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twitted the Premier en the quick changes
in the government programme and the
abandonment of pledges with regard to
the budget under pressure from those
who had a passionate desire to destroy
the Lords, but who did not have a pas
sionate , desire to pass the "people's"
budget- The Premier's only considera
tion, Mr. Balfour said, seemed to- be to
keep the Cabinet together.
John Redmond, the Nationalist leader.
wlif> followed Mr. Jialfo'ur. said: "•Noth
ing that the Prime Minister has said
alters my view, and we ought to vote
against the resolutions." Mr. Redmond
complained that .Premier Asquith had
not made it clear what he would do if
the House of Lords rejected the resolu
tions. He said that if Mr. Asquith would
give a definite promise that, in the event
of the House of Lords har.grinp up the
resolutions, he would go to the King and
ask Gar yviarantees. and. if refused, would
resign, in aW mean time suspending con
sideration-of the budget, the Irish Na
tionalists would support the resolutions.
Otherwise" the Nationalists must vote
against the Premier's motion.
Sir James H. Dalziel. the Radical whose
hostile amendment disapproving any gov
ernment ■ resolutions aiming at reform
was ruled 'out of order, admitted in a
brief speech that Premier Asquith's
Ktatement had done much to meet the
views of the Radical "rebels."
. / .1/ ERR \t XS LA XDED.
Reported Aid for Estrada from
Canal Zone.
San I .a:; del £•.:! . Nicaragua, Feb. 28.— 1t
Is reported here that fifty Americans from
tie Canal Zone have landed at Bluefields,
the headquarters of the insurgents.
Th-c two steamers which were sent to In
vestigate the report"? that General Mena or
the insurgents had captured El Morrito. on
the •..-• side of Lake Nicaragua, had not
returned to-day. XI Morrito is a small port
north of In Miguclito. and was garrisoned
by fifty men.
Gencraj Vasquez rc-i«>rts that all is. quiet
and thai General Mena is evidently await
inr reinforcements before attacking him.
General Yasquez has been appointed com
mander in chief of the government force
which will attempt the reoccupation of the
Atlantic seaboard.^- Dr. Julian Arias has
been named, as executive delegate in the
Department of Chontales, with full presi
dential powers.
Ivouis \allr. at the head of a group of
revoultionistsj has started from the estate
of Francisco Solorsano, on the River FTlo,
ir. CosfSK-Rica. la an attempt to get into
Nicaragua^ territory He reached the
San Juan" River- and tried to seize the
Bti ..;i;e!- HoSlembecJi, but failed.
CHINA'S POLICY IN TIBET.
jieply.'to British Inquiry— Change
in Interior Administration.
TV Mine Feb. 2>.««-The Chinese government
- ;. BISsV to in inquiry by Great Britain,
F«inTip"rortii"Hcr Intentions' in Tibet, and
tlu-rpply is neaardad as satisfactory by the
British Foreign tMHce. China announces
that the interior ' administration of Tibet
-a iii not be changed.
\\ . <; Max Mailer. British Charge d'Af
faire*.. recently male friendly representa
tions- •... the Chinese Foreign Board, ex
preaßfnc <«*«at Britain's concern over the
situation in Tibet, particularly as it might
.-.fi<-ot T the preservation of peace and order
in tlrer ••"''! der states, and asked China to
fiate formally her policy and Intentions.
Th.c .Chinese J"<U>ly. «-«. V 5: that the govern
ircnt found Chinese control in Tibet to be
■fsafceafaf: because of the machinations of
tiM- Ijiuf 1 *-po»«d Dalai lama, and that a
—..>». expedition -TTTT sent into Lhasa.
the -capital, for the purpose, of policing the
<ity. The OiiWl Lama lan degraded be
«-3Use.<»f offenc'-'s alread} committed and to
present" further offences on his part. China
assures Great Britain that there will be no
alteration in the. interior administration of
Tibet.
-Chins-? prohibition of grain exports has
been extended so as to embrace practically
ail of l|anc!iuria.
CHURCH AND STATE WAR.
Rioting in Bilbao— French Abbe Fined
—Cardinal to Appeal.
■tadrfti }'< t- 2S.— Meetlngis of anti-cleri
"calj* w|»2 -r->-k to reopen the lay schools and
_U.val meetlnps of Catholics were iield in
;roJTny pai-t.s of Spain yesterday. Th<»ro wa?
rioiinp at Bilbao and the police chartrf^i the
crowd, .fovcral persons iT-i!ip wounded.
Mar- .- rests were made.
Bajonne. F'cb. 38. The court condemned
the abb£ oj ArsrelffS to pay a fine of $40
JUKl Jthecc-s^s of the action brought agrainpt
litaT*: because he 3»ad forbidden Catholic
school children to use the interdicted text
.bcoJts, ;:.i-<icv pain of a refusal of the sac
rament to their parents and of the first
(iimmunion .to the childrc: .
