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| WEATHER ^ The SUr is the only afternoon Fair and continued cool tonight I >4 || 9 IT |1 1/ ||| IJ I | %S|T VV'!*' paper in Washington that prints and Tuesdav: frost tonight; light I vl I f ' * W w I I I I I- I I I I I rl I the news of the Assoc-'ated Press. northwest winds. IV / HI /VVVA' _===== ^ ^ rroCK10 QITOTATIOISS PAGE 13 No. 18,996. . WASHINGTON, d. 0., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1912-TWENTY PAGES. ~~ ~ ONE CENtT~ ^ ' ' i l -J UTILE LEARNED FROM TESTIMONY OF ClOLISS, I Tells Committee Father's A counts Did Not Show Contribution by Standard Oil. BUT BOOKS WITH NAMES HAVE BEEN DESTROYE Witness Is Closely Cross-Examin by Senator Pomerene. W. H. LEBBY KNEW OF GH Foreign Representative of Compai Says H. H. Rogers Told Hiq Large Donation Was Made to Republican Campaign in 1904. The Senate subcommittee's renewal the investigation of presidential cai paign contributions today marked t beginning of hearings that are expect to bring many of the leading financie: politicians and candidates to the witnc stand during the next two months. Cornelius N. Bliss. Jr., was the fit witness heard. He went into conferen with Senator Clapp for a few minut before the committee met. Few spect tors were present for the opening of t committee hearings. Senators Pomerene and Oliver held short conference in the hitter's office t fore going to the committee room, b declined to say whether additional w nesses would be asked for. Attempts to take moving pictures a flushlivhtu nf tho camnaisn exnenditui committee were frustrated by Chalrm Clapp. He refused to permit photograp of the committee at work or of witness appearing before it. Senators Clapp, Oliver. Paynter a Pomerene were on hand when the coi mittee went into session. Mr. Bliss Testifies. Chairman Clapp called the commitl to order at 10:15 and asked Mr. Bl: to take the stand. The son of the form treasurer of the republican campai committee in 1904 stepped upon the d< and was sworn. He Identified himself a said that he was an executor of 1 father's estate and had sole custody his father's papers. "Have you fourtd amy papers beari on the campaign funds handled by yo fatherr* ssked Chairman Cl&pp. Mr. Bliss produced a report from t auditor wpo audited his father's accour when he resigned as treasurer of t republican committee in 1908. This w placed In evidence. He then produc the letter of resignation of his father, a Greased 10 narry a. nauuual cna man. "Do these records show any contrit tion by John D. Archbold or the Standa OH Company?" asked Senator Clapp. Mr. Bliss said he had seen no su names In the record. Members of t committees examined the records. No names of contributors to the li campaign fund appeared in the reeon Mr. Bliss was asked to read the leti his father had written to Harry S. New Letter of Resignation. The letter of resignation set forth th Mr. Bliss had held as confidential t limes of the contributors and t tmount of their contributions in the "It "our presidential campaigns in which have acted as treasurer." "I have persistently refused to ma these reports public." the letter ret (Continued on Second Page.) WAS FIRST W 1 'i i iUiLVCUtl N. BLIfS. J (I., I.KW AFTER UIV1A ROOSEVELT ASKED HARRjMAN ADVICE |b Secret Relations Existed Between the Two Men, a c-! Story Today Says. CORRESPONDENCE HERE WILL PROVE BOMBSHELL Receipt for $250,000 Campaign I "Piinrl Hater! VnvpniW 9. 1 ftfU ? ? ed COMMITTEE IS TO GET IT Third Termer Must Now Change jT His Claim That Harriman Was Merely Ordinary Visitor to iy the White House. 1 It became known today through indirect but accurate channels that there will be produced before the Senate investigating committee, now in session, so of soon as that committee reaches witnesses rjj. summoned before it. most sensational he .testimony showing that close relations ^ existed between Theodore Roosevelt and the late E. H. Harriman, the railroad rs' king, and in this testimony will be pro ss din ed the receipt from Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the republican national com.st mittee in 1004, to E. 11. Harriman for t.e $ -"?