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ROCK LAN Associated Press Exclusive Wire Argus Want Ads Always Bring Results SIXTY-FIRST YEAR. NO. 44. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1911. TEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. THE D ARGUS TARIFF BODY BILL IS DEAD FORPRESENT Democrats Secure Post ponement of Action on Measure. HEAR PERSIA APPEAL s Communication From Country Presented in House Taft's 1 Second Message Read. Washington, Dec. 7. The Payne bill to create a permanent tariff board was brought up in the house by the committee on ways and means by the republican members, but the committee indefinitely postponed ac tion through a unanimous vote of democrats. This probably shuts off consideration at this sosslon. EXPLAINS MEXICAN SI OVEJIETT, In the second one, to the peace message he has sent to congress dur ing the three days of the present session. President Taft reviewed the foreign relations of the United States with foreign governments dur ing the past year, in this message the pesident gave the first official ex planation of the post-haste movement of 20,000 federal troops to Mexico in nine months; urged the senate to rat ify the general arbitration treaties with Great Britain and France and conventions with Nicaragua and Hon duras, and suggested legislation be declared would strengthen this na tion's world trado and its position among other powers. (The message of President Taft on foreign relations Is printed in full on page 7 of this Issue. Editor Argus). TJNDERWOOD ENDORSED. Democratic Leader Underwood was Indorsed for the presidential nomination by the Alabama delega tion la congress today. Underwood, while appreciating the honor, fl dared hewas not a candidate. BERLIN INTERVIEWS TAFT. Berlin, Dec 7. The Tageblatt publishes under a Washington date what purports to be an Interview with President Taft, in which the president Is represented as anxious for an arbitration treaty with Ger many and for an International tri bunal. Taft also is said to have de clared that a tariff which Is too high favors building up monopolies and, according to the correspondent, the president Is conscious he was elect ed upon the expectation of honorable tariff reform, and on this matter he awaits the tariff board's report. As to Shuster, the president is quoted as saying he went to Persia, In a private capacity and intervention was excluded. URGING ABROGATION OF RUSSIAN TREATY New Tork, Dec. 7. Abrogation of the treaty of friendly relations be tween the United States and Russia, made in 1832 when Nicholas I. was emperor of Russia and James Bu chanan was American minister to St. Petersburg, was urged in speeches delivered by 12 or more men of na tional prominence and iu resolutions adopted at a large mass meeting held at Carnegie hall last night. The meeting was under the auspices of the national citizeus' committee, which plans a series of similer dem onstrations throughout the country during the next month in protest against discrimination by Russia in its refusal for many years to honor the passports of Jewish-American citizens. PROHIBITIONISTS MEET IN ATLANTIC CITY NEXT Chicago, Dec. 7. Atlantic City was chosen as the place of the na tional convention of the prohibition party. The time was not determined upon at the meeting which selected the convention city. Balloting con tinued for several hours before a de cision was reached. At a later st-S' Pion it was derided that the date for the 1912 convention be left to Chair man Charles Jones to be selected some time between June 20 and July 20. FORMER GOVERNOR OF NEBRASKA DIES TODAY Chicago, Dec. 7- Albinus Nance, 63, former governor of Nebraska, died here tcd.iy at Augustana hos pital of pneumonia. Adrian. Jlich.. Dec. . Former, committee chairman. Diplomatic re ConKreasiiian Henry C. Smith, 55, is: calls urged by Representative Bergrer. dead of pneumonia. Calls Bank Statement. War hlr.ston. Dec. 7. The controller of the currency today lifted a call for a statement of the condition of na tiiTal banks at the close of business Tuesday, Dec. 5. Hie Weather Forecast Till 7 P. M. Tomorrow, Tof Rock Island, Davenport. Moline, and Vicinity. Unsettled weather, with probably rain tonight or Friday. Moderate tMtinr&tiir. The temperature to night will remain above freezing. Highest temperature yesterday 60. Lowest last night 41. Temperature at 7 this morning 43. Wind velocity 6 miles an hour. Precipitation none. Relative humidity at 7 last nigb 65; at 7 this morning 63. River stage 2.09, a fall of .0. J. M. SHEIUER, Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From noon today to noon tomorrow.) Snn sets 4:29, rises 7:06; moon rises 5:50 p. m,; moon farthest north and highest for the year, being near senltb at 2 a. m.; 2 p. el. planet Mercury at greatest eastern elongation. 