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1 ROCK "ISLAND A j Associated Press' i Exclusive Wire SIXTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 212. TUESDAY, JUXE 24, 1913. -FOURTEEN PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. HOI EDITION CABINET HAS A REPORT ON OTAB AFFAIR Facts Are Explained to Officials by Attorney , General M'ReynoIds. TO ISSUE A STATEMENT Latter Will Be Given Out by President Furnishing En tire History. Washington. D. C, June 24. United State's Attorney McXab's resignation, wired Saturday to President Wilson with startling charges that Attorney General McReynolds had ordered de- leys in certain criminal prosecutions I in San Francisco which threatened to defeat justice, 6ti'tl lay unacted upon before the president today. The sltu ttlon was taken up by the cabinet meeting. When the cabinet mpetir.g broke up, the only announcement on the McXab case came from Mc Rey nolds. "The president will issue a state ment on the subject in due course of time," ho said. It is understood McReynolds' re port, presented at the president's di rection, was an oral one, and that Secretary Bryan, a friend of the elder Caminetti, new commissioner general of immigration, whose son is indicted tinder the whito slave law, and Sec retary Ijino, familiar with the affairs of California, participated in the dis cussion, which wan general. The house judiciary committee, at a hearing Thursday, will Investigate Hih delay ordered by Attorney Gen eral McReynolds in the federal prose cutions nt San Francisco of Maury Dlggs and Drew Caminetti, indicted for while slavery, and officers f the Western Fuel company, indicted for conspiracy to defraud the customs. AK (II STIMi OK MrHEl OMS. ..'.. One cf the day's most remarkable devclcpmcutii in the unusual episode was the receipt by the president of a telegram from Clayton Herrington, tpecial agent of the department of Justice in charge of the federal bureau of investigation at San Francisco, de manding the removal from office of Attorney General McReynolds, Her- rlngton's official superior. Officials i declared the question of summary ac tion in Harrington's case probably would be taken up by the attorney general. Assistant Attorney General Harr as cumed full responsibility of the order to Attorney McNab to postpone the trial of Robert Bruce and Sidney V. Smith, directors of the Western Fuel company, on charges of customs coal frauds. This postponement mentioned in Mr. McXab's telegram of resigna tion to the president was ordered, de clared Mr. Harr. to prevent a possible miscarriage of justice. CASK NOT PO!HTPOED. "The trial of the entire Western Fuel case was not ordered postponed. ' Mr. Harr said, "but only the trials of Bruce and Smith who were indicted w lth three other directors of the com pany. Attorney Pringle for the com pany asked that the indictments cf Bruce and Smith be dismissed on the ground of no evidence to connect them with the alleged frauds. I carefully studied the evidence and reached the conclusion that Bruce and Smith prob ably were Innocent. "It seemed unwise, to run the risk of convicting two innocept men along with three men who might be guilty when the ends cf Justice w-ould be fully satisfied by later trials if the government received evidence which It did not then possess of the guilt ot Bruce and Smith." White House officials stated that the character of the new district at torney to be appointed for San Fran cisco wculd show whether or not there could be any manipuuI&Uen of the cases of the department of justice thrct'gh political influences, as had been charged by District Attorney Mc Nab. MrHEYOI.n WOHRIF.D. The attorney geaeral is greatly wor ried by the trouble in which he has involved the administration. A re porter call'.cg at the Caminetti resi dence yesterday was informed that tho commissioner general was away for the day. A few minutes later Mr. HANG ASSASSINS IN PUBLIC SQUARE Constantinople. June 24. Twelre of : ieapej ir0ia the office of the prosecu ths men sentenced to death in canncc-' oa the th,Ti oor of the cour; tioa with the ais-sstnation of Mah-1 houe today iUled himself, moad Shcfkct Pasha, late grand i v: ;;r, were esecatea tms morning in Cava Ide souare. The condemned laea walked to the scaffold with, firm ; bard and refine! su?ar advanced 10 mauer before taa lSiia;uro with a stcpo. Severnl of them delivered ad-1 cente acd all of : grades 15 cents a vicsr ts revaaiinj 6tntui.es v.xicn pro dxcs3es from the scaffold, j hundred toiay. ihibit professional basetall on Sunday. r, I THE WEATHER eorecat Till 7 ?. m. Tomorrow, for Rock Island, Davenport, Mollne, and Vicinity. Unsettled and continued warm weather with thunder showers to night and Wednesday; brisk winds. Temperature at 7 a. m. 73. Highest yesterday 78. lowest last night 71. Velocity of wind at 7 a. m., 5 miles per hour. Precipitation none. Relative humidity at 7 p. m. 79; at 7 a.m. 82. , Stage of water 4.4, a fall of .1 In last 24 hours. J. M. SHERIER. Local Forecaster. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. Evening star: Mercury. Mornins stars: Venus. Snt-Jrn. Mnr. .Inciter. Due east, close m the Iicriin. tbo con stellation Aiuil'a seen part.'y rUea about 10 p. as. McReynolds arrived and remained in Mr. . Caminetti's house for an hour. He det lined to discuss the matter af terward. Commissioner General Caminetti is a respected citizen, who has a long record of efficient service for the peo ple of California. He has been great ly embarrassed by the escapade of his son, who descried a w-'fe and chil dren and with a man named Maury Diggs eloped to Reno with a couple of fc'gh school glr'.s. They were in dicted under the Mann white slave act District Attorney McNab, who resigned as a result of the interference of the a'tomey general in the prose cution, is the republican brother of the deinocra'jc boss of San Francisco. RECEIVER T HOLD OilGAf APPLIED F Eallimore, Md., June 24. Coroner I Abbott of Jacksonville, Fla., and for mer Judge A. Stewart, also of Jack sonville, personal representative of the femily of the late E. O- Painter, a fer tilizer manufacturer, who lost his life in St. John's river a month or two ago, arrived hers today to take part in a three-cornered legal contest for poFsessiou of the viscera of the dead man. The third party to the struggle 1s- the minted States Fidelity" and Guarantee company of Baltimore, which is sued on an accident policy for $20,000 to Painter. The contending factions will mpet later in the district court when the bonding company will demand that the organs be placed in tne hands of a receiver on the ground that the chemist's analysis has not been corn- pieted. The company wants an in dependent examination of the organs made. St,ewart will contend the analy sis has been finished, that no trace of poison w-as found and that the or gans be given to the family. Painter carried life insurance of more than eleven hundred thousand. CHEMIST WINS IN A HUNGER STRIKE London, June 24. Edward Clayton, a chemist who was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment June 1 for con spiracy In conjunction with militant; suffraget leaders, was released from Jail today in a very weak condition as a result of a "hunger strike." It appears from statements by re leased prisoners that many convicts who have not been affiliated with the suffraget movement followed the ex ample of the suffragets. Three men in one prison have for three weeks declined to eat and are being forcibly fed. SAILOR PREFERS DEATH TO ARREST Savannah. Ga., June 24. Rather than submit to arrest for leaving his ship without, permission, T. Eaton, a sea man on the United States ship Taco ma. killed himself la a public square this morning. When his captors ear reunded the sailor, he drew a revol ver. "I'll kill myself before I return," he cried. The next instant he fired a shct into his breast. Mobile. Ala., June 24. H. Clay Mills, naval stores operator of Atjnore, Ala., shot his wife to death and then committed suicide. Jealousy was the cause. Cleveland, Ohio, June 24. On a visit with fc'.s son, Joseph Pucci, 73, cf Vcungstown. Ohio, today climbed to a pier cf the new high level bridge and committed suicide by leaping to the paving in Willey avenue, ICO feet below. Terre Haute, !nd.. June 24. John Eractlinger, charged with' larceny, ; ssucar up to i,enta. New York, June 24. All gridea of IS OR FATE OFSUFF BILL PUT UP TO GOVERNOR Lucey Leaves Way Open to Approve or Veto . Measure. GIVES ALL ARGUMENTS Dunne, It Is Said, Will Take r-..ii -r: nil . ! run i une hi aiuuyiny hii Phases of Subject. Springfield, 111., June 24. Failure of Lieutenant Governor O'Hara up to this time to certify to the governor nearly half of the measures passed by both houses of the assembly may I place many new laws in jeopardy. Of 242 bills passed Dy Doth houses only about half have been delivered to the governor bearing certification of O'Hara and Speaker McKinley that they were properly passed. After tcday on'.y five days exclu she of Sunday are left In which to pass upon bills that are to b.j:ome j laws July 1. This is only half the constitutional time allowed the ex ecutive ia which to approve or veto billE. O'Hara went to Chicago follow ing adjournment and is expected to reach the capitol tonight. There are 69 house bills and nearly as many senate bills awaiting his certification. Governor Dunne is working over time, denying himself to callers, giving his Eole attention to bills before him. VMM. TASK Fl'i.1. TIM K. It was learned today that for the first