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PRACTICE A BENEFITTO PRIVATE CONCERNS
Railroads and Big Industries FindIncreased Efficiency Results
He Says
Arguments for StraightPension Plan
Has hearty indorsement of morethan 300xjo Government emjieyea
Fifty par cent ef the men employed-on the railroads are pensionedwith deductions from theirsalaries
England has retired Its civil employes on straight pension for onehundred years
Twentytwo railroads have thestraight peasiea principle inoperation
Retirement on these lines is indorsed the financial officers etevery Institution which has putit to a test
By MICHAEL F ODONOGHUE
President of the United States CivilService Retirement Association
Probably the most forcefal argument In favor of the straight civilpension is that it is the one plan forthe retirement s perannaat d em
that carries with it Ute heartyIndorsement af mere tbaa 3 M H-
GovermneKt umyleyas thr i batet theUnited States
Therefore if O a res is te abideby the wtebeer empkjyea thornselves there Is only one course openHowever the mombers of the UnitedStates Civil Service Retirement Asso-
ciation with great respect te President Taft and Congress are willingto abide by their decision as to what-is Just and equitable la the way ofretirement legislation
The Goaldea bill which is new ponding in Congress provides for thestraight cIvil pension and the asso-ciation members are working for ItspassageFive Seasons for Passage
These five reasons have been givenIn its favor
First It places our great Government In line with the beet thoughtof the present day on the subjectof superannuation as practiced foryears by the principal governmentsof Europe by many of the municipali-ties of this country and by our greatindustrial and railroad Interests
bill voices theof every employe of the postal
service through resolutions IndorsingIt at the national and State conventions of letter carriers clerks ruralcarriers supervisory employes andpostmasters and it also has been indorsed by the United States CivilService Retirement Association Inconvention at Washington en January14 and 15 l lt
Third It provides for the retirement-of faithful employes who become in-capacitated while still In the service by
Uowing them Just and reasonablefor the years they have
served and makes the full period ofservice before being eligible for retirement thirty years or oa reaching theae of sixtytwo fair and equitable
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WEATHER REPORTT-
he center of tile storm that now cov-ers the Rocky Mountain region willmove eastward to the Mtonioglppi valleyby Wednesday morning and the areaof unsettled weather and precipitationattending it will overspread practicallyall districts east of the Mississippi rivetbefore Wednesday Bight The precipita-tion will be in the form of rate in thecentral and middle States and rain orsnow in the northern States
FORECAST FOR THE DISTRICTIncreasing cloudiness followed by rain
Wednesday morning or on WednesdayWarmer tonight lowest temperature
about X degrees Moderate south-westerly winds bang to southeast-erly Wednesday
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Jl ROBINSON DIED
Secretary to Senator PercyFound on Couch-
in Senate Office
FAMILIAR FIGURE-AT CAPITOL BUILDING
Employed by Three MississippiansHe Made Friends With
Many Legislators-
A ernroplod telegrams bearing Artmoo greetings front Me cafWroa droppedfrom the hand of Col J Hancock
Confederate veteran of MemphisTenn when he dozed off late his finalsleep in the Senate mmmtttim re mwhere he had successively been secretary to three of Mississippis Senators-
He was found this morning aid hisdeath masked th passteg of a manwho has been a familiar figure at thCapitol for more they twenty years
The affection of Goblet Robinsonwho was sixtytwo years old for thelate Senator Ansetat j HdJAmria of-Mtooiooipvi was owe of tb meet potentthings of the cokmefs life nd his fail-ure ht health totes from tins Senatorsdeath
Heartbreak the Causehe was found be on tb
couch lA Comm Mte Room 410 to wWcfa-
b had moved hfe office from thewhere he had boon far so many
years Heart failure is stove thepfeysicfeae attrfrote Beet Many of threewho knew this kindly oM nan mybeartbremks and then they tell of
Roblncon and cLurtaThe SergeaatatArms would not let
the body remain at the morgue Heordered It prepared fOr burial
awaiting the wtenos 9t the manschildren
The men who HCted him fromouch this moratog found two bits ofpaper which told tile cotoneTs frtendsmuch of his Just before death
C e was the Cartotmas telegram Itroad
Wish you wore here with vs Merry
etherof a fear which the oldmen for many months a thatsomething wreng wtth his heart
Lifelong FrienosThe devotions between Cofenei
sad the late Senator McLaviia became as proverbial at the Senate asthe aceold devotion ef Damon andPythias Over a period of twenty yearsthe intimate hfp lasted to
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Leaders Get From 25 to 49Years Woman Becomes
Hysterical
YORK Dec 27 A crushingblew was struek at Black Handkidnaping gangs today when MariaRappa and Stanlsiao Pattonea headsof the abducting band which stoleGiuseppe Longo and Michael Rizzotwo Brooklyn children were sentenc-ed to not less than twentyfive yearsand not more than fortynine yearsand ten months the woman In Auburn and the man In Sing Sing prisonMrs Kappa broke down In courtwhen she heard the sentence andscreaming hysterically was draggedfrom the room Pattenza was indif-ferent and walked out stolidly
