The Ames Enterprise. (Ames, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, December 15, 1905 Page: 3 of 6
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CONGRESSIONAL NEWS
Sill Intrtdoeel Regarding Insurance
Companies
MANY OTHER BILLS IN HOUSE
(Ths Ending of tho First Week of tho
69th Congress Shows Many Bills
Before That Body Besides Regular
Routine Work
- Washington Dec 11 — A bill pro-
viding for the discharge of civil ser-
vice employes who fail to pay debts
contracted for groceries clothing
rent or the services of dentists
physicians or undertakers has been
Introduced by Representative Dixon
of Montana After a government em-
ploye has refused three times to pay
a bill he is to be suspended and if
he falls to pay in three months Is to
be stricken from the roils
After a conference with Secretary
Hitchcock Representative Curtis
chairman of the sub-committee In
charge of Indian Territory legislation
completed the bill for the winding up
f the affairs of the -five civilized
tribes Its most Important provisions
relate to the closing of the rolls the
Issuing of patents to allottees the sale
of the segregated coal and asphalt
lands In the Choctaw and Chickasaw
nations the payment to the Indians
of the funds to their credit in the
treasury and the sale of'lands reserv-
ed for school purposes The bill will
also contain a conservative provision
for the removal of restrictions upon
11 Indian lands except homesteads"
The total area affected by the bill is
about 20 million acres
The Cherokee nation leads the oth-
er four in the total cash deposits in
the treasury as it has $3729000 to
Its credit The Seminolea hold sec-
end place having $2070000 The
Creeks have $1948000 the Chicka-
saws $1200000 and the Choctaws
4827000 However the two last
named tribes are more wealthy than
the others as the segregated coal and
asphalt lands are valued at from ten
to twelve million dollars
Senator Warner will be made a
member ot the committee on military
affairs a place be has bten desiring
to All and will also be assigned to
the committee on Indian affairs
The senate committee on commit-
tees will give away the places here-
tofore filled by Senator Burton of
Kansas and he will be entirely elim-
inated from the organization of the
senate
Washington Dec 9 — Representa-
tive Morrell of Pennsylvania intro-
duced a bill placing insurance com-
panies under the control and super-
vision of the department of com-
merce and labor and a second insur-
ance bill extending the sovereign vis-
ltorlal power to the United States
over life Insurance companies and
other corporations organized under
state laws
Among the bills introduced in the
tiouBe were:
By Representative Murdock of Kan-
sas creating a commission of five
senators and five representatives to
Investigate railway capitalization
‘ By Representative Shackelford of
Missouri to put printing paper and
wood pulp on the free list
Representative Hays of California
received a dispatch from the Japan-
ese and Korean exclusion club of San
Francisco asking him to introduce an
exclusion bill which will be mailed
to him from the club
Senator Perkins introduced a bill
GETS HER PRESENTS AT LAST
Alice Roosevelt’s 27 Boxes Taken to
' White House
Washington Dec 11 — The valuable
presents and trophies of Miss Alice
Roosevelt’s trip to the Orient were
placed in her possession They ar-
rived about five weeks ago but were
given their turn In examination and
appraisement which was concluded
recently A messenger from the
White House-paid the required duty
and a big express van brought the
twenty-seven boxes to the While
House The unpacking began imme-
diately Influenced by Government
8t Petersburg Dec 11 — - Father
Capon was condemned to death by
the tribunal named the Central Revo-
lutionary party Two men were
named to carry out the commission
Recently Gapon argued against a
continuance of the strikes The revo-
lutionary committee declares Gapon
fa Influenced by the government
authorizing Rear Admiral McCalla to
accept decorations tendered him by
the emperor of Germany and the king
of Great Britain He also Introduced
a bill for the purchase of metal and
the coinage of minor coins and the
distribution and redemption of coins
Senator Nelson introduced a bill
providing for a delegate In congress
from Alaska
Senator Beveridge Introduced a bill
providing joint statehood for Oklaho-
ma and Indian Territory and New
Mexico and Arizona The bill is
Identical' with the one introduced In
the house by Representative Hamil-
ton of Michigan
Senator Allison chairman of the
Republican caucus of the senate an-
nounced the personnel of the com-
mittee to fill vacancies pa commit-
tees as follows: Allison chairman
Aldrich CUllom Perkins Clerk of
Wyoming Nelson Spooner Kean and
Beveridge
The board of education of volunteer
soldler8 presented its report to con-
gress and requested that congress de-
cide whether the board shall accept
the California State Home at Yount-
vllle which has been offered to the
government to be used as a branch of
