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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL JANUARY 13, 1912 JACK goes mm : Twice He Takes Count of Sine In Practice. But It's a Joke Opponent Weighs 120 Pounds. FRAZEE FILES SUIT Says He Will Make sro ProTe His Charges. Johnson Waits for Corbett's Show to Arriye. Chicago. Jan. 13.-Jaek Johnson, sup posedly invincible champion heavy weight of the world, took the nine count twice in a battle staged in the ring of Council's . A "fe hope named -Hirsch. who heretofore has not had much notice in the public prints, turned the trick, to the great astonish ment and amusement of the crowd Sh packed the State street home of the boxers. . . Johnson apparently was all b uMJ ach tin e, arising only with the Breat st effort and with a look or pain on Ms faS1 which showed Vnlyh fce was suffering from the te; punches doled out by the new won Sr A left to the Jaw sent him down to Kirsch s comer and nns 1 S2T Vndd bl SSr Sd slapped hirn into shape for Mother three minute period. The surprise came in the third l boui cf hnsons afternoon of sparring. Tf had cuffed Walter Monahan and RlStrCut about in easy fashion ss sr&s es-iSsuSB thlnked the timekeeper when the final Howeif James J- Corbett could f plovl Ssranra? ferrsi est- tics were comical in the extreme He performed "just like a big colored fel low who was taking a beating in o l bat tie royal and was looking for a chance to jump out of the ring. Crowd as Referee. The gvm rang with laughter as Jack caril- "t tne comedy, dropping to the floor with an appearance of untold Buffering and staggering to his teet each time the crowd, which acted as referee coanted -nine." He gave a rfect imitation of a boxer in dis tress and was ably assisted by Hirsch who is rapidly becoming a first-class clown under Johnson's tutelage. John's mood changed, however, when after the boxing he was shown th "New York story which said Boxin CoramUner O'Neil would not permit ew'ovk'can not injure me in tvnt wav " said Jack, "because I do net want toVbox there. But I don't like to te barred without any just reason, and what is mare, I will show them that they can't bar me. I am going to New York before long and I defy Commis sioner O'Neil to stop me if he permits others to box. Those fellows are sore dn there because when they started trying to sign me for matches I told them I wouldn't appear in New York unless a Chicago referee officiated. Do you know why they try to bar me in New York and London ? Well. U ia because they know no wWte man (Ulve can whip me. They believe in ?heir hearts that Jack Johnson is the rreateat fighter that ever lived and just lecluse hf is colored they do n't want o eive him a chance to beat anybody, hy if they had a big white fellow Jn New York that they thought could trim me, there would not be the slight est objection in the world to the match. They would let me fight Jean nette too because he also is colored. But Just because I have it on the white fenows they say. 'Let's bar him.' That's not justice and I will leave it to any, fair minded person if it is." Another Shot at Corbett. Johnson shot another broadside at Uim Corbett today also, and some live ly things may happen when Corbett gets here with a theatrical company next week. "Corbett says he could have whipped too ten vears ago. Say, I could have beaten Jim Corbett every afternoon Just for fun when he was at his very test He never knocked out a good roan. John L. Sullivan and Charlie Mitchell were fat dead ones when he fought them. Why. Mitchell took pff over 100 pounds while training for Corbett. "Corbett never was a world s cham pion, either. He was only American champion. That was all Sullivan was, because he refused to box Peter Jack eon And Corbett got the title Sullivan had". Boh Pitzsimmons was the first real world's champion." Johnson received another letter from Dan McKetrick. Joe Jeannette's manager, and was stirred up about it hv the contents. Johnson has been of fered $15,000 for the fight. McKetrick offrs to give $3,000 more. Jeannette's end. Johnson can t see it. He wants J3O.C00 or nothing. "Thii McKetrick makes me tired, said Jack. "At first he said Jeannette was a marathon lighter, that he could be at me over a route but would have no chance in ten rounds. Now he wants to make it ten rounds and bunk the public because he knows I can make Joe look foolish. However, if he comes across with a $30,000 bid he can have a ten-round whirl before I box Klynn." H. H. Frazee Kiles Suit. New York, Jan. 13. John Arthur Johnson, champion heavyweight of the world, is in bad up this way. Recently Johnson issued an ukase in which he eaid that Jim Corbett and H. H. Fra zee the theatrical manager, had of fered Johnson $100,000 to lay down to 4.1 Kaufman. Corbett, who is in Bos ton this week, says Johnson