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Show THE BUSINESS Ot WfiADM a . -- m TIME TABLE ASHIVfiTnV .on. Tha ate of the United States I stands fordlgnity. Some-illume iim uigitii; in uver- done, but on one occasion the senate was undignified to the point of striking several of the older senators with horror. Senator Tillman of South Carolina was making nothing less than an impassioned speech, lie was reaching toward the skies of oratory, when Senator Warren left his seat, unseen by Tillman, and took station behind the South Carolinian. The speaker had both hands high 'over his head directing the soaring of his thonchts and words. Warren took a Btep forward. His hand stole to Tillman's side, slipped into his pocket and came out again holding in Its clutch a big black bottle. Ail unconscious. Tinman went 'on with his words of tire. Warren held his find aloft in full view of the presiding officer, of his colleagues and of the crowded galleries. There was a gasp, then a smothered and simultaneous gurgle of horror from a hundred throats, aud then roaring . laughter. Tillman turned and knot ledge of the awfulnesa of the situation came to him. For once, possibly for the first time in his life, he was staggered to speechlessness. He strove for words, but they would not come. His face, was black with something much like auger. Then the cloud cleared and a smile broke through. Speech returned, and two words came: "Boraclc acid." It was boraclc aefd. but unfortunately for Senator Tillman, It had been put into a black and suspicious bottle. A sore throat was the reason for its carrying, and while the South Carolinian is a man of truth, be would not let the matter pass until he had passed the bottle and had forced his comrades to smell the stuff and make clean his temperance record.. Senator Burrows- - of Michigan, by a graphic presentation of the case of MaJ. Seymour Howell, an army paymaster, secured an order on the treasury of the United States for $2,000 to reimburse the officer for that amount which disappeared In the Philippine Islands. The story as told by Senator Burrows to his' colleagues had all the interest ' of a Sherlock Holmes tale, save that for the mystery involved there was tio solution To this day there has been no solu-tioIt is known definitely, however, that the paymaster was in no wise to blame for the disappearance of the money. MaJ. Howell, paymaster, was traveling through the Philippines with an armed guard. He had with him a chest containing a large sum of money with which to pay the troops at the different camps. .The chest was double locked at all times, and night and day a sentinel stood by It with a loaded rifle in his hands. No one had keys to the chest save MaJ. Howell and he kept them fastened to bia . person. If one ot the sentinels had been dishonestly Inclined he could not have opened the chest without duplicate keys, and the originals were of a kind difficult in the extreme to counter feit. The guard was composed of men picked for the pay Journey at the last moment The trip was a rapid one and no. possible chance was offered for the making of keys. Money to the amount of (2,000 disappeared from the chest at some time while It was under the watch and ward of a sentinel standing so close to it that he could, reach It with his rifle.. Search failed to reveal a cent of the money. MaJ. Howell at once made the loss good by a personal check drawn on his own bank acount. The case Is one of the army mysteries to this day, and the recital of the story gave congress an Interesting quarter of an hour. Neither senate nor house makes light of pension pleas In the presence of the galleries, but some of the would-bpensioners play comic roles In the committee rooms and corridors. Claimants who can prove things are treated as old soldiers and old soldiers' widows ought to be treated decently and reverently. Congress In Its weakness has voted pensions on many an occasion, though doubtless knowing that pensions were unearned and undeserved, but the day of that sort of thing Is passing, If It has not altogether gone. One member was asked to use his Influence to secure an Increase of pension foe the widow of a soldier. There were papers forwarded to him which bore on the case, and these he turned over to the committee on pensions after his bill had been Introduced. The widow did not get her money, and It was not long before the whole house knew It. The member who had espoused the widow's causa had been In congress for years, and the Joks at his expense was too good to keep, and one after another of his colleagues walked up to his desk and congratulated hlin on the wisdom shown In the plea which In written form he had turned In to the committee to win the widow's case. It Is perhaps needless to say that the member had never read the plea. It set forth the fact that while the amount of pension Increase that the widow of the soldier hero asked for was large, It must be understood that the came of good family, moved In the bet social circles and was In need of a large sum of money to keep up appearances. Upon occasions senators and representatives permit their constituents to do their talking for them In congress. Petitions come In floods st times, with the object of securing legislation by external pressure. In the Smout case and In the pure food and canteen matters the pleas of the people came In by the tens of The members of both houses thousands. present these letters, call attention to their import and then allow the petitions to do the rnrr s a r; i in A. art . -- Tfi AT tfV SOUTH-flOUN- No.St ForPayson. Santsqutn and IvO Angeles... No. 63 Far Payioo, Neplii and MDtt t:lS pm t:ii aoc NORTH-BOUN- For Provo, FlOrore, Amur- -. lean Korlc, Lehl, Morcur, Salt Lake 11:!? am NO. 6t For Provo. Suit I.Kkn ni1 1130 pm Intermtjillate poinu Palatial train, ara now runnliif between Salt Lake and the Pacific Coastdally UTAH COUNTY la Id direct tonoh with tw great ottlei. Poet local train aervlce. J. H. Bcstnsk. District PasHPDRcr Agent. N. Pitiiw in, Depot Ticket Aent. No. THE & -- -. a, AN U ffl 1 III.. 