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THE ROCK I SjLAND ARGUS. Associated Press Exclusive Wire Arus Want Ads Always Bring Results SIXTY-FIRST YEAR. NO. 118. SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1912. FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. INCOME BILL TAPS SALARY S5,000AYEAR Democrats Are Pushing a Measure That Greatly Agitates Congress. Hie Weather EXPECT A LONG DEBATE Taken for Granted House Will Adopt Fate in the Senate Considered Doubtful. Forecast Till 7 P. M. Tomorrow, for Rock Island. Davenport, Molina, and Vicinity. Enow tonight and Sunday, slowly rising temperature with the lowest temperature tonight about 10 to 15 degrees above zero; Temperature at 7 a. m. 7. Highest yesterday 17, lowest last night 5. Velocity of wind at 7 a. m. 3 miles ler hour. Precipitation none. Relative humidity at 7 p. m. 74, at 7 a. m. 90. J. M. SHERIER. Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From soon today to noon tomorrow.) Sun sets 5 2, rises 631: moon sets 7.-02 a. m; 5:42 a. m., eastern time, (nil moon. Washington, March 2. House and senate leaders of all shades of politi cal belief today discussed the sensa tional act of the house democratic caucus last night In endorsing what Is In effect an Income tax on all net Incomes, including salaries above $j. 000 a year. That the house will pass the measure by a party vote within the next ten days is taken for granted. Its fate In the senate Is doubtful. In the senate It is said that in all prob ability party alignments will be broken. mnrnMF. to repi bi.h am. The new plan of the democrats took their republican colleagues entirely by surprise. Everybody agreed debates in the house and senate on so radical a change In the method of raising gov ernment revenues would be the strongest In recent years. The con stitutionality of the new plan, it was said, would be attacked by some, al though democratic leaders in the bouse claim the meamire is so drawn as to comply with the supreme court decision upholding the corporation tax law. AFTR MOLDING CORPORATION, The extension of the corporation tax law to individuals and co-partnerships. It was declared today, would hit di rectly holding corporations such as the I nlted States Steel corporation. Rep resentative Underwood, chairman of the ways and means committee, said today that in reporting the bill this feature, which hits at holding compan ies, would be emphasized. HEARING STORIES FROM LAWRENCE Investigation by Congressional Committee Begun at Washington. ANALYZING THE TAYLOR SYSTEM OF "SCIEMTIFIC" SHOP MANAGEMENT What Investigation by Congress Has Developed and What Is Admitted by the Author of the Plan to be the Effect in Imposing Severe Tasks Upon Labor Men Over worked to Increase Dividends. BEHEAD CHINESE REBS IN STREETS Looters, When Captured, Sum marily Decapitated by Of ficials at Peking. BERGER SCORES OWNER Was Peered With Condition at Home and Finally Fell Under to liaise Family. f Editor's Note. This Is the flmt of i a series of four articles that Clyde H. Tavenner, Washington correspondent of The Argus, has prepared on the subject of the Taylor system of scientific" shop management, a sub ject that every working-man In the country Is beginning to take interest in. Mr. Tavehner has been investigat ing the subject for several months.) BY CLYDE H. TAVENNER. (Special Correspondence of The Argus.) Washington, Feb. 29. What Is the basis of the much discussed Taylor system of "scientific" shop manage ment? Will It really en able a workman to earn nine-eights of bis present wage by working eight ninths of the time be is sow putting in per day, as Mr. Taylor contends? Or is the baais of the system. In actual practice. merely the "scien tific" overworking of men to the end that their lives will be shortened in order that divi dends may be in- CLYDE H. creased? mm m , mm mm. lAVtNNtK Mr. Taylor's own description of "scientific management" in three articles published in a month ly magazine undoubtedly impressed many persons favorably.. His ideas look well as theories. His articles would cause one to believe that the only object of his plan is the preven tion of waste in manufacturing, the cutting out of unnecessary steps, the saving of false motions; in other words, not to call for a greater ex penditure of energy on the part of a given workman, but to bring about a concentration of his energy to the par ticular part of a task on which he is engaged. TO GET AT FACTS. This is the way it looked to thos' S9K fir 1 ; Washington, March 2. The rules committee today heard witnesses to determine whether