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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS
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TED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS
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PROVAL OR REJECTION, BY THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYL
VANIA, AND PUBLISHED BY OR
DER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH, IN PURSU
ANCE OF ARTICLE XVIII OF THE
CONSTITUTION.
Number One.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to article
nine, section four, of the Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, authorizing the State to
issue bonds to the amount of fifty
millions of dollars for the improve
ment of the highways ot the Com
monwealth. Section 1. Be It resolved by th
Senate and House of Representative
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
In General Assembly met, That the
following amendment to the Constitu
tion of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania be, and the same is hereby, pro
posed, in aevcordance with the eigh
teenth article thereof:
That section four ot article nine,
which reads as follows:
"Section 4. No debt shall be creat
ed by or on behalf of the State, ex
cept to BUpply casual deficiencies of
revenue, repel invasion, suppress in
surrection, defend the State in war, or
to pay existing debt; and the debt
created to supply deficiency in rev
enue shall never exceed, in the aggre
gate at any one time, ono million of
dollars," he amended so as to read as
follows:
Section 4. No debt shall be created
by or on behalf of the State, except
to supply casual deficiencies or rev
enue, repel invasion, suppress insur
rection, defend the State in war, or to
pay existing debt; and the debt creat
ed to Bupply deficiencies in revenue
shall never exceed, in the aggregate
at any ona time, one million of dol
lars: Provided, however, 'mat the
General Assembly, irrespective of any
debt, may authorize the State to issue
bonds to the amount of fifty millions
of dollars for the purpose ot improv
ing and rebuilding the highways of
the Commonwealth.
A true copy ot Joint Resolution
No. 1.
ROBERT MCAFEE,
Secretary ot the Commonwealth.
Number Two.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
seven, article three of the Constitu
tion of Pennsylvania, so as to per
mit Epccial legislation regulating
labor.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in General Assembly met, That the
following is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ac
cordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof. Amend
ment to Article Three, Section Seven.
Section 2. Amend section seven,
article three of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as fol
lows: "Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension, or
impairing of liens:
"Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts: '
"Changing the names ot persons or
places:
"Changing the venue In civil or
criminal cases:
"Authorizing the laying out, open
ing, altering, or maintaining roads,
highways, streets or alleys:
"Relating to ferries or 'bridges, or
incorporating ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection ot bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and any other
State:
"Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
"Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public grounds not of the State:
"Authorizing the adoption or legiti
mation of children:
"Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties, or changing
county lines:
"Incorporating cities, towns, or vil
lages, or changing their charters:
"For the opening and conducting of
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting:
"Granting divorces:.
"Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits, or school districts:
"Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughB, townships, elec
tion ot school districts:
"Changing the law of descent or
succession:
"Regulating the practice or juris
diction of, or changing the rules of
evidence in, any Judicial proceeding
or inquiry before courts, aldermen,
justices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery, or other 'tribunals, or
providing or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of judgments, or prescribing the effect
of judicial sales ot real estate:
"Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
justices of tha peace, magistrates or
constables:
"Regulating the management of
public schools, the building or repair
ing of school houses and the raising
ot money for such purposes:
"Fixing the rate of interest:
"Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties In interest,
to be recited in the special 'enact
ment: Remitting fines, penalties tind for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid into tho treasury:
"Exempting property from taxation:
"Regulating labor, trade, lnioing or
manufacturing:
"Creating corporations, or amend
ing, renewing or extending the chart
ers thereof:
"Granting to any corpcu-atloo, asso
elation or Individual any special or ex
clusive privilege or Immunity, or to
any corporation, association or Indi
vidual the right to lay down a railroad
track.
