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THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1914 9 "Simmons Amendment a Return Toward Sanity' American People Will Lose With Tolls Clause Repealed R. Lane. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Ft. Wayne, April Republican Convention of the Twelfth District here to-day again nominated Charles R.

Lane, of Ft. Wayne, as candidate for Congress. He was the candidate two years ago. In accepting 1 the nomination Lane discussed the pending repeal of the free tolla Daw. He pointed out that the House committee's report favoring the repeal not only gave away all advantages the American people thought they were going to get out of the use of the canal, but also surrendered sovereignty over it, so that, as Oscar Underwood remarked, the canal would be a liability in time of war instead of an asset.

"The course of the Administration," said Mr. Lane, "purposes to make the 000 canal, which in the building has cost many lives, as well as millions of money, as much a foreign water as the harbor of Cherbourg, from which the Kearsarge had to emerge to lick the The speaker quoted the Democratic platform in its declaration in favor of rebuilding the merchant marine, but without the aid of subsidies, and then continued: "Here is a declaration to foster our commerce providing we do nothing that will foster it. Such 'an absurdity cannot be successfully pleaded by Mr. Wilson and by Mr. Cline (the Democratic Congressman in this district) as an excuse for repudiat- ONE BORN EVERY MINUTE! SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

Delaware, Ohio, April to play the hero in the eyes of railway officials, Carl Blekel, 30 years old, a former employee, resorted to the novel but desperate plan of tearing up the company's tracks just south of town early to-day, and, then breaking open telephone booth, notifying the local dispatcher desperate struggle he had had with alleged train wreckers. Officers found Bickel faithfully guarding the tracks, his clothes torn to threads and his body bloody. After lengthy sweating he confessed that he had resorted to the novel method in the hope of obtaining employment. He is extensive novel reader. RUSH ON ROAD WORK Is To Be Sought By Ross County Auditor--Contracts Awarded.

SPECIAL. DINPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Columbus, Ohio, April AuD. Alexander, of Ross County, is preparing to have submitted to the Attorney-General the question of whether work cannot be started on more highway improvements at this time instead of waiting until the state highway fund is collected and in the State Treasury. The second half of the Hite road law tax will not be collected until June, and it will be September before contracts may be let.

Alexander fears the roads will not be completed before winter comes on. Besides, he thinks it will good business to award additional her contracts now and thus enhance prosperity. work were opened to-day in the Highway Bids on more than $225,000 worth of Commissioner's office, and in most cases awards were made, on which work will start at once. The details follow: Allen County-Lima-Ottawa road, brick, length 1.23 miles, estimated cost 550 11, awarded to Henry S. Enck, Lima, Olio; $30,995.

Clark County- County-Springfield-Washington, C. water bound macadam, length 2.60 miles, estimated cost $24,118 74, low bidder. Burke Winchel, Columbus, Ohio; $22,418. (Award withheld). Guersney County Steubenville-Cambridge road, concrete, length 1 mile, estimated cost $14,585 12.

No bids. Hamilton County Dunlap-Springdale road, water bound macadam and concrete, length 3.18 miles, estimated cost $40,304 16, low bidder Burke Winchel, Columbus, Ohio; $38,298. (Award withheld). Medina County- County-Cleveland-Hickley-Medina road, concrete, length 1.38 miles, estimated cost $14,390 awarded to Geo. S.

Mellert, Medina, Ohio; $14,385 25. Mercer County- Section 2, St. Mary'sFt. Wayne road, concrete, length 2.54- miles, estimated cost $39,898 78, awarded to Lewis Burnett, Rockford, Ohio; $34,862. Perry County--New Lexington-McConnelsville road, water bound macadam, length 1.48 miles, estimated cost 238 awarded to Lamb Nell, Thornville, Ohio; $18,703 73.

Ross County-Hillsboro-Chillicothe road, brick, length 1 mile, estimated cost (brick), $17,020 89, low bidders Chillicothe Construction Company; $16,700, and S. M. Darby, Frankfort, Ohio; $14,241. (Award withheld). Ross County Chillicothe-Lancaster road, concrete, length 1.6 mile, estimated cost (concrete), $13,566 96, low bidders, J.

