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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-10-22
POOR WAY TO MAKE LAWS

TN THE END we shall probably decide that legislation by
blessing which afford to fore
60 At shall make radical changes In the sys
tenn have attempted to apply It,
The initiative the taxpayer have little real for each
other time the feeling far the taxpayer is
concerned will grow.
We complain cost of holding legislative session.
but no yet held the history the state which
has cost the state treasury much as VIII cost 10
which the people will vote at the coming
election doubtful whether any scheme will be devised
which will cheaper initiative materially The cost of such
publicity required the people to be fully informed
corning which they vote must always be enormous
seemingly that bound
be heavy Not only of egang costly but the
submitted by strange fatality all seem to be aimed
heart the taxpayers pocketbOok Every measure on this
years list increase the cost OF carrying
public business and they should all be adopted we should
upon high taxation which would make the
of the present about which complain bitterly some
times, seem to be of no consequence at ALL
Probably way make laws to select small body
capable delegate the task to them This
that out of the and OF
who have tried themselves
that entered the mind and lodged there after
such unsatisfactory method of making laws this of
initiative had proved to be failures and had been discarded
ought burden legislation legislatures
may objected can't get able and honest take
legislative positions that really wholly true there
wouldn't trying to make out of free
lar We might well hang the fiddle and quit
isn't except insofar ourselves have put the bars
won't be grain of truth in when make legislative positions
desirable give good chance to fill them Whenever
good good but
not obtain them as long ntrust their making radicals
dreamers promoters of class interests.
The initiative should be reserved to the people, but it should
safeguarded that be used only the peoples interests
be unless the necessity
Republic
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CHICAGO SIZES UP ITS BANK.
Presents It's Claims 10 sccretn ries
McAdoO ana Houston.

CHICAGO, Jan. 1g.--Lcading Chicago
bankers and business men and bankers
from adjoining states az WELL told Sec
retaries McAdoo and Houston, constitut-
ing the Federal reserve organization COM
mlttec. to-day that Chicagos trade terri
tory embraced the States OF Illinois, IN
diana, Ohio Michigan. Wisconsin. Iowa,
Minnesota and part OF Nebraska, the
Dakotas and Missouri. The statements
were made TO aid the Government officials
In determining tho central West for a
regional bank.
Nor was this all of the broad state
ment of the cheerful Chicagoans They
said that us "a matter of fact In several
lines OF business trade was As great In
New England and In Texas as In Illinois.
II was James B Forgan, president OF
the First National Bank, who made the
most sweeping claims-that Chicagos
logical territory extended from Ohio to
the Rockies.
THAT would give the Chicago bank
about a fourth of the country's capital"
Secretary NcAdoo told him. "Then II
New York gets Its 80 per cent, there
would be left only % per cent. of all
the capital to be divided up among the
other six banks.
George NJ. Reynolds. president of tho
Continental and Commercial Nstiona,
Bank, said
My belief t. that regional banks should
be located In New York. boston, Chicago
and san Francisco. beyond all question.
81. Paul or Minneapolis. ! think. should
have one of them also 81 Louis, Kansas
City and Baltimore or Philadelphia"
All of the speakers disclaimed desire IA
grab" any territory for the Chicago hank
that was not its own by right
| Tho hearing will end tomorrow.
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but refused TO 90 go or

out mail trains but refused TO DO so or
orders from their officials.
The situation in many Of the cities ana
towns along the line Of tho Delaware and
Hudson was growing serious rapidly when
the strike was declared on.
In Giens Falls the price OF meat was
raised two cents when IL was found that
no moro could get into tho city imme-
aiateiy. and In many places shortages In
the food and coal supply were reported.
Commuters from Albany were taken as
far rs fifteen miles to their homes to-nishi
IN sleishs and auto buses. Hundreds.
caught In Albany, registered at hotels for
the night
The nrst passenger trains were run out
Of Albany about II o'clock tonight. They
we're crowded with passengers. who mad
waited hours In the station.
The two men for whose reinstatement
the 5000 employees struck were Con-
ductor f. A. Slade and Engineman James
A. Lynch OF Oneonta- They with Train
man Arthur j. Fox were discharged for
alleged negligence moro than year ago.
One truck OF car In the middle OF a
long freight train which they manned
left tho rails and bumped along the ties
for more than three miles, The company
declared That the men should have known
that the truck was of the track.
Tho men said that there was a heavy
for and that as the trouble occurred be-
fore daylight there was no means OF
telling II anything had happened. as the
train was so light they did not feel the
Jar.
During the negotiations with Mr.. Sims
the trainman was reinstated. and tho
union ais. insisted that Lynch ana Slade
should be put back 10 work. The
strike then followed noncompliance with
the demand
The Delaware and Hudson men have
other difficulties to settle regarding back
pay for tho discharged employees who
have been put back to work These mat
ters will be taken up In conferences with
Mr.. Sims tomorrow.
Commissioner Hanger will return TO
Warrington tomorrow.
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CLEMENT ACCUSED
IN SUITS BY WOMAN
Alleges Man. Twice Candidate
for Governor Of Vermont,
Took Ring.