the National Home
During the past fiscal year 63730
veterans were cared for in national
and state homes an Increase ever the
previous year of 1879
Washington Dec 8 — With an op-
portunity for unlimited debate on the
subject of the Panama canal the
house exhausted its oratory on that
subject in a session of four and three-
quarters hours recently The bill ap-
propriating $10500000 for canal work
which was the subject of discussion
will be read for amendment and plac-
ed on its final passage soorf The fea-
ture of the debate was the criticism
indulged in by both Republicans and
Democrats regarding the incomplete-
ness of the statement of expenditures
and estimates furnished by the canal
commission Mr Hepburn in charge
of the bill made some effort to show
that while detailed estimates might
be made satisfactory at the same
time members ot the house were not
in a position to pass critical judgment
on estimates on such work prepared
by expert engineers who held respon-
sible positions and bad been selected
entirely because of tbeir fitness
Dourke Cochran of New York took
decided exception to this attitude on
the part ot Mr Hepburn applied it
as affecting all metiers of appropria-
tion and arranged it as decidedly the
wrong attitudo of legislators To en-
force his argument he read the senti-
ment of the president in his message
for economy and scrutiny of appro-
priations Senator Culberson recently intro-
duced a joint resolution Betting aside
one-half ot the unappropriated public
lands in the Philippines belonging to
the United States to create a perma-
nent free school fund
FRENCH HAVE A SENSATION
Treason Charged to One of Three
Highest Officials
Paris Dec 11 — During a disorderly
session of the chamber of deputies
Flrrain Faure Republican National-
ist made the sensational accusation
that a private dispatch from Paul
Cambon the French ambassador at
London advising the government of
Great Britain’s readiness to make an
accord with France against Germany
to safeguard their common Interests
was communicated to Germany the
day after It was received here al-
though only President Loubet the
then foreign minister M Delcasse
and Premier Rouvler knew of its ex-
istence The premier characterized
M Faure’B assertion as gossip where-
upon tiro deputy responded that it was
a quest! n of high treason At the
request of the premier the discussion
of M Foure’s interpellation wentovei
until after the foreign budget had
been considered
Will Learn to Cook
San Francisco Cal Dec 11 — Cap
lain Henry T Ferguson of the com-
missary department will leave foi
Fort Riley Kan next week to take
a course In the school for cooks and
bakers at that post
HE SLEW HIS FAMILY
William McWilliams Sentenced It
Death In Iowa
Des Moines la Dec 11—' William
McWilliams who pleaded guilty tc
the murder of his wife and five child-
ren a week ago was sentenced to
death nt Independence McWilliams’
crime was one of the most shocking
in the criminal history of the State
He dashed out the hratns ot his wife
and the babe in her arms with a ham-
mer and calling his other children
to him one by one murdered them in
the same manner The only reason
which he has given la “that they were
better off out of the way” In pro-
nouncing the sentence Judge Platt
broke down and wept
HIS REPORT IS MADE
Hlloboiok Says Tint the Department
Empleyes art tat aid
ABOUT LAND FENCING CASES
Telia of Geological Survey’s Reclam-
ation Work — Congressional Dele-
gate Reccommended for Alaska —
Land 8ubject to Homeetead
Washington Dec 11 — Secretary
Hitchcock in his report for the fiscal
year ending June 30 1905 transmit-
ted to congress by the president de
plores the advanced average age of
the employes of the Interior depart-
ment at Washington and - suggests
that It be Oslerized by the passage of
a law providing for their retirement
from duty under suitable conditions
He draws this conclusion from
various censures of the department
of which he says:
On July 1 1903 the number of em-
ployes of the department In Washing-
ton aggregated 41CG of which num-
ber 758 were between 50 and 59 years
of age and 810 60 years and over
The total number of employes of the
department on the first day of July
1905 was 4082 ‘The most recent cen-
sus among the bureaus and offices of
the department is that taken in the
pension office which shows a total of
1634 employes Of this number there
are 516 over 60 yeara of age the aver-
age age of all being 50 years and 3
months -
The public land service was a rev-
enue producer during the last fiscal
year and left in the treasury after
paying all expenses a net surplus of
$502942203 There were disposed
of during the fiscal year public lands
aggregating 17 05G 62227 acres classi-
fied as follows: Cash sales
164665157 miscellaneous entries
embracing homesteads land war-
rants scrip locations state selections
swamp lands railroad and wagon road
selections Indian allotments etc
1533242401 seres and Indian lands
7754669 acres showing an Increase
of 65080032 acres as compared with
