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THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURO. PA.
THE COLUMBIAN.
ULOO..ISBURG, PA.
THURSDAY, MAKCII 12, ll'OS.
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C, March 9, 1908.
Senator Tillman made a valiant
fight in the Senate last week to se
cure the adoption of resolution call
ing on the Secretary ot the Treas
ury for information regarding every
loan made by the New York batiks
between Tune t and December 31.
1907. Mr. Tillman was opposed
by Senators Aldrich, Depew and
Hopkins, all of whom wanted it re
ferred to the committee on Finance,
of which Mr. Aldrich is the chair
man, where it will be either per
manently buried or emasculated so
that when it returns to the Senate
it wi l fail wholly of its purpose,
an exposition of the extent to which
the New York banks were aiding
and abetting the stock gamblers.
The week in the House was
characterized by a monumental
piece cf hypocrasy on the part of
the Republicans. Representative
Hefflin of Alabama offered an
amendment to a street car bill for
the District of Columbia, a "Jim
Crow" provision. Mos'. of the
Democrats supported the amend
ment for the conduct of negroes 011
the street cars of the District con
stitutes perhaps the greatest nuis
ance with which its residents have
to put up, but the motion afforded
an opportunity to the Republicans
to assert on the floor of the House
their undying love for the negroes,
an opportunity of which they were
not slow to avail themselves. It is
almost needless to say that the
amendment was defeated.
Perhaps the most powerful speech
made in the House last week was
that of Representative Hitchcock ol
Nebraska who made an eloquent
appeal to the Speaker and the other
Republican leaders to take the tariff
off of wood pulp in order that the
current robbing of the newspaper
publishers by the paper trust might
be stopped. He also referred to the
fact that such a step would go a
long way toward saving the rapidly
vanishing forests of the United
States. Speaker Cannon is, how
ever, violently opposed to this meas
ure and there is not the slightest
chance that any relief will be afford
ed to those who have to buy white
paper, by the members of this Con
gress. It is announced unofficially that
the Finance committee of the Sen
. ate and the Ways and Means com
mittee of the House will secure
authority to sit during the recess of
Congress and to take such steps as
may seem wise with a view to re
vising the tariff next winter. It is,
of course, unlikely that this work
will be undertaken at the short ses
sion but it will probably occur at a
special session to be called by the
next President one year from now.
The President will also cooperate
with the leaders of his party in
Congress by appointing a committee
of Treasury experts to investigate
and prepare a report on such ad
ministrative features of the law as
should, in their judgment, be
altered. Of course the sort of tariff
revision the Republicans will make
can be judged by every reader of
your paper. The McKinley tariff
law furnishes some clew to the sort
of tariff tinkering they call "revi
ion," when almost every schedule
was materially advanced. Mr. Aid
rich, as the head of the committee
on Finance, he who has been term
ed "the High Priest of Protection,"
will be the final arbicer in all ques
tions in dispute, and those who are
familiar with Mr. Aldrich's record
can well appreciate that his maxim
We Hear of Mere Cures
Of troubles originating In Impure blood,
crofuln, loss of npietll cnlarrh, rheuma
tism, by Hood's .Sarsnpnrllln tlmn by all other
so-culled remedies combined. Somehow
those cured by Hood's peem to stay cured,
and they Kladly tell the pood news toothers.
Scrofula Soro "My wife had a scrofu
lous sore on her leg for years. Many differ
ent medicines uave but little benefit. She
turned to Hood's Sarsaparilla and the sore
quickly healed. II Is a irnoil blood medicine,"
J. N. Dait, Crosby, Texas.
Afflicted 10 Years-'Ttood's Sarsapa
rilla has cured me of scrofula, with which I
have been troubled IB years, and caused by
vaccination. My littlo daughter had a
scrofula swelling on her neck and Hood's
Sarsaparilla also cured her." Mkk. Nora
Huohkt. HuKhey, Tennessee.
Hood's Parsnparllla is sold everywhere.
