-gailty except Horsnell
STRIKE LEADER ARRESTED
Brains of Labor Movement In
Russia is a Prisoner
FIRST BLOOD SHED IN STRIKE
Two Strike Breakers Killed in Dis-
turbance In Front of General
Postoffice.
Another crisis is at hand involving
the indefinite prolongation of the
gtrike, the probable immediate pre-
cipitaticn of a general strike through-
out Russia and a possible final strug-
gle the Governmeat and the prole-
tariat. :
This sudden change is the result
of the shedding of the first blood in
the telegraph strike almost simultan-
eously with the action of Interior
Minister Durnovo in throwing down
the gauntlet to the labor organiza-
tions by earresting M. Krustaleft,
president of the executive commit-
tee of the workmen's council, without
warning.
A disturbance in which two strike-
breakers were killed and a policeman
and several others wounded oeeurred
at the same hour in front of the gen-
eral posiofice in St. Petersburg. The
strikers for two days have been seek-
fng to persuade the volunteer and
regular carriers to refuse to work.
At the door of the building the strik-
ers, enraged by the refusal of the
volunteers to quit, drew knives,
whereupon a carrier attempted to de-
fend himself with a revolver. Both
the carrier and a companion were
killed on the spot.
Krustaleff, as he is called, though
that is not his name, is regarded as
the brains of the revolutionary move-
meat. He has displayed genius in or-
ganizing both the industrial and politi-
ca! strikes which have terrorized the
Government.
¢ . NEW BRITISH CABINET
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Makes Official Announcement.
It is officially announced that the
pew British ministry is made up as
fellows:
Prime minister and first lord of
the treasury, Sir Henry Campbell-
Bannerman; chancellor of the exche-
quer, Herbert Henry Asquith; secre-
tary of state for home affairs, Her-
bert John Gladstone; secretary of
state for foreign affairs, Sir Edward
Grey; secretary. of state for the colon-
fes, the earl of Elgin; secretary of
state for war, Richard Burdon Hal-
dane; secretary of state for India,
John Morley; first lord of the admir-
alty, Baron Tweedmouth; president
of the board of trade, David Lloyd-
George; president of the local gov-
ernment board, John Burns; secre-
tary of state for Scotland, John Sin-
clair; president of the board of agri-
culture, Earl Carrington; postmast-
er general Sydney Charles Buxton;
chief secretary for Ireland, James
Bryce; lord president of the coun-
cil, the earl of Crewe; lord of the
privy seal, the marquis of Ripon;
president of the board of education,
Augustine Birrell; chancellor of the
duchy of" Lancaster, Sir Henry Hart-
dey Fowler; lord high chancellor, Sir
‘Robert Threshie Reid.
The foregoing constitute the cabi-
net. The following ministers are not
fn the cabinet: Lord ‘lieutenant of
Ireland, the earl of Aberdeen; lord
chancelior of Ireland, the Rt. Hon.
Bamuel Walker; first commissioner
of works and public buildings, Lewis
Vernon Harcourt.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
drove to the palace and had an audi-
ence with King Edward of about 20
minutes, and at which his majesty
elgnified his approval of the A new
government.
Gets Russian Contract.
The Westinghouse Company has se-
cured the first of the series of con-
tracts of the electrilization of the
treet car system of St. Petersburg.
The present contract simply covers
the cost of the cables, $600,000, while
the whele series will approximate an
expenditure | of - $5,000,000.
TEN MILLION DOLLAR DEAL
Afdrews-Vanderbilt Interests Buy
Rochester Electric and Gas Plant.
The Andrews-Vanderbilt traction
eyndicate has purchased the eatire
property of the Rochester Railway &
Light Company at Rochester, N. Y.
The transaction’ amounts to about,
$10,000,000, and puts this traction syn-
dicate in possession of all the trac-
tion lines, gas works, and electric
lighting plants of Rochester. It adds
‘another link to the traction interests
the syndieate is acquiring in its de-
velopment of a trans-Staie- traction
jine from Buffalo to-New York City.
Confesses to Attempted Swindle.
