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WASHINGTON NEWS.
In issuing his call for a special ses-
sion «>i tin- Sixty-third congress. with-
out specifying tin- legislation which
ho will ask the congress t«> enact,
President Wi'son Monday defeated the
attempts of Hit1 conservatives under
Floor Leader Underwood to have him
hold the legislation to the tariff and
the passage of the sundry civil and
Indian appropriation hills, which fail-
ed last session
Conferences between National Chair-
man William F McCombrt and demo-
cratic leaders Saturday brought out
the fact that the administration in
tends to proct I slowly and carefully
in filling federal offices throughout
the country. It is expected. howe\er,
that when the extra session of con-
! ureas begins on April 7 there will be
j a long list of appointments ready for
confirmation
Appropriations of the last sossion of
I congress, including the sundry civil
and the Indian appropriation bills,
which failed at the last moment, but
which are to be put through at the
coming extra session, aggregated $ I
0H8,ii47,9«0 The annual statements
given out Friday by Chairman Fitz-
gerald of the appropriations commit-
tee and by former Speaker Cannon for
the republicans agree on that total.
Vv. Cannon adds, however, that In ad-
dition to that amount contracts au-
thorized for public works Involve fur-
ther expenditures of $7(i,U5t5,174.
Senator Benjamin It Tillman of
South Carolina Friday losi his long
and hard fight for the chairmanship
of the powerful committee on appro-
priations. The democratic committee
lists, completed by the "steering com-
mittee," headed by Senator Kern, ac-
cords the appropriations chairmanship
to Senator Martin of Virginia, and
places Senator Tillman at the head
of the committee on naval affairs.
A senate committee spent four
hours Friday investigating charges
made by Senator Gore, that an assist-
ant doorkeeper of the senate, Carl \
Loel'tler, had been responsible for the
disappearance in I!• 11 of the llolstlaw
certificate of deposit, an incident
which figured prominently In the trial
of Senator William Lortiner
The gulf coast iiectlon of the State
of Texas contributed the greatest vol-
ume of the agricultural harvest dur-
ing February. Reports from that sec
lion and also from the Itio Grande val
ley indicate a movement of 600 cars of
products, consisting of lettuce, cab
bage and miscellaneous vegetables.
Taking into consideration the timber
cuttings and the live stock sales, the
total agricultural production was ap
proximately (17.250,000
The gross wealth of Texas increased
approximately $43,585,000 during the
month of February, according to sta-
tistics compiled by the Texas Com
mermorcial Secretaries and Business
Men's Association. This is a slight
gain over January, which was $.'>5,255,
000, and an increase over the same
month last year of $124,500
Less than thirty days remain in
which the farmers of the State ma)
enter the $10,000 crop contest of the
Texas Industrial Congress. Hoys and
girls between the ages of 10 and 20
years may Join the Texas Corn and
Cotton Clubs by cultivating one acre
NOTABLE VICTORY
FOII THE PEOPLE
Upsetting of Western Classifica-
tion 51 Means Much.
RAILROADS LOSE BIG CASE
Chairman Thorne of Iowa Commis-
sion Tells How the Shippers and
Consumers of the West Bene-
fit by the Decision.
lies Moines, la., March 13.—The peo-
ple of the United States have had
Iowa to thank for a number of ex-
cellent things, and to the list must
be now added an achievement that
means a great dual to the shippers of
of corn or one acre of cotton, while i the entire west from the Mlssislppl
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STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
The strawberry crop in the vicinity
of Dickinson. Texas, suffered Iroin
frost Monday
Governor Colquitt Monday received
copies of documents In the archive*
of Mexico relatng to tin v.\la. o mis-
sion at San Antonio The order to
have these copies made and sent to
tin governor of Texas was one of the
last acts in the official career and life
of Francisco I. Mt.dero, late president
of Mexico Among the documents
which I 'resident Madero forwarded
was Santa Anna's report on the batth
of the Alamo, heretofore unpublished.
With assets said to exceed its lia
b lities by $4,rtno,(Min, the American
Naval Stores Company of S r autiah,
Ga . Monday announced it lias sus
pended business in a statement given
mil by C ,i lieloadi secretary of the
company, he asserts that the I'iulit the
government has made upon the com
puny and Its officers has practically
destroyed iis credit and lias made it
wise to discontinue
The fish and oyster industry o^ Tex
as shows a decline under the January
catch, the total value of the February
catch being $iiO,ono There were ap-
proximately s.otin barrels 01 oysters
and 175,000 pounds of fish tak n from
the sea during the month
Texas crop conditions are excellent.
