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RAILROAD Bill PROGRESS
• ; " ' 'ration Senators Win
Victory Over Insurgent'-.
0\ the APPEAL SECTION
Final Vote on the Entire Bill
May Be Taken in *be Senate
Within a Week.
■rFrern TT.e Tribune Bureau.]
■RV.shlr.gton. May IS.— Th»« friends of the
f-dnKnisiraUeii h\\\ to strengthen the inter
ftai« HMMTI c law ■n-on another victory in
ihe S«»nat* in <si by the adoption of the
* '.'.ntr' of Senator Smith, of Michigan,
eivinc Th* Attorney General control of tlie
ir.trrerts of the Government in suits ap
pealed from Use «lecleions of the Interstate
Oesmtwrce Commission. The iny.irirents and
the Democrats wtr<? able to muster only
twentyz-lhroe votes against the amendment,
wliile there wore forty votes for it Four
Democrats voted for the amendment and
ten eoablicatM acairst it.'
TJie vote na.« taken after a leas disrus
*ior, of Uk amendment, which was at
'.acked by Senator? Dolliver. Clapp. Cum
mins. Newlands and Rayner. Senator
Hughe?, one of the minority members of
the Committee! on Interstate Commerce,
l -p«K"' in favor of the Smith amendment
and «harpiy . criticised Senator Rayner,
whose remarks he ron.^trued a? a reflection
on the- -motives of Senators who saw merit
Itj the Smith plan. Several sharp colloquies
between Senators Aldrich and Cummins as
to the influence the insurgent? are exertins
toward perfecting the railroad bill en
livened the proceeding, although on the
whole the debate was so dull that frequent
calls for a quorum were necessary to se
cure an audience for the orators.
Following the adoption of the Smith
amendment. Mr. Aldrlr-h offered an amend
ment to Section T. which was adopted with
out debate, when an understanding was
reached that Mr. Cummins's substitute for
Section 9 shall he regarded as the pending
amendment when the bill is taken up to
morrow.
Section 9, a? amended by Mr. Aldrich.
Termite the- Interstate Commerce Commis
r?on to suspend any new rate, classifica
tion, regulation or practice for 120 days
•while the commission is investigating its
merits. As reported the bill authorizes a
suspension not Jo exceed sixty days. The
Cummins substitute aims to prevent any
rate, classification, etc., which involve? an
Increase, from coin? into effect until it has
been approved by the commission.
"When his amendment to Section 3 had
keen adopted, Mr. AJdrich suggested the
time had come when an agreement might
be reached for a final vote on the bill. He
ask*»d that the general debate be confined
to Section 3 and the three sections relating
to the control of railroad capitalization,
end that all other amendments be voted
on without further discussion.
Mr. AlSrich withdrew his request when
several Democratic Senators explained that
there was "a. special reason" why a re
quest to fix a time for a final vote should
bs> deferred until to-morrow. The special
reason was that a conference of Demo
cratic Senators was to be held to-night for
'he consideration of the peneral legislative
Situation from the minority point of view.
This conference, held in the Senate office
baj]<Sjrg> decided to submit their views to
sbE-ent Senators before to-morrow's session.
The Smith amendment relating to the
control of eases appealed to the Commerce
Court and Hip Supreme Court from the
findings of the Interstate Commerce com
nltsien if substantially the House provi
vfsn. VThfle'ftbe Attorney General is to
have cbarte of th« interests cf the. goveia
mf>nt the Interstate Commerce Commission
and the parties in lavjawef to the proceed
in;? before the commission are to be no-
Plfd sn<J may appear as parties to thp pro
*d!r;r 3n the court? and b<? represented by
rour:cl. "
TO AID NEW CITIZENS
Representative Bennet Appeals
to Governor Hughes.
IFrom Thr Trlhnn» ram 1
Warhington. May IS.— ln a letter rent to
frovemor Hughe? to-day Representative
Wjlliam B. Bei net. of New York, has a*ked
the support «f the Executive in the cam
f«i£n which is being waged to improve the
naturalization conditions in New York. Mr.
Bennet has secured th* passage of several
■r>lii^ in the House on this subject, and I*
cenfident tftat with Governor rfugli^i-'s aid
effective reform can be accomplished. The
letter follows:
Th*" condition in relation t" naturalising
sliens 1n the state courts in N>?.- York
County is outrageous. Through the efforts
of the New York City Congressmen there
wa.B !-e'iir»d an a.pfropriation for additional
ntPlstance for the two clerks of the nat
uralization courts in v.--. York City. Mr.
Schneider, County Clerk of New* York
County, and Mr. Molloy. County Clerk of
King?, availed themselves of the opportu
nity and he'«- done everything possible to
facilitate naturalization. But :o are met
Jhy the fart that th« courts limit naturali
sation to forty cases aSv^k. nd the result
is th»» srrlf'-antH for naturalization are
new being put "ft for v year.