Mrs. Caroline Fisher, detained at
the Ellis island immigrant station on
request of English authorities, con-
fessed before a special board of in-
quiry that she had attempted to get
about $30,000 on her life insurance
policy from the Royal Exchange In-
surance Society, of Londcun. Sane said
that the company now believed her to
be dead, but that she had not secured
ary money.
Charged With Land Frauds.
The Federal grand jury at St. Paul,
Minn., returned indictments against
J.B. Darse, William T. Horsnell and
Royal B. Sterns. They were arraign-
ed before Judge Morris and all pleaded
and Stearns.
Horsnell and Stearns are charged with
fraud in connection with government
$ands in northern Minnesota and
Washington. Darse is charged with
using the United States mails to fur-
ther a scheme to defraud.
MONUMENT TO PRISONERS
Memorial to Pennsylvania's Dead at
Andersonville.
At Andersonville, Ga., in the pres-
ence of the remnants of a mighty
army which served their country by
suffering, which is harder than fight-
ing, Governor Pennypacker dedicated
the handsome monument erected by
the State of Pennsylvania in honor
of those who died while imprisoned 1n
the stockdale during the Civil War.
Four hundred and twenty survivors
of that prison pen, many veterans of
the war, a company of the Seventeenth
United States Infantry and a few
score of residents of nearby cities,
took part in the exercises.
Governor Pennypacker and his staff
were welcomed to Americus, 11 miles
below Andersonville, by Robert E.
Lee, the City Attorney. At 2 o'clock
the procession formed at the station.
The band headed the line, then fol-
lowed the company of Regulars, the
Governor and ladies of the party in
carriages, the Governor's staff and the
lame and halting veterans. It was half
a mile to the stand erected in frost
of the monument in the cemetery.
Colonel James D. Walker of Pitts-
busg, Commander-inchief of the Na-
tional Association of ex-Union Pris-
oners of War and President pro-tem
of the Pennsylvania Military Memo-
rial Common presided. The ex-
ercises were opened by members of
the Gc A. R., who saluted the colors.
Governor Pennypacker delivered the
address.
ROGERS HANGED
Pays the Penalty for Killing Husband
by Chioroform.
Mrs. Mary Rogers was hanged in
the state prison at Windsor, Vt., for
the murder of her husband, Marcus
Rogers.
Mrs. Rogers killed her husband, in
order that she might possess herself
of $600, his life insurance, and marry
another man. The murder was com-
mitted in Bennington, on August 12, |
1902, by the administration of chloro-
form.
IL.eon Perham, her paramour, turned
state's evidence and on the stand he
gave testimony, a recital such as has
rarely been heard in the courts of
law. He was sentenced for life.
LIVES LOST ON THE LAKES
Closing Season, Most Disastrous of
All, Has Total of 215.
According to figures compiled by
the Lake Marine News Bureau the
death list on the Great Lakes during
the season now closing has been 213.
Of these 114 were lost during the
three great storms of this fall.
Lake Erie, which led the list of
dead for a number of years, this
season gave place to Lake Superior,
where 95 sailors were lost; as com-
pared with 40 for Lake Erie, 38 for
Lake Huron, 15 for Lake Michigan, 10
for Lake Ontario, 11 for the Detroit
and St. Clair river passage and 6 for
the Soo passage. :
MRS.
Refuse an Advance.
The proffer of 45 cents an hour
after May 1 next year, an increase of
5 cents an hour voluntarily made by
the Master Carpenters’ Association of
Philadelphia to those of their journey-
men who would agree to have noth-
ing to do with sympathetic strikes,
has been rejected by the District
Council of Carpenters with a member-
ship of 4,000.
To Investigate Tuberculosis.
President Roosevelt issued an exe-
cutive order appointing Surgeon Gen-
eral Robert M. O'Reilly of the Army,
Surgeon General P. M. Rixey of the |
Navy, and Surgeon General
Wyman of the Marine Hospital serv-
ice, to inquire into and report to him
on the sanitary conditions in govern- |
ment offices and workshops, with a
view to the prevention of the spread |
of tuberculosis.
Pickpockets stcle $0,000 in dia-
monds from Mrs. W. N. Crane, of
Staten Island, N. Y., while she was
riding in a trolley car.