"Nor shall tfce General Assembly In
directly enact such special or local
law by the partial repeal of a general
law; but laws repealing local or spec
ial acts may be passed:
"Nor shall any law be passed grant
ing powers and privileges in any case
where the granting ot such powers
and privileges shall have been provid
ed for by general law, nor where tho
courts have jurisdiction to grant the
same or give the relief asked for."
no as to read as follows:
Section 7. The General Assembly
shall not pass any local or special law
authorizing the creation, extension or
impairing ot liens:
Regulating the affairs of counties,
cities, townships, wards, boroughs, or
school districts:
Changing the names of persons oi
places:
Changing the venue in civil or crim
inal cases:
Authorizing the laying out, opening,
altering, or maintaining roads, high
ways, streets or alleys:
Relating to ferries or bridges, or ln;
corporatlng ferry or bridge compan
ies, except for the erection of bridges
crossing streams which form bounda
ries between this and other States:
Vacating roads, town plats, streets
or alleys:
Relating to cemeteries, graveyards,
or public groundB not of the State:
Authorizing the adoption, or legiti
mation of children:
Locating or changing county-seats,
erecting new counties or changing
county lines:
Incorporating cities, towns or vill
ages, by changing their charters:
For the opening and conducting ot
elections, or fixing or changing the
place of voting.
Granting divorces:
Erecting new townships or bor
oughs, changing township lines, bor
ough limits or school districts:
Creating offices, or prescribing the
powers and duties of officers in coun
ties, cities, boroughs, townships, elec
tion or school districts:
Changing the law of descent or suc
cession: Regulating the practice or Jurisdic
tion of, or changing the rules of evi
dence in, any judicial proceeding or
inquiry before courts, aldermen, jus
tices of the peace, sheriffs, commis
sioners, arbitrators, auditors, masters
in chancery or other tribunals, or pro
viding or changing methods for the
collection of debts, or the enforcing
of Judgments, or prescribing the ef
fect of Judicial sales of real estate:
Regulating the fees, or extending
the powers and duties of aldermen,
Justices of the peace, magistrates or
constables:
Regulating the management of pub
lics Bchools, the building or repairing
of school houses and the raising of
money for such purposes:
Fixing the rate of interest:
Affecting the estates of minors or
persons under disability, except after
due notice to all parties in interest,
to be recited in the special enact
ment: Remitting fines, penalties and for
feitures, or refunding moneys legally
paid into the treasury:
Exempting property from taxation:
Regulating labor, trade, mining or
manufacturing; but the legislature
may regulate and fix the wages or
salaries, the hours of work or labcr,
and make provision for the protection,
welfare and safety ot persons employ
ed by the State, or by any county,
city, borough, village, or other civil di
vision ot the State, or by any contract
or or sub-contractor performing work,
labor or services for the State, or for
any county, city, borough, town, town
ship, school district, village or other
civil division thereof:
Creating corporations, or amending,
renewing or extending the charters
thereof:
Granting to any corporation, asso
ciation, or individual any special or
exclusive privilege or immunity, or
to anv corporation, association, or in
dividual the right to lay down a rail
road track:
Nor shall the General Assembly in
directly enact such Bpecial or local
law by the partial repeal ot a special
law; but laws repealing local or spec
lau acts may be passed:
Nor Bhall any law be passed grant
Inir nowers or privileges In anv case
where the granting ot such powers
and privileges shall have been pro
vided for by general law, nor where
the courts -have jurisdiction to grant
the same or give the relief asked for.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 2.
ROBERT McAFEE.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Three.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION.
roposlng an amendment to section
three of article eight of the Consti
tution of Pennsylvania.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth Ctf Pennsylvania (If the
Senate concur), That the following Is
proposed as an amendment to tho Con
stitution of the Commonwealth of
l'nnnsvlvnnln in nccordance with the
provisions of tho eighteenth article
thereof:
Section 2. Amend section three of
article eight, which reads as follows:
"All judges elected by the electors of
the State at large may be elected at
either a general or municipal election,
as circumstances may require. All
tho elections for judges of the courts
for the several judicial districts, aud
for county, city, ward, borough, and
township officers, for regular terms ot
service, shall be held on the municipal
election day; namely, the Tuesday
next following the first Monday of No
vember in each odd-numbered year,
but the General Assembly may by law
fix a different day, two-thirds of all
the members of each House consent
ing thereto: Provided, That such
elections shall always be held in an
odd-numbered year," so as to read:
Section 3. All judges elected by
the electors of the State at large may
be elected at either a general or mu
nicipal election, as circumstances may
require. All elections for Judges ol
the courts for the several judicial dis
tricts, and for county, city, ward, bor
ough, and township officers, for regu
lar terms of service, shall be held on
the municipal election day; namely,
the Tuesday following the first Mon
day of November in each odd-numbered
year, but the General Assembly
may by law fix a different day, two
thirds of all the members of each
House consenting thereto: Provided,
That such elections shall be held in
an odd-numbered year: Provided fur
ther,' That all judges for the courts
of the several judicial districts hold
ing office at the present time, whose
terms of office may end in an odd
numbered year, shall continue to hold
their offices until the first Monday of
January in the next succeeding even
numbered year.
