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nw NJJM HOUSE Four Democrats Vote for Bill and One Republican Against It—Deep Interest Taken in Final Vote and Republicans Make Joyous Demonstration Over Result r. Atler three weeks of consideration: the Payne tariff bill was passed by the House of Representatives Friday night by a vote of 217 to 161. One Republican, Austin, of Tennessee, voted against the measure, and four Democrats, all from Louisiana, Messrs. Broussard, Estopinal, Pujo and Wickliffe voted for it. An attempt made by Champ Clark, the minority ieader, to recommit the bill with instructions was signally defeated. The day was filled with excitement from the moment the session began at noon until the last minute. The members were keyed up to the high est pitch and a practically full mem bership remained on duty through out. The final vote demonstrated the capacity of the Republican organiza tion to get together. The general public was greatly in terested in the proceedings and the galleries were packed. Both the diplomatic and executive reservations likewise were fully occupied, one of the conspicuous observers being Mrs. Taft, wife of the President. When the bill actually was passed the Republican cheered lustily, tome dancing up and down the aisles OUTRAGEOUS SEIZURE OF JUDGE'S EFFECTS Atlantaa, Ga., Special.—A special meeting of the Atlanta Bar Associa tion has been called to make what reparation it can for the invasion and dismantling of the home of United States Circuit Judge W. B. Shep pard under a writ of attachment. Lawyers as well as citizens declare the affair was an outrage. A month or more ago the jurist's secretasy was driving Judge Shop pard home, when the car hit a ne gro. The judge claims he was not negligent but agreed to pay the in jured man's bill and give him SSO. The attorneys for the negro refused to accept this sum and said they would sue. Instead of filing an ordinary suit, they waited until late Thursday even ing and swore out a writ of attach ment. One of the atorneys, accom panied by a constable and a force of negroes, went to the judge's home GOVERNMENT INJURING BUSINESS AFFAIRS The following from Charles W. Brown, publisher of Hoosick Falls, N. Y., Democrat, is in line with the tentiment expressed a few weeks ago sy The Enterprise and shows that those publishers who also run job plants are beginning to ait up and take notice: la the fact that the government of the United States is spending the money of the people (among them printers and publishers) for the pur poM of diverting business from the printers of the country a demonstra tion of the kind of gqnar deal** the country is going to get under the faft administration f I am loath to believe it. But recent events have inspired a Jeep distrust that only a complete ob literation of the policy and methods of the postofflce department will re place with reassurance. If the United States government ean with consistency take away from the printer the printing of envelopes on the plea that it can do the work cheaper because the printing is done simultaneously with the stamping, why isn't' it just as consistent to print advertisements on postal cards for the same reason* Carrv this JURY COULD NOT AGREE IN THE BOUVY MURDER CASE Planquemine, La., Special.—At 7 o'clock Friday night the jury in thb case of the Stpte against Fabrian F. Bouvy, charged with the murder of Prof. Fred Van Ingen, reported that it wag hopelessly disagreed and was therefore discharged by Judge Schwing. The killing of Van Ingen occurred on October 3 of last vear. while he STANDARD OIL LITIGATION IS CONGLUDED St. Louis, Special.—The Standard Oil lawyers more than made good their promise to the court to complete their arguments Friday in defense of the government's suit to have the coropration dissolved as a Sehrman law violator. John G. Johnson, of Philadelphia, completed his address, following Mr. Rosenthal, 30 minutes before the usual time for' adjourn- ' The court asked Mr. Kellogg, the government's attorney, if he wished to take advantage of the half hour in which to commence his replying argument, but the Federal lawyers VIOLENT MANIAC SHOOTS DP SQUARE, THEN SUICIDES Aurora, 111., Special.—John Ander son, a plumber, becoming violently insane, Thursday armed himself with two pistols, a shotgun and three bombs and killed Mrs. John McVick er, narrowly missed slaying her hus band, wounded Mrs. John Belford, and then committed suicide,'blowing his head off with a shotgun. He start !, 4 ont to kill the inhabitants of an on tiro square i» which he said malic . ,* -V and patting their fellow members on the back. After adopting a resolu tion that until further ordered, ses sions shall be held only on Mondays and Thursdays the House at S:2O p. m adjourned.