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The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
THE SUFFRAGETTES
BEFORE HOUSE
Urge Amendment Allowing Wo-
men 10 Vote.
WANT FRENCH'S BILL PASSED
Mrs. William j. Brown, Of Baltimore,
Represents the Maryland
Women At Committee
Hearing.

Washington.-A host of suffragetsss
stormed the House Committee on
Presidential Elections and demanded
the submission of an amendment TO
the Constitution allowing women to
vote for members of Congress.
Four hundred of them came to plead
their cause. They bombarded the
committeeman for two hours in the
morning, resumed their argument for
three hours in the afternoon and, fall
ing to finish their presentation of the
case, they appeared at night in an
assault upon the present inequality of
the American system of voting.
Not since the 1000 equalsuffrage
advocates bore down upon the Sixty
first Congress, with their hundreds of
petitions, two years ago, have the
lawmakers at the Capitol been the OBJ
ject of so much suffrage interest as
was the House Committee Friday.
The pleaders asked specifically for
the adoption of the bill offered by
Representative French, of Idaho, Civ
ing the women, through an amend
ment to the Constitution, the right to
vote for Congressman.
While they were at it, however, the
speakers reviewed the whole cause
and eloquently appealed to the com
mitteemen TO see the wrongs of the
present suffrage restrictions.
From time to time the venturesome
Congressman would indulge in a mild
bit of levity. This was instantly
frowned upon. The speakers before
the committee refused to be led into a
discussion of side issues or to be con
fused by suggestions that bachelors
should be DISTINGUISHED to equalize the
situation.
Mrs. Clara B. Colby of Portland,
Ore, chief spokesman for the women,
pleaded for constitutional amend
ment prohibiting States from disfran-
chising citizens on account of sex. De-
claring that 1.-The Constitution says
the Representatives shall be chosen
she asked. Are women people?" She
ADDED that American women would
continue their earnest and dignified
efforts to gain political freedom" as
long as might be necessary to gain
their purpose.
Representatives Mondell, of Wyom-
ing; Hayden, of Arizona; Baker, of
California; Lafferty, of Oregon, and
others told the committee of the sue
cess Of equal suffrage ia their States.
Representative Tribble, of Georgia,
questioned the right of the Federal
Government to establish franchise
rights in the States and drew vigor-
uos reply from Mrs. Belva Lockwood,
who declared that it was not specu-
lative question, but an established fact
that there was precedent for Fed
eral amendment TO the Constitution
granting the suffrage TO women.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
LIST OF CHOLERA sCOURGES

swept over France. Italy lost 100000
in six months in 1868.
In the 18th century Holland was Wis
tied by a plague; in Leyden lS.OO'
died of it, and the following year 49,
267 died in Amsterdam. 1t was brought
to London in bales of cotton by some
Dutch merchants. This was the plague
Of London, and, as everyone knows
about 100000 persons died in one
year
Persia lost $4,000 from a pestilence
in 1878, and Egypt 100000 during l79O.
Epidemics of cholera appeared in
France several times during the 18Th
century. in which $4,000 people died
in Paris between March and August
1882. 1t appeared in England in lS4S
and 1S49. carrying off 1851 persons
and 5000 persons Wfre carried off ID
London in 1866 in fifteen weeks.
During recent years India has been
heavily visited by plague-in Bombay
Northwest presidency, and PunjaD'
and less degree in Burma, and other
parts of India. In January. 1905, there
was weekly mortality Of 2OOOV.
reaching by steady increase a total OF
STOP. By April l it had dropped 10
1000 weekly, but again reached 5VOO
BY the end of June. Two years after
the number of victims amounted to al
many as 100000.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
4 PRESIDENT
FOR SIX YEARS
U. S. Senate Adopts One Term
Resolution.
FINAL BALLOT At TO Is.
Consent OF Three-Fourths Of the Leg.
isIatures Required To Ratify
Amendment-All Amend
ments Are Defeated.