I «.m in receipt this morning of a letter
frern a civil engineer in the emplev of the
New York Central & Hudson P.iver Rail
road who started in to get his final papers
latt August. '-'• was net able to get any
«-on£ider«tir<n whatever until May. it. On
that «!ay tie was told to come hack in
April. V-V-. en the erouno 1 that there were
tw»lv« hundred applications already filed.
and that his turn would not com« until
then. This means that be will possibly not
be naturalized until August. J93L or" two
jesuF 'join the date that he started to file
hi* papers.
Our Supreme f"ourt judges in N«w Fork
City ire the ruen^st raid judicial officers
If the United States. They get a three
months' vacation in th« pumroei T>i»»r^ are
one hundred and fifty Thousand men In
New York City who have taken out their
firn papers and who ar* entitled to be nat
uralised. Do tie* some of our judge*
would very williniely sit this summer to
naturalize them. :. ;■
WonM It not b« possible to hold some
«p*«"isl terms during the summer months
'or the purpose of naturalizing these peo
ple, or at lea ft some of trip-in? Our nat
uralization laws are ra_ther rigid, and when
a roan becomes entitle under them to nat
uralization he certainly ought to have rea
sonable facilities. It is wrong tlu».t our Su
prome Court, with many fudges, Is natural
ising DO mere than the i;nit"<j states Dis
trict Court.- v. ith only ii ? four i'ldges. The
T*nlt»>4 States government has done its
fhare- in the increased appropriation and
th* additional ;i^i tnn'-». and that this
shocking, nr.i •«' and outrageous condition
continues is the fault now entirely of our
!-t«*e ~,.-*. ;■ ■ .
1 desire to pay that I understand Justice
Inrraharn if perfectly willing, as presiding
y.is-tice if the Appellate Division, to do
everything pof-sible |a his power to mitl
■ rate conditions, and I fee) sure thai with
the power of the Executive, and with the
power of the appellate Division something
can hf done to ?«»«. that a man will not
have to try for two rears after he la *>n
t!tl««3 to <♦ to obtain his naturalization cer
tificate.
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Vanishes rorever
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THEDAX IJVWASHIJSGTOJ*
IKrem The Trlbunei Bureau.]
Washington, May IS.
THE DAMNATION OF BALI'INGER—
rs there anything which can possibly be
said in extenuation of the crime of Richard
A. Balling*? " Is there the slightest cir
cumstance which the friends of that official
can present as mitigating Ms guilt" Just
look at the record. In' Ms own confession
he rays: "Last Sunday 1 was the guest of
Mr George W. Perkins, at" Yonkers. Mr.
Perkins is at the head of the house of J.
Pierpont Morgan A Co., as you perhaps
know. He told me. he had arranged for a
special boat to take himself and party, in
dudliiE his family, to Alaska for the in
vestigation of the feasibility of exploiting
Alaska in railroad construction and in other
lines in which he is deeply interested. . .
"He is desirous of having an engineer
accompany him who is not allied In any
way with railroad interests or private con
nections which would in any way Influence
his judgment, and he has been Insisting on
my recommending BOOM see familiar with
the Western country to take this voyage
with him' and to advise him. Naturally, 1
could think of no one so well equipped as
you to til! this office." etc. Of course, the
effort to establish some improper relation
between Secretary Ballinger and the so
cailcd Morgan-Guggenheim Interests has
utterly Called, despite the fact that the con
spiracy ha? enjoyed the constant services
of Mr. R;>ll!nser"s confidential stenogra
pher, but what does that amount to be
tween muckraker?? Mr. Ballinger sus
tained friendly relations with Mr. Perkins
and actually recommended a friend, a man
who as city engineer had rendered valu
able services to the. city, of which Mr.
Baflioger had boon Mayor, to Mr. Perkins.
Could anything be more damning? What
iei c this government coming to? Some day
the President of the United States will be
detected in the act of inviting Mr. Morgan
himself to luncheon at the White House,
and then the destruction of the Republic
will liavr been accomplished. But the
worst Is yet to come. Secretary Bal linger
stands convicted of still worse. He has
been guilty of expressing the doubt that
Frederick F. Newel!, director of the Rec
lamation Service, is '"big enough for his
job." and is suspected of contemplating
appointing the same engineer he recom
mended so highly to Mr. Perkins as Mr.
Neweirs successor. Could the most judicial
mind ask anything further to establish the
Inexpressible guilt of the Secretary of the
Interior?
THE PERFIDY OF TAFT. perfidi
ous conduct of the President in his consid
eration of the Glavis charges has been
amply proved. President Taft spent an
eveninr cross-examining Secretary Ballin
ger and Oscar Lawler. Assistant Attorney
General, on the subject of the charges.
