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. r -a,.-1 --- V'' " vH T ""? ' f YV N. Y. WORLD EXPOSES PLOT AGAINST MUNSEY TRUST CO. Che Itehmgf an Wmt WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight and Tuesday. (Full Report on Page Two.) LAST AND Home Edition ISTOIBER 8022. Yesterday's Circulation, 44,000 WASHTtfGTOI, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1913. Sixteen Pages PRICE ONE CENT. - ... J WILSON'S PUN MEANS GREAT, TO MOTH His Scheme Would Reduce Dem ocratic 'Delegates of Eleven Southern States to From One-Fourth to One-Seventh. Republicans, Wielding One Quarterof Convention Votes, Would Have About One Fifteenth of Members. B7 JUDS0N C. WELLIVER. Southern public men are wonder ing what will be the effect on the South of .passing a national Prcs' dentlal primary law. There is a feel ing that it might easily result in grave injury to the power and pres tige of that section, and in the con sideration of any legislation the South will be very sure to scruti nize all provisions with the object of preventing such a result. The Presidenl's plan," as outlined, in his me3S8ge. tae given especial concern' to tho South, for it.sug-. seeb an entirely new basis of dis tributing the nominating power. The South would bo swamped in a popu lar primary vote. It casts a very light vote, partly because" of the dis franchisement of. the colored race, partly because, there being only ona real party In that section, there is commonly little to induce great in terest in voting. Comparison Startling. Just what would happen to the power and nrestlce of the South may be garn ered from a 3howlng of the votes of the eleven States of the "Old South," a compared to New York. Going back to 19CS, a normal year, for purposes of comparison, we find that the eleven States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida. Georgia. Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina. North Carolina. Tennessee. Texas, and Virginia cast a total of 1.5SS.7S2 votes for alt candidates for President. "With those votes they were entitled to 240 delegates in the national convention of either political party. In that same veah New York Stat alone cast 1.63S.S50 votes for all candi dates lor President: that is. New York clone cast 50,000 more votes than tne eleven States of the Southern group. Yet New York in that year had only event -eight delegates In the nominat ing convention of each party. The President recommends doing away entirely with the nominating con Acntion. He would give each State power in proportion to the votes it ac "jallv cast: no raor;. In actual work ng. "tne plan would reduce the South t political Insignificance as eomparei to the potent station it has held hereto fore. Will Be Opposition. How will the South view such a pro posal? There Is evidence already ac , ,i ... . ,. . .1,1 ... . ., cumulating that it will oppose to the. .. .- ,.. .i.. ..,. I last extreme ar effort to force the pro-l I gram into law. Today the eleven States cf the group that seceded from tho T'nlon. possess Just about one-fourth of the voting power in a national conven tion. Bur what proportion would they possess if thej were confined to their ratio of votes actually cast? Going back to the vote of 1S0S ence more for comparisons, because it pro vides a better basis than 1S12, this is what we And The eleven Southern States, now ex ercising approximately one-fourth of the power in a nominating convention of the Democratic party, would be re duced to a little over one-Beventeenth. Those same States, exercising ap proximately one-fourth of the power In a Republican convention, would be re duced to Just about one-fifteenth' That Is what their actual voting strength In 1908 would entitle them to Halm1 claim Small wonder that Southern publicists an excited about the President's pro posals. There are muterlngs about a Southern President betraying the South, and then again there are intimations that the President must have proposed his primary scheme without ev(r stop ping to think out what its actual work-, ing results would be. This hypothesis; has a good many supporters but tho President's excellent record for looking before leaping decidedly weakens the presumption that It is correct. Will Not Consent. If he presented his plan with full np preciatlon of the political significance that would attach to It. then Indeed did he perform a most courageous act. It is needless to say that the majority (Continued on Fifth Page.) Dance Tonight. Arcade Auditorium, Tonight Tango Party. Dancing Taught. Phone, CoL 3?95. Not Public. AdvU LOSS OF POWER DIED TODAY IN KENTUCKY HOME E&02C& srsss&r.' jSsrfSS. T-.".J-". -t .MivJ'r, f.S a" ts. ai v -&Vi.