is a liar. So d-es Frazee and he goes Corbett one better by entering a suit against the champion for defamation of char acter. "It is ridiculous to think that I would offer Johnson anything to lay down." shouted Frazee upon arriving i . - T rti-tr mnt flint srrniVp: nerp iuuo; . . . v . ... . . . would not even speak to him if he' was poinrert out to in-. i sured that I shall make him pay hea,v ilv for his statements regarding me. I don't believe Corbett ever made such statements as he is credited witn. Johnson's actions show that he is merely seeking notoriety." It was onlv a few days ago that Johnson swore to an affidavit charg ing Corbett and Frazee with trying to have him throw a fight. If he can not substantiate his statements he is liable for damages. CANADA WANTS BIG FIGHT. Bassano Will Give $50,000 for Klynn Johnson Match. Calgary, Alberta, Jan. 13. Bassano, Canada, is making a bid for the world's championship fight between Jack John son and Jim Flynn. of Pueblo, a t.-le-gram being sent today to Jack Curley at Chicago, offering a guarantee of $50, 000 if the fight is staged there. July 1, the national holiday, is the date set for the fight in the offer made to Curley. MAHMOT7T TO MEET ZBYSZRO. Giants Will Wrestle in Kansas City for $2,500. Kansas City, Jan. 13. p:mil Klank, manager of Yusiff Mahmout. the Turk ish wrestler, tonight signed a contract with a local promoter to wrestle Zbys zko, a finish match in Kansas City. The d; te will be selected later. Klank will wager $2,500 that the Turk wins. SOX WILL COME 1IERE. Harry Grablner Is Out Making Exhibi tion Game Dates. Chicago, Jan. 13. Harry Grablner. secretary of the Chicago American league club, has left Chicago to look for suitable training grounds for the team. He will visit Fort Worth, Corsicana and Galveston and within a few days make a recommendation to President Comiskey. Grabiner will be gone about two weeks and will alsq arrange several exhibition games for the trip. He will go to Dallas, Wichita, Topeka. Kansas City, St. Joseph and other places for the purpose of making dates for games. BASKETBALL RESCTTS. Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 1 3. Nebraska won the first of the basketball games from Drake university, of Des Moines, by a score of 4 2 to 2 4. Nebraska ex celled in team work. Drake's particu lar weakness was in throwing goals. The second game will be played tomor row night. St. Louis, Jan. IS. The Washington university basketball team defeated the Rolla School of Mines team, 2 4 to 13, here. The teams play an other game today. New York, Jan. 13. Columbia de feated Princeton at basketball here, 29 to 16. HAS EASY MONEY Wilkesbarre,Pa., Man Lives Like Millionaire for a Day. Hires Special Train to Take Him to New York. Wllkesbarre, January 13. Throwing twenty-five dollars in coin to the news boys as he left, John J. McDevitt, a local politician and son of a day la borer, has left here in his own spe cial train over the Lehigh Valley rail road for New York to enjoy the ex perience of "being a millionaire for one day." The train consisted of a baggage car, parlor car and several day coaches. He paid $292 for the special train and $24 extra for a parlor car of 32 seats. A large crowd was at the station. Prior to his departure he held a recep tion at a hotel. McDevitt got his spending money by withdrawing as a candidate for county treasurer. He put himself up as a candi date in the primaries and so many per sons voted for him just as a "joke" that he was nominated. The county commit tee became alarmed and tried to get him to withdraw. The negotiations for with drawal were conducted through the pub lic press, McDevitt naming a higher price each day. At last the committee paid hltn something like $2,500 to get off the ticket. OWNSTHE TELEPHONES British Government Takes Over All the Exchanges. London, Jan. 13. With the taking over of the National Telephone com pany on January 1, the government be came the owner of practically all of the telephone facilities of the British Isles. The property of the company be comes the possession of the state . and the 18.000 employes join the ranks of the civil servants of the kingdom. Generally speaking, the officials and employees of the company are not pleased with the change, as they feel that it will militate against their chances of advancement. Now that the government is in su preme control of the telephone facili ties of the country, it is expected that efforts will be made to extend it greatly especially in the rural districts, where the telephone is almost unknown. Even in London the telephone directory is no larger than those of several cities of the United States with populations of less than 500.000. iORSE COHIflG WEST Convicted Banker Will Be Transferred to Hot Springs, Ark. Washington. Jan. 13. Charles W. Morse, the