The court was particularly severeIn imposing sentence upon MarieRappa-
It is almost unbeiieveable said theUdge that you could have held thesebrokenhearted children fer twenty daysknowing the terrible suffering f theirdistressed parents You have gives birthto own children lived inthe very room where little GiuseppeLongo was held a captive haveneither the spirit nor instinct of amother
The Godmade mother love is bettershown in beasts than in you A goodmother Is the holiest thing alive butyou no qualities of knowing anything of goodness
The regret that hecould not send both to the electric emir
There was a of astonishment Inthe court room as the Judge pronounced-the womans fate If she lives to sarvethe extreme penalty she will be seventyfour whtn it expires Pattenza willbe sfeventynlne
Matt McGrath Is HeldFor Trial Without Bail
NEW YORK Des 27 Matthew McGrath champion of the United StatesIn throwing sixteenpound hammerOlympic games hero and member ofthe force was arraigned todaybefore Magistrate Hyland andwithout baH on the charge of shootingGeorge Walker who he found beingentertained by his wife at the McGrathhome at 3 oclock Sunday morning
Although McGrath was behind thebars today his police shield had notbeen taken from him and he has notbeen suspended
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VIKCEIJZO SAKTUELLO GRIESTJNSSCIPIO AND ANGELO MOLCO
Waif Left on DoorstepBlinks in Unconcern as
Police Hunt Mother
A tiny Jat tJ ree weeks eM-
fe Ute longest inmate ef StAnas Orphan Asylum willie thepolice find themother who abandoned Ute ttttle onetest night
Tbe mite of bomantty was left inTesBie the home C L W Creecy-
M I street northwest The Invohtntary intruder made his known
which sent tbe Creecy scarrymsfrom tfce dinner table to the front door
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broMerfee When MrthreeweesaoM be were wrapped te abundle of blanketschild was clad in a staple little dre eof moot ta xp nee design a liute oottoe cap and plain cotton stockingThere was nothing elaborate In thebabys wardrobe on the otherhand It was as neat and dean ae itcould be
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take It for their ownUnless the mother love shall eonquer
that other feeling thatwoman to abandon her offispring thlittle fellow will remain an Inmate of the
asylum It was the beet planCreecy and the officers of the
Third precinct could figure out today J
STRANGE RETURN
OF STOLEN MONEY
Colored Man Calls at Seebold House Leaving Pack-
age Containing 335
Another chapter was added to themysterious theft on December el S55S
from the safe In the coal office of C SBurgess Sons Company Eighth and 0streets northwest this morning when
uaid ntined negro called at the homeof Charles P SeeboM secretary andtreasurer of the company and left apackage containing of the missingmoney
The day following the robbery thoarrested Thomas Miller a negro em
ploye of the coal company and recovered UI from a suit case In his homeIn Jackson place northeast Miller wasmaking preparations to leave the cityat tho time The money was In twopackages each containing fifty 1 bUsThe wrappers bore the companys stampFifteen dollars was in loose bills
Mr SeeLold lives at 446 P street northwest Aoovt 7 oclock this morning MrsSeebold answered the door and washanded a package wrapped inby colored man
told to leave this forSeeboW the negro said and hurrieddown the steps
Not suspecting that there was anything unusual the package MrsSeeboid paid no special to the
I negros appearance and did not ques-tion him
Disco vine the money she Immed-iately notified her husband who hadgone to the coal office and an effortwas made to learn the Identity of thenegro Later the police were notified
With the 335 returned this morn-Ing a total of 450 has been recovered police say now that they be-lieve Miller was telling the truthwhen he said he found the money
Workman Is HurtWhen Manhole Bursts-
A C Doerner an employe of the Po-tomac Electric Power Company wasseriously hurt about the head and facethis morning by an explosion of gaswhich had accumulated In a manhole atThirtyfifth street and Wisconsin ave-nue northwest
Doerner was attempting to remove thecover of the when the gas ex-ploded throwing the heavy piece of ironagainst his head
He was taken to Georgetown Univer-sity Hospital where the doctors saythat while his Injuries are serious hewill recover
Doerner Is twentythree years old andlives at 1546 Eighth street northwest
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JOHN AMBROSIAAccused of Murder of Angello Appitto
Physicians at Hospital Unable to Determine
of Potion
rte YORK Doc V Beaanee shebad been rebuked by her father forkeening late boors Dora Barlow twenty yeses old attempted suicide in herborne TOK Amsterdam avon e today bybibs some mysterious poison
PhyalchtM at Ute WashingtonHeights Hosaitl after a x
to aatarmine M 9Dora returned at an early hour
today from a cane and was scolded byher father As was his custom he wentto the girls room to waken her todayThe girl refined to get After muchpersuasion she Jumped from her liedand ran Into the kitchen
