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1 SllEtf tt "3. 1 JIT.. &* i2$! lODAT'S SPORTINa NEWS WJU, BE FOTJin QJfcBACHB 1* A New Cook? for one in The Journal -I wants. 'Phone nine, either line." 1: PRICE TWO CENTS., Beef Trust's Counsel Says Cor poration Commissioner Made Promises. Government Is on Trial, Instead of Trust, in the Suit in Chicago. Chicago, Jan. 19.Attorney John S. Miller, speaking for thepackers, con tinued his preliminary statement in the "United States court today. He etated that he would prove by the admission of Corporation Commissioner Garfield while on the stand that the packers in this case are entitled to immunity frot prosecution. He sai Garfiel Attornex Miller concluded his ad dress at noon and was followed by At torney George W. Brown, also for the packers. _____ SECESSION TO BE THE BATTLE CRY British Columbia's Political Par ties Advocate Withdrawal from Dominion. Special to The Journal. Victoria, B. C, Jan. 19.Discontent, which has been steadily growing in British Columbia for several years over the refusal of the Dominion govern ment to consider a readjustment of the terms on which this province became a part of Canada in 1871, .has reached such a stage that members on both sides of the local house are on the floor of parliament advocating secession from the Dominioto in the event of fur ther financial concessions not being ob tained. At today's session in the legislature, A. H. B. MacGowan, member for Van couver city, in seconding the reply to the vice regal speech, urged that there be Wo more acquiescence in any joint provincial presentation of the case for better terms, but that British Columbia tlemsmd a readjustment of relations with the Dominion and this being re fused, then to petition the throne for a dissolution of the Canadian confeder ation, this province retiring from Can ada. "The time has come for this pro vince to act for itself in this matter," said MacGowan, "and to demand bet ter financial terms from Canada, not as a favor, but as a matter of busi'n'ess iing tiJ:, k& &,.* tshr ustice, and failing this, to go direct to Edward by petitionf praying for' a dissolution of the unfair terms that bind us to the Dominion." Other members of the house agreed with MacGowan and "better terms or secession" is likely to become the po litical battle cry in British Columbia. 'L' CAR IN FATAL FALL TO STREET One Dead, a Dozen Hurt by Plunge from Elevated Tracks. New York, Jan. 19.One person was killed and a dozen injured when a car on the elevated railroad in Brooklyn fell to the street today. The car was crowded with passengers. The acci dent occurred at a curve on the Lex ington avenue line of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company at Fulton and Chestnut ftreets. The train which consisted of three cars jumped the track at a switch and the first two cars remained on the elevated struc ture, 'while the rear car fell into the street. PEABOODT FAKLLT POISONED. Canon City, Col., Jan. 19James H. Pea body, former governor of Colorado, and his wife, son and daughter, who became suddenly sick after breakfast yesterday, have entirely recovered. Their fflneas Is attributed to ptomaine poisoning. THTTi* fl DECIABES GARFIELD CHICAGO PAUSES PLEDGED IMMUNITY that las March Commissionerd de clared that he would consider the seek ing of facts by his agents, in the of fices of the packers, as if they had been developed before him personally and. had been presented in his presence at a formal hearing. Garfield Makes Notes. Commissioner Garfield, who was in the courtroom when the statements were made by the attorney, began writ ing rapidly on a pad of paper, taking notes of the statements made by Mr. Miller. Mr. Miller said, in opening his speech: A meeting was held at the Chicago club in this city on April 13, 1905, Detween Commissioner Garfield, L. C. Krauthof and Samuel McRoberts. The question arose as to tthe relations to exist between Commissioner Garfield and the packers if the investigation was to be in the proper line of privacy. Mr. Garfield said that the question of what the government was or was not entitled to, might come up, and that if it arose he would settle it. He said that he desired to conduct an investi gation, but without violating any rights of privacy. Mr. Krauthof suggested that he might advise the packers who were his clients to resist the right of the commissioner to publicly investi gate a private business, but that he was disposed to ask the packers not to contest the power. The Immunity Pledge. "The question then arose as to the method of getting the information and how the work of the agents of the com missioner would be considered. Com missioner Garfield replied that the in formation would be the same as if the defendant had testified before him per sonally. The attorney then contended that un der the law, altho the packers were not sworn, and it was the order of Com missioner Garfield that they should not be, the evidence of the men was no less evidence and within the immunity Three Services. Funeral services *for Marshall Field were held today at his late