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+ - 4\ x to lass * form} Panama canal tolls and vari- 'and in conneciion with whe forthcom- 'to the end twas any temleoncy there - of doing this,\ he said, \I think the 'gaid the President. ~ for its use. - lent remission of tolls, ~ ed the president his support, + _ Sustained Selling Effort + e - To Accomplish the best results in FA . . '*. business sustained selling effort is needed, and'this means steady adver- _/ tising. ale VOL. XXII—NO. 147° obns NE PRESENT MACE - RO In His Message To Congress ENDATIONS To-Day He Deals With Cur- rency Reform, Panama Canal Tolls and Various Other Governmental QuestionsQ—Advocéfis a Contributary Pension System For Government Employees---Visit . To New York Pleased Mr. Taft---Was Given Some ~ Assurances Of the Empire State's Support In Coming National Republican Convention. ~ # « - ec ‘Washiifi'ton, Dec. 21..-President , Taft sent another of his 'promised eries of messages fo Congress today. Th.s tims he dealt with currency ro- ous governmental questions. On. the susect of currency reform ing report to Congress of the mone- tary commission, rresident Taft gud | that it was exceo.ingiy fortunute | that \the wise and undisputed, po- licy of unchanged the main features of our banking system rendered i at once inpossidle to in- troduce a central bank.\ he gave mis appe-val to the pro- poged national reserve pluin. the muanag:-ment of thse ussociation the Presiqent said it was mainly bankers work and the binas cOubu De trusted beter than unyoo.y else to manuge it. nicowever, he urged that the form of government supervis0n and-ultimate contro« should prevail, | and that the curremcy reform sghouid. not be roads a political issue. \And I trust ulst vwut ye now leg- lation will carenially and counp.ctely protect and assure the individwality ahd the inde,enmience of each bank, may ever be toward a opnSoliwtion of tie money. or the nation shall the President. The immediate establishment of & rural paroas post was urged. The President took the position that the post would not destroy the business of the country storewceeper. \Insternd be defeated,\ said change will groatly increase business for tase benefSt of all. Time relu.tion . in the cost of living it will bring about ought to make its coming cer- ”in.” On the subject of the Panama canal the deat at length with the question of whether. Ameri- can chipping snoull pay volls. \1 am very confident that the United States has the power to relieve from the piyment of tolls any part of our that Congress, dsems wise,.\ \We own the canal. It was our money that built We have the right to charge tolls linese toils must be Vas same to every one; but when we ato dealing with owr own ships, the prac- tice of many governments of substdiz- ing their own mechant vessels is so well establighed in general that a equal to the tolls, an equiva- «ganpot be held to be a disortmination in the use‘oat the canal.\ ' Among the President's recommen- dations were the following: An immediate increase of 2,060 men in the enlisted strength of the | navy. Abolition of the smaller nmavy yards. Contribatory penston system for government employes. The elimination -of all local of- fices from politics. j Incregozsd appropriation for the completion of river and harbor im- pmovemems along the Mississippi, the Ohio and the Missouri rivers. \An extension of the term of serv- dee of the srocial boapl of engineers on the waterway from 'the lakes to the gulf. ‘ Power in the president to remove clerks of federal courts for Calse. Payment of the French spolixtion judgments. Employers' liability and work- men's compensation legislation called | to the attention of Congress. Taft Promised New York. New - York, Bec. 21.-President Taft went back to Washington early today with assurances that he would have practically solid support from the New York delegation at the com- ing national convention. Colonel Roosevelt's friends seized the occa- sion of the president's visit to reit- erate that his predecessor would not allow his name to be used in oppo- sition to Taft's. * . The president returned - without seeing Colonel Roofevelt or receiving any communication from bim. A visit paid by Dr. Lyman Abbott start- ed a report that he wus an ambassa- As to | dor from his assotiate in magazine work, but this Mr. «Abbott prompily denied. j While William Barnes, Jr., the Republican state chairman, would not confirm the report that he anl Mr. Taft settled their differences yes- | terday and that Mr. Barnes promis- ' the state chairman did say this: . \I do not believe it is my function | to press or urge unon the Republie-| an electorate Republican candidates. I assume that whoever is nominate 1 will adhere to the principles that will be adopted.