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,4^1* W;W. MOUNTAIN Ways and Means Committee 8: Wjjjl Hear Complaints • & »y Tax Levying. •= %v'T M HOPE FOR SMALL PAYER iMearinge Will Last Several Day*, It Is Thoiiflht--Hope to Complete brH'the Bill Within TWo or 1Three Week*. r Washington, July 26.--With the S»les tax definitely sidetracked the hearings of the house ways and means committee on revenue legislation this week will be devoted chiefly to consideration of complaints against mis- 4Ntllaneou8 features of the present law. / The witnesses will Include representatives of different industries affected by present taxes. jftnpng those who will appear be- A>re the committee will be Representative Mills, New York, who recently Introduced a bill providing for a Spending tax" as a substitute for present surtaxes on Individual incomes. Another bill which will be urged before tb-j committee is the measure introduced by Representative -Keller, Minnesota, which proposes a land tax as a substitute for moat of -vHie present surtaxes. :v Members of the committee, however, appear to have made up their minds definitely to follow the recommendations of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and little consideration will be given to schemes which are advanced by others. • The hearings will continue several days. Following the conclusion of the bearing* the members will confer with treasury officials on taxes for the en- ' suing year. It Is hoped to complete ffee bill within two or three weeks. None of the congress leaders are balding out hopes now of a reduction In taxes. The assurance is given, however, that there will be a readjustment which will lighten the burdens of business men and corporations. By the repeal of the excess tax and the substitution of an increased flat corporation tax it is expected that the difficulties in making tax returns will be substantially \ lightened. , There Is no prospect uiat the small ttx payer will be able to benefit by any reduction in his taxes. In view ' of the adverse action with respect to the sales tax there is no possibility of . a reduction in the present normal tax '..on Incomes. It is planned- to pmend the administrative features of the law in such a way as to simplify the procedure. Recommendations of the treasury department along this line will be followed. o Among those who have asked an opportunity to be heard are E. C. Brockflieyer of the National Association of Retail Druggists; H. Archibald Harris of Chicago, who will urge exempttoa from taxation of donations by to charitable and similar Hons, and W. V. Hill of the Joint commission ofNational Public Utilities associations. m. •to,' ;n: .'VI 2 CHINESE PROVINCES AT WAR < f -VV# fighting la On Between Kwangahl and Kwangtung, Says Canton | Dispatch. | , CaiptMfc July 26.--An lnterprovincial •'••• warfare is on between Kwangsl a&d Xwangtung. The first sucoess lies •with the Cantonese troops of Dr. Sun Yat-8en, "president" of the recently established "extraordinary government of China." They have occupied the Impot ent Kwangsl port of Fuchow, on the West fiver. Cantonese troops also are be- Ing concentrated at Yamchow and .ulmchow. In the southwestern extremity of Kwangtuqg, and It is In, that dlstirtct that military operation are expected. $">• WOULD GET OUT OF SIBERIA !$" Japanese Count Advises Tokyo Qov- "K- , ernment to Go to WashingtoiV' With Clean Hands. V Tokyo, July 28.--'"Let us go to - Partington with clean hands; let us . pet out of Siberia as soon as possible, declared Count Tsunetada Kato, for- •|»er high commissioner in Siberia, in 0 statement to the press. It was certain, he continued, that the question of Russia would be taken Hp at the Washington conference, and It was to be regretted that the matter of evacuation was still unsettled. The y Japanese were excessively fearful of holshevlsm, he declared, and should adopt a policy of rapproachment toward the soviet. Northcliffe to 8tudy Us. P|..:;vvlfsw. York, July 26.--Lord' North- 1'"; iilflfe the English publisher, arrived .here aboard the Aquitanla. He will pake a study of Industrial and eco- ^. ynomlc conditions here and to other S¥4'^jSDuntries. „ • -- W6man Aids Holdups. . C Memphis, Tenn., July 20.--Two men. i sfcbout twenty-flve, and a young woman |-f v ; '-ire under arrest near Harrisburg, Ark., hi couneei'uMi wUl« ili«- liuklup ami rob- ; * -fcery of a Missouri Pacific passenger i^'i»ln near Vandale. • ysSftijSr W. W. Mountain Is the newly elected grand exalted ruler of the' BIks. Be is from Michigan. FORDNEY BILL PASSED Amended Tariff Measure Is Ap- : fltivedby House. Proposed Embargo on Dyestuffs Is Stricken Out--Hides and Cotton are Restored to free List. Washington, July 23.