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VOL LV. NO. 92
NORWICH, CONN., THURSDAY, APRIL 47, "1913
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The Bulletin's Circulation In Norwich is Double That of Any Other Paper, and Its Total Circulation is the Largest in Connecticut in Proportion-to the .City's Population
PROF. WILLIS L.
Chief of the Weather Bureau Summarily Removed
From Office by
A POLITICAL RIVAL OF
Was Aspirant For Place in Cabinet Now Occupied by Latter
Is Now Accused of Grave Irregularity Moore As
serts That He is a Victim of Same Influences That Har
assed Dr. Wiley Makes Bitter Attack on Houston.
Washington, April 16 Prof. Willis
L. Moore, chief of the weather bu
reau since 1895, and an appointee of
the Cleveland administration, to lay
was summarily removed from office by
Fresident Wilson. His resignation re
cently had been accepted, to take ef
fect July 31. but after an investigation
of his alleged efforts to become secre
tary of agriculture in the present cab
inet, grave charges'of Irregularity were
preferred, and the president today
withdrew his acceptance of the resig
nation, dismissing Professor Moore.
Later he referred the subject to the
" department of justice for inquiry.
Secretary Houston's Statement.
Secretary Houston of the agricul
tural department conferred with the
president before the removal of Mr.
Moore was announced. The secretary
then" Issued the following statement:
'Immediately after the resignation
of Professor Moore of the weather
bureau was submitted to tne president
and accepted by him, charges were
filed with the secretary of agriculture
by responsible men within the service.
These charges were of such a, grave
nature that the secretary of agricul
ture tailed upon the department oil
justice for an Investigation.
Employe Also Suspended.
"The investigation Is still under
way, but the facts so far secured aud
laid before the president yesterday
. were sufficient to warrant him in de
' ciding to withdraw his acceptance of
Professor Moore's resignation and re
move him summarily, which has been
done today. The president has also
directed the secretary of agriculture
to suspend Charles T. Burns, an em
ploye of the weather bureau, pending
a further investigation of his caese.
and take such disciplinary measures
as he may deem necessary with such
other emploves of the. weather bureau
as may be found to have been unduly
ctlve In using the public service for
private and personal ends." . -
Professor Moor Makes Statement.
Unofficially it wm said at the Whit
House that the campaign to make Mr.
Moore secretary of agriculture had
been extensive, that members of con
cress In various parts of the country
had been canvassed and that a letter
. writing campaign bad been conducted
1 unong weather bureau employes.
Professor Moore issued a statement
tonight declaring that the same Influ
ences that attempted to "disgrace and
remove Dr. Harvey W. Wiley" were
iesooneible for his removal and brand-n-
as "infamously false" any intima
ion that he had coerced employes of
he weather bureau in supporting him
or the secretaryship or that publio
Vtoney had been expended in his can
didacy. . His statement follows:
-Same Old Influences at Work."
'I am in receipt of a letter from he
fresident of the United States saying
hat an investigation of my conduct of
he business of the weather bureau
discloses such irregularities on my
part that the interests of the public
CAME 3;0C0 MILES FOR
FRIEDMANN TREATMENT.
'Judge CooTey of New. Mexico Arrives
at Providence in Private Car.
Providence, R. I., April 16. Ending
st journey of 3.000 miles undertaken to
enable him to receive treatment for
tuberculosis from Dr. Friedrich F.
Friedmann, Judge Alford W. Cooley,
former associato justice of the New
Mexico supreme court and a former
assistant United States attorney gen
era, arrived hero tonight.
Mr. Cooley, who has been under
treatment atjtho government sanitari
um at Silver City. N. M.. came with
his wife in the private car of Larz
Anderson, recently United States am
bassador to Japan.
On their way home from Japan Mr.
and Mrs. Anderson stopped for a time
in New Mexico and offered Judge and
Mrs. Cooley the hospitality of their car
for the Journe yeast. Mrs. Cooley is
an old friend of Mrs. Anderson. To
night Judge and Mrs. Cooley went to
the residence here -of State Senator R.
Livingston Beeckman. Dr. Friedmann
took the patient under nis care imme
diately upon arrival.
An invitation to give public and pri
vate treatments in Connecticut was
received by Dr. Friedmann this after
noon from John F. Gunshanan, chair
man of the Connecticut State Tuber
culosis association. The latter stated
that the invitation was extended wttn
the knowledge and consent of Gover
nor Baldwin.
NO CHOICE MADE FOR
PRESIDENT. GENERAL.
Another Ballot Will Be Taken Today
, at D. A. R. Convention.
Washington. April 16. Count to
night of the ballots cast for president-s-eneral
of the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution, in annual congress
hre. disclosed that there had been no
election, the vote being divided so that
no one or the tnree candidates naa
mustered a majority, . Mrs. John Mil
ler Horton of Buffalo, N. Y got 619;
Mrs. William Cummings Story, New
York city, S56, and Mrs. Charles B.