\ _ Mr. Barnes added that he would strive to have the Republican state convention, which will .elect dele- « dates to the national convention, & axiom a declaration of principles that would be a clear and decisive expres- sion of Republican doctrine, \which to my mind,\ he said, “implies; re- sistance to political error, half- thought-out ideas, ill-considéred andl dangerous demands.\ - Samuel Koenig, the Republican county chairman, declared emphati- cally that the New York delegation would be solidly 'behind Tait and that he told the president so. \Colonel Roosevelt,\ sald «the county chairmen, \is doing nothing, absolutely nothing. I am still tak- ing him at h's word and know he is not a canlidate, at least for 1912. Wheiber he will be in 1916-well, that is five years away.\ Presidential Nominations. _ Weshington, Cec. 21.-President Taft today sent nominations to the Sengte, including the following: Elliott Northcott of West Virginia, winister to Venezuela. George T. Waeitzell, Missouri, min- ister to Nicaragua. . f Secretaries'of embnssies: - Robert words Bliss of New York, at Paris; Arthur Bailly Blanchari of Loui- gslana, at Tokio; Montgomery Schuy- | ler, Jr., of New York, at Mexico City; painking power of : Post Wheeler of Washington, D. C., at Rome; Charles S. Wilson of Maine, at St. Petersburg. > & ModE oF BATTLESHIP MANE Washington, Dec. 21.--A model of the wreck of the battleship Muine, which bis been on esluib.t'on in the office of Secretary of the Navy Meyer since the naval boari returnol from Havana, probably will be placed per- manently if the naval mussoum at the Weshfngton navy yard or at the National Museum. Naval officers and many others in- temosted have visited and examined the model ang demonstration of just bow the accident occunred, according bo the theory of the officers who com- rose? the board, have been given for the beneSt of many of the naval of- fieers. Special lectures on the wreck mo'el were given for President Taft, Sermetary Meyer, the general board of the navy and ts newspanermen. The model is built of wood, with bluws prints laid on eath deck to shaw the varous sections and parts of the vessel. Bach part of the wrecked scauion is shown, with each plate and frome built as it was found when un- covered,. M CHRISTMAS GIFT % Chicago, Dec. 21.--A half million dollars will be the Christmas gift of the Crane company this year to its employes. This is the thirteenth year the company has given iis workers the advantage of the prout | sharing plan, A gift will be made to each employe in Chicago and forty- one branch houses of ten per cent. of their annual galary. * © whis distribution will bring the total amount given to employes to $3,750,000,\ said an offictal. - \Last year and this year the profits did not warrant the gift. Nevertheless it - will be given cheerfully and will con- tinue in future years.\ The money will be paid in gold. FINGER PRINT + Springfield, IlL, ljec. g1.:-A case in which finger print, evidence in murder trials is involved was decid- 'ed 'this morning by the supreme court in the case of the. People vs. Thomas Jennimgs, convicted of mur- dering Clarence B. Hiller at Chica- go, September 19, 1910, largely throfigh the introduction as evidence of a bloody finger print. After re- viewing the evidence the judgment of the lower court is affirmed and : Jennings must suffer the death pen- alty on February 16 next. Jennings had served time in Jol- let and in 1910, when leaving the prison on parole, an imprint of his finger was taken and this print cor-: responded with a bloody finger print found on the railing of a porch of the Hiller residence and supposed to have been left there by the mur- derer. lic THE JOHNSTOWN DAILY REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, DEC. 21, i911. - TMBR TRADE THREATENED IT IS SAID DISEASE MAY CAUSE DESTRUCTION OF MANY TREES. reRiGuLTurAL DEPARTMENT IS BUSY Trouble Now Extends Over Ton States-Thousand of frees Have Died in New York Alogé-Believed to Have Been Importéfi From the Orient. a -_ Albany, Dec. 21.