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A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO
POLITICS AGRICULTURE AND HOME LIFE
Vol. 19. No. 939.
Lincoln, Nebraska, June 7, 1906
Subscription $1.00
SENATOR GORMAN DEAD
Maryland Statesman Seized With
' Heart Attack and Expires in
Five Minutes.
Washington, June 4. Arthur Pue
Gorman, United States senator rom
Maryland, died suddenly at hi3 resi
dence in this city at 9:05 this morn
ing. While Senator Gorman had been
ill for many .months, he had shown
some . improvement lately. Heart
trouble was the immediate cause of
death. ....
Up to the moment of death Senator
Gorman was conscious. His condition
during the last week hai' improved so
touch yesterday the family had hopes
of shortly taking him to the country.
He partook of some nourishment af 8
o'clock this morning, but at 9 o'clock
he was seized with a heart attack
and died in five minutes.
. Family at Bedside -
At the bedside were Mrs. Gorman,
Miss Ada Gorman, the senator's
eldest daughter, and the nurse. When
the attack came physicians were sent
for, but the senator was dead before
they arrived. -' , ? , .
Senator Gorman leaves a widow and
six children, as follows: Miss Ada
Gorman, Mrs.' Wilton J. Lambert, Mrs.
R. A. Johnson Mrs. R. W.- Hill of this
city, Mrs. Stephen Gambrill of Lon
don, England, who arrived here a
week ago, and Arthur Pue Gorman,
Jr., of Laurel, Md., a member of the
Maryland assembly.
CONGRESSMAN SUICIDES
Congressman Robert Adams of Penn
sylvania Commits Suicide
. Washington, D C Congressman
'Adams, who committed suicide, wrote
the following letter to Speaker Can
non: "Washington, D. C, May 31, 1906.
Hon. J. G. Cannon. My Dear Mr.
Speaker: The fact that my profes
sional obligations exceed my resources
is my only excuse for abandoning the
responsible position I occupy in the
house. I am willing to be buried at
its ; expense, but, I ask that, no com
mittee be appointed or memorial ser
vices held, as I have never been in
sympathy with the latter custom.
: "With assurance of my high regard,
sincerely yours,
"ROBERT ADAMS." -
BANQUET IN BRYAN'S HONOR
Speeches Laudatory of America De
livered at Budapest
Budapest, Hungary A banquet was
given here in honor of William J.
Bryan. Speeches laudatory of Ameri
can freedom and virility were deliv
ered by Count Albert Apponyi, min
ister of . worship, and Francis Kos
suth, : commerce minister. .". ',
. fount . Apponyl compared the Uni
ted , States to a giant accumulator,
Droducing the strongest conceivable
currents of the highest ideals of lib
erty and equality. .
"All of us," said the minister of
worship, "feel more secure in the pos
session of freedom because there ex
ists such a land as the United States."
, M. Kossuth, after a reference to the
enthusiasm evoked in the United
States by the visit of his father to that
country said that the example of the
United States had inspired Hungary
to efforts to emulate that great, free
country, which once was a colony.
The best he could wish in behalf of
Hungary was that her future might
be as happy as the United States'
present state, and her economic con
dition as .flourishing.
Mr. Bryan in reply said freedom
loving Hungary which had waged so
many struggles for liberty was en
titled to rank high among nations as
the equality "of peoples nowadays .was
gauged by their love of freedom.
ASKS LAW TO BAR SCIENTISTS
varolem basis, and the rate is the ,
average one paid by all other property
taxed in the state. This year it is 11
cents per $1,000 of valuation more
than last year. The roads that pay
the highest taxes are the Chicago and
Northwestern, $870,715.05; Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul, $862,749.52;
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha, $281,133.09; Wisconsin Cen
'tral, $253,51; Burlington, $110,404.49.
These taxes must be - paid before
August 10. The money goes to pay
the general expenses of the state.
Public Utilities
Member of Parliament Demands Heal
ers bev Forbidden to Practice ; :
London In the house of commons
John Brownlee Lonsdale, conservative
Middle Armah, Ireland, demanded that
legislative and bther measure "be tak
en to prevent Christian Scientists
from carrying on their practices, with
the view to preventing danger to the
lives of credulous people. Home Sec
retary' Gladstone replied that the law
touching the practice of medicine prob
ably will be elucidated further by, the
trial for manslaughter of Dr. Adcock,
a Christian Science healer, who is ac
cused of having caused the death of
Major John Nicholas Whyte, who died
while under his treatment. Until the
trial is completed, Mr. Gladstone said,
he could not express his opinion on
the subject. , I ,
McCURDY MEN IN AGAIN
Former Leaders of Insurance Company
Once More Give Power
New York The powers that were
are slipping back into their old places
in the Mutual Life Insurance company
and, with the exception of changes
in a few of the higher offices, it will
be hard from now on to see wherein
the insurance scandal has made, many
changes , in the executive end of the
company. The trustees at a meeting
today announced that William S. Ste
venson has been elected comptroller.
