2 CAMEKON COUNTY PRESS. H. H. MULUN. Editor I'nhlislMMl Kvcry Thursday. TKHMS OK SIII.S cents per line lor each .subsequent con ceuttye Insertion. Obituary notices over five lines 10 cents per line. Simple announcements of births, mat • i riages anil death* will be inserted fr< " liusiuess cards, Ave lines or less *6 P'r year ( over live lines, at the regular rates of ailver tiklng. No local inserted for less than . > cents pet Issue. JOB PRINTING. The Job department of the PHESS Iscomplcte | and affords faeiltti- for doiua the best class of » l-li I' M.i KTI.AR ITItX I lUS TAIUTO LAW Phtvun . No pan r will be discontinued unt.l arrear ages arc paid, except at the option of the pub* Gite l'apers sent out of the county must be paid | (or io advance. ' Auto-Agriculture. Automobile dealers report heavy «ales in the west, particularly among farmers. One eastern firm claims to have sold one thousand machines in a single week. Other manufacturers make similar statements, giving small er figures but agreeing that the auto mobile i?» rapidly being adopted, not only for pleasure but for business, by the tillers of the soil. The automo bile is said to be particularly popular iu rural sections of Illinois, where a great #lo;.ina < > ... NO CONTROL Over Insurance or Other State Corporations BY GOVERNMENT. (his Is the Conclusion Reached b> the judiciary Committee of the House. ______ Washington, I). C.- That there is Ino constitutional authority for fed eral control of insurance or other state i corporations other than railroads, is to be the conclusion reported to the i house by the judiciary committee. I The report has been drafted by Chair- I man Jenkins, of the committee, and | is now in the hands oT members of the committee for their perusal. An un official poll of the members of the ; committee indicates that with practlc i ally no exceptions they concur in the | correctness of this conclusion. The ! report of Mr. Jenkins may therefore be taken as the basis of the answer the committee is to make to the house in compliance with the instructions of that. body. The report collates all of the im portant court decisions on the ques tions involved, treats each exhaus tively and reduces the whole prob lem to these two principles. "The su preme court of the United States has declared, and lias never been shaken or weakened in maintaining, first, that insurance is not. commerce, and, second, that congress cannot im pair the police powers of the states." The advocates of the federal regu lation concede, according to there- I port, that insurance is not commerce. "The supreme court,"the report says, "has had great difficulty in marking the boundary line in each case as il has arisen between the power of the state and the commerce clause of the federal constitution. "In each case, jealously protecting each power as they came in conflict and not until now, in a moment of ex citement and intense interest, has it ever been suggested that congress can impair the police power of the states.' The report sets forth section 8 ol article 1 of the constitution as confer ring the only power possessed by con gress to regulate commerce. "The question as to whether or not insur ance is commerce has passed beyond the realm of argument, because tin supreme court of the United States has saiii many times for a great num. ber of years that insurance is not j commerce." MEAT PACKERS HAPPY. They Are Granted Immunity fror» Criminal Prosecution as Individu- ! als, but Indictments Against Cor porations Are to Stand. Chicago, 111. All the meai packers who were indicted by a fed > eral grand jury last summer or 1 charges of conspiracy in restraint o 1 inter state trade and commerce Wed nesday were granted immunity fron criminal prosecution under the indict ment. While the individuals are to gc free, the indictments found against the corporations, of which some o: the indicted packers are members anc others are employes, are to stand. A decision to this effect was handed I I down Wednesday afternoon by Judge Humphrey in the United States dis ! trict court. The corporations which must statu* ; trial are: Armour Packing Co.. Cud i ahy Packing Co., Fairbanks Canning Co. and Swift & Co. STILL UNSETTLED. No Decision Is Reached by Joint Scale Committee of Miners and Operators. Indianapolis, Ind. —The joint scale j I committees of the joint confer ence of coal operators and miners of the central competitive and of the southwest districts were in session al most all of Wednesday, but no agree | ment was reached. The committees of the central com- I petitive field, composed of Illinois, In diana, Ohio and western Pennsylvania, ! devoted its session to a discussion of i the Illinois "shot firers' " law, which | the operators of that state asserted ! unjustly discriminated against them, j as it adds an expense of from 2 to 10 j cents on each ton of mined coal. The | miners' representatives on the com mittee refused to make any declara | tion on the subject, and asked for a re- ! j cess until Thursday morning that they might caucus. Congressional. Washington.