Daily Commonwealth, The (Newspaper) - December 2, 1912, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin MEMBER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS i Read the business ments in today's 4 wealth They constitute re- ij liable chopping guide PHONE NUMBERS Job Printing Adv and Editorial Room 356 Daily Bulletin VOL XLIII NO FOND DU WISCONSIN MONDAY DECEMBER 2 1912 PRICE TWO CENTS ASKS FOR UNCLE SAM Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh Estimates Uncle Sam's Expenses for Fiscal Year at Big Increase Over Past Year CONGRESS FORMALLY CONVENED AT NOON After Brief Eulogies Senate Adjourns Till Tuesday out of Respect for Members Called by Death Since the Last Session Eden Company to Charge More on Jan I By the United Press Associations Washington D C Deo ly was asked from co gress today for all government ex- penses for the fiscal year beginning July 1 This was the aggregate of estimates for Uncle Sam's ses submitted by Secretary of the treasury to Speaker Clark The annual budget is an increase by over the expenses for tho present fiscal year Big River and Harbor Budget Washington Dec for river and harbor ments was asked in estimates by Brigadier General AV TI Bixby chief of army engineers This is an increase of over the appropriation recommended for the last fiscal year The greatest single sum is to cover work on the Ohio river channel Wisconsin's Requests Following are eome of the requests in Duluth Miun and Superior AVis harbors AVing harbor Ashland AVis harbor and river Green Bay harbor Sheboygan harbor Port Washington harbor ato to transact Its opening day OUU Would Pension Washington D C Dec 12 sions for all future of the United States at a rate of a month their widows at the rate of and all minor children in case parents are dead of a month ia recommended in a introduced by rep N He also proposed a constitutional amendment fixing the presidential term at three years and making presidents ible for re-election Senate Adjourns Early D C Dec minutes sufficed for the ate to its opening daj ness this afternoon Senator Bacon called the body to order Gallinger was the first speaker announcing the presence of a quorum The session closed with the adoption of Senator Cullom's re- that tho senate adjourn ab a mark of respect to the memory of senators who have died since the close cf the last session Congress Formally Opens Washington D C Dec ly as tiie bronze clocks in the and senate pointed to 1 today gavel told that the third session of the sixty-second congress was con- vened The people's servants were at work again Congress settled into the traces of legislative business to end only on March 4 when a new president and a democratic congress step in scenes were repeated day a I the opening of both houses Ancient precedents law from hallowed observance were rigorously followed In the senate Senator gustus O Bacon large florid and the personification of senatorial dignity did the honors His was tho hand which tapped the ped desk Speaker and resounding thumbs cf his gavel did similar duty at the south end of the capitol Death Lends a Sombre Touch In both chambers leath lent a ber touch to he opening ceremonies The senate mourned in its ment cf Vice President Sherman and former Senator Heyburn of Idaho and Senator Raj nor of Maryland all of whom died during the recess since last August In the house a half-dozen mahogany desks covered with flowers and with crepe brought a tear o the eye of many returning bers Out of respect to their deceased members both houses adjourned in a very few minutes after ing after transacting minor and initial business Root Eulogizes Sherman Senator Root of New York in a feeling eulogy officially announced In the senate the death of Vice dent Sherman In whoso absence the president pro tempore of the Senator Bacon acted as presiding of- ficer Senator Borah of Idaho lowed New York senator with the announcement of the death of his former colleague Senator Heyburn Senator Smith of Maryland ed the death of his colleague for Isidor Resolutions were then passed expressing the row of the senate and sympathy for the families The senate then adjourned until Tuesday In the House Similar recognition of their dead was made in the house The house will be in were Senator Clark's salutatory remarks with a wide the speaker A roll call was then ordered to certain if a quorum of the house was present Appointment of committees to fy the senate and President Taft that the house was in session again ami IT WAS NEW RATE IS Receipts are Held Inadequate for Expenses by the Railroad Rate Commission to The Daily Commonwealth Madison AVIs Dec consin railroad commission today dered the Eastern Fond dti Lac ty Telephone company to discontinue its present rate of per annum per subscriber on