E. Berry, Chillicothe, Ohio, $12,467, and Brewer, Tomlinson Brewer, Chillicothe, Ohio: $15,709. (Award withheld). Seneca County-Bucyrus-Tiffin road, waterbound macadam, length 1 mile, estimated cost $11,944 93, awarded to Seiple Wolfe, Toledo, Ohio: $11,733. Van Wert County -Willshire-Ft.

Recovery, water bound macadam, length 1 mile, estimated cost $4,828 30, awarded to Mustard Brothers, Ada, Ohio; $4,819. M'CREARY MEN TO CONFER. DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Lexington, April 30. -The friends of Governor James B.

McCreary, who are interested in his Senatorial race, have planned a conference here on Saturday, when Governor McCreary will be here, the guest of honor at a dinner given at the Phoenix Hotel, and McCreary men from various parts of Central Kentucky will be present. KEWANEE'S SALOONS CLOSE. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Kewanee, April Kewanee's 18 saloons closed to-night for the first time in 35 years as a result of the dry election. One resident of the city purchased 60 dozen bottles of beer.

He drinks one bottie a day, and now figures that he has supply for two years. ---Bainbridge Colby HELP! Cream of Alaska Would Be Given English By Maryland Solon In Exchange For HayPauncefote Treaty. Congressman Smith To End the Dispute Over Panama Tolls- Measure Would Empower Wilson To Transfer Panhandle of Territory. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Washington, April 30.

Authority for the President of the United States to newith Great Britain for the transgotlate of Southeastern Alaska to Canada, fer "the abrogation of the Hay-Pauncefote being made one of the conditions treaty of the transfer," is the amazing proposition set forth in a bill introduced in the House of Representatives to-day by O. Smith, of Maryland, a DemoFrank crat. is on a par with that of This proposal Sims, Democrat, of TenRepresentative who recently introduced a bill to nessee, foreign vessels to the American admit coastwise trade. Obsequiousness to Great Britain fairly from the text of the Smith bill for oozes transfer of Alaska to Canada. This the document says: "Whereas, The Hay-Pauncefote treaty proved to be and will continue to be has of dispute, and therefore of ira source ritation to the people of the United States; "Cuts Off Canada." The narrow coast strip of Alaska, one third Southeastern of Western Canada from free access to the Pacific, is a source of irritation to Canada; "Whereas.

In the interest of the peace movement, especially for the sake of example, it is desirable that all sources of international irritation be removed whenever possible; therefore be it "Resolved, That the President is requested to negotiate with the British and Canadian Governments regarding the transfer of Southeastern Alaska to Canada by sale or exchange, or both, the repeal of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty being made one of the conditions of transfer." The Smith resolution was characterized by public men to-night as illustrating the kind of diplomacy now in vogue in Washington. The proposal to let England cut through Alaska had its inception at a peace convention held in Philadelphia last year. Resolutions were then adopted and subsequently laid before Congress urging an agreement between Canada and the United States for the cession of lands that would open up Southeastern Alaska through Canadian development of a narrow strip of the territory adjoining British Columbia. Never Up Before. It is not known whether these resolutions emanated from any official of the State Department or not.

They never officially before Congress until presented day by Representative Smith. Chairman O'Gorman, of the Senate Canal Committee, to-day reported the toll repeal bill without recommendation, but with the Simmons suggested amendment attached. He gave notice that within a day or two he would take the repeal bill up and make it the unfinished business after Monday next. This motion may be made to-morrow. The debate next week will be opened by Senator Townsend, of Michigan, who is against repeal.