A true copy of Concurrent Resolu
tion No. 3.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Four,
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to section
one of article nine of the Consti
tution ot Pennsylvania, relating to
taxation.
Section 1. Be it resolved by the
State and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
In General Assembly met, That the
following Is proposed as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in ac
cordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof:
Section 2. Amend section one ot
article nine of the Constitution of
Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:
"All taxes shall be uniform, upon
the same class of subjects, within the
territorial limits of the authority levy
ing the tax, and shall be levied and
collected under general laws; but the
General Assembly may, by general
laws, exempt from taxation public
property used for public purposes,
actual places of religious worship,
places of burial not used or held for
private or corporate profit, and institu
tions of purely public charity," so as
to read as follows:
All taxes shall be uniform upon the
same class of subjects, within the ter
ritorial limits of the authority levying
the tax, and shall be levied and col
lected under general laws, and the
subject of taxation may be classified
for the purpose of laying. graded or
progressive taxes; but the General
Assembly may, by genoral laws, ex
empt from taxation public property
used for public purposes, actual places
of religious worship, places of burial
not used or held for private or cor
porate profit, and Institutions of pure
ly public charity.
A true copy of Joint Resolution
No. 4.
ROBERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Number Five.
A JOINT RESOLUTION.
Proposing an amendment to the Con
stitution of Pennsylvania.
Bo it resolved by the Senate and
I km so of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania In Gener
al Assembly met, That the follow
ing is proposed as an amendment to
tho Constitution of Pennsylvania, in
accordance with the provisions of the
eighteenth article thereof:
Article IX.
Section 13. No obligations which
have been heretofore issued, or which
may hereafter be issued, by any coun
ty or municipality, other than Phila
delphia, to provide for the construc
tion or acquisition of waterworks,
subways, underground railways or
street railways, or tho appurtenances
thereof, Bhall be considered as a debt
of a municipality, within the meaning
ot section eight of article niue ot the
Constitution of Pennsylvania or ot
this amendment, if the net revenue
derived from Baid property for a per
iod of five years, either before or after
the acquisition thereof, or, where the
same is constructed by the county or
municipality, after the completion
thereof, shall have been sufficient to
pay interest and sinking-fund charges
during said period upon said obliga
tions, or If the said obligations shall
be secured by liens upon the respec
tive properties, and shall impose no
municipal liability. Where munici
palities ot counties shall issue obliga
tions to provide for the construction
of property, as herein provided, said
said municipalities or counties may
also issue obligations to provide for
the Interest and sinking-fund charges
accruing thereon until sajkl properties
shall have been completed and in op
eration for a period of one year; and
said municipalities and counties shall
not be required to levy a tax to pay
said interest and sinking-fund charges,
as required by section ten of article
nine of the Constitution of Pennsyl
vania, until after said properties shall
have been operated by said counties
or municipalities during said period
Lot one year. Any of the Baid munici
palities or counties may incur indebt
edness in excess ot seven per centum,
and not exceeding ten per centum, of
the assessed valuation of the taxable
property therein, if said increase of
indebtedness shall have been assented
to by three-fifths of the electors vot
ing at a public election, in such man
ner as shall be provided by law.
A truo copy ot Joint Resolution
No. 5.
ROflERT McAFEE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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iwA DILL
PASSES SENATE
Railroad Owned Steamers Can
not Pass Through
HOUSE MEASURE MODIFIED
President Taft Vetoes Wool Revision
Bill Sent to Him For Signature.
Pension Bill Sent Back to House.
The senate passed the Panama canal
bill by a vote of 47 to 13.
The bill as it emerges from the sen
ate not only disregards Great Brit
ain's protest against free tolls for
American ships, but contains radical
Jeglslation affecting several of the big
systems of the country.