Some mystery was thrown around two
suits brought In the Supreme Court yes
terday against Percival W. Clement.
former president Of the Rutland Railroad.
Mr.. Clement was twice candidate for Gov
srnor Of : Vermont and has an elaborate
country estate, Brookside. at Rutland. VI.
He lives part of the time each year at
the Hotel Woodstock and the Union
League club in New York.
The plaintiff in each suit Is Mrs. Marion
Thornton Egbert. who achieved some
publicity IN 1906 when she travelled from
India to Chicago to defend q suit for d.
vorcs brought by DR.. jerome Egbert, a
Chicago dentist.
One suit asks $4,000 for the conversion
Of a diamond ring weighing "a. carats
which Mrs Egbert says was her property
but was taken from her by Mr. Clement.
In the second suit Mrs Egbert alleged
that she was engaged by the defendant on
April I, 1910. for collecting data to en-.
able Mr.. Clement to publish book on
the Clement Genealogy."
She alleges that Mr.. Clement agreed
TO pay her $50 week for expenses while
she was searching for the genealogical
data and $500 for each six weeks she was
employed She declares that she work ed
constantly until July - last. when she
was discharged without cause. She says
she earned s14.+i6 during this time, and
that she received only $500. She sued
for the difference OF sl2.slS.
Mrs. Esbert's attorneys. Phillips. Ma
honey e. Wagner. refused yesterday to
discuss the case. but II was said In behalf
Of Mrs. Egbert that in recent years she
has been preparing genealogical books
and has rendered services to some OF the
most prominent New York families.
Mr.. Clement IL at his Vermont home al
present, and on that ground Supreme
Court Justice Guy signed an order per.
hitting service OF the papers by publica-
ton. Mr. Clement was a member OF the
Trinity College class OF 1858 He belong:
TO the New York Yacht Club. the Automo'
bile Club OF America and a number oi
out Of town clubs.
Mrs. Egbert got her notoriety in 1906
when her husband sued FOR divorce be
cause OF letter she wrote TO one "Dea
Cinderella" describing certain happening
In her studio In the Chicago Auditorium
tower. when she was editor of the Bach
elor's Mdgdsine and had quarters Their
with a girl friend. The letter told Of tw'
male visitors who had paid SIS for din
ner for the party. When the letter fel
into the hands of DR.. Egbert he sued.
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Continued from First Page
George Richie. the keeper of ihe blood
hounds and "a crack shot. lie dismountod
from his horse and. using II for a shield,
began to fire at the three convicts in the
rig. His first shot got Lane in the head.
He fell forward on Chimney Reed. who was
holding Rico. Reed loosened his grip Of
Miss Foster and stood up TO FIRE. but -
he did 40 Richies rife cracked again and
Reed tumbed out of the buggy. dead.
Rice jumped out and threw himself ob
the ground.
BY this time guards we're coming ur
from every direction. Miss Foster was
struggling with kunz when a chance sho.
struck her In the leg and she fell to the
bottom OF the buggy. With her gons
kunz fell dead at the next fusillade. Mar
tin, the turnkey. had been shot In IN.
face az he stood by oates. but was not
seriously hurt Miss Foster was pros
trated when the guards rushed to help
her from the buggy after tho last shot
had been fired.
Miss Fosters home is In Trenton. Mo,
She came here a short time ago and aft.r
teaching some time In a local business co.'s
lege she got her position a stenographc7
for Warden Dick. She had been az IN.
prison about two weeks.
Judge Thomas VAS 81 years old liz
