penetration of
projectiles at battle ranges. The battle
ship Texas will be used as a target in
the experiments. The tests held in Ches-
apeake Bay last week developed several
points which the ordnance experts of the
navy intend to follow up. In the coming
tests shells will explode upon contact.
Heretofore the ordnance experiments
have been made with shells which were
designed to burst after penetrating the
arrnor of an enemy's battle ships.
In the tests in the Chesapeake Bay last
week the shells were shattered by the
contact with the armor plate, showing
that a shell had rot yet been obtained
which would penetrate modern armor
plate without shattering itself.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
HOUSE.

By vote Of l95 to II the House voted 70
sidetrack District Day in favor OF the Mccall
reciprocity bill
The House adjourned at Sis p m. to meet at
II O'Clock Tuesday.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
result. i'm Iowa Vote.

Des MoInes. Iowa, Feb. 13.-To-day's
Joint ballot by the legislature resulted
as follows: Kenyon. 20: Young. 81: Garst,
4: wallace, 1: Sammis. 3; Porter Oem-),
90 Necessary to elect o.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
EXCURSIONS.

All advertising contracts made by The
Washington Herald are based upon It's
bona fide circulation-a circulation In
Washington larger by thousands than
was ever before attained by any morning
newspaper at the Capit-L Its books ara
open
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
No Change I'm Montana.

Helena. Feb. 13.-TO-day's ballot for
United States Senator showed no signifi-
cant change in the votes for the several
candidates.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14

SOUTH CAROLINA AVENUE AND BEACH,
ATLANTIC CITY. y. J.
Steam heat; parCr; elevator. Many new baths
added. Running water in rooms; Sl2jo weekly up
Booklet mailed. W. F. SHAW.
The Washington herald., 1911-02-14
ATLANTIC CITY Hotels.
HOTEL JACKSON
HOTEL IRooUoIS

OCEAN END VIRGINIA AVENUE
American and European pians-mulc- Oprn all
wear. J. II. CORMLEY.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-06-30
There Were Books, Whole Roomful.

There Were Books, Whole Roomful.
very look put romance out Of court.
He was stoutish, red of hair, freckled
as to face, with swapping blue eyes,
shrewdly set. Notwithstanding. he
was neither common nor common
place-there was too patent an air Of
efficiency for that
He was hopping mad, and very busy
when he met Alaster's gaze. There
was need Of rush work, in running a
transit line-and the men he was de-
pending on to help him had not shown
up. Worse still, he could not go hunt
ing them-he had promised to meet a
high parsonage exactly at 10 o'clock
there at the foot of the hill Spying
Alaster's straw hat upon top of the
rise, he mistook her for a curious
country lad. and shouted:
Say, therel Want to earn quar-
ter? You can-if your legs are long
and light"
Make it half and I'll talk to
youl" Alaster called back. She sensed
instantly his mistake and spoke as
gruffly as she could
In answer Mallows swore at her for
a greedy clodhopper. but ended by
promising the half, if she would but
run to the village. mile off. end
hurry up those men idling there.
With a delicious thrill of adventure,
Alaster came out of hiding, ran past
him, nodding gayly as she did SO. and
sped on to the goal And thus she
game plump under the eyes of the
high personage-the financier who
was back of the new railway enter
prise. He stared at her-he had seen
nothing anywhere to match the deer
lift Of her throat, the pantherine
grace of her easy stride. She would
not have checked for him, but that
he refined in, almost In front of her,
asking:
IS this the nearest way to Drew
Stt's-the spring there. / mean?"
Keep on! You can't miss It unless
you shut both eyes" Alaster said
the last word over her shoulder as she
shot past
The nigh parsonage whispered soft
ly. When he came upon Mallows he
had an odd smile lowering in his
eyes. Mallows also was a bit of key.
After a second the two. they we're
most excellent chums. understood. and
both laughed
Hit you. too. square between the
eyes" MailoWs said.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-06-30

Who would have thought that the
squalid parlor, into which the warm
sun filtered, was a place of dreams :?
But so it was. The taciturn little En-
glishman in the corner, who was born
in South Africa, was gazing into space
upon the yellow corn fields of the Ar
gentine Republic, upon construction
camps in the Andes, and upon broad
roads leading by gentle stages through
the pampas from one hospitable ranch
to the next. Aroused from his artic-
ulate vision by question, he stated
in matter-of-fact way that he would
be in Argentine next fall.
The booted, gigantic Swede was
thinking Of logging camps in Mime
sofa, of peri1ous drives to the lakes, OF
fist-to-flst battles between champions
among the SHOWS. Another, in his
minds eye, behele the sunny orchards
of California; another imagined him
self helping build steel bridges in
Mexico. The sap of spring was rising
in their veins, and, like birds of pas
sage, they were impatient to be off. A
few more weeks would see them scat
tered to the points of the compass,
ensconced in box cars and on blind
baggages, but all bent on the quest
of their golden fleece"-the perfect
job.
Some would fall by the wayside-
mangled or slain beneath the wheels
Of trains, and would be buried in the
no 4r.fo 4 H.
railroads for their vagabond victims,
But of these the army Of wanderers
would take no heed.
The gay cat" believes that his con-
stitutional right to the pursuit OF hap
piness includes the privilege OF rid
ing on trains without paying fare.
The most he viii do is to pay so
cents to a shack" brakeman for
permission to ride unmolested over
his division. Frequently a supposed
vagabond crouching painfully in a
brake-beam has 500 in his pockets
and bank book for several hundred
more. But he would have suspicious
of his own sanity should he spend any
of his money for the comforts and re-
spectability of seat in a railroad
coach.
The gay cat" in an emergency is
not abashed at begging meal at
backdoor. But as he has more self
respect, he usually employs greater
art and skill in his "mooching" than
dose bum" One rowing mechanic
accosted an astonished housewife With
the question:
Madam, have you hatchet?"
What do you want with hatchet?"
she countered, suspiciously.
81 want &c knock my teeth out" an.
swered he with solemnity.
Lands alive!" almost screamed the
woman. why should you knock your
teeth out?"
What's the use having teeth If you
have nothing to eat?" was the re
Spouse. The gay cat" obtained one
of those rare feasts known in the YER
nacular as a "sit down