January 1 and to substitute a rate of per year The hearing was held hero on Oct 23 An of the physical property operated by the company shows that the new on Oc1- 1 1912 totals about and the present value From the information given in the testimony and says the com- mission the central office and wire plant wages for the Fond du Lac com- pany amounted to about per phone in 1912 With the inclusion of materials used for the expense on the basis of the number of phones reported in 1912 would probably be in the neighborhood of to per phone I n view o these facts it is quite certain that the amounts for expenses and taxes even in 1912 was hardly adequate or in other words the revenues of the com- during the past four years have not been sufficient to provide for expenses taxes tion and 7 per cent return on the de- value There is no ion that conditions prior to 1909 vere any more than at ent as the company began operation ALMOST KILLED FATHER DAILY MEWS ready to do business with a faint j in 1906 and the report of 1908 shows hint to the president that the house was ready to receive any message or legislative suggestion from him was then the final business before the house adjourned until noon Tuesday In the Senate The ponderous machinery of the ate was slower getting into motion The program cf the senate did not include appointment of the notification com- until tomorrow Fixing of an hour to begin daily sessions cf the senate was another point for ment Two p ni Is the time favored by most senators until late in the session Presentation of President Taft's annual message irf on tomorrow's gram in both houses It is almost uniformly transmitted on the second day of every session Opening of the impeachment trial of Judge Robert W Archbald of the commerce court is scheduled morrow The Legislative Program The legislative program facing the congress today comprised little more than most urgent necessary tion including a score of tion bills and a few bills especially assigned for consideration The ate plans to spend about two hours each day in the impeachment trial of Judge Archbald Various tees have considerable unshaped bils to polish off Numerous investigations were also on the house program with early on the of the presiding officer Clark with vigorous nett immigration and the pine independence iwo Bills Ready for Action of the annual budgets are now legislative executive and judicial appropriation and the Dis- of Columbia These possibly will be passed by the house and sent to the senate before the mas adjournment The naval tary postoffice Indian fortifications diplomatic pensions and minor gets must be passed in January and February It is apparent to experienced bers that such big questions as the tariff the trusts and the currency problem cannot be tackled in the days Intervening between December 2 and March 4 Congress will be forced to appropriate at the rate of about per day in order to meet the running expenses of the United States government during the fiscal year of 1913 This Immense task precludes all hope of general legislation and unusually fast work will be required to dispose of the propriation measures on the eve of the Incoming administration On the other hand the Democrats of the house cognizant of the fact that their party will control the entire governmental machinery after dent Wilson is into office are loath to undertake general legislation during the short session even if the on page 2 93 phones bringing a revenue of or about If a rental per phone be sub- for the present rental the revenues on the basis of 1912 data will aggregate Assuming that the connecting line revenue be the same the total revenues would be leaving for expenses and taxes after deducting for depreciation and interest This would result in an allowance for expenses and taxes of a little over per phone and an operating ratio of about 50 per cent If however due to the increase in rates there should be a net of 3 per cent of the sub- scribers and assuming only for connecting line revenues the comings would amount to or about per phone with an ating ratio of 44 per cent In view of the foregoing sion and computation it is quite parent that a rate of a er per year would be reasonable It was brought out in the mony that the rural service consisted of from eight to twelve phones per line but that about fifteen ers In Eden were on four party lines As the exchange of the company us about four and miles from Eden it does not seem necessary at this time to make a distinction in rates between the rural service and Eden service The Eastern Fond du County Telephone company's headquarters are located in the town of Ash ford be- tween Eden and and the subscribers of the com- pany numbering about 400 re- side principally in the town of Eden and in the