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PRICE
FOR TARIFF
COMMISSION
CONWftiarCE HELD AT WHITE
HOUSE YESTERDAY.
bill was outlined
Congreiiman Long worth Will Intro-
duce Measure Creating Commis-
of Fire to Be Non-Political
Washington, Dee. 28.—Impetus was
given to the movement for a tariff
commission by a conference at the
white house today between President
Taft, Congressman Nicholas Long-
worth of Ohio and Cbarlman Payne
of th* house ways and means commit-
tee.
Mr. lx>ngworth has a new bill
which he will introduce next week in
congress. It creates a commission of
five salaried men at |7&00 each, no
more than three of the same political
patty, with offices in Washington, but
empowered to meet anywhere. It is
given wide powers In the collection of
facts, but can only report on the call
of congress or of the president, ex-
cept that It la to meet before the ways
and means committee and give the
result of its labors, which are to be
kept secret.
One section authorizes the commis-
sion to Investigate the cost of all ar-
ticles covered by the tariff, with spe-
cial reference to pric\_„ jj, '* to domes-
tic and foreign labor, raw material,
condition of markets at home and
abroad affecting American products,
together with all other facts which In
the judgment of the commieslon will
be helpful to congrees In providing
equitable rates of duty
iJncle Sam's
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Savings Banks
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TAXES BEING
PAID SLOWLY
Scouting Ships Will Try to Locate "Enemy's"
Warships Approaching Cuba From England
COLLECTOR ENSOR REPORTS BUT
LITTLE DOORJ.
Washington, Dec. 28— PoBfcbaater
General Frank H. Hitchcock'# plans
for the inauguration of postal savings
banks throughout the country under
the new law have been perfected, and
an Jan. 3 one of such banks will be
opened In each state and territory In
Che United States. In each instance
an office run by a postmaster whose
record In the service Is good has been
chosen as the scene of the new gov
ernment enterprise. In the main the
movement starts in second-class of-
fices. The offlfce designated for Texas
Is Port Arthur.
Cleburne Capitalist Dead.
McKinney, Tex., Dec. 2».—D. C.
delta of Cleburne, Tears, a prominent
capitalist and backer. dl»d on i
operatl^ table here laat night. He
was prominently Identified with a
number of large business affairs in
this aactloo.
Long Drouth Broken,
•as City,
rious drouth in Missouri, Kansas and
Oklahoma was broken by a general
rainfall last night. The longest
drouth In the history of the Kansas
weather bureau, established twenty
years ago, is broken.
Cotton Crop in Pern.
Washington, Dec, IS—Exports of
the 19X0 cotton crop in Peru amount
to 65,000,000 pounds according to
an estimate just received. Growing
conditions are exceptionally favor-
able. The area under cultivation .s
125,000 acres. The cost of produc-
tion is placed at f 1-2 cents a pound.
Of the total production 65 per cent
is American upland.
AIRMEN AT WACO.
Big Aviation Meet Will Be Held in
That City Next Month.
Waco, Tex , Dec. 28.—A contract
was closed today for a three days'
aviation meet Jan. 2C, 21 and 22.
Ten thousand dollars In prizes wl'l
be offered. Among the flyers will
be Molsant, Hamilton, Garroe, Simon
and three others. Tt4Ve will ba
fourteen machines here. The meet
will be official and will be held un-
der the auspices Of<the Aero club of
America.
drawing of high
school building
ARCHITECT'S PLANS ARE PLEAS-
ING TO THE EYE.
Handsome Structure W0! Be Modern
in All Its Appoint Tent a sad
a Credit to Temple.
Request Refused.
Boston, Dec. ?8.—The municipal
arts commission refuser to permit the
portrait of the late M;s. Julia Warl
Howe to be placed ln^ Fanueil Hall
alongside of Gwrge Washington,
Lincoln and other famous Americans.
The secretary of the ocmmisslon says
a more appropriate memorial would
be a bust of Mra Howe In tt e Boston
public library.
The drawing of the proposed high
school building, for the erection of
which bids are now advertised for, is
on exhibition in the show window of
the J. J. Booker drug store. The
sheet t>ad been on exhibition at the
Hamill drug store previous to the last
meeting of the city council, and some
saw It there, but many others who are
Interested have not had the pleasure of
seeing the shadow of what is to come.
The drawing does not carry with it
a full appreciation of what the build-
ing is to be or look like, yet It Is
sufficiently explanatory to give a fair
idea of the splendid school structure
which is to be built during the spring
and summer.