-Fhg chestnut timber of the state is thre&tened with of the chestnut bark digease, accor(t ing to attiches of the State depart- ment of agrirulture. It is expected that the legislature will be asked to provide mens to save an indlustry which is estimated to be worth over $200,000 a year to the state in tim- EVIDENCE HoLs ber alone. i - This disease first was recognized as serious in the weinity of New York city in 1904. The disease was first 'imported from the Orient. ; logtcal studies of last summer show- ed that the attack on healthy trees lea1 to the early death of all the ; , trees involved. 'he disease has already in- to \t least ten states. In, New York it hos killed many thousands of trees. : Opn 351 acres of wool land in one Brooklyn park thousands of chestnut | trees have died ami the state authori- report that pearly all the chest- nut trees in Prospect and Bronx , parks and on several estates have been killed and removed. During the past summer the State agricultural department assigned in- spectors to locate the presence of the | blight in this state. The generally infeated area is on the western por- , tion of Long Island, the Bronx and Westchester county; less abundant well d'@tributel in the Hudson Val- ley as far north as the chestnut belt exten's on the east side of the Hud- son river; south of the Catskills and in Albany and Saratoga counties. It 'is estimated that one-fourth of the chestaut area of the state is involved. | The stite officials advise that all bark ani limbs from diseased trees including the bark on the stumps should 'be burned. WANT TWO.CENT DUTY | oN SUGAR REMOVED. Rochester, Dec. 21..--Acting conifunction with wholesale grocers © of New York City, it~e Rochester Re- i tail Grocers' association is endeav- | oring to obtain 200,000 signatures ' to a petition praying for the repeal of the two cents per pound duty on sugar. The petition will be sent to - Washington. - Blank - sheets have been placed in every grocery store in the city. that the duty on sugar is not justi- fied, is pafd by the consumer and is unjust burden upon one of the prin- cipal articles of food. FREE DELIVERY BY THE WESTERN UMON. Albany, - Déc. 21.-The Western Union Telegraph company has advis- ed the public service commission that arrangements have been completed within corporate or municipal limits in New York state, including Great- er New York. , * CcomMIssIon FORM OF GOVERNMENT 0. K. Springfiel1i, Ills., Dec. 21..-The TIilinois Supreme court tofay handel down a dssision uphol*ing the con- stitutionality of the commission form of government law. COLLEGE CHESS TEAMS MEET. New York, Dec. 2%1.-The chess teams of Harvard, Yale, Princeton ;and Columbia met at the West Side | Republican club today for the twen« Iti‘e' #4 annual inter-collegilite tourna- ; ment. Play will continue through , Saturday with recess duily from 1 to -2 o'clock and from 6 to 8 o'clock, ex- cept on Saturday when play will be- gin at noon. In the opening games this morning Yale met Columbia and Harvard was qiitted agx'inst Prince- ton. men. A PAUPER, YET RICH. Syracuse, Dec. 21.--Mrs. Estell Tucker, 54 years old, was found dead in a rooming house yesterday. She hai not been seen since Satur- day. The. woman was for years an «object of charity. A search of her belongings «revealed that she $10,000 on deposit in local banks. ASsFrSMENTS CORRECTED. At 'an adjourned meeting of the common council last 'rig'ut correc- tions were made of erroneous assess- ments agrinst the properties of Wal- ter S. Comrie, M. Putman, C. W. Ar- gersinger and Mrs. Amelia Fraser. board of aldermen will be hold Sat- ' urday night of this week. ~ PROMINENT MASON DIES. Watertown, Dec. 21.-George C. Watertown, died suddenly early this morning of apoplexy, aged 46. way prominent in Masonry, « In Attempt to Solve tliéflProblemw ‘ destruction as a result of the spread - Batho- . in | The petition sets forth. i for the delivering free of messages | Each team consists of four .