- At the suggestion of Chairman Payne, the actiqn of the House in fix ing a rate of one per cent ad valorem on crude petroleum and its products was by unanimous consent reconsid ered the articles placed on the free list. The eommhJ?e amendments in-1 creasing the Payne rate on barley from 15 to 24 cents a bushel as well as the duty on barley malt from 25 to 40 cents a bushel were adopted. 'One minute before 3 o'clock an ■ amendment was adopted giving far mers the right to sety their tobacco in the manufactured state without paying the tax. All efforts to change the tariff on lumber from the existing schedule of i the Dingley bill failed. Hides are on the free list also, hav ing run the gauntlet of opposition. The bill now goes to the Senate whose committee has its amended form ready to report and the senior body will immediately proceed to its consideration. ——— and found Mrs. Sheppard alone with her children, one of them a baby of only six months. At once they began to seize everything in sight arid load ed it on drays. They took all the furniture except the beds, the cloth ing of all the members of the fam ily, the trunks and even the toys of the little ones. All he time, Mrs. Sheppard was pleading with the men to wait uniil her husband returned, but they re fused to listen and she says they were both rough and insolent. Next Mrs. Sheppard telephoned to the lawyer of the negro, but as soon as she ex plained who she was, she says he ab ruptly hung up the receiver, saying he talked business with men only. Judge Sheppard was in court Fri day afternoon and openly and bitter ly denounced the treatment he had received as not only outrageous, but an attack upon the dignity of the United States Court. • principle out to a legitimate conclu > sion and you will flud that every bus s iness in the country would eventually J be attacked. t But the government is not printing J envelopes or anything else at a profit. 1 The Dayton envelope plant is not only taking from the printer busi t ness that belongs to him, but is tax -8 ing him to.help pay for the losses in i curred in running this postal iniquity. A little figuring will prove this 8 statement to be absolutely true. The - government gets 50 cents a thousand ** for doing This nasty little trick, and b it costs it about 70 cents per thou sand to solicit orders for, print and deliver these envelopes. i But whether the government makes - a profit or not is not the question. ! Shall the government be allowed - to enter into competition with the business of the country from which t it derives the revenues which enable i it to livef i Shall we be compelled to contribute c to a fund that is to bo squandered 3 in an endeavor to cripple us in busi , nesst ) It's time our congressmen heard » from us.—South Hill, Va., Enter » nrise. was seated by his bride of a few hours in the coach of a Texas & Pacific train, en route to New Orleans. Bouvy's attorneys attempt ed to show that he was decidedly at tached to Miss Rhorer and that he smarted under the knowledge of a great wrong which they attempted to prove Van Ingen had done Miss Rhorer before his marriage her. said he would n/ther begin his ad dress in the morning, promising to finish by the usual closing time. That will end the hearing. The court will take the case under advisement but it is not expected that decision will be announced before next fall. Nintey-flve per cent of the govern* ment's evidence was incompetent and if judged by the ABC'sof the rules of evidence would be thrown out, Mr, Rosenthal declared. John G. Johnson, of Philadelphia; followed with the concluding argu ment for the defensfe, discussing both the law and the facts. —l • ions gossip concerning him had been ' circulated. Anderson's mind had been affected for some time and when he appeared with his armament of bombs and revolvers, he terrioriued the entire square to which he had an nounced his intention of laying waste. The bombs, he had strapped to hit body. That his already weakened mind had completely given way wai obvioua. REVIEWOfPAYNE BILL ! The Productiveness of th* Measure , Probably Lessened $40,000,000 by , Amendments—The Payne Bill Oon tains Many Reductions From the Dinfley Bill, With a Few Increases. Washington, Special. —The Payne j tariff bill, as amended by the Senate committee on finance was presented Monday. Senator Aldrieh asserted that 75 per cent of articles used by all the people had been reduced. In placing a large number of arti cles on the free list and in reducing duties on many others it has been fouud necessary to materially in crease the duties on many luxcries. The Senate