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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
STEEL BILL PASSES HOUSE
Measure Reducing Duties From 80
to so Per Cent. Adopted
210 to 1o9.

Washington.-By a vote of 210 to
109 the house passed the Underwood
Bill revising downward the iron and
steel schedules of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff law
The Underwood measure reduces
duties from 80 to SO per cent
Seventeen Republicans voted with
the Democrats for the bill. as follows:
Davis of Minnesota. Haughen of Iowa.
Helgeson of Minnesota, Jackson of
Kansas. Kinkead of Nebraska, Lafferty
of Oregon. La Toilette of Washington,
Lenroot of Wisconsin, Lindbergh of
Minnesota, Morse of Wisconsin. Muir.
dock Of Kansas, Nelson of Wisconsin.
Norris of Nebraska, Warburton OF
Washington. Woods of Iowa. Aiken OF
New York and Stephens of California
Rucker of Colorado was the only Dem
ocrat to vote against the bill
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
TELLS HOW FUND WAS SPENT
Secretary Knox Appears Before House
Committee With champlain
Fete Vouchers.

Neutrality-suspicious. gorgeous dinner
at $40 per cover for the elite; a So
cent luncheon for ordinary members
OF the legislatures; cocktails, wines.
travelling expenses and bouquet of
lilies-of-the-valley for the wife OF the
postmaster general of Canada. ac-
counted for every penny of the mys.
terious $4,000 fund appropriated in
1909 for government participation in
the now famous celebration at Lake
Champlain.
Secretary Knox. under subpoena.
appeared before the house committee
for expenditures for the state depart
ment and laid bare vouchers covering
the entire expenditure.
Loose practices have existeda in
conducting the secret or emergency
fund.-" admitted Secretary Knox.
Your investigation directed my at
tention to the abuse. / think few
expenditures should not be made pub
lie. Some, of course. must not be-"
Secretary Knox read a letter writ
ten by himself to the president rec
ommending that the vouchers be
made public. The president directed
the production of the vouchers.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
SPENSELEY AWAITS REPORT
Government Examiners Finish Work
of Two Years on Mineral
Point Banks Books.

La Crosse. After working stead
lily for nearly two years government
experts employed by the attorney
generals department have finally
concluded the examination of the
books of the defunct First National
bank of Mineral Point.
Philip Allen, vice president of the
bank, is now serving ten years at
Leavenworth prison for wrecking the
institution. Following his conviction
he gave evidence before the grand
jury here which resulted in the in
dictment of Calvert Spenseley, presi-
dent of the bank, on a charge OF max
ing false statements to the bank ex-
aminer. That was in November,
1909.
Since then experts have been work
ing on the books to determine
whether the facts warranted prosecu-
ton. That point will now be decided
on the report submitted by the de-
partment of justice at Washington
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
ROAD BLAMED FOR WRECK
Teiegraphers' Union Assert Illinois
Central Officials Are Responsible
for kinmundy Wreck.

Washington.-The wreck on the Illi-
nois Central at Kinmundy, ILL.,. which
caused the death of James It. Hara-
han, former president of the line. and
other prominent railroad officials,
was direct result of failure on the
part of the railroad company to EN-
ploy sufficient men to keep its signals.
system working, according to charges
Med with the interstate commerce
commission by the Telegraphers'
union.
1t is charged that the Illinois Cen
Sral had closed large number of its
block systems, and that for a dis
lance of 80 miles from the post where
the disaster happened, there were no
telegraphers or block stations in
operation at the time of the wreck.
1t is alleged that the railroad COM
pany cut down its force and closed
its block stations, thereby endanger-
ing the lives of its passengers, solely
to offset the greater cost of operation
caused by the increased wages of the
telegraphers.
The interstate commerce commits
aion acted quickly on receipt of the
charges. Hiram w. Belnap, chief in
speetor of the safety APPLIANCE divi-
sion, was ordered TO Kinmundy to
make thorough investigation and to
report in full at the earliest moment.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
KILL FIVE REBELS
GENERALS ARE SLAIN BY IN
FURlATED MOB AT, QUAY
AcuiL, ECUADOR.
BIG MEN OF REVOLUTION
Lynch Law invoked Against Leaders
Of RevoIt-SIaughter Follows the
Burning of Pedro Mcntero's Body
Prison Is Stormed.