was born at Mount Vernon, H., All
served in the civil war. He was admitted
to the bar In 1869 and. served success.
sively as City Attorney of Metropolis H.,
and rs States Attorney. He went 10
Congress in 1879 and served two terms.
His service on the Naval Affairs Com
nlittee earned him the title of father ~
the modern American navy" From 1897
to 1901 he was a United States Distrx
Court Judge In Illinois. He then resumed
the practice OF law ara moved to okla
homa
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Germany and France. He said he might
add the United States. which In hnancins
some countries. but he recalled that the
United States has always used consider
able foreign money TO do this: lie pc
lieved the United States would continue
for some time to be a borrower abroad.
James Hope simpson OF Liverpool
aroused enthusiasm by telling the bank
ers that now that the United states has
It's new law it must participate in the IN
ternational discount market. lie wanted
to see IL ana he believed the foreign Couh-
tries wanted Il.
THE advantages to you OF sucn a mar.
ket," he said would be the same adj
vantages that we possess. namely. liquid
employment for short money: power TO
meet demands for money without disor
ganizing stock exchange prices; power
to check overtradlng at home. and finally
power to check a foreign drain OF gold.
Having with great Difference thrown
out these suggestions l leave them with
YOU for considerable n, and l should like TO
say that you have in the United states
not only body of men. including Mr.. Paul
Warburg who are experts on this ques-
tion but you have IN the splendid reports
issued by your National Monetary Com
mission a storehouse of Information on
the subject of the European discount mar
kets which will give you all the guidance
YOU may need, II you decide to take steps
" the direction i have ventured TO indi-
cate.
80 far as the effect upon other coun-
tries IL concerned of the creation OF an
American International discount market
Of course the result may he that some
business will be diverted from the other
international markets. But this will he
more than counteracted by the additional
stability which will be given to the money
markets of the world by the existence In
America of strong and flexible discount
market"
Mr. Alexander read n letter from Presi-
dent Wilson regretting that he could not
, attend the dinner because his evenings for
the next three months will be taken up by
/ the study ~ important subjects out OK
/ Office hours'
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$35o,0Oo MORE FOR YALE.
VIII He Applied 90 Development Of
Divinity school.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. ls.-lt was an
nounced at the Yale Corporation meet
ing to-day that gifts OF about $4,000 In
pledges had been made to carry out the
plans for the development OF the Yale
divinity school into a university school
of religion of the broadest character
The new gifts and pledges include $780,
600 from Mrs. ID. willis James and Ar
thur Curtiss James OF New York city for
the establishment Of the ID. Willis James
profe ssorship Of the theory and practice Of
missions $4,000 from Mrs. stephen
Merrill Clement Of Buffalo. for the es.
tablishment OF tine stephen Merrill Glenn
ent chair Of religious methods. 800, 0oC
for the chair Of social service, which j.
established anonymously.
These gifts win increase the endow'
nent Of the Yale divinity school 20 more
than 81 100000.
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BOSTON OFFERS FREE SITES.
wants New York Manufacturers 20
Go 70 the Hub.