the aggregate disposals for the pre-
ceding 'fiscal year ' "
There yet remains a considerable
area of unappropriated and unreserv-
ed public lands in Kansas and Mis-
souri and the territories surveyed
and most of it subject to homestead
entry Missouri has 149039 acres
Kansas 942843 Oklahoma 1983249
The lands of the Indian Territory ail
reserved amount to 19714 5G0 acres
FREE SEED DISTRIBUTION
Quota Apportioned to Kansas
Amounts to Nearly 150000
Washington Dec 11 — Uncle Sam
has commenced the greatest free
seed distribution ever made in the
history of the country Five tons of
vegetable field and flower seeds as
well as plants and bulbs aggregating
nearly forty million packages will be
sent out to the people ot the country
for the mere asking
The quota apportioned to the Kan-
sas delegation in congress amounts to
nearly 150000 packages
Each member of the senate and
house has at his disposal 14000 pack-
ages of vegetable seed 500 of flower
80 packages of lawn grass seed 20
boxes of bulbs 10 packages contain-
ing fifteen strawberry plants each 8
packages containing eight grape
vines
The distribution will be made in
Kansas between March 1 and April
30
OVERLAND LIMITED WRECKED
Ten Killed and Nineteen Injured in
the Crash
A
Omaha Neb Doc 11 — Ten per-
sons were killed and nineteen Injur-
ed eleven of them railroad employes
and eight passengers by a head-on
collision on the Union Pacific railroad
between a freight train and Overland
Limited passenger train No 2 east-
bound five miles west of Rock
Springs Wyo Five of the bodies of
the dead were burned beyond recog-
nition in a fire which destroyed the
mail car the combination dynamo-
baggage car and tbo dining car Two
of theso aro known to be mail clerks
and the other three were cooks who
were sleeping lu tho diner
Washington Dec 11 — The house
took up the canal appropriation bill
Williams of Mississippi offered an
amendment cutting the amount to
$6858330 explaining that this sum
would tide the commission over until
January 1
WOMAN IS HAN6ED
Maintained Har Staelal ladlfftraaat
tatkaaad
Windsor Vt Dec 11 — Without a
tremor and without a woad Mrs
Mary Mabel Rogers marched to her
death on the gallows at the state
prison here and paid the penalty for
murdering her husband Marcus Rog-
ers at Bennington on August 13
1902 To all appearances Mrs Rog-
ers was tbs calmest person in the
chamber of death 8he faced her end
with the same stoical Indifference
that had marked her demeanor ever
Blnce her arrest more than three
years ago
Greatly to the relief of those offi-
cials who were assisting in executing
the sentence Mary Rogers’ last hour
was remarkably free from harrowing
incidents It had been feared that the
woman’s wonderful nerve would de-
sert her at the final moment and that
she would be carried to the scaffold
in a state of collapse Instead Mrs
Rogers met death bravely
HUGHES MAKES SUGGESTION
Th’nkt It Fully Selllti Rallread Rata
Queetlen
Denver Colo Dec 11 — Colonel W
E Hughes president of the Conti-
nental Trust Company who presided
over the sessions of the interstate
commerce law convention recently
held in Chicago arrived in the city
from SL Louis Colonel Hughes was
unable to continue hia journey to
Washington owing to a severe cold
but sent to President Roosevelt and
to the executive committee of the
interstate commerce law association
the following suggestion:
“I have but one suggestion to make
— that we ask an addition to existing
laws giving power to the interstate
commerce commission when a rate
has been challenged and after full
hearing found by the commission un-
reasonable unjust or discriminative
that this rate be by the committee at
once suspended and the railroad re-
quired under the full penalties of the
act to within ten days substitute an-
other rate to be first approved by the
commission This leaves the rate-
making powers with the railroads
gives us all we ask for and in my
opinion meets fully all constitutional
and legal objections raised”
COUNLWUILGlVESJUk
Sends Hit Resignation But Emperor
Refuse Is Accept
Harbin Manchuria Dec 11 — (via
Warsaw) Many officers are being
killed by rebellious troops Reserve
officers are not permitted to return
home All messages from Manchuria
are censored
Berlin — A dispatch to the Berlin
Tageblatt from SL Petersburg dated
recently received here by way of
Eydtkuhnen East Prussia says
Premier Witte has given his resigna-
tion to the Emperor who refused to
accept IL
A dispatch to the Berlin Lokal An-
zeiger from Lodz Russian Poland
says the soldiers In the barracks
there are excited and are holding
meetings and discussing the situ
tlon
DEATH ENDS CASE
Senator Mitchell Had Just Paid 4850
for Printing Record
Washington Dec 11 — The case
against Senator Mitchell which had
been appealed to the supreme court
of the United States will abate by
reason ot his death He had Just
paid $850 to the clerk of the court for
the printing of the record in the case
but as the work had not been order-
ed the money will he refunded to his
estate
