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The Washington times., 1913-01-10

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The Washington times., 1913-01-10

Every garment sold here carries
the same liberal service guarantee
that you would have received ut Its
full price.
The Washington times., 1913-01-10

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
RECOVER MINERS BODIES.
Fifteen Victims of Fire Damp Explo-
sion in Ohio Mine-Pathetic Scenes.

BELLE VALLEY. Ohio. May 19-Burn-
ed and blackened. the bodies of fifteen
more miners who lost their lives early
fire damp partially wrecked the Imperial
mine were brought 10 the surface yes
terday by rescuers working under the di-
rection of Deputy State Mine Inspector
Abel Ellwood.
Nearly all of the LOCO inhabitants of
Belle Valley gathered at the mine en-
trance soon after the explosion and
stood for hours watching the work of the
rescners Grief of relatives was pitiable
as the bodies of their loved ones were
brought out of the pit.
The bodies We're found a mile and a
quarter from the mouth of the mine.
They were lying on their faces and were
badly burned.
An investigation into the cause of the
explosion will be begun by officials of
the state mining department. The I'm
peras mine is owned by the O'Gara Min
ing Company, composed principally OF
Cleveland stockholders.
Henry Fairhurst, a member of the first
rescue party to enter the mine Saturday
night. was overcome by gas and died
soon after being taken to the surface.
Fairhurst and his party found the body
of Roy Yaeger soon after entering the
mine and placed 1T in cart. Fairhurst
went ahead to clear IA paSsageWay Tor
the cart and was overcome by gas. The
other members of the party fell down oil
their faces and waited a few minutes I'M
til the gas became lighter They then
placed Fairhursts body in the cart be-
side that of Yaeger and took them to the
surface It is said that Jaeger will re-
cover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
Plan ACTION SATURDAY
Executive Committee of Re-
publican National Commit
tee to Discuss Situation. /

Jimmy Reynolds. secretary OF tho -.
publican national committee (oh. yes
there is republican national commit
tee3 and Francis Curtis. publicity director
of the republican congressional campaign
committed stood in the New Willard to-
day and looked down their noses as they
saw Tom Pence of the democratic ma.
tional organization stalk by with an air
of opulence. on his way to real ONCE
to take up real campaign work.
Where is your Office" Reynolds was
asked.
Under me hat" he growled. as ha
fingered a two-bit piece and deliberated
whether to spend il for a shave or a
Kentucky breakfast"
But things are expected to pick ur
after next Saturday. when the executive
committee of the republican national
committee meets in this city TO look the
situation over.
Hope they start something is thu
feryently expressed wish OF the republics
ans Ii is the thought that the executives
committee viii map out some kind of .
plan of work, in view OF the strong Lead
which the democrats have taken in thei1
organization.
The republican Congressional commits
tee will be organized early in June. acs
cording to present program. Many res
publican congressman are FESTIVE under
the present inactivity and feel that gold
en- opportunities are being wasted right
and acquainting the country Of the way
the democrats are running steam
scythe through protected industries oe
the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
TOTAL OF COTTON AREA. 7
Ground Under Cultivation Placed "a
34,766. 900 Acres.

The area planted to cotton in the Unit
ed States last year and which was under
cultivation at the end OF June was &C.,
OoO acres more than the Department OF
Agriculture estimated In its preliminary
report in July. A special investigation
was made by the department and, with
the assistance of the census bureaus re-
port on the quantity of cotton gfnned. &c
reaches the conclusion that the area
planted was "a. 100000 acres instead OF
"a OCT 600 acres the preliminary estimeIas
600 acres. indicating that the area aban-
doned was less than IA per cent The
revised figures viii be used by the depart
ment in making its cotton acreage ESTE
mates this year in July
Revised estimates place the acreage
Weld at 1909 pounds instead OF lSO-2
pounda as preliminary estimated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
BODIES STILL IN LAKE
GrappIers Searching for Four
Cornell Students Believed
to Be Drowned.

