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BENNINGTON EVENING BANNEB EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 2238 ViENNlNGTON, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 101 1 PRICE ONE CENT Don't Tell Your Wife She Has No Judgment She May Agree That Her Selection of a Husband Proves You Are Right 8 LETTER PRAISES THE Have Organized New House With Little Friction PROGRAM AS LAID OUT First of Special Series of Letters From John E. Harris To the Evening Banner Editor of the Banner: The first time at the bat in years the new-thought democracy, fresh from the people, has scored a safe hit. It should be good for two bases, and with judicious and discreet coaching it may result In a run.

The above, translated, refers to the organization of the House by the new democracy. Contrary to their own fears and the hopes of their political enemies they have succeeded in perfecting an excellent organization without riot or civil war, and on the whole have made a thoroughly excellent and promising start. They have named and established their committees with the minimum of personal disappointments and heartburnings, and as far as they have gone have surprised alike themselves and the country. It Is true that they have not yet started In active legislation, confronted by an active and experienced opposition, but, as our friends the French are wont to observe, it is the first step that costs. The committees, as announced Saturday, are generally acknowledged to be excellently well made up and Judiciously balanced.

Men of experience and with especial fitness for the positions are given the Important chairmanships, and much care has evidently been exercised in placing the new members where they will Lave scope for their particular qualifications and will be of the most service. All this has been done with surprising little friction. Whatever feeling there may be under the surface and very likely there is some has been adroitly suppressed, and on the face of things the business wi'l start off tasUy and smoothly as a new automobile on a plank road. I That the machine will encounter obstructions and serious ones in the future, near or more remote, la as i certain as history, but the fact is admitted that the outfit has prestige and great advantage of a surprisingly excellent start. Further Initiatory action by the House democracy which will tend lo excite the astonished applause ami commendation of tho country is the abolition of some over a hundred unnecessary ollices and petty jobs around the House end of the capitcl.

These economies will result in a net saving to the public treasury of somewhere around two hundred thousand dollars, which same will make a hit with the people. Six committees are also abolished, which of the House by the new democracy were originally constituted to give chairmanships with the attendant private offices to sundry statesmen who Insisted on being "fixed up," as well as a lot of personal hangers-on for whom something had to be found. Among those "fired" are about fifty policemen who were added to the capltol force when the office buildings were put In commission, about twice as many being put on the rolls as there was any actual use for. The developments thus far indicate that the new powers that be have been on a still hunt for sinecures, high and low, with excellent success and that their action is going to give them a large seized boost in the estimation and good will of the people at large. The important officers of the House were selected with excellent judgment, and with surprising little friction considering the number of applicants.

Partizanshlp was ignored In the selection of a chaplain, and blind chaplain Couden, republican, of Michigan, was unanimously reelected. In the naming of committee chairmanships Sulzer of New York was made chairman of the committee on Foreign Affairs of which Mr. Foster of Vermont has been the chairman, instead of Flood of Virginia, the ranking democrat on the committee In the previous congress. Mr. Foster will be named as first minority (Continued on fourth page) 1 GOOD BOWLING BY POSTALS Rolled Total of 2410 Pins In Y.

M. C. A. Tournament. The postals Jumped Into third place In the Y.

M. C. A. ten pin tournament last evening by defeating the Myers Coal company five by a big margin. Tho postals rolled the bent match of the tournament outsido of the high scores of the leading team, the business men.

The score: Post Office. Harwood 120 Cranston 192 Armstrong 146 Harmon 135 Wood 181 160 188 148 151 193 781 170 125 137 183 774 840 79G Team total. 2410; average 803 1-3. Myers Coal Co. Cook 172 155 138 Nevela 111 139 104 Scott 140 145 140 Rose 124 170 120 Noyes 103 137 125 700 746 627 Team total, 2073; average, 691.

Standing of the Teams Standing of the bowling teams in Y. M. C. A. tournament each team having rolled 9 games of 3 strings each excepting the Professional Men who lack one: Total Strings Pins W.

L. 21835 25 2 19785 IS 9 19571 17 10 19564 15 12 19497 18 9 18957 16 11 17944 10 17 17631 8 18 17419 6 21 16979 8 18 .14295 4 20 Business Men Holden, Leonard Co Post Offlce Bottum Torrance Methodist church Cooper Mfg. Co. Baptist church Myers Coal Co. Clerks Bankers Professional Men Tie string.

THE TROY CONFERENCE Seventy-Ninth Annual Session Opened at Saratoga Today Saratoga, April 1 ne 7tn ses sion of the Troy Methodist conference opened at the Methodist church here today. Bishop Henry W. Warren will preside. The anniversary supper of the Con ference Clerical Life Assurance asso ciation will be held at G. A.