time since the Tanner adminis tration it will be necessary for the state officers to borrow money to run the government. The governor has until Friday night under the constitutional ten days to pass upon the woman's suffrage bill. Indications ar he will consume full time in acting upon tne measure, de spite the fact that suffrage leaders expected him to approve the bill to day. IS I P TO (iOVERXOR. Attorney General Lucey has pre pared an opinion relative to the wom an suffrage bill which will leave GOV' ernor Dunne free to sign or veto th measure. Instead of giving a flat opinion one way or the other the attorney gen era! has tabulated the argument in support of its constitutionality. ani those offered against it. The govern, or will be allowed to draw his own conclusions from the conflicting views thus set forth. In view of his publicly expressed intention to sign the bill if no con stitutional objection of ' sufficient weight was advanced, none cf the suf frage leaders has any doubt he will sign .it. Tremendous pressure, how ever, still is being brought .to bear to have him veto it. BY CONSTITl'TIOXAt. AMENDMENT. With reference to the fundamental question as to whether or not the leg islature may grant suffrage to women fcr statutory offices. Attorney Gener al Lucey's opinion includes a refer ence to the fact that the western states which have given women the ballot have done so by a constitutional amendment and not by legislative en actment. Other states, however, have given women complete suffrage, whereas in Illinois the legislature ha granted the right to vote only in the case of those offices not created by the constitution. Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, Mrs. Sher man M. Booth and Mrs. Antoinette Funk, members of the sufirage lobby, are still here awaiting action on tne bill. They will be present when the governor attaches his signature. SEE ROCKS AIIK1AD. Chicago, June 24. A special to the Daily Xews from Springfield states that Governor Dunne will sign the woman's suffrage bill today. In po litical circles the special saya it is gossip that there are legal rocks ahead for the women, that the con stitutionality of the law will be test ed in the courts. It is said the gover nor will use three pens in affixing his signature in order to have a souvenir for each of the three women who have been foremost in pushing the suffrage fight. MAYORS IN FAVOR OF SUNDAY PLAY New York, June 24. A referendum vote taken among the mayors of 50 cities la New York state show an over whelming majority in favor of Sunday bnsebaii. Out of 32 mayors Toting 27 endorse Sunday playing, while five are ag&inst It. In view cf the vote & resolution baa been sent Governor I Euissr requesting that he place tht i ' "'V cooum'T STOP fxxc GOT vvk ) xovrt wi-moor & -HtS foWT loomh' voo up INCOME LEVY ftlBT allfRI I El I Ill Hill lUl IVI I Ell UU I UU If II 111 TARIFF DRAFT Washington, June 24. In revised sections of the tariff bill reported late today by the finance committee detn-r, ocrats the income tax feature is re- vised to exempt any portion of mu-1 tual iife insurance premiums actually return H tr nnlinvhnlrtpro ae liiulrtoritis - - ' , - - - - ' Another amendment would empower the president to suspend duties or as sess higher ones against nations dis criminating against the Unifd States in commerce. The income tax general exemption was cut from 4,000 to ?3,000, plus Jl.OflO fcr a married man with a de pendent wife or a married woman with a dependent husband, and $500 additional for a minor child living with and dependent upon a taxable parent. FIRM COLLAPSES; PARTNER SUICIDE Glasgow, Scotland, June 24. Peter Donaldson, partner in the firm of Watson & Co., iron brokers, which suspended payment June 11, drowned himself today in Kilcreggan, a water ing place on the Clyde. The body was found in the river with a dumb bell tied around the neck and another at tached to one of the legs. A meeting of creditors of the firm has been call ed for today in Glasgow. Chattanooga, Tenn., June 24. Peter Donaldson, who committed suicide by drowning at Kilcreggan, was presi dent and managing director of the Day ton Coal & Iron company of Dayton, Ohio. He is said to be the largest holder cf the company's stock. BRITISH WARMLY GREET POINCARE London, June 24. The friendly feel ing between Great Britain and France was manifested today on the arrival of Raymond Poincare, president of the French republic. He will be the guest of King George and the British nation until June 27. All newspapers In edi torial articles heartily welcomed the president. Poincare arrived off Portsmouth early this morning. After passing In review a notable gathering of Brit ish war vessels, he landed in the dockyard and was met by the young Prince of