Korean Prince III
Washington Dec 11 — Prince Min
Yun Eng Tchan the former minister
of Korea to France who has comi to
this country to try to influence the
American government in favor of his
country and to protest against the
protectorate by Japan over Korea has
not yet visited the state department
or taken any steps to have an inter-
view with Secretary RooL He is still
in his apartment in the Arlington ho-
tel In this city and too ill to receive
any callers His indisposition is
mostly caused by the sudden shock
he receved when Informed of the
death ot his brother - 1
For Irrigation Tax
Washington Dec 11 — Congress-
man Reeder will introduce a bill Im-
posing a special yearly tax ot 10 cents
an acre on all land irrigated By the
government's projects for the plant
Ing of trees on watersheds around re-
servoirs and along ditches the pur-
pose la to hold the rainfall and pro
vent erosions
Want Libraries Open Late
There is a growing demand la NiV
York City that Che public libraries be'
kept open after 9 o’clock at night
so that those whose days are filled
with work can have access to books
more than two hours out of every
twenty-four The system under which
the two main reference libraries the
Astor and Lenox and the thirty-four
circulating branches in Manhattan
the Bronx and Richmond are now
conducted makes practically Inacces-
sible to the great mass of worker
the 650000 volumes of these two main
libraries ""
Morocco City Blovo Market
In Marrakesh (Morocco City) tho
slave market is held three times n
week n the two hours that precede
the setting of the sun and the dosing
of the city gates The market place
is an open space of bare dry ground
hemmed In with walla and with a
ruinous arcade stretching along the
center The - wealthy patrons seat
themselves on the ground and the
auctioneer after a prayer to Allah
marches his wares round and round
the Inclosure receiving bids as bo
goes
Tennessee Pralee
Dayton Tenn Dec 11th (Special)
—Among many prominent resident
to praise Dodd’ Kidney Pills is Mr
N R Roberts of this place He tells
ot what they have done for him and
his words will go deep into the hearts—
of all who are suffering-in the' same
way He says: —
“I was s martyr to Kidney Trouble
bat Dodd’s Kidney Pills completely
cured me I shall always keep them
on hand In case there should be any
return of the old trouble but I am
thankful to say they did their work
so well there has not been the slight-
est sign of my old complaint coming
back The pain in my back used to
be terrible If I got down I had a
bard job to get straight again - But
my back Is like a new one now and I
can stoop as much as I please I don’t
believe there ever was any medicine
half so good as Dodd’s Kidney Pills”
Youth Is dangerous because It
thinks It knows everything it gnesssa
aL -J
AN AWFUL SKIN HUMOR
Covered Head Neck and Shoulder-
' Suffered Agony for Twenty-fiva
Years Until Cured by
Cuticura
- 'Tor twenty-five years I suffered eg
pnytrom alorrible humor complete-
y covering my head necx ano snwi—-
ders discharging matter of such of-
fensiveness to sight and smell that 1
became an- object of dread I con-
sulted the most able doctors far and
near to no avaiL Then I got Cuti-
cura and in a surprisingly short time
I was completely cured- For this I
thank Cuticura and advise all those
suffering from skin humors to get It
and end tlleir misery at once 8 P
Keyes 149 Congress Street Boston
Mass” -
It Is Impossible for some men to
associate with their inferiors
TO cnRK A COtD n OX DAT
Tk LAXATIVE BKOMO Qulnln Tablet Drm
flsti nfstd money if It fslli to euro I W
OKOVK B ntfuoturo U oo each koi So
A fellow may feel that be Is always
right until he Is left
Ask Your Druggist for Alien's Foot-Eas
“I tried ALLEN’S FOOT-EASE reeent
fy mi have just bought another supply It
pa cured my corns and the hot burning
and Itching sensation in my feet which was
almost unbearable and I would not be with-
out it now’’— Mrs Vi J Walker Camden
NJ” Sold by all Druggists 250
Some women are so curious they
will listen to advice just to find out
whkt It’s like
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There isn’t anything that grows la
summer any faster than the pile ef
tin cans in the back yard in winter
Every housekeeper should know that
If they will buy Defiance Cold Water
Starch for laundry use they will save
not only time because It never sticks
to the Iron but because each package
contains 16 oz— one full pound — while
all other Cold Water Starches are pat
np In -pound packages and the price
Is the same 10 cents Then again
because Defiance Starch is free from
all injurious chemicals If your grocer
tries to sell you a 12-os package It
Is because he has a stock on hand
which he wishes to dispose ot before
ho puts In Defiance He knows that
Defiance Starch has printed on every
package in large letters and figures
”16 oss” Demand Defiance and save
much time and money and th annoy
sues of the iron sticking Deflaaog
navar sticks
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