• ' -
._ Tlheirns. l->h. S£.— Cardinal I. •!<■-. Arch
.Vishop j»f Rheima, announces that he will
snjical from the Igmeni of th*> court
which condemned him Jo pay jioii damapes
ip't ho Public School Teachers* AsSOdatioa
.and to defray the costs of the action.
TO .SAVE WEST INDIAN TRADE.
ffijghw Piilics on American Imports
.i . .^ Proposed to Aid Canada.
Kincf-tum. Si. Vincent,' R. W. 1.. Feb. 2S.
r-T}i<r -T}i<- royal commission on trade relations
Viwocji Canada and th*> West Indies ar 
•rfvrd V.-day and was warmly welcomed.
*Tiie '■■M;'t»! - q( the commission conferred
-T»'lth ■ ■ officials and prominent
business mr-n at a meeting held this after
'!<»ou and t »i«- consensus seemed to be that
irr.i-r. .(.,.- .-ni'. facilities and » rccip
\>-nl *K-£kr<-tion in duties would tend to
imr«»si>:e trade «nd strengthen the im
lVriisJ inMids unitinc Canada and the West
Indiov. To safeguard the local revenue, it
«• ■.< „ ,"<**■<»<] thsl the preference take the
form «Z •slightly ncrssed duties on certain
■.ii..(. i*-iii •■injiurl-. such as BOUT, soap and
V'irdasr-.- and -: corresponding decrease in
if tJir maintenance of tlie pret<ent tariff re
*»-j»ertihK siniilar Canadian products.
PRIVATE DETECTIVE INDICTED.
.Maurice II i.i-. : was indicted yesterday
py Ui«% «iraii<J jury, chargr-d with having
&LWSB\ the xjfiitli ot is wif> on October 28.
li"0?. by Inistertag strychnine. Lastlf is
a. private detective, ''d lived with his wife
3t No. ;. East IHlh .street. There aradjno
suspicion rt-pardins her death until an
anonymous letter ■was received at the Coro
t*er4*j ofßoe. winch caused her body, which
had bftep. sent to Mllroy, Perm., to be dfs-
Jnt« rre<s.
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CONSTIPATION
SHELVING BUDGET
FA( TIOXA L VICTORY.
'Liberals Still at Mercy of the
Nationalist Part
[By (Table to Tl\e Tribunal
London, Feb. 28. — The Prime Minister's
explanation of the government's tactics
and policy was heard with intense in
terest and almost feverish excitement" by
a crowded house, with royalties and am
bassadors in the galleries. It was be
gun with an air of weariness and closed
with a brave show of confidence ur.d t
the stimulative effect of hearty cheering
from the Liberal benches. These cheers
rang out as soon as it appeared that the
reform of the upper house was left in the
background, where it might come up in
another year, and that the veto question
was put in the centre of the foreground,
here it could be taken up in advance
of the old budget. It was veto. before
budget.
That was what the Radical malcon
tent.--, the Labor members and John
Redmond had been demanding, and this
concession offered the promise of either
the passage of the budget itself or its
incorporation with the second budget.
Mr. Asquith's motion covered govern
ment control during the time until Easter
for borrowing bills, supplementary es
tates and uncontroversial business re
garding supply. He announced the in
troduction of veto resolutions for March
29. and described them in a comprehen
sive way as containing a prohibition
against the interference of the Lords
with finance and securing the consum
mation of the deliberate will of the Com
mons within the life of a .single Parlia
ment. These resolutions would be sent
to the Lords. What would happen if the
Lords did not accept the principle was
not explicitly stated, although there was
an elastic generalization that it would
be the primary and paramount duty of
the government to place on the statute
books a law embodying it.
That was the vulnerable point, and
Mr. Redmond relentlessly put an iron
hand on it when Mr. Balfour had fin
ished his short but powerful speech, in
which the government was condemned
with fine irony for declining to carry out
the statesmanlike proposals for reform
ing the upper house and settling all
questions on broad lines and on a high
plane. The Nationalist leader, with cold,
remorseless logic, insisted on having
guarantees for the final enactment of a.
veto bill based on resolutions. Other
wise the Nationalists, he said, could not
vote for the budget.
This challenge to the Prime Minister
was delivered in Mr. Redmond's deepest
tone? and most defiant manner. As he
spoke the Radical hopes for the concen
tration of the forces of the coalition on
the budget were dispelled. The Prime
Minister could not with dignity or pelf
rospect promise the=e guarantees, and
without the Nationalist votes a budget
which was referred to the nation could
not be sent back to the Lords.
The government, while kept together
by an artificial compromise between the
petoists and reformers inside the Cahi
net, remained at the mercy of Mr. Red
mond. It could not carry the budget.
and could only survive until Easter by
the benevolent neutrality ur eh rity of
the Conservatives. It was a situation to
take the heart out of every man on the
government bench.