The drawing as shown gives the
south and east fronts. The build'
ing is shown to be facing south, which
Is the long way of the plans, but, In
fact, It fronts, with exactly duplicate
ends, on First and Third sterets. The
north side, which will have no en-
trances, but which will be as snug as
possible against the cold north winds,
will lie flush with Elm avenue, and
the south front, shown In the picture,
will face the playgrounds. One quar-
ter of the block on which the build-
ing is to be erected has not been se-
cured by the trustees, hence the south-
east corner of same will be an offset
Into the grounds, which otherwise ex-
tend from street to street and from
avenue to avenue. The grounds have
been cleared of encumbrances and ev-
erything is In readiness for the con-
ractotr to begin work immediately af-
ter the award is made.
The Interior arrangement of the
building could hardly be made Intelli-
gible In a newspaper article. In
brief description It is designed to fa-
cilitate the general study hall and
department olass _room system of
(Continued on Page 2)
decrease b shown
Filling Off in BcHfa Property and
Poll Taxes Compare* With Tbii
Time Last Y«ar.
There is one fall-dorrs to he rec
orded in Bell county and that Is In
the payment of taxes, uotb poll and
property.
Ordinarily the month of December
is a favorite time for settling with
the collector, but this yiar there has
been a heavy falling of* in the num
ber of those who wanted to get
square with the world before the new
year should come la. County Collec-
tor Knsor has made Tejaple his head
quarters for a month for the conven
lence of town and couatrj, bat there
has been but little response.
The payment of poll taxes is far
behind the same date last yesr. There
are about 8,800 poll tax assessment*
for the entire county, of which abou
7,000 are expected to i*f. So far
only about 2,300 havq taken out
their receipts, which leaves over half
the prospective payers to be attendel
to during the month of January.
There may and there may not be a
reduced number of po'l tax receipts
issued in Temple, sad It ls probable
that there will not be an Increased
number, A principal causc for that
ls the application of the election la*v
which provides that in cities of ten
thousand Inhabitants every voter
must In person secure his receipt
and exemption certificates must be
issued to overs and u'«lers, on per-
sonal application. To*- cutting out
of receipts issued on orders and of
those overs and unders who will
ne#l*ct to secure thelneremptlon cer
tlflcates ls apt to affect the total
number who pay on time.
Collector Ensor, who has a pretty
close tab on the Inhabitants of the
county, was asked by a Telegram rep-
resentative how he accounted for the
low figures of the census report for
th® county. As Is p*-obat>ly well
known the county as a whole gained
less in population during the past ten
years as did the city of Temple alone
Mr. Ensor was of the opinion that
the falling off will be found to he
charged to the rural districts. He
believes that as a mat'er of fact the
population substantially increased )n
In the country, but that they were not
all counted. This failure to secure
all the names was attributed to the
short time In which the enumerators
had to do the work. Tbey canvassed
the more thickly settled communities
and did the best they could, but were
unable to get over all the ground,
and to hunt up or go back Xo the
many places where th:y failed to get
complete records on the first trip
through a section. He thought that
Belton would show up shy on the
negro population and that the un-
counted people were In considerable
numbers sufficient to account for the
disappointing figures irsued by the
census bureau.
The enumerators as ? body were In-
telligent and energetic and the fault
was not with them but with the reg-
ulations, which did not allow them
sufficient time to make the thorougn
canvass necessary to get a full count.
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T REQUIRES
skill to make a
Shoes on the market. But the addi-
tional comfort and wearing qualities
mak'e the extra cost well worth while.
If you want your foot to look well, you
can't afford to be without a pair of these.
GUARANTEE'SHOE CO.
"The Shoeists"
MORSE'S FRIENDS.
They Are Making Strong Fight For
Felon Banxer*! Release.
Washington, Dec. 28.—Friends of
Charles Morse, the New York banker
serving a term In the Atlanta peniten-
tiary, have about decided to concen-
trate their efforts for his release oa
a plea to President Taft tvTommute
bis sentence. All hopes of receiving
an uncond( >nal pardon and restora-
tion of civil rights are practically
abandoned.
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SCORE DEAD
IN EXPLOSION
DISASTER AT EL PASO B0R0E8
TWENTY-EIGHT WORKMEN.
cause is unknown
Nrirby Homes Wrecked and Many
Persons Injured By Hying Debris.