—The senate on the 21st devoted the day io consideration of the railroad rate bill. Mr. Culber son presented an amendment prohibit ing corporations coming under the op eration of the proposed law from mak ing campaign contributions. The ; house adjourned out of respect to the late Representative Patterson, of , Pennsylvania. Dank Cashier Suicides. ¥*i 11 I. ur •, Pa. Claude A. Mitch ell, aged 55, assistant cashier of tlb- Bradford national bank, Bradford, l'a., committed suicide Wedn< -day evenlnw in this cltv, by shooting hlm- If ihrourh the right temple. Tem ! porary insanity I the supposed : cause. Wages Advanced. Pin !nirg, Pa Trainmen In tlt« Monoituahela ill vi- ion of the Penn sylvania railroad were notified Wed. r>< silay of mi ad iner of ivayei amounting to about I<> per eeut. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1906. BLUFFS ON THE TARIFF. | American "Btand-PatteiV Ready to "Show Their Hands" nt Any Time. "The now German tariff, which will become effective March 1, ii seems, is threatened to place the 'stand patters' under the disagreeable necessity of showing their hands," says I lie Chi cago Daily News. Yet the "stand-patters" are the only ones who have laid their hands down 1 on the table, face up. The other fcl- j lows are the mysterious, close-mouthed men with poker faces who refuse to divulge their wants or to explain what they hold in their hands, replies the Milwaukee Sentinel. Also, there are few of them that will agree with their fellows as to the programme to be fol-j lowed. For instance, the Daily News and j others of its kind would revise pro- j tection out of the tariff schedules alto- | gcther, but they all insist that they j would not do the job In a manner to j injure American industries. They! have a scheme hidden away somewhere I by which they can do all this. Then there are the Republican re visers that have determined to revise j the tariff in such a manner that all the objections urged to protectionism by the Democrats will be removed without in any way endangering the protection accorded to American la bor and capital. These people do not even pretend to know how it is to be done —they merely want to do it. Again, there are the "selling cheap er abroad than at liome" hysterical pa tients. They have read the Demo cratic stories concerning this alleged evil and have believed them. To the end that the reported nefarious prac tice may be stopped instantly they would reduce or remove the import duties from all articles manufactured by firms or corporations that "dump" their surplus products in foreign mar kets. But they are not prepared to prove their case, having accepted hear say evidence as conclusive and de manded a verdict without further in vestigation. Finally, there are the Republicans who are afraid that if the tariff law is not revised the Republican party will he defeated in some coming campaign. They wag their heads wisely and pre tend that their sharp prophetic vision which apprehends defeat is a warrant for the party that has always stood for protectionism to change its princi ples and scuttle the ship that has borne them safely through many a storm. Amid all this confusion the "stand patters" are standing pal. They are the men who know where they are at and why they are there. All the world, too, knows what the "stand patters" stand for. In the circum stances it would appear to be in bad taste for the Daily News to talk about making the "stand-patters" show their hands. SURPLUS IS REPUBLICAN. Healthy Condition of the Treasury Through the Protective Principle. For the fiscal year that began July 1 last the government receipts are now ahead of expenditures. The surplus at the end of last month was $1,102,003. Yet $12,000,000 has been spent 011 pub lic works this year, mainly on Panama canal account. A payment of more than $60,000,000 on that great enterprise explains all but an inconsiderable part of the deficit since May 1, 1904. It is u good time, says the St. Louis Globe- Democrat, to look back over the financial record of the Republic ans