<>,000 raised by Mr. Harriman to save es New York state to Roosevelt. a" Roosevelt Letters Admit It. he According to the information at hand H much correspondence that passed between ?e- Roosevelt and Harriman win oe proaucea ut before the committee, if the members seek it- it, and this correspondent^ will establish beyond question that Mr. Roosevelt and nd Mr. Harriman had discussed the precari-es ous political situation that year in New an York state. Mr. Roosevelt's own letters ht! admitting this much. Col. Roosevelt has always claimed that ,es he merely received Mr. Harriman as he would receive any man who wanted to n<j talk with him. and that there was no discussion of New York politics, or any appeal to Mr. Harriman to raise funds. Vol. Roosevelt has gone further and indicated his disbelief that Mr. Harriman raised 1250,000 for his campaign. It is known beyortd question today that the ;ee correspondence to be produced before the iss committee will show that politics was l r discussed; that Col. Roosevelt wrote Mr. H.arriman long letters of a familiar, friendg.n ly nature, and, to top the whole thingn, there will be produced the original rend ceipt from Cornelius N. Bliss to E. H. ,}g Harriman. ?f Roosevelt Advised With Him. ^ It is stated positively that Col. Rooseur velt wrote to Mr. Harriman about important matters and even advised with h? him about them, showing no dislike to being in touch with him. as The receipt of Bliss to Harriman is ed dated November 2, 1904, showing that the id- money was paid over just before elecir tion day, thereby corroborating former Gov. Odell that he had been told by Bliss >u- some days before that the money would ,rd be raised and to go ahead with preparations for greasing the machinery all ch along the line. The fact that the money he was paid to Bliss and not to Odell will also, it is claimed, establish the truth X)4 of claims that Harriman raised it at the ds. request of a person he regarded as high ter in authority. Must Change His Claim. The testimony will make it necessary iat for Col. Roosevelt, it is said, to change he h's whole claim that his relations with he Harriman were merely those of a Presilst dent condescending to see a citizen, who I wanted to talk with him. It will place Col. Roosevelt in a most unfortunate ^ light, according to today's information, in 1(j view of the colonel's many reiterated 1 declarations that Mr. Harriman was nothing to him. TTNESS CALLED. K? I 1 I ] ( .jpsfgl^^r '<^B^^BfiE|^^^^^Hfe|^f||J|s::i|||&H^HB L ~< / IMG THK KRNAVE OFFICE BUICOING, G HIS* TJOSTlMOBi Y. * MANY Mm HURT Violence Marks Beginning of 24-Hour Strike. 0 DOZEN ARRESTS ARE MADE About 12,000 of 30,000 Lawrence Textile Operatives Idle. POLICE HURT IN SUNDAY ROW Industrial Workers of World Undecided as to Future Plans Pending Arrival of Haywood. LAWRENCE, Mass., September 30.? Rioting marked tlie beginning of the twenty-four-hour general strike of the Industrial Workers of the World as a protest against the imprisonment of Joseph J. Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, icauri> ul lilt ui gaulAd liuii \v uuac inai uu a charge of murder began at Salem today. I Fifteen persons were injured and a dozen | arrests were made. Of the IJO.OCO textile operatives employed in the mills of this city 12,000 were estimated to be idle by 11 a.m. Seven thousand of these were members of the Industrial Wonkers of the World. The others idle had either remained away from the mills through fear of personal injury or had left because there was 110 work in their departments. Dozen Arrests Made. Tickets had numerous conflicts with employes going to the mills. A dozen arrests were made for attacks upon children. women and men, some of those taken being armed with revolvers, knives or other weapons such as hammers, bolts or pieces of iron. One of the most serious disturbances of the morning was before the Everett mill. A big crowd of pickets gathered and became so threatening that the police charged them with their clubs. Several persons were injured. One man wha was knocked from a street car was taken to a hospital, where it was said his condition was serious. The morning's trouble began at .Essex and Mill streets. A fireman was escorting his young daughter to her work in one of the mills, when he was attacked by a crowd of pickets. Girl's Assailant Arrested. , The fireman succeeded in getting the | young woman safely within the mill gates, \ after which he returned and pointed out a man who, he claimed, had struck his daughter. The alleged assailant was ar- ( rested. In another affray a boy