ITHACA, y. Y. May 19.-Cayuga lake
still held today the bodies OF the fouI
Cornell students last seen on it's surface
in a canoe Saturday night
The entire south of the lake was dotted
with grapplers. and every square yard of
the lake is being gone over Preparations
are being made to dynamite the waters
1t is believed that the bodies will never
be recovered.
The finding of an overturned canoe in
Cayuga lake yesterday led to fears tina,
the four students. two OF them young
women. who went for a ride in the canoe
had been drowned.
Guests at House Party.
The students. Brainard Bailey of Troy,
" Y. an editor of the Cornell Daily Sun:
Reinhart 4. thinner of Rochester: Miss
Martha E. Mccormick of Troy. y. Y,
and Miss Neil C. Mallett of Middletown.
N Y. were guests at a house party at
Willow Point given by the Kappa Kappa
Gamma Sorority. The four put out in a
canoe to paddle to Renwick. planning 10
walk back along the lake shore.
A heavy wind was blowing when the
students started. and the canoe was
loaded nearly to the waters edge. At
daybreak. when the students had failed
to return to the Willow Point house,
Proctor T. H. Tweeson was notified, and
he and Sheriff Miller organized searching
parties The overturned canoe was soon
found, and professional grapplers began
dragging the lake In the vicinity
The tragedy has cast a gloom over
ithaca and the university, and resulted
in the postponement Of many social and
other college entertainments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
QUIETLY CELEBRATING
F|FT|ETH ANNIVERSARY
Golden Wedding Day of MIR.
and Mrs. William H. H.
Hoover.

Had all the kinfolk of William Henry
Harrison Hoover been appraised in time
that today was his golden wedding an
nversary. and all of them had come to
Washington from all over the United
States to celebrate the occasion. there
would have been $4,000 people of the
family name gathered this afternoon in
and around the Hoover home at 90 r
street northwest. The Hoovers. Of Penn
sylvania Dutch extraction, form one of
the largest American families.
Instead of such a tremendous demon
stration. Mr.. and Mrs. Hoover will spend
the day as quietly as their relatives in
Washington will allow. There will be a
family reunion this evening at the home.
Mr. Hoover. who is still active bust
ness man. has taken days vacation in
honor of the occasion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
adopted in the opinions of the court that
the clause in
PurnOSe of ClanSe the Constitu-
Finally Determined. tho ,evvins os

direct taxes. except by apportionment
was inserted to protect the small states
against the large ones. whereas such
authorities as Prof. Seligman produce the
words OF the Constitution trainers them
selves to show 1t was put there as q
compromise to protect the slave states in
the three-fifths rule. whereby, in deter
mining the ratio of representation in the
House of Representatives and direct
taxation three white people should count
as much as five negroes.
These authorities generally contend
that if the court had taken the prOpre care
to check up the historical data upon the
subject, the result might have been dif-
ferent. While it has been asserted that
income taxes existed prior to the framing
of the Constitution. the historical records
show that there was no such tax in exist
ence either in England or the United
States: therefore. it is hardly probable
that any one can know what the minds
of the trainers of the Constitution would
have been on that subject. At that time
there was nowhere in the world such a
thing as an income tax. a corporation
tax. succession tax or an inheritance
tax. and the text book writer's generally
agree that no one Of these forms of taxa
those who made. the Constitution. and
that it is idle to speculate as to whether
they would have eiassed any one of them
as a direct or as an indirect tax.
1t is certain that the decision of the
court that the income tax law was UNI
con stitutional
Blow to Second was blow
Cleveland Regime. second cleve-
land administration hard. William l..
Wilson favored a corporation tax over
the income tax, and he and his support
ers tried to have things shaped that way.
But Benton Mcmillan was leading the
extreme low-tariff. democratic insurgents
at that time. and his income tax amend
ment prevailed over the will of the House
leaders 1t is interesting to speculate as
to what would have happened if the tax
imposed had been corporation tax In
stead of a general income tax. Would the
Supreme Court have upheld such tax
then as it did fifteen years later? And
would it have saved the national Treas
ury from the evils that befell it under
the Cleveland administration?
Twice in the history of the country the
Supreme Court has. by decision it has
handed down, forced the people to amend
the Constitution. The court in the early
days of the republic assumed that it,
had a right to hear and determine suits
instituted against a state by citizens of
another state or of foreign states, and
proceeded to act accordingly, with the re-
suit that the states found themselves so
to speak. hailed before the bar of justice
and made to answer such suits. The re-
suit was held by them to be such an in
fringement upon their sovereign rights
that constitutional amendment was
proposed by Congress in 1894, in which
il was declared that 1.-The judicial power
OF the United States shall not be con-
strued to extend to- any such suit. This
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19