Four Bodies Recovered. ,
Norfolk. Va , Dec. 2*."-Int«resting| go to sea from Hampton Poada in!
and important ocean scouting exer-1 attempt to locate and keep In touch
with the battleship flaet under Rear
Admiral Seaton Schroeder, which has
been visiting England and Was
scheduled to assemple in the English
channel Dec. 30 and sail fyr Guanta-
namo, Cuba. The queition as to
whether a foreign fleet In time of
war could surprise tr.c American
cises are about to be uudertaken bv
the fifth division of tbe Atlantic fleet
commanded by Rear Admiral Sidney
A. Staunton and consistiug of tbe ar-
mored cruisers Tennessee, Washing-
ton, North Carolina and Montana and
the scout cruisers Chester, Birming-
ham and Salem. These vessels are to
toairmFnkilled
in fall from sky
AVIATOR AND PASSENGER ARE
DASHED TO DEATH.
navy scouts and approiJh one of our
ports la an ever preset t one with
naval experts. This scouting expe-
dition will be carried on as if the
approaching fleet wore an enemy.
Among the sixteen battiebhlps are the
dreadnaughts Delaware and South
Dakota. One of Hear Admiral Staun-
ton's most lormldablo skips Is the
armored cruiser Tenne-eee.
Preparing to Start on Long Distance
Flight When Aeroplane Became
Disabled and Fell
ABERNATHY'S SUCCESSOR.
ClaDD Shoe—Thatt*®1*11 Ridin* 0klalonuLi1 Ha» Re-
. i • signed Tinder nkarm
is why it costs a
trifle more than any
other of the men's
signed Under Charges.
Guthrie, Ok., Dec. 28.—Federal
Judge Cotterall today appointed
Chris Madsen chief deputy United
States marshal, to serve as United
States marshal until a successor to
Jack Abernathy is appointed. Aber-
nathy's resignation will be effective
Dec. SI. He was p.ppolnted by
Roosevelt and resigned after charges
had been filed against him.
Issy Le Molineux, Fiance, Dec. 28.
-M. Laffort, the French aviator,
and M. Pola, a passenger, were !»•
atantly killed when the for.ner's ma
chine fell from a he'ght of fifty
feet today.
Laffort was preparing to start for
Brussels in competition for the Aen
club's prize for a flight with a pas-
senger from Paris to Brussels and re-
turn.
A big crowd was piesent to wit-
ness the ascensloa wheb, both to en-
tertain the spectators and test his
machine, Laffort circled above the
aviation field several times. Sudden
the steering gear jammed and the
aeroplane dropped to the gmund. The
occupants were caught in the wreck-
age and were dead before aid could
reach them.
Bargain.
For sale—70 acres of black land,
23 hundred yards from city square In
Temple, Tex. Can give possession at
once.- Address Call Box 307. (6tx)
Travenner Takes a Fall Out of
The WhiteiDashers of Lorimer
Flays Senate Committee For the Secret lnvesti<
gation of the Senator-Elect Who Faced
Well Founded Charges of Bribery.
Short Crop in India.
'Bombay, Dec. 28.—The cotton sit-
uation 1s chuslng disquiet. Receipts
to date are 200,000 bales behind last
season. A total crop of 2,600,000
bales ls expected, against 3,200,000
laat year.
MORE INDICTMENTS.
Prosecution of Ohio Citizens Who
Sold Their Votea
West Union, O., Dec. 28.—The
Adams county grand Jury early to-
day reported 14S additional true bills
against citizens accused of selling
their votes at the went elections.
This makes a total of 959 indict-
ment* already returned and as special
prosecutor Stephenson put It, "we
have only scratched the surface so
far." v -
Engene V. Debs tc Lecture.
Eugene V. Debs, the noted lecturer
and expounder of ooctsllmn, will de-
liver a lecture at the auditorium in
Waco Sunday, Jan, 29, at S:S0 p. m.
Everybody ls invited to attend this
meeting and to hoar the famous
speaker *- .
(By Clyde H Ttavenner.)
Washington, Dec. 28.—Is It legal to
Lorimerlze a state legislature?
The senate committee on privileges
and elections holds that It ls. Will
the United State senate as a body sup-
port or refuse to support this proposi-
tion?
And if the senate does aupport It,
will public oppinlon agree with the
senate?
Some more queries which are being
asked and re-asked here In the na-
tional capital are:
If the senate maintains that the
methods used to bring about Lorlmer's
election are not unlawful or ohjec-
tlonal so far as the senate ls concerned
why haven't the corporation friends
of Senator Lodge the right to Lorime-
rlze the Massachusetts legislature?
And why wouldn't the Big Interest
friends of Senator Carter be justified
In Lorimerizing the Montana legisla-
ture?
Wherever there is the prospect of
a senatorial deadlock, like in Con-
necticut, where Senator Bulkley ls a
candidate for re-election; In Wyoming,
where Clark is a candidate; in New
Jersey, West Virginia and Ohio, there
are intimations that Lorimerizing may
be attempted if tbe senate upholds the
committee position that the Lorlmer-
ization of state legislatures ls not suf-
ficiently objectionable to deprlva a
member of his seat. ^ "*
Tbe finding of the committee to the
effect that the election of Lorimer is
without taint and that Lorimer is
without stain is a parallel report to
the majority finding of the Balllnger
Investigation committee. Both reports
are an attempt to justify wrong In
such a manner that the public may
be deceived and that the Interests
which were to profit In both cases may
get what they want and what they are
believed to have paid for.