committee has decided upon an increase amounting to about tweny-five per cent above existing rates on wines of all kinds and has made increas' a above the Payne bill' on other spir 's. Luxu: ■ Duties Go Up. A number f other articles, re garded as luxuries, have been in creased. In addition to placing tea and cof fee on the free list the committer proposes to admit cocoa free. An especial effort was made to reduce rates on the, so-called "breakfast table" articles of commerce. The Payne rates of 40 per cent a ton on bitiminous coal will be report ed without recommendation. The present rate of 15 cents per ton on black coal will be maintained. Senate Against Free Lumber. The Senate stands about two to one against free lumber. Its advocates fear they will not be able to maintain the reduction agreed upon by the House. The fight to be made for free hides has begun already. Western Senators are confident the duty will be placed on hides but nre not san guine of maintaining the existing 15 per cent ad valorem. Tobacco interests failed in their ef forts to induce the committee to re duce the amount of Philippine to bacco to be admitted annually free of duty and to get an increase in the rates on tobacco from other countries. The recommended raise on litho graphing, including postcards and ci gar labels, as conlained in the Payue bill, will be reported. The Payne rates on pottery and tine china hav«f been agreed to. It was learned that the Senate committee would provide ample pro tection for American manufacturers of watch dial;*, all but two of whom are said to have been driven out of business by foriegn competition. No attention was paid to the so called "joker" in the Payne bill as it passes the House. Petroleum and its products are among the articles which are to be reported to the Senate with out recommendation. Reduction of Revenue. The estimates of the revenue which the Payne tariff bill will produce for the government have been reduced nearly $20,000,000 through the amendments made to the measure before it was passed by the House and the Senate finance committee will have to provide means for mak ing up this difference if the original estimates are to be mat. TK« ■frilf. out o? several countervailing duty clauses on which no estimates were made, probably will lessen the bill's productiveness another S2O - The amendments taking off the 8- cent duty on tea subtracted .$7,000,- j 000 from the estimated revenues. The | striking out of (he countervailing j duty provision for a rate of 20 per ! cent ad valorem on coffee coming from countries which do not give the United States the benefit of their most favored nation clause disposes i of probably $15,000,000 in duties. I Where Loss Comes In. Taking out the countervailing pro viso for lumber and for petroleum ' means a loss tp the revenues of sev eral million dollars, it is estimated. By repealing the manufacturers' li cense tax for farmer* desiring to sell j the leaf tobacco which they raise, i the House lias withdrawn consider- I able revenue under the internal rev- j 1 enue law. A si.increase in rev- ' may be provided by the in- ' 1 crease tax cn Turkish tiller tobacco, : pineapples, larley and barley malt. The Payne bill as it passed the J House, like the Dingley bill when it i werft to thfe Senate, p'la ip hides on i the free list. Under the Dingley law, 1 hides have produced a revenue ex ceeding $3,000,000 annually. The Payne bill differs from the Dingley law in the maximum and minimum rctcliatory feature, the ad ditional method of valuation for the purpose of pieveuting unJer valua- \ tions and its provision for the S4O,- ! 000,000 issuance of Panama bonds and 125.000.0C0 issue 'ut Treasury 1 certificates. It extends the draw- [ back privileges. An inLcriatance tax. f which should bring in $20,000,000, is , provided for. The internal revenue t law should produce sl,f>oo.ooo addi-j, tional revenue because of the increase, t in the tax on cigarettes. f Two Prominent Increase*. i The two increases over the Dingley t rates that stand out most prominent- t ly in the Payne bill are those in the \ rates on women's and children's c gloves and hosiery. Cocoa, now im- j ported free, has been made dutiable c at 3 cents per pound. Unmanufac- s tured mica has been reduced one cent t per pound and the.manufacturers of mica have a duty levied upon them 2 cents per jwund less than the Ding- , • * J __• i,. ley rates. The duty on unmanufac tured barytes has been doubled. The Payne bill contains many re ductions from the Dingley rates of duty. The duties on lead ore and pig l*ad are materially reduced, while '.he lumber schedule is cut in half. The differential on refined su gar is reduced 5 cents per 