20 degrees 59 minutes east of sun: phase. 0.02: I light. SI; maximum of 14 day period of Gemmld mcteor8- BIXBY FOR A GREAT WATERWAYS SYSTEM Washington. Dec. 7. Secretary Fisher and General Bixby, chief of army engineers, speaking before the national rivers and harbors con gress today, urged the necessity of considering developments of water ways not only for navigation, but also with regard to the establish ment of waterpower sites and con struction of Irrigation reservoirs and flood levees. Bixby said If the rec ommendations of the army engineers could pass congress without amend ment, the United States, In a few years, would have the greatest sys tem of Inland waterways In the world. The western governors, who arrived here today, were guests of the convention this afternoon. Chicago, Dec. 7. Closer coopera tion by legislatures with the federal government In promoting Irrigation was urged by Samuel Fortier, chief of irrigation inspection of the de partment of agriculture, before the national irrigation congress today. The speaker declared many western state's projects were retarded be cause of lack of necessary legislation by the states. BAR FARMERS FROM JURY FOR PACKERS Chicago, Doc. 7. Eleven men were in the jury box when the fed eral court convened today ' to resume the packers' case. ' Six of these are farmers. It Is believed the defense, by peremptory challenges, would eliminate as many farmers as pos sible from the Jury. DEFENSE GIVEN HARD BLOW IN HYDE TRIAL Kansas City. Mo.. Dec. 7. Defeat for the defense in the trial of Dr B. Clarke Hyde for the alleged mur der of Colonel Thomas H. Swope, came yesterday when Judge Porter field admitted testimony Intended to show that the physician Inoculated the arm of Miss Margaret Swope with pus germs at a time when he says he gave her a hypodermic In jection of camphorated oil. By this ruling the way is opened for the in troduction of testimony relating to the different kinds of germs Dr Hyde had in his office during the siege of Illness in the Swope home It is contended by the state that he thought he was administering diph theria germs to Miss Swope when he gave her the Injection. It was con tended at the first trial of tie case that Dr. Hyde spread typhoid germs at the Swope home, causing an epi demlc. BRANCH COURT ACT IS HELD CONSTITUTIONAL Springfield, 111., Dec 7. The su preme court today upheld the con stitutionality of an act passed by the legislature last spring providing for the appointment of branch ap pellate courts In districts where the number of cases at one time ex ceeds 250. POSTAL CLERK GIVES UP $25,000 HE HAD STOLEN St. Louis, Dec. 7. A package con taining $25,000 which disappeared from the annex postofflce station Sept. 14, 1910, was recovered yes terday. George V. Steck, a postof flce clerk, had the package since its disappearance. He confessed to postofilce inspectors. Of the amount 1,400 is missing. Yesterday in Congress SENATE. Not in session. Lorimer Inaulrr - I fumed. Monetary commission reiumrd f-n-cutiv sessions. Anti-trust If k Illa tion discussed at senate committee hear ing. HOI SR. Mot at noon . Miscellaneous bills con sidered under call of committees. J. D. Rockefeller and Rev. F. u. Gates invll id to appear on Monday 'before steel committee. Government estimates at- I t...tr a. ...t..ilU. l.v n 1.. .1 . 1 Itlllsi, I'll WAVUIll V 1 XUBRlttU NWP port trouble. World's sugar prices jrobed by sugar inquiry committee. Tariff plans discussed by democrats on ways and means committee. Congress probably will not act on Persian inci dent. Representative Sims claimed bill abolishing commerce court would be passed. Railrcad physical valuation bill Introduced by Esch of Wisconsin. Mine rescue work government liability biU passed. IUIAKETRUSTS BEHAVEiGABY Head of Steel Corporation Advocates Federal Supervision. FAVORS POOLING PLAN Sees No Harm in Competitors Conferring on Business Conditions. Washington, Dec. 7. E. H. Gary, head of the United States Steel cor poration, testified before the senate committee on interstate commerce today that he always believed it was entirely legal for competitors to NEWS ITEM Attorney General Wickersham has begun court proceedings against the National ash Register Company, of Dayton, O., to prevent farther use of what he calls "savage" methods of stif ling competition. come together and mutually disclose their business conditions to steady and balance trade, without making any agreement on prices. FOR LIBERAL COMMISSION. Gary urged a federal commission authorized to consider the manage ment, character and extent of cor porations and to permit certain pool ing arrangements when conditions warranted. He would give