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Wat Uteftmgf Brit tme Last Edition Fair Tonight 'and Tuesday; Cooler. , NUMBER 7448. Yesterday's Circulation, 48,345 WASHINGTON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1912 Fourteen Pages PKIOE ONE CENT. WOMEN TO VOTE EDITORIAL s Two Principals in Dual Romance INSPECTORS I. WHAT LIQUOR LEGISLATION THE DISTRICT NEEDS, AND WHY. For nearly two weeks The Times has been pub lishing in its columns the NEWS about the proposed excise law, and the opinions of liquor men and temperance advocates as to the conditions attending the sale of liquor in Washington. We believe these articles and those which are to follow, for the NEWS has not yet all been told, have been and will be in teresting to both factions and to the public in general. The NEWS has developed opinions. It has developed opinions among the liquor interests, among the temperance advocates, and with the peo ple. Among the unprejudiced and unbiased, among those interested solely in the good of the city and uninfluenced by either commercial interests or ex treme reform ideas, the NEWS has established these THAT THERE ARE TOO MANY SALOONS IN WASHINGTON FOR THE GOOD OF THE CITY OR THE WEL FARE OF THAT PART OF THE PEO PLE WHO DRINK. THAT A CERTAIN CLASS OF SA LOONS AND A CERTAIN CLASS OF HOTELS ABUSE THE PRIVILEGES GRANTED THEM IN A WAY DETRI MENTAL TO PUBLIC MORALS AND IN SOME CASES CONTRARY TO PUB LIC DECENCY. THAT THE LAW AS IT NOW STANDS MAKES IT DIFFICULT IN SOME CASES AND IMPOSSIBLE IN OTHER CASES TO CORRECT THESE ABUSES. THAT THE PROPOSED NEW LAW, THE JONES-WORKS BILL, SHOULD BE AMENDED TO ADD SOME PROVIS IONS WHICH IT DOES NOT NOW CON TAIN AND WHICH ARE NECESSARY FOR THE PROPER REGULATION OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND TO ELIMI NATE SOME' PROVISIONS WHICH IT DOES NOW CONTAIN WHICH ARE UNFAIR TO THOSE WHO BEING IN THE LIQUOR BUSINESS WISH TO CONDUCT THEMSELVES AND .THEIR PLACES IN A DECENT WAY. To consider these facts in order. With a popu lation of 331,000 Washington has at the present time 513 licensed places. This is more saloons than the city needs, more than can stay within the provis ions of a reasonable law and be profitable. Wash ington is not a manufacturing city and as compared with manufacturing cities its population is not so largely a drinking class. And yet there are very few manufacturing cities which allow the number of saloons to exceed the proportion of one to each 1,000 of population. If this proportion was legally established here we would have instead of 513 saloons 331, and whatever arguments may be made against the reduction there is no one who would contend that the demands of the liquor drinking population of Washington could not be comfortably and promptly served in the lesser number of saloons. Now what are the results of the licensing of the greater number? In order to make a profit, in order to keep going, the less pretentious and less pros perous of the saloons have to add private dining rooms where men and women may resort; they have to sell liquor to undesirable customers, to intoxicated persons and to boys under age, to women and to the growler customers. No reputable liquor dealer wants to do any of these things, and if there were fewer saloons, and each of the fewer made to live up to a proper law none of them would have to do them to make a reasonable profit. So much for the reduction of the number from the liquor dealers' side. Now let us see what this reduction would mean to the city and its business. Not many classes of merchants desire to locate next to a saloon or in a block where saloons occupy the majority of the rentable space. What then re sults? Either property must remain vacant or be rented to the less desirable tenants in the less de sirable lines of business. Rentals are lower, the ter ritory overrun with saloon lessens in value instead of increasing and the landlord loses accordingly. What effect does it have on business in general? It is one of the axioms of business that a man can not spend what he hasn't. If he is out of work and so without income he cannot buy. What he spends for liquor he cannot turn into the till of the butcher or the cash register of the grocer. He cannot buy boots and booze with the same money. It is, un doubtedly, true that 90 per cent of the money spent in saloons is spent by men without reserve funds who could spend that same money to better advan tage in the stores of the city. Is it not plain, there fore, that economically a lesser number of saloons, a fewer opportunities for the drinking man would be advantageous to those who as property holders and merchants are commercially interested in the liquor question? The second fact concerns those license holders who intentionally and persistently break the laws. It is the testimony of the present excise board that a large majority of the saloons are conducted within the