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Lawmakers to Have Plenty of
Work for Extra Session.
Since It Now Requires About $1,000,-
000,000 a Year to Support the
Government.
Washington, D, C.~The new tarift
bill has been reported to the house
by the ways and means committee,
The bill as framed is in rough shape,
and has little resemblance to the next
tariff law that will go on the statute
books,
The bill will be amended and dis
cussed at length in the house, Then
it will go to the senate, and Mr., Al
drich will have substituted for it a
bill of his own meking, Then every
gsenator will express his views, nol
only once, but many times. Then Mr.
Aldrich’s bill will go back to the house
and be submitted to more amendments
and more talk from 381 members. Fi
nallg, about June 1, the bill will go
into conference. Then each house
will. discuss its conferees’ report and
refiect them. Then more conferences
will be held and finally a bill will be
sent to President Taft.
A number ot' schedules have been
raised. There has been, however,
some revision downward. For instncea
reductions ‘are noted in the following
articles:
Free hides .
Wool remains the same, with a gen
eral reduction on woolen goods.
Heavy reduction on shoes and man
ufactured leather. :
Lumber cut from $2, the present
rate, to §1 or $1.50, tne figure being
yet in dispute.
Steel biilets cut from 1-16 to 25-100
below the present rate.
Other steel cut from one-third to
one-half from present rate,
Plate glass moderately reduced with
a much heavier tax in window glass.
The ways and means committee con
sidered at great length the question
of putting a duty on coffee, first at
5 cents, then at 3 cents, then at 2
cents per pound.
Since it now requires about $1,000,-
000,000 a year to support the govern
ment and keep the wheels moving, the
necessity of providing this vast
amount of revenue is not being over
looked even by the tariff reduction
democrats. They favor a revenue
duty and a revenue duty means inci
dental protection. :
The south’s interest in tariff revis
ion was ingeniously expressed by a
Virginia democrat recently. He said:
“The democratic party opposes the
principle of protection per se. It op
poses legislation which has for its
chief objective the imposition of pro
tective duties. But at the point where
in raising revenue by tariff taxatiou,
the principle of protection incidentaily
but necessarily obtrudes itself as a
factor in the equation, then democra
cy maintains that a fair deal should
be accorded. And if the republican
party is commissioned by the Amer
ican people to continue a protective
policy, there is every reason for the
democrats to insist that the doctrine
should not be applied under the influ
ence and according to the dictates of
sectional bpias.
In discussing the tariff bill and the
necessity for raising increased reve
nue owing to the growing deticit 1n
the treasury, Colonel Livingston show
ed that vast revenue could be sccured
from the one article of coffee. He
said: ;
“A duty of 4 cents a pound on cof
fee would vyield about $40,000,000 a
year in revenue. The total customs
receipts of the government last year
were $285,680,653.12. The coffee duty
would increase this revenue nearly
one-seventh, A tax on tea would add
a nearly efiual amount.”
Gifford Pinchot, the chief forester
of the Uniled States, is taking a keen
interest in the proposal to reduce the
tariff in lumber. His interest is in
the conservation of the American for
ests.
He holds the opinion that to reduce
the taritff on lumber would neither re
duce the price to the consumer nor
conserve the forests. He says he
would favor a removal of the tariff if
he thought it would aid in conserva
tion, but does not believe free lumber
would do so.
ENGLAND TO BUILD BATTLESHIPS.
Four More Dreadnaughts Will Be
‘ Built.
London, England.—The new build
ing program of England provides for
four Dreadnllughts, six protected crui
sers, twentyl torpedo hoat destroyers
and a number of submarines, the lat
ter to cost $5,000,000,
The first lord of the admiralty adds
that in addition to the foregoing con
struction program, the government
may fird it necessary to make prep
aration for the rapid construction of
four more large armored ships. |
LIMIT NAVAL EXPANSION.
Andrew Carnegie Suggests Most Prac.
tical Plan.
New York City.—Andrew Carnegie
suggests what he considers the most
practical way to limit further naval
expansion. He suggests: “Great Brit
ain and the United States to agree as
follows: The United States will de
fend against attack of the British pos
sessions upon the Atlantic, including
the islands in the south; Great Brit
ain will defend against attack of the
American coast upon the Pacific, to
gether with Hawaii and the Philip.
pines. This agreement to terminat
at the end of five years, notice giiy/l
L elt EICBRPGYE o G
HOW CONGRESS SPENT MONEY.
Grand Total of Appropriations is Way
Above Billion Dollar Mark.
Washington, D, C.—As the ranking
democratic member of the appropria
tions committee of the house, Colonel
Livingston had soqgmhlng pertinent
to sgay in reply to Chairman Tawney
in regard to the money belng spent
annually by congress,
In the course of his address he
gave the following figures showing the
appropriations made this year, and
where the money is to go:
Agriculture ... .. ..$ 12,995,036.00
B .. .. Giaee e TR
Diplomatic and con- '
. . 3,617,463.88
District of Columbia, 10,679,145.49
yortifoations .. ... 8,170,111.00
SRR i o b idren 10,634,928.00
Legislative, executive, .
and judicial .. .. .. 31,978,484.00
Military Academy ... 2,631,621.33
BREY o .. o 0 ssssed TRO
Pensions .. .. ...... 160,908,000.00
Postofice .. .. .... 284,962,370.00
River and harbor.... 9,435,750.00
Sundry ecivil .. .... 137,609,906.93
Urgent deficiency.. .. 831,102.40
General deficiency .. 19,431,727.29
B .. s 5 seed DRLDIRT T
Miscellaneous .... .. 2,000,000.00
Permanent annual ap
propriations ~ ~ .. 160,096,082.52
Grand total ~ ....$1,044,014,298.23
T 9 EXECULE WITH ChiLGROFGRM.