--The Fordhey tariff bill was passed by the house after two weeks of debate. The vote was 289 to 126. It now goes to the senate. Final , action In the house came after separate "votes on five r referential amendments. Ob these ballots oil and asphalt were retained on the free list; the proposed embargo on dyestuffs was stricken out, and hides and long-staple cotton were restored to the free list. ^ Seven Democrats Voted for the bill on final passaged sndj seven Republicans against It. The seven Democrats voting for the bill were: Representatives Lee and Baker of California, Campbell, Pennsylvania; Dupre, Bavaret, Lazaro and Marin, Louisiana. The seven Republicans voting against the measure were: Representatives Volgt, "Seek, Lampert and Nelson of Wisconsin, Qahn and Knight of Ohio, Sinclair of North Dakota. Voting began at three o'clock In the afternoon, when the committee of the whole house, which had been sitting for two weeks, completed consideration of this bill. The special rule under which the bill was considered provided for separate votes on five Items both In the committee of the whole house and then In the house Itself. The first roll call came Immediately after three o'clock on the amendment of Representative Frear (Rep.) of Wisconsin to strike from the chemical schedule the dye embargo sections. These sections .conferred authority on the tariff commission to levy embargoes during the period of three years against such dyestuffs and other colors as might be obmlned 1n the United States in sufficient quantities for domestic needs and at reasonable prices. By a vote of 209 to 193, this amendment prevailed and the embargo provision went out Two members voted "present." By this vote, the house reversed the action of the committee of the whole, which by a narrow Vote approved the embargo sections. PLAN 500-MILLI0N RAIL LOAN President Harding Soon to Make a Move to Solve* the Railroad Problem. Washington, July 23. -- President Harding Is expected to make the next move in the efforts of the administration to solve the country's railroad problems, it was Indicated in high official circles here. Pending the adjustment o£ claims growing out of federal control, It is understood that the President may recommend to congress the granting to the War Finance cprporatlon of power to make loans to the carriers "to the extent of $500,000,000. The cabinet is said to have aanetioned the move. AMUNDSEN IS VOTED $125,000 Norway's Parliament Takes Unprece- '• dented Action to Assist the Noted Explorer. Seattle, Wash,, July 21.--Gapt. Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, who was forced by a broken propeller on his schooner Maude to defer an attempt to drift past the North pole with the Ice floes, expressed appreciation of the action of Norway's parliament, which a few days ago voted him 500,- 000 kroner (about $125,000) to continue his arctic" voyage next summer. Upper House to Begin Consideration of PorlWw jRjft nf DECISION WAS UNEXPECTED Senator / Penroee B x p > ; t That Hearings on Measure Will Bd\ ' Concluded Within Two Weeks- Tax Revision Not Urgent. Washington, July 25.--Hearings OTT the tariff bill passed Friday by the house will be begun Monday by the senate finance committee, Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, the chairman, announced. The unexpected decision not to defer the hearings two weeks was arrived at by the committee at a meeting immediately following the senator's reference of the bill to the finance committee. It Is hoped to conclude the hearing* within two weeks, Senator Penrose said, although they may be interrupted should Secretary of the Treasury Mellon announce his readiness to reappear before the committee on the matter of funding the foreign 1oans. However, Senator Penrose declined to express an opinion as to when the bill would be ready to be reported to the senate. , Senator Penrose Indicated that sen- •ate leaders have not yet decided to yield to the urgent demand for the consideration of tax revision before the tariff, although the plan is kn6wn to have the President's approval. ! ' He expressed the opinion that there might be some difficulty in making the change because of the progress made on the tariff bill, but intimated that they might be combined as an emergency and passed as a single piece of legislation. "I would just as soon have the book In two volumeq as one," he declared. "It might prove possible to handle It this way, but the question of precedence? will be largely determined by the action on the tariff bill. If it can be passed quickly, as I think It can, there will be no need for a change in the program." Outlining plans for handling the tariff bill, Senator Penrose said hearings will be held first on