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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-29
Congress in Brief
SENATE.

The Senate yesterday passed Joint
resolution designating February l. as
a day for the holding of memorial exer-
Cises I'm the Senate in honor of the late
Vice President Sherman. The Presi-
dent. members of the Cabinet. OF the
House. and other distinguished officials
will attend
\ bill passed dividing the western
judicial district of Texas. The Judi
ciary Committee favorably reported a
bill governing tho use of handwriting
in evidence before courts. Prior to the
opening of the Senate. the Republicans.
in two-hour caucus. adopted a reso-
luton by which they are pledged to
fight for the thirteen hundred Tai,
nominations. The Republicans express
ed themselves determined to force
through the appointments.
After the session had been in session
for twelve minutes, Senator CullOm
moved an executive session. and the
rest of the day was spent in Demo-
cratic flibustering against the confir-
nation of the Taft appointments.
Wilfred T. Webb, bringing the cleo
toral vote of Arizona, appeared at the
Vice Presidents Office at ) o'clock.
twenty-five hours after the time for
presenting the vote had expired. He
stated that he had been informed that
his time did not expire until February
l. No penalty was inflicted upon him.
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The Sufragists' Opportunity.

While thc woman suffragists OF
Great Britain are employing the tactics
of the bushwhacker ard rather proudly
calling themselves "guerrillas," the ad-
vocates OF the cause at Washington,
who may he regarded as fairly repre-
sentative CT the votes for women" ad-
vocates Of the entire United States,
arc preparing splendid pageant, in
which Columbia will have as her hand
maidens Peace, Hope, Charity, Liberty,
and Justice.
There have been as many approvals
as disapprovals OF "nilitancy" as a
means Of furthcring the woman suf-
fragc cause and other causes, too. The
militants, called "suffragettes" in the
"nlss for women cause, claim that
cir new idea cannot effectively be
placed before a people without such
startling doings as demand, not plead
for, the attention of the people and
the peoples servants. Especially, the
suffrage militants assert, is this true
in the case of woman suffrage in Eng
land
1t is pleasing TO reflect both that the
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wiser, set up n fixed etiquette to be OBJ
served by all who would approach him,
spoke abruptly and without courtesy, dis
played in all things an arbitrary. temper.
and took more interest, il presently ap-
peared, in acquiring tracts OF Western
land than In conducting the government
OF the colony.
The year OF his coming was marked
by the secret destruction OF the revenue
schooner Gaspe in Rhode Island, and by
many significant flaws Of temper here
and there throughout the colonies: and
40 saw affairs at last come to a crisis
Dunmore and the BurE-sses.
Dunmore had summoned the Burgesses
to meet him upon his first coming. but
had liked their proud temper as little
as they liked his, and was careful not
to call them together again till March,
lT73, though he had promised to con-
vene them earlier.
There was instant trouble.
In view OF the affair OF the Gaspe,
Parliament had again resolved upon thu
trial of indictments in England, and
the Burgesses were hot at seeing the
sentiments Of the colonies so fouted.
Conservative men would still have waited
to try events but their fellow-members
Of quicker pulse were diligent to dis
appoint them
Vernon.
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MYSTERY sHRoUDS IDENTITY.
Body Of Man Killed by Gas Lies at
District MOrguc.

Mystery surrounds the identity OF the
man whose lifeless body was discovered
on a bed in his room in the boarding
house of Miss Mary Enighton. 90 North
Capitol Street. yesterday morning. by
Elizabeth Mitchell, a colored maid
Death was caused by the escape of
illuminating gas from a stove attach
ment which had been accidentally OPEN
cd by the man just before he retired.
At the boarding house the man gave
the name OF c. s. Wilson but at the
Gospel Mission Dispensary in John
Marshall Place Northwest. where he re-
Gently received treatment for eye trouble,
he was known as c. l.. Williams. He
had said that he was a stenographer
unable TO procure employment because
OF his falling sight He was abour fifty
years old
Because OF the inability of the police
to learn anything OF the mans identity.
Coroner hewitt has delayed the issuance
of certificate OF death. An investiga-
ton convinced DR.. hewitt that death was
due to an accident and a certificate to
this effect will be issued. The coroner
does not believe the man committed sui
eide.
In the mans room was found a letter
addressed to Harold G. Wilson, of
Floreffe. Allegheny County, Va. In this
letter the writer, who signed the name
of c. s. Wilson, said he had discovered
he had a cataract In both eyes and
could not procure employment. A tele-
gram. sent to Harold G. Wilson, had not
been answered at a late hour last night.
The body Is at the morgue-
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Why Not?