General Clement A. Evans Says Is
the Most Human Way.
Atlanta, Ga.—Probably the most
unique opinion on capital punishment
ever held by any authority is that
which General Clement A. lvans, pris
on commissioner of Georgia, express
es,
“I believe the law has no right to
do more than take a man’s life,” says
General Evans, concluding an expres
sion upon the law’s extremest form of
punishment.
“By that I mean that if the law
must kill a man, it should do the deed
in the most humane manner possible.
No living man should witness it. It
should be carried out in a cell, where
the condemned man should be con
fined alone and where no mortal eye
should witness his passing. It should
not be held up to the view of the mul
titude. It should not even be seen by
a dozen or even half a dozen officers
of the law.”
“Electrocution?” the commissioner
was asked, when he gave utterance
to the foregoing opinions,
“No, not by the electric chair,” was
the negative answer. “Nor least of all
by hanging, or by any of the other
known forms of death punishment.
Chloroform. That’s the answer. The
death cell should be sealed air tight,
and the man who is to die should in
hale the very breath of death itself,
and should die painlessly and alone.
Any other death punishment is noth
ing ' short of barbarous. Even this
would be bad enough.”
HUGE MEDICAL KIT.
Roosevelt Will Take 15,000 Doses in
Tabloid Form to Africa.
New York City. — Medicine enough
for a regiment and surgical instru
ments enough to do the work of an
ordinary hospital, will be carried by
Theodore Roosevelt to Africa, all con
densed so as to fill a suit a case.
There are fifteen thousand doses in
the tabloids, nearly forty per cent of
them quinine, The other medicines
are to ward off diseases most preval
ent in eguatorial Africa, chemicals to
make swamp water pure and palata
ble, cures for snake bites, stimulants,
opiates, knives and bandages.
~ These supplies, packed in unbreak
able and air tight bottles of a vulcan
ite composition, fit into an aluminum
case fifteen by ten by eight.
This outfit has been made for the
Roosevelt expedition by a firm whose
principal offices are in London, though
its plant is in New Jersey. The firm
supplied Livingstone, Stanley, Emin
Pasha, Peary, the Duc d’Abruzzi and
other explorers with medicine chests.
Major Edgar A. Mearns, United
States army, retired, medical director
of the Roosevelt expedition, dictated
the s2lection of the medicines to be
carried. Liquids find no place in the
assortment nor in the outfit for devel
oping photographs prepared for Ker
mit Roosevelt by the same firm and
‘put up in equally condensed form.
;
‘ Man’s Wooden Legs Burn.
San Jose, Cal—When George Camp
bell of Sunnyvale was rudely awaken
ed by the members of the fire depart
ment of that place, he discovered that
both his wooden legs were merrily
blazing,.
Campbell was sleeping in the Amer
ican hotel when a fire broke out. His
life was probably saved by the daugh
ter of the proprietor, who discovered
the blaze, and ran in her night clothes
to warn the fire department,
i Rule For Automobile Drivers.
~ Philadelphia, Pa.—That the driver
‘of an automobile on approaching a
railroad crossing is bound not only
to follow the ordinary rule of ‘stop,
look and listen,” but if necessary to
gte out of the machine and walk to
the track is decided in an opinion
handde down by the United States
court of appeals.
Twenty taiiors Drowned.
Rotterdam, Holland.-—~The Norwegi
an Mascot, for Sundefland, collided
wild the German ship margretha, Iqui.
2 OT Han;})urg, -.ab’du%zo miles West
flaas lightship. «The Margretha
' NEWSY GLEANINGS,
Albert T, Patrick went as he ar
zued his own casn in thoe Supreme
Court, Brooklyn, N, VY,
Frank C, Hollins, bhead of the
banking and brokerage firm, commit
ted suicide in New York City,
The cornerstone of the New York
Press Club Building was lald by the
glrtand Lodge of Masong of Now York
Y.
Theodore Roosevelt, in his first
signed article as associate edilor ot
the Outlook, assailed ‘‘yellow” jour
nalism.
Justice Guy, of the New York Su
preme Court, in an opinion, said it
was the duty of newspapers to expose
wrongdoing,
The case of a Spanish dancer's son
who claims the title and estates of
the late Lord Sackville-West opened
in Madrid, Spain.
King Alfonso had another narrow
escape in a motor car, the machine
striking a tree and stopping on the
brink of a ravine,
The Grand Vizier of Turkey, Kia
mil Pacha, demanded that Bulgaria
state whether or not she desired to
resume negotiations.
Twenty-four thousand parcels of
realty were announced for sale at
auction to collect unpaid taxes due
the city of New York.
Spanish war veterans complain of
a War Department ruling which ap
peared to deprive ninety per cent. of
them of service medals.
A thirteen-year-old boy was com
mitted in the Children’s Court, in
New York City, on his own plee, be
cause ‘“‘no one in the world loved
him."”
Philip fladstone, fourteen years
old, testified in the Children's Court,
New York City, that for five ceiafs he
had given false testimony, wiich re
sulted in the imprisonment of another
boy charged with larceny,
The man who is careless how he
lets his chips fall seldom wins in the
game,
Thoughts are often expressed with
no thought as to their ultimate desti
nation,
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Weakness
“After a spell of La Grippe I was
so weak and exhausted I could
hardly stand. I began taking Dr.
Miles’ Nervine and was soon better
in every way.”
MRS. F. J. NORTON, Freeville, N. X,
La Grippe scems to wrench every
particle of vitality from its unfortu
nate victims. That's where the
principal danger lies; -because it
leaves the system in 2 wedkened
condition which invites more serious
diseases. During convaiescence
Dr. Miles’ Nervine
should be taken to restore nervous
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