provisions of the law, The liquor interests have contended in their statements to The Times that the old law is all right, ,but that the excise board is inefficient in its enforcement. A careful study of the facts, facts brought out in courts of law and under oath, docs not seem to support the liquor dealers. And particularly this contention is not supported in the regulation of certain classes of hotels in Washington. Whatever the liquor dealers' association has done to clean up the saloons they have either not tried or else trying have not suc ceeded in cleaning up the hotels. IT IS PROBABLY TRUE THAT THERE IS NOT IN ANY CITY IN THE COUNTRY A MORE THREATENING SOURCE OF EVIL THAN A CERTAIN CLASS OF HOTELS IN WASHINGTON. What could be a more efficient emissary of the devil than a repu table hotel which renders its rooms attractive with decorations and lights, with visible allurements and attractions, and then allows it to be understood that the purchase of food there means THAT LIQUOR WILL BE SERVED WITHOUT QUESTION TO MINORS AND THEIR COMPANIONS? It isn't that the evil stops with the drinking of the liquors; it is what is likely to follow in ruined girls ana de bauched boys. And yet if that hotel's proprietor was haled into court his lawyer would contend that his client had the required number of rooms, and must be allowed to sell liquor, and the judge would de clare "So sayeth the law." The EXCISE BOARD OUGHT NOT TO HAVE TO CON VICT A HOTEL KEEPER IF HIS HOUSE BEARS A DISREPUTABLE NAME. ITS GENERAL REP UTATION BEING BAD IT OUGHT TO BE PUT OUT OF BUSINESS. There are a score of these places open every night which ought to be closed up today and their proprietors barred from ever owning or operating under a license in this city, and the new law should give the widest sort of latitude to the excise board to put this class of institutions with their palms and their bright lights and their air of semi-respectability totally out of business no matter how many rooms they have. To be fair to both sides, to give due weight to the rights the liquor dealers purchase when they give money for a license The Times is in honor bound to say that it believes that there are provis ions. in the Jones.-Works bilLwhfch are Unfair to the liquor interests and to which they have a right to make strenuous objectiojl. The acceptance of the liquor dealer's money oi aht to be a guarantee under the law that he is to be given what he pays for, and allowed within the law to conduct his business with out molestation or threat of loss. If there are to be no jokers for the public there should be no jokers for the man who buys the license. The liquor dealers rightly complain against the provis ion which says that no liquor shall be sold within 500 feet of a "PLACE" of worship. The old law said a "HOUSE" of worship, meaning thereby a AT PRIMARIES IN CALIFORNIA Showing Much Interest in Election to Be Held Tomorrow. LA FOLLETTE'S WIFE STUMPED STATE Senator Has Gradually Been Losing Ground and Roosevelt Forces Gain. By JUDSON C. WELLIVER. California's Presidential preference primary will ho hold tomorrow. Each party will elect twenty-six delegates to its national convention, and on tho ovo of the contest the Roosevelt Republicans are absolutely confident of sweoping tho State, whllo the Wll Bon and Clark Democrats both claim tho advantage. The California primary will be tho last one in tho country under a rogular Presidential preference law, except only Now- Jersey, which comes on May 28. Thus far Toft has carried no State in which the people got a chanco to vote their Presi dential preferences. His best showing was In Massa chusetts, where ho carried a min ority of the delegation, but where Roosevelt handed back to him eight delegates who bad been elected under Roosevelt pledges. Women Are Interested. A peculiar Interest attaches to tho California situation because tho women there will vote, under the suffrage amendment to the State constitution adopted last' autumn. Senator La Pot lettn ban been for years an avowed wo man suffragist, and has made the most of the fact In the lively campaign he has put up In the State. Mrs. La Follette has also been speaking In her husband's Interest, and all reports agree that tho women are taking a keen interest In tho contest. There was a tlmo when La Follette loomed Important, but his managers mado the mistake of claiming too much strength elsewhere, notably In Minneso ta. The result Is that his very poor snowing in that State has broken down the confidence of his California friends. and the progressives are going over In a ooay to Roosevelt. Governor Jnhnunn II n a rn mtn I rri a.1 . TA t. ... .. u..u a di ac r ....u: - u """ -"''"" oooevcn wiui me milium, n i utwi-. ui wuiauiu iiicuua iiu auv.n greatest vleor. nnvrrimr th. co. thing and under the wording of the pro posed law a saloon no matter how well con ducted would be in continual