2 The HcbrasUQ Independent
MAY 311906
coming elections. Mr. Towne made a
brilliant speech in which he arraigned
the president for exceeding his au
thority and being perniciously and
mischievously active in ways unbe
coming his high office, closing by read
ing him out of the democratic party
and pronouncing him a humble bearer
of burdens under the direction of the
Duke of Rhode Island.
MUCH MONEY AT SAN FRANCISCO
Majority of Banks are Open and Have
Plenty of Cash.
San Francisco Practically every
bank in this city that has been able
to secure temporary quarters threw
open its doors to the public. There
was no sign of a run. A unique fea
ture connected with this general re
sumption of business after the sus
pension caused by the recent great
calamity was the fact that never in
the history of San Francisco was
there so much bank money on hand.
THREATENS ADDICKS WITH CELL
Ohioan to Make Attack if Delaware
Man is Elected Senator.
Peoria, IllRobert S. Waddell,
president of the Buckeye Powder
company, who long has been fighting
the powder combine, said today that
if Edward F. Addicks is elected sena
tor in Delaware he will go before a
federal grand jury and send Addicks
to the penitentiary.
COAL PROPERTY MERGER
A Billion Dollar Holding Company to
Handle Coal Roads and Mines.
New York. There is talk of a bil
lion dollar holding company, with J.
P. Morgan as financial director and
H. C. Frick as president, to take over
the coal carrying roads and their coal
interests to enable them to conform
with the rate bill.
GETS MONEY FOR TRAVELING
Quarter Million to Pay Expenses of
President.
Washington The sundry civil ap
propriation bill which will be reported
to the house next week will carry
$250,000 to cover the cost of contem
plated presidential trips during the
fiscal year.
TO PRESERVE NIAGARA FALLS
Washington. The house committee
on rivers and harbors agreed on the
terms of a bill for the preservation of
Niagara falls, which probably will be
introduced Monday. It establishes the
principle that water may be taken
from the great lakes for sanitary or
navigation purposes without limit, but
under the control of congress. As
to the taking of water, from the Ni
agara river for power purposes the
provision is made that a sufficient
quantity may be used to generate 160,
000 horse power on both the American
and Canadian sides. This is practically
the quantity now, being taken on the
Canadian side.
The secretary of war authorized
to grant revocable permits for - the
taking of additional quantities on the
American side until the aggregate
shall generate 350,000 horse power. It
Is also provided that this quantity of
power may be Imported from the Ca
nadian side. The bill is to be in effect
for three years.
Meantime the president is asVpd
open negotiations with Great Britain
looking to the perfection of a treaty
to preserve the scenic beauty of the
falls.
BRITISH GOLD FOR 'FRISCO
San Francisco Sixty-two boxes of
British sovereigns, valued at $1,500,
000, were brought to this city from
Australia by the Oceanic company's
steamship Sierra. The gold is con
signed to local banks and is the largest
Single shipment of its kind in years.
SEEKS AID OF ALLISON
Defeated on all Sides Perkins Appeals
to Allison for Aid. The Fed
eral Gang Routed.
Des Moines. An effort has been
made by the friends of George D.
Perkins to induce Senator W. B. Al
lison to take a hand in the guber
natorial campaign. Whether Mr. Al
lison can be enlisted in the interests
of Mr. Perkins is a question concern
ing which there is much speculation.
Friends of the senior senator In Iowa
believe that he will not respond with
alacrity to the call.
This is the latest effort that has
been made to enlist the aid of the
Iowa "federal crowd" to the fight that
is being made against the renomina
tion of Governor Cummins because
he stands for railroad rate regula
tion, for Increased railroad taxes and
the primary. The members of the
delegation at Washington evinced a
willingness to take a hand against
the governor, but events so shaped
themselves that the conclusion was
rejached by the "federal crowd" that
it would better keep hands off.
Doiliver Takes a Hand.