A conservative estimate of the length of the debate fixes June 1 as the earliest possible time for a vote. It would not surprise any one if the discussion were prolonged to the middle of June. Any effort to prolong the usual hours of the daily session or to exclude all other business with the end in view of jamming repeal through will be resisted with all the ingenuity at the command of Senators who know how to take advantage every parliamentary situation. One of the leading opponents of repeal said this afternoon that a vote would be ad on the repeal bill when a majority of the Senate was ready to take the, vote, and not before. MORAL DELINQUENT, Whose Regeneration Was Questioned, Dies After Operations.

SPECIAL. DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Benton Harbor, April Chappell, 18 years old, whose moral regeneration has been discussed by noted judicial and surgical experts, is dead. His body was brought back from Evanston, to-day, where he underwent two operations. Several months ago Chappell came before Circuit Judge Bridgman.

Chappell had been a juvenile delinquent and had come to be a police character. He was selected as the subject for 8 crime-cure experiment, and was sent to Evanston, where Dr. E. P. Pratt operated on him.

Some weeks later Chappell returned. He apparently had undergone a marked physical change, and he told the Court he felt like "a new man. For several weeks his conduct was beyond criticism, and then he began to display his old criminal tendencies. Two weeks ago he again was sent to Evanston to be placed on a farm, where Dr. Pratt might study him.

He developed orcanto trouble and underwent two operatons. He died following the second one. PRECLUSION orA American Rights Seen By Foraker in Repeal of Free Tolls. Former Senator Flays Colombian Treaty, Asserting United States Paid Too High Price. Possible Bridging of Breach With Progressives Seen By Republicans in Defense of Roosevelt.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Upper Sandusky, Ohio, April United States Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, to-day, in addressing a Republican convention, which nominated county ticket for the fall election, aSsailed Secretary Bryan for negotiating treaty with Colombia, which the Senator said is without excuse and contemplates the humiliation of the United States and one of its most eminent Presidents In the payment of $25,000,000, together with an apology. He called the land which the United States secured for the Panama Canal a mosquito garden, and said that Colombia originally wanted $7,000,000, then raised the demand to $10,000,000 and then finally refused to ratify it with the demand for $25,000,000. He also denounced the attempt to repeal the tolls exemption clause in the Panama Canal act. God." said Foraker, "we then had Theodore Roosevelt for President, and he was not afraid to speak out in meeting.

Within a few days Panama seceded and declared itself a republic, and in three days was recognized by the United States. Opposes Colombia Treaty. contended that it was a frameup; we were too hasty in recognizing Panama. But these same critics to recall that we recognized the French Republic the day it was created and also the Republic of Brazil. Our course in regard to Panama was entirely honorable, and if I were in Congress I would oppose this Bryan-Colombia treaty to the fullest Referring to the present conflict with Mexico Mr.

Foraker said: the platforms of both the Republican and Democratic parties, proclaim protection to all Americans at home and abroad, yet the present Administration has. witnessed the killing and outraging of American men, women and children in Mexico without raising a hand. But finally resorted to conflict of arms over an insult to the American flag. seemingly unmindful that the American flag is the American people, and American people have been killed with impunity for 1 more than a year past. "I do not wish to criticize the American President with war on hand, but now there is a lull and we have consented to mediation at the hands of three South American republics.

I abhor war. War is terrible: but if we must have war witn the President may count me as one of his most loyal supporters. Hopes For Peace. "But it seems to me that the present Administration fully a year ago should then have recognized Huerta or immediately intervened, for, with the conditions that have prevailed, Americans and American property have been totally without protection in -that ill-fated country. I hope for a peaceful solution, but it seems to me that our Secretary of State in endeavoring to avoid war is simply paving the way for a more serious conflict.

"Furthermore, I fear that the Monroe Doctrine is being weakened and that we are being beaten, in the game of diplomacy. It seems to be a game of moonshine diplomacy in Mexico and moonshine diplomacy in Washington," The former Senator, in regard to the Panama Canal tolls question, said: "I helped make that treaty and I knew what I was trying to do. The treaty does not include the United States in the term 'other To 80 interpret it would preclude our rights to use it as we saw fit in time of war, or have the protection of the fortifications, which have cost us $35,000,000. It is strange, indeed, that President Wilson should ask for the repeal of this tolls exemption so closely following the murder of a British subject in Mexico. I wonder if his reference to a matter of great delicacy and nearer consequence had any connection with the killing of Benton." Enthused By Foraker.