New York banker, has ben ordered transferred from Fort McPherson, Georgia, to the army gen eral hospital. Hot Springs, Arkansas. President Taft and Attorney General Wiekersham decided on the transfer believing special medical treatment was necessary. Because of his phys ical condition. Mr. Morse recently was transferred to Fort McPherson from Atlanta penitentiary, where he was serving fifteen years for violation of the banking laws. FIVE MORE DEATHS Meningitis Claims More Victims in Texas Town. Dallas, Ttx.. Jan. 13. Five deaths from meningitis and eight new cases were reported here today by the city board of health. . Read the State Journal. JOB ISJOO BIG No One Can Control Capital of the Country. E. H. Harriman Recognized Project Was Impossible. WHERE IS THE LINE Itetween Wise, Healthy Combi nation and Illegal Control. Kansas Will Be Independent of Trust, Holland Says. New York, Jan. 13. Had there been any nervousness or any fear lest the contemplated investigation by a committee of congress for the purpose of discovering whether a money and credit controlling trust exists it would have become apparent at the annual meeting of the national banks of this city. The only apprehension which prevailed at the time of this meeting was that there might be confusion and embarrassment or vexatious pro crastinations in the financial district on account of the fire which was de troying the Equitable building at the moment these meetings were being held. In only a few instances were the recommendations of" the comp troller of the currency that bank di rectors should be citizens of the towns in which the banks of which they are directors are situated accepted by the New York hanks. A considerable num ber of bank directors of this city have their legal residence in New Jersey or in Connecticut. Some directors live even farther away. There were many conjectures as o the reason which led James Stillm-;." to retire from official association wi'n all of the banks with which he has been identified since 1891 excepting the National City bank. When Mr. Stillman resigned the presidency of the National City bank a few years ago and accepted in place of that office the post of chairman of the board his most intimate friends explained the action by saying that Mr. Stillman purposed a gradual re tirement from all business activity. He bought a beautiful home in Paris and since 1909 has lived in that city, although he has made each year brief visits to the United States. From the time Mr. Stillman became president of the National City bank, in 1891, until about the middle of the second administration of Theodore Roosevelt he was intensely Interested, and not from a money-making point of view, in the development of New York city along artistic and public improvement lines. He was also great ly interested in the development of the United States. He believed that it was possible, and probably inevitable, that the United States would within the next twenty-five or thirty years take a pre-eminent place among the nations of the earth. Some of Mr. Stillman's friends have reported taht he was never able to understand the spirit or the purpose of the widespread antagonism to com binations of capital, ability and ser vices of skilled artisans. Without combinations of that kind he believed it would be impossible for the United States to progress very greatly. And it has been assumed by some who know him well that one of the reasons which led him to take up his residence In Paris was a feeling that the Ameri can people are too much given to hos tile criticism of all men who are of conspicuous ability and whose achieve ments have been very great. Mr. Stillman retired as director of the Second National bank some eight or nine months ago. At the elections of Tuesday he was succeeded as a di rector of the Lincoln, the Hanover and the Citizens' Central banks by others. Some of his friends have suggested that he thus retired from associations with other than the City bank be cause he was anxious to act in har mony with the recommendations of the comptroller of the currency and with the recommendations of the secretary of the treasury, Mr. Mac Veagh. The Money Trust Investigation. If there be a tacit agreement or un derstanding between two or three groups, the members of which repre sent very large money capital and banking interests, which would en able them so to control bank credits or capital as gradually to get within ineir own sphere of influence much of the industrial or railway interests of the United States, such an agree ment must have been made within the past ten years. When Commodore Vanderbilt and Daniel Drew were the money powers of New York neither was the owner of a larger fortune than about $10,000,000. By combining these fortunes and acting in co-operation these two men were able to in