Reports from t!i• • truck belt from the
Galveston territory down the coast
line an I up the Itio Grande \allev -
are full of optimism. Laredo reports
some damage to tender truck Satur
day morning from freezing tempera
tures but the immense onion crop,
which Is a mouth from maturity, was
not injured The bulk of the upper
Kio Grande valley's cabbage crop, ex
ceedlng a hundred carloads, In s al-
ready been shipped
The parcel post business In Feb
ruary was almost 4a per cent greater
than In January, as shown by reports
to I'oHtmaster General Burleson. made
public Saturday In February 50,000.
000 parcel post packages were ban
died, an im rease ol 10.nu0.000 o\ei the
previous month
Mrs \ F llerry and four of her
children were tound fro/,en to death
titling In a wagon sixteen miles ea-t
01 Rapid City, S. 1) , Sunday On the
ground and p.ittly tindet the wagou
lay the body ot her husband, also
tror.cn to death. The parly were vIt
tints ot the blizzard which swept
South Dakota on Thursday and Frl-
ill
those who are 20 years of age or more
may compete for the prizes offered
f-ir four-acre model demonstration
farms and for forage crops, both irri-
gated and unirrigated.
The Delarcy hotel at Angleton, Tex-
as, wa'i destroyed by fire Friday.
Through action by Governor Col-
quitt, J 1 >, Mauley, former sergeant
of the Texas National Guard, convict-
ed of murder In the second degree and
given a term of forty years in the
penitentiary, is at home in Dallas at-
tending the bedside of his daughter,
who is critically ill. Mauley was per
milted to leave jail at Waxahachie
lor his home on his honor that ho
will return. Mauley killed Sol Areuof
In Dallas a few years ago.
Kd Sharp, aged 22 years, son of M
c. Sharp of Hock Springs, Texas, was
shot through the heart and instantly
killed Saturday by a Mexican, who
also kil.ed a Mexican girl, Friday
Sharp was with a posse that encoun-
tered the Mexican.
Tbe board of prison commissioners
were advised by the attorney gen-
eral's department of Texas Friday
that the 10 cents per day provided by
law to be paid prisoners applies to
life t.**rm prisoners as well as to
ot hers.
Five skeletons were plowed up re
cently where surface tankers were
working on Mitre Peak fruit farm,
near Alpine, Texas Nearly all the
to the Pacific. Especially are those
shippers under obligations to the Iowa
state board of railroad commissioners
and Its chairman, Clifford Thorne.
This achievement is the suspension
and revision, by the Interstate com-
merce commission, of an entire freight
classification, known as Western clas-
sification No. 51. and on March 31 he
several hundred changes made to con-
form to the commission's order will
go Into effect. Shippers and consum-
ers allko will benefit by the revision.
Iowa I eads the Fight.
Iowa's commission was by no means
alone in the good work, but it took
the initiative In the case and assumed
the chief part of the burden of pre-
paring and trying It. Sixteen western
state railroad commissions united in
the fight, and Mr. Thorne was the
chairman of the committee represent-
ing them He gives much credit to
Benjamin L. Jacobson, who had gen-
eral charge of gathering the evidence
and preparing the specific cases for!
trial, and to A. I) Deals, Iowa's rate
export.
Mr Thorne today had this to say of
the big case and Its outcome:
"One day during the summer of 1011
l was seated In a hotel parlor in Mil-j
waukee In one end A>f the room there
were sixteen men In their shirtsleeves,
talking and listening occasionally to
a person standing In the center of the 1
room; two or three minutes were al-
lowed to the gentleman tulklng; he I
bones are tairly well preserved and J took his seat and another person told
durltig the
t lie teeth are especially so. The orlg
mat holes for interment are i.Mumoml
shaped and only three feet in length
bv two wide One ot these containi 1
! a short story; and so on
I course of the whole day.
Powerful Group of Men.