Mr. Foraker aroused great. enthusiasm when he said that the country is glad that the "Presidential term is not six years, otherwise the people would have to wait that much longer before the return of the Republican party to power. Foraker's defense of Colonel Roosevelt in connection with the Republic of Panama and his reference to the "President who was not afraid to speak out in meeting' impressed the Progressives who attended the convention. Wyandot County political leaders believe that the former Senator, in championing Roosevelt, will cause a change in Ohio politics and that Roosevelt may not enter the Ohio campaign in behalf of Arthur L.

Garford. Referring to the Senatorship, Mr. Foraker said: "I have not formally declared myself Tolls Advocates Have Lost First Fight, Asserts Champion of American Rights ing the free toll plank. Our merchant marine will grow and reach its former high estate if permitted free tolls through the caral-but in no other way, unless openly and directly subsidized. It is aupreme folly to profess to desire a develthis subsidized competition of other naopment of our merchant marine against tions unless we intend to do what is necessary to attain the result.

"Russia and France have already appropriated money for the payment of the tools of their ships passing the canal, ar.d Japan has a bill pending for that, purpose. It is a fraud and a pretense to assert in one breath that 1 we favor the development of our merchant marine and then refuse to do the only thing that can by any possibility accomplish the result. The President in his speech accepting his nomination said it would be ridiculous to build the canal and then have no ships to pass through it. There have been years, he said, when not a single ton of freight passed through the Suez Canal in an American bottom, so empty are the seas of American ships and seamen. must mean to put an end to that sort of thing or we will be putting a new canal at our very doors merely for the use of our men-of-war." The President, continued Mr.

Lane, laid the premise of ridicule himself. He must not resent it if the country draws the logical conclusion and laughs, said the speaker. POSITION Carrying $4,500 Salary Awaits Man Who Leads in Civil Service Exam May 19. Rates and Service Bureau Superintendency Among Many Other State Jobs To Be Filled. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

Columbus, Ohio, April examination will be conducted by the State Civil Service Commission the morning of May 19 for the position of Superintendent of the Bureau of Rates and Service in the Utilities Commission. It carries with it a salary of $4,500. position was filled for several months by 0. P. Gothlin, recently resigned.

Applicants must be conversant with the work of public service corporations, as the incumbent will be required to investigate and adjust claims of shippers, and to make inspection of railroad tariffs, and should possess a general knowledge of rates and service. The examination will be held at the office of the State Civil Service Commission In the Majestic Theater Building in Columbus. Another examination for Deputy Game Wardens will be held the morning of May 21. In order to get the necessary number of applicants and save them needless expense, the commission has decided to hold examinations at Cincinnati. Dayton, Athens, Zanesville, Wapakoneta, Defiance, Bucyrus, Canton, Youngstown, Portsmouth, Chillicothe, Columbus, Findlay, Steubenville, Sandusky and Cleveland.

The State Civil Service Commission will hold a special examination for State Highway and Bridge Inspectors at 9 o'clock the morning of May 1 12. This examination will be used to create a special eligible list for Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Lucas, Mahoning and Montgomery and any other counties requiring this service. The salary is $3 per day. These examinations will be held at the office of the State Civil Service Commission, Columbus; in the law library in the old courthouse at Cleveland, and in the courthouses in Cincinnati, Youngstown, Toledo and Wapakoneta. Special examinations will be held in this city the morning of May 22 for provisional clerical appointees in all.

offices of the state, Class C. The salaries vary from $30 to $100 per month, owing to the locality. At the same time examinations will be held for stenographer, clerk-stenographer, typist, copyist and clerk. These examinations are competitive, and open to residents of all counties wherever any provisional appointments of a clerical character have been made. They will be held at Cincinnati, Dayton, Zanesville, Bucyrus, Portsmouth, Steubenville, Sandusky, Wapakoneta, Kenton, Chillicothe, Findlay, Cleveland, Athens, Deflance, Youngstown, Columbus and Toledo.