fluence the mnnpv mlrlrptc r XTw York and, to some extent, those of the 1 country. Today, however, a fortune of $10,000,000 is of little conseauence so far as the larger undertakings of capital are concerned. Yet the needs of railways and the demands which some of the greater industrial or more important commercial undertakings must make if their plans are to be car ried out compel financing along very large lines. It would be impossible, for instance, for the Pennsylvania Railroad company to perfect certain plans which it is understood it has In mind for improvements. expansions and the perfecting of terminal facili ties unless that company were able to secure the financial support from great capita 1. Now the wonder is where the line which would bound normal, healthful and wise combinations of great money capital can be drawn. Great capital must act upon its own discretion. It must consider securities. And in these days of large undertakings it must de pend upon co-operation. Capitalists Are Jealous. As recently as 1S99 it was recog nized that there was gradually form ing at least three, and possibly four, groups of money capital, one of which was identified by the name of Mr. Morgan, another by the name of Ja cob Schiff. and still another by the name of Rockefeller or that of the Standard Oil company. There is no man of large financial experience who does not know that these groups were not characterized by any real har mony. Underlying each of them exist ed great jealousy of the others. One of the foremost financiers of New York, a man whose name is identified with 'some of the largest of recent fi nancing operations, recently said. "On the surface we all have to be courteous and apparently friendly, but under neath the surface there prevails a jeal ousy of which the public has little knowledge." Mr. Sneyer's Achievement. When Mr. James Speyer, in the last year of the past century, achieved what at that time was an epoch-making piece of financing, namely, the re funding of the indebtedness of the Lake Shore railroad upon a 32 per cent basis, he must have known that in that very triumph he created ani mosities which possibly have not been forgotten to this day. Mr. Speyer has been able to finance some very large undertakings In Cuba, in Mexico and in the southwest, and in doing that has demonstrated that if there be a money trust or a credit controlling combination he is nevertheless inde pendent of it. President Arthur E. Stiilwell has been able to finance his great railway proposition, which will connect Kansas City with Port Stil well upon the Pacific coast of Mexico, with ut going .upon his knees to the money powers of Wall stneet. The Pacific slope is now accumulat ing capital upon such a large scale that it is speedily to bo independent of Wall street and may defy any money trust or credit controlling combination in the east. The preservation of the independence of the individual na tional banks of the United States will make any money trust or credit con trolling combination whose sceptre would rule the whole nation impos sible. The state of Kansas has prospered so greatly by reason of the energy, in dustry and intelligence of her citizens that she is now a capital-producing state upon a large scale. If that state goes on accumulating capital her citi zens will b'.j immune so far as any mon ey trust or credit-controlling combina tion that is of national character is concerned. Control Is Impossible. One of thn ablest of American finan ciers, a man of international reputation, recently said to the writer that on ac count of the great area of the United States, the vast diversity of its indus tries, the fact that it has a commerce both upon the Pacific and the Atlantic, and the very geographical characteris tics of the nation will always serve to prevent any improper combination of money capital. This financier is of the opinion that at this time it is practi cally impossible for any combination of money and banking capital to be made which would seriously affect the money markets more than a day or two. It was the opinion of the late E. H. Har riman that it was impracticable to bring under one great capitalistic control the money fir the credit of the United States as it had been found im practicable to control the harvests of wheat or the cotton harvest, nature it self and the extent of the country rais ing prohibitive harriers against such complete control. It was this view that led Mr. Harriman to abandon as impracticable the idea of combining all the railroads of the United States into one system. HOLLAND. TRUTH ABOUT WAR Letters Written by Italian Sol diers in Tripoli Tell a Story Different From the Official Dispatches. Rome, Jan. 13. Letters from Italian officers and men serving with the invading army in Tripoli and Cy renaica. received by