the American valuation feature of the bill, because it Is the foundation on which the entire rate structure is erected. If It should be eliminated, all of the rates would have to be revised. Members of the tariff commission will be heard at the first session. George Davis, special agent in charge of the New York customs office, and Qtto Fix, who has churge of coumarative valuations in the same office, also have been invited to attend. Both men are experts on valuation provisions. Beginning on Friday, hearings will be conducted on the schedules lb the order Id which they appear In the Fordney bill. A determined effort is expected to be made to have the senate restore the dyestuffs embargo provision of the bill, stricken out by the house Just before the bill was put upon its final vote Thursday afternoon. "It Is the intention of the committee," said Chairman Penrose, "to hear business men after the testimony of the tariff commission and the experts has been concluded. We hope to conclude all of the valuation hearings by Thursday, and after that we will ta^e up the schedules in regular order as they appear in the tariff bill, beginning with the cheuiical schedule. This wlli undoubtedly open up the question of the dye embargo, which Is th« controverted article In the chemical schedule, and this may occupy a good deal of time. "We hope to close the hearings within two weeks from Monday ;,an earnest effort will be made to finish within that time. After that we will take the bill up with treasury officials In order to have the« benefit of their advice in writing the bill. COL BAI • '•< r. man's statement are taken to Indicate that the senate committee may entirely rewrite the measure, as frequently has beta} the case in past tariff and revenue legislation sent over from the houae. •"* • Will Add 25 Congresamen. Washington, July 23.--Reapportlonjgg ^jnent legislation providing for a house |,*ia(pKepresentative8 of 400 members, as , ^ compared with the present tnemberi.;. Ship of 435. was agreed upon by the house census committee. ' Italian Deputies In Fight. , Rome, July 23.--A fight between So- .:"':|^,(llnll8ts and FasciPtl on the floor of the j " •j'rhamher of deputies resulted In a sus- * V pension of the sitting. Chairs. Ink s-oHs and other missiles were thrown f -ki'ty the members. * Greeks Capture Turk Generals London, July 25.--The Greeks la taking Eski-Shehr captured Klazlm Kara Beklr, Turkish nationalist 'commander fn the city, and all his generals and other officers, says the Central News Athens correspondent Father of Ten Hangs Self. Freeport. 111., July 25.--Gordon Kleckler, aged forty, father of ten children, hanged himself In the granary on his farm. The act is supposed to have been due to despondency ' ^l-health. , Vatican Not-Invited. Rome, July 23.--Reports that the Vatican was invited by President Harding to participate In the disarmament conference, or that the Vatican Jfad sought such an Invitation were formally denied by the Vatican. , , !y ^ "Spending Tax" Proposed Washington, July 23.--A tax Oti expenditures ny Individuals or business concerns, as a substitute for the Income tax. Is proposed In a bill introduced by Representative Ogden Mills of New York. GREEKS SEIZE ESKI-SHEHR Conduct Rapid Pursuit of Turks and Cspture sn Important Ralf. 4|>y Junction. Loe/don, July 23.--With the Important railway junction point of Eskl- Shehr In their hands, the Greeks are conducting a rapid pursuit of the Turkish nationalists dislodged from that city and other po&ts along the front in Asia Minor, it is announced in a dispatch from the Greek foreign minister,at Athens received here. * Illinois Governor Talks. Chicago, July 26.--Gov. Len Small made his first public appearance since his Indictment on charges of embezzling $500,000 of the taxpayers' money and conspiracy to defraud the state of $2,000,000. ' Moroccans Beat Spaniards. Madrid, July 26.--Spanish forces which suffered a reverse at the hands of 10,000 rebellious tribesmen in the Kieiiiia zone ot Morocco have received re-enforc'ement8. and hfive repulsed all subsequent attacks against them. Boy Kills Prisa Rattlesnake. Dubuque, la., July 25.--Mnton Welbes, nine years old, of Mosalem township, killed a rattlesnake found to have 12 rattles and a button and with a body as large as a man's arm. Welbes collected a 20-cent bounty. Subdue Fire in Oil Fle|dL , Mexico City, July 25.--The great Are In the Mexican oil fields south of Tampico is still burning, but is under control, according to information from Tampico. Thousands of soldiers are aiding the fire-fighting crews. Col. Louis Bulaan, yicutA flying officer and well known sportsman. who has married the former "duchess of Marlborough who waa Oonsuelo Vanderbilt > WEEKLY MARKETGRAM U. S. Bureau sf Markets and Crop Is ti mates. r>gton, July 23.