Bryan, Memphis, Tenn., 103. On the
face of the ballots cast 590 votes were
necessary to elect. .. Balioting will be
resumed tomorrow. . 7 .
OBITUARY,
Bishop of Guatemala.
Guatemala. City. April 16. The Mast
- Xtev. Rteardo jC&s&nova y Estrada,
biabow of Guatemala and of all -Central
Af4rlca, dl-d Monday,
Lost Over $20000 at Roulette.
Hot Springs, Ark., Aprii 16 A rou
lette wtieet with al its electrical at
tax.hra.ent8 was set up and operated
n tbo circuit court' today ia the trial
of Ed, Spear, one of 'the defendants
'ia tb oases in which jt is charged
that Frank P. Fox, at Terre Haute,
Ind.. was fleeced out of -. more . -than
MOORE DISMISSED
President Wilson
SECRETARY HOUSTON
service demand my immediate re
moval. "In reply I will say that it is the
t-ame old influences that attempted to
disgrace and remove Dr. Harvey W.
Wiley without letting him see the
charges against him or confront lUs
accusers that is now driving me from
the public service.
"As an aspirant for the secretary
ship of agriculture I announced that I
would, if appointed, revoke the ben
zoate of eoda decision, abolish the
Remsen board, or any other extra ju
dicial body in the department that I
thought had been designed for the
purpose of minimizing the effective
ness of the pure food and meat in
spection laws, rather than in aiding in
their efficient enforcement, and that I
would restrain the activities of the
solicitor's office to reasonable prerog
atives and reorganize the department.
Third Degree Methods Employee.
"I was not selected, and of course
have no complaint on that ground.
But Secretary Houston almost imme
diately upon entering office demanded
that I forward to t-he president my
resignation, without ever having stt
foot into the office of the weather bu
reau, without honoring my request to
see such charges as might have been
filed against me. or permit me to face
my accusers, or to be present in per
son or by proxy and examine the wit
i.esses whom he summoned against
me. Literally, third degree methods
were applied to my friends in the
weather bureau under such penalties i
that they did tot dare to speak to me
and then a report made to the presi
dent that had for its -object the driving
me in disgrace from a service where I
had had an honorable career for over
a third of a century
Houston's Russian-Siberian Methods.
"I do not believe that the great com
mercial, agricultural, marine, educa
tional and labor organizations that
have known me for nearly twenty
years as the chief of the weather bu
reau, and who largely endorsed me
for a cabinet place, will be satisfied
that I have -jflone anything dishonor
able until the light of publicity is let
In and Secretary Houston's Russian
Siberian methods give way to Ameri
can fair play. .
"I brand as Infamously false the
Intimation, that any man in the
weather bureau has been coerced into
supporting me for the secretaryship,
any ma.ntpromoted for serving me, or
a dollar of public money expended in
my candidacy. 1 worked for the place
and Bpent my own money, and so did
many of my friends. Is this a crime
under the new dispensation of things?
Gladly Welcomes Investigation.
"I shall gladly welcome any inves
tigation to which the press is admit
ted; and why limit the ino.uiry to the
weather bureau? It has always had a
clean bill of health from every inves
tigating committee that has looked
into its affairs, which is something
which cannot be said of several bu
reaus in the department to which
Secretary Houston's methods have not
been applied."
WASHINGTON POLICE
CAPTAINS TESTIFY.
Declare Every Effort Was Made to
Protect Suffragist Paraders.
"Washington, April 16 Police Cap
tains who commanded detachments
on Pennsylvania avenue March 3rd
during the suffragette parade rallied
to the dfense of their department to
day when the senate sub-committee
resumed hearing of the charges of po
lice neglect and inefficiency made by
the women marchers.
Six Captains, a lieutenant and two
sergeants told practically the same
story. In their opinion Major Rich
ard Sylvester, their chief, did every
thing possible to preserve order and
protect the marchers and the ofHeers
and men under him did their best to
carry out his instructions. The cap
tains declared that if they had been
permitted to stop the street car traf
fic two hours sooner than they did.
they would have had little trouble
controlling the crowds and protecting
the parade. Several officers said there
were not enough regular policemen to
handle the crowds and added that
the hundreds of "specials" sworn in
for duty that day were praetleally
useless because of lack of training
and discipline and the fact that they
were not in uniform.
Dr. Arthur M. Zinkham, an interna
from the emergency - hospital told
about being stopped on the avenue
while making a run back to that in
stitution by a man who stepped out
of the line of march and waved a
cane in his. driver's face. He said he
learned the next day that it was Sen
ator Poindexter.
PROGRESSIVE GUILTY
OF SELLING HIS VOTE.
Ordered Expelled From New Hamp
shire House of Representatives.
Concord, N, H., April 16 Charges
of offering to sell his vote, preferred
agaiast Representative Clifford L.