Yale university has received from
two anonymous donors a gift of $75,-
000 to found a lectureship on ‘The
inter-relation of religion, science and
philosophy.”
Death of Senator Mitchell.
United States Senater John H.
Mitchell, who had been ill for some
time, died in Portland, Ore., death re-
sulting from complications which fol-
lowed the removal of four teeth at a
dental office. A hemorrhage of un-
usual severity followed the removal
of the teeth and. despite the applica-
tion uf thie most powerful styptics
known to dental science, the flow of
blocd could not be stayed.
Will Reform Football.
advocates of intercollegiate
football won a victory: at the con-
ference of 13
ties in New York City, when .an
zmendes i re solution. declaring that the |
game should not be aboli
should he reforme
vote of 15 to 8.
The
Battleship Idaho Launched.
The United Seates battleship Idaho
was launched at the yard of the Will-
iam Cramp Ship and Engine Building
company, Philadelphia. The vessel
was christened by Miss Louise May,
the 13-year-old daughter of Gov.
Frank R. Gooding, of Tdaho.
owish Fund of $2,475,000.
The committee which was appoint-
ed by the recent conference held in
London under the chairmanship of
Lord Rothschild to take charge of the
distribution of the funds collected for
the relief of Jews in Russia announ-
ced that up to date $2,475,000 had
been contributed. This sum included
$1,000,000 from the TUnited States,
$520,000 from Germany and $43o,uv
from Great Britian. The sum of
5,000 has already been remitted to
Lussia.
Walter |
colleges and umiversi- |
d by a}
SHH FE
MUTINOUS TROOPS ARE SHOT
Father Gapon Continues to Advise
the Workmen Against Revolu-
tion.
The St. Petersburg correspondent
of the London Daily Telegraph in a
dispatch dated December 5, sent by
way of Eydtkuhnen, East Prussia,
says: “Lieut.-Gen. Sakharoff, form-
er minister of war, was assassinated
today. The government had deputed
Gen. Sakharoff to visit the province
of Saratoff for the purpose of quell-
ing the agrarian riots there.
“A woman belonging to the so-
called ‘flying columns’ of the revolu-
tionary movement, called at the
house of the governor of Saratoff at
noon today and asked to see Gen.
Sakharoff. She fired three revolver
shots at the general, killing him on
the spot. The tidings reached St.
Petersburg tonight. Count Witte
charged Lieut.-Gen. Rudigor, minis-
ter of war, with the task of breaking
the news to Madame Sakharoff.
Private accounts from Kieff say
that the mutinous troops there were
shot down in :a narrow lane by
Cossacks, the mutineers being caught
between two fires. It is reported
nere that symptoms of mutiny have
appeared in the Seventh Finnish regi-
ment at Viborg.
Father Gapen is
preach to the
continuing to
workmen against a
revolution, saying that the strike
tactics are sure to eventuate in re-
action and jeopardize the freedom
purchased by blood.
TEN PERSONS KILLED
Injured in a Collision
Union Pacific.
were killed and 11 train
employes and eight passengers injured
in the wreck of Overland limited pas-
senger train No. 2 on the Union Paci-
fic railroad five miles west of Rock
Springs, Wyo. The limited was run
into head-on by a freight train, and
both engines demolished. The dyna-
mo car, mail car and dining car on the
limited burned. Several of the dead
were incinerated.
The dead cre: First Cook James
Busbee, Omaha; Second Cook, Ed. Ro-
sembaum, Oakland, Cal.; Fourth Cook
John Lawless, Omaha; J. A. Newson,
J. F. Philleppar, Frank Peterson, mail
clerks, of Cheyenne, Wyo.; Electric-
ians Stigers of Ogden and Assistant
Electrician Frank McKenna of Oma-
ha; Engineer Brink of Rawlins, and
Brakeman Smith of Rawlins.
An extra freight train was given an
order before it left Rock Springs to
meet four eastbound passenger trains,
of which the Overland limited was the
last one, at Ahsay, a siding five miles
west of Rock Springs. When a mile
and a half west of Ahsay the freight
met the Overland limited and the
crash followed. Both engines were
demolished and the three first cars of
the Overland limited immediately
caught fire and were destroyed.