Children of the public schools of the
District who are to take part in the field
day and festival of the schools. scheduled
to be held at the American League Base
Bail Pork, Wednesday. went to the park
this morning to practice for the event.
DR. Rebecca Stoneroad director of
physical culture was in charge
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
Buffalo Machinists Strike.

BUFFALO, n. Y. May 19.-About
5000 machinists went on strike here
today for increased wages and shorter
working hours. The men demand a
minimum wage OF 37h cents an hour,
a nine hour day and five hours Satur-
day. They have been working ten
hours at varying scale. Police
guards have been placed at all the
shops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
lptly ratified, became the elev-

being promptly ratified, became the elev-
enth amendment.
1t is not improbable that the thirteenth,
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments
might never have been enacted IL the
Supreme Court had not handed down the
bred Scott and other decisions relating
to slavery but they were at least not the
direct outcome OF a court decision. as
were the eleventh and sixteenth amend
ments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
Taffeta Silk Petticoats
Tomorrow at ST. 80.

The wonders we have accomplished
in the way of unusual Silk Petticoat
values are increased by this special
sale of Taffeta Silk Skirts a. SID.
MADE OF PURE CHIFFON TAT
FETA. IN PRETTY CHANGEABLE
SHADES OF GREEN AND BROWN.
GREEN AND BLUE. OLD ROSE
AND SILVER. LIGHT BLUE,
GRAY AND TAN.
Finished with felled seams and cot
ton underlay. Regular width. Elk
ceptional value at $l.69.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
U. S. Supreme Court Not in Session

This was the first Monday in several
weeks that the Supreme Court was not
In session. On account OF the large num-
Der of cases TO be decided the court had
taken q recess to next Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
Files Petition in Bankruptcy.

John j. Morton. formerly a stone con-
tractor at III New York avenue northwest
filed a petition today in voluntary bank
ruptcy He lists his debts at $SSaS. and
has no assets Attorney Wilton j. Lam
bert represents the petitioner
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
Welded May 10, 1868.