since they resumed control of the treasury nine years ago, a period including the Spanish war. j The years of deficit during the nine I years ending with June 30 last give a total of $211,756,482. The years of sur | plus in the same time have a total of $302,830,087. The net surplus since the j Republicans returned to power in 18U7 ' is $91,073,605. It is a great showing when it is re membered that a war was fought with Spain and one in the Philippines, that a large payment was made to Spain for the islands, and that $00,000,000 cash j has thus far been drawn from the j treasury for Panama expenditures. During nearly all these years the Ding- Icy tariff has been in operation. Its practical wisdom has baen abundantly proved in war and peace, in an era of remarkable territorial and industrial expansion, and of great public under takings. It is easy to stand pat on such results. Government expenses increase i continually, but the Dingley tariff has i kept up with the demands and is bring ing in more leventie this year than the treasury officials predicted. The war ; taxes were repealed so long ago that I they are almost forgotten. Republican.-, can point with honest pride to their government balance sheet. r- Former Judge Parker has been giv ing the Democrats advice at Jackson, Miss. There is no hint In Judge Parker's ! speech, however, that indicates an in tention on bis part to run again.—Chi cago Record-Herald. c ■■ Important data is furnished in the annual report of the Philippine com mission, but the real facts will not be known until Datto Bryan shall be heard from. St. Louis Globn-Lcnuvrat. r. American prosperity i. not a myth to be ilemoll; bed b> free n- i!e (login; It is a substantial reality. To say that it could be more extensive under a rev enue tariff or free trade Is only a spee uletive proportion on whi-lt greater mind < than that of Gov. Folk ha\ e hon" tly differed, with the consen: v of intelligent opinion In fuvor ot eoniin iiim? under the prelum system. - Kan;., , City Jouruul. PEOPLE WITH PRESIDENT. ! Sure to Win in the Battle Against j Oppressive Distinctions in Commerce. The railroad rate regulation bill, which passed the house of representa tives with only seven dissenting votes, will also pass the senate. The irresist ible momentum of this Itill, says the 1 Troy Times, comes from the fact that | the people want it, and in forwarding it 1 the president has again shown himself ! to be the popular leader. The rate regulation bill was made a j non-partisan measure in the house of J representatives, both the Republican and Democratic parties giving substan-I tially their entire strength to its sup- j port. The non-partisan feature has not been lost in the senate. The fact that under the guidance of a Democrat it comes out of a committee whose major- ! ity is Republican, does not mean so much division in one party as union of both in support of a measure which has the earnest advocacy of the president and the approbation of the people. The discussion on the floor of the senate j may elicit some amendments that will improve the form of the bill, but in its , substance it will pass by an Invincible 1 majority. The railroad companies themselves are beginning to see that it is not wise to oppose a bill which some of the rail road presidents personally have de clared to be just and in the public in terest. It will not be a bad thing for the corporations themselves to be pro tected against discriminating practices which muddle the whole business or j transportation and are often unpleas ant boomerangs. It is undeniable that the people are with President Roosevelt in this battle against oppressive distinctions in com mercial intercourse, and that the same responsiveness to the popular will that greeted the Hepburn bill in the house will eventually adopt that measure in the senate. President Roosevelt's way of doing things is still victorious, be cause liis purpose is to do only those things that are right. REDUCTION OF WAGES. Revision of the Taiiff Would Fall Most Heavily Upon the Working Masses. President Roosevelt's repudiation of their ridiculous claims has dealt a death blow to the hopes of the tariff re visionists. It has left them without | what they had intended to use as their j principal argument, though it is to be 1 doubted if even the frown of the presi ; dent would be sufficient to change the Dingley taiiff law, supported, as it is, by the almost unanimous voice of the American people, to whom it has brought an era of unexampled prosper ity in direct contrast to the hard times