congress shall in veBtigate strike conditions In Law rence, Mass. A delegation of strik ers and children from Lawrence at tracted much attention. Berger (Wisconsin), socialist, explained the reason for asking for the investiga tion. He said the American Woolen company for years was recipient oi a government subsidy in the form of a high tariff. IU-X RHT9 WHITE SLAVES. It is claimed this high tariff was levied to protect labor, but it is gen erally conceded these operatives are among the lowest paid in America. Communities where wages are the leapt are recruiting places for vic tims of the "white slave" traffic, said merger, it was conciuaea tne mves- not required to work under the -,--ligation w as properly within the ' Xfm unti, Congre8sman I. S. Pepr of Jurisdiction of the house. jIowa lntroauced a resolution in the , SO A WEEK-FOR FAJtua - .r-,- ,VtBi-whfr-a Temrited-m WffUrVgg-an- MISS RAY MARRIES LODER; JILTED HIM London, March 2. Gabrlelle Ray, th actress and English beauty, who jilted Eric Loder at the altar, reconsidered yesterday and the couple was quietly married at Windsor. In explanation. he declared she suffered from nervous collapse Thursday. The marriage was a distinct sur prise to friends of the couple after Thursday, when Miss Ray failed to ap pear at the church and would not satis factorily explain her absence. Misa Ray has been counted one of the most beautiful women on the Eng lish stage for several years and has had suitors galore. Her engagement to Mr. Loder, who is a young millionaire and the heir of a peer, was announced two months ago. Ex King Manuel of Portugal was anxious to confer his ex-title on the fair actress and many lesser coronets were laid at her feet, but she scorned them all until Mr.-Ijoder came along, and for a while yesterday It looked as If she had added him to her lint. Ap parently, however, she changed her tnind again. The first witness was Samuel Lip- son, a weaver. Classed as a skilled workman, be earned $9 to $10 a week. On this be supported a wive and four children. He told the chair man when he earned less bis family lived on bread and water. "Days we eat meat are considered as holidays by the children," said the w itness. ITALIAN GIRL EXHIBITED. An Italian girl of 16 years was one of the "exhibits." Her scalp was torn from her head two years ago, but no legal proceedings were instituted atcainst the company. She still works In the mill, and with her father, sup ports a family of seven. Their aggre gate pay la $7 a week. NO NEARER SETTLEMENT. Lawrence. Mass., March 2. The textile strike is no nearer settlement today than before news of the in crease in wages was received. The attitude of strike leaders continued strongly In support of the original demands, which greatly exceeded the offer made by the mill owners. COAL MINE STRIKE CLOSES MANY MILLS London, March 2. The great ports of" the United Kingdom and the center of the Iron and steel indus Uies are the first to feel the effects Of the coal strike involving 1,000.000 miners. Many of the iron works In various districts are closed today, and at Swansea and elsewhere dock it ork Is practically at a standstill. Dockers and employes of local in dustries were thrown out of work and are thronging the streets. Rail road and street car service was fur ther curtailed today. In South Wales the mine owners have built walls around the mines, and laid in great stores of provi sions In anticipation of a long aieee. Only two small nonunion mines in the entire country are at work. The tinplate works in Wales are closing down rapidly, and 40.000 men will be thrown out of work. BROTHERS LOCATE LONG LOST SISTER Kenosha, Wis., March 2. A 30-year devotion of three brothers to a sister whom they remembered only as a baby in arms is revealed by the ending of a 30-year search for Mary Riggs, one time a resident o Salem, In this coun ty, but now Mrs. William Lewis of Baltimore, Md. Forty years ago, after the death of her mother, Mary Riggs' father permit ted her to be adopted by a family nam ed Hubert. Ten years later three brothers, William, Joseph and Byron Riees. started to hunt their sister. As boys they spent their pennies adver tising in New York, Chicago and other large city papers. As men they spent dollars going from place to place to visit every family they could locate by the name of Hubert. Recently William advertised In a Baltimore paper. Mrs. Lewis saw the advertisement. She had supposed she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hu bert, both dead. But among papers left was one she remembered contain ed the name Riggs. She