home, 1905 Prairie avenue, and in the First Presby terian church. The service at the home was at 11 o'clock and was character ized by simplicity and brevity, and none but those immediately connected with the^. family and household was in attendance. The service at the church was an hour later and was attended by many of the friends of Mr. Field. This service, too, was private, and admis sion to the church was- gained only by the presentation of a card. In the afternoon a memorial service was held* in the Auditorium, which was packed to the doors by the em ployees of Marshall Field & Co. Rev. John A. Morison, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, officiated at all three services. The body of Mr. Field was placed in the vault at Graceland cemetery di rectly after the second service of the day. ALL "SPLIT DP ON RAILROAD BILLS Senate Committee Likely to Re port Several Bate Measures, or a Composite. Special to The Journal. Chicago, Jan. 19.Raymond, in ^-a Washington special to the Chicago Trib une, says- .X Eailroad legralation is to be consid ered by both houses of congress froni now on. SA K!fe^r$,& TO flONOR FIELD Remarkable tribute Paid During Funeral Services for Mer chant Prince. Chicago, Jan. 19.Never before in the history of Chicago has such respect been paid to t^e memory of a private citizen as was Shown today to that of Marshall Meld. During the hours of the funeral services at the house and the church all of the large retail es tablishments on State street were closed, the 1,000 enterprises operated by the members of the Chicago Com mercial club and situated in all parts of the city were closed, the Board of Trade held but a brief session and upon every clubhouse and prominent office building in the business section of the city flags were displayed at half mast. A number of mass meetings were held by various organizations during the day and resolutions eulogizing Mr. Field were adopted. bill will get thru the house without any difficulty, but irieanwhile the senate is proceeding along its own lines and will discuss half a dozen dif ferent bills. In the long run the Dolli ver measure, which is substantially the same as that to be passed by the house, stands the best chance of getting thru the senate. There is a lamentable lack of disci pline in the senate, as a matter of course. From present appearances it will be impossible to get any particular measure out of the committee on inter state commerce. The Dolliver bill is the favorite, but there are several others. Splits in Oommittedl The indications now are the commit tee will be forced to a proceeding which is quite unusual in the senate. That is, they may be obliged to report that they have been unable to come to any ma jority conclusion on any one bill. In that case it would be permissible for the committee to send a series of reports split up among the different measures now before the senate. The house bill would have a standing all -of its own because of the fact that it had been passed by one branch of con gress, and would be entitled under the rules to special consideration by the other branch. In formulating the house measure, Colonel Hepburn has made so few changes in the Dolliver bill that when the house measure comes to the senate it will be easy to substitute it for the Dolliver bill, or vice versa. Elkins Has a Bill. Senator Elkins, chairman of the com mittee on interstate commerce, and a persistent enemy for many years of every attempt at railroad rate legisla tion, has prepared a bill of his own. It is an undeniable evasion of the prin ciple contended for by President Roose velt. If anything, the new Elkins bill is a limitation rather than an extension of the existing interstate commerce law. Its passage by congress unquestionably would cost the republicans the control of the next house of representatives and probably would lose them the presi dency two years later. There is not a ghost of a chance of its passage, and no one knows this bet ter than Elkins himself. When he was asked today how many members of his committee would be lined up for his bill he replied with a laugh, "One my- self." HERO OF SHIPWRECK AND GREW HONORED Journal Special Service. Philadelphia, Jan. 19.Mark Casto, captain of the little sloop Alberta, who rescued Bfty-one persons from the steamer Cherokee during a hurricane off I the Jersey coast last Sunday, was the guest of honor of the Clover club here last night. The club gave Captain Casto a gold medal, the presentation being made by Lieutenant General Nel son A. Miles. Casto. in a brief speech of thanks, gave all the credit for the rescue to his crew. In an instant came a shower of banknotes for the crew, John W. Gates heading the list with $250. The money came faster than Treasurer McCartney could count it. TEXAS COTTON GOES TO WASTE. Waco, Texas, Jan. 19.Thousands of bales of cotton in several northwestern Texas counties will, it is believed, be lost for lack of pickers. In Wilbarges county half of the cotton onw standing is being offered to. pickers to gather the crop i BEY. L. 6. ATKINSON DEAD. Atlanta. Ga., Jan. \9.Rev a Anderson. J5 president of Common Methodist Episcopal theological seminary of Atvata, died here to day, aged 67 years. 