Guayaquil. Ecuador.-Generals Eloy
Alfaro. Flavio Alfaro, Medardo Alfaro,
Manuel Serrano and Ulpiana Paez, all
prominent revolutionists, were lynched
by mob which broke into the Quito
prison, despite the heavy guard sur
rounding it.
With the death of these men the
leading lights in Ecuador's latest revo-
luton have been snuffed out.
This revolution, although it had been
a long time brewing, began in reality
few days following the sudden death
on December % last of Emilio Es-
trada.
The first of the drastic measures
taken by those who opposed the rev.
olution was carried into effect Janu-
airy 25 at Guayaquil, when Gen. Pedro
MonteISo, who was proclaimed presi-
dent by the troops after the death of
Estrada, was shot and beheaded by a
mob, which later burned his body.
Eloy Alfaro and Generals Paez and
Montero were captured January % at
Guayaquil when government troops
under Gen. Leonidas Plaza forced the
revolutionists who held Guayaquil to
capitulate.
Flayio Alfaro had been wounded in a
battle few days before the fall of
Guayaquil.
Medardo Alfaro was captured on
January 25 as he arrived at Guaya-
quill on board a steamer with a body
of rebel troops.
Eloy Alfaro was proclaimed presi-
dent of Ecuador by the populace in
January, 1906, after he had defeated
the government troops at Quito. In
October of the same year he was elect
ed provisional president by the ma
tional convention and held the office
of chief executive until 1911.
In that year Emilio Estrada ran for
the Office with Flavio Alfaro as an OPP
ponent, and was elected by a majority
of over 100000 votes Estrada was
then indicted into Office and retained
the chief executiveship until his death
last December.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
WATER POWER law
DECLARED Invalid
State Supreme Court Decision
Holds Act Unconstitutional
COULD NOT BE ENFORCED
opr"'on written by Justice TimIiO
Declares It Also Contrary to F"o'
damental Principles - Mnlion. VT
Property Affected by Judrment ="

Madison.-The supreme oo,,.
declared unconstitutional tho ia Has
power act enacted by the last % NE
consin legislature. The act ~. i" Is
for state regulation and cont. ,lUea
thousands of miles of novte o'
streams and millions Of do LIE
worth of property. The oninioa
claring the act unconstitutional ,u NC
written by Justice Timlin. The CO., as
was unanimous. Justices Kerwin
and Barnes did not sit ~
The law is Unconstitutional
the decision, because the nacosa sase
effect of the enforcement of the Iaw
would be state appropriation Of tba
property rights of riparian pronria
tors of the banks of nayigable Nv.
without due process of law. tho ~
preparation ostensibly for the nphIio
but in legal effect largely for privato
purposes; an appropriation witbout
rendering just compensation for nri-
yate property rights, all contrary -
fundamental law.
THUS the all-pervading necessary
effect of such chapter is to take nron-
erty, which in fact is private. for .
purpose declared to be public without
rendering any compensation there
for. The necessary effect. if on
forced-and so the purpose is a legal
sense-of chapter 652, laws of 1911
being a state appropriation of private
property rights of riparian pronria-
tors owning the banks of nayigable
rivers, in a manner not warranted
by the fundamental law, and those
portions of the act which do not d.
rectly deal with the assertion of
state title, being features designed to
render such assertion efficacious. if
all forms an inseparable unconstitu-
tionality entirety"
The Judgment enjoins enforcement
OF any part Of the act except as to
future new interferences (dams. etc.)
without state permission, navigable
in fact, but not meandered.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
JURY HOLDS DARROW
TRUE BILLS ARE RETURNED
AGAINST CHICAGO LAWYER;
BRIBERY is CHARGED.
BAIL FIXED AT $4,000
Attorney, Who Was Chief Counsel in
Mcnamara Trial, Had Prepared
for indictments and Was Ready
to Furnish Bond at Once.