These examinations do not apply to those who were incumbents prior to January, 1914, but only to those who lare serving under provisional appointments authorized by the State Civil Service Commission since the first of the year. PICKED BY PROGRESSIVES. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Terre Haute, April Gulley, of Danville, was selected as the Progressive candidate for Congress this afternoon at the Fifth District Convention here. His name was the only one presented.

E. S. Eggleston, of Newport, was chosen as the joint representative candidate from Vigo and Vermilion Counties. H. B.

Pike, Vermilion County, was Permanent Chairman, and Howard L. Hancock, Parke County, Permanent Secretary. Roscoe Fertig, of Indianapolis, was the principal speaker. FORTUNE FOR A LEG. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIBER.

Frankfort, April 80, -The neat sum of $15,000 for 8 leg is the amount a Franklin County jury to-day awarded J. A. Johnson, of Winchester, for his right leg, cut off. here last fall by a C. and O.

Railroad train. Johnson fell while getting off the train and rolled under It. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. New York, April -That the opponents of free tolls have lost the first battle was declared to-day by. Bainbridge Colby, Chairman of the Committee for the Preservation of American Rights in the Panama Canal, in commenting on the proposed amendment to the Sims repeal bill, advocated by Senator Simmons, and embodied in the report of the Interoceanic Canals Committee.

"It is a gratifying sign that the national protest against the repeal at last has been heard in Washington, said Mr. Colby, "It is reassuring also as showing the Senate's disposition to approach this critical question not in the spirit in which the House disposed of it under the gag rule of coture but in the temper of a responsible deliberative body. It is also a hopeful sign that the loss of legislative independence so noticeable in the House does not prevail at least to the same degree in the Senate. "To the patriotic men throughout the country who have stood up in protest against this act of uncalled-for national surrender. it comes like the cheering presage of ultimate victory.

But I would not enlarge upon its significance as a concession. I do not wish it to be hard for men in the interests of patriotic action to change their position. While the amendment does not relieve the bill of its calamitous probabilities it is a step in the right direction. To this extent it is creditable to Senator Simmons, whose drong desire to meet the wishes of the President in the matter of legislation has been conspicuous throughout the session. "It is well that the debate on this measure, which promises to be historic, should be introduced by an act on the part of an Administration Senator that carries with it the spirit of concession.

It the proposed repeal is subjected to candidate, although friends are circulating petitions. I have a reluctance to enter the contest, realizing all it means, but I have received letters and messages from all over the country urging me to be candidate. So many wish me back in the Senate and I must admit that the Mexican, Panama and Columbia problems, with which Iam familiar, make me desirous of reutrning." MISTAKEN STATESMANSHIP, Says Toledo Newspaper, Editorially of Free Tolls! Repeal. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Toledo, Ohio, April Times tomorrow will publish the following editorial on "Our Rights in "The Times has been loath to enter vigorously into the discussion of the Panama Canal tolls question, partly because time seemed inevitable that both ft at one branches of Congress would pass the Sims bill providing for the repeal of free tolls for American coastwise vessels.

But the discussion has now gone so far as to indicate that the Senate may not concur in the action of the House and that the Administration may fail in its effort In favor of repeal. We believe this an event earnestly to be hoped for. "However statemen may disagree regarding the merits of the controversy, the people can never be convinced that the united judgment of Theodore Roosevelt. William H. Taft and Woodrow Wilthis subject was wrong when all son on three agreed in favor of free tolls for our coastwise trade.

The people will not split hairs over treaties and diplomatic correspondence. They will stand upon the proposition that American rights in the canal zone and over the regulations of canal traffic are supreme, and they will be led to this conclusion very largely because of the agreement formerly existing between the three foremost American citizens heretofore named on the subject. They cannot be made to believe now that the three were formerly wrong and that President Wilson is now right. It is only too late to convert them. "Nor will the American people, regardless of party, ever agree to the propositon that party platforms can be violated impunity by statesmen who hope to with the confidence of the country while retain doing SO.