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J? -- charge the that he brought SSJJ potent enough. jpVnlTS v tWtTSS MMOWhilMm e dens of women are not so heavy. But In Venice, Homo and Naples life) menns hard toil. The women are forced to earn a living, and so they do whatever they can put their hands on. They clerk la small shops and stand in the squares) selling flowers. Jewelry and plastef casts. Hut competition Is so great and the wares so cheap that many are forced to earn a living by hardee methods. The narrow streets are thronged with' women carrying infants on their arms, hawking thels fruits and flowers. Others trudge along carrying heavy sacks and great loads on their backs. Many walk foe miles along the country roads selling and the fleecs their garden-produJust shorn from the sheep. In Rome and Naples more especially the women do most of their work out of doors. They are usually seated before their doorways spinning, card ing and washing the wool. Others are ' bard at work making straw baskets and cording them of rope. Most of the poorer homes are without water, and these women are often compelled to trudge miles with heavy copper Jars In which they get their water Tbey cannot wash their clothes at home, so they are compelled to use a stream or fountain. When work is scarce they rent a stand near one of the old walls and sell fish, fruit and baskets. A mother often has a baby in her arms and three or four other children playing about her. The long rows of tenements simply teem with human life. It is not unusual to And families of ten or more crowded into one room. Some of them are so crowded that the clothes after they are washed have to be hung out of the windows. But this poverty and struggle fot livelihood does not mar the sunny disposition of the Neapolitan. Tired looking women are heard singing popuuu airs as they trudge home from work. When a pretty Italian girl finishes selling her flowers she often starts out at nightfall carrying a guitar and serenading strangers, who increase her small living. But to make tha , .fwnVW. DAILY Pulman Palace and ordinary Sleeping care to Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louli and Chicago without change. Free Reclining Chair Cam: Personally conducted xcursiuns; perfect Illnlng Car Ser- C. C. family. In the north wages are be ter and taxes are lower, so the har- Senator mer of Lati- South rrolIna once In- troduced a good roads bill calling for the expenditure of government millions for the Improvement of the highways. The automobtllsts all over the country began sending letters of apv T h e y proval. pressed friends into the service, writing but that they did not always pass ; confusion to those who made it. .The insinuation had been made that the ' 5rOOSISVrXf " xvsVl S jCyMmilllllllllllllllMlllffr movement to exclude grants was vived llllt-erat- e immia re- "Know-Nothing- " Scheme. It was said that Americans who, so to speak, had their been Inlong this enough upon the persua- sive merits of the friends' productions is shown fairly well by one letter on the good roads' sub- country to have had a grandfather born here were desirous of shutting out the foreigners for purely selfish reasons. Mr. Gardner had his answer ready to these T . ject received by Senator Cullom. charges in the form of a letter It read like this: from "Dear Mr. CulSamuel lom Please vote Gompers, presi- for this d d bill, dent of the " and you will oblige a fool friend ofmlne who "A hi e"r i e a n . runs an automobile. Yours more or less sinFederation of Labor." 'He bIbo had petitions from a . 4,000 local labor unions asking that the Illiteracy cerely. It was a Chicago man who wrote this appeal. clause be kept In the immigration bill. Thousands There were others like onto It. The good upon thousands of these laboring men who urged roads bill still sleeps. the passage of the measure as it stood were foreign There are two things which the house ot born. The fathers of thousands upon thousands more of them were foreign born. The petitions efrepresentatives infinitely would prefer should never come before the members for considefectually disposed of the charge that the desire to rationreligious matters and Immigration matkeep out illiterates was born of native American ters. Immigration the house must, of course. bigotry. deal with directly: reliuious matters it is As for Samuel Gompers, he was born In England, i forced to touch indirectly, much to the ln- his letter, which Mr. Gardner read, a letter writbut ward discomfiture of many of 'the legislators. ten to Representative James E. Watson, showed We are living supposedly in an enlightened conclusively how the laboring people represented by age, and yet religious bodies have not forgotMr. Gompers felt upon the matter of the admission ten how to use the Instruments of coercion. It of illiterates. The letter was as follows: makes no difference at all how utterly without foundation the charge of bigotry may be "The organized workers of this country feel that it always finds Its believer, and the charged the existing' immigration laws, while not without one suffers personally and at the polls. their value, are of trifling effect compared with An immigration bitl which was before the the needs and the Just demands of American labor. house of representatives had no bigotry in . . . The. Nashville convention of the American any of its provisions, unless it be bigotry to Federation of Labor, by a vote of 1,858 to 353. pronounced in favor of an educational test for immiwish to deny admission to America of a class of people who can work little but injury to the grants. Such a measure would check immigration in a moderate degree, and those who would be land which they