looked up the document and found it was the record of her adoption. pointing a- special committee to Inves tigate the Taylor plan. Mr. Pepper pointed out that the Taft administra tion has begun to install the Taylor system at Watertown, Rock Island and other government arsenals. He stated that Inasmuch as the workers at these arsenals, as well as organized labor from one end of the country to the other, were violently opposed to the system, charging that it involved the most brutal speeding-up and sweat-shop methods, congress should make an im partial investigation before the stamp of approval of the United States gov ernment be placed upon it as an exam ple for private manufacturers to follow. WHAT INVESTIGATION SHOWED. The . investigating committee of which W. B. Wilson of Pennsylvania, one of the ablest members of con gress, is chairman brought to light these facts: First: That the "science of the Taylor system In its final analysis is the relentless speeding up of workmen by the setting of a task which but one out of five workmen can accomplish Second: That it is no part of the "science" to be concerned with any workman who can not keep up to the pace of the fastest man on the part of an operation on which he is engaged; he must drop out. Third: That if the Taylor system was adopted universally a great army of workmen would be thrown out of employment or reduced in Tank, such as mechanics being forced to take po sitions as laborers, because it is ob vious that not all men are physically able to keep up day after day, and month after month, to a pace set by the fastest workers. Fourth: That the Taylor system Is calculated to destroy organization among workmen, one of the corner stones of Taylor logic being the prin ciple that workmen must be dealt with individually, and not in masses or through committees; that it is no con cern of one workman what happens to pother; all men working -under this system must be "satisfied;" the mo ment he becomes dissatisfied he must quit; otherwise there would be danger of his grievance becoming contagions and the ,JeyBtem-iffterteTed with. That Mr. Taylor actually applies the BRITISH PROTECT WOMEN principle set out above can best be shown by his own language in his book of instructions to employers, which tells how he introduced his system at various plants. SEVERITY OF TASKS ADMITTED. "The tasks were all made eo severe," explains Mr. Taylor in Paragraph 125, that not more than one out of five laborers (perhaps even a smaller per centage than this) could keep up." Mr. Taylor lays great streBs on Ma system of scientific "persuasion." Of this "persuasive" feature, in Paragraph 293, he says: A certain percentage of the men. with the best of attention, will fail in this and find that they have no place in the general organization, while still others and among them some of the best workers, who are, however, either stupid or stubborn can never be made to see that the new system Is as good as the old; and these, too, must drop out" "For the success of the system the number of men employed on practi cally the same class of work should he large enough for the workmen quite often to have the object lesson of see ing men laid off for failing to earn high wages and others substituted in their places." FOOD FOR THOUGHT. There Is one other statement of Mr. Taylor that supplies food for thought He says: "That in all cases money must be spent and in many cases a great deal of money, before the changes are completed which result in lowering cost" The inference is that at first the men must be paid higher wages to get them to set the fastest possible pace, but that In the end the men will be doing a greatly Increased amount of work for the same pay received be fore the Installation of the "syBtem, The Taylor system means, in a sentence, that the quickest time .at which a job can be completed by a first-class man is to -be the standard time at which all men are to be com pelled to complete the same job, with a bonus (at least to start with) for coming up to the maximum time and a fine and discharge for not coming up to that time. . - Foreign Ministers Decide to Summon to City All Available Troops In Nearby Forts. REFORMER IN TEXAS TAKEN AS PERJURER Rev. J. F. Morris Indicted for Writing Letters to Self. WOMEN ARE SENTTO JAIL Mrs. Pankhurst and Two of Suffraget Aid Get Two Months. 