L..rd Hugh Cecil, palefaced and sol
emn as a monk, followed Mr. Redmond
in a speech of impassioned eloquence,
denouncing both him and the Primp Min
ister for playing fast and loose with the
constitution. Sir Henry Dalziel, whose
obstructive motion had been declared
out of order, virtually joined Mr. Red
mond in the demand for guarantees, and
Mr. Healy. with Mophistophelian tones
and gestures, rubbed salt into tho min
isters' wounds by declaring that the
Conservatives were bent on saving the
government from untimely defeat.
This assertion was confirmed when
Austen Chamberlain described the ur
pent nature of the financial business for
which the Prime Minister has asked the
full time of the House. David Lloyd
♦ ieorpe promptly and incisively replied
t-. him and won a hearty cheer from the
Uadicals by declaring- that the govern
ment would not remain in office after
failing in an emergency to obtain a final
enactment of legislation relating t<> the
powers of the Lord?. George X. Barnes
defined the attitude of the Labor mem
bers, and the debate dragged on until
the dinner hour, when the Prime Minis
ter's motion was carried without ;i di
liskm and the government, under the
streps of financial necessities, obtained
an extension of time through March.
The ministers avoided defeat through
their concessions to the vetoists and the
postponement of the question of changes
in the constitution of the upper house,
and also through the indulgence of the
< "nnser\ ati\ (?, who preferred to keep
them in office For general political ef
fect: > et they were discredited in the
country by the wabbling tactics nn<\
Cabinet feuds and by their absolute de
pendence on Mr. Redmond for the votes
required f (> r the passage of the budget.
As his t^rrns are manifestly impos
sible, the budget is virtually dead. A.s
one of the Liberal members admitted,
the Conservatives are already calling on
the government to dr<-t> the liquor and
land sections, and that will imply an
abject surrender both tv the Lords and
Mr. Halfour. The government has gained
time but has lost prestige. It would ha\ c
acted Srtth greater dignity if it had
brought in the budget, fallen with it
and appealed to the country for rein
forcements.
LEAVES THE CUSTOMS SERVIC
Collector Loeb Praises Harrison Os
borne. Retiring Solicitor.
Harrison Osborne, solicitor' to Collector
Loeb, resigned yesterday, to lake effect
, immediately. Mr. Osborne will be asso
ciates hereafter with the law firm of
Davies, Stone A Auerbach, us counsel In
charge Of matters Connected with the ap
plication of the federal laws to the various
departments of the federal government.
Collector Loch made the following state
ment yesterday
■■; received Mr. Osborne's resignation
•with much regret, as 1 have had no more
loyal or efficient assistant than he has
been, and ! trust he will meet with every
success in hie new connection."
The salary of solicitor !- $3,000 a year.
The office la not in the Civil Service. Mr.
Osborne came from Buffalo, and was ap
pointed .solicitor by Edward S. Fowler toon
after .<- became Collector. A successor to
Mr. Osborne will be chosen in a few days.
HEAVY EARTHQUAKE RECORDED.
St. Loi:is, Feb. '.S.— Five long earth shocks
■were recorded by the seismograph at St.
Loi'is University to-day, beginning at 3:30:45
and continuing until :.4s:is o'clock. The
shocks portend a never© bhoek hi the ex
treme southwestern portion of the globe.
A sixth shock, the most severe of all, was
recorded at 7:40 o'clock to-night. This
shock lasted ninety second*.
NEW-YORK DAILY TRFBI* K. TUESDAY. MARCH 1, 1910.
FIGHT WITH SEGRO.
Alleged Burglar Keeps Two
Policemen Busy.
After a stiff, fight with two policemen,
Jacob Rose, a negro, living at No. 314
Gold street. Brooklyn, was arrested in
the summer home of Alfred C. Weeks
man, at S6th street and Second avenue.
Bay Ridge, early this morning. The man
entered the house by breaking a window
in the kitchen, according to the police,
who said that when they arrived he had
piled up jewelry and silverware.- to th?
value of $2,000 in a blanket. When found
Rose was hiding beneath a sofa' in the
dining room. :M*Si -
It was shortly after midnight when
John Ludermann. who lives directly op
posite the place, saw a light in the house,
and. knowing that the family was away,
called up Police Headquarters. Lieuten
ant Sloat. of the Fort Hamilton station,
sent two patrolmen to the house.
After entering by way of the broken
window the policemen said they found
Rose hidden under a sofa and dragged
him out. He at once began a furious
fight, they said, and tried to slash them
with a knife. It was only after a des
perate encounter that the police were
able to subdue him. and he continued to
fight all the way to the station house.
At the station Rose made a counter
charge of assault against the policemen,
and the lieutenant was forced to enter
tain the charge, owing to the new rule.
CALLS IT BLUNDER.
Methodists' Hear Pope Criti
cised b>i Baptist.