R. hall at 6 p. with Rev. M. II.

Smith of Rutland presiding and at eight o'clock will come the Kpworth League annlv ersary, S. W. Irwin, president. An address will bo made by Rev. Dr.

E. C. Dorion, assistant editor of the Ep Worth Herald. The conference session will open at nine o'clock Wednesday morning with sacrament of the Lord's supper and memorial service for deceased meni- hers. The sermon was preached at I 2:30 by Rev.

J. W. Schwartzrnan. Tho first session of the Sunday school institute will be held at 4 with address "The Debt of the Church to the Child," Mrs. M.

S. Lamoreux. Business Mooting of the Conference i Clerical Life Assurance association, I M. II. Smith, president at 4:30 and anniversary of the Freedruen's Aid Society, G.

K. Statham, president. Ad- dress by Rev. P. J.

Maveety, D. D. at 7:30. Thursday, April 6, at 8:15 a. devotional meeting with address by S.

Rowe. Subject, "Fellowship with Christ." Conference business session; 2:30 p. meeting In the in- terestsof Social Serv'ce, Brown presiding. Address by Rev. M.

B. Pratt, D. second session of Sunday School Institute and Anniversary of the Board of Sunday Schools. Subjects, "God's Best Time for Training" Mrs. Lamoreux; "The Child and the Kingdom," Rev.

D. G. Downey, D. 8 p. concert by Empire Male quartette of Troy, assisted by Mary Ida Hare of Troy, reader.

Conference sessions will continue Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. FIGHTERS HELD FOR TRIAL Promoter McCarey Refused to Furnish Bail and Is Held in Custody Los Angeles, April 4. Justice Reeves yesterday held the two principals and two accessories of the al leged prize fight held at Vernon on March 17 for trial in the Superior court for a violation of the state law against prize fighting. Ad Wolgast, lightweight champion and George Mesmlc the principals; Charles Eyton, referee and Thomas J. McCarey, promoter, all appeared In court and were held in $1000 ball each.

This was given by three of them but McCarey refused to provide bail and was held in custody. Habe as corpus proceedings in his behalf will be instituted. RAILROADS HOT KEEP OUT OF THE I Supreme Court Decision Streng thens Commodities Clause MAY CONTINUE TO HOLD STOCK But if Common Carrier Attempts to Manage Another Concern It May Be Prosecuted Washington, April 4. The Supreme Court yesterday, in a decision by Chief Justice White, in the case of the United States against the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, greatly widened and strengthened its former decision on the commodities clause of the Hepburn act regulating inter-State commerce. The effect of the decision is that while carrier corporations may own stock in a commodities company and carry its products without violating the law, yet when it Is clear that the carrier manages the business the operations of the two concerns, it comes within the prohibition of the law and is liable to prosecution.

Under the clear terms of the decision any carrier may be proceeded against when the facts show that there exists a plan to do by indlrsc-tion that which the commodities clause prohibits. The cato came up on appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The suit was instituted in June, 1908, against various anthracite coal carriers. In the appeal in the Lehigh Valley case which had been chosen as a test the state of facts on which the Government wished to base ks new attack was set forth. It was said that the Lehigh Valley long before 1908.

when the Hepburn act went Into effect, had been owner of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company and of the Coxe Brothers Company, corporations which own extensive anthracite mines in Carbon, Lehigh, Luzerne, and Wyoming Counties, Penn. The Lehigh Valley Railroad owns all the stock of the Lehigh Valley Coal Corn-pan) and E. B. Thomas, the President of the railroad company, is alsto Presi dent of the coal company. In other ollices there is a similar close aflill-ation.

The court declared that such fact3 would establish the use of the coal company by the railroad company as a device to evade the law. and ordered that the Circuit Court should permit the Government to ci'MMid its bill so that this cause of action might be pleaded. The dismissal of the cases of the other railroads was upheld on the Kround that no sufficient cause of action had been shown against them. BOSS COX FINDS HIVSELT Appears in Court After New Warrant Had Been Issued Cincinnati, Ohio, April I After a vain searcU for Geprse Cox for three days and a decision to apprehend the republican leader and on a warrant charging hiin with a fugitive from justice' he peared tortay at the court Iiouhd aril lecepted serv'ce of the now indictment issued apainst him on Friday, charging uidi with peridiy Presid ing Judge Hunt fixed the bond ut $1000, which Cox immediately pave. Judge Hunt announced that, hn was ready to try the Co case but the attorneys for Cox objected and he au-ntunced that he would appoint judpe tomorrow.