At the opening of the campaign
Senator Doiliver issued two inter
views indorsing Mr. Perkins highly
and indicating that he hoped for his
nomination. The latter of these for
mal interviews was followed by the
arrival in Iowa of George D. Roberts,
director of the mint. He spent ten
days at the home of Senator Doiliver
at Fort Dodge and discovered a wide
sentiment in favor of the renomina
tion of Cummins.. The governor had
said in a recent speech at Fort Dodge
that he was not and would not be a
candidate for senator against Doili
ver, who seeks re-election in the legisl
ature of next winter.
Mr. Roberts urged the republicans
of Fort Dodge, Webster county, and
the tenth congressional district to in
dorse Mr. Perkins, or, at least, take
no hand in the fight. He was in
formed that the district was for Mr.
Cummins, and the last of the con
ventions in the district disclosed the
interesting fact that but four dele
gates out of nearly 200 in the state
convention from that district will be
for Mr. Perkins, while Webster coun
ty, for the first time in its history,
instructed its entire delegation for a
candidate, Governor Cummins being
the beneficiary. Mr. Doiliver. has
taken no further hand in the guber
natorial fight.
Shaw Finds Hostility.
Secretary Shaw came to Des Moines
in February and made a speech which
was described by the Perkins men as
a "neat skinning" of the governor.
Secretary Shaw's intimation here gave
it out that President Roosevelt in
dorsed the speech as it was delivered,
having read it before the secretary
left Washington. Recently the con
gressional convention in the tenth
district, which is the home of Sec
retary Shaw, refused to adopt a reso
lution commending the president's
appointment of the secretary and com
mended Senator Doiliver for voting
ae-ainst the secretary's ship subsidy
bill.
Congressman E .H. Hubbard came
back to make a personal fight In the
eleventh district for Mr. Perkins. Both
reside In that district. All the conven
tions in that district have been held,
nd Mr. Perkins got three out of the
thirteen counties, one being his own,
in which no contest was made. Many
of the county conventions refused to
adopt resolutions instructing for the
renomination of Congressman Hub
bard, and he is now pleading with
his constituents for a second term.
- .
His activity was excusable because his
own nomination was procured by A.
F. CalL attorney for the Great Northern-railroad,,
who is manager of the
Perkins campaign.
Congressman Smith wrote an ex
tended letter urging his district to
stand by John Herriott, a stand-pat
candidate for governor. . Guthrie coun
ty, the home of Mr. Herriott, and
which is in the ninth district, repre
sented by Mr. Smith, held a conven
tion a few days later and over the
personal plea of Mr. Herriott instruc
ted the delegation . from that county
for Governor Cummins. v , .
Such a storm of protest was raised
against railroad domination of poli
tics in Iowa at the opening of the pres
ent campaign that Congressman
Hedge of the first district announced
that he would not be a candidate for
renomination. He had been a part
ner of J. W. Blythe of the Burlington
railroad, who is at the head of the
railroad politics of the state.
Congressman Hull lives in the sev
enth district, which is the home of j
Governor Cummins. He was urged
by the Perkins men here to return to
Des Moines and organize the seventh
district against the governor. He
came back about two months ago,
looked over the situation and hastily
returned to Washington after leaving
his own interests in the hands of men
who also were friends of Governor
Cummins. He secured this county
in that way and declined - to return
to take up the fight for Perkins in this
county and district. . He has not been
renominated, and politicians do not
believe that he will take a hand in the
other counties of the district. -
Hepburn is Popular
Congressman Hepburn is assured of
renomination because of his work for
the president's rate bill. For a time
his position was no defined, and his
people began to get restless, but they
have been satisfied by his fight in
Washington. Congressman Lacey has
been renominated, without opposition.
So have Congressman Cousins and
Congressman Conner, but none of
them has done anything on the gov
ernorship. Congressman Haugen
and 'Birdsall also have oeen renom
inated. There is no fight on Con
gressman Dawson, and both Con
gressmen Smith and Hubbard will be
renominated, it is believed.