The Rev. Dr. Chester B. Ralston, pastor
of tin* Warburton Avenue Baptist Church,
of Yonkers. in an acHress delivered last
night at ihe dinner and conference of
Methodist Episcopal laymen of Now York,
held in the restaurant at Wanamaker's,
attacked Hope Piua for the refusal of an
audience to former Vice-President Fair
banks.
"When l heard thai this conference was
purely Methodist in character f felt some
what out of place in addressing you to
night. "" he said. "However. I want to con
gratulate the Methodists of the United
States and the Protestants of the entire
world on their possession of a man of such
tearless and courageous convictions as Mr.
Fairbanks. As the result Of the egregious
biunder made by Use head of the Etonian
Church in refusing t<- receive .Mr. Pair
banks, 1 venture to prophesy that the
Methodist missions in Rome will make
more converts in the next ten years than
could have possibly been numbered in fift?
years otherwise."
* The conference and dinner wus held to
create interest in the pledge given by the
Laymen's Missionary Convention last Jan
uary to increase the yearly missionary fund
from the Methodist Episcopal churches of
the city from £',:.'. OOO to $55,600. John B. Huy
ler a. ted as chairman.
The Rev. Dr. Wallace McMullen. pastor
of the Madison Avenue Methodist Epis
copal church, who delivered the principal
address, insisted that it was the privilege
and duty of the church to preach the iruth
in every country under the sun, including
Italy. He declared that commercial unity
could never exist between the Orient and
the Cccident until spiritual unity had been
estab [shed.
.Ioh:i K. Blayback criticised the laymen
for their indifference to missionary work.
"There are men here to-night." said be,
•who spend more money every month In
the theatres than they put in the collec
tion nlate in the course of :« year.
About eight hundred laymen attonded the
dinner.
DIAMOND SPLITTER DISAPPEARS
Wife Fears Foul Play and Appeals to
the Police.
With 13,000 worth of diamonds and several
hundred dollars in money In his pockets,
Joseph Van Praag. -i diamond splitter, of
No. 634 Prospect avenue. The Bronx, disap
peared from his home <>n January 26. He
has not been heard from since, according
to a report made by his wife to the Bronx
Detective Bureau last night
V;:!: Praag, one <«f the two or three men
of his craft In America, according to his
wife; wa? employed by Maiden Lane firms.
He started for Boston, she supposes, on the
day he disappeared, to execute n. commis
sion for one of them. A general alarm has
been sent out for the missing man. and de
tectives have been assigned to the <-;isc
Mrs. Van Praag sai.l her husband left
home early in the morning of Wednesday.
January 26. Kllins her that as soon as he
reached Boston he would send her a spe
cial delivery letter telling of his safe ar
rival. She has not heanl from him. -he
says, and believes he must have met with
foul play.
ILLUSTRATED ART LECTURES.
Municipal Society Plans Series at City
High Schools.
A series <>f illustrated lectures <>n various
phases of municipal art v.iii shortly begin
at the high schools of greater New York
under the auspices <>f the Municipal Art
Society. At the head of the movement is
Richard Welling, a lawyer, of ' No. 2 Wall
street, one of the leading members of t h<*
society. Regarding the plan Mr. Welling
s<»i'i last night :
"Children who grow up surrounded by
hideousness, without even a glimpse of a
beautiful outline, miss one of the most
Important influences of education. By
means of lectures and stereoptlcon views
for example, of the eig-ht most beautiful
buildings in the world. >ts exemplified by a
lecture by A. A. Stoughton— children may
experience emotions of refinement and an
admiration for the beautiful in art. Tf the
seed Is onlj planted one need not he modest
in predicting a harvest of good arising
therefrom.
"The society is grateful for the offers re
ceived from well known artists and archi
tects who are able to give these lectures,
and s:tve them without charge, save the
actual expenses of travelling and the use
of the ■tereopticon."
Associated With Mi. Welling as chair
man of the committee In charge are Mrs.
William Rob! son and Miss Florence Levy.
Among those who will make addresses are
Arthur A. Btoughton, Alexander T. Van
I^acr, Frank Alvah Parsons, Herbert W.
Faulkner, Charles 11. <';irh'n, D. A. Huehsch
and Arthur W. Martin.
SUBWAY PLANS ASKED FOR.
Zorn Resolution Seeks Report from
G-aynor and P. S. Board.
[By TVlr- graph to The Tribune. 1
Albany, Feb. 5£ — To determine whether
the people of Queens and Richmond are to
be taxed for something from which they
will not benefit, Assemblyman Zorn. of
Queens County, to-night Introduced a res
olution calling on the Mayor of New York
and the Public Service Commission, lit
District, to report to the Assembly any
plans thai have been. adopted or are about
to '.-■ adopted for subway building In New
York City. The resolution slates that
New York City is about to spend |130,
000,000 for subways, thut the people as a
whole are to raise this money, hut that
provision is made for no subways *ln the
boroughs of Queens and Richmond.