Wales, who on this, his first representative function, displayed great composure. The president and prince, accompanied by a brilliant staff of military and naval officers, de parted on the royal train for London. King George was at Victoria station to greet President Poincare. BODIES ARE RECOVERED 'All the Victims of the Keokuk Drown ! ing Have Now Eaen Found. I Keokuk, Iowa, June 24. The two re- malning victims of the five who were 1 drowned in Al Gross' launch Int MOST ANY DAY NOW Thursday night, were brought to the surface by searchers about a half mile above the Keokuk dam. Mayme Wil son, the first member of the ill-fated Part-V- was found Saturday morning. Late Sunc3av afternoon the remains of Jhn Laughlin and Mrs' Mary Wr'Knt bodies of Mrs. Pauline Marks and Al fred Gross, owner of the launch, were taken out Sunday afternoon. The manner in which the accident occurred will perhaps never be known. It is supposed, however, that the engine "went dead" and the nartv ornt Into B j the waves of the steamer W. W., caus- no iife.preServer8. . QflfIIT Q Dl!ljrnO X lj II jj "I X lj f 1 1 S U " " " IHrllll Wmt I OFF FOR GHICAGO Washington, D. C, June 24. At tired in a Nvhite linen suit and with the eyes of a great crowd upon him, President Wilson stood on the porch of the White house at 9:30 this morn-. ing and placed a message of felicita tion to Mayor Harrison of Chicago in the haversack of Fred Keed, the first of a string of Boy Scouts relay run ners, who are to bear it to Chicago. Reed, a picture of health and athletic development, in sleevless shirt and running costume, stepped up to the front door and saluted the president, who returned it. Placing the careful ly rolled message In the pouch which Reed extended, the president with a wave of the hand started the race, and the first runner with a long stride darted away on the firs, relay, a mile off. Secretary Lane, Secre tary Tumulty and members of the president's family were grouped on the steps while moving picture ma chines recorded the start. The first few relays were for short distances in the city, but after the district line was reached it was planned to have each of the Boy Scouts run a mile. Three automobile loads of Scouts es corted the runners out of town. The runners are due in Chicago June 28. DUBUQUE TWIRLER GOES TO WHITE SOX IS RUMOR Dubuque, Iowa, June 24. Although Manager Rowland denies it, the re port is persistent that Pitcher Jasper has been sold to Comiskey for $5,000 and that Comiskey will send a pitch er in exchange. Private Papera Missing. Albany. June 24. Three senators complained today that during a recess cf the legislature their committea rooms were entered and private pa pers are missing. One ot the rooms was used by members of Governor Suizer's primary campaign committee. CINCINNATI IDLE INCREASE 11,000 Cincinnati. Ohio, June 24. Eleven thousand garment workers in Cincin nati, Reading, Mount Heaithy, sub urbs, and Newport and Covington, Ky., went cn strike today and prac tically all saots aad factories are at a standstill. The Voacn demand 43 hours a week, the men the same, or -50 hours with an Increase of 10 pr cent The deadlock between ice manufac turers and striking drivers, helpers. engineers and firemen continued to day. The weather of the lz.U three Cays has kept suffering acong the people at a minimum. 1 X (9 PERATIONIS EATH CAUSE IN GIRLCASE Salisbury, Md., June 24. Despite efforts nf.tho authorities to. keen secret the developments In the inves tigation of the death of Miss Florence Wainwright, a stenographer, found dead in the office of the Home Ga company Friday night, it is now known the woman did not die o poison, as first thought, but from criminal operation, performed, it supposed, Friday afternoon in a yard back of the company's office. It is surmised at least three persons were present when she died. That she did not die at her desk seems certain. In all probability she was carried into the office and placed at the desk, the position in which she was found. NEW SHIP'S GREW POORLY TREATED Hoboken, N. J., June 24. A thou sand members of the crew of the giant liner Imperator, now in this port, held a mass meeting last night and adopt ed resolutions denouncing working conditions on the vessel, demanding better food, better sleeping accommo dations and a nine-hour day. The resolution will be presented to the Imperator's commander. The pro- testants include stewards, pantry cooks, coal trimmers and firemen. Speakers who exhorted them said th men had been "treated like pigs, coarsely fed, overworked, their quar ters crowded, 1G hours a day was not unusual, and the sanitary equipmen was Inadequate." The Imperator Is the largest vess in the world. She 13 on her maiden trip from Germany. ' FEST OF TURNERS OPENS IN DENVER