this com mission authority to say what agree ments would be permitted. Gary ex pressed the opinion that no corpora tion has a right to object to the Sherman law, if it means, as he be lieves it does, that no combination shall be created with the purpose of creating a monopoly or restraining. PROTECTION FOR PUBLIC. If corporations are prevented from doing these things, then the public Is protected, he agreed. He thought the whole question turned upon the definition of "undu restraint of trade." BEET TESTS HARD TO GET. Washington, Dec. 7. The house com mittee investigating the so-called Bugar trust today heard the testimony of James Bodkin of Meade, Col., repre senting the farmers of that sugar beet territory. He declared the farmers of Colorado had difficulty In getting sci entific tests of their beets except by customers of the Great Western Sugar company. The company's influence was such that farmers could not get a private test, he asserted. Representa tive Fordney said the witness evident ly was an enemy of the Great Western Sugar company. Bodkin retorted the representative seemed to be a friend of the sugar refiner and an enemy of the farmer. Fordney protested he was a friend of the farmer. One to Hang for Murder. Jacksonville, 111, Dec 7. John Mat lock and Robert Pruitt today were con victed of the murder of Frank Cashin In this city Oct. 14. Matlock was sen tenced to hang and Pruitt to life imprisonment. RULERS GREETED BY INDIA NATIVES George and Mary Enter King's Gate, Not Opened Since 1857. PARADE IS PICTURESQUE Quarter Million Persons Assemble in Durbar Camp to Attend Be ceptlon. Delhi, India, Dec. 7. Roar of the Imperial salute welcomed King-Emper or George and Queen-Empress Mary here today. At the station outside the fort, government officials, Indian princes, military officers and thous ands of natives assembled to greet the royal pair. After a series of presenta tions, their majesties proceeded to the pavilion within the fort, where there were introduced 150 ruling chiefs, at tired in richly colored garments and bedecked with jewels. PROCESSION TO CAMP. Then followed a procession to. Dur bar camp, four miles away Great I RINGING IT UP numbers of natives gathered along the route, forming a striking background to the gorgeously uniformed proces sion, which was neaded by lancers, with band 8 playing. The native escort of the viceroy, In scarlet and gold, preceded the imperial cadet corps composed of princes and their sons. Their majesties and the viceroy's suites were next. HATS ARE DOFFED. As their majesties approached, the troops presented arms, European spec tators took off their hats, and natives bent deep toward the ground. A body guard of Indian princes, who followed immediately after, outshone In splen dor all that had passed. In strict or der of precedence came 150 maham rajahs, rajahs, nawabs, and other chief tains. The column was closed by a band of savage looking Afghans and Pathan chiefs on wild ponies and a detachment of native and British troops. Their majesties entered the city through the king's gate, now opened for the first time since 1S57, when the king of Delhi went to public worship. At camp the troops passed In review. Receptions followed, and the king-emperor replied with an address of wel come. Crowds of picturesque human ity, from the rajah in silks to the half naked wallah, gathered to welcome their emperor. 250,000 PEOPLE ATTEND. Mingling with them were bejeweled Indian princes, army and administra tive officers, native and British pri vate 6oldiers, and a large number of foreign tourists. In all a quarter mil lion persons assembled In the camp. The ancient bullock cart, the smartest modern carriage, the powerful, motor car, the richly caparisoned elephant and the blooded horse added variety. The morning was given over to the re ception of the dignitaries. Sugar Reduced Again. New Tork. Dec 7. Refined su gar was reduced 10 cents a 100 ounds today. INAIARAS T TO TELL Said Both Will Refuse Information to Federal Grand Jury. POSITION DISAPPOINTS Detective Burns Says Brothers Are Guilty in Connection With Scores of Cases. Los Angeles, Dec. 7. John J. Mc Namara, the confessed dynamiter, told Jailer Gallagher today that under no circumstances would he give the fed eral grand Jury Information of any kind. It is understood that James B. McNamara will also refuse to give tea timony to the federal grand jury. M'HANIGAL A WITNESS. Ortie E. McManigal, the dynamiter who made the first confession in the McNamara conspiracy, was taken be fore the federal grand jury today. McManigal was the first witness. The jury is to investigate a conspiracy alleged to have existed throughout the United States through which dynamiting damage running into millions of dollars has