"Tills small group of men exercised
more power than any other similar
group, perhaps, in the United States
Some nine hundred railroads, large
and small. Interested in traffic be-
tween the Mlssislppl river and the Pa
clflc coast, have organized what they
call a western classification commit-
tee of about eighty-five members
These eighty-live men have selected a
subcommittee of sivtee-i men This
subcommittee, which Is dominated by
one t.r ; *Individuals, determines the
freight ratings on our 7,000 articles,
on which 35,000,000 people have to
pay traffic between about 20,000
towns, located between the Mississip-
pi river and the Pacific coast. This
is one of the three important classlfl
cation committees in America, the
other two being the official, covering
the northeastern portion of the Unit-
ed States, and the Southern.
"For the first time In the history of
American railroads an entire classifi-
cation of one of these three great
freight classification committees has
!iei-n suspended by the federal wovem-
ment And the committee I have de-
scribed has been making a revision of
its former work, In accordance with
the decision which was rendered by
the Interstate commerce commission
recently, known as the decision In the
case of Western classification No 51.
The railroads have just submitted to
the commission a list of several hun-
dred changes In this classification to
| conform to the commission s order,and
tue j thes" will go Into effect March 31
nut j The opinion In this case, next to the
tlie skeleton ot a young woman, as
proven by the teeth and other anato
luteal peculiarities, with the bones ot
an infant clasped in her arms An-
other held the remains of a large man
of apparently great age, the jaw teeth
having been ground very low
Tarrant County. Texas, now leads in
the number of entries in the Texas
industrial Connrmis contest, h;.' ing
'Jil farmers w ho wlii compete for $10,
Mia in gold offered for the best crop
y ields. Kills County, which stood firs'
hist week, is now .lecond with 231 ton
testants, and Jack County ranks third
"Uube' Marguard signed a contract
with the New York Giants Thursday
and on the same day wedded au act
less in San Francisco.
FOREIGN NEWS.
St rout f'-elitig against tin. Buluat
1.ins is spreading among the Greeks
Only the government's strong hand
prevents au outbreak The Greeks it
illation arises from (lie Bulgarians
claim to a stretch of erstwhile Turk
sh territory which Greece considers
hers by right of conquest
Twenty-four dead and about forty
wounded is the toll of a two hours
battle on the outskirts of Nuevo I .a
redo, Mexico, Monday, between the
letlerals anil the Carranza rebels The
victory went to the federals, who lost
two killed, the rebels' loss being iwen
1 y t wo
A number of high officers of
Belgian army whose names are
given have Ikvii accused by the mill one rendered in the express case. Is
ttiry millionth . with swindling the I perhaps the longest ever written by
liel^iisn government out ol $ I .nudjiuii the Interstate commerce eom mission
The case Is of national importance
Many of its features ure unique, atv
of profound concern to the < onscuier*
cf the country
Sixteen States United
to $2,000,00" by means of fraudulent
contracts for furnishing munitions of
war to the Belgian fortress artillery.
| \ military inquiry into the matter is
j under way
Fragments of wreckage picked up
Monday on the coast of Norway gave
londusive evidence that the Get ma 11
steamer Peruvia, with its crev ol
j twetltv eight officers Hint tllell, WiU
j lost in a storm there some time
Home rule for Ireland in a
more years was predicted by
Redmond iit 111 Irish banquet at
don. Ktigiand. Monday
vvlio again
day meeting In Hyde
Kugland were mobbed
)n.Mill pet soils.
\ubei t, on lit - march
lexico, Saiunlay
rebels at Vllialtiuma,
north ol Monterey
and the Cut ranzii-tas
ago
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Suffragettes,
to hold a Sui
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by a 1 row d of
General Tl in y
111 I .a III pa.'. IS, \
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fifty-eight miles
A battle ei lied
"Many shippers and shippers or-
j ionizations were parties to this case
' Rut perhaps the most interesting fea
i ture was the fact that, on behalf of
! the consumers 'ho railroad cornmln-
I slons of sixteen great states nppenr-
ed These states were Illinois, Wis
I cousin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri.
| Arkansas Louisiana, Texas Okla
j botna Nebraska South Dakota, North
' Dakota Colorado, Nevada Washing
it tempted ton and Oregon On the nno hand we
j bad the representatives of some nine
hundred railroads, and oppofd to
; them the representatives of sixteen
state governments, with the interstate
I commerce commission as the deciding
tribunal The hearing In the case
las'ed about h year
'Wt stern Classification No 51 to
fled
volvoa more changes tnan any otr.«.-
tariff publication ever Issued by Amer-
ican railroads Til® work done In
preparation for this issue Is said to
have cost the railroads approximately
$600,000.