| negligent had | \The firal meeting, of the present: Bater, a prominent business man of - He * fication refused to accept a republic. CHICAGO PACKERS FIRST FIGHT ~ L08t DISTRICT JUDGE CARPENTER OvERRULES MOTHON OF DEFENDANTS. k gversely on Mo- &+ - Instructed to Disregard AMiigat for the Absorption g . - cago packers on trial for criminal f violations of the Sherman law lost in the first skirmish of their trial today when United States District Juige Carpenter overruled the mo- tion of the defendants to strike out counts 2 and 3 of «*e indictment. The court also ruled adversely on the motion to have the jury instruct» ed to ahe allegation of government counsel in the opening statement regarding the absorption of the Schwartzchild and Sulzberger company and the New York Butch, ers' Dressed Meat company by the alleged packers' combination. The court gave the ruling at the opening of the session. . After the. decision a recess was ' taken until 11 @'clock to give the packers' attorneys opportunity to decide whether they would make op- ; ening statements or allow the gov- | ernment to proceed with its first wit- ness. © Whether District Attorney - Wil- kerson's opening address to the jury was clearly and decisively stated as ramarding the allegations that the. meat packers had violated the crim-. inal provision of the Sherman anti- trust law, was to be decided Juage Carpenter when the hearing was resumed at 10 o'clock today. The court was expected to rule as to whether counts two and three of the indictments should be stricken out, in accordance with a motion of Attorney Levy Mayer yesterday aft- ernoon. Mr. Mayer's point was that the National Packing company was not mentioned in these portions of the indictment, and therefore that they. must fall, because the govern- | ment contends that this concern mainly fixed the price of meat. In the event that the court's rul- ing favored the government the packer‘s’ counsel were prepared to begin presenting their cases to the jury. How long this would take was problematical. f It was expected that four of coun- sel would speak. AN INSURANCE DECISION GWEN Washington, - Dec. 21.-Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue Cabell to- s by mutual and \participating\ insur- ance companies to their policy hold- ers are subject to assessment as in- come under the corporation tax law. The companies contended, accord- ing to the commissiyner, that these commercial sense, but simply re- funds to policy holders of an over- charge in the insurance premium. that exigencies of business and competition had resulted in the com- panies making '\misrepresentations'\ of facts as to dividends to their pro- spective purchasers uf insurance.\ BOXING COMMISSION FOR CLEAN BREAKS is the rule hereafter for boxing bouts stats law controlling the sport went into effect last spming, there has been some confusion rregarding breaks, some referees allowing boxers to hit with one band free At their weekly motting, the Stato Boxing commis- i force the rule provided that referee's in this respect may be brought 'before the commission on charges. The commission also de- cided that in future a boxer can have only four seconds in his corner and tnat sesonds must stay in the corns where they belong. - CHRISTMAS PRESENTATION. The emploves of the making de- partment of Richard Evans & Sons' glove factory, presented the forewo- man, Mrs. Plorrie A. Ward, with a very bandsome gas lamp this morn- ing; The presentation speech was msde by Mrs. Hio, who voiced the high regard in which Mrs. Wari is held by the operatives in her depart- ment, and the latter in responding. assured 'the givers that she would value the gift highly as a token of the kindly relations exsting between them. YUAN OPPOSES A REPUBLIC. Peking, China, Dec. 21.-Promier Yuan-Shi-Kai in an official statement today said that he without any qua:i- a : , . Chicago, Dec;v”§’rz21.—The ten Chi- SHS ABROGATIOX MEASUE WORK WILL BE STARTED AT ONCE ON NEW TREATY WTITEH RUSSIA. | BLD ONE REMAINS IN EFFECT A YEAR House of Representatives Late Yes- terday Accepted the Senate Sub- stitute for the Sulzer Resolution Doing Away With the Treaty Adopted by the Two Governments in 1832-Knox a Witness to Signa~ ture. . Washington, Dec. 21.-With Sec- retary of State Knox as the only wit- ness, President Taft at 10:15 a. m. today signed the joint resolution by - day decided that the dividends paid ! dividends were not dividends in the , Some of them admitted, he addei,~ New York, Ded. 21.