100 pounds. Cotton seed oil and tallow are placed on the free list. Provision is made for the free entry, under certain con ditions of bituminous coal, wood pulp and agricultural machinery. The duty on print paper was considerably reduced. The mqst important chang es made in the wool schedule was the reduction of 5 cents in (lie duties on shoddy and top waste, and changes from an ad valorem to a specifie duty on tops. The bill permits the free entry of objects of art 20 or more yaers bid. Iron on the Free List. In the iron and bteel schedules, iror i'.Vo is placqd on the free list and material reductions are made in the r.ins on pig iron, scrap iron and Met 1 bar iron, round iron, blooms, structural iron, forgings, anchors, cotton ties, steel rails, tin plates, wire and numerous other articles. One of I lie most imperfect provisions of the bill is that which permits the free cut i n of every product of the Philip pine Islands, except rice; nnd ex empts from duty any articles import ed from the United Sta.es into those inlands. The amount of sugar which mn\ be imported is limited to 300,000 tons annually nnd the free importa tion of tobacco is restricted to 300,- 00(1 pounds of wrapper, 3,000,000 poi.i of filled tobacco and 150,000 000 cigars. Liquors Will be Returned. Mobile, Ala., Special.—ln the in ferior criminal court Tuesday before Judge Alford, attorneys for defend ants in the prohibition casen argued a motion to quash the affidavits and ! search warrants on the ground of in sufflciency. Tuesday Judge Alford handed down his decision, sustaining the motion and ordering that all li quors, fycld under previous orders of the roiirt, be returned to the parties in whose possession they were found at tie time of the seizure. Conference For Education. Atlanta, Ga.\ Special.—The twelfth annual meeting of the conference for education in the South assembles in AthinUi on April 14, for a three days scraion. This organization, so little known, is uniqua in the South. Its mdcrlving idea is to iiiterest lay men :n education as n civic responsi l»ility. Within its membership art bu;:ncEs men, professional men. col l",;o men of nearly every walk in life whose object in banding together s to raise fl..*> standard 'of citizen* sliiy in -set'"it in which they live. NEWSY GLEANINGS.^ Only one member of Taft'a Cabinet la smooth-shaven. ■ Cars for women only were run on trains In the Hudson tunnels. An unusual number of suicides by gas, shooting and hanging were re ported. On the new Queensboro Bridge's Sunday opening 156,000 persons era—■a.' 1 Borings were ordered to begin to settle the location of the Hudson River Bridge, Automoblllsts appeared at Albany, N. Y., to protest against prohibition of chains on tires. The attitude of England in regard to the Servian mobilization excited the greatest astonishment in Vienna. Cash receipts on the new Queens boro Bridge on the first day of Its use were $88.83. The bridge coat $20,- 000,000. Jennie, the oldest elephant In cap tivity, gavo a dinner in celebration of her 2l."th birthday at Bronx Park, New York City. Antl-fo'reign demonstrations in China were caused by the purchase by American missionaries of a site near Confucius' tomb. Alphonse Torso, five years old, was run down asd killed by a trolley car in New York City when sent upon his first street errand. Ulrlch Egg asked permission of the New York Supreme Court to change his name to Eck, alleging that he and his wife were weary of their friends' jokes. .J The noted French bulldog, Mares chel Ney 11.. owned by Lincoln Bart lett, of Chicago, and valued at $lO,- 000, has died. The dog swallowed some corks thrown to It by children while playing. An Artist Hero. Fireman James Dempsey of Engine Company No. 32, happening to be at leisure yesterday on State street near Washington, was able to give a neat and almost gaudy exhibition of the power of imagination when ap plied to small details. Mr. Dempsey perceived a runaway liorse plunging toward the orowd of shoppers, unre strained by the conventional bridle. At once he applied himself to the baok of the frightened animal, and loaning forward thrust his fingers in to Its mouth to produce the Impres sion of its familiar steering apparatus. Under this Jury rudder, so to speak, the horse was cleanly turned back to the mfftdle of the -treet and then brought to a halt * block further on. 'Mhr. Denvpsey seems to us not only a physical hero. Vat a creative artist of unusual genius. III? kind of Im agination has Rider Haggard's kind beaten a satte.