U. V. M. TEAM OFF Varsity Baseball Team to begin Its Schedule Wednesday Burlington, April 4. The University of Vermont baseball team left for the first trip of the season yesterday morning.

They play West Point Wednesday, St Johns Thursday and Manhattan Friday. Coach Hazelton, manager Lord and Captain O'Dea accompanied the squad which was made up of Winkler, Malcolm and Flaherty pitchers, Pike and Trederick right field, Dutton, first base, O'Dea second McDonald center. Holstine left field, Williams third, Lyons short and Donnelly catch. IS TO I REPUBLICAN I Caucus Selects Him as Candi. date for Speaker INSURGENTS WERE PRESENT And They Objected to the Selection of Committee Appointees by the Floor Leader Washington, April 4.

Republicans of both houses took up matters of organization yesterday and last night. In the House caucus James R. Mann was chosen as the minority candidate for Speaker and floor leader. There was much criticism of the Democratic majority for increasing its committee members without giving more places to the minority. On the Senate side the insurgent Republicans decided to demand a fourth of the majority committee places, which would give them strong representation on important committees.

Twenty-six of the forty-one insurgent members, who had held a conference in the afternoon, were present at the Republican House caucus. Fifteen regulars were absent. Mr. Kendall of Iowa, an Insurgent, was chosen Secretary of the caucus. Ex-Speaker Cannon made a characteristic speech, denouncing the action of tho Democrats In seizing so large a proportion of the committee places, and nominated Mr.

Mann of Illinois for the Speakership. He was unanimously chosen. Mr. Mann also protested against the action of the Democrats In increasing the majority side of fifteen committees without giving the Republicans any part of the Increase, and demanding that these committees be increased from twenty-one to twenty-two members, so that one more Republican member could be placed on the minority side. Mr.

Olmstead of Pennsylvania offered a resolution providing that Mr. Mann should name the minority members of committees. Mr. Good of Iowa, an insurgent, offered a resolution to have a committee of seven, with Mr. Mann at the head of It, appointed committeemen.

Speaker Cannon was one of those who strongly advocated tho selection of the minority committee members by the Republican floor leader. He expressed belief that better assignments would be made by this method. Mr. Madison of Kansas, strongly advocated the plan of having a Committee on Committees. He said it was the only proposition that he could consistent- support, as tho legislative body of his State had declared in favor of it.

The debate continued for two hours and a half, and then the Olmstead motion was adopted. The conference of insurgent Senators was attended by Messrs Works of California, Gronna of North Dakota, Cummins of Iowa, La Follette of Wisconsin, Borah of Idaho, Brlstow of Kansas, Clapp of Minnesota, Crawford of South Dakota, Dixon of Montana, and Bourne of Oregon, Messrs. Poindexter of Washington and Brown of Nebraska were unable to be present, but were fully represented by Senators who had letters from them stating their position in regard to all questions of policy on which the insurgent element of the Republican majority in the Senate stands. It was agreed to demand for the in surgents a full and fair representation on committees in the rearrangement that is now under consideration, the basis is to be the ratio of the insurgent membership to the entire number of Republican Senators. This will be one-fourth on a basis of 13 to 38.

FLIES OVER TI-JREE FRONTIERS Lesartes In 44 Mile Trip, Crosses Belgian, Dutch and German Lines Alx La Chapelle, Rhenish Prussia, April 4. The aviator Lescartes and passenger who left Hasselt, Belgium in an aeroplane on Saturday hat land ed here. The aviators crossed three frontiersthe Belgian, Dutch and Germanin a Bingle flight, although the distance traversed was only forty-four miles. in mm ITS 01 LIQUOR TRAFFIC Supreme Court Refuses to Enjoin Railroads MUST LOOK TO OWN LAW Higher Tribunal Likewise Refuses to Interfere in Matter of Freight Rates Washington, April 4. The burden of Statehood was brought home to Oklahoma yesterday when the Supreme court of the United States In substance told the state it must look hereafter to Its own law for the regulation of the liquor traffic and freight rates, and not to the Federal government.

The Btate about a year ago filed an original petition In the Supreme court asking it to enjoin the railroads entering the old Indian territory from carrying liquor into that section of the state. The request was based on the provision of Oklahoma's constitution that liquor shall not be sold there. The supreme court held that the state should go into the state courts to enjoin the railroads under the state law it it desired. The court also declined to restrain the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe rail way, and the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific (n i chargmt a higher rate on the transportation of certain commodities in Oklahoma than elsewhere holding that tho regulation of intrastate freight rates was not a matter entirely for Oklahoma to regulate. The court likewise refused to enjoin the Federal Judges in Oklahoma from enforcing certain decrees they had issued in liquor cases, involving a conflict of authority between the Federal and State courts.