-Vy SI V -jr jfc- r . . . r r: ; -.'.wrrt?. .-:. -s. ffMrlJ'fjg&&s fv ,,jr VfcsrVs MRS. JAMES CAMPBELL CANTRILL. . J. C. CANTRILL Wife of Congressman Succumbs to Tuberculosis, After Illness of Six Months. Mrs. James Campbell Cantrill, wife of Congressman Cantrill. of tho Seventh Kentucky district, died at her home In Georgetown, Ky., this morning, after an illness of six months. Tuberculosis was the cause. The members of the Kentucky delegation In Congress will meet today to arrange to be represent ed at the funeral, the date of which has not been set. Mrs. Cantrill spent the last five wln- ters in Washington, and was prominent socially. .Last April she developed tuberculosis and was taKen to Asnevine, i N. C. for the summer. No improve ment in her condition was shown, how ever, and her decline was rapid after her return to Kentucky a few weeks " ....... ., - ' ioljliiuihi i i i ii i ir -- sri EsM;lH-SBHfcv;W?SJ - i---sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH .HiiiiiiiiiBiliBr. " S? feAS rUgMV. a Aj Biiiiiiiiiiiw i L. f NsB t saw 3Ssl mimum L msn J . . MM M DEAD N KENTUCKY Congressman uantnu ana tneir oniyiiy uiuwcu iu tuain,o um j..c...i. ".. illd. James Edward Cantrill, a student of District government. When Con- chllrt. at the Staunton, Va., military academy, uere at the bedside wnen aeatn came. WIFE WILL DECIDE President Returning to His Deck After Several Days With Bad Cold. President Wilson gave the last evi dence today of a well-trained husband, when he told callers that the place where he spends his Christmas vacation if he " ... . , .. . . . gets a vacation will be decided by the . "main (iiiiba" T,nnlTir. nf rnnp,. Mr main house," meaning, of course, Mrs, Wilson and her daughters. The President was back at his desk this morning with an accumulation of work before him. Excf-pt for a nasty cough which constantly interrupted his usual flowing speech, he showed no seri ous signs of his recent Illness, although he seemed to tire easily. The fact that the Senate promises to get the currency bill out of the way and ready for tho conference committee before the holl- days, nleases the President greatly, and he hones for that reason to be able to get away. He offered n oobjectlons this WILSON'S VACATION morning to the idea of a recess after the The case dates back to 190S. when Senate has passed the hill, feeling np- stockholders of the building association parently. that the points of difference be-, brought suit to wind up the uffairs of tween the Glass and the Owen or the the Institution. The safe then was fore House and Senate features of the leg-1 ed open and it was found that tho islatlon are not as serious as m cause an extended discussion by the conference i committee. I Bwauc of the cough, the President did not dare to attend the funeral this af ternoon of Colonel Galllard. Dr Gray son Insisted that he should remain in doors. IN CONGRESS TODAY. SENATE. i Met at 10 o'clock. I Senator Swanson opens real debate on the currency bill : Alaska ranroaa mu uiuen up at z o clock Senator Cummin gets resolution adopt ed with reference to importations of foreign beef. J Iet n0on. HOUSE. Considered GarJnr ImmiMntlon resolu tion, later disro wired to ne not priv ileged. Mr. Viderwood announced seeral com mittee assignments. Congrrrsman Edwards Introduced reso lution to Invite foreign nations to par ticipate in uext drainage cocgTCSi. MANIZET ME CRISIS IN DISTRICT RULE Foreseeing Change of Present System By Congress, Lead ers Decide to Stand For Plan of Equal Rights. Hold Municipal Suffrage Right of Residents, As Well As the Right To Be Heard on Plan of Future Government. Forty citizens of Washington, u- 1 eluding business men, representa tives of organized labor, professional men and women, and well-known writers and publicists, have pledged their support to a new movement for the restoration of popular govern ment in tho District of Columbia. The first meeting of the Citizens Committee of Forty will be held at the Public Library on Wednesday evening. This committee has no con nection with the "Home Rule Com mittee," which is contesting the ap