The report of a secret examination
by the packed subcommittee which
declarest here wav.no testimony taken
"which would tend in the remotest
degree to implicate Senate* Lorimer
in any personal act of bribery or at
tempted bribery."
The doctrine is laid down, in other
words, that no matter If there la brib-
ery, so long ap tiie man elected does
not handle the money, or knows just
who Is being bribed or wEo is doing
the bribing, he Is without stiin, and
his election is above suspicion.
In Chicago political circles Lorimer
Is known as the "blonde boss of the
stock yarda'' He is local peddler of
public utilities, congressional agent of
the meat packers and the lumber
trust, and staunch supporter of most
forms of civic wrong. From the time
he formed with Cannon, Sherman and
Wadsworth the quartet of chief antag-
onists to pure food, he has been a con-
aistant supparter of privilege. After
he, as a member of the House, voted
fOr every wrong in the Payne-Aldrlch
tariff bill, the trusts saw an opportu-
(Contlnued on page 2.)
El Paso, Dec. 28.—A score or mere
men are believed to be dead and a
score of otehrs injured In an explo-
sion of a large quantity of dynamite
stored in a pit at the EI Paso smelter
at 1ft o'clock this morning.
Of ^twenty-eight men who were
working In the Immediate vicinity
Just before the explosion, only four
had been accounted for hp to a late
hour this afternoon, and it ls possible
that the death list may go to twenty-
four. It is believed that fourteen
were in the dynamite pit at the time of
the explosion. In which case they am
burled under tbe ruins,
CHILDREN INJURED.
Marcentl Rodriguez, a sick woman,
lying at the point of death In her
house near the smelter, was covered
with the debris of the house as It col-
lapsed from the force of the explosion ^
and Is not expected to live. A large
number of children playing la the
elghborhood were Injured by blta of ;
flying debris.
The smelter, owned by the Ameri-
can Smelting and Refining company,
and the second largest smelter In the *
world,, suffered little Injury beyond
the satterlng of windows by the force
of the explosion and the crushing of
the roof by the tohs of debris thrown
upon it. "' 3
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"CAUSE IS UNKNOWN. ■*$1
The dynamite had bee stored In a
pit near the smelter when a loner of
railroad workmen were blasting oat
the slag plies about the smeltef to se-
cure ballast for railroad work. This
hot slag, as It pours out from the smel-
ter, forms a solid mass, and as It
cpols, large quantities of dynamite are
needed to break It up.
The cause of the explosion probably
will never become known as the force
of the explosion killed all la the im-
mediate vicinity.
Aid was rushed to the spot as soon
as the exploeion was heard and work
of digging In the ruins for bodies be-
gan. None of tbe bodies had been re-
covered up to late this afternoon.
The large number of Injured 18 at-
tributed to the metallic hardness of
the Blag, which was throwa high In-
to the air by the explosion. As It
fell It cut Its way through eoofa and
sharp pieces sank a oonslderable dis-
tance in the ground.
Most of the injured so far treated
at the smelter hospital are people who
live In nearby houses. A number of
those houses were eevpletelf wreck-
ed, also the smelter store of E. M.
Bray. The smelter hospital also suf-
fered, and the home of J. M. Leltch la
the smelter yards was wrecked.
Following are the known Injured:
Refugio Cardes, cute on the body.
Emetldlo Rodrlguea, outs on body.
Marquez Rodrlguea, cuts on body.
Pilar Montoyo badly cut In back.
Jose Melendez, head crushed and
hack cut; may die.
William Da via, carpenter at smel-
ter, hand cut by flying glass.
The smelter Is located just beyond
the city limits on the American side
of the Rio Grande. It ls surrounded
by a good sized village in which many
of the employes lived.
Mr. and Mm. Roger* will give their
regular danoe at Wilkeisom Hall to-
night. dome out.
Special Clothing
Prices This Week
$30.00 Suits go at $22.SO
$27.50 ar\d $25.00 Suits go at $20.00
$22.50 Suits go at 4F 18.60
$20.00 Suits go at $17.00
$ 18 50 Suits go at.... #15.00
$15.00 Suits go at f 13.00
Special Rrtces on Boys' Suits, too
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Chas. S. Co
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Williams, E. K. The Temple Daily Telegram (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1910, newspaper, December 29, 1910; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth475198/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.