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SHINER QAZETTE. SHINER. TEXAS HARDING VETOES THE BONUS BILL President Sets Forth Number of Reasons for Returning Bill Without Approval. bonus bill failed of enactment Wednesday, the senate sustaining President veto. Previously the house had overridden the veto by a large margin.

The senate roll call showed 44 yeas to 28 nays, or four less than the two- thirds majority necessary to enact the measure without the president's approval. The vote in the house was 258 to 54, or 50 more than the required number. The house vote on the first passage of the bonus last March 23 was 333 to 70, or 4.75 to one, as compared with 4.77 to one Wednesday. The senate vote Wednesday compared with 47 to 22, by which the measure was first passed on August 31. Harding vetoed the bonus bill Tuesday, informing congress in a written message that while he was in accord with "the avowed of the measure, he did not subscribe to its provisions.

The executive action was regarded generally in Washington as making impossible a bonus for the world war veterans, at least for some time to come, as it appeared to be almost certain that the veto would be sustained by the senate. Mr. Harding sets forth a number of reasons for returning the bill to the house without his approval. These include: Failure of congress to provide a means for financing. That inevitably the bonus would mean Increased taxation.

That the legislation would wipe out everything thus far accomplished to reduce government expenditures wherever possible. That a peace bestowal on the ex- service men was a perversion of public funds, and suggested future defense is to be inspired by compensation rather than consciousness of duty to flag and That to add to one-sixth of the total sums of the public debt for distribution among less than five million of 110,000,000 people would undermine confidence on which the credit was builded and "establish the precedent of distributing the public funds whenever the proposal and the numbers affected make it seem politically appealing to do That the $10,000,000,000 maturing debt in the next six years would be difficult to meet without adding the complication of added borrowing on account of a bonus. That the adjusted service certificate plan of payment with its bank and government loan provisions was little less than a certified inability of the government to pay and invited "a practice of sacrificial by the veterans. Asserting that this obligation would "cost more billions than I venture to the president declared that a rational financial policy today is necessary to make the nation ready for the expenditure which is certain to be required in the coming Mr. Harding also called attention to the sums now being expended for the care of the diseased, disabled or dependent, and asserted that the total cost of this work with insurance liability added probably would exceed $25,000,000,000.

ATTORNEY GENERAL RULES ON FREE SCHOOL LAND SALE Austin, attorney department, in an opinion to Land Commissioner J. T. Robison, ruled that an application for the reinstatement of the forfeited sale of the pub lie free school land classified as at the time of sale does not vest in the applicant the right to a reinstatement if, after such forfeiture and before the making of such application, the classification of the land is changed to and agricultural, and there is, at the time such application is made, a valid oil and gas permit outstanding upon such land applied for before the making of sucb application for reinstatement. Nor will the fact that such application, together with interest money paid thereon, remain in the land office during the life of, and if thereupon the ter mination of such permit operate tc vest in the applicant the right to rein statement, nor, upon tender of the balance due the state, to a patent to sucb land under such forfeited sale. Ship Owners Suffer Losses.

ship owners of the world have lost 1,300,000,000 pounds sterling as a result of the recent slump in marine freights. This is the estimate of in its semi-annual review of the shipping sale market. STRIKE IS ENDED ON SAP RAILROAD San Antonio, railroad shopmen of the San Antonio Aransas Pass Tuesday reached an agree ment with the executives of the road tc settle the strike, and will return to work. The strike settlement involves about 450 men working in the shops in San Antonio, Yoakum, Kenedy, Corpus Christi, Houston and Waco and of these about 100 are in San Antonio. Hogs Shipped to Houston.

Grapeland, cars of fat hogs were shipped to Houston from Grapeland Friday by J. W. Howard and the Texas Holstein Farm. Big Wool Sale Made. Mertzon, West Texas Wool and Mohair Association made the largest wool sale Monday it has made this year.

Between five and six hundred thousand pounds were sold to a Boston firm at 40c per pound. It was loaded on the Orient and will go to Alpine, where It will be transferred to the Southern Pacific, thence to Galveston, where it will be loaded on the Morgan Line for shipment to Boston. This is the spring clip, but failed to get in the building before the last sale. Angelina second $500,000 road bond issue has been sold at par with accrued interest and a $26,300 premium. The county is already building hard-surfaced roads.