--Ciean breaks, in New York state. Since the new - sion settlel the matter, awi to en-\ passed by Congress ratifying his ac- . t'on in serving notice on Russia of 'the abrogation of the treaty of 1832 with that country. The treaty ac- ituallyfiv will continue in effect until January 1, 1913. In the meantime ' efforts will be made to negotiate a new treaty eliminating the causes of \ friction which led to the termination of the old one. The House late yesterday accepted the Senate resolution as a substitute itlated the legislation. Uron his return from Now ¥ork this morning, President Taft immedi- ately inquired if the resolution was ready for his signature. It had been sigied by Vice-President Sherman and speaker Clark last night. flfrwi— iqanrc Tait affixed his signature as soon as he reached his desk in the executive offices and the last step of the abrogation proceedings had been taken. Messages Exchanged. Washington, Dec. 21.-Coincident with the Signing of the resolution of abrogation today there was made public at the White House an °%- change of telegrams between Presi- dent Taft and the emperor of Rus- sia. The president under date of the emperor in connection with the ruler. The message follows: \I beg to offer to your majesty niversary and the assurances of my high regard and good wishes - for yourself and for the © nation - over which your majesty reigns.\ -~ The emperor replied: \Pray accept my cordial thanks for your congratulations and good wishes. anna none mr ace in CGTtYy or ITRHACA | IN STATE OF TERROR. Ithaca, Dec. 21.-James . Seaman, the Ithaca Street Railway conductor who was shot in the arm by a foot- pad Tuesday night and robbed of the money he was carrying, died at the 'city hospital this morning. - This Iwill change the felony charge to Imanslaughter and the county board ' of supervisors in session here is con- sidering in conjunction | with the street railway company the question . of greatly increasing the reward of i $1,000. now offered for the capture of the bandit. The city is in a state of terror, one more house burglary being reported last night, making nine robberies since last Thursday. STATE LEAGUE BASEBALL. Auburn, Dec. 21.-President John 11—1. Farrell of the New York State | League received a telegram tolay from Allentown, Pa., asking whether he would agree to the transfer of the Troy franchise to Allentown, the lat- ter city having an opnortunity to pur- chase it. President Farrell was non- momma-31 and stated that the matter would be' considered later. Monte Cress, former manrger of the Serain- ton team in the Stute league, has been signed fo mamage the Haver, hill, Mass., team in the New England l Leagué. i - STORAGE COMPANY FINED. Now York, Dec. 21. -The Green-. wich Cold Storage company of this city wags fined $400 in the court of special sess'ons today for violation of the new Brenmin cold storage law, which provides amous criner things, inat food products in storage must he labelled with the dare of resep- tion. This is the first conviction un- der the law and sugtains its constitu- wonatty. The defeninnt company announced that it would appeal. zn _ mans HOBOKENITE BECAPITATED. Binghamton, Dec. 21.-Fred Am- mund, a resident &. Hoboken, who was in charge of the Lackawanna wrecking crew, was decapitated to- day. At $ o'clock this morning he stepped from the east to the west bound track in the local yard and which severed his head and one arm. The body will be taken to Hoboken. oe xXEBRASKANXS WANT TEDDY. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. 21--A petition asking that the name of Theodore Rocsevelt be placed on the prissary baliot as a candidate for the Re- publican nomination for president of the United States was received by ing. The petition is signed by At- 25 other voters. for the Sulzer resolution which in- ; December 19 sent his best wishes to celebration of the reast of St. Nich») olas, the name saint of the Russian | my cordial felicitations upon this an- | was struck by an approaching train | Secretary Of State Wait this morn-' 1 I love an torney John O. Yeizer of Omaha and ‘ ‘l < t,‘ FA (REV. RICHESON WILL - rROBMBLY RECOrR ALLEGED MURDERER OF. AVIS LINNELL PASSED FAIRLY COMFORTABLE NMGHT. Legal and Medical Circles Hold Dif- ferent Views As to Whether Ac- cused Clergyman Will Be Ready for Trial January 15-Recovered Consciousness This Morning But Has Made No Statement Relative to His Self Mutilation. Boston, Dec. 21. -- Everything pointed today to the rapid recovery of the Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson, avcused of the murder of Avis Lin- nell, who so mutilated himself with ; a proce cf tin in t's coll at the Suffolk county jail yesterday morning that a drastic operation was necess#iry. The following statement was issued this forenoon at the jail: \Mr. Richeson passed a fairly com- ;fcmble night, but was somewhat | restless. He had some slesp. He is goonsoious today, but is very pale be- cause of loss of blood. He has not spoken since the operation.