Denver, Colo., June 24. Booming of a battery of 12 'guns manipulated by artillerymen of the Colorado Nation al Guard and signalling the arrival into the city of President Stempfel and officers of his party from Indian apolis, announced tbo formal opening at this morning of the 31st bundes turafast or olympiad of the. North American Gymnastic union. The for mal reception to officials was at the new stadium in Lakeside park, erect ed especially for the holding of ath letic contests ond other features of the week's program incident to thi Olympiad. An iiiuaenso throng gath ered at the park ts vrimess the calis thenics s-nd flag drill, rehoarsed by 8,000 children uni;er the direction of PrcfoEsor ocntniit, superintendent of gymnastics cf the public schools of Denver. Duke o." Sutherland lil. London, June 24. The duke ! i Sutherland is critically ill at tia Lon don home. He Is C2. FFIGIALS OF IG CONCERN IVE UP JOBS Uncle Sam on Trail of Affairs of Independent Harvester Co. FARMERS ARE VICTIMS Latter Complain of Having Been Sold Stock at Inflated Prices. Chicago, June 24. The officers and directors of the Independent Harves ter company, a $10,000,000 corporation. whose methods of stock selling has been under investigation by the de partment of Justice, will resign this afternoon, according to Stephen Greg ory, attorney for the company. The action will be taken at Piano, 111., where the main plant is located. The concern was organized in 1905, with 27,000 stockholders, mostly farm ers. The announced policy waa to fight the so-called harvester trust by cooperative action of the stockhold ers. Last January farmers holding $6,000,000 of the stock held an indig nation meeting at which it waa as serted the stock had been sold to the farmers at an inflated price, and it was demanded that President Thomp son account for $350,000 in stock al leged to be held by him. He declined and the matter was placed in the B G hands of the department of Justice. A civil suit was also instituted. Much stock is said to have been sold . . through the use of the mails. nESIGXATIOS EX PKCTED. The company officers who are ex pected to resign are: W. C. Thompson, Chicago, president; Ning Eley, Des Plalnes, secretary, and A. K. Went worth, Chicago; Joseph Boda, Piano; A. L. Lye, Piano; W. W. Parish, Jr., Momence; Robert McLeod, Jacobs, 111., flirer.rors. . ,. ,, . , . . The grand Jury investigation Is said to rv centered around the acts of Mr. ' Thompson as president of the corpora tion. The principal feature of the in vestigation has been the use of the mails in Betting forth the value of stock in the concern and the financial condition of the company. The resignations of th directorate may solve the problem which is con fronting the department of justice. 8TEWAIII) FOIt XEW HEAD. Aurora, III., June 24. It was an nounced this afternoon that Deerlng Steward, former mayor of Piano, who has been an active candidate for con troller of the currency, would be elect ed president of the Piano Independent Harvester company, which held a re organization meeting today. TAYLOR "STILL ENGLAND AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPION Hclly Lake, Eng., June 24. J. H. Taylor, four times holder of the Brit ish open golf championship, won it again hero today with a score of 304 for four round3. The score of the first round was 73, the second 75, the third 77 and the fourth 79 strokes. ANTI-FREE SUGAR VOTES SUPPORT AN AMENDMENT Washington, Juno 24. Anti-free sugar democrats got together in a .senate caucus today, and agreed to support the amendment by Shaffroth, to eliminate the provision for free sugar in 1516 and substitute a duty of approximately one-half a cent a pound after that time cn refined sugar. AGE IS TELLING ON WIFE OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Cleveland, Ohio, Juno 24. John D. Rockefeller, accompanied by Mrs. Rockefeller and her sister. Miss Lucy Spelman, and a squad of servants, ar rived today to spend the summer at their Forest Hill home. Mrs. Rocke feller appeared feeble as her husband supported h:r from a jfflvate car to an automobile. Fight Beef Trust Via Canal. Lonaon, June 24. The Morning Post states that preliminary steps are be ing taken by several leading shipping companies interested in the chilled meat trade between South America and the United Kingdom to unite in fighting the American beef trust in f'.e British market The scheme provides for the construction of a fleet ot steamships ot special design for use by way of the Panama canal. RAZOR 110 WEAPON DOWN IN IISSIFP Jackson, Mis3., June 24. The su preme court ot Mississippi yestsrday held that a raz3r is not weapon, but an "implement of the toilet" The ' conviction of Junius Erowo, a negro, for carrying concealed weapons w as iizi a.-lue. "NT