wish to enter. The real reason that the charge of bigotry was enkept out by It are those whose competition in the tered was because the men making use of labor market is most injurious to American workers. No other measure which would have any importhe accusation knew well that when everything else failed the Insinuation of narrowness tant effect of this kind is seriously proposed. . , . was bound to have its effect. I earnestly hope that you will be able to procure the embodiment of an Illiteracy test for Immigrants The bill contained a clause which forbade in the bill which the house now has under con entrance to America to Illiterates. Unquessideration." politan. Though many of their farms are well tionably It was not the desire of the framera cared for, they are chiefly cultivated by the of the measure so much to keep out people A New York representative had his sneer women and children. Many tiny tots are to who could not read and write as It was to ready when this letter was read In the house. be seen digging potatoes and working with the keep out certain disorder-breedinelements "I would like to ask the gentleman," he said, fruit trees. It Is not unusual to see mothers and certain pauperized elements. "If Mr. Gompers represents the Mayflower or those who landed at Jamestown?" carrying loads of grain on their heads and InMost of the Illiterate and those who are fants In their arms. likely to become public charges come to The truth of the matter Is that the InsinuaAmerica from certain tion of the New York man that the sections of The women make nearly all the clothes for Europe. It would be utterly impossible for native American element was back of the the family. Their fare Is limited to bread, movement to bar out Illiterates was baseless, congress to pass a law saying In plain words macaroni, cheese and port wine. There is such that Immigrants from these sections were not and the house knew It. Curiously enough, a heavy tax on salt that to these poor peasto' be admitted. If such geographical disants salt and meat are a luxury reserved for perhaps, the strongest opponents of the Illitercrimination were made mortal offense would acy clause In the whole land were men who Sundays and holidays. be given to some nations of Europe, and liketraced their descent back through the centuThe German peasants are the hardest workwise mortal offense would be given to the ries to those first Immigrants who founded women In the world. They toll out In the ing people already In America who owed former the nation in America. These men, while fields all day long; they do not question their allegiance td those nations. The illiteracy holding that It was the part of wisdom to strength, but do whatever tbclr husbands com prohibition was put Into the bill as the best keep out the criminals and the paupers of mand. It Is not an unusual to see womway to accomplish an end without giving ofto en thinly clad, hard at worksight Europe, held also that it was In the blinding fense. man because he could neither read nor bar a rain. No less hard is It for them to work ait As It was, the members of congress whose write. day under the burning sun. In southern GerThe bigotry charge was used solely because duty it was to press the measure to a passage many tho women cultivate the land way up were made bright and shining marks for those it Is an ugly charge and because it hurts. the mountains, but their hearts know no fear. No man, even though he Is as broad as the who chose to hurl the "bigot," missile. It was Though these women work uncomplainingly, a hard duty which the friends of the exclusion sea In his views, ever can clear himself ot they enjoy few comforts. Their little houses measure had to perform. They knew that suspicion when the accusation once is made. are almost bare of furnishing, and they are ot the Democrats and the RepubliIt is not bard, therefore, to understand why compelled to wash their clothes In the stream. cans In the house were In fsvor of the retenthe men who are opposed to the immigration Their children are not idle and they help on tion of the Illiteracy clause, but they knew bill used the weapon that they had in hand. the farms before they are halt grown. A also that these men feared personal criticism It may, however, prove useless to them on anGerman of the middle class takes It for grantand campaign antagonism If they voted for the other occasion. ed that his wire does their housework, looks bill as it stood. The measure did not pass in after the home, anu helps him In bis shop. Its original form, but perhaps it will pass at WHERE THE WOMEN DO THE WORK. In a bakery a German woman, replying to another session. the queries of an American woman as to the Representative A. P. Gardner of MassachuAmericans are greatly Impressed in visiting work she did, said: "You have no idea how a member of Imthe house committee on setts, foreign countries to find out how hard foreign glad you ought to be that yon are au American migration, and a representative who, favored women toll, often shouldering more than their woman you have such good times. Look at the passage or the Immigration bill as it stood, Just responsibilities. This Is certainly true In me. I do all my housework, take care of mr made a speech In favor of the measure, and southern countries, where women are somethree children, and am scarcely finished with stated openly on the floor of the house that times degraded by hard and menial labor. Nomy work when my husband says: 'Catherlna, he had been acused of bigotry because of his where Is this more noticeably true than in come down and wait on the customers.' Boms advocacy of the educational test. He defendof these men think that we, are as strong a Italy, where the women do their own work, ed so himself care for the children, and help support the successfully against horses." ... ?' . g -- nine-tenth- s well-define- d old-tim- e |