Asnemblyman Dana Introduced a hill ap
propriating 116.000,000 for the purchase of
Jandt-- I" In- added I" the state lands and
reforested, He mild that the land could
be bought cheaper now than In years to
Come and that for that reason M much us
possible should be secured at this Urn*.
MORAN IS BEATEN.
Murphy Gets Decision Over
E nglish (ha m pio n .
San Francisco. Feb. 28.— 'Tommy' Mur
phy, of Harlem, beat Owen Moran. of Eng
land. Both men were on their feet after
twenty rounds of desperate fighting and
"Eddie* 1 Smith declared Murphy winner
over Kngland's champion lightweight. The
decision was jeered and Moran frantically
protested, saying lie had been robbed.
STATE INSANE, Sl#U.
Lunacy Board's ße port Shores
$6,899 £87 '-58 'Expenses.
Albany, Feb. 2s.— The. annual retort of
the State Commission in Lunacy . "/as sub
mitted to the Legislature to-night. ' The
number of committed Insane in the public
and private hospitals at' the close 'of the
fiscal year .was 31,541, divided as follows:
Men. 15,107; .women,. 16,434. The whole
number of insane in the state hospitals, in
cluding the two criminal institution; at Mat
teawan and Dannemora, was >0,J90, of
which 1,127 were, in the two last named
institutions. In the private hospitals there
were 1,051 committed patients at the close
of the year. The net increase in all insti
tutions was 1.054: in state hospital alone.
1 015.
The total cost of maintaining ths Insane
during the year, including new buildings
for additional accommodations, extraor
dinary repairs., also for the cost of admin
istration, including the psychiatric institute
on Ward's Island, the commission's board
of immigration inspectors, the • •0.-*' Of de
porting aliens and non-residents, etc..
amounted io $t!.<S9P.2S7 SS.
The commission .submits an estimate «>f
the sum required to maintain the state hos
piuil system during the year beginning Oc
tober ]. 1919, amounting to ,t total of
SS.4JO.3J r, of which $5,5!>0.000 is < stimated
as the cost of maintaining an average popu
lation of 31.000 patients un(\ 5.690 em
ployes, and $2.35,"».r!15 is estimate.] as nec
essary to provide additions to -x^ling hos
pitals and for the beginning Cl" work
at the newly acquired site at Yorktown.
The estimated cost of maintaining each pa
tient during ioio-'U is $190 a year, as
against $ISS I*:.' in 1907. $IS4 44 in 190S
and ? 191 04 in 1909.
The commission renews its sttcng rec
ommendation for an increase in ; h ■ wages
of nurses and attendants in immediate care
of the insane.
RES EXT MORE WORK.
Murray Bill Affecting Em
ployes Here Recommitted.
| Ry Telegraph to The Tribune.)
Albany. Feb. 28.— When the Assembly to
night reached the bill of Assemblyman
Andrew F. Murray to increase the hours
Of work of the county employes of New
York. Kings, Queens and Erie counties
there was a chorus of objections from the
Tammany members. In explaining the
measure Mr. Murray declared that the
employes of the counties within the city
Of New York worked less and drew larger
salaries than those in any other county
in the slate. lie said the New York
County Clerk's office was hopelessly behind
in its work and employes had refused to
work overtime at the request of the
County Clerk. When the County Clerk, he
said, asked the Deputy Attorney General
in the New York office if they could not
be compelled to, he was advised that they
could not be forced to stay at work after
the hour stipulated in the law. Mr. Murray
said that the bill was introduced as the
result of an Investigation made by the
Municipal Research League and taxpayers
and other civic organizations.
As>. -nhlyman "Jimmy" Oliver. who
voiced the sentiment of the New York
Democratic members, was. shocked to think
that anybody could ask the New York
County employes to work longer than they
do. This was particularly outrageous, be
thought, in the summer, when the young
men in the county offices might wish to
take their sweethearts on a sail down the
Hay on a warm afternoon. The hill pro
vides that the county employes thall work
until 4 p. m.. instead of 3 p. m.. in July
and August, end until 5, instead of 4. in
the rest of the months of the year.
On the ground that Kings County repre
sentatives had not a chance to be heard
en the bill. Assemblyman Glore, of thai
county, moved that ii be recommitted for
a hearing The introducer withdrew objec
tion to ihis motion and it prevailed. As
semblyman Whitney, chairman of the In
ternal Affairs Committee, announced thai
the lien ring would be given on the after
coon of March 8.
EXPECT ALLDS SOOX.