suffered under the last Di noeratic regime. Tariff revision as urged to-day, says the Portsmouth (N. H.) Chronicle, is tariff reduction. The inevitable result 1 of tariff reduction is price reduction. This, indeed, is its principal aim. Price reduction is followed by home wage re duction. What, then, is tariff revision but wage reduction? Luckily, not even inferential agree | ment is accorded the tariff rippers by ! the president. Instead of this, they get I an actual rebuff, which not even thn ! thickest-skinned of them all can fail to . understand. They wince, and it is well ; for the country's interests that they are I made to do so. The Massachusetts "Republicans" have been crediting the president with holding tariff revision ideas, but we think they will shut up now, if they have the slightest regard for the truth. This is President Roosevelt's view, | expressed in his own words: "There is more need of stability than of an I attempt to attain ideal perfection in the methods of raising revenue." SOME POLITICAL POINTERS. tnJ'The Democrats have made striking gains in Maine, but the Republicans al ways jolly them along like that just be fore congressional and presidential etec ! tions. —Washington Post. irrGreat prosperity in the foreign trade, enormous activity in the domes tic trade, and all without smashing the tariff! How can it be? Are the fates conspiring against Democratic free traders and Republican revisionists? It would seem so.—American Econo mist. r. -'Cov. Folk's free trade speeches are not received with enthusiasm by the farmers of the west, who remember that during the last Democratic admin j i > t ration sheep were sold for 25 cents ! each, and horses were turned adrift in 1 the northwest because they had no marketable value. —St. Louis Globe i Democrat. r The president Is deeply anxious . for a law which will afford a remedy for the evils of railroad discrimination and abuses. 111 this he reflects a great and earnest public sentiment, of which he hits mtir'e himself the vigorous champion. But what he wants is the result, and he is not bound up with any particular measure.—Pittsburg Press. r - On all hands the country sees the old-time evidences of Republican pros perity.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. i Our fi'co trade friends are doomed to another disappointment. They were . ure thai it we diii not throw down our tariff bars German;, yoiil.l exclude our goods. Germany lit: cute protection of her own and roeoj il/ea the value of the > -u'tn. Sin* canii't fairly nsk anothei .iiintry to rlli tfeguiwds in :n ,cr to ere 1 mra; ■ ■ • ■ v- m' < «• n:ui rodn t- i'o : lie ictaln hor con*hi. en 1 > and her friendly altitude tint I puts he I'alied States cu the s .trie footing as othciß.—Troy Tiiuea. MANY DEAD In a West Virginia Mine Explosion. 15 BODIES FOUND Twenty-five Injured and From 25 to 75 Missing and Believed to Be Dead. Fairmont, W. Va. —An explosion of gas in the mine of the Cen tury Coal Co. at Century, a small mining town 50 miles south of here on the Philippi and Buckhannon branch of the Baltimore & Ohio at \ o'clock j Thursday afternoon entombed at least 150 miners, many of whom are believ ed to be dead. At C o'clock 15 men were taken from the mine, five of whom were dead and the rest terribly Injured. A relief gang, headed by Snperln- ! tendent John Ward, entered the mine at 6:30, but since that time nothing can be heard from the accident, as the telephone wires have been put out by storms and no other means of com munication are available. The mine is owned by Shaw Broth ers, of Baltimore, and is one of the largest in northern West Virginia. Two hundred and fifty men are em ! ployed, but many of these came out ' before the explosion took place. Following the explosion relief trains were run from Buckhannon and Phil ippi, taking physicians to the scene, i These have not returned, and until they do little in detail will be learned of the accident. A telephone message from Century at 10 o'clock Staled that six dead and ten injured men had been taken from j the mine at that time. Superintend- ; 1 ent Ward at that hour stated he did I not believe there were over 20 more j men dead in the mine. One hundred \ and fifty of the 250 men employed j have been found on the outside, j having quit work before the explosion \ occurred. The main heading has been cleared, ' but there are 14 sub-headings yet to j jbe explored. It is feared that none | of the men still in the mine are alive, having been killed in the sub-head j ings. The mine is not seriously dam | aged by the explosion, except that the j brattices have been blown out. The | cause of the explosion is not known j | at this time. At 11 o'clock 27 men had beer 1 taken out of the Century mine. Nine j are dead and the others horribly in j jurod. One of the officials at. that : hour stated that he believed ther j were 12 men in the mine still and al j dead. A telephone message from Philippi I early Friday morning says that the ; last report from Century places the j j number of dead at 15, 25 injured and i from 25 to 75 missing and believed to j i he dead. Congressional. Washington.