their friends in Italy, describe in detail the extremely unpleasant position of the Italian troops at the front. Fights which have been claimed as Italian victories in official despatches from the commander in chief of the Italian expedition are said by these correspondents to have been reverses. The Italians appear to be suffering more severely in the vicinity of Derna than at other points. The troops who are engaged In protecting the engineers employed on the con struction of aqueducts to bring water into town have frequent furious en gagements with the Turks and their Arab allies. Detachments of the latter make harassing attacks on the Italian out posts day after day. One Italian officer writing to his father says that the Italian army has lost a large number of men in these engagements. Another letter from a private says that in one battle regiments of gren adiers and Bersarglieri were nearly wiped out of existence. Still another letter says that Italians on one occa sion ran out of ammunition, while the Turks and Arabs well supplied, suc ceeded in killing and wounding 100 of the Italian soldiers, many of whom were mere boys who In their panic cried for their mothers. FIVE AUTOISTS DOWN The Machine Huns on the Ice and Breaks Through. Trenton, Jan. 13. Two men and three women were drowned early to day when the automobile in which they were riding ran on the Ice cover ing an artificial stream of water used by a power plant outside this city. The men were Donald Reed, son former supreme court Justice Alfred Reed, and Chester A. Vancleef, an automobile salesman. Frederick M. Foster, a third man in the party, who was running the automo bile escaped drowning, but is suffer ing from exposure. Foster managed to escape from the machine after it had broken through the ice and ran nearly a mile to get help. Two of the girls' bodies were soon gotten out and brought to the morgue here. One was Margaret Lindall, the other, Helen Mulvey, said to be from New Haven. The third is believed to have been Anna Hazel. Foster refused to give the names of the women. It is believed they had been invited to take a ride as far as Washington crossinfi N. J., a distance of six or seven miles. When Foster reached the road house he was coated with ice and is now in a critical condition. The accident happened at a point w"here there is a sharp bend in the road and it is believed Foster had be come numb from the cold and that he was unable to control the steering wheel. Foster was in another serious accident at New Brunswick some months ago. Iowa's Trade-Mark. An official Iowa trademark was reg istered with the secretary of state. Products of factories of the state will be stamped with a design of a hawk's head within a cogwheel, bearing the words "Made in Iowa." Iowa is the first state to have an official trademark. This was authorized by the session of the legislature, and the manufacturers' association had It registered. Des Moines dispatch to Philadelphia Record. Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days. Your druggist will refund money if Fazo Ointment fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. wc. LET CARNEGIE GO Steel Trust Committee Com pletes Examination Of the Man Who Made the Com bine Possible. POINTED PARAGRAPHS Crop Out All Through the Iron master's Testimony. 'Harder to Distribute Wealth Wisely Than to Make It." Washington, Jan. 13. Andrew Car negie concluded his testimony before the house "steel trust" investigating committee. He admitted that in 1900 he had contributed $15,000 to oppose the policy of imperialism and the an nexation of the Philippines; assailed Wall street and branded "stock job bers as parasites;" urged the Roose velt trust policy, in preference to that of President Taft, for dealing with the trusts, and asked congress to consider carefully that problem. Among his pointed expressions brought out at the examination were the following: "If you want, as you suggested, Mr. Stanley, to erect a tablet to my mem ory, place in the stock exchange this quotation of mine that you have un earthed: 'Stock gamblers are parasites feeding on values and creating none.' " "I was certain always that the Car negie company was impregnable. Ever optimistic, I believed that all my ducks were swans." "I dislike the word philanthropist. It is harder to distribute wealth wisely than to make it. To me the word philanthropist suggests a man with more money than brains. Some phil anthropy has done more to pauperize people than to aid them." "I agree with Mr. Roosevelt's views that we should regulate and not dis solve large corporations. Dissolution will lead to competition and a return to price fixing agreements." "What are lawyers worth if they have not been able to improve laws handed down from Mount Sinai." Broadside of Questions. After a day of examination on many subjects, Mr. Carnegie was subjected to a fire of questions which put him on his mettle. Chairman Stanley elicit ed from him an attack on stock job bing that probably will influence leg islation to be proposed by the commit tee, and Representative McGillicuddy, of Maine, took the Iron Master over some political jumps that were alto gether unexpected. "Mr. Carnegie," asked Chairman Stanley, "in the organization of the Carnegie Steel company of New Jersey, why did you divide your stock into $1. 