In a spasm OF bclatcd activity, the
House District Committee has secured
the passage of five local laws. For
this consideration the District people
are duly grateful.
But how about the public utilities
bill and the universal transfer bill,
which have been pigeonholcd in the
House District Committee for nigh
unto twelve months? Why have they
not received consideration? What is
the obstacle which keeps them from
being reported and passed?
These are questions which have been
asked more than once, and they still
remain unanswered. Both measures,
after being diligently urged by every
representative body in the District,
were passed with practical unanin1ity
by the Senate Since that time they
have been as dead as the nails in
Scrooge's coffin.
Why are not these bills. of vital in
terest to the District people, taken up
and passed?
Echo still answers. why?
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new idea has more respectful recep-
ton in the United States, and that its
proponents make a more respectful Pc
tition for its reception. The dignity
with which the advocates of woman
suffrage so far have conducted their
campaign at the Capital is admirable.
They have met opposition with smiling
courage; they have enjoyed success
with engaging complacency. They,
like the leaders in any other cause,
can ask only careful and just con-
sideration of their cause. If the re-
nainder of their campaign, particu-
larry of that part of it which is to
eliminate in the parade and pageant
on March 3, is conducted with the
same rational decorum that has hith-
erto marked it, woman suffrage will
have made distinctively personal as
well as popular appeal for that con-
sideration.
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PRESIDENT TO GIVE
OHIO VALEDICTORY
Natives of Buckeye State Will Gather
at Annual Banquet Tonight
in Rauscher's.

President Taft will deliver a Buckeye
valedictOry at Rauscher's tonight at the
third anniversary dinner of the Ohio
Society More than 800 Ohioans. mostly
residents of the District, will gather
around the long tables and on the birth
day of President Mckinley hid farewell
TO a fellow Ohioan and a felIow-member
of the order.
President Taft attended the organiza-
ton meeting of the society. refused the
proffer of an honorary membership, and
insisted upon assuming an active mem
bership. Again, two years ago, he was
the guest of honor at a magnificent din
ner by the society at the New Willard.
He always has manifested a most active
interest in the young society. which has
enjoyed remarkable prosperity in the
short three years of its existence
Justice William r. Day, OF the United
States Supreme Court, who has been
president of the society since its organ
iZation, and who was one OF the Ohioans
to sign the call for the organization
meeting. will preside tonight. The
speakers will be the President, Speaker
Clark, and former Speaker Cannon, all
former students OF the Cincinnati law
school. and Senators Burton and Pome-
rene OF Ohio.
dent. Justice William r Day; vice presi-
dents, Justice Thomas II. Anderson. Dis
trict Supreme Court: John Joy Edison,
and former Senator Charles Dick; secre-
tary. William l.. Symons; treasurer,
Frederick Echelberger; chaplain. Rev
DR.. Earl Cranston; trustees, W. V. Cox,
Gen. George c. Reid, Gen. Clarence r
Edwards, Gus J. Karger, o. 2. Austin.
and James W. Bell.
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DEMOCRATS DIVIDED
ON PHILIPPINES BILL
Speech of Representative Sherley
Taken to Indicate Opposition
to Jones Bill.