'A &%$& St ^Md KEER COMMISB GOVERNMEN J*A ^f^j^^d' THE GIFFORD PrtTCHOT. Chief or the Foreptry Bureau. F. H. HITCHCOCK, Chief Clerk, Department of Commerce and Labor. WRIGHT TO TOKIO AS AN AMBASSADOR Ide Succeeds as Governor of Phil ippines, Then Smith Washington, Jan. 19.Luke E. Wright, governor general of the Philip pines, has been named by the president as the first American ambassador to Japan. The following announcement was made today at the war department: "Judge Ide, now vice governor of the Philippine islands, has asked to be relieved from further duty on the 1st of June next, after six years of faithful and efficient service as commis sioner and vice governor in these islands. The president considers that he is entitled to the dignity and honor of the governor-generalship duiing that period. Upon Governor Ide's retire ment, General James F. Smith's name will be sent to the senate after the confirmation of Governor Ide." FRIDAY, EVENING,?JANUARY 19, 1906. r* -4- --^^CHJiEXES a. KEEP, Aasteiant Secretary of the Treasury. ESTIMATIS^ALL FAlFROffl FACTS ~5 i^ Federal Board Sharply Criticizes Secretary Wi&on's Ex pert Bureau. Washington, Jan. 19krrSecretary Wil son of the department of agriculture was not disposed to make any "state ment regarding the report of th Keep commission w-hen asked for his opin ion of it today. In reply to questions, however, the secretary^ said that the fullest opportunity had been given the commission to investigate the methods of the crop estimating board in prepar ing their estimates. Regarding the reports of the-bureau oi statistics on crops other than* cotton, the commission says that such reports have generally been far out of the way, altho the figures --on the cotton crop have been generally close, and sometimes remarkably close. Comparisons Made. It is possible to compare estimates on erops other than cotton with actual results only once in ten years, when the decennial agricultural census is made? TnV899 the per^sniafcef-' whifeh the estimai^-&iir ^teau of -statis tics bore tothe cHp$tt returns on pba were ,as follows: acreage of such r Cornr 87 wh**fct I 64 rye, 81f buck 88 hay, 67. On *h production of these staples the percentage which the figures of.the bureau of statistics bore to those ot the census were: Corn, 78 wheat, .88 oats, 84 barley, 61 rye, 94 buck wheat, 9 potatoes, 84 hay, 68. LOOKS N SCORES CROP REPORTS oafefe 89 barley, heat, 83T potatoes, Census Estimates Larger. In other words, the bureau estimated the acreage in cofKr at nearly 13,000,000 acres less than the census fqnnd it, while in wheat the acreage was 8,000,- 000 acres less, and in hay the bureau fixed the acreage at 41,000,000 and the census showed it to be 62,000,000. The variations in production were still greater, the underestimate in the wheat crop being 112,000,000 bushels, and in corn 600,000,000 bushels. The bureau of statistics estimated Continued on 2d Page, 4th Column l(iXJ,Xia.*.t.Xjr,AXAJi^y^kAAJ.XM.AAt AXAftA.MAAA,JCA.*.AAA,A,ii..:AA,. *.*.t.S AAA^.*i/AA*3:AA*A-AAi .A^J:*.r,X A*/ AikJt** T.TTTR TEETEU-TOTTEB.J ^*ttsatvs:rajetfr^ In the meantime Uncle Sam needs the woodr^WM^dMMili&Z JAMES E. &AHFIEXD, Commissioner of Corporation*. LAWEENOE 0. MTTBRAY, Assistant Secretary of Department of Commerce and Labor, PLASS BLOCKADE FOR VENEZUELA France Will Seek to Brings Castro to 3?erms by Patrolling, Journal Special Service. Franco will blockade the "Venezuelan oast because of the action of President Castro \in insulting the French charge d'affaires, M. Taigny. but it is not be lieved that the French government will resort to forcible methods to induce Castro to make amends. There will be no action on the part of the United States in the quarrel be tween France and Venezuela, as as surances have already been given the United States by the French govern ment that the Monroe doctrine^ will not be infringed, a.s it is not the intention of the French to attempt to seize Vene zuelan territory. The United States government, however, will keep in close touch with the situation. Lima, Peru, Jan. 19 J. L. Flake has been appointed Peruvian consul at Cblcago. 24 STANDARD OIL BY TRICK SHUNS TAX 6*4 Trust Pays Nothing on Building **'Which Has Yielded WSffloa *wu fn Santa. Journal Special ServioS, New York, Jan. 19.A revival of the notorious Standard Oil bank juggle in the purchase of the old Wall street custom Souse which promises this time to result in a thoro thrhesbing out of the scandal, was started today by Con troller Metz, who ordered an investi gation to find out why the National City bank, altho it has received about $1,600,000 in rents for the building, has never paid one cent of taxes to the city: Mr. Metz hopes to have ac tions begun which will force the Na tional City bank to pay the city $800,- 000 in taxes the amount which it hay escaped paying by a trick in the con tract under which, altho the bank gets the rental' for the building at the rate of $130,000 a year, the title is still vested in