000 shares?" "To keep them off the stock ex change," was Mr. Carnegie's quick reply- , "Why did you want to keep them off the stock exchange?" "Because I did not believe in stock jobbing. Becaure I did not wish to have my partnes in business tempted t, speculation. I never in my life bought or sold a share of stock on the spec ulative market. I was reared differ ently. I had a grandfather ruined in Scotland by stock speculation, I re solved that it was ruinous when a young man, and throughout my business ca reer. I never bought long nor sold short." Mr. Stan'ey producing an rid docu ment, read from a statement made by Mr. Carnegie many years ago in which the Iron Master aid: "Stock gambling are parasites feeding on values and creating none.'' Of Same Opinion Still. "Are you still of that opinion?" he "Mr. Stanley, the other day you re ferred t3 something I had said about competition and you said you would like to have it engraved on a memorial tablet," Mr. Carnegie answered. "I wish you would take the quotation vou have jjst read, engrave it on a tablet and put it in the stock ex change." "Do you believe that a corporation should by law be given the right to buy and sell its own stock on the stock exchange?" "That is a new question, Mr. Carne gie answered, hesitatingly. "I've never heard it raised before. I would like to thinK tnai over aim wmo you a note of my views." "Do you believe it a saie ponuy, m the interest of shareholders who do not gamble anu do not believe in it, for it to be possible that any corporation might gamble in its stocks?" "1 am against all stock gambling.' Representative McGillicuddy some what confused Mr. Carnegie with a Are of questions seeking to show that a plan was formulated to organize the United States Steel corporation before Mr McKinley was elected president in 1900 and that the deal was consumma ted soon after his election. He brought out the tact mai carragic nu . z" McKinley to have nothing to do with imperialism or the acquisition of the Philippines. "Is it not a fact that in January. 1900. you attended a meeting of anti-imperialists, at which you pledged your self to contribute $25,000 to prevent the nomination and re-election of William McKinley if they would raise a like amount''" Mr. McGillicuddy asked. J H. Reed attorney for the steel cor poration, objected to this question. Chairman Stanley overruled the ob jection. Mr. Carnegie looked at his counsel nervously, but presently re plied: His Memory Fails, "r can't tell vou about that. I do not recollect that I ever did anything to nnr.nse the nomination or re-eiec- tion of McKinley. I was deeply op posed to the Philippines, but I can not believe I opposea iicn.iiiicj' wi dent." "nnn-t T.-nii remember that you act ually did contribute $15,000 of that $25,000 to that tuna. T rin not recollect, but it may be so. If you know the facts. I am sure it was not against MCJiniey uiut x gave the money, but against the acquisition of the Philippines." vhv. after contributing $15,000, did you not continue with the other $10,000?" Mr. McGillicuddy continued. "I do not recollect." "Didn't some of the Morgan people come to you and tell you that it was necessary to elect McKinley in order to form this United States Steel cor poration?" "No such thing ever occurred," Mr. Carneeie answered sharply. "After McKinley was inaugurated in March. 1901. and Philander C. Knox, who had been attorney for your com- nanv. was made attorney general in his cabinet, is it not true that within 39 days your steel corporation actual-! Iy was formed?" Mr. Gillicuddy per sisted. "Why do you say, 'Your steel cor corporation ?' " Mr. Carnegie retorted impatiently. "I had nothing to do with the steel corporation. Never in vested a cent in it. I merely sold my property." Mr. McGillicuddy than asked if, after the steel corporation was form ed, throughout the entire administra tion and Mr. Knox's term as attorney general, there had been any prosecu tion of the steel trust. Mr. Carnegie said he had heard of none. Mr. Carnegie related aagin the story of the plan of the company to extend its business and erect an enormous tube plant at Conneaut harbor, which plan aroused Mr. Morgan and led to the immediate negotiations for the purchase of his property and the for mation of the steel corporation. Chairman Stanley told