was struck over the head with a bottle and rendered unconscious. Cars bearing workers were intercepted by pickets and stalled for a time. Minor disturbances in different parts of the city occurred late in the forenoon. In one case the police broke up a crowd, ' captured a red flag and arrested the flag . bearer on a charge of creating a disturbance. I. W. W. Disclaims Responsibility. ; Leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World said that the organization . could not be held responsible for the disturbances, which they attributed to "excitable youngsters." The leaders were undecided as to future ' plans, pending the arrival this afternoon of William D. Haywood, general organizer of the Industrial Workers of the World, who is on the way here from Chicago. A mass meeting was arranged for 3 p.m. Beside^ a local police force numbering 130 there are on duty here fifty members of the state police. Dozen Hurt in Sunday Fight. Police objections to a banner bearing the inscription "Justice for Ettor and Glovannetti," "Who Killed Annie and John? Police?Militia," precipitated a fight between police and mill operatives in Essex street, the principal business thoroughfare of the citly, yesterday, in < which two policemen and a dozen oper atives were injured. The injured policemen, Thomas McCar- , lie and John Ludwig. were taken to the General Hospital suffering from numerous stab wounds and cuts. 1 The operatives were on their way to ' bLlienU dL Ulcl?& IUCCIU16 pi V/tCBl CLgcLiltni the* imprisonment of Ettor, Giovannitti and Caruso. When they were nearly up to Lawrence street twenty policemen blocked their way and ordered them to disband. Carlo Tresca, who was leading the parade. pleaded with Sergt. Sparnger, in charge of the police squad, to permit the [>araders to pass. Instead, the sergeant shouted, "Arrest that man!" Policemen Badly Battered. Ludwig and McCarlie followed his or- j iers and when they were pulled from under a mass of humanity they were battered almost beyond recognition. For ten minutes police and paraders fought and several shots were fired, but no one was hit. The dozen operatives who were injured were covered with wounds inflicted by police clubs, but none went to the hospital. State policemen who were on duty in 1 front of the police station brought the s conflict to an -end when they drew auto- ,c matlc revolvers and announced that inside of two minutes they would begin ] shooting to kill. * Case of Ettor, Caruso < and Giovannitti Cafled ' SAI.EM, Mass., September 110.?Three | hundred and fifty possible jurors were at > the Essex county courthouse today when ( the trial of Joseph J. Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, Industrial Workers of the World leaders, and Joseph Caruso, a mill worker, was called. The three men are charged with being concerned in the alleged murder of Anna Loplzzo during the textile strike in Law renee last January. Caruso as a principal, and Ettor and Giovannitti as accessories before the fact. The panel of talesmen was the largest ever summoned i for a capital case In Essex county, and the courtroom was not big enough to ( hold them all. ( The first step today was expected to be the filing of a motion with Judge Joseph P. Qulnn for the discharge of the entire i ventre on the ground that in many In- ; stances names were illegally drawn. Defendants Handcuffed Together. , Arguments of this question were expect- ' ed to consume considerable time, according to a statement made last night by Fred W. Hazelwood of Portland, Ore., one of the counsel for the defense. Ettor, Giovannitti and Caruso were brought to the courthouse handcuffed together and in < charge of deputy BhertfTs. Inside the counsel rail, in addition to Attorney Hazelwood, were Fred H. Moore of Los Angeles, W, Scott Peters of Haver- 1 hill, John P. S. Mahoney of Lawrence ] and George E. Roe we r, Jr., of Boston, representing Ettor and Giovannltti, James I H. Sisk of Lynn, attorney for Caruso, and District Attorney Harry C. AttwiU, who is conducting the government's case. It was expected that the impaneling of the jury would not be completed for two or three days. LYNN POLICE ASSAULTED. Striking Shoe Operatives' Parade Ends in Disorder. LYNN, Mass., September 30.