Neutrality-suspicious. again will the
issue of third Presidential term con
front the country or despotism threat
en- the United States if the House
and threefourths of the State Legisla-
lures concur in the action of the Sen
ate Saturday.
BY the narrow majority of one vote
was passed the Works resolution
which would restrict the President
and Vice-President of the United
States to a single term of six years
and would bar Woodrow Wilson,
Theodore Roosevelt and William H.
Taft from again seeking election.
When after three-day fight the
vote was taken it showed AZ Senators
for and % against the resolution.
The language which it is proposed
to insert in the Constitution in place
of the first paragraph of Article 2
is as follows:
THE executive power shall be
vested in a President Of the United
States of America. The term of the
and no person who has held the office
by election or discharged its powers
or duties, or acted as President under
the Constitution and laws made in
pursuance thereof, shall be eligible to
hold again the office by election"
The resolution proposing the con
stitutional amendment now goes to
the House for its approval. If ratified
there by a two-thirds vote it will be
submitted TO the Legislatures of the
States and will become effective when
threefourths of the rs States of the
Union have officially approved it.
The resolution was passed in its
original committee form, unchanged
by any of the amendments offered and
literally discussed during the three
days of the interesting debate in the
Senate.
During the debate on the resolution,
all attempts to exclude Roosevelt,
Taft and Wilson from its operations,
making them eligible to hold one six
year term in addition to those already
and about TO be served by them, failed
of passage. And while the language
of the resolution as passed is some
what ambiguous, leaving doubt as to
whether it will apply TO these three
persons. it is without question that
the trainers of the amendment believe
it to be retroactive. so that, should
the House pass the resolution and
the Legislatures ratify it before 1916.
all parties will have to nominate new
men in that year.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
Terrible Plague Was Known as Early
as the Year 767 3. c.. Declares
London Writer.

London-The terrible ravages chol-
era is making at the present time in
Turkey remind one of many previous
occasions when epidemics have car
ried off thousands at time, says Tit
Bits. AS early as 767 Z. c. we read
of plague. and again in 453 B. C.
Rome suffered terribly. Athens was
attacked by pestilence in 490 B. c..
which was believed to have been caus-
ed by their enemies poisoning the wa
ter supplies.
AS many as 10000 people day fell
so. So many people were killed dur
ing the epidemic which occurred in
Bri ian during the fifth century that
there were hardly sufficient persons
left to bury the dead. In 772 Chiches-
ter lost $4,000 people, and in 954 Scot
land lost 10000. London was visited
in the 10th and 18th centuries. and
Ireland suffered severely in 1904.
The Oriental plague occurred be-
tween 134S and 1882. 1t was known
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the black spots which appeared on the
skin at death. 1t started in China ia
1888. and the deaths numbered Ia
100000, and 24,000,00O succumbed in
the rest of Asia. 1t appeared in Nor
way and Sweden in 1349 and 1882.
About 100000 fell victims to the
black plague in England, of which ST.
600 occurred in London alone.
The sweating sickness appeared in
England four times during the 18th
and 10th centuries, the first time in
1885, and lasted one month, in which
10000 people died in London alone.
1t also visited Holland. Germany. Den
mark. Sweden. Poland and Russia be-
tween 1925 and 1880.
In the 18th century pestilence
broke out in London and carried off
10000 people. In Lyons 10000 died
during 1882 through scourge which
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
GOATS AS, MOSQUITO NEMESIS
Army to Protect the Animals, as They
Eat Pests Breeding Ground
at Fort Washington.

Washington, D. C.-While small
army of goats is deployed from Fort
Washington. one of the citadels guard.
ing the Potomac river approach to the
national capital, to wage war on the
shrubbery that is breeding ground
of mosquitoes, a flying squad Of ar.
tillerymen probably will be ordered
out to protect the goats.
The goats will work for the benefit
of the forts garrison by eating up the
rank underbrush, while the soldiers
will return the compliment by Shoe
ing their horned allies away from the
mountain laurel BUDS, which play
havoc with their digestions.
Fort Washington has the reputation
of being the most malarial fort in the
country and war department officials
conceived the idea of enlisting the
services of the goats to destroy the
breeding places of the mosquitoes.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
LOG OF DEATH SHIP