danger of being de clared illegal. The conducting of Salvation Army services within a radius of 500 feet would be estab lishing a "PLACE" of worship, and would put the license in jeopardy. The Times does not agree with the clause which provides that the chief of police shall have what is practically a veto power in the granting of licenses. If an excise board is so constituted that it will not give ear to and heed the advice of the head of the Police Department when he says that an applicant should not receive a license then the board should be changed instead of attempting to rectify the sit uation by putting the matter of granting licenses in the hands of one man who it might well happen would be more unwilling to listen to advice than three men. There should be provision in the bill for the re duction in the number of saloons at a rate, and in a manner which will admit of the adjustment of business to fit the new conditions. No law should visit unusual and cruel punishment. The law-abiding liquor dealer who under the demand for fewer saloons may be forced out of this particular line of business should be given time to do so with tht least possible loss. THE NEW LAW WHILE FOR THE GOOD OF THE PUBLIC NEED NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE MORE THAN A NECESSARY HARDSHIP TO THE MAN WHO HAS COM PLIED WITH THE OLD LAW. The property holder of the premises should be given opportunity to seek a new tenant and a reasonable time to estab lish a continuance of income. The people are to benefit, and they can afford 4o be fair. Other faults in the bill may develop. If they do they will be taken up in due time. The Times is for the right. It believes a new liquor law is needed. It believes that Congress is going to give like consideration to the rights of the people, and the rights of the liquor dealers. The Senate has passed the Jones-Works bll, and it furnishes a sufficient basis upon which to work out a law just in its provisions and capable of being efficiently enforced. If the liquor interests are wise as their fellows in other States have been wise they will WITHOUT ATTEMPTING DELAY OR POSTPONEMENT join in both the formulating of a good law and the living up to it when it has been passed. al most as completely as he did two years ago, when as candidate for governor he toured in an automobllo and spoke In uiinoBi every city, town and hamlet. California In Line. Reports Indicate that Roosevelt will make the same sort of sweep In Cali fornia that he did In Illinois and Penn sylvania. He Is expected to poll a larger vote than the combined Taft and La Follette strength, and to carry every Congressional district and tho delegates-at-large. After California Interest will center exclusively n Ohio until a week from today, when the primaries will be held. The probability of a complete Roosevelt sweep of the State is becoming more and more generally accepted by all classes of politicians, and even the Taft peoplo admit that they cannot hope for a majority of tho forty-eight dele gates. The Roosevelt leaders are con fident of thlrty-slx, or Just two-thlrds; they hope to carry the State with such a sweep as to leave Taft nothing what ever. One of the Interesting situations Is In the First Congressional District, rep resented by Congresman Long-worth, son-in-law of Colonal Roosevelt. There is persistent report that "Nick" is liable to lose his renomlnatlon. .Mingo Saunders, colored, late first ser geant of Company A. Twenty-fifth In fantry, left at 6:45 last night for Ohio, where he will be Exhibit A In the case of Taft vs. Roosevelt, anent Browns ville. Mingo will be used to Illustrate a Bpeech that Congressman Rodenberg of St. Loula Is to make especially to col ored voters. In the final appeal to line them up for Taft on the ground of Roosevelt's alleged Insult to the race when he discharged- the Brownsville troops, following the shooting up of that town. Granted Special Leave. Mingo Saunders had been in the army about thirty years, and has been held up as the model colored soldier. During the Presidential campaign four years (Continued on Second Page.) fclpSRCj j MISS RUTH C. FIELD. S WASHINGTON GIRLS P;:: jgfl CROSS CONTINENT iMIiM TO 10 OFFICERS m$wfafimm&mtt - -r. i v t25.s:t.J.s.3?:r. &? trxr iiw& "xsiaorvK "? f.