Snow of Manchester, were upheld by
the house of representatives today, and
he was ordered expelled. The vote was
177 to 119, Party lines were elimin
ated in the Balloting, Snow was elect
ed to the legislature as a republican
but afterward joined the progressives
aad. during tke last few weeks had
voted with the democrats.
The expulsion is the first in the
history of the New Hampshire legis
lature,
Train Cuts Bedy in Two,
Hartford, Conn., April 16. Tony
Piacentini, a laborer, was killed to
night at the Avon street crossing by a
New Haves-beund train. There were
no eyewitnesses and little is known of
the dead man. His body was cut in
two.
Wilson's First Cabinet Dinner.
Washington, April 16. . President
and Mrs. Wilson tonight gave their
first dinner for the cabinet at the
White House. i
Cabled Paragraphs
Aviator Wins Cup and $5,000.
Monte Carlo. April 16. Maurice Pre
vost, a French aviator and. a pupil
of Vedrines, today won the Schneider
cup tor hydro-aeroplanes which car
ries with it a prize of ?5,U0U.
A $38,500,000 Japanese Loan.
Tokio, Japan. April 16. It is ofli
cially announced here that arrange
ments have been concluded for the
issue in Paris of a Japanese loan of
OC EArt .Art r- j.
oo,uvu,uvu &l o per cenu
Aviator's Transatlantic Trip.
Las Palmas. Canary Islands. April
16. Joseph Brucker, according to his
announced plan, will start on his
transatlantic flight to the West Indies
in the dirigible balloon Suchard II to
morrow morning between 2 and 5
o'clock. ,i ,
Suffragettes Mobbed Again.
London, April 16. Suffragettes car
rying sandwich boards advertising a
militant meeting at Islington were at
tacked today by other women who
seized the bdards and belabored the
suffragettes with them. Hats were
smashed and clothing was torn. The
suffragettes were being badly mauled
when the police arrived and escorted
the women to a place of safety, fol
lowed, by a jeering mob.
Franco-German Brawl.
Paris. April 16. The French "gov
ernment at the Request of the Ger
man foreign office has ordered an in
vestigation into a brawl between
Grench students and German civilian
visitors last Sunday evening at Nancy
where five Germans including two
women are said' to have been insult d
first in a place of entertainment, again
in a restaurant and finally at the
railroad station. ,
CHARGE AGAINST LAWYERS
OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Waterbury Speaker Says They Re
ceived Retainer from Railroad
Senate Orders an Investigation.'
Hartford, Conn.. April 16. In the
midst of business thie afternoon in
the upper branch of the general as
sembly, a surprise was sprung by
Senator McDonough, democratic lead
er, in offering a resolution raising a
joint committee to i investigate the
charge of Edward F. Cole of Water
bury, a lawyer, made in Waterbury, on
Monday, to the effect that the lawyers
in the legislature had received re
tainers from the New Haven road.
Aside from half a dozen members of
both branches there did not-seem to
te general knowledge of the alleged
statements of Mr. Cole, but Senator
McDonough explained the nature of
the charge and the resolution went
through with a rush. As it is under
stood that Mr. Cole had mentioned
certain members of the house in his
charge, a concurrent adoption of the
resolution tomorrow is, assured. Sen
ator Miner accepted the chairmanship
of the investigation comciittee after
three other senators had declined.
37 Lawyers in Legislature.
It was stated that Mr. Cole had
charged that the lawyers in the sen
ate had each received a $1,000 retain
ing fee while in the house the lawyers
had their fee fixed at $300. There
are nine lawyers in the upper body
and 28 in the house. The proposed
inquiry which is aimed to make Mr.
Cole prove his charges or retract, ac
cording to the statement of Senator
McDonough, has been approved by the
governor.
The session was a busy one on both
floors of the capital. The senate sat
until 2.20 and would have continued
had not s.o many senators slipped out
to get a bit of lunch. The house was
practically forced to quit as the Nor
walk citizens had hearings in the
chamber on matters affecting that
town,
A Fire Insurance Fund.
Many of the important bills of the
session are coming in rapidly. The
senate voted to make the state its own
insurer against fire of its own build
ings Instead of paying $30,000 a year
in commissions to insurance agents.
Should the house agree the bill pro
vides for inception of a fund to meet
any fire losses. .
The campaign against exploitation
of oil stocks in the state resulted in
a bill requiring that all such stocks
must be approved toy the building and
loan commissioner; .and raising the
fee for permission to'sell such stccks
from $25 to $100.- -
Senate Favors Friday Sessions.
A bill went into the house which
gives the park commissioners the ri;?ht
to provide Sunday afternoon concerts
in parks, and to sell food and harm
less drinks, there at the same time.
This is a municipal bill applying di
rectly to Hartford, much the same
ground being covered in the Gross bill,
also reported earlier from the same
committee.