New committees made up almost ex
clusively of men who controlled the
company under the McCurdy regime
were elected. ,
TAX ON WISCONSIN RAILROADS
State Board Announces Assessment on
$237,239,500 of Property
Madison, Wis.--The Wisconsin state
board of assessment gave out its as
sessment of railroad property in the
state for the present year. The total
valuation is $237,239,500, V which is
$8,429,500 more than last year. .'; The
total taxes are $2,700,237, or $120,916.
90 more than last year. . -
The property is assessed oh ah ad
Washington The senate agreed to
a motion made by Mr. Gallinger, chair
man of the committee on the District
of Columbia, to recommit to that com
mittee a bill authorizing the exten
sion of the street railroad lines to the
new Washington union railroad sta
tion, reported yesterday by Senator
Hansbrough as chairman of a sub
committee. The bill as reported was
not confined to the railroads, but it
provided for an increase in the taxes
of the public utility companies of the
district amounting to 12 per cent on
net earnings.1 Senator Gallinger ex
pressed; the opinion that taxation legis
lation was not germane to the original
bill.
Senator Hansbrough defended the
action of the committee as regular
and said the passage of the bill would
result in an increase of $304,000 in
the district's income.
Senator Patterson, who opposed the
motion to recommit, said the average
cost of carrying passengers on pub
licly owned street car lines Is 11-10
cents, and asserted that the manipu
lations of the utility corporations is
"the cause of 95 per cent tf the mu
nicipal corruption that has made mu
nicipal government a stench in the
nostrils of the people."
TO RECOMMIT RATE DILL
Line up for Statehood Bill
Washington The report of the con
ference committee on the statehood
bill will be presented to the senate.
The provision regarding New Mexico
and Arizona is in the language of the
first Foraker amendment, which For
aker now opposes. , He will conduct
the fight against the adoption of the
conference report, aided by Bailey
with mo3t of the democrats at his
back.
Sant Fe Railroad Indicted
Las Vegas, N. M. The federal
grand jury has indicted the Santa Fe
railroad for giving rebates to the Col
orado Fuel & Iron company, and also
the latter company for accepting them.
Rockefeller to Europe
New York Mr. and Mrs. "John D.
Rockefeller were passengers on board
the steamer Deutschland which sailed
this week for Hamburg. - " :
Right to ; Construct Canal '
Washington The senate has passed
a bill granting right of way. for a
canal between Lake Washington; and
Puget Sound. -
Senate Will Recommit Rate Bill to
Committee- President Sends
Message to Congress
Washington, D. C, June 6. (Spe
cial.) The president, as promised,
sent the beef report to congress to
gether with a message urging legis
lation that would provide for adequate
inspection of packing house products
such that would foreyer make impos
sible the scandals that have just been
exposed, and. protect the health of
the citizens against the greedy pack
ers who undoubtedly have been guilty
of an outrageous crime against so
ciety at large by their pernicious and
criminal practices. The necessity for
the passage of the pure food bill is
emphasized by this latest exposure,
and already congressmen begin to
fear the effects J upon their own - po
litical fortunes fpf. their neglect in
passing . suitable legislation to pro
tect health and lives of the people
Against the greed of the beef trust
nnH mnnnfnrtiirprs nf nthor imntiro
fOOd products. ' " ' ;'-
The rate bill went through the conference-
committee in much better
shape than was . expected. In fact
the changes that were made In con
ference, were upon the whole an im
provement to the bill. The free pass
amendment was entirely rewritten
and all the exceptions were stricken
out, making the amendment .in fact
nrhot It nnrnnrtoil in la 1ffrl clatirvn
against issuing of free transportation
by railroad companies. The pipe lines
and express companies were included
under the heading of common car
riers, but the Pullman sleeping cars
were stricken out of the list. The
penalties for violation of the law; were
retained. , But it seems that the con
ference committee have exceeded their
authority and introduced , new matter
which is now being,; strenuously ob
jected to by Senator Foraker and
others, the result of which is the bill
will have to be recommitted to the
conference to correct the mistakes
made and confine their work within
its Jegjtimate sphere. . . :
The death of Senator Gorman re
moves from the senate one of the
most prominent figures in Washing
ton life. Senator Gorman was, the
recognized leader of his party in con
gress and recognized by. the country
as a man of great ability and power.
He had many friends among the re
publican senators and was in fact con
sidered a republican in principle al
though a democrat by name and party
affiliation. His work was more often
the subject of praise than adverse
criticism by the leading republicans
in congress for many years. .
The resignation of Senator Burton
of Kansas saves congress ' the necesj
sity of expelling him which would
have occurred this week had his resig
nation not been handed in to the gov
ernor of his state and a report of
the fsame made to the senate. '.
Congressmen seem very much inter-
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