124 ARE UNDER ARREST Audience Applauds When Pen alty Is Announced $25,000 Property Damage Done. WOMEN GROW HYSTERICAL AT THE KAUFMAN TRIAL Chicago. March 2 As arguments were btng concluded In the Kaufman trial today wivt-s of two of the defend ants excitedly screamed. "On. God! lion t hand them!" The court room was Immediately In an uproar. The mother of Rabenan cried, "Save my boy!" The hysterical women were led from the court and quiet restored The cae ill gw to the Jury Monday. POSTPONE BURIAL DATE OF BATTLESHIP MAINE Washington, March 2. The official bi rial at sea of the old battleship Maiue. originally scheduled for Mon day next, has been postponed until March 15 on account of unexpected difficulty experienced in removing the cofferdam around the wreck. It is fully expected, howeer, that on the 15th, which appears to fall on the sailors' unlucky Friday, the hulk will be towed out to sea from Hava na harbor. Escorted by the cruisers North Carolina and Birmingham, it vrill be sunk to the bottom with full caval honors. London, March 2. Mrs. Emmellne Pankhurst, Mrs. Tukes and Mrs. Mar shall, three suffraget leaders in last night's window-smashing campaign, today were sentenced each to two months' imprisonment The attorney for the prosecution said the damage done by the suffragets was estimated at $25,000. In all 124 women were ar rested. The others will be arraigned later. SEXTEXCE IS APPLAUDED. The sentence of the three suffraget leaders waa received with applause. The friendly audience that heretofore was present In police court was ab sent today. The public benches gen erally were occupied by sympathizers of the storekeepers. v WTIX GO LIMIT, SAT WOMEf. On delivery of sentence Mrs. Pank hurst declared she intended to go farther when she came out of prison, and that the suffragets were prepared to go to the fullest limit, to show the government that women were going to secure votes. ALL HELD FOR DAMAGE. Sentences ranging from a fortnight to two months were pronounced on a number of prisoners, but most of the women were committed for trial at the London sessions, as the damage committed by each of them exceeded $25. About 30 cases were dealt with today, the remainder being adjourned. CORONER TO EXHUME BODY OF H. L SWIFT Chicago, March, 2. The body of Herbert L. Swift, who died on a Chi cago and Northwestern railroad train between Chicago and Milwaukee on the night of Oct 19, will be exhumed today or Monday by Coroner Hoffman of Cook county and examination made to settle for all time the cause of death. Rumors concerning the death of the son of the late Gustavus Swift packer, have prompted members of the Swift family to give their consent to Coro ner Hoffman's action. The Milwaukee coroner, criticised for his inquest In the Swift case, had suggested such action. Mrs. Bernlce Swift, widow. Is ser iously ill at her residence, and the aged mother, Mrs. Gustavus Swift is under the care of physicians. They are anxious, however, that the alleged mystery concerning the young man's death be cleared. Mrs, H. L. Swift recently submitted to an operation, which was followed by serious complications. Dr. Charles E. Kahlke, surgeon representing the Swift family, told the coroner yester day that It waa doubtful if she would recover. Dr. Kahlke appeared at the coro ner's office yesterday at the request of iMr. Hoffman and promised the coro ner to produce written permission from the Swift family for the exhuma tion of the body. The post-mortem probably will be held Monday after noon. "The family Insists that aince this matter has been given publicity a thor ough Investigation be made," said Dr. Kahlke. "There Is no question but that Mr. Swift has been in the same unconscious condition, described by those who saw him on the train, many times, and with bruises all over his body, due tohfg weakened condition. I predicted to him and his family this very death, knowing the condition of his heart I told him shortly before Mb death just how he would die." Coroner Hoffman said he would se lect E. R. Le Count coroner's physi cian, and Dr. Ludwlg Hektoen to make the examination. The body Is In the Swift mausoleum at Mount Hope cemetery. MILLIONS IN ART CARGOES J. P. Morgan is Import ing Collection From His European Museum. Peking, March 2. Disorders were renewed this morning. A detachment of artillery marched to the palace of Duke -Kuel-Haiang, father of the em press dowager, shelled down a gate, looted a large amount of property, and burned a portion of the palace. LOOTERS BEHEADED. Looters, when captured are sum marily decapitated, many headless bodies are lying In the streets. In the west of the city where the street shops were looted many houses were fired. Civilians are barricading streets for the purposes of defense. Another gang of mutineers today looted Feng- Tal, 