In the usual liquid, or In tablet form called
SarsatabS. 100 Poses One Doll nr. Pre
pared only by C. I. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass.
is always "when in doubt raise tbo
tariff."
Speakincr of tariff revision hv tli
Republicans, some indication of
their probable course is afforded by
a recent interview with Representa
tive Tawney, chairman of the com
mittee on Appropriations, who savs
that the deficit in the national
Ireasurv next veur will amount tr
$150,000,000, and that anychanges
in the tariff schedules must be made
with a view to producing more
revenue. Desnite the fact that
there is this lartre deficit in sitrht.
Speaker Cannon, who has cried
economy every time he has been
asked to permit the nassace of a
really meritorious measure, is en
gineering through the House a
widow's pension bill which will eive
to every woman who married au old
soldier, whether he served ninety
days or three years, a pension of
$12 a mouth. This means an in
crease of the annual pension budget
of $12,000,000 or $15,000,000 a
year. And the worst of this legis
lation is that it will benefit chiefly
women who married old soldiers to
secure their pensions, mauv of them
women of questionable repute.
Most of what might be termed the
deserving widows of the veterans
are already receivine pensions under
the existing law. As one Republi
can senator expressed it, "I sup
pose that Sl;.ooo.ooo is the nrirp
the American people must pay to
grainy uncle Joe Gannon s presi
dential aspirations."
SKIN ERUPTIONS.
Flirt
Many persons are much annoyed
by prickly heat, hives, bolls and
other iWLn eruptions, often at
tended by painful itching and
burning, and sometimes becom
ing obstinate and unsightly sores.
Corpulent people are especially
subject to these maddening in-
y flections all caused by Impure
J blood. Bcromia, Cancer and ail
Mrs. Anna Houck of Calawissa.
served ninety days in jail for keep
ing a pa way house. Now she is in
the toils aeain on the same charce.
She and her husband were both ar
rested by officers of the state con
stabulary last week. Wednesdsv.
They waived a hearing and gave
oau ior their appearance at court.
Bean the fyJ'A Kind Yon Have Always Botifit
Is There a Hole in the Act ?
In the course of an inquiry into
the expenditures of one of the De
mocratic candidates in last year's
campaign in Schylkill county, one
of the judges of t lie court has held
that where money is given out by a
candidate through an agent the
candidate cannot be held responsi
ble if the agent disburses the moiTey
contrary to the candidate's instructions.
If this opinion is correct, says the
Philadelphia rress, it knocks a hole
111 the corrupt practices act which
weakens that measure verv materi
ally and opens the way to much
mischief. It would practically de
stroy one of the most important
purposes of the act. It wits the
clear intention of the law to make
the candidate and committee treas
urer responsible for the expendi
ture ot all the money in a cam
paign, and to prevent them from
using it except lor certain enum
erated purposes.
It is declared in the act that "no
person who is not a candidate, or
the treasurer of a political com
mittee, shall pay, give or lend, or
lend, any money or other valuable
thing, whether contributed by him
self or any other person, for any
election expenses whatever, except
to a candidate or to a political com
mittee." If there is any meaning
to this it is that there shall be no
use of money by anybody but the
candidate and the treasurer of a
political committee. The intent is
to put the entire responsibility upon
them and leave no chance for cor
rupt use of money by unauthorized
persons.
In the Schuykill case the candi
date put $700 in the hand9 of a
citizen, who disbursed it. It was
strictly within the law for the candi
date to put out his money for the
legitimate purposes which the law
specifies, but there is nothing in the
act to empower him to put it in the
hands of an unauthorized person for
disbursement. On the contrary,
the payment of money by such per
sons, except to candidates or treas
urers, is prohibited. If the candi
date could not attend to the ex
penditure in detail it was plainly
his duty to put the matter and the
money in the hands of the treas
urer of his personal or party com
mittee. That was required in order
that the responsibility for the ex
penditure might be fixed and a
proper accounting made.