--(For week «ndzL)-- HA Y--Central western mar- WSshlni Ing July kete weak and mostly In buyers' favor. Little shipping demand and receipts slightly in excess of local demarnt. Country loadings again falling off. Considerable new hay arriving out of condition. Quoted July 20: No. 1 timothy, Chicago. 126; new |20; Minneapolis 41X160, Omaha *11.60, Kansas City $13. DAIRY PRODUCTS -- Butter markets steady during the week, but unsettled at the close and the confident tone of a week ago Is lacking. Movement Into storage still continues, but smaller percentage of current receipts will grade satisfactory for this purpose as hot weather defects are common. K score butter. Chicago, 40V6. Cheese--Wisconsin primary prices: Twins 20c, Daisies 21c, Double Daisies 20%c, Long horns !4e, Young Americas 23c. Cheese markets very firm and average fully 3c higher than a week ago. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES--Kansas sacked Early Ohio potatoes down IS-ZSo per 100 lbs. in Kansas City, closing 11.28- I.60. Cauiornia salmon tint cantaloupes declined 28-60c per crate In the middle West, closing fe.60-S.25. Texas Klberta peaches advanced $1.25-1.60 In Chicago, closing $3.50-3.76. GRAIN--Markets firm and higher first two days of week, mainly because of unfavorable crop returns and reports that rust and blight were Increasing, especially In the Northwest. In Chicago cash market No. red winter 'wheat closed at $1.23; No. 2 hard at $1.26; No. 3 yellow corn at 62c* No. 3 mixed corn at 62c; No. 8 new white oats at 36c. For the week Chicago July wheat dropped 7c, closing at $1.25%. July corn advanced ^6c at 64%c.. Minneapolis July wheat dropped 8Vlc, closing at $1.29%. Chicago September wheat dropped BMtc, closing at $1 26%. September corn %c lower, closing at 61\c. Minneapolis September wheat dropped 6*4c, closing at $1.31%. Kansas City September wheat droppeal 6%c, closing at $1.15. LIVE STOCK AND MICAT-Chtcago live stock--Compared with a week ago, hog prices advanced generally 75c to 85c. Better grades of steers were up a quarter and cows and heifers declined an equal amount. Better grades of feeder steers were about steady, lower grades declining about 7Gc. Veal calves were up a half dollar on better grades. I jambs and yearlings were unchanged and ewes -up 16c to 76c. July 21 Chicago prices: Hogs, top, $11; bulk of sales. $9.20-11; medium and good beef steers f7.Z5-9.00; butcher cows and heifers $8.18-8.75; feeder steers, $5.00-7.50; light and medium weight veal calves $9.00- II.00; fat lambs $8.25 to $io.90, feeding lambs $6.00-7.00; yearlings. H.00-M0; fat ewes $S.25-S.(j0i CHAMPION KISSER IS COMING Irish-Bohemian Poet Starts West on Wager He'll Greet 1,000 Olrlf ' on the Wsy. V- ; • ' • ---- New York, July 21.--Klssnble young women between here and San Francisco are hereby warned that they may be approached* soon by a young Irish-Bohemian poet In a crushed opera hat and khaki hiking suit and asked for a kiss. Two young poets from Greenwich Village made the rounds of New York city editors and exhibited the champion kisser, who, they declared, had wagered he could win kisses from 1,- 000 girls on s trip across the continent. The main attraction of the party, The last four words In the chair-lwho refused to BlvG his name, said the young women of Yonkers would have first chance to kiss him. ~ , CHARLES ANXIOUS TO MOVE Former Emperor of Austria Demands the Right to Leave Swltcerlan#>*» , • 8ee Another Plot > c ---- * • Paris, July 22.--Former Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungnry has demanded that he be allowed to leave Switzerland for Denmark, according to news received In official circles here, which expressed belief that this move conceals a plan for another attempt eventually to restore Charles to the throne as king of Hungary. / The question now is the subject of an exchange of diplomatic notes and Switzerland, it Is said, probably will be asked to prevent the ex-emperor from leaving the "ountry. • hi Iowa Dry Chief Installed. . , Council Bluffs, la., July 26.--Gv A. Brunson of Algonn, la., accompanied by W. H. Kennedy of Washington, took charge of the office of prohibition director for Iowa, and will soon move the headquarters to Dea Moines. O. K.'s Ordnance for Ann Arbor. Washington, July 26.--Authority for the establishment of an ordnance unit of thA iwwrva trs!r;!n£ corps at tHte University of Michigan was given here by the W.^ur depart- Mat - . • - Starting Gives Bend. Springfield, III., July 25.--Lieutenant Governor Sterling gave bond of $50,000 before Judge Smith on the indictments charging embezzlement The National Security company of Chicago fur- Mshsd the bond. ;» Pees 8heppsrd Bid, Washington, July 25.