Chief among other measures report
ed are those to control the sale of
narcotics, against the repeal of the
compulsory vaccination law. provid
ing for labelling of cold storage eggs,
a bill to compel placing of fire es
capes on school houses, and against
millions in appropriations for steam
ship terminals and docks at New Ha
ven and Bridgeport.
In spite of opposition the senate
went on record as favorig Fri3ay ses
sions beginning next week.
Cardinal Gibbons Leaves for Italy.
Pittsburg, A.pril 18. Cardinal Gib
bons here tonight has cancelled all
future engagements and will leave as
scon as possible for a seaport town
fiom which place he can embark to
Rome at a moment's notice.
i
MURDER DUE TO AN
OLD LOVE INTRIGUE.
Theory of Police In Case of Death of a
Wealthy Tailor.
Chicago, April 16 Detectives inves
tigating the mystery Burrounding the
death of George Dietz. a wealthy tail
or, found brutally murdered at his
home on Monday, were of the opinion
that a love intrigue of five years lay
ac the bottom e the affair, A man
and a woman are sought, and it is ad
mitted that the actual murderer has
not yet been arrested.
The widow of the slain man beeame
the eenter of interest in today's devel
opments. Statements made by George
NurnbeFg, a harness maker, arrested
last night and questioned by the pelice
regarding his relations with the Dietz
family, were to the effect that ha and
Sirs. Dietz haa met several times and
that recently they had made a trip te
a siWHiro. - - - .
The two are said to have been
watched by detectives hired by Mrs.
Nurnberg. These detectives, it is as
serted, went te Dietz last week and
informed him of "what they had dis-r
covered. Mrs. Diets when questioned
denied that she had gone to the su
burb with Niirnberg or that their' re
lations were anything but frinedly. in
the laet assertion she waa corroborated
by Nurnberg. , .
Dietz was buried today, and detec
tives accompanied Mrs. Dietz and the
other mourners to the cemetery. -To-
mail policemen cuarded the ' Dietz
home.
Didn't Want to
Arrest Mellen
ALLEGED STATEMENT OF ATTOR-
NEY JUDSON.
AFFIDAVIT OF CLERK
Describes in Detail Telephone Conver
sation in Which Man at Other End
of Wire Said He Was Prosecutor.
New Haven. Conn., April 16. "Vice
President E. "G. Buckland of the New
York, New Haven an Hartford. Rail
road company tonight -made public
the affidavit of Harrv E. Friend, a
clerk in his office, who, he says, took
the telephone message of State At
torney Stiles Judson on AnH) . in
which the latter requested that Pres
ident Mellen be notified of the course
being taken by counsel for the offi
cials in the trial over the Westport
wrecK. - - .
During the day. Mr. Buckland made'
a statement, denying the statements
made by the' state attornev in the
bench warrant proceed insrs 'vesterdav
to the effect that his confidence had
been violated. Mr. Judson replied
in which he said: "I made no threat
or suggestion as to what Mr. --Mellon
should do and any man who says I
did, is a deliberate falsifier."
Affidavit of Buckland's Cierk.
After reading Mr. -Judson's state-'
ment, Mr. Buckland made Dublic the
affidavit of his clerk, whic was sworn
to before Maurice K. Dugan. a notary
putolic, on April 10. The affidavit ir.
part asserts that Mr. Friend is a clerk
and stenographer in the office of .Mr.
Buckland. "At about twenty minutes
past five in the afternoon of April 8."
the affidavit says, "1 was called to the
telephone and substantially the fol
lowing conversation . took place:
A voice asked. Is this Mr. Buck-
land's stenographer?' I replied, 'Yes
sir.' The voice replied. 'I am Attor
ney Stiles Judson of Bridgeport, at
torney for the state in the case aamst
the New Haven road in the Westport
matter. The message I am to give
you must be treated as absoluielv
confidential and given to no one but
Mr. Buckland, who will probably want
to get it to Mr. Mellen right awav.'
I replied, 'Yes sir.' The following is
the message then given to me by the
voice, which I took down in short
hand exactly as given: ...
Did Not Want to Trouble Mellen.
" 'I have from the beginning of this
affair thought to avoid the necessitv
of troubling Mr. Mellen. The lawyer
for- these defendants have submitted
motions that were argued this after
noon and .will be decided tomorrow
morning and if they are granted s it
will end this case. In that event I
will be obMged to file a new informa
tion and arrest Mr. Mellen on a 'bench
warrant. I do not want to do this.
I do not know whether he is aware
that the lawyers are handling the
defense in' this manner, I understand
he is fought by Mr. Horn. He seems
to be against Mr. Mellen, while the
other three men are in his favor. I
do not know whether Mr. Horn may
have put it up to the lawyers in this
way, but I think j'ou ought to get
this information to Mr. Mellen right
away and if necessary change the de
fense.' Mr. Judson then added: 'Mr.