the government. The National City bank, the Stan dard Oil pet banking institution, bought the old custom house from the treasury department over eight years ago for $3,265,000. At the time-it was arranged that the government should continue the building until the new cus tom house is completed, which will be two years hence. In order that Ihe Standard Oil clique might escape the taxes on the property, it was arranged that $50,000 of the' purchase price should "be left unpaid, the bank to pay i\ 4 per cent on the sum. President James Stillman merely wrote a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Gage saving that he had credited the government deposit in his bank with $3,125,000, and thus the money continued t'o remain on deposit with and subject to the disposal of the Standard Oil bank. At that time, and every year since, the National City bank has carried a deposit of govern ment money of anywhere from $5,000,- 000 to $25,060,000. Thus, so far as the bank is concerned, the purchase money for the custom house has practically never left its possession. UNIONISTS LOSE OLD STRONGHOLD West Belfast Won by Irish Na tionalist in Elections: in A Great Britain. 'I3i5g5 London, Jan. lO.-r-The most Interest ing feature of today's electiottjrettpns was the capture of West Belfast by an Irish nationalist, Joseph Devlin. Bel fast has been a unionist stronghold from time immemorial, with the excep tion of a few years when the seat now won by Mr. Devlin"was held by Thomas Sexton. Twelve liberal and two labor gains were announced today as the result of yesterday's elections. The totals are now: Liberals, 218 unionists, 94 Irish nationals, TO laborites, 37.- Among the candidates at today's elections are John Dillon, the distin guished Irish nationalist, and Lord Willoughby Deersby, who married in December last, Aloise Breese of New York. Rural England is now being polled and is returning liberals to parliament with the same enthusiasm as already displayed by the towns. Glasgow nas gone liberal, the seven contests there giving four liberal gains, one labor gain anw two free trade un ionist gains. Taken altogether the returns, altho less sensational than those previously reported, are most disastrous from the unionist standpoint. No less than six members of the Balfour ministry ^have been unseated. Mr. Chamberlain is evidently un daunted. Speaking at Smethwick, near Birmingham, last night, he asseverated that there had been a fair fight at Birmingham on the question or fiscal reform. He added that there were two remedies for the existing social prob lems, socialism and tariff reform. For the moment, he said, the country pre ferred socialism, but when the quack remedies of the present government had prevailed there would be opportu nity for his hobby and "no obstruction could prevent its taking root." NO MARTYRDOM FOR POHLTNEY BIGELOW Senators Decide He Is Too Small Fry to Bother in Pun- ishing. Washington Jan. 19.The senate committee on mteroceanic canals, at its meeting today, postponed unty next week consideration of the recalcitrancy of Pouitney Bigelow. Before the meet ing several members said^they had slept over the case and are now disposed not to make a "martyr" of a witness "whose testimony appeared to be of too little value to dignify nis conduct with summary punishment." It is believed he will go unpunished. Mr. Bigelowv did not make a favora ble impression before the interoceanic canal committee. He appeared to deal altogether with impressions and not facts. A majority of the committee felt that his charges against the man-' agement of the canal were entirely dis credited and some members believed this is so plain that he should be dropped as a witness. It was also .ap- {ow tarent to the committee that Mr. Bige expected to give his views nd theories rather than details of experi ences. OH. MONEY W E T. K. O. A. White Plains, N. Y., Jan. 19.It has been planned to build a new Young Men's Christian Association' building here at a cost ot $50,000, and John Rockefeller, It was announced to day, has promised to subscribe $10,000 toward the fund, provided $40,000 Is raised, before next January. The Sunday Journal Br the Sunday Paper that the whole northwest in talking ahout. PAGEST-FJVE V"- O'CLOCJC ALDERMEN WORK O N FIR E pptErr Accompanic City Officials, They Inspect Big Downtown Buildings. All Family Hotels Will Be In spected Before Ordinance' *'?*f Drawn."