\ Doctors who treated the clergy- 1 man said that he should be well in in 'tten days or two weeks. The danger of blood poisoning is the only ole- ment that stands in the way of Riche- son's complete ani napid recovery ; @nd blood poisoning, the surgeons 'say, is extremely unlikely. Difference of opimion was ex- ' pressed in legal and medical circles ' today as to whether the accused min- ister's condition will permit him to appear in court on January 15, the date set for his trial. District At- torney Pelletier declares that the trial will go on as arranged. Attor- inlay William A. Morse, one of Riche- | son's counsel, gays that he believes that his client will be in no fit physi- {cal condition to undergo the ordeal of his appearance in court on Jan- uary 15. # Prisoner Well Guarded... Boston iDec. Seavey has guards at Richeson's bedside { every moment of the day and night to prevent the prisoner making any further effort to injure himself. ' Attorney Willliam A. Morse of commsel for the a@coused> minister, visited hig client at the jail infirmary this forenoon. Coincident with the visit of Mr. Morse, Dr. Howard A. Lathrop, who . yesterday performed the supplementi@ry operation on the minister. entered the jail, Mr. Morse stayed at the infirmary only ten min- utes when he returned to the office found the clergyman resting quietly and apparently asleep, so he did not speak to his client. LINDSAY HBR WiTH \SUN WORSHIPPERS® Chicago, Dec. 21.-How George Lindsay, 12 years old, and sole heir 'to the millions of the late W. H. moved from the temple of a \sun worshipper's' cult and placed under charge of the juvenile court at the i request of relatives, was revealed to- | day. Charles R. Lindsay, uncle of the lboy, is responsible for the action. | After a nation-wide search for the ' boy the uncle founi1 him in the \tem- ple\ here. Detectives in the employ o. Lirdsay who attempted to take the boy away were attacked by wor- shippers, it is said. The boy's moth- .or, who place him in the \temple\ is said to be known among the cult as \Vahdab.\ One of the charges made by the boy's uncle. is that the lad was kept on a diet of grapes and beer. The -\ Gerry society ani other juvenile or- ganizations aided in the search. He is said to have been in the \temple\ about six months. home here. Sie has been ordered not to return him to the \temple.\ Judge Pinckney will hear the case January 4. ton nse SERIOUS CONDITION OF AFFARS EXISTS Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 21.-De- claring that the local Russian colony was but a marriage young girls were bartered like cat- tle by their parents, Elsie Tavick Navikoff, 17 years old, while in the juvenile court yesterday on a charge of delinquency, screamed that she would rather bare secrets of her race than to marry a stranger to whom she alleges her parents were trying to sell her. She declared that in the Russian i quarter with a population of about (four thousand there were siz hur- i dred young girls for sale, at an aver- | age price of $500. \They have sold me to a man I have never seen,\\ the girl cried. \I will die before I will marry him. American and he loves me aud we will be married as soon as a JI can get away from my people.\ SOME DsNGIR OF BLOOD PoiSoNING of the jail, where he said that he had . : Lindsay of Philadelphia hail been re- | The boy is now at his mother's and was quite badly injured. market wherein PROBABLE WEATHER, Snow 'or rain tonight or Friday; warmer tonight; moderate to brisk; northeast to east winds. *> h \ + PRICE TWO CENTS AULTERITE PAR | USED BY COUERNMENT THE CONGRESSIONAL JOINT COM: - MITTEE MAKES SOME <> DISCOVERIES, |. |. >> UNGLE Sait mas: Bren SWR It is Alleged That Clay Hus Beca Substituted for the More Substany - tial Wood and Rag Fibres-Be li‘ezrlfl: Many of Present Recorde. Wii® Crumble and Become Uzread« able After a Time. 2 a Washington, Dec. 21.