pointment of Commissioner Newman. The members of the new organiza tion believe' that District affairs nra approaching a crisis in Congress. They oelleva that a nou-partleaa or- ganlzatlon, standing for genuino and complete democracy, and represent- lng all classes and interests in the community, is needed to meet this emergency, and that Congress will , give heed to its recommendations. The preliminary statement reads as follows: Delegate Proposition Secondary. "We havo conferred with some of the most prominent and representative citi zens of Washington regarding this new move tor jwpular government. With wnHn. It hnH been received - - --- Wltn entnusiasm. it is generally leu that the "1-t-alone policy" no longer meets the needs of the situation, in view of the fact that Congress is strong- .. 1 I!-.... . !..... .,. , frn (Continued on Fifth Page.) iJ. BARTON MILLER United States Supreme Court Refuses to Review Case of Embezzler. John Barton Miller, three times con victed of embezzling funds of the First Co-operative Building Association of which he was nccretary-treasurer. muht serve his twenty-year prison sentence, as today the United States Supreme Court refused to review the case. As a last step In a tight of three ears to escape the penitentiary walls. Miller appealed to the high court for a writ of certiorari. The court's refusal to grant the writ ends the light, and only the necessary preliminaries are to be attended to before Miller begins his long term. Solicitor General Davis appeared for the United States in successfully re- bisting this petition books were missing. Miller refused to produce the books, and later was In dicted on the charge of destrojlng the records of the institution Indictments also were found against him on grounds of cmbezlement. The total embezzlement alleged In the thirty-four counts of the Indictments first returned was $134,000, but this sum was reduced when he was placed on trial. "American Man Just a Big Baby' Says Gaby ST. LOUIS, Dec. 8. Gaby Deslys said today that if she mvrlip she will marr nn American, "because they are noth ing but big babies. The Englishman is too serious, and the Frenchman ou can never trust. Then. In tne name Dreim. sna added' "You can never know when to believe an American man. They are so im puIMve. They are your friend In five minutes, and then forget you r'ght away." MUST SERVE TERM New York Bank Back of Tribune Fight on Munsey Trust Co., Says New York World The following story is reprinted from the New York World of this morning. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. The fight which the National City Bank of New York has been waging on the treasury Department and the Administration since President Wilson entered the White House, on March 4, reached a climax today, when Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo served notice on Milton E. Ailes, the Washington representa tive of the Wall Street bankers, that he and his employers must change their tactics in some respects or there will be an accounting. The immediate cause of the situation arose from the culmina tion of the skirmish between the local financial interests which re sulted in the absorptions of the United StatesTrust Company by the Munsey Trust Company last week. But a long series of circumstances which have been occuring with remarkable regularity since last March is behind the situation. The Administration has had circumstantial evidence tending to support the belief that the National City Bank has inspired much of the criticism against the Treasury Department, for the purpose of dis crediting its activities. The reasons given for the attitude of the New Yorkers have been two-fold, first, a well-defined determination to defeat the passage of the banking and currency bill, and secondly resentment at having had an end, put to the preferential treatment which it has received at the Treasufy.Department during the last six- e x Just as coon as Mr. McAduo canrjtc Washington woman whoirr e National City Jiada installed inj-the Treasury Department to get advance information on- the conditions of banks and other matters of- interest to the big wall Street group, was removed. Immediately the Secretary and Assistant Secretary, John Skelton Williams, were criti- cised severely by the agents of the From that time on Washington has been filled with rumors that were unfriendly to Secretary McAdoo and