--The Sfieppard bill providing for co-operation between tfce federal government and states In "protection of maternity and Infancy" was passed by the senate and sent to the house. , Tokyo Told to Acuupt Invitation awJTalk Prehmiaaji^ * Afterwards. TWO PIHNilLS IRE PUM Powers Must Subscribe to Washing ton's Contention That Disarmament and Far Eastern Question - Are Practically Inseparable. .Washington, Jtily 27.--Accept President Harding's Invitation to the armament and Far Eastern conference first and talk preliminary conference afterwards. This is the burden of' a uotl addressed to Japan by Secretary of State Hughes, it was announced officially here. The communication was fn reply to Japanese inquiries as to the scope of the forthcoming conference, and made it plain that this government has no intention of forcing ai»y particular program upon any nation. At the same time Secretary Hughes Is understood to have emphasized the point that the likelihood of a successful conference would be enhanced were no hard and fast program to be laid down beforehand. Coincidental^ with the announcement that such a note has been sent to Japan, government officials let it be known that there are no objections to a preliminary conference In Washington, after all of the Invited powers have agreed to discuss the two plain propositions of the President's Invitation. In other words, they must subscribe to this government's contention that disarmament and the Far Eastern question are so closely related that they itre Inseparable. So far as\Great Britain Is concerned, government officials said that the "ghost of her efforts to have a preliminary conference In London before all the Invited nations have agreed" to come Into the Washington meeting has been laid." It is believed here now that Great Britain is reconciled to a "preliminary conference of her own/ IHIiMlt txeeuiive FmhezzlirtQ FOUR TRUE Otherwise stated, It Is believed thi^L. .many witnesses, during the present and closing week of the Imperial conference at London on the defense of the realm. Lloyd George will ascertain the premiers' point of view with reference to the Washington meeting. Then If the premiers are unable to attend the opening sessions, Lloyd George J^lll be in a position to speak for them. It was hinted here that Lloyd George would not be disappointed very much If the dominion premiers Were unable to attend the conference at all. There are realms for believing aJ*6, that he Is displeased with the rather frank reference to the Anglo- Japanese treaty and America's relation to that pact by Premier Hughe# of Australia. ^ MOONSHINERS KILL 2 IN KYj Poeae of Prohibition Agents Am> In the Mountains «f Breathit County, Lexington, Ky., July 27.--White bttempting to locate a "moonshine" still in the mountains of Breathit county a posse headed by Samuel t J. ^'atklns, federal prohibition agent, was ambushed by "moonshiners" and two men fatally wouiyled. Green Watklns, a Breathit .county deputy sheriff, died a feW minute* after the first volley, and Henry Nobles, another membpr of the possei died while en route to a hospital. Shade Allen, another posse man, received nlhe gunshot wounds and ie not expected to recover. MANY CRAZY FROM "HOOCH" Phyetcian 8aya Prohibition Hai More Insanity Than i|s . World War. " . . New York, July 27.--"Prohibition has caused more lnsaulty than the World war," Dr. Perry Llchtensteln, resident ph.vsician\»f the Tombs, testified before a commission Investigating alcoholic insanity. He said: "Alcoholic drink now obtainable Is full of many poisonous by-products. It frequently produces convulsions." * BROADEN WAR FINANCE BODY Secretary Hoover Proposal for Aid ft Roads snd Farm Credits "^">1*,, . Considered. Washington, July 2t.-i-Legislatioii to broaden the powers of the war finance corporation, enabling It to handle the triple financial problems of the railroads, farm credits and export financing, was suggested by Hoover. ^ ; Minister and Family Burn. . '.'Wflkesbarre, Pa., July 27.--Hev. Alex Nowa, his wife and three daugtv ters, ranging from five to ten years, were burned to death In their home in Pond Hill, near here. It ia believed a kerosene lamp exploded. . Violent Fighting In Italy. Rowe, July 27.--Isolated fighting be tween communists ahd the Fascist!, in which 12 Wvie killed, Cuuiiuued despite, the stern warning of Premier Bonomi. Thirty-seven 'houses have hpeo burned around Groese. Jugo-Slavia Assembly to Convene. Belgrade, July 27.--The government has decided to convene the national assembly In special session on July 80. This is for the purpose of taking action to oppress the terrorist organ, laatlons. , " ...fit. , 'mMat.. iM. !£ - .