The appeal to Senator Allison, there
fore, is the. last one possible from the
friends of Mr. Perkins. The best posted
politicians of the state do not see
how it is possible for Mr, Perkins
to be nominated under any circum
stances, but some of the counties in
the third district in which Senator
Allison lives are still to hold con
ventions, and the plan is to try to
make them believe that Senator Alli
son's interests in 1909 are at stake
in the fight over the nomination for
governor.
A candidate for state office was
given the right to name the delegates
from his own county to the state con
vention. For several weeks stories of
offers being made to him by the fed
eral crowd to give him an office if
he would select Perkins men on the
delegation have been circulated. " Fin
ally he withdrew from his own fight
and named Perkins men. But he said
that he did it in the interests of
Senator Allison.
SENT TO ASYLUM FOR THREATS
Washington. Following allegations
that he had threatened violence to the
president, Robert P. Lewis, an -Hawaiian,
was arrested here on sus
picion that his mind was affected, and
tonight he was sent to St. Elizabeth's
asylum for the insane. He is said to
have come here from San Francisco
to secure a patent. According to an
agent of the Prisoners' Aid society,
who procured Lewis' release from the
workhouse here after several days' de
tention, Lewis' models were, destroyed
in the San Francisco disaster.
HENRICK IBSEN IS DEAD
Famous Poet and Dramatist of Nor."
way Expires After Illness o.f a
Year." End Sudden.
Christiana, NorwayMay 23. Hen
rich Ibsen, Norway's famous dramat
ist and poet, died this ; afternoon at
2:30 o'clock , : ' '
The death of Rosen was unexpected,
although for the last year he had been
very weak and it was known that the
end -was only a question of a com
paratively short time. He was un
conscious toward the last and passed
away peacefully.
None of his friends was allowed to
see him during his long illness, the
only persons admitted to his room
being the doctor, the dramatist's wife
and his son. i
King Haakon, immediately upon re
ceipt of the news of Ibsen's death,
transmitted to the widow his own and
Queen Maud's sympathy and condol
ence. The storthing and other public
bodies formally recorded the national
grief. All the theaters were closed
tonight. i
THE ANTI-PASS AMENDMENT
LIMITED
Correspondents tell us that grave
senators like Hale and Culbertson
were filled with laughter, and that
"an uproar" of fun and hilarity arose
in the august chamber when the clerk
had concluded the reading of the anti
pass amendment to the rate bill as
qualified and limited '') and whittled
down by the many provisos that had
been inserted at the instance of var
ious senators. Mr. Lodge denounced
the much-amended amendment as
grotesque, and Mr. Gallinger ex
pressed the opinion that its exemp
tions and exceptions would cover
7.000.000 Deonle. v
Now Mr. Chandler, in the state
ment he gave to The Record-Herald
says deliberately that "the exceptions
to the . free pass prohibition make it
almost worse than the present law."
Let us enumerate these exceptions.
Free passes ma not be given by a
carrier, directly or indirectly, to any
one except
Officers, agents and employes of the
road.
The immediate families of such.
(Mr. . Gallinger wondered why the
words' "and their uncles, cousins and
aunts," should not be added here.)
Actual and bona fide attorneys of
the roads and the immediate families.
Ministers of religion.
Inmates of hospitals and eleemosyn
ary and charitable institutions, in
digents, destitute and homeless per
sons, and agents of hospitals accom
panying such persons to or from hos
pitals, homes, etc.
Ex-Union soldiers or sailors; In
mates of soldiers' or sailors' homes,
national or state.
Persons transported on account of
charity from and to places visfted by
calamity, epidemic or pestilence.
Owners and caretakers of live stock
when going to or returning from
points of delivery of stock.
Officers, agents of, ' employes of -
roads that interchange passes with
the issuing road, and the immediate
families of such officers, etc.
In the present commerce act there
is no direct prohibition o the grant
ing of free passes, but -there are
provisions against undue or unreason
able preferences to persons, corpora
tions', etc., "in any respect whatso
ever," and a provision making it un
lawful to charge or receive from any
person "a'greater or less compensa
tion," for any service than that speci
fied in the filed schedule. Chicago
Record Herald.