The bill will compel the divorce
ment by the Southern Pacific Rail
road company of its steamship lines !f
these boats are to go through the
Panama canal. The Southern Pacific
has millions of dollars invested .n
shipping and has been making plans
for an expansion along this lino with
the opening of the great waterway
on the Isthmus.
Further, the legislation which
emerges from the senate puts in
Jeopardy the New Haven road's ex
tensive holdings In coastwise linos
and the holdings of the New York
Central and other roads in shipping
on the Great Lakes. Many millions of
dollars are Invested by the New Haven
In tho lines which ply up and down
Long Island sound. President Mollen
of that road has testified that It
would be impossible to dispose of
these lines under favorable conditions.
The Interests of the railroads in lake
shipping is almost as extensive.
. The Panama canal bill as It came
from the house contained a prohibi
tion against the ownership or con
trol by any railroad of a steamship
line and fixed July 1, 1914, as the date
In which this control should have
passed absolutely from the rallroadr,.
The senate modi lied the house pro
vision so that it would apply only io
ships "operated through the Panama
canal."
In lieu of the flat prohibition which
tho house had against all ownersh'n
the senate also adopted an amend
ment empowering the interstate com
merce commission to determine on
Its own motion whether the owner
ship by any railroad of a steamshi.i
line was prejudicial to the public in
terests and to compel, if necessary,
the divesting of the steamship hold
ings. The bill as It was passed by the
senate also retains an amendment ad
mitting foreign built vessel to Ameri
can registry In the event that tho
vessels are owned by Americans.
This amendment opens the shipyards
of the world to Americans and
amounts to free trade in ships.
Senators Root and Lodge, of the
opinion that the granting of free tolls
to American ships constitutes a vio'a
tion of the Hay-Patincefote treaty,
mado a final effort to have theso
amendments stricken from the bill.
They failed. The amendment grant
ing free tolls to vessel of American
register engaged In foreign trade was
adopted by a vote of X to 2!). The
owners of the vessels In order to en
Joy this privilege, however, are obliged
to agree that such vessels may he
taken by the United States In time of
war or other public emergency on
payment of the fair actual value.
Wool Bill Gets A Veto.
President Taft vetoed the wool re
vision bill sent to him as the result
of the coalition between the Demo
crats and the Republican insurgents.
The president takes a firm stand
for revision based on scientific data
furnished by the tariff board. He
holds that most of the rates in tho
Underwood-La Follette compromise
bill are so low they would, if enacted
into law, result in Irretrievable injury
to tho woolen industry and throw
thousands of workmen out, of employ
ment. Tho president In sending tho bill
back to congress appeals, however,
to both sides to drop partisanship and
In the Interest of relieving the peoplo
of an unnecessary burden, return to
him a wool bill based on the findings
of the tariff board. If congress will
accept this challenge, the president
assures them he will promptly give
the measure his approval.
Vacation For Trust Probers.
The house Judiciary committee
f.hich Is authorized to Investigate the
trusts decided to abandon all Investi
gations until next winter. This de
cision practically means that the beef
trust will be secure from an Investiga
tion of Its IiIkIi meat prices until
after the presidential election lit
least.
Would Let Cities Mine Coal.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher has
recommended to congress tho passage
of legislation that will enable cities
to obtain and operate their own coal
mines by gift of tbi government.
Cities west of the Missouri river
would be vitally affected by the pro
posed legislation.
Senate Defeats Pension Bill.
The light to pass the $1."pO,onn,flnl
pension appropriation bill was lost by
one vote In the senate and the meas
ure was sent back to the house for
further conference.
BULLET ENDS HIS TROUBLES
Colonel Cornwell, Alleged Defaulter,
Kills Himself on Train.
To escape the shame of parsing as a
prisoner, accused of defaulting with
thousands from estates intrusted to
his care, through crowds of townspeo
ple whom he knew awaited his coming.
Colonel Gibbons Gray Cornwell of
West Chester, Pa., commander of the
Sixth regiment, national guard ot
Pennsylvania, and prominent as a law
yer and clubmen, shot himself through
the head and died Instantly on a Peun
rylvania railroad train in Philadelphia.