Buckland will probably want to gt
in touch with me. I will be at home ,
all evening, telephone 718 ring 3,
Bridgeport.' "
A Second Conversation.
The deponent further 'says that at
about twenty-five minutes past three
on the afternoon of April 9, Mr. Judson
again called the office and sent the
following message to Mr. Buckland:
"It took the course that I suspected
it wouia. Tne court granted a mo
tion for eparate trials and that end
ed this case, because it could not be
tried in such a way. The court has
granted my motion for bench war
rants against Mr. Mellen and also' Mr.
McHenry and has adjourned the court
until Friday without jury to enable
these gentlemen to make an appear
ance and, get bail. I assume that they
will appear with their , own lawyers
at which time I will consult with them
as to what would be a fair time for
trial. . Of course I do not expect Mr.
Mellen is going to go right to trial
because that would not be fair. Have
you got the whole scope of it? Tell
Mr. Buckland that the court will ex
pect these two gentlemen to put in
an appearance at the countv- court
house on Friday at two o'clock, at
which time they will give formal tail
and that is all they neetj to concern
themselves with it until the date is
fixed for trial. I suggested that be
cause I want to save them the indig
nity of a sheriff going after them t
,'Xew Haven. I did that with the
others.
(Signed)
"HARRY B. FRIEND."
SENATE BILL BARS
EUROPEAN CAPITAL.
Measure Before California's Upper
House is Sweeping.
Sacramento, Cal..' April 16. Not the
exclusion of the Japanese farmer, but
the probable effect of the proposed
alien land law on European capital in
vested in the state, is now the princi
pal issue involved in discussion of the
bills proposing to restrict the rights of
foreigners in California, one of which
was passed yesterday by the' assem
bly, Protest has arisen from representa
tives of English and continental syn
dicates and a stronger influence than
that represented by the formal com
plaints of the Japanese government is
b eingbrought to bear in an effort to
kill the measures altogether or to
amend them in such a way as te af
fect only the Japanese.
The assembly bill passed yesterday
permits corporations controlled by
persons eligible to citizenship to own
property, but the (senate bill, pow
awaiting a vote, makes- no distinction
in races. The seHate-bill is in line
with the sentiment heretofore existing
against giving offense to Japan by dis
erimiHating ia favor ef the subjects of
any nation.
The senate bill classes ail foreign
syndicates and corporations as aliens
and it is admitted that if the wording
of the act be retained it will be im
passible te exempt Europeans.
Rebels Capture Jiminez.
El Paso. Tex., April 16. Jiiainez, a
town of 5,06$ inhabitants between Chi
huahua City and Torreon, was taken
yesterday by constitutionalists after a
brief'battle with a small federaT gar
rison, according to a report received
tonight.
Two Great Iceberqs 169 Miles north
of the trans-Atlantic steamship lanes
and moving southward were dis
covered by the revenue cutter 3ea
eca oh April 12.
Coughing Taxes
Pope's Strength
CONDITION REMAINS PRACTI
CALLY STATIONARY.
HOT BATHS NECESSARY
Condition of Albuminuria Has Reap
peared and Bronchial Affection Re
mains Greatly Refreshed by Sleep.
Rome, April 16. The bulletins is
sued by the physicians today indicated
that the condition Ofthe pope is prac
tically stationary. Yrhe evening bul
letin was of a more optimistic tone as
it indicated that the temperature was
normal and that there had . been no
recurrence of the usual night fever-.
The fact, however, that the bron
chial affection is not tending to dis
appear detracts somewhat from the
hopeful character of the report, as
the occasional paroxysms of cough
ing is taxing the strength of the pa
tient, who already has been under a
great strain.
Hot Baths Ordered.
The condition of albuminuria' has re-'
appeared and to relieve the kidneys
hot baths have been ordered.
Dr. Andrea Amici paid a visit to
the Vatican at 11 o'clock tonight and,
according to his announcement, found
only a slight elevation in. the tem
perature and other conditions satis
factory. He reported to Cardinal
Merry del al. who personally u a'-Ci-
es at the pope's bedside most of the
day and during the early hours of ti e
night and later telephones his obser
vations to Professor Marchiafava, wno
has been connected with the Vatican
by special wire.
Refreshed by Rest.
Further improvement in the pope's
condition was shown by the fa3t that
he was able to retain a quantity
of chic-ken jelly and that he sloi-it
peacefully fori a- considerable ti:rie.
Early in the evening he acknowledged
that he was feeling the benefits of
the absolute rest imposed upon him
and that he felt more inclined lo sleep
naturally than at any time since his
illness.
The pope is extremely concerned at
the trouble he gives to those around
him, often expressing to them his d-aep.
gratitude especially those who assist
him at night, repeatedly urging, them
to go to bed and sometimes his in
sistence is so marked that in order
to satisfy him they leave" the room.