-t if.tS" -4'PZMm r"i f.i -.. j-ii . ' ' ij..,4fitriisi . M ARTHUR MIDDLETON. linn ijw.niiiiiii in lit I UK HI IKS HANDS TIED, SAYS WITNESS J. W. Burroughs Declares Packers Are Protected in Violations. FEDERAL APPROVAL' ON IMPURE WATER Committee Hears Revolting De scription of Philadelphia Meat Houses. Double Romance Hurried by Developments in Mexi can Affairs. nul I ARCHBALD Judg e, Not Forced to Testify. WEATHER REPORT. FORECAST FOR THE DISTRICT. Fair, much cooler tonight; Tuesday fair and cbol. TEMPERATURES. V. S. BUREAU. I AFFLECK'S. B a. m 67 I 8 a. m...., 72 9 a. m S3 I 9 a. m 73 10 a. m 64 I 10 a. m 73 11 a. in 64 I U a. m 73 12 noon C3 1 12 noon 74 1 p. m BS I 1 p. m 74 2 p. m 62 I 2 p. m... 74 TIDE TABLE. Today High tide. 4:53 a. m. and 5:30 p. m-; low tide, 11:42 a. m, and 11:50 p. m. Tomorrow High tide, 5:44 a. m. and 6:17 p. m,: low tlde 12:19 a. m. SUN TABLE. Sun riae 4;iS Sua ets 7:01 Concluding chapters In a double ro mance which had Its Inception in this city will be started early Saturday morning, when Miss Olive India Lewis and Miss Ruth Field, two "Washington girls, will leave on the long Journey across continent to San Diego, Cal., where, on Saturday, May 25, they will becomo the brides of naval officers con nected with the U. 8. S. Yorktown at that port, The brldegrooms-to-be are Paymaster Arthur Mlddleton and Ensign Edward Guthile. Miss Olive Lewis will become Willinm; Fnrmpr Purfrnpr nf ! Mrs- Mlddleton, while Miss Field, who wiiiiams, rormer ranner 01 . , tne daugnter of Mr. and Mrs Walter S. Field, of 1934 Calvert street north west, will change her name to Mm. Guthrie. On their long Journey which will cul minate the dual romance the two brides-to-be will be chaperoned by Mr. H. W. Marshall, of 123 Adams street north west. Until last week both young women had been planning to be married In this city, but recent events In Mexico caused the Navy Department to Issue orders that prevented the two naval officers from leaving their post on the Paclllc and, rather than await tho compllca- 1 tlons that might necessitate tholr ser vices In Pacific waters for an Indefinite time, the two young women determined to overcome all obstacles and delays and make the Journey Westward. It has only been within the past few wdeks that the two young women have known each other. They were brought together through letters of Introduction from their fiances. Elaborate plans for a military wed ding had been made by the parents of Miss Lewis, but these were abandoned whea It became known that Paymaster Mlddleton would not be able to make the trip to Washington. Immediately following the perform ance of the wedding ceremony it Is the Intention of both couples to go to housekeeping. In San Diego, where both the bridegrooms have already furnished apartments. Hy calling A. S. Cockrell, clerk to Interstate Commerce Commissioner Meyer, the House Judiciary Committee investigating charges against Judt,o Archbald. of the United States Com merce Court, today spread on Its rec ord a memorandum made by Cockrell detailing the story that W. P. Bolanrt told to Mr. Meyer In February and which Induced Mr. Meyer to lay the matter before the Department of Jus tice. Mr. Cockrell denied that In telling his story to Mr. Wlckcrsham, E. J. Williams apeared excited or that mere was any coercion on the part of Boland In secur ing the presence of Williams before Mr. Wlckersham. Cockrell said that Wil liams did not question the dates on affidavits which were shown to Mr. Wlckersham and are now a part of the record In the case. This Is considered Important as throwing light on alleged Inconsistencies In William's testimony before the committee. J. Ii. Rltenhouse, a civil and mining engineer from Scranton, who was em ployed by W. R. Brown of the De partment of Justice to make a survey of the Katydid culm bunk., testified he made the survey without knowing that he was employed in the Interest of tho Government and ho knew noth ing about the Archbald charges. He said there were 46,704 tons of coal with a value of about $47,000 to $61,000. The Erie railroad would have made about $35,000 profit In "working" the dump, he said It would have been merely a "fuel proposition" to the Laurel electric line, but not a mer chantable proposition. If this coal were transpprted to tidewater, the Kile would have stood to profit by about $72,000, of which $37,500 would represent profit on transportation. Rlttenhouse said the culm bank was owned Jointly by the Hillside Coal Com pany and the Everhart estate, but he did not believe John M. Robertson had any legal equity In It. Mr. Webb then asked Mr. Rlttenhouse If the value of tho culm banks In the anthracite region was not increasing very rapidly. The witness said that was true, and especially when they passed into ownership of the coal roads. Rlttenhouse said he heard tho Erie engineers had surveyed the Katydid bank and estimated It contained 55,000 tons of coal. He had this Information before he made the survey for W. R. Brown. , Shoots Convict. NEW ROADS, La., May 13 A con vict laborer who was pressed Into service with other convicts to help strengthen the Mississippi levee at Mor ganza, was shot by his guard while trying to escape, according to a tele phone messago received by the chief of iiollce here today A second convict Iwho tried to escape was captured. RAILROAD MAN WINS IN SUPREME COURT That polluted water from the Poto mac river with the "O. K." of the Department of Agriculture, was UBed In the packing establishment of Swift & Co., at