W. L. Park, general superintendent
of the Union Pacific road, stated that
Conductor Roy Darrell and Engineer
Brink were entirely respcasible for
the wreck and that Conductor Darrell
has admitted that he became confused
as to the number of trains that had
passed Ahsay. Superintendent Park
|is informed that none of the passen-
| gers received fatal injuries.
Nineteen Are
on the
Ten persons
|
| Attempted Extortion.
William McSwain and Wilbur Cole
| of Chicago, pleaded guilty to the
| charge of conspiracy to extort money
{rom members of the firm of Armour |
| & Co. and were sentenced each to 30
| days in jail. The men were accused |
of attempting to obtain money trom |
Armour & Co. because of certain let- |
ters which they had taken from the |
company and Which they claimed
would be valuable to the government
prosecution.
CZAR CAN'T SPARE WITTE
Refuses to Accept Resignation of
Prime Minister.
Dissatisfied with his treatment at
the hands of his imperial master,
and apparently feeling that it was be-
yond his power to restore tranquil
conditions throughout. the empire,
Count Witte, who but a short while
| ago, assumed the post of premier of
the Russian empire, handed the Czar
his letter of resignation of the posi-
tion, and a sensational scene ensued.
The Czar, after reading the docu-
ment through, tore it in pieces and
flung it at Witte’s feet, exclaiming
| angrily:
{ “Are you such a poor patriot as to
esert: me in this: hour of misfortune.
main in office until I see fit to re-
| lieve you.”
{ The Emperor then turned on his
heel and left Count Witte standing in
the middle of the reception chamber.
A serious mutiny has occurred at
T.omsha. Troops rebelled, fired the
barracks and attacked their officers.
Many cases of the bankruptcy of
industrial firms are reported from the
provinces and the money situation is
growing graver every hour.
Many Hunters
Kiited This Season.
The total number of hunters killed
by accident so far this year in Wis-
consin and Northern Michigan is 26.
Fifty-one have been wounded. More
hunters were killed this year by the
accidental discharge of their own
guns than ever before. Many wers
shot by mistake by hunters who took
them for deer. :
Senator introduced a
resolution t of Santo
Domingo United
States.
ie BANK. INSURANCE
Meacure to Protect Depositors in Na-
tional Banks. .
One of the first bills introduced in
the house was the result of the agita- |
tion over the Enterprise National bank |
failure at Allegheny. It was presented
by Representative A. Lu. Bates ‘of
Meadville and the purpose of it is to
insure better protection to depositors
in national banks. Mr. Bates proposes
a number, of amendments to the na-
tional banking law of 1864, which it is
thought will prevent any losses to the
depositors or the national bank as
the result of failure. Each national
bank is to be assessed $109 per year,
and the funds raised by this are to
be in the custody of the United States
treasurer. When the amount raised
in this manner has reached $6,000,000
the assessments are discontinued until
this fuad is reduced to $5,000,000, when
they are renewed again. The inter-
est upon this fund and the principal
is to be used in paying depositors of
national banks where the liabilities o
a failure are .so large that the assets
of a bank to not cover the deposits.
New $10 Counterfeit Note.
The secret service has announced
the discovery of a new counterfeit $10
United States (Buffalo) note, series
1901, Lyons register, Roberts, treas-
urer. The appearance vf the note is
described as defective. In’ the por-
trait the left eye has a decided cast
upward. There is also a period be-
tween the word “Washington” and D.
C., instead of a comma. There is no
period after the “H” in the signature
of the Treasurer.
CURRENT NEWS EVENTS.
The census returns just made pub-
lic shows that Berlin has a population
of 2,033,900.
A cable from Madrid says that King
Alfonso is to marry the Princess Viec-
toria Lugeine, of Battenburg.
Tmited States Steel Corporation se-
cured contract for rails to be used in
construction of Austrian railroad.
Senator Chauncey M. Depew has
resigned as director of the Equitable
Assurance Society.
Wiliam I. Corey, president of the
United States Steel Corporation, has
separated from his wife and says she
will seek a divorce, which action he
will not oppose.
The Erie Railroad Company award-
ed contracts for about $500,000 for
the construction of the Columbus &
Erie railroad from Lakewood at the
foot of Chautauqua Lake west 20
miles to Columbus, Pa.