James VI Curley. Mayor-elect of Bos-
ton, was here yesterday to induce New
York manufacturers to go TO Boston.
industrial progress was one of the
blanks in my PLATFORM" he said. I'VE
have q plan to provide sites and railway
sidings for manufacturers from out Of
town who employ 500 men or more.
II they will come TO Boston they will
get the land and sidings for nothing.
II will give tenth OF my salary as
Mayor to the fund with which land Will
he purchased. That means $1,000 10
start with. Other men have agreed 10
contribute.
81 SAW big shoe manufacturer this
morning and showed him how he could
cut out four OF his iive overhead charges
He said he liked the idea and would talk
10 his directors.
1.-THE last two administrations In Bos-
ton paid s35,000.00o for Fairgrounds,
parks baths. and so on and only $4,000
200 for Industrial improvements. ! in
tend to help industry"
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COUNTRY BANKERS PROTEST.
Deny That New York Ftnancicrs
withhold Loans From Them.

ATLANTA Ga. Jan. 1e--The 500
bankers comprising the National Currency
Reserve Association of Georgia emphati-
cally denied at their meeting here to-day
the assertion made by Golfers weekly
that the bankers ia New York controlled
not only the finances but the laws of the
country By Withholding loans from the
country bankers when things were not
going TO suit them nj Washington.
j. H. Reynolds. president of the First
National Bank OF Rome. injectc,. the
matter into the proceedings. Joseph A.
McCord OF the Third National Bank of
Atlanta said:
New York bankers have told Georgia
bankers repeatedly they would stand be
hind them and 10 go ahead and make any
loans they wanted To make
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WILSON THREATENS TO VETO.
Opposes s:5,OOO,OOO Good Roads
Plan and the Spoils Rider.

WASH NGToN. Jan, lg.-rrosldent VIII
son is opposed To the adoption 10y Con-
gr-ss OF the amendment to the pending
post office bill offered by Representative
Moon If Tennessee providing AN appro-
priatlon of s25.O00.O00 for the improve
ment Of public roads, He made this
plain IA callers at the White House to-
day,
Those who listened 20 what tho Pres!-
dent said about good roads legislation in
general left the White House with the
idea that he considered II "a problem 10 be
settled by the Government only after an
extended scientific investigation,
The President said frankly that he Is
opposed 10 such a raid upon the EVIL ser
vice as that proposed IN the rider in the
post office appropriation bill eNempting
u ssstant postmastrrs from the applica-
ton OF the civil service rules
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SECOND SCHMIDT TRIAL OPENS.
Anna Aumullcr's slayer Sees FOur
Jurors Chosen.

For the second time within month
Hans Schmidt. the sclf-confessed muir :
derer OF Anna Aumuller, was put on trial
for his life yesterday. When court ad
journed last evening four jurors had been
sworn In the case.
Schmidt, whose defence is insanity,
came into court wearing long fur lined
coat and a handkerchief about his throat.
He has not had his hair or beard trimmed
since his arrest and neither had been
brushed. He stared straight ahead and
seemed 20 take no interest IN his sur
roundinRs.
Schm.dts father and mother are Ill nj
their home In Germany and will not come
over for the trial His sister Is said 10
be on her way, 1t was stipulated be-
tween counsel that the testimony given
by his father and sister at the last trial
could BIZ read into this case
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President u. II M!nch of the New
Jersey Bankers Association said y.stcr-
day that only the banks Of southern New
Jersey desired II Federal reserve bank in
Philadelphia. where they have always
transacted their principal business The
banks north of Trenton, according to
President Mnch, are DESTROYS of being
members of a Federal reserve bank In
New York city. lie said It would he n
great hardship for such banks TO do busi-
ncss other than in New YORK city.
president Mincn said he was misQuoted
on January l6 ~ having said that the
banks ~ New Jersey were unanimous in
! their desire TO become affiliated with a
4 Federal reserve bank In Philadelphia.
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FACES JAIL FOR ALIENATION.
j. n. willistOn ordered Arrested in
Raymond's Suit for 100000.

Supreme Court Justice Van Siclen o.
Brooklyn Issued an order yesterday FOR
the arrest of James r Wlliston
a broker OF Nassau street, Manhattan
In the suit OF Arthur ]. Raymond. a real
estate man of 22l Eighth avenue, for
100000 damages for the alienation Of
his wife's affections
Raymond got a divorce from his vita
last November. williston was named as
correspondent.
Williston Is a member OF the New York
Chicago and Boston Stock exchanges.
and OF the Harvard. University. Metro
politan and New York Athletic clubs
He In married and has one daughter
His home In at Seabright, n. j.
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MRS. BLAKE'S DECREE SIGNED.
UndcrstOOd That Doctors Wife Geta
$4,000 n Year AltmONy.

Supreme Court Justice Newburger APP
proved yesterday the findings Of Wilbur
I.arremorc as referee in the suit by Mrs.
Catherine ketcham Blake for II separa-
;ion from pr. Joseph a. Blake ana signed
:, dcCrer fOr Mrs. Blake
The tl'mony to Ne paid 10 Mrs, Blake
was agreed on outside of court aYd was
not mentioned In the decree, hut !; IA
understood that Mrs Blake VIII receive
about $4,000 Il year. In her application
for alimony she asked 81. 800 month.
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GIVES $4,000 TO Y. M. c. A.
II. l.. Pratt Donates Property To,
BOys' Summer Camp.