developments In the House YESTERDAY
showed plainly that. nOtwthsta ndine the
declaration for the indopendenCe of the
Philippines in tie Baltimore platform.
the Democrats leaders are by no means
IN accord on this question. Replying to
~ speech made by Representative Will
lam y. Jones Of Virginia author of the
bill granting to the Filipinos an indie
J. ndcnt government, Representative Swa-
ser Shcriey OF Kentucky, another Demo-
cratic leader, made the statement that
this government had undertaken a re-
sympathy with the movement to fix
could not shirk, and that he was not in
sympathy wit hthe movement TO fix
4 time when the United States should
turn over the affairs of the archfpeIago
to the natives.
Representative Jones. who, as chairman
OF the lnsular Committee, will handle
the Philippine bill in the new Congress.
made the declaration that appeared TO
startle the House that the F'ilipfnos
practically had driven the Spaniards out
of the islands when Dewey sailed into
Manila Bay and blew up the Spanish
fleet on May /. 1875.
AT that time asserted Mr.. Jones.
the Filipinos had captured everything
outside of Manila II they had been left
to their own devices. they would have
won their independence few months
after We acquired the islands by con-
quest"
Responding to a question put by Rep
Longworth of Ohio, Mr.. Jones
aditted that he was not advised az to
the attitude Of the President-elect to-
ward the question of Philippine indepen-
dence.
Il cannot speak for the President-elect."
said Mr.. Jones, who recently had a con-
ference on the subject with Gov. Wilson.
II will state, however. that the Presi-
dent-elect as a Democrat and a man II
honor could hardly take a position In
opposition to the independence .of the
Representative Jones charged that the
Philippine government had been admins
tered by Americans in an arbitrary man
ner, that graft had run hot in the
since the Gate of American
occupation. and that the islands had
been exploited by American commercial
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Chance for a Federal Market Bureau

A bill passed the Senate some time
ago providing for a Bureau of Mar
kets Its purpose was TO bring con-
sumers and producers together, or, in
other words, to follow the markets so
closely that those who had anything to
sell would be PVT more directly in
touch with those who wished to buy.
1t was claimed that a billion dollars
worth of agricultural products went to
waste annually in this country for want
of a market, and that such a bureau
would effect a great reduction of this
waste. The Agricultural Committee of
the House now has agreed unanimously
to report the bill, which has a good
prospect of being passed at this session
There are movements on foot in
many cities for the establishment of
public markets. One has been started
in Providence, and the matter is now
before the Legislature. In Dayton,
Ohio, on three mornings of the week
the farmers market is open for a long
distance along one Of its business
streets, and another municipal market
has been opened in the residential dis
trict. The grocers are largely combining
their activities TO canned goods and
other staples in which the farmer docs
not deal. Thus in a good many places
there is a growing tendency toward
the elimination of the middleman
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WILSON IN SECRET CONFERENCE,
Discusses LeEislation with Demo-
cratic Legislators.

Atlantic City. n. J.. Jan. Sat a secret
conference with the Democratic members
OF the New Jersey Legislature this after
noon. Gov. Wilson expressed his views
respecting the legislation now under con-
sideration and the legislation proposed In
keeping with the pledges of the Demo-
cratic platform. Only ,nree items were
discussed and the balance was put over
until next Tuesday. These three items
were the reform bill, the grade crossing
bill. and the proposed constitutional con-
vention.
A definite policy was adopted with re-
gard to each OF these and the measures
will go through without further delay.
The Governors corporation bills, known
as the seven sisters were not reached
and will be among the first things on
next Tuesdays programme.
Tonight Gov. Wilson was the guest of
the New Jersey Senators at a dinner at
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. here. This
was a strictly private affair.
The Governor took his stenographer
into the dinner with him as a precaution
against being misquoted as a result of
a garbled version that might emanate
from individuals at the dinner and re-
duested that no publicity be given the
dinner.
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HOUSE.

| The House PASSED the rivers and har-
bors bill, carrying an Appropriation of
so, SO, 900. and then proceeded 10 take up
the Notifications appropriation bill. Tn
der license OF general debate. Represent
alive Jones of Virginia attacked the ad-
ministration of the Philippine Islands,
making a personal assault on Gov. Gen.
w. Cameron Forbes.
Representative Sherley Of Kentucky
took the floor and declared that the
Jones bill, providing independence for the
Philippine Islands within period OF
seven years, was unwise.
Representative Murray of Massachu-
sets, also a Democrat. Endorsed Sher-
ley's attitude and defended Forbes Rep
resentative Kahn of California, Republi-
can, defended the army administration
OF the Philippines.
Minority Leader Mann declared that
charges that the House had passed the
Panama Canal bill without due consid-
GRAFTON and while a majority OF the mem
bers were absent were unfounded.
The Ways and Means Committee con-
cluded hearings on the wool schedule.
The Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee heard representatives OF State
railroad commissions and of the National
Industrial Traffic League in regard to
the Kenyon bill, giving the Interstate
scribe uniform classification OF freight
The Glass currency investigating COM
mittee heard representatives of farmers
organizations in opposition to the Aldrich
plan.
The Military Affairs Committee report
ed favorably the resolution of Represent
alive Evans OF Illinois, calling upon the
Secretary of War for information as to
the field OF service OF all officers above
the rank OF colonel
Representative Dent Of Alabama intro
duced bin making It compulsory for
railroads TO equip their rolling stock with
additional safety devices, in consideration
of which they would be allowed to charge
additional rates.
Representative Garner Of Texas an
nounced that he would press for a Con-
gressional investigation of the Depart
ment of Justice IL Attorney General
Wickersham does not hasten the prose-
cution of John n. Archbold and other
Standard OIL magnates in the Magnolia
case in Texas
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CHILDREN UNDERFED
in SHADOW OF CAPITOL
DR.. Wiley Says 1900 Are Sufferers
in District-Gives Cheap
Food Formula.