During high winds fire destroyed
the entire business section of Manas-
sas, Va., some - 20 buildings; loss
$150,000. Hereafter Civil War vet-
erans passing Manassas Junction will
hardly recognize the place.
The timber-laden steamer Fram was
sunk in Christiania fjord. Seven of
her crew and four passengers were
drowned. 1 y
Leo McNally, 24 years old, who was
injured in a foot ball game between
local teams in Bridgeport, Conn., on
Thanksgiving Day, is dead. McNally’s
baek was broken in a mass play.
John R. Ward, Adjutant General of
Indiana, has resigned on the demand
of Governor Hanly as the result of an
investigation of Ward’s accounts. The
investigation committee charges there
is a shortage of $976.
As a result of a complaint by sev-
eral lumber companies, the Kentucky
Railroad Commission has ordered sev-
eral railrcad companies to revise their
tariffs.
Theodore Larson, though he has
confessed that he killed Keis Nelson
in Crookston, Minn., October 16, 1903,
has been released from custody, the
grand jury ignoring the case. larson
has repudiated his confession.
The Norwegian Government has
cabled its felicitations to Captain Ro-
and Amundson, the Norwegian explor-
er, who has arrived at Fort Egbert,
Alaska, after making his way through
the Northwest passage. 4 :
A joint resolution has been present-
ed in the Wisconsin State Assembly
providing for a legislative committee
to investigate insurance companies
and public service corporations doing
business in Wisconsin. This was
recommended by Governor raFollette.
Philadelphia & Reading and the
Central of New Jersey railroads will
have an anti-pass order.
Consul General Parsons Killed.
American Consul General Parsons
was killed by an electric car at Mexi-
co City. Mr. Parsons was appointed
consul general here April 19,. 1904.
He was from New York. Parsons had
formerly served as consul at Aix la
Chapelle, having been appointed to
that office in 1888 and continued un-
til June 1, 1890.
MANY BARGES LOST
Towhoat Caught in Windstorm and
25,000 Bushels of Coal Lost.
The towhoats Harry Brown
Raymond Horner
for New Orleans were caught
severe storm near Hawesville,
and the Brown lost 27 barges,
the Horner lost seven.
contained 25,000 bushels of coal.
and
barges at $64,000. No lives were lost.
The boats are owned by the Monon-
and
Consolidated Coal
of Pittsburg.
zahela River
Coke conipany,
R. Abolishes
P. R. Free List.
In view of the general agitation of |
the subject of legislution on railroad |
rates and the abolition of all forms
has
been decided by the management of | ends, and of
of rebates and concessions it
the Pennsylvania railroad - that all
forms of free transportation will be
discontinued after the end of the
present year.
The General Electric Company filed
> Secretary of § id at Albs
with tows of coal
in a
Ky.,
while
Each barge
The
coal was valued at $120,000, and the
EMBASSY WILL BE GUARDED
Arrive in-St. Petersburg.
PLOT TO RAID THE TREASURY
The Strike of Telegraphers Now Ex-
tends to Postal System and Com-
pletely Paralyzes Business.
A guard for the American embassy,
consisting of marines, under a petty
officer from the United States cruiser
Minneapolis arrived 24 St, ‘Peters-
burg !
Although there appears. ta be) no
foundation for the prevailing fears
that an outbreak is emminent, the
population continues in a state of
anxious suspense. The garrison has
now been reinforced by 42 battalions
of infantry, 15 squadrons of cavalry
and 12 machine guas batteries. The
city is divided into four districts un-
der Gens. Osaroff, Dubenski, Sterma
and Trodski, respectively.
The government, it is reported,
narrowly frustrated a plot whereby
TREASURY OPERATIONS
Report of Income and
Last Year.
The annual reporf+ ef Secretary of
the Treasury Shaw was sent to the
House. It says:
The ordinary revenues for 1905, as
compared with 1904, show an in-
crease of $3,642,935.45, while the ex-
penditures were less by $15,123,407.86.
The net result for the fiscal year was
an excess of expenditures over reve-
nues of $23,004,225.60.