Los Angeles, Cal.-The grand jury
returned true bills charging Clar-
ence S. barrow of Chicago, who
was chief counsel in the McNa-
mara case, with bribery and attempt
ed corruption of Robert Balm, the first
juror sworn in that trial
barrow, who had been notified that
indictments were imminent, was pres
emit in court and surrendered.
His bonds were ready, and after
the legal formality of placing him I'M
der arrest had been complied with he
was liberated
Cyrus s. McNutt, another attorney
for the McNamaras, and Charles S.
Young qualified as bondsmen.
The specific charges were the pay
ment of a sum of money to Venire-
man George Lockwood and to Jury
man Robert Balm in the James B.
Mcnamara case.
Bail on each count was fixed at
$4,000. This was produced in cash
The indictments We're returned al
most without warning and created a
sensation. but they We're not altogeth-
er unexpected. as the affairs of the
defense attorneys were known to have
been under investigation for several
weeks.
Fer nearly twenty years Clarence S.
barrow has been recognized as the
chosen advocate of labor in the Uni
ted States.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
WOMAN is KILLED IN RIOT
Governor Foss Orders IL Companies
of Infantry and Two Troops OF
Cavalry to Lawrence.

dead, policeman probably fatally
stabbed. scores OF alleged strike
breakers dragged from street cars go
ing in the direction of the wooden
mills and beaten. several strikers bat
tered by policemen's clubs. trolley
lines tied up and several cars partial
ly wrecked. these are the net results
of the worst day of rioting since the
beginning of the strike of wooden mill
workers. Governor Foss, at the ap-
peal of Mayor Scanlan, ordered IL
companies of infantry and two troops
of cavalry to hasten here to reinforce
the five companies of infantry now on
duty.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
INSTALL FARLEY IN OFFICE
Twenty Thousand Persons Attend
Magnificent Ceremony at ST. Pat.
rick's Cathedral in New York.

New York.-Cardinal John Farley
was formally installed in his new Of
flee with magnificent and impressive
ceremony at st. Patrick's cathedral
Fully 10000 persons attended the
services, but only 5,O0O-the capacity
of the auditorium-were admitted to
the cathedral
More than ZOO clergy took part in
the ceremonies. These included Car
dinal Gibbons. Archbishop Prender-
CAST of Philadelphia, bishops. mon
signori and priests.
During the services two cablegrams
of congratulation were read One was
from Pope Plus, the other from Cardi-
nah Merry del Val, the papal secretary.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

the public by undertaking a great
task, If the people as a whole seemed
definitely to come to the conclusion
that ought to do the task"
These actual literal words are being
said by Theodore Roosevelt in letters.
in interviews, in statements to those
whom he deems sincere and honest
supporters or sincere and honest op-
ponents." They are part of a re
markable definition of his exact per
sonal position that has been known
to his personal friends for some time
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
TAFT OPENS CAMPAIGN
DEFENDS HIS ADMINISTRATION
IN CLEVELAND SPEECH.
Defies Opponents to Show Wherein
Republican Party Failed to
Keep 1853 Pledges.

Cleveland, O.-Stand pat. was
the presidents advice to Repub-
licans in what appeared to his hear
ers to be the keynote speech" on
which his coming campaign will be
fought to a finish. He indicated his
willingness to fight on the tariff is
sue alone Addressing $50 northern
Chic Republicans grouped about the
tables at the Mckinley day banquet
given by the Tippeearoe club at the
chamber of commerce, President
Taft made stirring appeal to the
Republican party to stand by it's guns
and rest confident that it has carried
out the pledges it made to the people
OF the United States. He declared
that he faced the future with equa-
uimity and IN the belief that the judg-
ment Of the country would prove him
right in his opinion
The president defended the Payne
Aldrich tariff. while admitting rs
shortcomings; he justified his vetoes
or the Democratic revision bills at
the extra session and he made a plea
he also renewed his adherence to the
protective policy.
The president called attention to
the railroad bill, making the inter.
state commerce law more effective
and creating the court of commerce.
He said it would be foolish and futile
to abolish this court because it has
reversed the interstate commerce
commission. He also commended the
safety appliance legislation OF the last
congress-
AS for the enforcement of the anti
trust law the president said:
The laws have been enforced. The
interstate commerce law and the anti
trust law. Indictments have been
round and bills in equity have been
MED in cases that seemed to call for
governmental action, and they have
proceeded to judgment in due course.
and the judgments have been en-
forced"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
TAFT GREETS DUKE
CoNNAUGHT MAKES BRIEF VISIT
TO WHITE HOUSE.
Troopers Conduct Royal Guest, Who
Later Dimes at British
Embassy.