ruary. the second victim of the Nah
ma.
Even after this tragedy, from which
she never recovered, Mrs. Goelet
would not sell the yacht.
Last winter Mrs. Goelet returned to
New York and was frequently at the
opera in her box, but otherwise she
did not entertain very formally. She
went to Europe last spring and after
the MAMMA had been redecorated took
cruise to the northward. Her son
did not go with her. In July Mrs. Goe-
let developed a dangerous illness.
Specialists hurried to the yacht from
London and Paris, said that it was
cancer and that there was no hope"
Let me die on board my boat"
said Mrs. Goelet
Her son fastened to Europe, but re-
fused to grant his mothers request.
She went to Paris, where she had
an apartment, and after several
months of suffering died there on De-
cember 5.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
THE GRANT-LEE
MEMORIAL BRIDGE
Bill Offered in House Appropri-
ates $2,000,000.
BRINGS OUT MANY PROPOSALS
Mann Would Build Highway To
Richmond and Erect a Me-
mortal There To JEFF
ferson Davis.

ington.-Congress was asked
TO appropriate 100000 for the con-
struction OF a bridge across the Po-
tomac river, which shall stand as a
memorial to the military genius OF
Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the
Union soldiers, and Robert +. Lee,
commander of the Confederate forces,
during the war between the States a
half century ago.
The bridge is TO connect Washing
ton from a point near the Lincoln
Greek temple memorial and Airing
ton, the Colonial home Of General Lee,
which was confscated by the Govern
ment during the war. 1t. shall be
known as the Grant-Lee bridge
The bill was introduced by Repre-
sentative Henry A. Cooper, of Wiscon-
sin, as a sequel to the debate in the
House over the Lincoln Memorial bill,
during which the Southern Congress
men clasped hands with their North
ern colleagues in paying tribute to
the martyred President.
Following speeches by Representa-
tive HUMPHREYS. of Mississippi, ant
Senator-elect Ollie James, of Ken
lucky, who swung the tide toward thu
Greek temple project from the high
way Representative Mann, of Illinois
Republican floor leader, thrilled tn,
Southern members with speech, il
which he said he was in favor of tn
construction Of memorial bridge owe
the Potomac, the construction of
memorial highway between Washing
ton and Richmond, the capitals of tn
North and South, and the erection a
Richmond by the Federal Governmen
of a splendid monument to Jefferso
Davis President of the Confederacy.
The bill names a commission [
recommend plans to Congress for tn
bridge. This commission is to
composed of Senator Thomas S. Ma
tin, of Virginia, who was a member {
the Virginia Military Institute cadC
corps at the battle of New Market
Representative Isaac r. Sherwoo
one of the few surviving Union geI
erals; James r. Mann, of Illinois, an
Senator Knute Nelson, of Minnesot
Representative Edwards, of Georg
asked Congress to officially designat
the Civil War as the war between tn
States
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
10000 PENNIES PAY FINES.
Every State In Union Aids In Idaho
Contempt Case.

Boise, Idaho.-With approximately
10000 pennies contributed Capt. r.
S. Sheridan, c. o. Broxon and A. r..
Cruzen paid their fines of $500 each.
assessed by the Idaho Supreme Court
IN contempt cases from publications in
the Boise Capital News of criticism by
Colonel Roosevelt OF the court de-
cision barring Progressive electors
from the ballot Contributions came
from every State in the Union and
Canada. Missouri sent the largest
number of contributions, with Penn
sylvania second.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
Suit Over Lost Dinner.

Pittsburg.-Claiming he was dam
aged in the sum of $50 because
Thanksgiving box intended for MIN
was delivered at hospital instead OF
at his house, and that he was COM
PEELED to call off dinner party in CON
sequence, George e Fetter brougn'
suit against the Adams Express COM
pany. In the petition filed in the
county court Fetter declares the boA
contained one chicken, one dozen Oa'
nanas, one dozen oranges. half dozen
apples, jellies, cakes and various QUIZ
er eatables suitable for ThanksgH
ing dinner.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
NO MORE CONVICT STRIPES
Oregon's Governor Has All of the
Prisoners Dressed In
Gray Uniform.