Mr. Williams. It is alleg ed that many of these rumors have been traced to the doors of the Riggs Bank or the American Security Trust Company, one of the local affiliates. Several years ag Eldridge E. Jordan, a young Texan, scarcely out of the twenties, injected himself into the local financial situation much to the discomfort f the older group of bankers who follow the lead of the Riggs Naional. Gradually Jordan made inroads into the local business. He merged half a dozen institutions into the United States Trust Company and he advertised widely high rates of interest and superior accommodations. An entente cordial was established between virtually all the other banks in the city with the exception of the United States Trust Com pany and a few small institutions which stood together. Ugly rumors crystallized into direct statements that the Glover-Ailes-Stellwagen-Bell-Norment group proposed to "get" the Jordan crowd. For several months rumors '''ere whispered about Washington with remarkable frequency that the United States Trust Company and its 65,000 depositors, mostly poor people, would go broke when the run started. In the meantime the United States Company had been mak ing money loans on a rising real estate market. When the compara tive money stringency arose the rumors about the company increased greatly. Friends of Jordan insist that he realized he would be put out of business sooner or later and he offered to sell out. One of the older group Clarence Norment was offered the stock of the United States Company, and he was given an oppor tunity to examine the conditions of the bank. He could not agree to terms with the majority owners. Immediately thereafter money became scarce, loans were called on the United States Company's stock. A bank examiner was called in, and he announced that the stock had been impaired. A midnight meeting of the local Clearing House Association was called, and Sec retary McAdoo was asked for help at 2 a. ra. He responded that he would place with the local national banks enough money to save the situation and protect the depositors in the event that some plan could be worked out whereby the concern could be liquidated. The local Clearing House Association refused to take a hand or to guarantee the depositors. While the negotiations were under way the loans were called on the stock, the price was hammered down, and finally a run was started. Jordan went to New York and sought to get enough capital to make good the impairment. He entered into negotiations with Frank A. Munsey, who owns a local trust company, established about six months. It has no close connection with any of the older banks. R. Lancaster Williams, a brother-in-law cf John Skelton Wil liams, is a director of the Munsey Company. On the day of the run Munsey took the property over and announced that he would guarantee all the depositors. One of his (Continued on Second Page.) -t -- -i, Wall Street group. BAIL IS FURNISHED FOR HIS RELEASE CHARLES N. CHASE, ;" former Financial SccntUxypiY. VL C AVAecosed of. Tmi&ilemtkt y i a OFFICERS Also Retain Counsel For Secre tary Charged With Embez zling Society's Funds. On cash bond furnished this after noon by George W. Ray, of George town, Charles N". Chase, former fin ancial secretary of the Y. JT. C. A., was released from custody. He will appear before Judge James Pugh in tho United States branch of the Police Court December 16 to answer to the charge of embezzlement of T. M. C. A. funds. Upon furnishing bond. Chase left the Police Court building In company with Secretaries C. L. Johnson and A. M. Chesley, of the Y. 31. C. A., who have shown a friendly attitude toward him since his arrest last week". Chase was removed from Precinct No. 6 this morning to the Police Court building, where he remained until his release on bond. The bond furnished by Ray was the result of efforts bj Chase's attorney, John E. l.asky. Secretaries Johnson, and Cheiley, and Chase's sister-in-law, who participated In a conference in the police Court lasting all morning. Counsel for Chaso was also arrang ed by Secretary Johnson. Chase's bond.man Is now surety on the bond of $20,000 furnished for J. Barton Mllltr, thrice sentenced for embezzling funds from the First Co-operative Uuildlng Association of Georgetown. The continuance of the trial until December 16 was requested by Assistant United States Attorney Ralph Given this