Before her father who bad followedher could Interfere the girl placed awhite eapaute to h r and swallowed a little water Almost Instantlysa toppled over unconscious
Police Called Out to PreventRioting by De-
positors
KBW YORK Dec 27 The Northern
street capitalized at 709000 and havingnIna branches in various parts of thecity was closed today by State Super-intendent of Banks Cheney-
No reason was given for the dosingA perfunctory notice was posted on thedoors of the bank this morning
afterward crowds began gatheringIn iront of the place A number of de-positors were In the crowds and thepolice were tailed to the to
disorderThe Northern Bank of New York
sprang into existence after the failureof the Hamilton Bank which Is saidto have made heavy loans to theHolmes The officers are PresidentFrank Grast formerly at the headof the Hamilton Bank vice presidentsHenderson M Wolf Martin McHaleFrederick D Ives and H H BlzaMloncashier William Brewer
The failure was the most sensation-al since the days of the 1907 panicRioting broke out about the PortMorris branch in 138th street thisevening and the police reserves hadto charge the mob of men and womenwho were surging about the bankclamoring for their money
But the Port Morris branch was notthe only one which saw lively scenesand police action By noon practical-ly all the branch Institutions wereunder police guard to hold back theexcited and angry depositors Thebulk of business had been done withsmall traders many of whom deposited all their Christmas receipts
New England ShoalsBristle With Wrecks
VINEYARD HAVEN Mass Dee 27Mariners who arrived here today
conditions along the coast ofMarthas Vineyard and Nantucketsounds as the worst for many years
The mate of a belated fishing schoon-er declared the shoals fairly bristledwith wrecks the skeletons of eight ves-sels near alone were seen
Half Moon snowed the sticksof a twomaster Handkerchief Shoalshower the wreck of a threemasterand on Horse Pollocks Rip andNantucket Great Point other wrecksendangered navigation as they are forthe most part In the regular channel
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With Murder Arrested After Nights Search
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heeaei at fSL G sentferoesC AngelaApDltte died shortly after S e iek tillsmorning in the Broergeney aoopkaLAmbrosia who fled the Louse af-
ter the shooting and eluded policenight was arrested at the Wash-
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fore Appltto died j
Both men made their home at ttoestreet bowe which Is occupiedsively oyItalians The snooting markedthe culmination of a vendetta of long-standing between she two Italians butaccording to a statement made by Am-
brosia to Detective Orieai he shot Appitto in selfdefense
Several of the boarders IncludingAmbrosia had been playing eards Ina room on the first leer of the houselast evening Appltto according tothe story told by the Italians to thepolice came to the house about Uoclock In his hand he held an Improvised stiletto made out of longpiece of steel The card game hadbroken up before Appotti came inbut five or six of the Italians werestill sitting around talking
Seeing the stiletto andtrouble Ambrosia says he get up anwent to his room on the second floorAppltto who the witness saW seemed-to be In an ugly mood followed himIn the hallway on the second floorAmbrosia says Appltto attacked himwith the knife that hewould be killed Ambrosia drewrevolver and snot Appltto through-the chest
Hearing the shot those on the firstfloor ApptttoInsr ic the hallway with blood Sowingfrom the wound In chest while Am
Desperate Battle Near Mal
Paso Renewed atDawn Today
CHIHUAHUA Mexico Dec 27 Thedesperate battle has beers going onbetween Mexican revolutionists andregular troops near Mal Paso was
at dawn today when fresh gov-
ernment soldiers reached the scene andreenforcecd the defeated Diaz army
During the conflict which raged fullytwenty hours and was halted only bydarkness last night the rebels had allthe better of the engagement and thegovernment loss was heavy
Fire Damage 100000In Bath N Y StillROCHESTER N Y Dec 27 A fire
which has already done 100000 damage Is still raging In the town of Bathtoday although It Is now under control Help of departments from surrounding villages was secured
The fire broke out late last night inthe Nichols Hotel and the guests ithat hostelry narrowly escaped withtheir lives
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Beadetto seeing Appltto coming up-stairs with the knife ia his hand hadremonstrated with him and when hewent after Ambrosia Bendetto was ac-cidentally cat Bendetto is regarded bytbe police as the most important wit
dined to talk about the affair and thedetectives were unable to get much in-formation from him in fact none ofthe persons In the house wanted to talkand it was only after the detectives hadquestioned them at length that theygot down to the rear facts
Following the shooting some onefor an ambulance and Appltto
was taken to the hospital Before tfcarrival of the police Ambrosia fied fromthe house and it was not until heshowed up for work this morning thathe was arrested
Learning where he was employed De-tective Rprlngmen and Policeman JoeGrant the former wrestler obtained ahorse and buggy dud drove to the brick-yard thinking Ambrosia might takerefuge there to find any traceof him they left word with the watch-man at the yard to telephone PoliceHeadquarters If Ambrosia showed upfor work Ambrosia appeared atabout the usual time this morning thewatchman notified the ponce and Lieutenant Flathers and the reserves of theFourth precinct went to Brick Havenand Italian