Thousands of ducks have been seen coming into the Corpus Christi section since the recent rains and are alighting in the fields and all places covered by the water. The attorney general has approved the following bond issues: Town of Freeport, street improvement bonds, $25,000, serials, 6s; Corsicana water works bonds, $50,000, serials, 5s. State rangers have taken over the tick eradication war in Shelby county, it was announced at the headquarters of the state live stock sanitary commission. This follows the blowing up of 11 dippldg vats there last week. A contract has been let by the commissioners court for construction of a highway in Angelina County from Lufkin to Huntington.

The road will be sixteen feet wide, of rock and gravel with asphalt topping and concrete bridges and culverts. The work of thrashing the new crop rice has started in Orange County. It is said that acreage in cultivation is 5 per cent less than normal. The rice, although in small acreage, is said to average around fifteen bags to the acre on some of the best land. The following bond issues were approved this week by the attorney general: Orange County special road bonds, $700,000, serials, Carlton independent school district, $8,000, serials, 6s; City of Brownfield electric light and power bonds, $16,000, serials, 6s.

The work of tick eradication in Freestone county has been stopped by or- der of the commissioners court. The excessive cost of the work is the rea- son given by the court for discontinu- ing the dipping, the county being heav- ily in debt. A quarantine on the coun- ty has been established by the state sanitary commission. The Texas school for the deaf has opened at Austin for the sixty-sixth consecutive year, the school having been established twelve years after Texas became a state. Students numbering 490 are enrolled for this session, coming from all-parts of the state.

Last year there were twenty- one graduates. Out of the 41,835 cattle dipped or inspected at the forty dipping vats in Galveston county during the month of August, 494 showed signs of infection, according to the monthly report of the tick eradication given out by D. W. Burns, state inspector, in charge of the work in the county. The totals for the entire state show 7,013,372 head of cattle dipped or inspected during the month, with 390,645 infected cattle.

There were 1,587 herds in Galveston county dipped or inspected during the month. An opinion by Assistant Attorney General Hawkins holds inoperative that section of the insurance statutes which empowers the commissioner of insurance and banking to forfeit the license or permit of any outside insurance company which Institutes in a federal court or causes to be transferred to a federal court any action against a citizen of Texas. He declares that the manifest invalidity of this provision of the law does not void or interfere with some sixty-nine provisions of the act of the thirty-first legislature which was a codification of the insurance laws affecting the incorporation and licensing of life, health and accident companies. Houston bank deposits increased at a phenomenal rate during the past one and one-half months, the tabulation of reports made to the comptroller of the currency and the state banking department showed this week. Between June 30, the date of the previous call, and September 15, total deposits of the 16 local banks jumped $16,363,482, and for the first time in the history crossed the $100,000.000 mark in the aggregate.

State Treasurer C. V. Terrell has made the second call for payment of registered warrants since the state went on a deficiency basis September 1. The first call was for payment of warrants aggregating $75,000. The second call was for warrants aggregating $68,000, that amount having become available in the general revenue fund since the first call.

The second call is for warrants up to and including No. 64,001. SUPPORT OF ROADS IN STATE IS URGED Commissioner Says Texas Is In Danger of Losing Federal Aid. Austin, state highway commission has received applications for aid for road construction from Titus, Coleman, Fannin, Somervell, Travis, Collins and Lamar counties. An application was also received for designation on highway No.

19 in Brazoria and Fort Bend counties. R. M. Hubbard, chairman of the commission, has given out a statement in which he declared that Texas is in great danger of losing federal aid. The statement follows: "Texas must make adequate provisions for maintaining the highways on which federal aid has been used at an early date or lose her federal aid allotment.

Other states pay $4 out of every $5 spent on highway construction in Texas, by the federal government, and it would be disastrous to this state if we should lose this assistance by failing to maintain our roads properly after construction. sane person knows that it is false economy and unbusinesslike to spend millions of dollars in building good roads and permit them to go to AMERICAN LEGION (Copy for This Department Supplied the American Legion News Service.) DEATH BY GAS IS DENOUNCED Prof. J. H. Mathews, Former World War Major, Condemns Method Used in Nevada.

chamber of death, the gas room which a new- law in the state provides is to be used for the execution of condemned criminals, is strongly denounced by Prof. J. H. chairman of the department of chemistry, University of Wisconsin, and an expert on poisonous gases. Professor Mathews served as a major in the World war, studying gas warfare at the British front and serving in charge of the gas and tiame branch of the trench warfare section of the United States army.