All responsibility is destroyed it
the view of the Schuylkill judge is
correct. A candidate can give any
one any amount of money he pleases
and not be responsible 'for the use
that is made of it. He may instruct
his agent as to what he shall do
with it, and the agent may know
that such instructions are a mere
matter of form by which he is not
intended to be bound. If that is
permissible the act does not cover
the ground that was. intended ; it
does not prevent the corrupt use of
money.
Undoubtedly, however, the agent,
unless the treasurer of a political
committee, could be held accouuta
ble for paying money to any one
but a candidate or a committee
treasurer, and if the law is enforced
it is the agent in such cases who
will have to look out. Ex.
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SHOWING OF WHITE GOODS
Increase In Traffic.
Philadelphia and Reading rail
way men who are in a position to
quickly note a decrease or increase
of railroad business announce good
news when they state that over the
Catawissa branch of the line there
has been a picking-tip tendency for
several weeks, the change being
gradual, until now the road's
freight business has been about
normal for the first week in March.
It is very little, if any, behind the
freight traffic here in the forepart
of March, 1909.
On Wednesday, for example, the
railroaders state that many of the
freights passing through Newberry
Junction were scheduled for either
two or three section trains. When
they run in any more than a single
section, the railroaders consider the
trains good ones and indicative of
good travel. It is stated that there
are more Reading freights and
more cars to a train in numerous
instances running now than there
were a few weeks ago.
From Newberry Junction, in
addition to the extra sections that
are being sent out some extra
trains have been required to take
care of the increased freight business.
Trespass Notices.
Card signs ''No Trespassing" for
sale at this office. They are print
ed in accordance with the late act
of 1903. Price 5 cents each, tf
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
In the matter of the estate of Kale J.Pope, late
of the Town of Bto-yinnburg, in Vie County
0 Columbia, and Slate of Pemavlvanla,
necrosed :
Notice is hereby Riven that the under
signed, an Auditor appointed by the Or
phans Court of Columbia county, to
make distribution of the funds, in the
hands of V. C. Johnston, Executor of
said deceased, as shown by his first and
final account, filed in said Orphan's
Court, to and among the parties legally
entitled thereto, will sit at his otlice lu
the Mover Building, on Main Street, in
the Town of Bloomsburg aforesaid, on
Friday, the 97th day of March, 1008, at
j k. m. of said day. to perform the duties
of his appointment, and when and where
an persons lnieresieo. in saiu esiuie may
appear and present their claims or be
torever atter cieDarrea trom coming in
upon the said fund.
a-27-ta. CLINTON HERRING,
Auditor.
TW1
We have just placed on sale the
most complete , assortment of
New White Dress Materials we
have ever shownall the new
Plaids, Stripes and Fancy Weaves
from 2l2 cents to 75 centsa yard.
Early buyers are invited to in
spect this stock before making
purchases.
other skin disease, arise from an
Impure state of the blood.
DR. KENNEDY'S
ftfAVQRITE
IT REMEDY
If taken when thene ayruptom. drat appear, will pre
vent .erloue coiiawjueucea. It atrike. at the cause
o( the trouble, by gently opening the bowels, toning
the .touiach, stimulating tlie kuTncys and liver to do
their linKirtant work, and ending lu setting up a
healthy action of the system. It uiny be accented ss
a cure (or all derangements springing from Impure
I blood. Fever aud Ague, Mulurln, Hlieunmtic Gout,
and ail urinary deranguuient. rapidly Improve under
the same treatment. If you have fndigeation, dis
ordered liver, no anuetlte. constipation, fuveiluh
4kln, take Dr. Kennedy'. Favorite hemudy without
delay. Keep It In the bouse when you are borne,
and with you on journey.. Large bottle. $1.00. All
drum; lata.
Write Dr. David Kennedy'. Son., Itondout. N.T.,
for free eainple bottle aud medical booklet. Mention
Uue paper whan you writ.
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