*?A clash between the Lynn police and a body of strikers occurred today when a man waving red and black flags was arrested 1 and a crowd attempted to rescue him. Several police officers were assaulted and ' three arrests were made. Three hundred striking shoe operatives headed by three women marched through the business section of the city shortly 1 after the factories opened, urging ti ^se ai W4JIK IU Sirme ill inuicai agaiiiot mc imprisonment of Kttor and Giovannitti. When the procession halted in front of the shoe factory of James Phelan & Sons, one of the largest in the city, a hurry call was sent for the police, but before the officers arrived the st.ri ers resumed their march and assembled In Liberty Square, where their meeting ended in disorder. GRANITE WORKERS STRIKE. Thirty Quarries at Quincy Closed as Protest of Jailing. QUINCY, Mass., September 30.?'Thirty granite quarries were closed today because of a strike of all the Italian and Finnish laborers in protest against the imprisonment of Ettor and Giovannitti. A large body of quarrymen marched through the district and ordered out those it work. Police patrol wagons followed, but no arrests were made. UN, FACING ML, < "HOPES FOR THE BEST": \ New York Lawyer, Charged [ With Murdering Mrs. Rosa I Menschik Szabo. t c ??i?? a GOSHEN, N. Y., September 30.?"I r tope for the best," said Burton W. Gib- ? son, the New York lawyer, before being <t arraigned in court here today charged vith the murder of his erstwhile client, Vlrs. Rosa Menschik Szabo. Mrs. Szabo t net death while boating with Gibson in j jreenwood lake, this county, and the \ :ounty authorities maintain that she ivas strangled, not drowned. Mrs. Gibson held a conference with ler husband before court opened, and f prill 'sit near him throughout the pro- < reedings. It developed shortly before the time set for the hearing that Gibson had ( subpoenaed many of the state's witnesses. This, District Attorney Rogers , explained, will give the defendant the advantage of learning the state's case it the examination. ^ Enabled to Frame Defense. t "He need not call these fitnesses at his 1 trial, assuming that his case reaches a A trial," Mr. Rogers said, "but will know exactly what the witnesses will say then , and can frame his defense accordingly. "I shall make no move to prevent this. ' I believe our "case is a strong one and that it will be well for Gibson to realize just what he will have to face." rithsnn entered the courtroom shortly . before noon. Counsel for ihe -state and H defense both asked for a recess on ac- 1 c-ount of the lateness of the hour until 1 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. This was c granted without a witness being called. ^ J 1 Earthquake on Pacific Coast. t IjONDON, September 30.?Severe earth- * quakes have been continuously registered by the seismographic instruments in the i British observatories since early last c evening. The disturbance is believed to t have occurred on the coast of tbe Pa- f ciftc. ........ . c ?- "t i f * in OF FAIR WEAfj Rise in Temperature May Be Expected, With Rain, About Next Saturday. Washingtonians arose this morning t< find the sun shining and a keen, bracing breeze blowing, while the air had jusl enough of a suggestion of frost in it tc make one want to keep moving about, it was the first real fall day, and aftei last week's continuous performance ol rain and then more rain, the change was welcome. According to the weather bureau's weekly forecast, the coolness is to remain during the week, and the weathei Is to be fair all over the country. That is, "generally fair," which is the weathei bureau's way of hedging, to guard against unforeseen storms, "rtarebacks' and the like. Frosts are predicted for the early pari of the week in the north Atlantic states, the piains states, upper Mississippi and Ohio valleys and the iake region. No such coolness, however, is to be expected in this region, at least, during the week. The next general disturbance, says the weather bureau, will come along about next Saturday. It will arise in the far west today or tomorrow, cross the great central valleys Wednesday or Thursday, md reach this part of the country at the .dose of the week. Ahead of it will come i general rise in temperature, and the iisturbance will be accompanied by general rains. GENERAL PUBLIC IS SHY. ?..i n_i? a a ti n i. _r rvi.: auusuiiuca vmy w xci vcui ux viiiinese $25,000,000 Loan. JvOXDOX, September 30.?The issue of he "independent" Chinese