—The railroad rate bill ' occupied nearly all the time of the senate on the 23d, Mr. Lodge and Mr. Spooner speaking on the bill. Mr. j Lodge spoke In advocacy of his j amendment looking to the enlarge- J | ment of the inter-state commerce j commission, and Mr. Spooner on the constitutional powers of the inferior j courts, contending that those courts 1 | could not be destroyed nor their pow- | I ers taken from them. In the house j the statehood bill was taken from the j speaker's table, placed in the hands i of three selected conferees and a re quest made of the senate for a con frence on the disagreeing votes of the two houses. In Favor of Interference by State. Chicago, 111. —A committee ap I pointed in Chicago last February at \ a conference of governors, attorney j generals and insurance commissioners | with instructions to prepare for adop- j tion by the states forms of laws for the better regulation of life insurance j companies, concluded deliberations { Thursday and adjourned after declar j ing itself in favor of interference by j the state in the internal affairs of the insurance company and in favor of a standard policy. Snowbound for Twelve Days. Durango, Col. —After being snow, bound for 12 days on the lofty summit of Cumbres Pass, at the crest of the San Juan range, 50 miles from the nearest town, a Denver & Ric Grande train containing 50 passengers arrived in Alamosa Thursday. The train left Durango on March 10 and became stalled that ninht. Snow con tinued falling day after day until it lay on the level higher than the smoke stack of the locomotive. Says Claim Is a Just One. Washington, D. C. —Speaker Can non received a letter Thursday from Secretary Root, urging that the ' bill appropriating $77,712 to reimburse ! the French Cable Co. for losses sus I | tallied by the cutting of its cables In j Cuba in the Spanish-American war be passed. Mr. Root says the claim is | Just. Threatened with Dsath. Pittsburg, l*a. Controller John 11. I.arkin received u postal card Thursday making a threat against his ! life. The card was mailed in Alle gheny and ovhh ntly written by a for 1 eigne i'. It stairs that the writer will! cull upon the controller In a day or two and kill him. Favor an Old Age Pension. St. Johns. N. F. Tho colonial lr | laturc lias unanimously adopt led a r "lotion favoring old age j pensions, tl> it mis of the grunt to bu 1 determined by a cotumlnsion. ] Pennsylvania K \ 11.It O A I). PHILADELPHIA AND ERIB HAIL ROAD DIVISION. In effect May 28. 1905. TRAINS LEAVE EMPORIUM EASTWARD 810 A. M. Sundays only I'<>r Rcnovo ana Week days for Suniitiry. WllkPHbarre, Hi ran on, llu/leton, Pottsville, Hitrrishurg end iiiteruiediatCHtations, arnv.nK at Phlladelp na. Mi P.M., New Tork I.SO P. If.. Baltimore 6 oi> P. M., Washing to J 7.15 P. M. Pu'lnian Parlorcar from Williamsport to Philai'.lphia, and r.dssi-iigcr coaches from K Smethpori I Arr. 2.20 p, in.,) connecting for Bradford (Arr. 3.30 p. in., l Eldred (Arr. 2.49 p.m.,) Olean (Arr. 3.40 p. in.,) connecting for Buffalo (Arr. 6.10 p. M.,) Bolivar (Arr. 8.33 p. in.. l Friendship (Arr. 4.08 p. in.,)' Angelica lArr. 4.34 p. nv.) Hornellsville (Alt. 6.10 p. ai„ Wayland (Arr. 7.23 p. M.,) con necting at Wayland witli I). 1.. A W. 11. R.. end at Horntllsvillo with Erie R. R., for all points East and West, 1.46 P. XI. For Kersey (Arr. 3.28 p. m.,) Elbon (Arr. 4.00 p. m.,! Shawmut (Arr. 4.22 p. m.,) Brock way v Ille i Arr. 147 p. ni„) connecting wiiii I'. B. R.. for Falls Creek iArr. h.lO p. m.,i Dußois Arr. 5.25 p. m.,) Biookville (Arr. 6.00 p. ui.,l and Pittsburg (Arr. t.'JC p. ni.) ARRIVE. 11.06 A. SI. 1 Prom Brockwayviile. fthan nuil 6 50 P. Sl.* Klbon. Kersev and Byrneilale. 1.46 P. M From Waylaml, lloriiellsvllli', ''an a«eraga. Angelic:', Krivntlsbip, Bolivar. Buf falo, Bradford, Olean Eldred, buu-ttipurt and Clermont All tra:i. • ilai'.y except Sunday A.M. I.SNE, C. J. ItRNWIRK, Um'l Supt. Geu. Pass, Agent. St. Slarya. I'enua. HodoS EyspopoEa G-jrc Oigo»i« what yo*