22 miles from Peking. British troops there protected women and children. SOLDIERS IX AGREEMENT. Yuang Ping Fu, where American troops are guarding the railroad, also was looted today. It ia 'evident all soldiers in the northern Chinese army are in an agreement in the pillaging movement They are under the be lief that the coming republican dele gates from Nanking to Yuaa means dismissal of the northern troops from the service. GOVERNMENT HELPI.ESS. The government is unabie at pres ent to cope with the situation and for eign ministers here are discussing concerted action. At Paoting-Fu, after the looting of stores, large areas of the ,city were burned. j MISSIONARIES Sl.ArGHTHRED. It Is reported Tiere many mission aries were slaughtered by mutineers at Paoting-Fu. In well-informed cir cles, though It is said, only one or two were killed. It Is believed they were Roman Catholics. TO Sl'MMON TROOPS. The foreign ministers here. after a conference, decided to bring into Peking all available foreign troops sta tioned In adjacent PoriJyChina. v The-iJOpulaee-haB Been notiflod all persons found on the atreets tonight after 8 o'clock will be shot London, March 2. A Tien Tsln dis patch says a detachment of United States troops has been ordered to Peking. THREATS ON HIS LIFE; Simultaneously His Church Is Destroyed by Fire Leader in Prohibition Fight. Fort 'Worth, Texas. March 2. A few hours after Rev. J. Frank Nor-' ris, pastor of the First Baptist church, had been indicted on a charge of perjury, his home waa burned last night. It came as a mys terious sequel to an equally myster- ious chain of events in which the saloon-fighting minister figured. The! most startling developments came last night, when, accused of perjury,! Norrls was charged with having writ-'. ten letters to himself in which he was threatened with death if he did! not leave town. ! TRAVELS WITH BODYGUARD. Norrls first attracted attention here by a campaign for enforcement ! of the prohibition laws. Then Nor-, ris declared an attempt was made ' to assassinate him. This was fol lowed by the destruction of the First Baptist church by fire. Norrls re-; ported, a second attempt had been made on his life and traveled with i bodyguard. EXHIBITS WARNING LETTERS. Then he exhibited warning letters,, which last night, the grand Jury de-l clared, Norris wrote to himself. Norris' charges attracted a great deal of attention to his church work. GOTHAM DESTINATION Financier Estimates Value at $20,000,000, But Claim Is It Is $50,000,000. Jury Has Klmmel Case. St Louis, Mo, March 2. The Klm mel Insurance case went to the jury at noon today. Cartervlll Man a Suicide. Carterrille, March 2. Andrew Win ning of this city committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. The cause for his act Is not known. New York, March 2. Unusual preparations have been taken by cus tom house authorities to guard art treasures valued at many millions and imported by J. Pierpont Morgan from bis European museum to thiB city, during transit to their final des tlnatlon. SLIGHT DISCREPANCY. Cable dispatches from London state Mr. Morgan had placed a valua tion of $20,000,000 on the treasure, while Michael Nathan, aft official as sessor sent abroad by the United States treasury department to inspect the art objects, believes that $50,- 000,000 is a closer estimate of the value of the Morgan collection. FIRST SHIPMENT ARRIVES. The first shipment of the art works already has been received and an other shipment is expected within a few days. Nathan's work abroad is to examine each piece of art not yet packed for shipment, and he notes whether or not It is entitled to ad mission free of duty. TAFT SUPPORTERS PLAN A STATE CONVENTION Boston. March 2. Taft members of the republican state committee had no difficulty today in carrying out an ar rangement for a state convention In April. George B. Smith was named as permanent chairman, and former Con gressman Powers head of the platform committee. Chicago. March 2. The court today ordered the board of election commis sioners to hold a preferential presiden tial primary In Chicago April 9 for all parties. Buffalo, N. Y., March 2. WT. H. Dan iels of Buffalo and Representative James S. Simmons of Niagara Falls, both adherents of President Taft, were chosen as republican primary candi dates for delegate from the Fortieth congressional district to the national convention, last evening. Washington, March 2. President Taft left Washington this afternoon for New York, where tonight he will be the guest of Colonel George Harvey at a dinner given in honor of William Dean