Salem, Ore.-This year not a pris-
oner in the state penitentiary is wear
ing stripes. AS Christmas pres
ent to the men, all parole violators.
all those who have usurped the prison
discipline, and, in short, all the men
in the prison who have been compelled
to wear stripes, were placed in the
convict gray as a start of new year
for these men.
time ago as regular prison costume.
and have been worn only by those
who have become recalcitrant.
Paroles from Governor West we're
the Christmas presents received by
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
THE COW RETIREe, TOO.
Pauline Wayne To Be Returned To
Her Former Owner.

Washington. Pauline Wayne,
President Taft's famous Holstein COW,
will follow him into retirement March
4. The President called in Senator
Isaac Stephenson. of Wisconsin. who,
two years ago, brought Pauline 10 the
White House, and gave her back to
her former owner Pauline has not
been in the best OF health for several
months. President Taft believes that
if she is taken back to Wisconsin and
put on Senator Stephensons farm
again her youthful vigor will revive.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
$1o,2s7 FOR A VASE.
A Price That Recalls the Famous
PeachbIow Figure.

London.-A vase was sold for S10,-
237 at the West Brompton sale of
furniture owned, according to the
catalogue, by Princess Tousan, a
Turkish princess. The vase is over
four feet high and weighs 70 pounds.
1t is of pure porcelain of familiar
type of oriental art dating about 1901
The decorations consist of long-tailed
exotic birds in leaf-shaped panels on
rose turquoise ground
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
GIRLS COMMIT SUICIDE.
Two Dead, One May Die-Dlsappolnt-
ment In Love the Cause.

Huntington, w. Wa suicide cpl
demic prevailed in Huntington Friday.
Three girls, each disappointed in love,
attempted suicide, and two of them
proved successful, while the third is
not expected to live. Edna James, 16,
and Maude Wilson, 10, died few min
utes after taking carbolic acid Ruth
Watts, 10, took morphine and will
probably die. The James girl was
the daughter of a prominent family.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
DIGGING COMPLETED APRIL I.
Report Says 94.41 Per Cent. In culebra
Cut Is Already Finished.

Washington.-The excavation work
connected with the Panama Canal
probably will be completed about April
l, according to reports of the Panama
Canal Commission made to President
Taft. The Culebra Cut is 9441 per
cent completed, only 5,29900O cubic
yards of earth remaining of the 49,
$4,000 originally designated to be re-
moved.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
SLAYER OF HUSBAND FREED.
Dead Man Threw a Pail Of Dirty
Water On His Wife.

Lynn, Mass.-Mrs. William Power,
who killed her husband, a navy yard
employee, by blow with wooden
wise screw when he came home intoxi-
Gated and threw pail Of dirty water
upon her, was freed. She had been
charged with murder. but after
hearing Judge Lumnus ruled that no
cause for holding her had been found.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07

James l.. Riley and Frank Nash and
as long as their behavior is good tbey
will enjoy their liberty.
Riley was serving from one to II
years for killing Louis Long, the for
mer prize fighter of California, nea,
Redmond. Crook county. Long was
clipping with Riley's wife in an au
tomobile. and after whirlwind race
was overtaken and killed by Riley. II
is said that Riley and his wife have
become Seconciled and will live to-
gether.
Several other prisoners were given
their liberty on probation.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
MULES KICK BULL TO DEATH
All Are In Or Pen-Steer Also Loses
Life-Another, Badly Hurt, Has
to Be Shot.

Sacramento, Calm deadly combat
were ten mules, turned in the same
yard with two steers and bull at
Thirty-fourth and r streets. One steer
and ball we're killed and another
steer so badly injured that 1t had to
De shot. The mules kicked the cattle
% 1eath The horns of the cattle
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
MARSHALL ON PHOENIX LINKS.
Gard For Course Best Ever Turned
Out BY Beginner.