loan last reek was a failure as far as the public vas concerned. Only about 40 per cent if the $25,000,000 offered was subscribed or by the general public, so that the inderwriters had to take up the remainng 60 per cent. Charles Birch Crisp, the lead of the syndicate, claims, however, hat many of the underwriters are acually large investors to whom the issuers if a big loan generally look for large ubscriptions. Mr. Crisp added that the lumber of applications, including those if the underwriters, was 5,860 and the tmount .asked for in these was 34,935,(100. The loan is quoted today at % per cent liscount. Mr. Crisp's associates say the addiional Chinese loan of $10,000,000 being ssued in Hamburg has no connection vhatever with the Crisp loan. SAFE BLOWERS GET $846. 1 11 rheater Watchmen Who Were Over powered Are Arrested by Police. CHICAGO, September ."JO.?Three masked safe blowers overpowered two watchnen in the Empire Theater, on West dadison street early today, blew open i safe in the orchestra pit and escaped vith $8415. AsW result of discoveries made by deectives the police arrested the two watchnen and will hold them pending an investigation. rURKEY PREPARING FOR WAR. rroops Ordered to Get Ready for Hostilities in Balkans. ATHENS, Greece, September 30.?Tur;ey is making elaborate military preparaions to meet any hostile demonstrations n the Balkans, according to a semi-offlial statement published here today. ?he Ottoman government has called up OO.UOO men, forming eleven divisions of he Redlfs. or second reserves, for six reeks' training in field maneuvers. The Turkish troops sent from Thrace to Mbania some time ago have now been trdered to return to their stations, so hat the only toops at present detached rom their ordinary posts are those concentrated in Sal<^iiki, along the Danlay. V ^?I nelles, and at Smyrna In consequence of ' the war with Italy. LONDON', September 30.?'The cessation of hostilities in the Island of Sainos is announced today by the Porte, according to a news agency dispatch from Constantinople. ! A visit considered significant in view of the near eastern situation was paid by Sergfus Sazonoff. the Russian foreign minister, on his return to London today. He called early in the morning on the Italian ambassador and remained with him as his guest at lunch. , SAILOR SLAYS WITH KNIFE. Claims Clerk He Stabbed Robbed ' Him of His Savings. CHICAGO, September 30. ? Michael f Cooper, a sailor, who had been robbed of , his earnings two hours previous, darted across the street in front of the Northwestern railway station early today, and ' plunged a knife into the jugular vein of . David Weathers, a clerk. Weathers bled to death in two minutes. . j Cooper told the policeman who arrested I him he was sure w earners was tne man , who robbed him. TEN EYCK, AT 60, TO BOW. ; Son Training Him for Scnlling Match With Jim Biley. DULl'TH, Minn., September 30.?To ' help his father train for a sculling match ; with Jim Riley. James E. Ten Eyck, coach of the Duluth Boat Club, left for Syracuse, N. Y., today. The match between the elder Ten Eyck and Riley Is 1 scheduled to take place at Saratoga. N. 1 Y., October 15, and will be over a threemile course for a side bet of $1,000. Ten Eyck the elder Is sixty years old. He has defeated Riley twice and despite his age Expects to do it again. POUCE TRACING CLUES TO QUADRUPLEJVIURDER Bloodhounds on Trail and Sensational Developments Are | Expected at Quincy, III. I QUINCY, 111., September 30?Developments of a sensational nature before , nightfall were promised today by the ; police officers investigating the quadruple murder on the Pfanschmidt farm, ; twelve miles northeast of Quincy. If there are no arrests by tonight it is announced that the county board of supervisors will be asked to offer the $1,000 reward allowed by law, and Gov. Deneen will be requested to offer the j $200 reward allowed by the state for the capture of the murderers. Worst Crime in County's History. | The crime as a result of which Charles Pfanschmidt. a prominent farmer of this 1 county; his wife, Mathilda Abel Pfan- j schmidt; their daughter, Blanche Pfan- ( schmidt, aged sixteen, and Miss Emma < Kaempen, aged twenty, the school teach- ' er of the district, who roomed at the J Pfanschmidt house, were murdered, is the worst in the criminal history of Adams county. Bloudhounds were brought to Quincy from Springfield to- : day and were placed on the trail. The tracks of a man in the yard had J been covered with boards and the imprint ( tVto ahnoe nf :i hnrsp U'PfP hirMan hv r v?