Cumberland, Md., was one of the startling charges mado today before the House Com mittee considering tho Nelson reso lution to Investigate the meat Inspec tion service. J. W. Burroughs, a former meat In spector, who left the service In March last, was on the wltnesB stand. HIb testimony was replete with the recital of instances wherein the of ficials of the department are charged with having permitted violations of law. UnBanltary conditions In pack ing houses, rotten meat, floor cov ered with clotted blood, and Anally polluted water that received a verdict of "pure" at the hands of the de-' partment were some of the allega tions made by the former Inspector. Water Is "Passed." Burroughs testified that during a ty phoid fever epidemic In Cumberland in. August. 1910, he became auspicious of the water supply and sjmt a sample of water to Dr. A. D. Melvtn, of the bureau of animal industry. Dr. Melvln, the witness testified, wrote him, saying that the sample had been examined and found "free of pollution." He was In structed that it was within his power to stop the use of the water In packing houses if he found it to be comtam lnated. While tho department found the water pure". Burroughs charged, it was pro nounced Impure by the Maryland State Board of Health, and the city health of flcei at Cumberland called It "rotten." Mt. Burroughs said he was ablo to produce the conflicting analyses. After Dr. Melvln had informed him that the Potomac water had been found pure, Cuirouglii) said it was used for ticking bcof at the packing establish ment. The citv ot Cumberland, the wltnesa nd.led. has ullife spent $509,WO to bet ic Its water conditions. Proceeding to a lesctipUon of naok-lnw-house conditions at Philadelphia, where he was t-tatlone.l before going to CiJinb'rland. Fonncr Inspector Bur ioiikIw d'-cliircj that fondltlons in Phlladelplja. during his slay there, vcre "simply awful." Inspectors Not Experts. Referring to his work at Philadelphia, which extended over the period from September, 1906, to September, 1908, Mr. Burroughs bald that he was especially Impressed with the fact that many car casses were passed by Inspectors who! were not veterinarians and that soma of these carcasses were. diseased and de manded the close scrutiny of some one) with a technical knowledge of animal dlseascb. " Veterinarlansrarely Inspect the small er animals, Mich as sheep. Iambs, and! calves until the viscera and the glands have been icmoved by Inspectors without veterinary experience," said Mr. Bur roughs. "The veterinarian looks overt the carcass after It has been marked, 'passed' nnd after a man without technical knowledge or diseases has cut away the glands and destroyed tho vis cera. What can a veterinarian tell then as to the extent of disease?" "What's the Use?" Burroughs told of one Instance whera he as an Inspector had condemned ten' carcasses in a Philadelphia establish ment which were Intended for sausage. The carcasses ho said were black and; emitted a stench that was "awful." He declared, however, that the establish ment called up Dr. Schaufler, inspector In charge, and that he was overruled and the carcasses finally passed. Dr. Clements who was with him. Burroughs said, threw up his hands and said: "What's the use?" In the course of his testimony he told of cases in which that part of the law wiiicn saya tne uovernment oinciais (Continued on Seventh Page.) Verdict of $7,500 For Personal In juries Is Affirmed In Decision. An Important Supreme Court decision affecting thousands of railroad em ployes who are members of railroad "relief associations," was that today affirming the $7,600 Judgment Theodore A Schubert, of Washington, Becured against the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad, for personal in juries. The railroad contended that Schu bert's agreement, signed upon Joining the "relief association." not to file any claim for damages, barred him from re covering. The Supreme Court today denied that contention Such special contracts between railroads and em ployes are invalid, the court declared, under the employers' liability act. 1 IN CONGRESS TODAY SENATE. Senate met at noon. Judiciary Committee takes stand In favor of six-year term for President, and making that official ineligible to re-election. Agricultural appropriation bill Is takon up. Resolution by Brlstow passed calling for papers In case of postal employe, Charles 11. Quackenbush. HOUSE The Honse met at noon. Tho conference report on the bill for1 direct election of Senators was called up. District legislation was sidetracked by the conference report, but may be conJ aldered late today The Judiciary Committee continued lt inquiry Into the Archbald case. The Moss committee continued Its har tng on the meat inspection charges. The Interstate Commerce Committee' held a hearing 011 the Dent bill to investigate the avnIUbllltj of the An' drew safety appliance lor railrocvdi.