Phoenix Observation-Disclosures
Thomas R. Marshall played his first
game of golf His card for the IS
holes of the lngleside links was the
best ever turned in by a beginner on
this course. Mr.. and Mrs Marshall
are guests at the home of Mrs. Mar
shall's parents at Scottsvale, near
here.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
PARCEL POST HITS EXPRESS.
Company In New Haven Makes Cut
OF 30 In Employees.

New Haven, Conn.-Since the open
ing of the parcel post a noticeable de-
crease in business has been shown by
the private express companies in this
city and one discharged 2S employees
from the main office and - from a
branch office. There is also a de
crease in the number of carrying
wagons used.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
TOURIST HOTEL DESTROYED.
Many Guests Have Narrow Escapes
At Aiken, S. {.

Aiken, S. C.-Park-in-the-Pin a
large hotel, was destroyed by fire at
noon Sunday. So rapidly did the
flames spread that few of the A
guests had time to save any of their
personal effects. All, however, escaped
without injury. Col. A. e. Dick, man
ager of the hotel, was overcome by
smoke and was carried unconscious
from the building. The loss is esti-
mated at $3.50,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
PosToFFIcE PENSIONS.
Bill For Old-Age Retirements Pro-
posed In the Senate.

Washington.-A system of old-age
retirements for employees of the postal
service was proposed by Senator Pen
rose, of Pennsylvania, in an amend
ment offered to the Postoffice Appro-
priation Bill. 1t would give the post
office authorities power to grant Fin
definite leave Of absence" to an en-
ploye who became incapacitated for
active work, with annual pay at the
rate of $500.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07

were but little protection against the
hoofs Of their adversaries.
1t is said that the battle between
the animals ragged all night. Out
numbered three to one, the cattle
stood little chance, and the continu-
GUS kicking of the mules brought them
down
Morning found the bull and one of
the steers dead The other steer sur.
vived until afternoon, when the mules
were taken away. But the remaining
animal was near death. It's leg was
broken. Patrolman Brown put 1t out
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
ADOPTED AT LAST.
immigration Sill Now Goes To the
President For Signature.

Washington.-The immigration Bill,
in controversy between the House and
Senate for several weeks, was finally
adopted by the Senate in the form
agreed on by the conference commit
tee. 1t now goes to the President for
signature. The certificate of charac-
ter" provision, against which there
was so much protest, was eliminated,
as was also provision that would
have made it difficult to deport Grim
mails
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
FIRE CHIEFS HOUSE ATTIRE.
Answering Alarm, Patrick curran
Finds His Mother Burning.

Washington, Pa. - Answering an
alarm of fire Fire Chief Patrick Cur
ran found his own home in flames
Rushing into the house, Chief Curran
stumbled over the body of his mother
aged 81, and carried her to the street
The aged woman died two hours later
from burns received when her cloth
ing became ignited from an open
CRATE.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
AUSTRIAN WAR MOVES.
Enrolling Supplementary Reservists
On the Frontiers.

st. Petersburg. - Austria Hungary
continues the active enrolment of
supplementary reservists in the from
tier districts bordering on Russia and
Servia, according to dispatch from
Prague. A force of 100000 Austro-
Hungarian troops is now concentrated
in Bosnia.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
To Sell Hair to Save Husband.

Boston.-In ner efforts to rais0
money to reimburse the express con-
pany from which her husband sur.
$500, Mrs. Irwin Dodd has offered
sell her raven-black hair. WIZ
reaches to the ground, and is regaiu
ed as one of the most beautiful nea''
of hair in the city.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1913-02-07
PANIC AT A PICTURE SHOW.
Two Women Killed and Eleven Badly
Hurt.

New York.-A boys cry of Fire"
and the smoke from an exploded reel
of motion-picture machine in an East
Side theater resulted in a panic among
the audience of 400 persons and rush
for the exits, in which two women
were killed and eleven other persons
30 badly injured that they had to be
sent to hospitals. The panic occurred
in one of the most densely populated
sections of the East Side. and the
thousands who poured into East
Houston street in front Of the thea
ter and rushed to the doors added to
the confusion and to the number of
injured The two women, who have
not been identified, were trampled to
death in the crush of the crowd to
reach the doors.