I purpose of gas in wrarfare is pieces in a few years for lack of main-1 t0 pro(jnce as much agony and torture USE OF X-RAY MAY CHECK BOLL WEEVIL Theory Advanced by Engineer for Making Eggs of Insects Sterile. tenance. "One countjr, by failing to maintain its highways, will endanger the whole state. Funds must be provided and the 7 per cent system of roads maintained by the state and not by the county. The Eastern states, being more wealthy, naturally pay more into the general fund, and thereby help build the roads in Texas, and we afford to leave anything undone that as possible, in order that the victim may be at least incapacitated, if not actually Major Mathews is quoted as saying to the American Legion news service.

it is inconceivable that a state should desire to use gases which produce such effects. The purpose of capital punishment Is to remove the victim quietly and effectively, in order that society henceforth may be protected and to serve as a will in the least imperil our chances i warning to other potential evildoers. of receiving this support for improvement of this state. "The roads in the majority of the counties are not being maintained as required by the federal aid act, and the director of the public roads at any time might stop approving federal aid project. "It seems to me that the only sensible and businesslike thing for the legislature to do is to make the necessary changes at the earliest possible moment after convening, in order that Texas might continue to receive federal aid, and that the Eastern states might continue to help us develop this great commonwealth of RAILROAD COMMISSION TO HEAR FREIGHT RATE CASES Austin, railroad commission has set for hearirJb on October 10 the application of the Texas New Orleans Railroad Company and the Texarkana Fort Smith Railway Company, asking for authority to apply the following regulation to govern in the transportation of all freight, carloads and less, between Chaison and South Beaumont on the one hand and points in Texas, except Beaumont, on the other hand: Rates on all shipments of freight, carloads and less than carloads, transported betw'een Chaison (station on the T.

S. F. railway and T. 4r N. O.

railroad) or South Beaumont (station on the T. S. railway) and other railroad stations in Texas (except rates applying on the same commodity between Beaumont and such other points in. Texas. On traffic interchanged at Beaumont the accruing to the T.

F. S. Railw'ay Company or the T. N. O.

Railroad Company out of the revenue accruing for the transportation of carload shipments between Chaison or South Beaumont and such points in Texas shall be $8.10 per car. is to be hoped that civilization has reached a point where revenge is no longer a motive. Only savages torture their victims before killing them; the use of any of the war gases to remove criminals be quite in line writh the practice of Professor Mathews said there were gases which might be used for executions, if the use of gas at all could ever be deemed wise. Carbon dioxide, the poisonous constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. he declared would be the logical one to use.

He asserted, however, that if the administration of gas for execution of criminals were carried out, It should be entirely in the hands of medically trained men who understand both its use and attendant dangers. horrors of poorly carried out electrocutions are sufficiently vivid in the minds of thinking people to make them abhor any method of execution which may not be both humane and he declared. New ravages of the devastating boll weevil throughout the cotton fields of the South, which Dr. L. O.

Howard, chief of the bureau of entomology, estimates has caused a crop loss in five years of not less than $1,600,000,000, may yet be checked or wholly eliminated by the use of the X-Ray as a sterilizing agent. That is the belief expressed after much research by Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison, electrical engineer, who said that his theory for the sterilizing of the boll weevil by the application of the X-ray had been laid before Professor, Michael I. Pupin, head of the school of electrical engineering in Co! lumbia University, and also Dr. Fran- I cis Leroy Satterlee of Flushing, L.

one of the leading authorities in X-ray activities, and that both had been much impressed with the practicability of the proposed remedy and had expressed a hope that it might be thoroughly tried out in the cotton fields. Dr. Hutchison became interested in the subject not alone because he is a native of the South, but as a result of a letter written to him by Harvie Jordan, secretary of the American Cotton Association, from St. Matthews, S. C.