Mr. Carnegie of intimations that he was about to be enmeshed by Morgan, Gary. Gates and a gigantic competitive combine against the Carnegie Steel company just be fore the steel corporation proposal was made and suggested that there were reports current that lie was a sick man who could be easily induced. Able to Take Sustenance. "Well, I was still able to take sus tenance," said Mr. Carnegie. "But they approached me at a good time. I had already formed a determination of my career. I had determined that I would not spend my old age in making more dollars. I had all the money I wanted and I demonstrated that some time before, when the Moores sought an option on the works and I had left it to my partners to decide." The committee led Mr. Carnegie into a discussion again of the time the Moore brothers, W. II. and J. B., sought an option on his plant when his partner. H. O. Frick, conducted the ne gotiations, and Mr. Carnegie demand ed $2,000,000 for the option because the names of the prospective purchas ers were not disclosed. It was brought out that his partners, Frick and Phipps, were interested themselves in tile option, which eventually failed. Mr. Carnegie told the committee all that he learned afterward about the deal. He said he heard that Frick and Phipps were interested in it and that if they had succeeded in putting it through, each was to get $5,000,000 in stock of the new company. He testified that he accepted the forfeit of $1, ISO, 000 deposited to his credit when the negotiators failed to raise the rest of the $2,000,000 deposit. "If Mr. Frick and Mr. Phipps en tered into a contract with the Moore brothers by which each was to get $o,000,000 in stock of the new com pany and never told me anything about it," said Mr. Carnegie. "you don't think I am obligated, do you, to pay them anything now on the forfeit money of that option?" At the conclusion of the testimony. Mr. Carnegie made a little speech. Rising from the witness chair, he said: "Gentlemen, I came down here with an aversion to publicity, but I want to tell you truthfully I have enjoyed it. Let me say to you, get the court or ganized and proceed one step at a time. Gentlemen, I shall miss your happy faces. WTien shall we meet again ?" "That latchstring is always hang ing out, Mr. Carnegie," said Chairman Stanlef. "Well, if I ever get another of those signatures of yours to an official sum mons," said the Iron Master, "I will be at your disposal unless of course, my counsel objects." BEG SOCIALIST GAIN An Increase of 21 Members in the German Reichstag. Berlin, Jan. 13. With returns from yesterday s elections practically com plete, it is apparent that the reballots must be awaited before the character of the new reichstag can be definitely known. The results, with only 47 districts missing, are as follows: Socialists, seats won 62, a net gain of 24; rebal lots 113. Conservatives, seats won 32 a net loss of 18; reballots 6 5. Cen trists, seats won S2, a net loss of 6; reballots 69. National Liberals, seats won 4, a net loss of 13; reballots 5 9 Radicals, seats won nothing, a net loss of 12; reballots 51. The Socialist gains. It appears, are mainly at the expense of the Radicals, who are greatly disappointed at their showing. They will return to the reichstag with hardly more than three fifths of their former strength. CURTIS HAS A BILL Kansas Senator Will Orfer Substitute for Sherwood Measure. Washington, Jan. 13. When the senate committee on pensions meets Monday to consider the Sherwood gen eral dollar-a-day service perslon bill. Chairman McCumber will ask the committee to substitute a bill which he has prepared and introduced, which undertakes to grant increased pensions by amending the present law, so as to make additions both on advanced age and service. Estimates place the increased cost under the McCumber bill at $22,000, 000 annually, or an average of $62 per man. Senator Curtis of Kansas, a member of the committee, will also rffer a substitute to the Sherwood bill, ma terially reducing Its figures. BOATS IN DISTRESS Lake Steamers Indiana and Kansas Caught in Ice Floes. Chicago, Jan. 13. Efforts are be ing made today by tugs to rescue the passenger steamers Indiana and Kan sas, which were caught in ice floes five miles out of Chicago harbor yester day. The boats, which belong to the Uoodrich Transportation company and Michigan Transportation company, re spectively, left Milwaukee at daylight. Onlv a few passengers are on board. Boat line officials said today that eachj steamer had provisions enough to last a month and as the lake is smooth, there is comparatively little danger. It is possible the boats w ill not be re leased for several days. Attempts to pass tow lines to them last night were unsuccessful. FIVE MORE DEATHS Meningitis Expert Says Keports of Dis ease Are