morning, and it was at Mr. Glven's suggestion that tho bond was tlxert at Ji.Ou). The Information against Chase cliaices him with the embezzlement of $llO from the Y. M. C. A. betw een June , 10 and the present time. It Is signed by Detectives Clifford L. Grant and Franlc M. Helen Attorney Given stated that the additional time Is necessary to de-, termlne the amount of tliu real em- r bezzlement. Auditors working on the books of the Y 31. C. A. are expected ' to complete their Investigation scon. Until completed. It will be impossible to state the exart amount of the shortaKe. Attornej Laskey was not prepared to t state todny that the V. 31. C. A. officers would Liideuior to dismiss the suit Hgainst Cluse. He spoke on the frlend- ittitudo of Secretaries Johnson and Chesley, who participated In the all morning conference, but he refused to comment on tho merits of the case against his client "I want tc correct one misappre hension, however," said Attorney Laskcy, ''nnd that Is the report that 3Irs. Chase h"S turned ngalnst her hi.slMiid. Tho report that she is not standing with him Is un injustice to l.im and tr her, and plca-c say that thi- is tuvci to him in his time of trciinl- and will continue so. "The friendly spirit manifested by the Y. 31 V A. office Is in the favor of my client, but 1 am not prepared to sa that the charge will be ills missed ngalnst him. In fact. I have glen my lime this morning largely to procuring bond and getting a lino on the reul facts In the case. I can net env vhethrr I v-!U waive the Dr?- J llnilnarj hearing when appearing De- ceinucr id jjciuic wuuo -ujfv. BET BOID i ISON TELLS HF WILL NOT INITIATE ANY EQUAL RIGHTS LEGISLATION OR READ A MESSAGE ON SUBJECT President Admits He Has Declared His Belief That Suffrage Committee in House Would Be a Good Thing Women, Obviously Dis- . appointed, Make No Effort to Join Line ta Shake Hands With Chief Executive. President Wilson this afternoon made it plain to 400 women, who called on him that he will not take the initia tive in. obtaining equal suffrage" legislation, and left not a vestige of their hope that he would make the issut of votes for women the subj'ect of a message to Congress. The delegatibnvhich waited on him at 12:30 was ihe official committee of the National American Woman Suf frage Association, and was headed by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, its president, who acted as speaker. The President, after listening to the appeal of Dr. Shaw, calied attention to the many forms and precedents that hedge the Chief Executive about and said that he was noVfree to speak his own mindv and was not, at liberty to-, -urge. rf Congress anypolicTes other than, thclse' of the pr ganic bod which elected him.. To quote the. language ot the.streets, he.said he was not ASKS TO WHOM AIT PICTURES OF if 5) Letter and Photograph From Princeton, Ind., May Clear Up Her Identity. Pending the receipt of a letter. Inyl closing a photograph and detailed de scription of the Ferris girl wanted in Indiana for alleged violation of the postal laws, the habeas corpus hear ing of "The Girl of, 31ystery" detained by the local police. Is being continued from hour to hour. hTere Is still doubt as to the Iden tity of the girl held at the Dentention Home, and until the mystery Is clear ed. Justice Barnard is not disposed to take definite action. Attorney Mat thew E. O'Brien and United States Atorney Wilson agreed with the court an dconsented to waive the hearing until late this afternoon, if necessary, until positive information arrives. A telegram was received this after noon by 3Ir. Wilson from a postofflce Inspector saying that Alary Louis Fer ris Is actually wanted for alleged vio lation of the postal laws in connection with the operation of a matrimonial bureau by 3Iartln L. Ferris, of Prince ton. Ind., but the message shed no light on tho Identity of the prisoner. The letter expected by 3Ir. Wilson comes from United States Attorney 3U1 ler, of Indianapolis. In response to a query sent Saturday. 3Ir. 31lller tele graphed that he had sent a photograph of the girl wanted, and detained Infor mation about the case. Doubt in the case develops from the fact that the girl held a prisoner hero declares that her name is not -.Mary n , ., ...!..... .1... ..1... I r..l. "la. ". '"S lV".l,."c 'f,.,""V ! is ?." . - Wot th.