Outlay for
have been in excess of the revenues
more than $64,000,000. This, how-
aver, included the exiraordinary ex-
penditures in 1904 cf $50,000,000 for
the Panama canal.
During the fiscal year 1905 there
was an addition of $900 to the inter-
ast-bearing debt, while there were re-
ductions of $600,675 in the items on
which interest had ceased since ma-
turity and $3,302,146.30 in the debt
bearing no interest. The net reduc-
tion was $3,901,921.30.
The available cash balance ia the
general fund June 30, 1905, was $145,-
177:491.89, a reduction for the year
of $26, 374, 076.13.
The revenues for the first, quarter
of 1906 were $147,014,725.10 and’ the
expenditures $§156,588,966.66, an ex-
cess of expenditures over receipts of
1,000 armed men had arranged to raid
the state treasury. One of the con-
spirators, it is said, betrayed his fel-
lows, whereupon the leaders, know-
ing that their attack could be re-
pulsed by the troops with great
slaughter, abandoned it.
The extension of the strike of the
telegraphers to the postal system is
complete and the paralysis of busi-
ness is increasing the danger of a
inancial crisis. The strike of the
Moscow telephone operators who cut
the wires and tore up the poles has
severed the last means of communi-
cation with the ancient Sophia),
BERNHARDT EGGED
Canadians Show Displeasure at
French Actress in Quebec.
Sarah Bernhardt,
the station at Quebec after the close
of her performance, was rotten-egged
by hoodlums. When the play was
over the audience dispersed, but
about 200 hvodlums hung around the
door. As Mr. Max, her leading man,
appearcd he was struck with an egg.
A detachment of 50 policemen had
mustered behind the Market: Hall and
they stopped the trouble at the
theater. :
Madame Bernhardt when she got
into her sleigh was applauded. How-
vver, a number of hoodlums had
preceaed her to the station, and as
the tragedienne was driving there
eggs were thrown at her, which she
fortunately, escaped. Some of her
company, who were in open sleighs,
were struck.
The mob kept out of the station
and dispersed as soon as the members
of the company got aboard a train.
SENATOR HELD FOR MURDER
Chicago Election Feud Results in the
Arrest of Leading Politician.
State Semator Frank C. Farnum, of
Chicago, a leading local politician,
was arrested in connection with an
investigation following the murder of
John Kepf, county commissioner,
during a political feud: No formal
charge had heen made against Farn-
um at the time he was’ taken: into
custody, but it was stated by the po-
lice that he would be held on the
charge of nfurder.
George Cc. Roberts, an election clerk
in the district, where the stabbing of
Kepf occurred recently, and who is
accused of committing the murder,
was arrested immediately after the
crime.
HERMIT MILLICNAIRE DEAD
Banker Burns to Death in House
Where He Lived Alone. ,
James 1. Bloget, the hermit banker
of Hermitage, Wyoming county, N. Y.,
was burned to death in his house,
which burned to the ground. He was
estimated to be worth $1,000,000. He
was a graduate of Yale College, in tho
class of 1850.
It is believed the fire caught from
an overheated stove.
DOZEN SAILORS DIE
Engulfed by Mountainous Waves
While Leaving Sinking Craft.
leven lives were lost as a result of
the striking of the steamer Lunen-
burg on the rocks off Amherst har-
bor, near the Magdalen Islands.
When the steamer struck there were
17 persons vn board, including a crew
of 16 and R. J. Leslie of Halifax, one
of the firm owning the steamer and
a member of Parliament.
The accident occurred in a violent
storm. Five sailors rowed to land.
I.ater in the day the steamer began
to go to pieces and it became neces-
sary for the others to leave in one of
the ship's boats. When they were
half way to the shore a great wave
swamped their craft,
one to escape was Captain Pride of
the Lunenburg.
: Burned to Death.
Mrs. Polly Nichols, 80 years old,
who bad been blind for 15 years, was
burned to death at Mount Pleasant,
Pa. Her pipe was her constant com-
panion, and while smoking some of
the hot ashes fell on her lap, ‘setting
fire to her dress.
os
Charges Against P. R. R.
lation to further its own financial
stifiing competition are
contained in a complaint filed
the Interstate Commerce commiss
by. the Donohve Coke company,
Greensburg, Pa., against the Per
vania Railroad company, in
tion with the Keystone Coal and Co
company and the Huron Coal cor
{ pany, corporations of the Sto
! Pennevly ania a
while driving to |
$Y.574,241.56.: In the first quarter of
1905 expenditures were $17;856,615 in
| excess of receipts.