been done; dynamite has been transported un lawfully from one state to another and perhaps that improper use hat been made of the malls. CONDEMNED BT STRIKERS. Chicago, Dec. 7. Thirty-eight hun dred striking shopmen of the Illinois Central lines, at a mass meeting to day, condemned the McNamara broth ers and declared death should have been their penalty. Violence of any kind in a labor controversy was held to be Injurious to the cause of union labor. UNIONISM MUJT ACT. New York, Dec. 7. -William J. Burns, the detective who ran down the lie Namaras, here today declared: "Ev ery" dynamiting which has occurred since 1906 may be traced directly or indirectly to the McNamaras and the men behind them." Disavowing en mity towards organized labor, and de claring "such conservative leaders as John Mitchell and others have stood behind me In my work," Bums said that "If unionism is to prevail it must kick out dishonest leaders and the cor rupt machine which Is dragging it down." BLOW TO SOCIALISM. "The turn the McNamara case has taken," said Burns, "has been the greatest blow to socialism in the his tory of this country. Ironworkers are not the only union guilty of dynamit ing," he said. VICTIM'S WIDOW SUES. Los Angeles, Dec. 7. James B. Mc Namara, under sentence of life impris- tad other troubles added to NO STORAGE RAISES COST OF LIVING Secretary of Agriculture, in Annual Report, Tells of Conditions in Nation. FARMER GETS 50 CENTS Who Receives Other Half of Dollai Is Question Official Can't Answer. Washington, Dec. 7. "The consum er pays a dollar for food; the farmer gets less than fifty cents of it. Who gets the rest?" That is a question which Secretary Wilson of the department of agricul ture asks in his annual report. The secretary does not attempt to answer it He does explain in some detail the results of an investigation his de partment has just concluded into the effect of cold storage on the whole- someness and cost of food. His in vestigation leada him to recommend publicity for the amount of food in cold storage, just as :he department now gives publicity to the condition of crops from month to month. COLD STORAGE DELIVERIES. Instead of food remaining In stor age for longer than a year or two years, as a rule, the secretary de clares that his investigation showed that "receipts into cold storage are en tirely or very nearly exhausted by the deliveries out of cold storage within ten months." Lot.g storage is the exception, the secretary asserts, warehousemen ex plained to the department that ex cessive long storage was due to law suits and other circumstances of an uncommercial rature. The cost of storage, including storage charge, In terest and Insurance, is considered as a barrier to veiy long storage. Cold storage, the secretary reports, has taised the cost of living by In creasing the annual price level for but ter and eggs. The secretary cays that an examina tion of the record of prices gives a "suspicion" that there has been much speculation in some years by the men who keep commodities in cold storage. OVERESTIMATE CONSUMPTION. Ho refers to "atv apparent mistake" of tfce storage .men. in ovet estimating the consumption of eggs by the public at exorbitant prices last winter with the tesult that In the spring the stor age men had to sell eggs at remark ably low prices and send abroad the largest amount of eggs ever exported in order to get rid of the supply. The secretary dedan s that the warehouse men ought to be required to send to Washington each month the amount of commodities placed in storage so that the public may be able to judge -of the future trend of prices. A great variety of subjects are dealt with by the secretary In his report He says that the day is not far dis tant when -the United States will cease to import potasb, Florida Kentucky, Tennessee and Idaho are mentioned as repositories. RECOMMENDS ONE BUREAU. Recommendation is made that all government agencies that- conserve health should be grouped together in one bureau. The success of the depart ment in the southern states through object lessons In the fields la pronounc ed to have been such as to justify the extension of the work to all states. The department announces that the corn crop is moving northward by feed selection. The American systems of renting land are declared to be faulty and re sult in eoil robb'ng. It is suggested that domestic animals be kept on farms even if the lanl owneT must furnish them, and that there be a rotation of crops. Af er years of experimentation tha department says that Egyptian cotton can be crown io southern California and bulbs in the state of Washington. The crayfish is pronounced to be a serious pest In the south. Carbon bi sulphide Is said to be a sure remedy. The finest