> tllV. on vw \?? u wv ?? v? v " j boards and boxes. Despite the fact that thousands of persons visited the scene of the crime yesterday, the officers believe that the scent is fresh enough for the dogs to take up. Theory of the Officers. That Pfanschmidt was the object of the murderer's assault and that the other three occupants of the house were killed to hide the crime is the theory of the officers. Pfanschmidt was not accustomed to have money in his house and there is Uttle belief that the motive of the crime was robbery. THINK DIX IS BEATEN Leaders at Syracuse Believe Some One Else Will Be Chosen. MURPHY STILL STANDS PAT Declares That He Is for the Governor's Benomination. OTHERS EXPECT CONCESSION Sulzer Regarded as Acceptable to Wilson as Democratic Candidate for Governor. BY N. O. MESSENGER. SYRACUSE, N. Y.. September 30 ?With jaw set and manner bristling with defiance, Boss Murphy of Tammany Hail bounced into the lobby of the Onondaga last night and glared at his opponents. x am etin ror me renomination or uov. Dix," he declared, with an air which seemed to imply "Put that in your pipe and smoke it." Then he was handed a copy of Gov. Wilson's pronunclamento from Seagirt insisting that the convention shall be an open one. The Tammany boss read the statement carefully, and remarked blandly: "Why, of course, the convention will be an open one," whereat everybody grinned, including himself. The best judgment of the most prominent leaders present is that the semblance of a tight will be made, so as to conform to the demand for an open convention, and in the end a man acceptable to Murphy will be named. It is inconceivable to the rank and file of democrats outside of Murphy's personal entourage that he will force the nomination of Dix. Think Murphy Will Yield. .They believe he himself is convinced that this must not be done. Hut to save his face with Dix his surrender must be under guise of compulsion. Can't you picture him in the last round of the fight saying, "Well, of course, boys, if you insist, 1 will bow to the will of the people." and wiping away a tear for Dix? Assuming that Murphy will in the end be compelled to acquiesce in the retirement of Dix, the politicians are discussing his probable alternative favorite. There is considerable talk of Victor J. Dowling of Manhattan. Some of the politicians say that as the third termers have appealed to class in nominating Straus the democrats might appeal to re-igion and nominate a Roman Catholic. Victor Dowling stands high In the church and in the Knights of Columbus. Some of you may have heard him when he made the principal speech at the unveiling of the statue of Columbus in Washington. Martin Glynn, who is to be temporary chairman is also talked about as the possible beneficiary of MurDhv's second choice. Sulzer Acceptable to Wilson. Representative Sulzer is on hand with a boom. He would be entirely acceptable to Woodrow Wilson, it is said, but Murphy is reported to be fearful of Hearst's Influence with Sulser. Hearst is warmly supporting Sulzer and Murphy is wary of the Greeks bearing gifts when they are found in the company of his onetime ally, but present bitter foe. Hearst. Sulzer is the Job Hedges of the democratic party, and his friends say he is the man to rake the warpath after Hedges. But the weight of opinion is that Murphy is more favorable to Dowling than to any one e:se. One Tammany leader tells me that Murphy was for Dowling two months ago, and most po iticians hereabouts believe that Murphy has not been sincere in his attitude to Dix at any stage of the pending proceedings. O'Gorman Favors Dowling. Senator O'Gorman is on the battleground, the spokesman of Woodrow Wilson in unbending opposition to Dix. He is favorable to Victor J. Dowling, and at a dinner in New York Saturday night caused it to be known that he esteemed Dowling very highly. "Well, if Murphy is for Dowling and Wilson agrees, why not strike eight be Is and make it so?" you ask. Simply because we have to keep our seats" and watch the sham battle which Murphymust put up for his own sake, and which the leaders think will be an inspiring sight for the plain people. This is the era of unbossed