He was on his way to West Chester
accompanied by William Mullen a
constable, and as the train pulled out
from the North Philadelphia station
he suddenly reached Into a grip which
he had placed on a seat in front,
whipped out a thirty-eight caliber
revolver and sent a bullet crashing
through his brain.
The shooting came as a tragic
climax to developments that gave
some inkling of the extent of Colonel
Cornwell's entanglement. Lawyers
who have made a hasty investigation
of the estates for which the colonel
was counsel place the losses at $",
000, hut it Is said that the total amount
may exceed $150,000.
LIGHTNING CAUSES BLAST
One Man Killed When Furnace at
Woodlawn, Pa., Blows Up.
Ono man was killed aim eight others
were injured, three seriously, In an
explosion due primarily to lightning
which wrecked the No. 4 bla.it fur
nace at the Aliquippa works of tho
.lones and Laughlin hteel company m
Woodlawn, Pa. When the dust catchei
and separator of the furnace let gc
the detonation was earsplitting and
the air was filled with bricks and iron.
The direct cause of the explosion
was the shortage of water In the
furnace, caused by the failure of the
pump house to meet the demands of
the furnace.
When the water supply got low In
the furnace gas accumulated, result
ing In the explosion.
Samuel 11. Steele, aged thirty-eight,
assistant master mechanic, of Wood
lawn, was killed.
Tinplate Workers Sought For Japan.
Efforts are being made in western
Pennsylvania to secure American tin
plate workers to go to Japan, to take
positions in a tinplalo mill, recently
completed in that country. Llewellyn
Lewis, formerly an otliclal of the
steelworkers' union, has secured sev
eral men.
Man Smothered by Hay.
John Garvey, a middle aged man
seeking shelter from the storm
crawled Into a hay mow on the farm
of Harvey Heath at Corry, Pa. Heath
found him in the morning almost suf
focated. Medical aid was at oneo
summoned, but he soon passed away.
Death Caused by Ether.
Stanley .Maxwell, aged 3S, or Mp.i1
vllle, Pa., Is supposed to have com
mitted suicide by inhaling ether. 1 13
was found by a member of the family
lying dead on his bed. with a vial
which had contained ether beside his
face.
Black Handers Blow Up Store.
An explosion of dynamite wrecked
the fruit store of .lolin and .lames
Malocki In Pennsylvania avenue,
Greeshurg, Pa. Many persons were
Injured, none seriously. Members of
the Ulaek Hand are blamed for tho
explosion.
Shot in the Back and Killed.
As he was standing In the barroom
of the Hotel Yukon, eight miles from
Greensburg, Pa., Mike Sineor, aged
thirty, was shot in the hack and killed
by a man known as "Italian Louie."
The assailant lias not been captured.
Child Eats Pills and Loses Life.
Finding some strychnine pills which
had been left for Its mother by a
physician, Dorothea Hannister, aged
two, daughter of William liannister, of
Wind Ridge. Pa., died after eating a
number of the pellets.
Coal Shed Crushes Boy.
While playing near a coal house
near his home, John Fair, nine years
old, son of William Fair of Cowans
ville, near Apollo, was killed when
the building toppled over on him.
Season's Pace Record.
Vernon McKinney, a bay stallion,
paced a mlie in 2: nils "I the Iininots
Island race track, Pittsburg. This Is
the fastest time for tho event
that lias been made this season.
An Odd Triple Tragedy.
A triple tragedy was witnessed In
Meadville. Pa. A cat was chasing a
rat down the Erie tracks, a dog was
chasing the cat and a train was chas
ing all three and got them.
Trolley Crash Serious.
More than forty persons were In
jured In a trolley car crash near
Sliaimikln, Pa. The collision Is be
lieved to have been due to a mistake
in reading signals.
Woman Robbed of $193.
Mrs Lydla Pittnian, proprietress of
an ull night restaurant at Freedom,
Pa., was held up by a strange man in
her restaurant and robbed of $1 !).'!.
$100,000 Loss In Colliery Fire.
The breaker at the Haven Run
colliery near Girardvllle, Pa., was de
stroyed by tire, entailing a loss of
$11111,000.
Miner Killed by Fall of Slate.
John Haiti), aged thirty, a miner,
was killed by a fall of slate In Vesta
rune No. 4 near California. Pa.