Imporis to the amount of $1, 17,-
512.629 were landed upon United
States wharves during the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1905, and upon these
imports $262,060,528 of duty was col-
lected. For the same period the ex-
parts of merchandise were $1,518,561,-
20.
The receipts from internal revenue
taxes for the fiscal year 1905, as
shown by collectors’ receipts; were
$234,187,976.37, a net increase over
1904 of $1,284,195.31.
CONGRESSIONAL.
The second day's session of Con-
gress was mainly consumed by the
reading of the President's message.
Three million dollars for the new
Pittsburgh postofiice building, the
presentation of the modified Esch-
Townsend railrcad rate bill and the
opening of the discussion on the pro-
position to appropriate $16,500, 000
tor the expenses of the Panama ca-
nal commission were the three items
of particular interest which were
taken up on, the third day.
Chairman J. C. Burrows, of the Sen-
ate Committee on Privileges and Elec-
tions, says that no action will be taken
in the case of Senator Reed Smoot, of
Utah, until the vacancy on the com-
mittee is filled, which will put the case
over until after the holiday recess.
Senator Scott introduced bills pro-
viding for service pensions and for
issuance of bonds for the erection of
public buildings in towns of 5,000 pop-
ulation and more.
Morriil’s Auto Bill.
Representative Morrill of Pennsyl-
vania introduced, a bill providing that
all persons desiring to operate auto-
mobiles passing from one State to an-
other must obtain a lincense granted
after an examination under the direc-
tion of the Inter-State, Commerce
Commission. He also has introduced
a bill placing insurance companies un-
der the control and supervision of the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
and a second insurance bill extending
the sovereign’ visitorial power of the
United States over life insurance com-
panies and other corporations organ-
ized under State laws.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Representative Graham introduced a
bill appropriating $100,000 for a pub-
lic building at Sewickley.
| Midland Valley Railroad Company,
formerly chief engineer of the Choc-
taw, Oklahoma & Gulf railroad, has
been appointed supervisor of the
Philippine railroad system. - ’
The California delegation in Con-
gress agreed on the, introduction of a
bill for the expulsion from the United
| States of Japanese and Koreans. The
| conditions which’ inspire this bill are
brought about the Chinese exclusion
act 22 years ago.
The President sent the following
nominations to the Senate: Secretary
of State, Elihu Root, New York; Sec-
Lane, California. In addition all the
recess appointments were sent to the
Senate.
provided for in a bill introduced by
| Representative Wiley vf Alabama.
{ The bill provides that the sanitarium
iis to be open to indigent persons of
both races suffering from : tuberculo-
sis. Florala, Ala., is ‘designated as
the site for the sanitarium.
The Senate confirmed the appoint-
ment of Secretary Bonaparte.
and the only!
Charges of unlawful discrimination, |
favoritism, lack of good faith, manipu-
with
conne eC
Church and State Separated.
The French Senate adopted the
aration of church and
a.v
The vote was announced amid en-
thusiastic scenes and cries of “Long
live the republic” and “Long live
liberty.” Former Premier Combes
participated in the dabate, contending
that the measure assured neutrality
i of religion, moral liberation and so-=
{ cial pacification.
President Appoints Democrat.
The President nominated Franklin
f.ane of San Francisco a member of
the interstate commerce commission,
to suceed Mr. Fifer, resigned. Mr.
Lane is a Democrat and his appoint-
ment will change the political com=-
plexion of the commission from Re-
publican to Democratic.
te Courts fecide >d that 3 e rolling
For the past two years expenditures |
F. A. Molitor, chief engineer of the
retary of the Navy, Charles Joseph
Bonaparte, Maryland; Inter-State
Commerce Commissioner, Franklin.
An appropriation of .$100,uvu for a‘
national tuberculosis sanitariwm is’
te of 181 against 102.
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