Littleton Plans to Call Him
Th a rsday- - To-day 's If // nesses
Albany. Feb. 28. Before Senator Jotham
P Allds takes the stand this week to Tell
his version of the alleged transaction of
April 2:;, !'.<ol. through which Senator Benn
1 'oniier is trying to brand him as a bribe
taker, his counsel will call : a witnesses
officers of the bridge companies with which
Conge;- was connect -"d. The men that have
figured prominently In the testimony in
this connection are John Newell, the East
ern agent of the canton Bridge Company,
who has an office hi Albany. Bugene Lan
don. now a Groton grocer, and Frederick
Sage. who. according to Conger, told him
of the alleged demand for $10,000 "protec
tion" money that came to the bridge com
panies from Albany in 1905.
Martin W. Littleton, attorney for the de
fence, said to-night that both Newell and
Landon would be .-ailed to the stand to
morrow. Thus far the defence iias not sub
poenaed Sage, and the impression hero is
1 tat l.p will not be a witness. Conger de
clared that Landon acted as treasurer of
the 16,068 fund which the bridge companies
collected In IS&. and contributed to the Re
publican campaign committee. Since then
Landon has severed his connection with
the Groton Bridge Company, of which he
vii- treasurer In 1903.
From .i popular point of view Sage prob- i
ably would be one of the most Interesting:
witnesses that could be called. The authors
of the alleged attempt to bold up the
bridge companies in \W'< a:e still unknown,
and the mention of their names would in-.
evitably force the Legislature to extend the
Investigation beyond its present limits.
Mr. Littleton expects to .-all Allds by
Thursday. \\* said to-day that his cross- j
examination probably would not last lunger
than ;< day and ■ half. But this feature of
the proceedings rests with the "prosecu- \
tion." H\ .ailing him well toward the last
bia attorneys hope w spare him as much of [
this ordeal as possible, for all the other ,
elements of his case will be well ventilated I
before he begins to testify.
MAGISTRATES TABLE BILL.
Object to Appointment of Substitutes
by Mayor in Case of Illness.
Objection made by Magistrate Cornell,
supported by Magistrates Herbert, Bteiaert
and Moss, to a legislative bill drawn up ■
by Magistrate Butts at the direction of
President Barlow empowering the Mayor
to appoint a substitute magistrate to
serve in periods of three months upon the
continued illness of one of the regular mag
istrates, resulted in the bill being tabled
at a meeting of the city magistrates held >
yesterday -afternoon.
The magistrates will ask, however, mat
the] be permitted to have a vice-president
of their board empowered to sif,'i» the pay
roll and to perform other duties bow in
trusted only to the president. In event of j
His nines* (
Mil. COBB MAI LEAD
WOODRUFF'S CHOICE.
Senators Meade and White
Control the Situation.
:>£' ; J ■■-'. I By Telegraph to The Tribune. I
Albany, Feb_2S.— Shrewd political manipu
lation hPs so advanced the candidacy of
Senator George H. Cobb,- of - Watertown,
for tne majority leadership to 1 succeed
Jotham P. Allds, that to-night he runs ab
solutely even with Senator George A.
Davis, of Buffalo, who on Friday seemed
virtually elected. And two Monroe Sena
tors— ileade and White— appear to control
the situation.
Neither Davis nor Cobb to-night knows
■vrethei he will be the choice: of the Re
publican Senators at the caucus to-morrow
night. It is significant that at this juncture
men who for years have been a part of the
Republican state organization are confident
that Cobb will be the victor, It is likewise
significant that State Chairman Woodruff's
influence is now behind Cobb, just as it was
behind Allds at the beginning of the legis
lative session. v.
In other words, the election Of a. tem
poriry president appears to have become
the immediate feature in the fight of the
"old guard" to regain control of the leßis
lative and political situation, which has
been bmllv damaged by the Allds bribery
case. Davis has the. support of almost all
the men considered Hughes adherents.
Cobb's candidacy is being advanced by men
wh, have fought Governor Hughes and Ins
policies at every turn, although al! hi^ SOp
poitera are not of this stripe.
Say Buffalo Has Everything.
Tlk- ostensible reason for tttf bitter op
position, to Speaker Davis just now is that
"Buffalo has everything." Davia is second
man on the Rules committee and chairman
of Judicial*] Hill, his colleague, is chair
man of the Finance Committee. But the
real reason is s;iid to be that Senator
Davis will stand for a general investiga
tion of legislative corruption. Senator
Cobb early in the Allds case took a deter
mined stand for a real probing of that
affair to the very bottom, but Senators
who are working for Davis maintain that
Cobb would be amenable to influences now
;it work to stave off the desired general
Inquiry.
However, indications point to a broader
reason for the political support now being
given to Senator Cobb by State Chairman
Woodruff and other "old guardsmen."
Cobb has been opposed to the direct
primary proposition and other measures of
Governor Hughes and is acceptable to this
element >n that account. He is clean per
sonally and an able legislator, which to a
large extent would disarm criticism of him.
He has been for many years a part of the
Jefferson County Republcan organization.