Encouraging. Dallas. Tex., Jan. 13. Three new cases of meningitis and tbree deaths were reported in Dallas between noon and 9 o'clock Friday. During the 24 hours endine at noon offieial records show- cUht new cases and five deaths. State heaith officials and Dr. Abra ham Sophian, of New York, who is dt- SAVES TIME and ENERGY Lightens All Housework iAPOLIO Cleans, Scours, Polishes from cellar to garret WORKS WITHOUT WASTE THE FIREFLY LEAVES TOPEKA lO P. M. ARRIVES Ft. Worth 2:00 P.M. Dallas - 3:3 O P.M. DAILY Observation Sleeper, Dining and Chair Cars Phone 384 For Berths JANUARY THE IDEAL TIME to begin saving; some thing1 out of your sal ary. We have the plan THE CAPITOL BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION 534 Kaniai Avenue Steam Heat, The F.'rst Baptist Church "or. 9th & Jackson Sts., heated by the Edison Steam Heat Co., will be warm Sunday regardless of the weather. Tho Men's Club invites you to hear our pan tor. Rev. Robert GoTdon, Hpeak Sunday night on, "Raising Cain, or The Boy In the Home." The organ recital by Prof. D. H. Seymour begins at 7:1L p. m. recting the fight against the malady in this city, asserted that today's re port from the several communities where the disease is prevalent are en couraging. ATTACKS THE TARIFF Governor Harmon Makes an Old 1 asli ionod Democratic Speech. East St. Louis, 111., Jan. 13. CSover nor Judson Harmon, of Ohio, in an address before the St. Clair County Democratic club here attacked the fin ancial poli -ies of the recent Republi can administration. He compared tho administration of President Andrew Jackson, which he declared was for the good of all people, to that of th present, which he said "was in effect farming out the taxing power, one of the greates; abuses known to history." Governor Harmon pleaded for public business to be managed with the eam principles and with the same care and ability that citizens devote to their pri vate bu.-i'ness. "Jackson urged a gradual reduction of tariff taxes." said the governor, "es pecially on necessaries, at a lime whon they were levied mainly for revenue. When recently we saw a president led, against his just inclination, to sign and praise a tariff bill which broke his own and his party's promte of reform and then in the face of his express admissions, veto bills for reductloni passed by congress under direct com mand of the voters of the entire coun try, men everywhere exclaimed, as they did in the days of the vacillating Bu chanan. 'Oh, for one hour of Andrew Jackson.' " The governor attacked the financial policy cf the thrte last Republican administrations as having increased tho federal outlay from one billion dollars every two years to more than a billion dollars each year. He devoted most attention, however, to what he describ ed as "one cf the worst abuses known in history" arranging tariff taxes iui as to enable favored manufacturers to collect from the public a much larger sum than one billion dollars for their own benefit. Collects Three for One. "According to reliable estimates," he said, "for every dollar th-s government receives on articles Imported, the fav ored manufacturer collects three dollars above the normal of prices of like ar ticles for American consumers. This in in effect farming out the taxing power. "Now we find the business of the en tire country distributed and halting be cause this wretched system of favor taxes has brought Its certain result. Unnatural competition was stimulated by these and then suppressed by tho formation of trusts and combination. In order that dividends might not cease on stock which was the capitalization of this special advantage. Instead of cutting off the source by reforming the tariff, it was sought to control the stream by forbidding these trusts and combinations. "It Is significant that the Sh-rman anti-trust law and the McKinley tariff law were under consideration at the Bame time and passed at the same ses sion. That tariff law went far beyond earlier laws in the bestowal of ppeclnl favors. There was plain warning of it evil effect and the leaders did not dar; face the country on It without a law to prevent stifling the competition from which great benefits were promised to the peopl?. "The first step surely must be to re deem the tariff from Us perverted uk and restore It to its proper place as a revenu-5 measure, by gradual reductions so that all concerned may have time to prepare for the change. With the chtef cause of the trouble thus removed, I believe w-e shall make our way safely back to normal conditions." Denver Man In Knighted. Denver, Jan. 13. Dr. Charles A. Bundsen. of Ienver, today roceivrd word that he had lven knighted vlth the Order of Vasa by King OuftHV of Sweden. The honor was bcHtowr-d f.ir work in connection with the -stabliKh-ment of National Swedish Home fur consumptives in Colorado.