Washington.-The duke of Con
naught, the first royal visisr to
Washington in many years, was re-
ceived by President Taft at the execu-
tive mansion and his call was re-
turned by the president at the British
embassy.
Escorted to the White House by
cavalry, received with all the honors
that flashing sabers, martial music
and ten aids could accord his royal
station, presented by the British am
bassador to the president of the
United States. the duke was then in
turn introduced by the president to
Mrs. Taft. All the women of the
cabinet circle, including Miss Taft,
We're presented to the duke, but in
the case of the presidents wife, the
usual form of royal presentation was
reversed.
AS the president and the duke stood
chatting in the blue room it would
have been difficult for a stranger to
determine which was of royal blood
and which an American citizen.
The eight hours the duke spent in
Washington were marked by his ex-
change of calls with the president. a
dinner and reception at the British
embassy and a brief appearance at
the National Press club The latter
occasion, at which he saw the Wash
ington correspondents of the news
papers of the country, was the only
affair except of a personal or purely
official character he has attended
since coming to the United States.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
CHURCHES SHOW POOR GAIN
Fail to Keep Abreast With Increased
Population of Country, Accord
Ing to Census Report.

New York.-Churches in the United
States are not keeping abreast of the
increase of population, according to
the compilation of DR.. H. K. Carroll,
former director Of the religious cen
Gus, just issued
The churches of the United States.
according to DR.. Carroll, added only
o94,366 to their membership in 1911.
Of this 230.665 is credited to the Cath
olics and 204,2S9 to the Methodicts.
There was nlso an increase of 1890
ministers and 2.SS2 churches in the
same period.
THE increase in 1911 was less than
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
REJECTS COMMISSION PLAN
Proposition Defeated by Majority OF
500 at Madison Special Election
Grand Rapids Votes mo"

Madison. The voters of Madison
at special election turned down the
commission form of government by
a majority of 476 votes. The total
vote for the adoption of the commits
sion government was 2,193 to 1852
against 1t.
Advocates of commission govern
ment charge the opposition with re-
jecting about 200 votes of university
students in the Fifth ward when
should have been counted. Friends
of commission government declared
that they would bring the question
up again at a special election a year
from now.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

A man in New Jersey has refused
to accept the Office OF coroner be-
cause he cannot bear the idea of look
Ing on a corpse. Most office seekers
are jubilant; not depressed. over the
prospect Of landing such a dead sure
thing
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

millionaire is going to build his
hens a $4,000 chicken coop; but it is
to be feared that even in such an en-
vironment they can't be persuaded to
lay golden eggs. In fact. he will be
iuckier than average mortals If they
lay at all.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

A New York woman has married a
man whom she rescued from the
slums. What chance is be ever going
to have to assert himself around the
house?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
-Four Are Burned to Death.

Butler, Pa.-Four persons were
burned to death or suffocated and five
others are in serious condition as a
result of fire at the home of Curtis
Hale at Claytonia, a mining town ten
miles from here.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

A Massachusetts minister has issued
a new set oc commandments for wives.
The women as yet are silent on the
matter, which gives rise to uneasy sus.
picions that they are retaliating by for
mulating another set for husbands.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

After they had gained entrance to a
vault containing 100000, Cleveland
bank robbers became frightened and
ran away, leaving the money behind.
Things that are too good to be true
continue to happen.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

Pittsburgh baby nine weeks old.
was operated on for appendicitis The
youngsters of this enterprising age
are certainly the most precociouo on
record.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

1t is said that rule has been estab-
dshed In an eastern school requiring
all students to write names and nu-
merals legibly. If this rule could be
successfully adopted. hard and fast,
In every school in the land, editors
would have snap where they now
saboriously attempt TO decipher
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
FORMER congressman N.