%1 :y i~~" XJ Is* I .Six aldermen and four officials of the fire and building inspection depart ments today began the inspection of the hotels and office buildings of the city, ordered by the city council at its last meeting. The West hotel* and the Masonic Temple were carefully ex amined before noon and the Holmes hotel and one or two other buildings this afternoon. The conditions were found to be all that were pictured by Fire Chief J. R. Canterbury and Building Inspector James G. Houghton at yesterday's meeting of the committee and the al dermen were convinced of the neces sity of a more stringent ordinance. It is admitted that the new ordinance is one of the strongest measures of its kind in the country, but it is not retro active, and the building inspector has very limited power in compelling the*^ adoption of sucn precautions as he may%1| deem necessary for the protection of' life and property. What Colonel Wood Said." While at the West hotel, Assistant Building Inspector* Andrew Lindquisl told of an inspection made in 1904 in companTy. with the late Colonel C. H. Wood ,v i i StArt^ irttowtor Outf* That the fire started in 'the elevator^ shaft there is no Question. The eleva tor boy first saw it as a tiny flame n the\*guard raU of the ^levator shaft. Instead ot givkur an alarm he ran the car up to the sixth floor. When the %m elevator ascended it created a suction, drawing the flame with it, and by the time the car reached the sixth floor there was so much fire that the opera-i tor deserted his car and ran for his life. Considerable oil is used on the guards and in twenty-two years of con tinuous use there has accumulated enough oil to make a considerable blaze. How the oil was ignited is not known and may never be. All those who expressed themselves ,oW the subject of further safeguards on the West hotel declared in favor of ad? ditional fire escapes, an automatic sky light over the elevator shaft, complete inclosure of the shaft in fireproof ma terial, without any combustible ma terial anywhere in 'the construction, and fire alarms on every floor. Changes Eecommended. The ladder fire escape in the alley, next to the Unique theater was con demned as insufficient, and wUl be or-f 'dered replaced with a regular iron stairway or at least a spiral escape. It was decided that there should also be a fire escape leading into the alley be tween the hotel and the Cream of Wheat re building, and one fire escape in the in terior court, with proper exit to a place of safety at the bottom. Most essen tial, however, was the skylight over the elevator shaft, which in the event of a fire would be automatically opened, thereby creating a chimney for thef escape' of the fire and smoke and retarf3-ti| ing the spread of the flames, so thaty! all the inmates of the hotel could reachs*^ a place of safety. Had there been suchf%, an arrangement of the elevator shaft/^ every one of the eleven live! sacrificed^! last week would have* been saved, de-u^ clare those who speak with authority. -1 At Masonic Temple. After examteg the West hotel, the SI. arty visited the Masonic Temple. H/-^ Myers, manager of the building,"& was recommended to install a modern*** fire escape on the Sixth street side and one on the opposite side leading to the Unique theater, to provide the elevator shaft and the rear stairway shaft with automatic skylights and to provide all entrances to the basement and engine room with fireproof doors. Much in flammable material was found in the basement, but with this portion of the building isolated with fireproof doors the danger would be greatly reduced. The Masonic Temple elevators do not extend to the basement and this feat ure Chief Canterbury highly commend ed. 'The Inspecting Party. *}f The inspecting party today included Aldermen W. E. Satterlee, W. W. Ehle, Wilhelm Pettersen, Wendell Hertig, Piatt B. Walker and M. A. Gerber. President A. E. Merrill of the council, Fire Chief Canterbury, Building In spector J. G. Houghton, Assistant Building Inspector Andrew L. Und* quist and Fire Marshall C. W. Ringer. The officials recommend that all the family hotels, twenty-five office build ings and about twenty business build ings be visited before the committee attempts to formulate an ordinance. STATEHOOD DEBATE WEDNESDAY wSBEGINS Washington, Jan. 19.As the result of a conference in the speaker's room after the house met today, it was de cided to bring up the statehood bill in the house Wednesday of next week. Representative Volstead today de nied a report printed in a twin city Charleston, W. Va.. Jan. Ifl^AU of the %^^l^JSS^ eighteen bodies have been recovered from the voted for the Wll last Session and Detroit mines on Paint Creek, the scene of expect to vote for the two-state bill the dust explosion yesterday. 'this session," said Mr. Volstead. 1 that time informed latte him that a watchman trained in the use of the fire-extinguishing apparatus was stationed on each floor of the ho tel every hour of the twenty-four, and that the engineer in the basement had a signal at which he would start the fire emergency engine and fill the stand pipes with water. Shortly before that time there had been a fire in one of thevrooms, which was confined to the room in which it started, altho it was so fierce that all the furniture was completely destroyed. Colonel Wood at that time declared that it was impos sible, with the precautions taken, for a fire to get such a start that any of theguests would be in danger. There was a dispute between Fire Chief Canterbury and Watchman John -Gnstafson over the failure of the en gineer to fill the standpipes with water. The firemen say that they could not get a drop of water from the standpipe, while the hotel em ployees insist as stoutly that this duty was promptly attended to. Xi A* A %n