-*- Chicago Evening Post. Korea's average annual rice crop Is placed at 2.560,000.000 nounds. ■ "' ' ■ , ' ■ BIG FIRE INJOCHESTER Several Sections of City Destroyed and Damage is Estimated at Not Less Than $500,000-Aid Was Summoned From Nearby Cities as It Looked at One Time as if Great er Portion of the City Would Be Swept, Rochester, N. \\. Special.—Swept along in the face of a 2.Vmilfe gale, fire Tuesday destroyed several sec tions of the city and did damage esti mated at half a million dollars. For a time it was thought that a great portion of th» city would be swept, and aid was summoned from Buffalo and Syracuse. Generously and promptly the out-of-town flre ment, with apparatus, responded, but ere they reached the scene, the heroic work of the local department and of volunteers had got the flames under chpck and their assistance was not required. One hundred families are homeless and militiamen are in the affected zonqp guarding what littlo the people saved of their household effects. Mayor Edgerton issued a call for relief funds for these families. Some of them were quartered in precinct houses and a large number spent the night in a public school. A heavy rain set in a 0 o'clock Tuesday night and while it helped in extinguishing the smouldering ruins, it was a hardship on the homeless, es pecially those whose household ef fects were in the open. Thieving, which started early in , the day, was stopped by the pres ence of the militia, j Buildings, which were destroyed in . addition to about 50 residences, were the Palmer Building, Temple Berith . Kodesh, First Reformed Church of I America, the Ward Apartments, and • I First German Lutheran Zion church. " The St. Peter's Presbyterian church, the Palmer lumber yards and several I small firms on Main street were dam aged. Although accurate estimates can not be made at this time, the loss is estimated at least $500,000. This in i eludes SOO,OOO on the Palmer Build ing; SIOO,OOO on the Hunting i pany, manufacturers of plumbers' > supplies;s 00,000 on the beautiful j Jewish temple, Berith Kodesh, and . the rest in small amounts, is appor . lioned among the manufacturers, house owners and tenants, [ Several firemen were injured by - falling walls or were overcome by i smoke, but none was seriously 'hurt, t The origin of the fire, which started . in (he Palmer Building, lias not been determined. en. Rochester is fcrror-stricken. Tuesday's conflagration was the cul mination of an uninterrupted series of fires of weeks, many of which have been charged to incendiarism. Added to this natural fear is the .fact that although both of Tuesday's "fires were under control after 3 o'clock in the afternoon the flames were still smoul dering in dozens of "places. | — I i -- E *pl*Mon in Powder Km. ayne, N. J., Special.—One man, Jerome Marsh, an employe, was kill ed and several others were injured and ten small buildings destroyed by an explosion in the corning mill of the DuPont Powder Works here Fri day. Employes in the adjoining buildings fled when -the first explosion 1 occurred, but some of them were knocked down arid the clothing was torn from their bodies by the sub sequent explosions of other buildings. The shock of (he explosion was felt for twenty miles and windows were broken and chimneys thrown down in Little Falls, Passaic and the out skirts of Pa'erson, the latter ten miles distant. Kenllwtfrth Inn Burns. Asheville, N. (*.. Special.—Fire broke out at 2:30 o'clock Wednesday morning at Kcnilworth Inn, three miles from lliip city. The guests were roused, and as far as is known, all succeeded in making their escape, The fire was hurtling furiously— at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning. The Kenilworth property is owned bv Senator M. Gazzam, of Philadelphia, and was built at a cost of $140,000. For Better Government., Constantinople, By Cable.—The roops of the garrison made a violent demonstration Tuesday before the parliament building against the com mittee of union and progress and the government. They demanded the dis missal of the grand vizier, Hilmi Pasha, the Minister of War and the president of the chamber. The out break was caused by an order issued' to the troops to the vffmt thab thev must obey their officers under all circumstances, even -if called upon t" shoot down their co-religionists. Posses After Garber Moore. Asheville, N. 0., Special.