Most Important Phases.
"Of the many phases of the dec.
slon the first In Importance are the
rules and regulations. The carriers
proposed many changes These are
applicable to every city, town and
hamlet west of the Mlssislppl river
Tho state commissions made objec-
tions to fourteen of these rules, and
changes were made or ordered in
twelve of them.
'A concrete Illustration of these
concerns the dunnage allowance
Prior to the Issuance of No. 51, the
carriers permitted the shippers to uso
lumber and boards to prop up machln
ery In a car, the railroads hauling 500
pounds of such lumber free of charge
No 51 abolished the dunnage privi-
lege, and the commission ordered it
reinstated When one considers tho
thousands of shipments that are made
annually, the Importance of such a
ruling can be appreciated.
"Another change of Importance to
the western half of the United States
concerns green hides The carriers
put In a rule permitting them to re-
fuse to take green tildes for shipment.
Wo pointed out that thev could be
stored or handled In live stock cars,
and not contaminate other commodi-
ties. and claimed ttyat the carriers
should be compelled to accept tho
same for transportation. Our position
was sustained by the commission.
Minimum Rate Ruling.
"Several hundred advances were
proposed by the railroads In minimum
weights They announced their pol-
icy to be the establishment of mini-
mums upon the physical capacity of
tho cars, refusing to take Into consid-
eration the commercial condition#
surrounding the transportation.
Carload Mixtures.
"One of tho most Important parts of
this case concerns carload mixtures.
The carriers pronpsed the elimination
of carload mixtures on 234 articles,
and proposed changes restricting car
load mixtures on more than three hun-
dred other articles. One of the moat
Important changes affecting carload
mixtures, which serves as an Illustra-
tion of the effect of such changes,
concerns binding twine Pr'or to the
Issuance of No 51, the carriers per
mltted binding twine to bo shipped
mixed with agricultural Implements,
all of which took carload rates. In
No. 51, they proposed to apply less
than carload rates on all shipments of
binding twine made In this manner.
This would have caused Jan advance
of about one hundred per cent In the
freight rates on binding twine, and
more than ninety per cent of all bind
Ing twine shipments, we were told
by the largest shippers In the coun-
try, would be affected by this hundred
per cent advance,
"As Indicating the policy of th*
carriers, thirty-two articles had car-
load mixtures granted to them, while
over five hundred articles were totally
eliminated from carload mixtures, or
the mixtures wero changed or re-
stricted The Interstate commerce
commission has ordered tho carriers
to pursue diametrically the opposite
course Instead of restricting mix-
tures, they nro instructed to make
them more liberal
"!n addition to these changes In
rules, the commission made specific
orders disapproving advances on a
long list of articles. The decision <n
tills rase is the most epoch-making
I on claslfication matters ever render-
ed by the Interstate commerce com-
mission."
MUST LOVE THE LITTLE FOLK
i Otherwise the Girl Who Adopts Pro-
fession of Children's Nurse
Will Not Succeed.
The great easention for any gin
I adopting the profession of children's
nurse Is that she must have a great
[ love for tile wee folk, to be able to
j enter Into their feelings, to s.viupa
I thlze with their sorrows and Joys. A
child's ni;rse must not be a cynic.
She must know the Importance of lit-
tie things to children, must know
tlat t!i" molehills of grownups are
the mountains of boys and j irls. Now-
adays the children's nurse must be a
comrade and companion as well as
m ntot to her young charges, but the
latter role must never be over-empha
si/a d
It is well, too, for any girl desiring
o become a nurse of this kind to go
somewhere and obtain the proper
training for the position It Is a big
advantage when seeking "tnployment
Briefly, the nprse of children must
be able to B"?«,rintend tho , nildren's
health, mctr good, tlielr <1. Mie« and
their I -sc..., not at all onerous du-
ties to the girl who Is fond of chil-
dren —Uxchsnge
Not Long to Wait.
Humble -Why didn't you get on tM
water wagon?
Humble No seats left
Bumble Oh. well, If you persist In
the notion, you will find a seat latsr.
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