FALLING TANK i
CRUSHES THREE
Score ol Girls Injured In Pitts
burg Cigar Plant
MAD PANIC ON FIRE ESCAPES
Water Tank Which Wat Receiving
First Test Crashes Through Roof
and Seventh Floor of Building.
Three girls were killed and nearly a
score of others seriously injured when
a great water tank plunged through
the roof of the United American Cigar
company's plant, Twenty-eighth and
Smallman streets, Pittsburg.
The tank, which was filled for the
first time, fell through tho roof and
seventh floor and lodged on the sixth
floor.
Nearly 200 girls were at work on
the sixth floor of the building when
the great water reservoir crashed
through the celling.
The dead: Iva Lawton, seventeen
years old. crushed to death by the
weight of the water tank and the floor
above her. Agnes Niedzelska, seventeen
years old, crushed to death. Un
identified foreign girl, twenty-threo
years old. body badly crushed.
The girls were at their tables when
the sound of rending timbers sounded
above them. The ceiling yawned as
they looked and the tank came hurl
ing through, crushing the life from
three of the girls Instantly and
wounding a score more as they sat at
their work.
Then came srenej of mad panic.
Those uninjured, ignorant of the catas
troplie, struggled to the fire escapes
and exits, each expecting the building
to collapse. Sisters were separated
in the mad rush, where each girl
fought to save herself. On the fire
escapes, six stories above the ground,
the battle continued. Smaller girls
fought to keep from being hurled to
the ground. Screaming, panting,
striking r.nd scratching, the mob
struggled down the narrow stairs, its
numbers augmented at each floor.
Few walked down that last flight of
steps. They rolled, and at the bottom
drew themselves from the heap of
struggling companions.
Fire apparatus and two patrols with
policeman came. Every ambulance In
the city within reach of the scene ar
rived shortly afterward. Even then
automobiles and wagons were pressed
into service to carry the wounded to
hospitals.
"We didn't have a bit of warning."
said Margaret Cox, one of the girls to
get out safely. "That part of the floor
came through all nl once and the
girls under It did not have a chance to
escape. The girls all yelled at once
and started to run for the windows.
I knew I should be running too, but
simply couldn't for a while. When I
did get started down I thought I
should never reach the ground. It
was awful until I knew my sisters
were sale."
NO REVOLUTION NEEDED
Says Wilson, Accepting Democratic
Nomination Gradual Tariff Lowering.
"Our task now is to effect a great
readjustment and get the forces of
the whole people once more into play.
We need no revolution; we need no
excited change; we need only a new
point of view and a new method and
spirit of counsel."
So spoke Wood row Wilson In his
speech of acceptance of the Dem
ocratic nominal ion for president.
Speaking on the tariff the governor
said :
"When we act wo should act with
caution and prudence, like men who
know what they are about, and not
like those in love with a theory. It is
obvious that the changes we make
should be made only at such a ra.o
ami in such a way as will least inter
fere with the normal and healthful
course of commerce and manufacture.
"Hut we shall not on that account
act with timidity, as if we did not
know our own minds, for we are cer
tain of our ground and of our object.
There should be an immediate r
vlsion and it should lie downward, un
hesitatingly and steadily downward."
TWO KILLED IN WRECK
Head-on Collision on Single Track
Near Vienna, Pa.
A collision between a four-coach pan
wiger train and a heavily loaded
freight train of thirty-five cars, drawn
by two engines on the single track of
the Hallimore ami Ohio railroad be
tween Claysville and Vienna Pa., re
sulted in the death of two persons and
serious injuries to seven others, be
sides minor cuts and bruises to a
score or more passengers,.
P. Vcrderhcr, ioiiy-live years old,
of Washington, Pit., lireman on the
second freight engine, was crushed
to death against engine. A. F. Gib
son, forty-eight years old, of Wheel
ing, W. Va., baggage man on the pas
senger train, was pinned face down
ward over the smokestack until his
face was cooked. He died.
Durbln Named For Governor.
Colonel Winlield T. Durbln, former
governor of Indiana, was nominated by
the stale Itepublican convention to
head the ticket 111 the coining cam
paign ou a platform praising the ad
ministration and pledging support of
the re-election of I'rcsiJcut Taft.