£ Train In River; Three Men -•**. - St Joseph, Mo., July 27.--The locomotive and eight cars of a Burlington railroad stock train plunged into the Missouri river two and one-half mlleg north of Kansas City and three mem fcaM 4*.train crew drowne*.^-,::,;. Lieutenant' governor Btfrfing la ^ Charged With Taking $700,000 sf ; the Psopis's Moneji--Verne «. . . Curtis, Banker, Alae Named. • r Springfield, Dl„ July 22.--Gov.- Len Smnlf and Lieut. Gov. Fred E. Sterling were Indicted by the Sangamon county grand jury on charges of embezzlement and conspiracy to misappropriate public moneys. Verne 8. Curtis, president of the Grant Park Trust and Savings bank, was named In two other Indictments charging similar offenses. In all, four Indictments were returned. Two are joint indictments charging the three with embezzling $700,000 of the state's money and the third charges conspiracy and confidence game by means of which the defendants unlawfully obtained $2,000,- 000 of state funds. Governor Small and Lieutenant Governor Sterling are also named in separate indictments charging the former with embezzlement of $500,000 while state treasurer, from 1917 to 1919, and the lieutenant governor with misappropriation of $700,000 while holding the office from 1919 to 1921. The true bills were returned before Judge E. S. Smith In the circuit court. The J>ond9 of Governor Small and Lieutenant Governor Sterling were fixed at $150,000 and thoee of Curtli at $100,000. Grand Jury*a Charges. The grand Jury's report charging/ misuse of state funds, in part, follows: "The undersigned, the regular grand Jury of Sangamon county, who weye instructed hy this court to Inquire Into the handling of state moneys 4>y former state treasurers, beg leave to report that we have devoted two weeks to that work and In the course of our investigations have examined As the result of our Investigation we return herewith <a number of indictments. "From the evidence submitted it appears that the treasury of the, state of Illinois carries large daily balances, and that during thp administration of Fred E. Sterling these balances have ranged from $20,000,000 to $32,000,- 000. "During the administrations of Len Small and Fred E. Sterling as treasurers of the state of Illinois, the law thgnl In force in this state required the state treasurer to deposit all moneys received by him on account of the state within five days after receiving same In such banks In the cities ofttlie state as In the'opinion of the treasurer were secure and which paid the highest rate of Interest to the state for such deposits. "We find that both the letter and spirit of that l^w was violated. Instead of loaning the state moneys to all secure banks of the state, without discrimination, and to such of them which paid the highest rate of interest, oAly a portion of ttyat money was loaned In accordance/ with the provisions of the statute. ( For the purpose of circumventing these provisions an Ingenious scheme was devised and closely adhered to." * Brundage Cites Constitution. / Attorney General Brundage said: "The constitution of Illinois says in plain language that the treasurer shall receive for his services his salary, and that,he shall not receive for his own use any fees, perquisites or other compensation. "It has been the common gossip of Springfield for quite a time that the handling of public funds was a business of profit for the officials charged (vltli their custody. "rWhen the new state treasurer, Mr. Edward E. Miller, brought to my attention apparent confirmation of this misuse of public moneys, I deemed It my duty to lay the entire matter before the state's attorney for presentation to the grand Jury of Sangamon county. , "The action of the grand Jury in returning Indictments IS the view it took af the sufficiency of this evidence." Governor Small Issued a statement addressed "To the People of .Illinois," In which he charged the Indictment resulted from Ills attempt to cut down state appropriations, resented by his political enemies. "For the present,** the statement said, "may I not ask you to accept from me with the , same confidence which you accepted my candidacy for governor, assurance to you that I am absolutely Innocent of any charges which the public may consider brought agajinr me by the grand ^ The Art of Life. , ^ ^ * *. The art of life la to keep step with the celestial orchestra that beats the measure of our career, and gives the cue for our exits and our entrances. Why should we willingly miss anything. or precipitate anything, or be angry with folly, or In despair at any misadventure? In this world there should be rtone but gentle tears, and nuttering tip-toe ioves. 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