—A tele gram from Chief of Police Galloway, of Brevard, N. C., Tuesday stated that a man answering the description of "Tennessee Dutch," alias "Gar ber Moore,'.' who with his confeder ate, George Barton, alias "Chicago Army," his way out of the Greenville, S. C., prison Sunday night, April 4, had been seen'on tho outskirts of that city early Tuesday morning. WASHINGTON NOTES 1 Congress will have many ship sob sidy bills to select' from, if it eon cjudes to act on that ki'id of legisla tion during- the Sixty-first Congress. Representative Sulzer, of New York, is the latest members to introduce a bill on the subject. His bill pro. vides for a graduated system of ton nage taxes in fa\'or of American built ships and against foreign ships. "It follows closoy the poiey of the early statesmen,'' said Mr. Sulzer,' explaining the bill. "During the con tinuance of the old law the United States had the tines! deep sea carry ing fleet in the world." • • • President Taft has received a let ter from Francisco Fu'jutes Kuis, se#» rotary-treasurer of the agricultural association of Panay and Negros, Forwarding a petition fomulated by the agriculturists of the Philippine Islands. This petition opposes the Dingley tarifT ami asks for the estab lishment of free trade between the I nited States and the Phillipines. It is represented that such action is neessarv "to relieve the precarious industrial situation in the Phillip pines and to prove that the American people are no longef indifferent to the welfare of the Filipinos csfwcial 'y in view ol the oft-repeatod declar ation that the only justification for tho American occupation is the' pro motion of that welfare." The petition denounces the customs barrier as be inu helpful to the American trusts and harmful to the, Filipino as well "ds a cruel reversal of McKinley's admirable doctrine." • • • Secretary Dickinson, accompanied bv Mrs. Dickinson and Major Gener al J. Franklin Bell, chief of staff, will leave here next Sunday evening for Charleston, S. C., where they will embark next Tuesday afternoon on the Mayflower for a cruise to Colon to personally inspect the Patiams canal. On the way South, the party will spend next Monday at Fort Mon roo to inspect the batteries installed at that military post. • • • The most important happenings in the national capital Monday were the following: The tariff bill was reported to the Senate by the committee on finance. General reductions all along the lino are recommended except in the case of luxuries, especially the liquor sche dule, on which the duties are substan tially increased. Merry children thronged the White House lawns in full enjoyment of the annual Faster egg rolling, a ti*ne hon ored custom which appears to grow in popularity each succeeding year:, Samuel (Jompers, who is again per- 4 - sona grata at the White House, ar ranged for a conference at tho White House next Friday between President Taft and the executive council of the • American Federation of Labor, at which important matter® offc"f'. n g or ganized labor, will be dis"'ts.w?, Mr. Payne, of New York, offered a . resolution providing for the return of I the tariff bill to (be House in order ■LJ' m !K llt be amended so «■ fa» IttHW 1f plain ftiaf cruTTe"petroleum and its products should appear on the free list. After the bill passed last Friday an inspection of it dis closed the fact that products of pet roleum were omitted from the free list, although such was not tho in- I tentiorv when the Norris amendment was cut out and petroleum made free. Congressional halls, diplomatio chambers and departmental desks had many absentees, due to the an nual outpouring on the occasion of the opeuing of the baseball season. A good, workable membership was present when the House of Represen tatives met Monday for the first time of its semi-weekly sessions. The gal leries were tilled with Faster visitors. • • • The Senate tariff bill, so far as rates are concerned, was completed Saturday, hut it was decided that in making a report, Chairman Aldrich will announce a reservation on cer tain important schedules for future action. These reservations will in clude hides, steety rails, wood pulp and crude petroleum. • • • President Taft has recently declar ed that he favored the passage of a ship subsidy bill; Senator Oallinger has announced that at some early day, possibly not until the regular session of this Congress, he will in troduce and push with all his ability a similar bill to the one defeated in the House by a small margin this year. It is firmly believed here that? in v -the near future, a ship subsidy bill will pass Congress and become a law. I he fight against su,ch a measure has been long and hard-fought but with Taft in favor of it it will more than likely be enacted. * « • ' » ' ; I —7-' Chairman Aldeich assertes that the Senate committee had made a more general revision on rates than was done by the House committee on ways and means and that reductions in schedules had been made on a far greater number of articles. This did* not mean that there would be re duction of revenues but that there would be recommended a bona fide revision downward of the tariff. , .. ' J - ■ : I'L* - '