The court held that in view of its right to review the cases on writs of certiorari, it should not enjoin the judges. WILLIAM DAVIS DEAD Had Been Inmate of Soldiers Home for Past Five Years William Davis, an inmate of the Vt Soldiers home died In the hospital of that institution this morning. He had been a patient of the hospital for some time. lie was born at South-bury, N. January 31.

1831 and had been an inmate of the home for about five years. The deceased was a member of Company 15, 13th Massachusetts (Vvrry and also of the United Veteran Volii.ile.-s The body will be taken to for burial. SICK HORSE KILLED S. P. C.

A. Officers Thought Animal Was I'-fit to Work A horse belonging to Earl Thurber of Shaftsbury was killed yesterday near North Bennington under the direction of the officers of the society for the prevention of cruelty to Tho horse has been driven the past winter between North Bennington and Shaftsbury and is said to have been in bad condition. CARDINAL IN AUTO SMASH Belgian Prelate is Badly Cut and Loses Several Teeth Waterloo, Belgium, April 4. Cardinal Desideratus Mercler, archbishop of Malincs, had a narrow escape from death yesterday in an automobile collision. The cardinal was badly cut about the face and several of his teeth were knocked out The chauffeur was ser-iously injured.

TO ANNUL TWO-CENT RATE Suits Filed Which May Bring Ad-vance In Passenger Rates Pittsburg, April The Pennsylvania company and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago St Louis Railroad company have filed petitions in the Common Pleas court of Alleghany county seeking the annulment of the two-cent a mile passenger fare law. YEAR'S FOR POSTOFflCE Receipts for First Time Passed $20,000 Mark OVER $2000 INCREASE Special Reasons for Additional Busi ness That Will Not Be in Evidence During Coming Year The Beuningiuu pot. to dice during the year which closed April 1 did the largest amount of business In the history of the town. For several days, previous to the close of the year Postmaster Graves was looking forward to a $20,000 business and bis expectations were realized. The total amount was $20,050.09.

During some of the months of the past year the amount of increased business over the corresponding month in 1910 was remarkable. Ia. 1910 the total amount of business was $17,800, making an increase In round numbers of $2200. There were two or three special causes for the increased business of last year which are not likely to figure during the 12 months that will elapse between the present time and April, 1912, and it is not expected that the coming year will show any appreciable gain over the amount of business during 1911. The business of the next 12 months may even fall behind the figures for the year Just closed, unless some new enterprise is developed.

NEGRO TROOPS MADE TROUBLE President Ordered Them Out Into the "Dry" Desert Washington, April 4. President Taft yesterday decided upon the prompt removal of the negro Ninth Cavalry from the division camp at San Antonio in order to avert the possibility of a repetition of the affair of the Twenty-fifth infantry at Brownsville in 1906. Representative Garner of Texas laid before Mr. Taft the details of recent disturbances caused by troopers of the Ninth Cavalry, who resented the efforts of street car conductors to enforce the regulations of the City Council and require them to sit in seats in street cars provided for negroes. All the street cars in San Antonio are of the "Jim Crow" type, and the colored soldiers have several times torn down the signs in the cars designating seats for white and colored passengers.

When remonstrated with, in two instances they have set upon conductors and beaten them severely. The disturbances became so aggravated that the Mayor of San Antonio went to Major Ma comb, who commands the regiment, laid the facts before in, and demanded that the colored troopers be required to obey the laws so long as they remained in the city. The President, after hearing the complaints, sent for Major Gen. Wood Chief of Staff, and directed that orders issue to relieve the Ninth from further service in the divisional brigade of cavalry at San Antonio and send the regiment to duty patrolling the Mexican border as far out in the desert as possible and necessarily away from cities and towns where they might have opportunity to make trouble with the citizens of the country. WOMAN HOLDS UP STORE Overawes Other Woman with a Pistol and Gets Money.

Washington, D. April 4. Hiding -a pistol beneath a long black Tell which she wore, a woman yesterday in broad daylight entered and robbed a grocery store here. Pointing the weapon at the young woman clerk and at another woman who was in the store, she ordered them out, then proceeded to open the cash register, and made her es- cape before police, summoned from a station house about two blocks away; arrive. WEATHER FORECAST Probabilities for this Section for the Next Twenty-four Hours For eastern New York and western Vermont rain or snow and warmer tonight and Wednesday..