There was a persistent report to-night
that there was an understanding between
Cobb and .Jot ham P. Allcis that Cobb. if
elected temporary president, would resign
and allow Alids to be re-elected if Allds
should tie vindicated of the bribery charge
on winch he now is on trial. Cobb"s friends
deny this indignantly.
"If Cobb is elected he will be temporary
president and nobody else will run him or
dictate to him." declared one Cobb man.
"'Woodruff elected AlldS. Allds now is on
trial for bribery. Woodruff; now supports
Cobb. That, if nothing else, would deter
mine my attitude," countered a Davis sup
porter.
Neither candidate was loquacious to-night.
"I'm contented at the prospect." sui'l
Senator CoM>. "My friends think they have
votes enough to elect me."
"When I returned to town this after
noon." said Senator Davis. "I found that
State Chairman Woodruff had been at
work, with the result that enough strength
has been developed for Senator Cobb to
make the outcome uncertain. I think
fifteen men ate absolutely certain to vote
for me, and there are several others whom
my friends count as doubtful, who are not
strong believers in the political policy of
the state chairman."
fefforts have been made by some Senators
to get Fred Greiner, the Erie County Re
publican leader, to take part in the light
for Davis. They say he declined absolutely
to interfere in the Senate situation, saying
thai he wouldn't play politics of this kind
at a time when the fate of the Republican
party was at stake.
Travis Pledged to Davis.
Chairman Woodruff will he unable to de
liver an unbroken delegation to Cobb. Sen
ator Travis, who voted for Allds. has
pledged himself to Senator Davis. Travis
was a Davis advocate during the Allds-Hin
nian contest. On the other hand. Senator
Brough, of New York, is an ardent Cobb
supporter, declaring that Cobb is a better
Hughes man than Davis, and the ablest
lawyer in the Senate. Brough broke away
fiom the so-called insurgent caucus and
went into the Allds caucus at the beginning
of the session.
Barnes, of Albany County, who is stand- j
ing with Woodruff and Wadsworth, has
banded Senator Grattan over to'Cobb. Sen
ator Alien, Of Troy, who has voted as a I
Hughes man on almost every occasion— j
though it is said to be rather against his I
own will— is committed to "Cobb. Several j
Senators— among thorn Waimvright, I lea
cock and Griffith— are distinctly doubt
ful, although they are counted by the Davis
men as among the Cobb supporters. : Sen- i
ators Wainwright and Heacbck have told j
their friends they thought no temporary j
president should be elected at. this time. '
Friends of Governor Hughes in the i.eg- |
islature are much exercised at the outlook.
They say that if the "old guard" "combina
tion now urging the election of Cobb ob
tains control of the upper house it -will be j
able, with the assistance of Speaker Wads- j
worth, to kill off the Hughes legislation
and stop a genera! housecleaning and legis
lative Investigation. Senator Davis as ma
jority leader, they argue, could he depend- j
ed upon to do all in his power to bring j
about a complete probing of legislative cor- j
ruption, to he followed by a proper house- .
Cleaning and the passage «»f Ho Hughes
legislative programme In general. This they j
believe because of the sentiments of Fred
Oreiner, his leader, and the attitude of Sen
ator Davis's own constituents
TO ABOLISH AQUEDUCT BOARD.
IBy Teloßraph to- The Tribune. ) '
Albany, Feb. 28. — terminate the exist
ence of the Aqueduct Commission of New
York City on June I, a bill was introduced
to-night by Senator Wainwright and As-
Not any Milk Trust
Tht Original and Gaftulnf
HO RUCK'S
MALTED MILK
Th* Food-drink for All Agts.
At restaurants, hotels and fountains.
Delicious, invigorating and sustaining.
Keep it on your sideboard at home.
Don't travel without it.
A quick lunch prepared in a minute.
Take no substitute. Ask for HORLICK'S.
Others are imitations.
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I Union Dime Savings Bank $
A Has Removed Its Place of A
a Lu&iness and Is Now, At -'^'^
SlOS 10 i 6»h five. S. 40th St. 0
O Front Ins Bryant Turk. A
semblyman Green. In speaking of the, bill
Mr. Green said that Mayor Gaynor some
time «f<; dismissed me tnreo original mem
bers of the commission and appointed
Michael Furat. of .Brooklyn, and J. Masai
Hayes and J. T. Mahoney. of New York, _ to
succeed them, with the understanding that
they were to terminate the business of the
commission by June l.next. It was on th
request of the commission that the bill was
introduced.
CHAXGE PROBE.
FOR
Toombs Resolution Seeks
Legislative Investigation.