vicinity of The company has two connecting lines with the Fond du IMC its long distance business being con- ducted through the village of ville The patrons of the company arc principally fanners The tary is G H Nourse Victim and Girl Who was Witness Refuse to Discuss MAN IS BEYOND RECOVERY By the Press Associations Ohio Dec ly shot in the presence of his IS year old sweetheart Ralph Kaiser 20 was said to be beyond recovery The shooting occurred last night in a public school yard and is unexplained as neither Kaiser nor the girl will discuss the today The couple were returning from a picture show Kaiser is said to have quarreled with a foreigner recently Last of the 28 Cardinals Created a Year Ago Receive Insignia 3 SPANIARDS 2 AUSTRIANS By the rross Associations Rome Italy Dec a public consistory of the sacred college Pope Pius X conferred the on the last five of the twenty-eight cardinals created a year ago who as yet had not received the final insignia of their rank as princes of the church The five included three Spanish and two Austrian cardinals RAILROAD MERGER IS ORDERED DISSOLVED Supreme Court Holds That the Harriman Railroad and Shipping Monopoly is Busting Suit is Sustained DISSOLUTION IS IN CHARGE OF THE UTAH COURT Ordered to Report Plan of Action to the Supreme Court in Three Reverses Lower Unanimous REDUCE RATES ON CRUSHED STONE inl to The Madison AYis Dec consin railroad commission cut the rates on crushed stone sand and vel on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul road from 20 to per ent Recently the commission dered a decision in the case of the Lime and Stone company recommending reduced rates HARVESTER TRUST EXTENDS OPERATIONS Uy Associations St Louis Dec vester trust is tightening its grip on the American farmer by extending its operations and attempting to con- trol the manufacture of wagons cream separators gasoline traction engines and other sities according to Joseph R special agent for the department of justice who here today U participate In the government's suit against the International Harvester company BUTTER AGAIN ADVANCES Special Elgin Dec ad- a cent and a half on the board this afternoon and was quoted firm at cents LEVY ROAD TAX AS AN ENTERING WEDGE By the United Washburn Wis Dcr general highway tax aggregating has been levied by county as an entering wedge for the tures of for road improve ments My country is the world my are Lloyd Garrison BOX RATES DOWN to Commonwealth Madison Wis Dec A general order reducing freight rates on ments of wooden packing anci boxes from Milwaukee to Wisconsin points was issued by ho railroad sion today against the Chicago waukee and St Paul the Chicago nd North Western and the Minneapolis St Paul and Sault Ste Marie Railway companies IDENTIFIES KIEL MURDER VICTIM O Dec murder mystery which has excited the of Kiel Wis for ten days over the finding of the body cf A M child aged 21 in the telegraph office at Chilton a way station with a let hole in his head was cleared evening when Mrs Anna Scholl positively identified a picture bent by the police of Kiel as her son Carl Meyers Mrs Scholl says that her son had considerable money She believes that robbery was the motive of the murder Forecast Generally fair tonight and day Colder cast portion tonight Rising temperature Temperature for the 21 hours ing at A Max Min Dec 2 49 35 Dec 1911 37 JL At A M M THCY HAye A TO STAY Zimmie WITNESS WEAKENS PRISONER RELEASED by the United Associations La Crossc Wis Dec Owen who was at his ding on a fugitive warrant charging him with abduction of Miss Gertrude Strickland of Minneapolis has been released Miss Strickland after curing the return or two diamond rings to to an affidavit necessary for extradition papers Owen left for Canada without his bride tlir Press Associations D C Dec ing illegal the Harriman railroad ping monopoly the supreme court of the United States sustained the trust busting suit by ing dissolved the merger of the Southern Pacific Union Pacific and Salt Lake railroad The combine was held to be in jross violation of Sherman aw The court refused to invoke the Rule of laid down in the Oil and Tobacco trust cases and the merger was declared to be unreasonable and in restraint of trade The decision was unanimous The directed the circuit court of Utah to take charge of the tion Presentation to the supreme court of the dissolution in three months was ordered The Defendants The defendants in the suit were the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line Oregon Railroad Navigation Co Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake Atchison Topeka and Santo Fe Southern Pacific Northern and Great Northern railroads the Farmers Loan and Trust Co of New York and the lowing E H Harriman Jacob H Schiff Otto II Kabn of Kuhn