conventions, and the democrats cannot afford to be behind the times. And here is Murphy with all but thirty-six of the 450 delegates' to the convention ausoiuieiy in nis raimvi. WILSON BARS BOSSISM IN CHOOSING CANDIDATE AT SYRACUSE MEETING SEAGIRT, September 30.?Gov. Wilson issued a statement last night calling upon delegates to the New York state democratic convention at Syracuse tomorrow to choose as a candidate for governor "a progressive man of the kind to be his own master." He urged a progressive platform and declared that "it will not do for the choice of the convention at Syracuse to be any less free than that which gave the third party Mr. Straus and the regular republican party Mr. Hedges." Careful to Avoid Dictation. . ? Gov. Wilson's statement in full follows: "I have been looking forward to the Syracuse convention with the deepest Interest because O realize its critical importance to the party throughout the nation, and I have made mv own opinion In regard to it very plain to every friend from New York who has done me the honor to consult me. I have not said anything in public about it or throcgTT the newspapers because I wanted to avoid even the appearance of doing what I condemn in others, namely, trying to dictate what a great party organization should do. what candidates it should choose and what platforms it should adopt. Whole Country Watching. "But the very principle to which I hold myself bound, both in speech and action, Justifies me in saying that the whole country demands and expects that the democracy of New York be left absolute* ly free to make its own choice. I believe that it is ready to choose a progressive man of a kind to be his own master and to adopt a platform to which men of progressive principles everywhere can heartly subscribe, if only it be left free from personal control of any sort. "The organized democrats of the great state of New York are ready to serve the latlon and to serve it with intelligence, rhey need no direction from the governor >f another state, even though he be the candidate of his party for the presidency. It is seldom organizations that are at 'ault, it is those whc dictate their ac:ion No intelligent party leader can lustly or wisely or even intelligently eon(Continued on Eighth P^ge ) RESENT MM BAN Maryland-Virginia Men Here; Enter a Protest. ^^ DENY BEDS ARE POLLUTED Demand a Hearing and Further Tests by Secretary of Agriculture. CHARGE OF PREJUDICE MADE River Men Declare They Are Allowed to Sell Polluted Bivalves After Paying Fines. ^f???? ? Aroused by the harm they claim has been done to the oyster industry of Maryland and Virginia by the report recently promulgated by the bureau of chemistry, which charged that the sewage of Washington and towns along the Potomac was polluting the oyster beds of the two states, representatives of Maryland and Virginia met in conference today at the Willard Hotel and formulated plans to demand of the Secretary of Agriculture a hearing on and further tests of the oysters taken from the Potomac river beds. Maryland's representatives at the conference today further charge that prejudice has l?een shown against Maryland and Virginia oysters in the bureau of chemistry's report, and that notwithstanding the fact that Maryland oysters captains who bring oysters to the Washington market are fined for having polluted oysters in tlielr possession, no real attempt Is made by the government to prevent these oysters from being placed on the market. The Maryland men declare that there have been a number of cases wherein oyster captains paid their tines and then sold their cargoes, and that these captains understand that the easiest way out of any charge of having polluted oysters in their possession is to pay the fine asked of them, dispose of their oysters and go back for another cargo. Want State Bacteriologists. A sentiment against having a bacteriological expert of the bureau of chemistry participate in today's conference developed as soon as the Maryland and Virginia men got together. Representative Thomas Parran of the fifth Maryland district, had been asked by the Governor of Maryland to be present at today's conference, and to ask the bureau of chemistry to detail a bacteriologist from the federal bureau to be present, which he did. but the Maryland and Virginia men decided that they would prefer to have any further oyster