Ambrosia talked freely of the shootIng when Questioned by the police He
It was done in selfdefense m feelingbad existed for some time between Appltto and himself he said and whenAppltto came Into the room with the
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JAP SPY ARRESTED
United States Military Authorities Search Homes-
of NipponeseM-
ANILA P L Dec 27 United Statesmilitary authorities today arrested aJapanese spy In Corregfdor the Islandwhose great fortifications guard the entrance to Manila bay
The spy is said to have been caughtredhanded with valuable militarysketches and maps In hisHe is now held incommunicado
At the same time Japanese residentsof Manila are today over theaction of the military authorities Insearching a number of houses andstores of Japanese residents here forhidden explosives-The search was Instigated by General
Duvall the retiring commander of theDepartment of the Philippines uponadvices he has
The house occupied by the local agentof the great Japanese army and navycontracting firm the Mitsui BussanKalsha known throughout America andEurope as Co was one ofthose searched
No were found It Is reported but the occurrence has givenrise to rumors of theJapanese plot against theGovernment and has caused intense s-
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EDICT GOES FORTH
Word Given Out AmongClose Friends of Presi
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FEARS CONVENTIONLESS THAN ELECTION
With Roosevelt Means Col-
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Be Renominated
President Taft and the 1912Situation
President Tafts friends apprisedthat he will seek renominatlon in
Any doubts that were raised afterNovember 8 election dispelled
Efforts made to smooth ever therough edges and pave way to reEiectien
One feature of these efforts the exchange of letters with ColonelRoosevelt
Roosevelt has made p his mindTaft renomination is certainand he will not oppose it
By JOHN SNUREThe word has gone dotoitely
Taft that h will be a Active candi-date for reeotninatJoo in 3tt2
Those who have been enter theBelief that Mr Taft might sot be acandidate for another term might aswelt Rive up any suck idee The Presldents close friends how that he in-
tends to run Not only that bat steps
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Not alone the reoomlnatton is beteskept in mind but also the reelectionof the President As a matter of factthe men closest to the President areworried mere over the election titan theyare over th nomination They feelconfident the President can get thenecessary majority of delegates i thenext Republican national coaveatlonto Insure his nomination theDemocratic drift displayed to the elec-tions of November S causes them anx-iety
Differences Patched upFor some weeks the White Horse has
been bubbly engaged la cultivating better with the Insurgents InHouse and Senate Now this is foJlowed by the definite information tbfcPresident Taft and Cofcnei Rooseveltare getting together
Politicians in Washington are discuss-ing with much zest and avidity the
given out from ORe of therighthand men of President Taft that
President and Colonel Roosevelthave for some weeks been engaged In
friendly correspondenceThe information was given out at the
same time that a denial was issued ofthe report that there had bees a breachIn the relations between Collector Loeband Colonel Roosevelt
Tho statement that the President andColonel Roosevelt have beeR correspond-ing with each other came from a sourceso completely in touch with Mr Taftthat it is looked on as practically anauthorized statement froci WhiteHouse The correctness of it is notquestioned But It is doubted If thefull significance of what it moans isyet fully understood
What It MeansWhat It means that Colonel Roose-
velt has made up his rated that Preei
nominated in 2912 Ihe colonel hasmade up his mind moreover te sup
about his election Nobody besurprised if Colonel Roosevelt wouldcome out in a statement te whieh hewould say as much though this ishardly looked for
This does not mean that there hasnot been bitterness between PresidentTaft and Colonel Roosevelt It hasexisted and it has been m taa Thisis well known to everybody wb knowsthe two men and knows the men
t0C Roosevelt undoubtedlytime contemplated the Presi-dency In 1312 But h does not contem-plate seeking it now Just whet reasonshave led him to this conctestoa are norhard to discover For one thing he hasdoubtless been Impressed with theformidable nature or the tohim The bitterness of the feeling in
York and the East againsthas probably Moreoverhe has been by the disposition ofthe progressives in theWest to resent the tariff in
York platform to hold him responsible for for the Adminis-tration and to show toss of eonfidence in him
Countrys TrendStill more than these things Colonel
Roosevelt Is too keen and astute a politician not to have discovered the factthe country is trending in a Democraticdirection and that it is likely to elect-a Democratic President in lilt
Colonel Roosevelt does not regard 1912as an auspicious year fer a Republican
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