Herbert L. Pratt has presented TO tho
Brooklyn Young Mems Christian Assoc!a-
ton $4,000 to buy property on Staten
Island for the purposes OF developing =
summer camp for working boys Ths
properly consists OF seventeen acres and
Is on Woodvalc avenue. with a frontage Of
400 feet on Princes Bay. looking toward
Sandy Hook. The land Is high and on ~
are two groves OF large and beautiful
trees.
The board OF directors OF the assoc.a-
ton adopted resolutions yesterday thank
Ing Mr.. Pratt
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cording TO his lawyer. Il drove them In
the car to Camden and there l was ar
rested by County Detective Totten OF
Somerville.
1T was then learned that the sup
posed superintendent OF the Massachu-
sets Reconstruction Company was really
a Pinkerton man named We'll. They kept
at mo all that day In Camden and then
brought me to Somerville and went at me
again. They gave me drink and drugs
as they had done before. About hall
past ! o'clock on Thursday morning
got weak. They handed me paper
told me to sign Il. and did In all
they were questioning me for twenty-one
hours why did I implica.e my aunt
They suggested the name 10 me 10 oeai
out the story"
Mr.. Moore said he would not apply fo'
a writ OF habeas corpus 20 get Car
out OF jail.
Great Injustice, says Moore.
"a great injustice has been done tt
ia Ma Holly" he explained. "anc
-. go, oninion II IL up to the state OF
- -. I.rsey TO free and exonerate then
% ,,s own accord and TO make sweep
ing apologies besides l., 1900. ~.
lie said that Carts health IL muoh 'ht
rors. Tor his experience and that the ooS
,o,d him he had been drinNhs pre"s
stssd,ly for three months.
Carl told the lawyer that he GOT hauo'
even in the jail. Prosecutor POPE VII
Investigate that charge' ~. .,
Mr.. Pope wouldn't talk ABOUT tne cas-
,o.night except 20 say that another ares
Us Doss,bie II 10 known. however. ina
M corroboration OF the now repudiatet
confession has been found.
LAWYER Moore says peHeve 'hs
NJ pope and John \. Roebl.ng. who have
;ns,,,u,ed the search for the person wht
,riea 10 XII, Mt Ellie. have been duped.
Mr.. Roebling IN said 10 nave speh
about $4,000 In the hunt.
Mrs. Sarah Carl, the boys ino'he'' re
turned TO East Stroudsburg Tonight. con
WINGED that her son would ee free IN
few days.
When Mr. Ellis was told OF the allege'
/ elibi for Paul he said:
Il knew all along that Carl was ihno
| cent. also know that when ! saw TN
/ how. after he had been put through Nh
! third degree in the jail he was so veal
and unnerved that he could not talk IN
diligently to me-
AT the offices OF the Pinkerton Detcctiv
/ Agency In this city II was said yesterda
that the statement o. the Dahlstrom com
pany had rNt changed the Pinkerton'
attitude toward Carts confession.
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Troubled Mother Gets AID.

THE SUN delivered 50, sent in by -
X. r." to Mrs. NJ. Murphy, 320 East
Forty seventh street, yesterday afternoon.
Several persons have aided Mrs Murphy
since the publication In THE SUN OF her
letter to the salvation Army saying that
her husband had been dead six months
that. she had four small children and a
new born baby and that there was no fooo
in her one small room.
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Grasshoppers Menace In Texas.

AUSTIN, Tex. Jan. 19.-Midsummer
weather for ten days has brought out
such numbers OF grasshoppers In Ham
ilton county, central Texas, that the State
Department of Agriculture was appealed
to to-day TO assist IN preventing the IN
sects from destroying cropX
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La Roche Hack 10 Old Job.

Mayor Mitchell has decided to transfer
Louis +. La Roche to the Finance De-
partment, where lie was before he took
Commissioner Stover's place. as an en-
amlner at $4,000 Il year. The Mayor Is
satisfied that Ia Roche's falling out with
Commissioner Ward arose simply from
incompatiblity of temper