'Great Lover of Music.
All his Ufa the pope has been a great
lover"of musich The composer, Mgr.
Lorenzo Perosi, owes him much, as
the pope aided him to attain -success.
The two were great friends when
the pontiff was patriarch of Venice.
- Once raised to the pontifical .chair,
he did not forget the young composer,
whom he took to Rome with him aad
allowed him, contrary to the tradition
of the .papacy, to share his meals.
With the aid of Perosi he accom
plished those reforms in church music
which were among the first manifes
tations of his papal activity "and re
stored the Gregorian chant to its orig
inal character and place . in the
church. ,
- Soothed by - Hymns and Chants.
His love for music seems to have
been accentuated by his illness, the
pontiff often asking for favorite hymns
and chants, which seemed to soothe
his restlessness and pain. And durinir
the most trying period of his sickness
he lay listening to the tones of a
small organ in the adjoining chapel.
It seemed incongruous, this sound of
music Jrom the room next th:it in
which the august patienf sufferel.
CRANE TO SUCCEED
GUILD IN
RUSSIA
Chicago-Man Likely to Be Nominated
for Ambassador. '
Washington, April 16. Charles R.
Crane of Chicago in all likelihood -soon
will be nominated ambassador to Rus
sia. Developments today indicated that
the plan-which has just become known
to have Curtis Guild continue as am
bassador at St. Petersburg until such
time as Mr. Crane could, arrange his
business affairs in this country, has
been somewhat disarranged by the ap
plication of Mr. Guild for leave of ab
sence. Ambassador Guild notified Secre
tary Bryan that his health was poor
and that it was imperative for him
to have at least two months leave.
It was granted, but Secretary Bryan
stated that he believed a successor
would be chosen before the interval
had elapsed.
AUBURN'S BIG ST R I K E
HAS BEEN SETTLED.
Hope Now to Prevent Removal of
Harvester Plant to Germany.,
Auburn, N. Y., April 16. The largest
strike in the history of Auburn was
settled tonight when the workers in
the various departments of the Colum
bian Rope company, employing 1,100
operatives, voted unanimously to re
turn to work on terms submitted by
the company following a joint confer
ence this afternoon.
There is rejoicing throughout the
city over the settlement of the Colum
bian ( Rope company strike, and all
citizens are turning to the Interna
tional Harvester company to prevent
the removal of the twine mill of that
company to Germany, It recently de
clared it would move the mill If its
striking - employes did not return to
work, and the dismantling of the plant
and loading of. machinery on cars be
gan this week.
HARTFORD HOSPITAL TO
CARE FOR MORGAN LOT.
Father of Dead Financier Left $28,000
Fund For That Purpose,
Hartford, Conn., April 16 It became
known that the care -and expense of
upkeep, f" the Morgan family plot in
Cedar Hill cemetery jn which J. Pier?
pont Morgan was buried this week, de
volves,, upon the management of the
ftartford hospital. The -late Junius
pencer Morgan, father of the dead n?
naneier, left a fund of $29,698 to "the
Hartferd Hospital which Was for the
purpose of caries for the burial lot.
The expense for, the same last year
was $57.50. '
A Ten Days' Truce.
London, April 17. A tea days' truce
has been arranged between the Bul
garian and Turkish commanders, ac
cording to a Constantinople despatch
to the Daily Telegraph.
Italy Is Afflicted with a severe cold
spell. '
Condensed Teseqrams
Woman Suffrage by Constitutional
Amendment in Horida is dead for
four years.
Paul Murphy, Aged 19, was killed
by a baseball batted by his 13 year
old brother Joe.
The Pennsylvania Trout Season
opened with catches ranging from 19
to 46 for individuals. '
Selection of Saloon Keepers by pop
ular vote became a reality in .Elk
Point, a town in South Dakota, yes
terday. The Safe in B. F. Keithvs thuatro
at Indianapolis, Ind., was blown open
during Tuesday night and S2,000
stolen.
Mrs. Susan Haeuslcr died from blood
poisoning, resulting from stepping on
a carpet tack in her home at gotts
ville. Pa. ,
Forest Fires, the First of the sea
son in the Black Hills, South Car
olina, are again menacing . .the na
tional forest.
William H. Allen Was yesterilay
indicted for first degree murder in
the killing of Francis P. Cunningham
in Westville on April 3.
Two of the Silk Mills now idle be
cause of the- strike of 25,000 workers
for more pay and shorter hours are
leaving Paterson, X. J.
The Turkish Sultan has agreed to
send a Mohammedan professor to the
Philippines to instruct the Moros tiat
it is wrong to kill Christians.
The Kaiser Has Placed illuminated
signs on his automobiles at night so
that the police may recognize his cars.
They bear the words. "God is with us."
Felisburg Lake, at Monticello, N. Y.
gave up yesterday the body of ISlias
Vantran. who disappeared from his
home on a stormy night six months
ago.