It is admitted that radical changes of conditions might require the abrogation of party promises and declarations of principles, but no such changes have occurred since free tolls were indorsed by the Republican, Democratic and Progressive national platforms. The cannot be led away from a course people of action required by such solemn and unanimous declarations. Congress may support the President; the Sims bill may the Senate, but the majority of the pass American people cannot now be made to that the advocates of repeal are right, nor will they ever believe it in the future. "All the facts point to the attitude of President Wilson and Secretary Bryan as a mistake of statesmanship, but they are in mowise so grievously mistaken as in the supposition that they can lead the people le where they are attempting to lead the Congress of the United States." COTTON MANUFACTURERS. Boston, April Greene Dun- can, of this city, Treasurer of the Harmony Mills, was to-day elected President of the National Cotton Manufacturers' Association at the closing sessions of its annual convention.

Two Vice Presidents were chosen William M. Butler, of New Bedford, and Grosvenor Ely, of Jewett City, Conn. LOVELY! Boston; April The Senate passed to 8 third reading day without debate the bill which would provide for police women in cities and towns. The bill has been acted upon favorably by the House. improvidences in the past, surrendering from sheer ignorance territories and rights and privileges, the value of which we failed to comprehend.

Daniel Webster would have given up the great territory of Oregon in exchange for some cod fisheries on the Eastern Coast. A Senator of the United States pronounced this great Pacific region, 30 times ti the area of Massachusetts, not worth a pinch of: snuff. "I earnestly hope that before it is too late the Senate will comprehend the great issues involved in the maintenance of our conceded sovereignty in the Panama Canal. There is no call, either of honor or justice, to surrender what has been pracconceded to us. "No man can picture the final influence and ultimate effect of the Panama Canal as a modification of human conditions and national relations.

To inaugurate this great work by a blind and fatuous surrender of what we cannot measure and which, if lost, can never be retrieved, seems an unbelievable act of folly. "Now it is to be hoped the matter will be fully examined, fully discussed in the Senate. The Simmons amendment should go down in defeat with the entire proposal of repeal, but it is an encouraging sign of returning reason. "Some one has said that it doesn't make SO much difference what point in the journey you are as what direction you are going in; that it is better to be at the bottom of the hill going up than at the top of the hill coming down. I sincerely hope now that the ascent has begun from the pit of error and folly in which the action of the House involved the nation that we shall not pause until we reach the summit of consistent, correct and patriotic action, and affirm courageously to the world that we need no aid from other nations in arriving at a true and honorable interpretation of our treaty obligations." ACTIVE CAMPAIGN For Flood Prevention Planned By Indiana Commission.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Indianapolis, April statewide movement for flood prevention, was planned by the Indiana Flood Commission, appointed recently by Governor Ralston, at its first meeting here to-day. The next meeting will be held May 12, when a subcommittee appointed will, present a proposed plan to Governor Ralston. The subcommittee is composed of K. Hatt, of Lafayette, professor of civil engineering in Purdue University; Chairman E.

W. Shirk, of Peru, and Victor M. O'Shaughnessy, of Lawrenceburg. Governor Ralston suggested that only expert advice should be heeded. It was proposed also that the commission profit by collecting the data and surveys made by the various cities where plans for flood prevention work are under way.

Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Peru and Kokomo have taken such steps. REAPER Hovering Near Nordica Physicians Give Up All Hope of Recovery of Noted Diva, Who Suffers Relapse. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE ENQUIRER. Batavia, Java, April Lillian Nordica, who arrived here quite ill nearly a month ago, has suffered a relapse and is sinking.

The doctors have given up all hope of her recovery. She had engaged passage for Genoa where her husband, George W. Young, of New York, had expected to meet her. Madame Nordica and her company left New York on a tour of the world last April. They were on board the Dutch steamer Tasman December 28 when this this vessel went ashore in the Gulf of Papua, near Thursday Island.