tests made by their own state bacteriologists. The meeting today was called by Gov. Mann of Virginia, and Gov. Goldsborough of Maryland, who designated various nsn and oyster commission officials of the two states to participate. Gov. Mann was aroused by the recent chemistry bureau report which declared that Potomac river oysters were unhealthy and should l>e avoided as food, and after conference with Gov. Goldsborough of Maryland lie instructed McDonnell Lee. chairman of the board of fisheries of Virginia, and William D. Saunders, the dairy and food commissioner of Virginia, to represent the state at the meeting. Maryland was represented by a number of officials concerned with the oyster business of the state, as well as individuals, led by the attorney general of the state. Edgar Allen Hoe, Representative Thomas Parran, Shell Fish Commissioners Revel 1. Graves and Maltby, Oyster Police Fleet Commander T. C- B. Howard. Deputy Commander E. J. Plowden. State Senator Wilkerson. State Senator Lancaster. Dr. Walter B Dent of St. Marys county, Enoch B. Abell of St. Marys county and Charles C. Lancaster of Washington. Bring Oysters Here for Tests. The Maryland men brought to Washington for test oysters from the so-called t infected districts, namely, the Blakistone Islandn bar, the Cobbs Point bar, the swan f-oini rar ana tne Lancaster oar in the Wicomico river. These oysters were taken by Commander Howard in deep water along the river and from the shallow water at Blakistone's lslnd. and Commander Howard pointed out that if there were any germs or microbes coming down the river, as the bureau of chemis- ? try claims, they would appear in the tests of these oysters, and, he told his fe.low-conferees, tiiat fact would also be evidenced by ten dead men in the crew of his vessel, the Gov. Philip F. Tiiomas, all of whom had been partaking of these oysters for some time. The Maryland and Virginia men are of the opinion that the national government or the District should do something toward providing a sewage filtration plant for the city of Washington, such as Baltimore is about to establish, to forever do away with the question of what effect the sewage of Washington is having on the oysters of the Potomac. Dr. Dent, who has been a practicing physician in St. Marys county. Md., and the surrounding section for twenty-three years, told the conference that he and his fellow practitioners in St. Marys county regarded the oysters criticised by the bureau of chemistry as being perfectly safe. No Typhoid in County. He said that there has been absolutely no typhoid in St. Marys county in the past quarter of a century, and very little in Charles county, notwithstanding the fact that people in that section have been eating the suspected oysters for years. Dr. Dent said that the testimony of Dr. Greenwell, the present health officer of the county, and of Dr. Lynch, the former health officer of the county, also would be to this effect. He claims that there have been 110 epidemics of intestinal dis?3ii0e in the rtvKler-ex tine counties for twenty-three years, and that he rarely sees or hears of the bacillus colli, of which eaters of oysters from the Potomac- are warned by the bureau of chemistry. Representatives of the oyster packers of the south Atlantic and gulf states will meet In conference at the Raleigh Hotel tomorrow at noon, upon the Invitation of a number of Baltimore packers and representatives of can manufacturing concerns. At tlds conference,, which will be attended by about tweftty-flve members of the packing and can manufacturing industry. questions of general interest to the oyster trade will be discussed, including the recent report of the bureau I nf the Agricultural Deoart UI VI1C?*IIO?* / " ? o - ment that there has been pollution among oysters in the Potomac river. AGREEMENT REACHED. Joint Scale Committee Adopts Terms for Montana Mining. GREAT FALI<S, Mont., September 30. ?The joint scale committee of the committee of the coal mine owners and miners of district No. 13, United Mine Workers of America, which haa been in session here for about a month, considering a wage scale for the next two years, has arrived at an agreement. This agreement will be submitted to a referendum vote of the msniheiB of the union. I Members of the obmmlttee oajr the agreement provides for a wage increase of from 15 to 75 cents a day, -