Born in Washington November ~. more
than seventy-two years ago. Mr.. Hoover,
May 10. 1868. wedding to a Washing
ton girl. Miss Jean Mckelvey Lemon.
She was two years. one month and one
day his junior in age. Mr.. Hoovers
father and mother before him were ma
tives of Washington His grandparents
came from Pennsylvania to Georgetown
way back in 1870.
The grandparents of .ur. Hoover had
seven sons and he had seven brothers.
Also he is the father of seven sons. and
incidentally the uncle of seven sons of
one of his brothers
Mr.. Hoover was a member of the
Washington Light Infantry when the
civil war broke out. His was the first
company enrolled among the volunteers,
on April 10. 1861. and he was one of the
gallant band that crossed Lon bridge
few DAYS later to defend Washington
Company A. 4th Battalion, District Of
Columbia Volunteers. as part of the fed
eral forces, was mustered out of serv-
ice at the expiration of two years. Mr..
Hoover Immediately re-enlisted and was
assigned to duty in the Office of the pro-
vost marshal of Washington, where he
served throughout the war.
His marriage MAY 10, 1853. just fifty
years ago, occurred during his term in
the army. He was United TO Miss Lemon
at the altar of the Assembly Presbyterian
Church. 1t was a double wedding. Henry
]. Ebbs and Miss Laura Essex, close
friends of Mr.. Hoover and his bride. were
married at the same time. The Fbbses
went to live in ST. Louis, and Mr.. Hoover
and his wife have lost sight of them and
do not know whether they still live.
Employe of District Government.
Mr.. Hoover is now AN inspector of the
health Office. and is not ready to retire
from active work. although he has held
that post for eighteen years. For two
years before that he was in the assess
or's Office. and before that he was in the
provision business. an occupation in
which his family has been engaged for
generations. Since the war of 1872 the
provision contract for the government
to supply army and navy posts around
Washington has not been out of the
Hoover family. The White House, buy
ing in open market. has been a regular
patron of the house.
past commando of Potomac Post
No H. Mr.. Hoover has held every other
office in the organization. and has been
delegate to department and national en-
campments. He is one of the few re-
manning members of the Survivors OF
the District of Columbia Volunteers. He
is a Mason and an Odd Fellow, and
member of the Association of Oldest In
habtants The Old Guard. composed of
civil war veterans who have seen battle
service. also includes him in membership.
One of his seven sons is dead. The
others are Samuel Lemon. William II. H.,
jr.. Charles ii. Frank p. George f. and
Eugene T. Hoover. All are in business
in Washington Six of the brothers. of
whom Mr. Hoover was one, We're in the
provision business. and the odd one is a
preacher The same proportion prevailed
with his grandfather's seven sons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
Csc Jap Mattings,
10c Yard.

Extra Fine Quality 1sO-warp Sc
lected Long Rush Straw Japanese
Mattings. close woven, smooth finish.
with special machine-finished edge.
Strictly perfect and reversible: dou-
BILE dye colorings of green, red or
blue. In handsome carpet designs;
also white with inlaid figures.
Sold regularly at soc yard. Sale
price. 19c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19

BY the overturning of freight engine
on the Western Maryland railway at
Haddix Station, near Elkins. w. Va,
Sunday, engineer Hubbard was killed and
Fireman ayers was injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
Reappointed by Roosevelt.

Mrs. Longstreet said that three months
before her term of office expired in 1908
President Roosevelt wrote TO her that he
intended to reappoint her. This he did,
and the Senate confirmed her nomination
without referring 1t to a committee i'm
mediately upon receiving it from the
White House.
Mrs. Longstreet read to the committee
parts of statement to the American
people. written by herself after President
Wilson failed to reappoint her. In this
statement she said:
Il have no desire to. serve in the Gaines
vile post office under an administra ton
which does not wish to retain me. But
the administration which is dislnissing me
should not be permitted to blacken my
record. In naming my successor the
Postmaster General made announcement
that my office was poorly managed. 1
respectfully submit that the people whom
have served for eight years are more
competent witnesses than Postmaster
General who has occupied his chair for
sixty days. and who is seeking justifica-
ton of an unworthy deed
Mrs. Lonsstreet gave high praise to
Theodore Roosevelt calling him the
first statesman of the world
Leaves Spoilsmen to Country.
do i hate the spoilsmen who are in
the saddle in the good old democratic
state of Georgia in year that has given
a Virginia President to the White
House," said Mrs. Longstreet. mo. no:
simply turn them over to America"
Representative Bell of the Gainesville
district listened throughout to Mrs. Long
street. He smiled when she apologiZed
to him for phrases in letters she read. in
which statements were made that she
was thrown out of Office to meet the de-
mands of slick-tongued politicians.
The committee took her case under ad-
visement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
THE INCOME TAX.
XII The Supreme Court
Decision.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