Loeb and Stillman H H Rogers Henry C Frick former Senator A Clark and dent Robert S Lovett of the Union Pacific Harriman and Rogers died while the litigation was pending Reverses Decision of Circuit Court In February 1908 the government filed its dissolution suit in the federal circuit court which at Salt Lake City about two years ago dismissed the entire prosecution The principal finding of the lower court was that the Union Pacific and Southern fic were not competing lines before the merger and that therefore their combination was not in violation of the law Government's Charges Grossly increased I of construction of new branch lines and sensible deterioration of service were the three principal evils by the government as a result of the combine Throttling of the Panama Canal trade through the Pacific Coast and Gulf of Mexico shipping lines con- trolled by the Southern Pacific was evil alleged Great rigor in enforcing the law because of the western railroads in control of trans- continental traffic was pleaded for Defendants Case The defendants plea was that the Southern Pacific merger wca made to keep P from being bottled up at Ogden Utah its western minus and not to stifle It pleaded self defense The railroads asking invocation oE the rule of reason to the merger declared the U P never controlled majority of Southern Pacific stock now owns only 46 per cent and bought the Huntington stock in the open market denying the right Of congress or the courts to the purchase illegal Jack Johnson is Awaiting a ter From his White Sweetheart HER MOTHER RETURNS HOME WOUNDED PRINCE'S CONDITION GRAVE By the Chicago 111 Dec big ing car stood in front of Jack son's home today ready to leave the moment Johnson received the special delivery letter he was expecting from Cameron the Minneapolis girl Johnson insisted that as soon as he heard from the girl he would seek her out and be married at once Attorney Charles Erbstein for the girl's mother said she had given up hope of keeping her daughter away from Johnson and that she had re- turned to Minneapolis tho Press London England DPC dis- patch today from said that the condition of the wounded Prince Danilo of Montenegro who in the hospital jt Riega was very grave In an assault on the Turkish tion dominating Scutari the prince was shot through the abdomen and in operation was necessary The kin was at his bedside TABLET TO HONOR COLONEL to Place One In Hotel Pillar Near Where Roosevelt Was Shot Milwaukee Dec ward the placing of a bronze tablet in front of the Gilpatrick hotel to com- the shooting there of Col- inel Roosevelt has been started by F B Davidson county chairman of Progressive party Funds for a tablet will be raised by private subscription among members of the party and sympathizers An effort will be to have the tablet placed on one of the pillars in front of the hotel as near as ble to the spot where the attempt to Uke the life of the colonel was made i fl When the cave man wanted help or a wife he strode forth tapped one on the head and dragged he or she to the tribal habitat ij Civilization has placed certain restrictions and limitations about us which prevent this beautifully simple method it has given us the want ad which costs but a few cents and no physical effort Alleged Double Grosser Dis- charged From Position With the Union GOVERNMENT ENDS ITS CASE By the United Associations Indianapolis Ind Dec S of Detroit alleged double crosser of his peers and a defendant in the dynamite conspiracy trial has been removed as secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Iron Workers The union's executive board also on trial for alleged conspiracy took this action Saturday night it became known here today Prosecution Closes Case Closing its two months direct in the dynamite conspiracy trial the government gave up the center of the stage to the defense lawyers today Attorneys tor the forty-five indicted labor leaders it was expected would consume at least a month in ing its direct case HAS GOOD POSITION Harold Whinfield Physical Director of Y M C A in Galena III Spends Vacation Here Harold Whinfield physical director in the Y n C A at Galena III has returned to that city after a giving vacation spent at his homo in city Winfleld has complete charge of the physical department of the Galena Y which is a responsible position as he over 250 members in his the classes averaging 25 members Whinfield has introduced a number of Fond du Lac Y stunts his work in Galena E E King former boys secretory at the local in- is the general secretary oE the Galena association was prominent In Fond du Lac high school circles last year and is regarded as being ono of the beat athletes ever turned out by the chool Discontent 18 the want of Self Re- liance It is infirmity of NEWSPAPER I