> (By SMssrasa to The Trlbun?. 1
Mian.. Feb. 2S.— On the ground that new j
conditions have arisen since the committee )
on speculation in securities and commodi- j
ties appointed by the Governor made its re- |
port last June that the board of governors |
of the .New York Stock Exchange had the I
power to regulate the operations of the!
traders. Assemblyman Frederick R. Toombs j
introduced a concurrent resolution to-night'
proposing a legislative Investigation of the ;
New . York and other stock exchanges in
the' state. These new conditions, the reso- j
lution states, have arisen from improper I
practices by the members of the New York j
Slock Exchange, particularly in the recent j
Rock Island crash and in the Columbus j
and Hocking Coal and Iron Company stock I
pool. j
The resolution says that hundreds of in- j
nocent purchasers sustained losses amount
ing to millions of dollars through the infla
tion, the manipulation and misrepresenta
tion of the market price of these stocks,,
and that the board of governors of the New j
York Stock Exchange has avoided adminis- j
terlng material punishment to the pen i •
responsible. The resolution provides that ;
tie investigation shall be conducted by a j
committee consisting of two Senators, three i
Assemblymen aid two citizens, appointed \
by the Governor. It appropriates $40,000 for j
the purpose. The proposal was referred to ;
the Ways and Means Committee.
O'Neill-Adams 6
1868 (Established 42 Years) 1910
TO-DAY'S NLWS
Lowest Price* for ShnnJurd Goods in Greater Sew Yam
A Sale of
Women's Spring Suits
In Two New Models — At Special Prices
U'Xeill Building — Third Floor.
$39 Suits for $29.75
An exceedingly smart suit of French
sorgo in all the new shades of tan,
gray raisin, blue, green and black, with
the* new length «>f coal beautifully
trimmed with braid; a pleated skirl
finished with braid on the front panel.
The Yearly Sale of Pictures
in Full Swing
Adams Building— Third Floor.
This morning 10,000 pictures 90 on sale at prices
almost unknown except in the stores with which tins store
is affiliated. Prices range from 1 quarter off to halt prices*
and there is every sort of picture, that is sold in picture
stores, in this sale.
. . One of the great features of the sale is the fine assort
ment of French and English prints: another is the great
variety of reproductions of Henry Unit's and Harrison-
Fisher's popular work. These amount almost to an
epigram in color, and have a deep sentimental interest to
almost every one.
Another great feature is the oil paintings.
There are $5 paintings for i.'>.">.
$10 paintings for $3.50.
$1.5 paintings for *.">.
$10 paintings for - 7. ■"><>.
si.) paintings for $10.
On up in like proportions.
There are $4 colored reproductions for $&. J^
si etchings for $2.
s.-) pastels for $3.50. „ §{£
And 1,000 framed pictures at*l. worth *I. •-'."> to s-_\.v.>.
Christy pictures, worth $1.50, for 75c. i-M l|
And $7.50 French mirrors for $5 in the Louis XV
and XVI styles.
This is a quick resume of the sale, which brings *f
New York an opportunity to buy good reproductions ot\
great work at almost an average of half price.
All picture frames and all orders for picture frames
will be filled at *-'."> per cent less than the usual price during
this sale. ./
We Give and Redeem Surety Stamps
Bfcctli Aye A*\Wr I-A HAVfQ (S Sixth AvJ<
20th to 22d St. \J 1 \ULjIj illlr\iViO \5 20th to 22d St.
SPECIAL EXHIBITION
PAINTINGS
h
William Sartain
V\T>
WhUtler's "Fur Jacket"
I'M! : M ,': ■ - ■. : •
Macbeth Gallery
im nrra i ■ ■ al san st
j HOCKING AUDITOR ARRESTED.
i '- .':
| With Permission to Spend Five Days
Here, Stayed Seven Weeks.
' Columbus, Ohio. Feb. 23.— \V. N. as)
I auditor of the' Hocking Valley . Railroad
I Company, was arrested and, ordered com-
I if..! to the county jail to-day by A. C.
I Armstrong, master commissioner, who is
j taking testimony hi the ease of Ralph
j VesttaU axain-it the Hocking Valley Flail
» road Company.
I Cott wtnt to New York on leave fro-n
' the court to spend live days consultlnw
! with the New York officers. He stayed
! seven weeks. YYestfaJl, with other stock-
I holders, filed suit to esasasl the road to
allow them to examine the bootes and ' <>*'■
was summoned In the matter.
•
CALLS ALIMONY EXCESSIVE.
J3hn J. Bradley, son of William Brad
! ley. the contractor, applied to Justlc^
' Fitzgerald yesterday for the revocation of
; a Supreme Court order compelling him to
'pay his wife. Lillian X. Bradley, $25 -a
week alimony pending her suit for a sopa
i ration. Bradley asserted that could
i not afford to pa the amount fixed by th"
'court, though he was willing to pay all "*
! could. He thought the amount was cx
; cesst\c - _^__^______^—
$32 Suits for $22
One of the seal strictly tailored motltla
of serge, in linirlin»-s. gray mixtures
checks and plain colors. The; jacket
is lined v th v»t>- Xu\f pcan do eygtw
and the skirt is ■ beautiful pfcatetf
model.