Sheboygan Fslls.-FoFmer Con-
gresham Chas. H. Wiesse is serious
ly i'll at Richmond, Va, where ne
went recently to look after business
interests.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

Yale professor tells us that the hook
worm is one of the causes of the high
cost of living. We always thought
that the hookworm was caused by the
practice of throwing the hooks into
the ultimate consumer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

1t is said that Kipling received 81
a word for his poem, THE Female OF
the Species" II he has had to read
the parodies of it. the price is too
small.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

There is nothing so very strange in
the fact that Massachusetts, minister
has left the pulpit to go into the coal
business. He is preaching the doc
trine that 1t is better to have a fire
here than hereafter
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

A man who had 70 sticks of dyna-
mite in suit case has been arrested
In Pittsburgh. We have been assured
that he was not on his way to the
peace meeting.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

The idea of having the Manchu
princes decide their own fate is de-
cidedly Oriental. especially in view
of the fact that any fate which they
may select is going to be decidedly
hard to take
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
usterans. Home Expenditure.

Madison.-The Madison veterans
home at Waupaca by its ooaFu %
trustees, has filed with Gov. NC
Govern the financial report OF the "a,
stitution for the year ending Dec u,
1911, showing a total expenditure -
s153, 143.01.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

With temperature Of 25 degrees
below zero the Black Hills may as
well give up any claims they have
been trying to put forth in their favor
as winter resort.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
ROOSEVELT NOT A CANDIDATE
Colonel Would Accept Nomination
Only When Whole of People
So Will 1t.

New York; am not and shall
not be candidate; l shall not seek
the nomination. nor would accept it
If it came to me as the result of an
intrigue. But will not tie my hands
by statement which would make It
difficult or impossible for me to serve
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

A Pennsylvania physician claims to
have educated two African chimpan-
ices to reason. After this there ought
to be hope for some humans.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

Scientists declare that the world is
over 100000 years old. 1t will prob
ably be 100000 years older before any
one man gets enough money to buy 1t.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

wife with gun came to the res
cue of her husband freed by bear
And it was the bear that was shot,
too. and not the husband
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

The brother of the former shah, who
demands $4,000 of the Persian treas
ury, is named Salari. Are there no
"y's" In Persian.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

Paris restaurants are serving roast
camel as delicacy. but there is no
recipe for cooking camel in pa
per bag
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

A fat mans CLUB was raided recently
in a Virginia town. Naturally. the
raiding party expected stout resist
ance.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

Baseball is now to take its place
among the polite arts. since It has
acquired the graceful possession of a
lady magnate.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
rnrew cartrldae h Eire; MAN Die.

st. Joseph. Mo.-Throwing an old
army cartridge into a bonfire to SEQ
what would happen. may cost Thon
Longmuir, ten years old. his life
piece of the bullet tore gapinA
In the lads abdomen.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

Arizona is finding that statehood is
not without its attendant horrors. as
a Phoenix young woman has designed
a burnt-leather statehood sofa cush-
ion"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

The actors of the country are ex-
pected to erect a monument to the
man who invented the free lunch.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
New Brown County Bank.

Madison.-The articles OF NV.
poration of the state bank OF uresn cen.
leaf, Brown county, have OeeH
proved.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
Second slmplon runneI.

Geneva.-The Swiss and Italian gov
&ments have arrived at an arrange
4 whereby work on the second and
lei Simplon tunnel shall be com
ID early this summer. The tun.
be finished by the end Of 1913
kogram is adhered to.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

This would be better and happier
world to live in did every one try to
make it so.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

Why isn't the man higher up?''
Isn't he really lower down?
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
lands Arms Of Perslans

iPersia.-The Persians and
in this city have been OF.
he commander of the Rus
stationed here to surrende,
within a fortnight
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02
Girl Routs .Ieoro q

Alton, Ill.-Miss Kittis
ployed by the Hapgood
pany. fought OF a neg
recovered her purse
of her employers n,
had taken.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-02-02

Grand Rapids.-The proposition 70
adopt the commission form of gov
eminent was defeated by majority
of 165. The total vote cast was
1,256.