Several days later the Tasman was pulled off and made her way to Thursday Island. Madame Nordica was suffering from nervous prostration as a result of her experience. Subsequently she developed pneumonia, and remained under a physician's care at Thursday Island until April 1, when she left for Batavia on the A steamer Houtman. She took passage for Batavia against the advice of her doctor. PRESIDENT OF CHINA Given Additional Power Under New Constitution of Republic.

Peking, China, April -The amended constitution for the republic of China, which is to formally promulgated to. morrow, is notable for the wide powers it gives the President. The document, as it now stands, is the work of a constitutional convention which has been laboring here since the middle of March. The President is empowered to convoke, open, suspend, close and dissolve the Legislature; submit to it the budget as well as other bills, and refer back to the Legislature for reconsideration bills already passed by it. If such measures are repassed by a three-fourths majority the President, with the consent of the Administrative Council, may still hold their promulgation.

The President has sole power to 8 point and dismiss civil and military offcials, to declare war and conclude peace. and he will be in complete control of the army and navy as well as of all expenditures for these branches. SAYS LORD MURRAY ERRED. London, April The committee of the House of Lords appointed to investigate Lord Murray's dealings in American Marconi shares to-day issued its report which finds that he committed "errors of judgment." The committee recommends "there should henceforth be an inflexible rule to preclude those who hold any public office from entering upon any speculative transactions." THRUST At Every Industry In America Is Attempt To Repeal Free Tolls, Says West Virginian Against Sims Bill. Democratic Party Is in Embarrassing Place, Asserts Dr.

0 'Grady, in Opposing Measure Favored By Big Parties in 1912 Campaign. unprejudiced examination, and if the decision of the Senate is reached without regard to any consideration but the merits of the subject, the debate can have but one outcome, and that is the defeat of the repeal. "We have committed many diplomatic BAINBRIDGE COLBY. REQUEST For Archer's Services In Launching New York's Compensation System Granted. Ohio Commission Considers Itself Honored That Its Secretary Should Be Called Upon.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Columbus. Ohio, April was paid to the management of the workingmen's compensation fund in Ohio through the request to-day for the services of the Secretary of the State Industrial Commission, William C. Archer, of Lancaster, by the state of New York. The request was granted.

New York is about to install a fund, and Secretary Archer, it has been decided, is the best qualified expert in the country to launch it. Prior to securing his temporary service the New York Commission, headed -by Robert E. Dowling, offered him $5,000 a year to accept permanent employment. This was declined because of his desire to remain until the new experiment in government had been thoroughly established and given a fair trial in Ohio. Secretary Archer will leave Sunday night for New York and remain until July 1.

As a million and a half workmen will be embraced by the law in that state preparations for handling 2.000 cases a week must be made. For this purpose $500,000 has been appropriated and three entire floors of the Metropolitan Insurance Building were leased. In Ohio only was given by the General Assembly to launch the enterprise and four or five rooms in an office building rented. To-day the State Industrial Commissoin awarded $63 15 to Max Budeg, an employee of the J. H.

Day Company, of Cincinnati, for injury to an eye. Among the 216 awards to injured workmen granted by the commission to-day was one of $1,277 to Philip Schwenn, 825 Heaton street, Hamilton, for the loss of an eye, suffered when molten metal splashed into it at the foundry of the Hamilton Foundry and Machine Company. George Meese, 7283 Shaw avenue, Cleveland, was awarded $720 to compensate him for an injury to his hand which necessitated the amputation of two Angers and 8 part of a third, while employed at the plant of the Standard Steel Casting Company. In addition to 3 previous award, for an injury to his hand, Clifford Mcllroy, of Celina, was given $122 50 further compensation. For an injury to a toe and doctor bills H.