Greedy. Colo. Jan. 2a-'TIalf of the
children OF the United States are starv-
ing, and under the very shadow Of the
Nations Capitol there are 1900 who
are underfed. The child who does not
have nutritious food is not alert mentally
and eventually becomes either a criminal,
idiot, or imbecile. The very foundations
of the government are threatened"
This was the statement made by DR..
Harvey W. Wiley. formerly in the gov
eminent service, in an address here to-
day.
People do not what to eat" he con-
tinueds Farmers take more care of
their cows than they do Of their children
Wheat in its natural state is the best
balanced food for the muscles and the
mind"
DR.. Wiley advanced an unusual plan
to lower the cost of living when he told
the audience how to make enough break
fast food from pint of wheat to last a
family Of four for four days at a cost
OF only cent and a quarter day. He
said it was only necessary to grind the
wheat and prepare IL as mush is made.
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A New Local Problem.

The point raised in the Police Court
yesterday that no penalty can be i'm
posed for violation of the building
regulations because Congress did not
specifically authorize such penalties
may be a new one in this jurisdiction,
but il has been frequently ruled upon
in other localities. Under those de-
cisions the contention has no ground
10 rest upon.
The building regulations were draft
ed under law approved June Il,
1873 which authorized and directed
the District Commissioners TO make
"and enforce" such building regula-
tions as they might deem advisable,
and the regulations were to have the
same force and effect as if enacted by
Congress. 1t is held by recognized
legal authority that the words TO en-
force" carry with them the authority
to impose penalties, and no doubt has
been thrown upon this construction of
the law since it was enacted. The
case of the automobile tax law, cited
as parallel TO the building regulations,
is not analogous The automobile tax
provision simply named sum which
should be collected, and did not au
thorize or empower the Commission
crs to enforce the collection. That
was the reason why it could not be
put into execution.
1t would have been better. of course,
if the building regulations act had
contained the phrase in the statute OF
JANUARY 70. 1887, which. after author
izing the District Commissioners to
make usual and reasonable police regu-
lations, expressly directs them to i'm
pose reasonable penalties" for viola
ion thereof Vt the same time, the
higher courts. if decisions elsewhere
are 10 be accepted as a criterion, will
doubtless hold that when Congress
conferred thc power to enforce, it also
delegated the power 10 pcnalizc.
As a doubt has now been created,
however. and as a final determination
cannot be had for many months, if
an appeal is taken by either side, it
would seem that the Commissioners
might with propriety ask Congress
to-day to enact Immediately law OF
two or three lines TO remedy the al
legged defect Such law could pass
both Houses and be approved in
swcnty-four hours.
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SENATOR SMITH CALLS
FOR FUND FOR SICKLES
Michigan Man Sends Dispatch to Gov.
Sulzer-Latter Offers 500
to Relief.