--Discovers by the congressional Joint comm on printing that \adulterated\ pag had been used for years in the g ernment printing office today led | the announcement of a completé hg set of government paper stanfard@® The paper adulteration was accom plished by the substitution of ol® for the more substantial wood rag fibres, leading to the grave that many of the printed records the government will crumble and come unreadable in less than a ¢ tury. ~ {> The joint committee 'has 'been work for more than a year in -an « fort to bring about a reform., ank standardization of paper purcha® for the government &nd amount! vine more than $1,000,000 yearly. ° public printer today was autho ' to advertise for bids on 25,600,0B€ . pounds of paper for the 3 year ning March 1 next. Soe y e In the new specifications the u of clay and mineral filler is close restricted. The committee was toh that the use of clay in excomi, & printing requirements was held | paper experts to be a deliberate teration, having the effect of cheap ening the cost to the manufactureryg and lessening the durability to, the. government. It was discovered $k much of the papers used for pamy' years had been of this; charkctem The joint committee is said to. thoroughly aroused over the ato tion. 20, . sate - Included for tho fifst'ltz'fie‘it vast amount of paper the gove ment will buy next year' will be ! 600,000 pounds of news print paper. ! -A large quantity of this cheaper pas. | per will be used ,in,theypri’_1v1’§ih(°fi congressional speeches, th ' campaign year, as members - th Belves have to pay for the .printh of their speeches in pamphlet form:: a 'The joint committee, which con<rd sists of Senators Smoot, chairmkns» Pago and Fletcher, and Repre ‘ tives Finley, Barnhard .and has also sought a reform from the government stock msnft3 grades of tinted and other costl@ papers. It also Has sought to-éffem a saving by reducing the weights:a the various grades used. The publM@® printer no longer will buy any paper direct, all of the proposal 'being passed on by the committee. > ~. SIOUX CITY VICTORIOUS ' _ u . # IN LOWER RATE man‘s Washington, Dec. 21.--A contest 3 between Sioux City, lowa, .and Bt. Paul and Minneapolis, wis dockdell today in favor of Sioux City by the | Interstate Commerce - The Sioux City Commerciat clup cont plained against the Chicago & North» western and other railroals, aver- ring that the class freight rates ' Sioux City to points in the northeast were unreasonable, in that they ox- R ceeded the rates from SK, Paul and ° Minneapolis to the same destinge .@ tions. Both cities fought the Mouxr City contention, but the commisston tolay ordered a reduction of . the -~ Sioux Clty rates to a point equal to - the present rates from St. Paul and >\ Minneapolis to \substantially equl- ~4 distunt stations in the same terri- tory.\ OC MILLIONAIRE sSEEks a srRoom.© ~ 4 Minneapolis, Minn.. Dec. 21.- | E. 'Gomewhere in Minneapolis is a mam. declaring himself to be a New York | millionaire, who is seeking, a yOun® . woman, name unknown to him, who some time ago aided him when he | fell on the Slippery sidewalk here. The would-be wooer, who gives his name as George Barnes, Jr., has ask- ed the aid of Mayor Haines in find-. ing the young woman. 2 gf The letter written to Mayor Haines . | by \Barnes? and which contained & A torn photograph, says: I, a bachelor millionaire of New - Yora, met with an accident recently girl of whom I send the photograph, saw me fall and bandaged my Ileana. Now as I am a bachelor, I would Tike to have her Qgecome Mrs. Barnes, Jr. I got the photograph when it drop- ped from her purse. I was going to keep it, but she grabbed it and tore it.\ BACK IN WASHINGTON. Washington, Dec. 21.-Prosident Taft, accompanied by Secretary Hil- les and Major Butt, returned -to Washington this morning at 7:12 o'clock after two days of dinners, ad- Adresses and political conférences in Mew York, cians TO HURRY INSPECTIONS. Albany, Dec. 21.-State Fire Mar- shal Abearn today instructed _ his eight inspectors to complete .by Jan- uary 1 their inspection of all state insiitutions including normal schools, ~ arnrorics. - insane hospitals, - alin® I houses and reformatories.