HowellB, author. Oyster Bay, March 2. Roosevelt to day took a long horseback ride and put in a few hours chopping trees ' Roosevelt today denied he had assur ed Secretaries Stimson and Meyer he would not accept the presidential nora ination. He said he could not have done so, as he Showed them several weeks ago a letter he (Roosevelt) wrote saying at that time he could make no definite statement as to his position. Detroit Mich., March 2. The demo cratic state central committee today derided to hold the state democratic convention at Bay City, May 5. The committee took no action in respect to various presidential candidates. Seattle, Wash., March 2. W. J. Bryan expressed vigorously today his entire approval of the income tax and free tnpar bills introduced by the house democratic caucus. MRS. CUDAHY FLEES FROM AN INTRUDER Pasadena, Cal., March 2. The police . are searching for a masked man who entered the home of Mrs. "Jack" Cud ahy, divorced wife of the son of the late Chicago packer, and who escaped after pursuing her from her own resi dence to that of a neighbor. Mrs. Cudahy said the Intruder enter ed her home, rushed past her woman companion and seized her. Mrs. Cud ahy struggled toward the front door and managed to open It and run Into the yard. The man followed her to the next bouse, where she fled scream- i ing for help. I Persons who went to her aid saw a j man jump over a back fence. An over coat from which the names of both the maker and owner had been cut was found in the rear of the house. NEUTRALITY URGED IN MEXICO AFFAIRS Washington, March 2. At a cabinet conference today It was deemed ex pedient that the president Issue a proclamation urging that clUsena comply strictly with the neutrality laws of the United States in all mat ters affecting Mexico. Washington, March 2. Senator lxdge of Massachusetts declared at the White house today that the Mexican situation Is about as bad as It could possibly be. In effect the proclamation is a warn ing to Ames to stay out of Mexico. A note will be sent to the American wrn bausador in the city of Mexico direct ing him to Inform Americans located in Mexico to quit the country if the situation grows alarming. Madrid, March 2. The govern ment of Mexico today ordered 10,000 carbines fro ma rifle factory. . . Exploding Locomotive Kills 4. Willlamsport Pa., March 2. Four persons were killed when a Reading locomotive drawing a fast freight train blew ,up in front of the station at Muncy. All tracks were blocked and the station badly wrecked. Governor Eberttart Honored. St Paul, March Notification reached Governor A. O. Eberhart that he haa been elected an honorary mem ber of the Rocky Mountain club of New York city. ... POSSE AT MONTREAL KILLS BANK ROBBER Montreal, March 2. One of five rob bers who broke into a bank at Mont real West fle miles west of this city, was killed in a running fight with citi zens. The other four escaped. The robbers failed to obtain any loot. The four burglars who got away probably owe their escape to the fact they were equipped with snow shoes, and the pursuers ""-re hindered by the D snow. FORMER CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR IS CONVICTED Boston, March 2. Augustus Sea ver, labor candidate for governor of Massachusetts at the last state elec tion, today was found guilty on 24 counts of tiling forged nomination papers. FINE OF $4,000 FOR A M'NAMARA SLEUTH Los Angeles, March 2. Bert H. Franklin, former McNamara defense detective, who plead guilty to a charge oi having tried to Influence a juror in the trial of James 13. McNamara, was fined $4,000 yesterday by Judge H. Ca blniss, who pronounced Franklin's con duct "damnable." The $4,000 now is in the hands of the district attorney end was alleged to have been taken fiom Franklin when he was arrested. charged with having attempted to bribe Venireman George W. Ixckwood three days before the McNamara brothers confessed. Colonel F. E. Persons Dies. Lake Mills, Wis., March 2. Colonel F. F. Parsons, aged &1. editor of a lo cal paper for many pears. Is dead. He was a veteian of the civil war and well known throughout the state. Confederate Veteran 100. Raleigh, N. C. March 2 John Pool, a confederate veteran, celebrated his 100th. birthday anniversary yesterday. Barry Reelected by Pressmen. KnoxviP.e, Tcnn., March 2. The election board of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' union today completed tabulation of the referendum vote on the election of officers. George L, Barry of Rogersvllle, Tenn., is reelected presi dent and Joseph C. Orr of Chicago is reelected secretary. i