Albany, n. Y. Jan. 2s.-Gov. Sulzer de.
| clared to-day that. while officially he
cannot help Gen. Sickles, he Is willing
to help personally.
mo one" said the Governor to-day. re
grets more than do the sad predicament
of the hero of Gettysburg. as he stands
in the shadow of his life and about TO
go over the great divide. I gave careful
study to the life of Gen. Sickles while pre-
pairing a speech In support of bill pro-
vidiug for his retirement with the rank
of major general. l know that few men
have done more for their State and coun-
try and flag.
MY sympathy goes out TO him. on
cially / can do nothing. because / am
sworn TO enforce the laws. but person
ally 1 want to help. and although am
poor man, II any New York newspaper
will start subscription to pay of his
indebtedness, 1 will gladly contribute
500"
Gov. Sulzer to-day made public the fol-
lowing dispatch from United States SEN
ator Smith of Michigan:
Grand Rapids, Mich. Jan. q, 1913
Are the prosperous and generous mer
of New York to. allow a gallant hero
| like Gen. Sickles, who himself raised al
his own expense five regiments in the
war of the rebellion, and whose gallantry
and heroism at Gettysburg are amons
the priceless traditions Of the war, e
suffer for the want OF twenty-three thou.
sand dollars? Can you not appeal tc
the philanthropic and generous men who
have prorited by a united country to meet
this situation before IT is too late?
WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH"
The Sickles case provoked a prolonged
debate in the Senate to-day. Senator
Brown. the Republican leader. sought to
secure the adoption Of his resolution for
a legislative Investigation committee ana
requesting the Attorney General to sus-
pend prosecution until this committee
had reported its conclusions.
1t was finally determined to lay the
resolution on the table to await the re-
suit OF popular contributions to relieve
the general
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TELLS UNIQUE STORY.
MiI1lonnire's Mind Blank During
Long Wanderfnrs.

Los Angeles, Cal. Jan. 2s-Alexander
Chambers. wealthy mining man of New.
ton. Pa, is in Los Angeles to-day await.
ing the arrival of his brother from Elk.
ton. Nd, who is coming to take him
home. Chambers disappeared from the
Broad Street Station in Philadelphia JAN
uary 10. Except to a firm of attorneys,
to whom he went in San Diego, Cham
bers has refused to talk OF his expert
ences.
1t was asserted, however. that he told
the attorneys that he knew nothing OF
his trip across the continent. that he re-
gained his consciousness beneath the
tropical foliage OF a Pacific island. that
he was picked up by Mexican sailors
and taken to the Lower California coast.
and finally made his way to Enzenada,
thence to Tia Juna and San Diego. A
large sum Of money he carried had dis
appeared.
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H. HARRISON ELLIS HELD.
Capital Man Alleged 10 Have Given
Forged Check.

Cincinnati. Ohio. Jan. 2s.-The Cincin-
natl police authorities to-day formally
placed ? charge Of obtaining goods by
false pretenses against II. Harrison FL
lis, alleged professor. OF Washington, u.
c., who was arrested last Friday on sus-
picion. The prisoner Is charged with OBJ
tanning. Greek books from the Western
Tract Society on bogus check for $50.
At present. Ellis Is in the strong ward
OF the City Hospital. where he has been
since Sunday, undergoing treatment for
the morphine habit.
He will probably be tried tomorrow
morning In Police Court.
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Caught Mapping.

Hear you caught a burglar at your
house.
Yes; we had time to telephone for the
police and they slipped up on him.
Caught him of his guard. eh?''
Completely. He had gotten absorbed
IN one Of these tIgsew puzzles
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Can Make Paper from Weeds.

Pittsburg, Jan. 2s.-That pulp from
which paper is made can be manufac-
tured from weeds. was the assertion to-
day OF Francis Laird Stewart, a chemist,
who is having patented a new process
of pulp making, which he declared would
revolutionize the manufacture OF paper.
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PLAN TO CIRCLE GLOBE.
Wash In ut oninns to Take World
Cruise on Liner Cleveland.

Cruise on Liner Cleveland.
Among the washingtonians who will
sail from San Francisco February 6
on the Hamburg American liner Cleve-
land on its around-the-world cruise are
Miss Nina X. Van Arsdsle, Mrs. Annie
G. Tuohy, Miss Annie Tuohy. and Lee
MCClunE. The party OF 500 tourists
who will sail on the Cleveland are bent
wholly on pleasure and education. The
steamer carries no freight and is 10
all intents and purposes a floating
hotel
The first call Will be made at Homo
lulu. whence the ship will proceed to
Japan, and thence with numerous stops
down to the Straits Settlements. India,
through the Suez Canal and the Medi-
terranesn. to England and Germany.
and thence TO New York. After the
completion OF the Panama Canal the
world cruises OF the Hamburg Amer
lean line will make a complete water
circuit OF the globe.