-iri ZnrhT C tl, m ties say that the girl sought nv thim In 3tarv Farris and that she is more than twenty years old. It has practically been asrreed by District Attorney Wilson and Attorney O'Brien that the girl will be released from custody, on bail at least. If there is nothing definite today to substanti ate the suspicions of the po Ice that she Is reallv a fugistive from justice 31r. Wil'on expects to receive the letter from Indianapolis this oftorooon. and ho believes that It will clear up the mystery and make it possible for iiim to take final acttlon. Rio Grande Runs Under Her Own Steam NORFOLK. Va.. Dec. 8. The Govern ment wireless station here today was Informed that the 3Iallory liner Rio Grande, which reported a fire last night, needs no assistance, and was pro ceeding on her course under her own steam. The revenue cutter Seminole, which had been ordered to aid the ves sel In view of wild reports that the Rio Grande carried seVeral hundred passengers, was recalled to Norfolk. The Rio Grande Is a freight vessel, and. apparently, there are no passengers aboard. GIRL OF MYSTERY SUFFRAGISTS free to "start anything.' tr THEY SHALL GO. "May I ask yu a question" said Dr. Shaw, when the President had deteed. his position, to which he assented MMt cordially. "Since you, as the President, are sot at llberty-to lake up our cause; as 70a havo made It cleat to us, we are left without a spokesman. To whom, mar we turn In this extremity; who can. speak for us?" The President thereupon smiled broad ly and said that most women seemed able to speak for themselves, but Dr. Shaw said that they- could not speak authoritatively. Find Satisfaction. Some of the women who called at tns White House found 'a crumb of aatj. faction In the President's statement that when asked for his opinion by a mem ber of the Houso Rules Committee ha had said he believed a suffrage commit" tee in the House would be a good thing. Meat of them, were obviously disap pointed at the stand the President tooK and made no effort to Join the Una that bbcok hands with hlnv ' 1 There were eighty-eight women in the double line that formed In front of suf frage headquarters. ICO F street, at noon, and among them were wives ot several Senators and Congressmen. Ten Women Ride. Dr. Shaw, Miss Alice Paul, and ten others rode to the White House In au tomobiles, but the ma!n delegation walked, fighting their way In the teeth of a gale that threatened momentarily to tear their hats and furs from them. In the front rank were Mrs. MedJl McCormlck and Mrs- Stanley H. Mo Cormlck. and they leaned Into the wind Jtst as though there were no such things as luxurious limousines In tho v orld. Dr. Shaw was tbenrat to alight at the White House, and she waited la the ante-room till the "hikers" arrived. They were shown into the President's office almost Immediately, and -Dr. Shaw began her talk to the President, which continued about five minute. The suffragist leader began by tollinj what the national association stood for. She said that for forty-flve years this association had'been active in Washing ton, but that equal suffrage measures were always -ur'ed In committees and never brouxht to a vote in the Houso Hope For Aid. "We hope that the Administration. Ot which you axe the head, will come to our aid in one of three ways, or in any other way which majr appral to yOu.' ! I r. Sh.vr. "We ask rtrst that you send a special mevagc to Congress, ask lng that It submit the matter of wom an suffrage to thr legislatures of the various States In tho form of an amend ment tt the Federal Constitution. 'Should you not see tfi to do this, we ask you to Include such a recommenda tion In some other mesago which you may send to Congress. But if you find It Impractical to do this, we nsk that you use the Influence ot the Adminis tration to procure a committee on suf frage in the House of Representatives." She concluded by saying the. women of this country have in the past read his , messages to Congress with great Intar- est and that they all admired him for , his "splendid spirit ot justice. Skidding Automobile Breaks Lamp Post Skidding on the slippery pavement In Connecticut avenue, between California and Wyoming avenues, an automobile bearing District llscense 4771. the police say, crashed Into an electric light pole knocking it down. The machine was driven by a mau whese name was not learned. License 4771 is credited to Mrs. A. Waller, ot the Portland apartment house. - -1Z.