I. Vieths, of Elyria, employed by the Garford Company, was awarded $127 21. BRADLEY LIKELY TO RUN Again For Senate -Announcement Is Expected in a Few Days. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Washington, April Bradley, of Kentucky, will be ready in a few days to announce his decision as to whether or not he stand for renomination for the United States Senate.

If he announces that he will run Richard P. Ernst, of Covington, former State Chairman, and others are expected to step aside and give him a clear field. It is understood the Senator's mind is pretty well made up and that in all probability he will make the race. PETITION HURLED AT KING. London, April King George was driving in a motor through Cambridge to-day 8 suffragette approached his automobile and threw at His Majesty a petition, calling for votes for women.

The package struck the chauffeur. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER, Charleston, W. April Charles O'Grady, of Charleston, former Vice President of the West Virginia Medical Society and a life-long Democrat, in a statement to-day advocated tolls exemption for American coastwise ships passing through the Panama Dr. O' Grady took issue with members of his party who would surrender one of the pledges in the Baltimore platform and expressed the opinion that the repeal 1 of the exemption act for coastwise shipping would be detrimental to the majority party in the ensuing campaign. "It is very unfortunate for the Democratic party," said Dr.

O'Grady, "to be placed in the position of having to defend the repeal of the exemption clause in the Panama Canal act when every platform and every leader of every party favors free tolls for American coastwise shipping. I am afraid the party will have, a rather uphill road to travel in the next campaign if the American Senate, in its wisdom, dces not defeat the repeal of the Sims bill. Eulogy Is Given. "I see no reason why a citizen of New York or Norfolk or New Orleans should pay a toll of $1 20 a ton on his merchandise when shipping it to San Francisco or San Diego or Seattle than a coal per on the Kanawha River should pay toll for using the government locks on that river in shipping coal to Cincinnati or. New Orleans.

I feel sure that the coal operators of the Southern West Virginia coal fields will take the same view. "The coal operators of this section must have felt chagrined when they found that the new markets, which they expected from the opening of the Panama Canal, could only be reached with a toll of $1 20 a ton additional. And they no doubt wondered why their representatives in Congress should authorize the expenditure of $400,000,000 and then repeal the free tolls act. "In other words, what good will the Panama Canal do the United States if our country cannot use it without the payment of tolls. We hear a great deal now about a shipping trust, owned by the coastwise shipping trade.

That is a very nice romance for use on the stump among the farmers, but you cannot tell that story to the average American who reads. Bidding For Engineers Recalled. "They will remember how the transcontinental railroads outbid the Government in salary for the first two chief engineers of the canal and how President Taft sent an army engineer, Colonel Goethals, who did twice as much work in the same length of time as the civilian engineer and for a very much less salary. "The transcontinental railroads outbid the Government in an effort to embarrass the Government in the completion of the canal. It is readily understood why these railroads would be opposed to the canal and to any thing that would cripple its usefulness.

"many Americans have been along the sea coast in recent years and the only vessels they have been able to see carrying the American flag, besides the war vessels, have been pleasure boats. I have been told, dozens of times by residents of Norfolk, Baltimore and New York, that we had no -ships except the small lines running from New York to Fall River and from New York to Norfolk. remember some years ago a citizen of Charleston, Dr. Daniel Mayer, was appointed Consul to Buenos Aires. He left New York by steamer, but was required to go to London to get a ship for his destination in South America.

He traveled an additional 5,000 miles because there was no American ships and evidently no American commerce. "I believe that the passage of the repeal bill by the United States Senate will be 8 blow to every American industry and especially to our coal industry." CANTON PLANT Is Badly Damaged By a Supposedly Incendiary Blaze, Canton, Ohio, April declared by Chief Mesnar to have been of incendiary origin, destroyed the second story of the J. H. McLain Company's plant early this morning, with a loss estimated at $10,000. The Garwood Gas Lamp and Heater Company, occupying part of the second floor, sustained about half the total Icss.

The loss is about one half covered by Insurance. The McLain plant has not been operating in full for about two months on account of. a strike of molders employed there. The strikers are still out, but the plant started operation Monday..