dates from the Sahara desert succeed in the southwestern states. S 750)00,000 POULTRY. Poultry products for the past year are estimated to have been worth $750,000,000. The foresters of the forestry bur eau are learning by experiments how to reforest 30,000 acres in a year. The secretary says that ten times this much must be planted annually to cover all the bare acres in a gen eration. "We are sending explorers to the ends of the earth for new plants and getting them," says Secretary Wilson. The secretary warns the irrigation farmers that they must conserve their soil; that irrigation will bring maximum crops while the land is new and full of plant food. But where the crops are sold year by year. Ir rigation of itself will not of itself assure good results. s his lot today, when he became defend ant in a $50,000 damage suit. The suit is brought by Louise M. Sawyer, wld ow of Robert L. Sawyer, a telegraph operator, employed by the Los Angeles Times and killed In the explosion which wrecked that building Oct. 1, 1910. . OATH TO BACK UP STORY BY MRJJRIMER Senator Will be Last Wit ness Heard by Com mittee. PAINT WHITE BLACKER Witness Recounts Incidents Leading Up to Disposition of Article to Tribune. Washington, Dec 7- Several wit nesses for the defense were heard by the Lorimer committee today. The committee expects to close the case within two weeks. Lorimer will be the last witness for the defense and will testify under oath for the first time. George Gloss testified Prank- Seems a friend of White, told him he and White were preparing a "story to blackmail Lorimer for 1150,000, if possible, or at least $75,000.- REFUSES TO JOIN IN. For this, the witness declared. Seems had told him White said he would turn over all papers to Lori mer. The witness intimated Seems had invited him into the alleged scheme, but he had declined. He said the story had been offered to some eastern publisher who refused it for lack of verification. NEWSPAPER BCTfS IT. Then the story was to be sold to a newspaper and the witness said Seems told him President Wright of the Illinois Federation of Labor was to take White to a newspaper that would buy the story. White event ually sold the story to the Chicago Tribune. DISCHARGE THREE CHICAGO OFFICERS Chicago, Dec. 7. Police Inspector Charles Dorman and Lieutenants William Ambrose and Thomas How ard were discharged from the de partment by the city civil service commission yesterday. They were charged with incompetency, . particu larly in failure to observe anti-gambling and anti-vice statutes and or dinances, these discharges, with the resignation of Captain Plunkett un der fire, and the discharge of Lieu tenant W. W. Walsh, on similar charges were the first results of the commission's investigation of rela tions between the police and vice and the general inefficiency on the part of the police department. AURORA TO ESTABLISH CITY MARKETING PLACE Aurora, 111., Dec. 7. In an effort to reduce the high cost of living a city . market is to be established in Aurora, the council having decided to open a market on a centrally locat ed downtown site on March 1 next. With its establishment peddling by farmers or hawkers within the city limits will be forbidden. The suc cess of the Joliet market Influenced the aldermen In this action. Before Thanksgiving day dressed turkeys were selling on the Joliet city mar ket for 18 cents per pound, while In Aurora the price was 25 cents. REVOLUTIONARY PLOT IS FOUND IN NICARAGUA San Juan Del Suar, Nicaragua, Dec. 7. A revolutionary conspiracy has been discovered in several de partments. A number of arrests have been made. Steer SO Cents a Pound. Chicago, Dec. 7. Victor, champion steer at the international live stock exposition, owned by the Iowa Agricul tural college, came close to a new rec ord for cattle in the auction ring today when he was sold for 90 cents a pound. Only once has this price been passed. The first year of the exposi tion a Pittsburgh packing house paid $1.25 a pound for Advance, the prize winner that year. Wheat and Rye Report. Washington, Dee. 7. The December crop report shows the acreage sown to winter wheat this fall is 32,213.000, as compared with 32.648,000 for the 1911 crop. The condition Is 86.6 per cent. The acreage of rye is 2,436.000, com pared with 2,415,000 for the 1911 crop. The condition is 93.3 per cent. Blackhander Given Five Years. Chicago, Dec. 7. Phillip Purpura today was sentenced to five years and fined $1,000 for sending black hand letter through the mails. Destroy Beer in Kansas. Pittsburg, Kan., Dec. 7. Under the direction of W. E. Montgomery, as sistant attorney general of Kansas, four carloads of beer were destroyed here. The liquor represented the con fiscations from illegal selling places.