Nearly 500 Song Birds, imported
from England by Henry Ford, have ar
rived in Detroit and wiil be given
their liberty on Mr. Ford's farm near
that city.
Chrl-e W Mann fnw , I , .1
of the Press Gallery "of the House of
Representatives, died yesterday. He
was 1 4 years old.
State Tuberculosis Commissioner
John F. Gunshanan went to Provi-,
aence -yesterday, to see Dr. J- ned
mann and try and prevail upon the
elector to viFit Connecticut.
A Number of Patients at the en
el-al hospital at Kansas City yester
day suhered from inattention follow
ing a strike of the junior nurss of
the institution.
The New Jersey Court of Pardons
yesterday paroled . Andrew Campbell
of Paterson. who was ; sentenced to
thirty years imprisonment for the
murder of Jennie Boscheiter.
Under the Will' of Mary J. Cook,
wuo ciiea in -Newark, A. J., her daugh
ter, Mrs. A. C. Chambers, of Arizona,
gets an income of $30 a month if
she never sets foot in the state.
J. Pierpont Morgan Was Elected a
u"ci-i.ui ul cue .t-v j-uiiv LfuLnii ana
Hudson River Railroad company to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of his father, J. Pierpont Morgan.
A Call Was Extended by the First
Baptist church of .Minneapolis to Dr.
j A. C. Dixon, at present pastor of the
Spurgeon Tabernacle, London.
Eng.
land, -at a meeting yesterday.
i Billboard Posters Showino. Bur
Tu.n... : I - .1 1 i
nave tne attention oi iviajor j tmk
houser, seconcT deputy superintendent
of Chicago police, who i is the censor
Proceedings in the Illinois Lower
House wei-e enlivened yesterdav by
an attempted personal attack upon
Speaker William Mckinley of Chi
cago, by Representative lee O'Xcil
Browne of Ottawa during a debate.
A Million and a Quarter Quarts of
whiskey, stout and ginger ale arrived
at Xew lork from Dublin yester
day in the steamer Wells City. It
was the largest shipment of liquors
and "soft stuff that ever reached that
port. ,
An Attempt to Enforce the O'-der
ot Industrial Workers of the Worid
leaders for a general strike in all
the factories in Milford, Mass.. re
sulted in serious rioting yesterday.
Two police officers and two strikers
were injured, but not seriously.
Jewelers and Other Commercial
Concerns all over the country are
erecting wireles.s masts over or close
to their ' places of business to catch
the official correct time flashed at 10
o'clock every night from the navy's
powerful wireless station at Arlington,
Va.
Dr. Lewis W. Hoppin of Kingston,
Ont.,' who came' to Xew Tork three
days ago with his bride and disap
peared, was found yesterday at a ho
tel. He had been suffering from
aphasia, and had been wandering
about the city since his disappear
ance. A Demand for Higher Wages and
the abolition of piecework was re
fused by the directors of tha Draper
company of Hopedale, Mass., yester
day at the conclusion of a conference
between the directors and a commit
tee of nine representing the striking
foundrymen. -
The New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad paid a fine of $.j,000
and $350 costs in the 'United States
district eourt at Boston yesterday for
granting concessions to the Elm Form
Milk company and for failure to pub
lish eertain . milk tariffs from Con
necticut points.
Moving Picture Films Are Placed
toy the interstate commerce commis
sion in the category of dangerous and
inflammable articles and shippers are
hereafter required to pack them in
"spark proof metal eases, enclosed
An strong and tight woodeft pp fibre
board boxes or pails,''
A Fireman en the Yard Shlftei at
the Boston ad Maine shops at Con
cord, If. H., found in the tank of his
loeemetive, under the coal, yesterday,
a bag whicn he withheld from tha fire
at the suggestion of Engineer Morey,
On opening tfe bag it was found, to
contain 36 sticks of dynamite,
Men- Musicians Characterized fts
"nasty, horrid things'' because they
have failed to furnish sufficient mueio
in fhe two recent suffragist parades,
will not be tolerated longer -vby - the
suffragists, according to a statement
issued yesterday for the suffragists
will organize .heir own. bafid at :xly
pieces.
Wilson Under
' A Fierce Fire
CHARGED WITH EXERTING UN
, DUE-INFLUENCE.
DEMOCRATS IN ANGER
Oppose Free Wool Schedule in Vain,
at House Caucus Only One New
Englander Votes in the Negative.
Washington, April 16 The demo
cratic caucus voted decisively late to
day to support the wool schedule of
the Underwood tariff bill, placing raw
wool on the free list, after Represen
tative Underwood had made a, stir
ring appeal for the support of the
caucus. By a vote of 190 to 42 an
amendment offered by Representative
Dies of Texas, to place raw wool oa
the dutiable list, was rejected.
Fight For a 15 Per Cent. Duty.