Perhaps no decision ever rendered by
a federal court in the United States
tended to shake the faith of the people
in the courts more than the decision OF
the Supreme Court that the law of 1894
was unconstitutional. Having the mis-
fortune to reverse the construction and
practice of a hundred years. coupled with
a practical reversal of it's own first de-
cision the court. however righteous It's
aims or high its purposes. might have
brought down upon itself a storm OF
adverse and distrustful criticism.
AS soon as the law of 1894 went into
effect all of the big interests of the
country got ready to fight it on the
ground that it was unconstitutional.
Many suits were brought contestlng IL.
hut the one which finally had the honor
of being the test case was that or Pol
losk against the Farmers Loan and Trust
Company Some of the ableSt lawyers
at the American bar We're briught In TO
attack the constitutionality OF the law
Few cases i'm that court ever have been
more thoroughly argued or expounded
than was this one. the arguments ana
briefs filling several volumes. There were
two principal grounds upon Whlch the
opponents of the tax declared IL uncon-
stitutional-that it was not UNIFORM
tax and that it was direct tax. Ihey
laid more emphasis on the former than
on the latter assertion. They attempted
TO persuade the Supreme Court that 1t
should pronounce the tax unconstltutlon-
al without reversing the former decisions
of that body The court paid little at
tention to the argument that the tax
was not a uniform one WITHIN the mean
ing of the Constitution, and indeed In a
later decision the government s conten-
ton i'm this particular was upheld.
X
The court had declared by a unanimous
vote in 1870, in the case of Springer
against the United
Opinion Given States IN wnlea en-
Springer resisted
in Springer Case. the payment of a
tax upon his professional income, that
1T does not appear that any tax like the
one here in question was ever regarded or
treated by Congress as a direct tax. This
uniform practical construction of the
Constitution touching so important a
point is a consideration of great weight.
1t further added that "our conclusions are
that direct taxes, within the meaning of
the Constitution. are only capitation
taxes as expressed in that instrument,
and taxes on real estate. 1t further de-
clared that the tax upon SprinSers in
come was in the nature of an excise or
duty and. therefore. not direct tax.
Unfortunately the income OF Springer
was not derived from lands, but rather
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
19c, Csc and Csc
DRESS SHIELDS.
1Oc a air.

They are the samples and surplus
lots of a maker whose trade mark
brands are universally known. Be-
cause of the greatly lessened price.
and as a protection to other retail
ers. We cannot advertise the name.
but you will instantly recognize the
shields as the best on the market.
ALL THE MOST DESIRABLE
SHAPES AND STYLES ARE IN
CLJDED IN THE LOT. SUCH AS
w A S II A B l. E. LACE-TRIMMED
AND JACKET SHIELDS.
All sizes and all the most popular
styles to choose from. The identi-
cal qualities sold regularly every
where at 19c. 25c and 3jc a pair.
On sale tomorrow at 1Oc a pair.
Motion Dept-First Floor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
Changes Will Be Interesting.

The Senate has long been boastfully
described as the greatest deliberative
body on EARTH" he continued, land il
will be interesting 10 watch what change
in that alleged characteristic may come
from the injection of meeting prin-
ciples into the selection of senator's.
Il can see a possible difference in the
attitude of a senator responsible to his
legislature for continuance I'm Office and
one. who has to answer to a statewide
primary.
II remember only few years ago a
notable debate in the Senate. participated
in by such men as Hoar of Massachusetts,
Vest of Missouri, Morgan OF Alabama. AL
lson of Iowa and others of the elder
statesmen, when it was the unanimous
expression of opinion that the country
would not depart from the method laid
down by the fathers Yet some of the
page boys In the Senate who listened to
that have not grown out of their teens
before the revolution has come"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-19
TAKING NOTICE
Amendment for Direct Election
Causes Ears to Be Held to
Political Ground.

Conscience doth make towards of us
ALL the poet said, but that is not
marker to what the direct election of SEN
ators by the people may do for some of
US, said cynical senator today.
And he added that he was not speaking
entirely in jest. at that He said his OBJ
servation showed marked disposition on
the part of even some supposedly case
hardened senators to keep their to
the political ground since the ratihcatio
of the constitutional amendment for di-
rect election of senators.