Replying to that letter Dr. Hutchison recently wrote in part: is known that sterility can be induced in the male and female of the entire animal kingdom and all kinds of eggs by thd intelligent and local application of X- rays. The boll and, in fact, all-parts of the cotton plant are transparent to X-rays. Therefore, why could not the eggs laid by the moth and the weevil hatched from the eggs be made sterile by the application of X-rays from a battery of tubes mounted on wheeled vehicles straddling several rows of plants and drawn along by a properly constructed and equipped vehicle? sheets of lead properly bent and placed over the tubes would shield the operator, concentrating the X-rays down and producing sterility in every egg and weevil on the The use of poison gas as an eliminating agent, Dr. Hutchison does not think feasible, though the suggestion has been attributed to Brigadier General Amos A.

Fries, chief of the chemical warfare service of the army. If used in sufficient volume to penetrate the cotton boll Dr. Hutchison believes the gas would prostrate everything and everybody in the vicinity. Rheumatism and Dyspepsia Are Soon Ended Victims of stomach trouble and rheumatism often find that when their stomach is set in order, the rheumatism disappears. Thousands of people everywhere have testified that Tanlac has freed them of both troubles simultaneously.

Mr. Robert Trotter, 148 State St. Paul, says: a year ago I began to go- down hill. Sour stomach and rheumatism in my arms and shoulders kept me In misery nil the time. Since taking Tanlac all my aches and pains have gone, and my stomach is in fine shape.

glad to endorse such a fine- Badly digested food fills the whole system with poisons. Rheumatism and many other complaints not generally recognized as having their origin in the stomach quickly respond to- the right treatment. Get a bottle today at any good ROMANS HAD CLIMBS FOR LEGION POSTS Valley Fanners Plan Large Truck Yield George Polly, Lynn, Ex-Soldier, Gives Exhibitions to Help Raise Funds. Some people are height shy. They grab hold of a chimney on the roof of a stor.v-and-a-half dwelling and look over the side only to seek the skylight and the lower regions.

are afflicted with the op- posite complex. They stand on the ground and look at the chimney without wonting to go right up the front of the building and see if a chick-a-dee has built a nest there. I Such a human fly is George Polly of Lynn, ex-soldier In the Aus- Cyclone Does Great Damage. Hamilton, is believed now that the damage resulting from the hurricane that swept Bermuda Thursday with a wind velocity reaching 90 miles an hour, will aggregate $250,000. The causeway connecting the main island with St.

Island is badly battered and all the water front property on the islands, particularly along the north shore, was more or less damaged by the storm many houses being unroofed. Well Known Throughout Texas. Amarillo, Mills, naturalist, who died at Longs Peak, Colorado, Thursday, was well known in Texas. He visited'the Palo Duro canyon near Amarillo, the Davis mountains and other proposed park sites in Texas and wrote a series of articles urging that these scenic spots bo converted into state or national parks. Texas Postmasters Named.

Texas postmasters nominated are: James F. Atkins, Florence; Eva K. Rasbury, Windom. Fog Horn Inventor Dies. D.

Lothrop of Gloucester, inventor of a mechanical fog horn in wide use on maritime vessels, died at a hospital Friday. As a ship chandler he was said to have sold more fish hooks than any other man in the world. Ranger Force Increased. Longview, force of Texas rangers doing guard duty in the local railroad shops increased to 19 men Friday, Captain H. C.

Greathouse, in charge of the force announced. Austin, largest truck gardening center, the Lower Rio Grande Valley, will plant approximately the same acreage to the leading truck products this fall as last year, according to an early season survey of garden acreage, made by J. Austen Hunter, assistant state marketing agent, and announced this week. The tomato acreage shows greatest possibilities of an increase for winter planting over last year, according to tbe summary. Conditions of other crops are given as follows: spinach planting will be on about the same acreage as last year in the Rio Grande Valley.

In the Central Texas section, however, the crop will probably show a decreased acreage of about 500 acres. Many farmers are showing activity in fertilization for this crop, which gives prospects of an increased production per acre. Preparation of soil for spinach will get under way within a few days. indications point to about 75 per cent of the cabbage acreage of last year in the valley section. seed beds for the most part planted and still quite a supply of seed available, the acreage to onions in the state is somewhat in doubt.