Representative Dies' amendment
proposed to place a duty of 15 per
cent, ad valorem on raw wool, ind
he and other champions . of dutiable
wool insisting that this was the judg
ment of the ways and means commit
tee before President Wilson saw the
bill and suggested a change.
Majority Deader Underwood, in
winding up the discussion warmly de
fended both the committee an 1 the
president. He declared that the pres
ident had a right to make sugges
tions to congress relating to tho tariff
but that the bill as a whole m t with
the chief executive's approval when
he first read it as it came from the
committee.
Defence of President.
"Out of 4.000 and more items in the
bill," said Mr. Underwood, "the pres
ident only made two suggestions,
those affecting the sugar and wool
schedules. It seems to me tht we
should accept those suggestion from
the president of the United States."
Representatives Rainey of Illinois
and Harrison of New Tork also spoke
on behalf of: the committee, defending
its action and the attitude of the
president.
The attack upon the committea and
president began as soon as the in
surgent democrats began discussion of
the schedule.
"Undue Influence " by President.
Representative Alexander of Mis
souri, declared that the committee
overarteped all proper bounds In hold
ing up President Wilson as a club ovor
the heads of the members and that the
president had exerted "undue In
fluence" In having wool placed on the
free list in that bill.
Representative Montajrue of Vir
ginia, a new member defended the
president In a spirited speech, de
claring that it was hie "constitutional
and inherent right" to suggest what
should go in a tariff bill and thai
neither he nor the committee wer
subject to criticism for their
operation in framing the bill.
Debate Long and Heated.
Representative Dies insisted
CO-
thM
the government, was made up of tlire
distinctive branches with separar
duties to perform. "It is not only the
right of congress," he said, to origin
ate revenue measures, but its ex
clusive right and any attempt from
another branch of the government to
dictate or interfere with that right
should not be permitted by this body."
The debate on this phase of the
tariff flight was heated and pro!ongd,
the president and the committee be
ing criticized and defended.
Connecticut Members For Free Wool.
Representative Curley of Massa
chus(ts, was one of the president's
champions. Among the principal sup
porters of the Dies' amendment for a
fifteen percent duty were Representa
tives Ashbrook, Post and Bathrick of
Ohio, Ferguson of New Mexico, Adair
and Ciine of Indiana and Stout of
Montana.
Of the forty-two democrats who
voted for the fifteen percent dutv,
Shaunessy of Rhode Island was the
only New Englander.
PRESIDENT CONSIDERS
CALIFORNIA SrTUATION
-
Federal
Government Powerless
te
Allay Japanese Feeling,
Washington. April IB. President
Wilson" canvassed with Secretary Dane
of the interior department today the
situation that has arisen In the lat
ter's native state, California, with re
gard 'to the. ownership of land by
aliens.
The president and Mr. Dane studied
the two bills now pending before tt
California legislature. No comment
was forthcoming from the "Whlt
House but It is believed that the
measure eventually passed will not
differ from alien land laws already in,
effect in the District of Columbia and
territories of the Union.
For this reason there Is KtOe nn-pet
entertained in official circles here that
the popular feeling In Japan will bm
allayed though It Is confidently ex
pected that the Japanese government
will understand the difficulties of th
situation for the federal a-ovemment
and that Its basis of protest will be
removed by the final construction o
the bills. , ,
"f'.'SS' i
Steamship Arrivals.
T-'V9
"I
Hamburg, April 18. Arrived, sleordM .
er Pisa, Portland.
London. April IS. Arrived, steame
Ausonia, Portland,
Copenhagen. April 18. Arrived.
steamer O. F. Tietgen, New York, "
Gibraltar, April in. Arrived, steam
er Ivernia, New York for Naples.
Queenstown, April 16. Arriwd.
steamer Haverford, Philadelphia for
Liverpool
Uenea. April 14. Arrived, eteamers
Veronia, Philadelphia; 15th, Calabria,
New York.
Steamers Reported by WlreTess. "'
Sable Island, Anril 18. Steamer
oeaaia, Trie t a for New York, sig
nalled 696 mHea taut of Sandy Hook
at neea, finek t a, in. Friday.
giaseaaset, Mass., April 16. Steam
er Ma.leatio. ftouthanroton for New
Yailj, jjlgnalled 87" miles ust of Snndv
HealE at neon, Dock a. m. Thurs
day, Steamer SCeenig Albert,- Naples for
New- York, signalled 340 miles east of "
Waadv tieek at neon, back 12.20 n. m.
Thursday,
New ret. April 19.. Steamer Man-
retaaia. Diverpeel fer New York, sic-
nailed $19 miles east of Sandy Hook
at a P, na, Dock S a, m. Friday,
eape Eaee, N, P., April 18. Stenmxr
Mauretania, Liverpool fer New York,
pig-nailed 116 miles east of Ssndv
Heek at p. u. Dock t.I a. aa.