Reliable sources estimate a comparatively small planting. The final acreage to be planted this season will depend largely on ability to secure the necessary financing for the purchase of seed. vegetables that show promise of approximately the same acreage this season as last include: Peppers, eggplant, beets, carrots. The crops of most of these vegetables will be moved in mixed Scaling Building. tralian army, who for the last two years lias climbed buildings from coast to coast for the benefit of Legion posts.

He has Climbed the Woolworth building in New York, the Custom House tower in Boston and the highest buildings in every other city of size. His hands and his toes are all he uses in scaling. Needless to say he has never fallen. Fig Industry Booming. Alvin, parties will soon begin fencing and breaking several hundred acres of land a few miles south of Alvin preparatory to setting it to figs.

R. H. Bushway of Houston a well known horticulturist, will have charge of the proposition. Legion Post of City Firemen. A post of the American Legion, com posed exclusively of city firemen, has been formed in New Orleans.

The fire fighters plan to enter a team in the Legion athletic meet next Oc- tobtt. New Orleans, in the local rice market continued small Friday. It was said that should the weather continue favorable receipts in volume would be reached the early part of next week. Trading was light and buyers showed little interest at the prevailing prices. Receipts, 7,673 sacks rough; 1,419 pockets clean.

Sales, rough, Honduras, 166 sacks at 3.91@4.21c; Blue Rose, 630 sacks at 3.02@3.71c; Carolina, 823 sacks at 4.07c; clean, Honduras, 581 pockets at Blue Rose, 1,642 pockets at Bran $16. Polish 28c. Modern Method of Counting the Hour Merely an Imitation of Practice They Employed. Probably few people are aware, says a correspondent of flie London (Eng.) Daily News, that is merely a poor imitation of a common practice of the Romans. Whilst we switch the clocks backward and forward twice a year, the Romans made changes every day.

In practically every province of the Roman empire day began at sunrise and ended at sunset. The day consisted pf 12 whose duration was not 00 minutes, but one-twelfth of the total period of daylight. In high summer time, with sunrise at 5 a. m. and sunset at 9 p.

each consisted of 80 minutes. The first was from 5 to 6:20 in the morning, the second from 0:20 to 7:40, ond so on. In winter time, when tbe sun rose at 8 a. m. and set at 4 p.

the day was only eight of our hours in duration. The Roman midwinter hour was therefore only 40 minutes. first hour was from 8 to 8:40 a. the fifth from 10:40 to 11:20 a. and the twelfth from 3:20 to 4 p.

m. Hours were normal only at the spring and autumn March 21 and September 22, when night and day are of equal length. CALOMEL GOOD BUT TREACHEROUS Next Dose May Salivate, Shock Liver or Attack Your Bones. You know what calomel is. mercury; quicksilver.

Calomel is dangerous. It crashes into sour bile like dynamite, cramping and sickening you. Calomel attacks the bones and should never be put into your system. If you feel bilious, headachy, constipated and all knocked out, just go to your druggist and get a bottle of Liver Tone for a few cents which is a harmless vegetable substitute for dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful and If it start your liver' and straighten you up better and quicker than nasty calomel and without making you sick, you just go back and get your money.

take calomel! It makes you sick the next day; it loses you a work. Liver Tone straightens you right up and you feel great. No salts necessary. Give it to the children because it is perfectly harmless and can not Welcome Change in Menu. The life of the personnel of the naval radio-compass stations is often slow and monotonous, but during July the radio men at Folly island, NZV, led a strenuous life.

Due ro their own prowess they were provided with fresh meat for a week, according to a report received by the Navy department. A number of men stationed on this island, about eight miles oir North Carolina, indulged in a rare sport of landing a 410-pound turtle, winch contained over 310 eggs. At the same time other radio fishermen caught 65 pounds of game bass, which obviated tbe necessity of eating "canned and that week. For Colds, Croup and Pains. Use Vacher-Bahn; it relieves at once.

Avoid imitations. Ask your druggist. E. NV. Vacher, New Orleans, Modern Surgical Wonder.

I translated a gland from a monkey wrench to my flivver. Then I went for a ride and a motor cop tried to pinch me for speeding, and the car hit him and then climbed a tree and hung from the branches by its tall a Letter in the Chicago Trinune. The worst swindler is the one who cheats himself. Night Morning eepYour Clean Clear Healthy far fraa (yo Cara Booh Nurioa Co.Chisago. UXA.