Then he himself sat up until 3 a. m. exam
ining the written answers of Mr. Ballinger
and his associates. Tiie next evening he
asain spent with, the Secretary and Mr.
bawfer. and at Its conclusion instructed Mr.
Lazier to prepare the draft of a letter for
the signature of the Executive exonerating
all of the officials of the Interior Depart
ment. Then the President caused the At
torney General to make a review of the
answers he had received from the officials
and secured from Mr. Wiekersham the
Mies of his findings. From the I>awler
draft the Wiekersham notes and his own
conclusions. Mr. Taft dictated a letter of
exoneration. He actually incorporated in
ids letter two paragraphs and certain
phrases from the LaWler draft, and possi
bly—this will doubtless send the conspira
tors off on a new Bceut— possibly he also
>isf>d some of the expressions of Mr. Wiek
ersham. This constitutes most of the suilt
! of the Fresldent. as established by the rec
j ord. But it i- not all, nor the mot culpable
OHIO T . PRIMARY RESULTS
E. D. Cole Only Present Con
gressman Defeated. its i ':
Cleveland. Ma- I?.— Forty-two candidates
were nominated in OhiO yesterday for the
state's tw--nty-one seats in the -lower house
of Congress. Under the state election laws
Democrats and Republicans Joined in the
primaries.
Ralph D. ' v '!c. Republican, of the Sth
District, was th« only pre?«>nt Congress
man defeated Frank B WTIIis taker- his
rlare upon the ticket
The campaigns made r,sainft Representa
tives Taylor of Columbus: Kennedy. .of
Youngstown; Thomas, of th*> ISth District,
and KeUer, of Hpringfield, on 'the score of
their tariff attitude, failed tisnally.
Following are the nominees:
let District — Republican. Representative
Nicholas Lon^worth; Democrat, Dr. Thom
as P. Hart.
.<■] District— Republican, Representative
Herman P. Ooebel; Democrat, Alfred G.
Allen.
3d District— Republican. George R. Young:
Democrat. Representative James M. Cox.
Ith District— Republican, C. E. Johnson;
Democrat, J. H. 'joeke.
sth District— Republican, R. D. Roe; Dem
ocrat. Representative T. F. Ansberry.
6th District— Republican, Jesse Taylor;
Democrat. Representative M. Ft. Denver.
7th District— Republican. Representative
J. Warren Keif pi; Democrat. .1. D. Post.
Sth DiEtrict- Republican. Frank B. Willis;
Democrat. T. C. Mahon.
Kb District— Republican. J. Kent Hamil
ton. Democrat, Representative 1. R. Sher
wood.
10th District— Republican. Representative
A. R. Johnson: Democrat. Edmund Willis.
Utb District— Republican, Representative
Albert Douglas; Democrat H. C. Clay
pool.
12th District— Republican. Representative
E. L. Taylor, jr.; Democrat, Frank S. Mon
neti
loth District— Republican, J. D McLaugh
lin: Democrat. Representative- C. C. Ander
son.
14th District— Republican, G. .1. Cham
b»rla4n; Democrat, Representative W. G.
Sharp.
15th District— Republican, Representative
James Joyce: Democrat George White.
l€th District— Republican, Representative
p. A. Hollinssworth; Democrat, W. B.
Francis. , "
17th DistH-t -Republican. A. B. < ritch
field: Democrat. Representative W. A.
Shad rook.
ISth District— Republican, Representative
James Kennedy: Democrat. J. J. Whitaere.
Ifth District— Republican. Representative
W. A. Thomas: Democrat, E R. Buthrick.
50th District- Republican, Representative
Paul Rowland: Democrat. William Gordon.
2]st District— Republican Representative
J. H. Cacsidy: Democrat, R. J. Buikley.
COURT RELEASES COTTON
I Weld Injunction Dissolved, Re
lieving Many Brokers.
?u<i?» Hazel, in the United State? _ District
Court, vacated yesterday the sweeping in
junction issued the day before against
Stephen If. Weld & Co.. cotton brokers, at
the request of the receiver lor Steele, Miller
A- Co.. who faile<j at Corinth, Miss., on May
6 last, but pvmJtted a trainlnß order
against on« hundred bale« <■* cotton to
stand. Counsel for the receiver said that
he could not trace the marks on any other
shipments but the one "hundred balep.
The injunction had tied up more than
one hundred thousand bales of cotton, and
broker* were much embarrassed, being un
ahie to set deliveries. Frank B. Hayne.
ore of thi bull leaden In the old crop op
ti->T»=. fent a check for $«o,oiV\ covering 1 pht
hundred bales, but when he sought to Ret
the cotton found the injunction blocking
the nay He will K «t his cotton to-day.
George H. Neville, of th: Weld company,
filed the following affidavit, which effected
the change In the injunction:
Prior to April Zi. mo. the firm of Steel?
phen V . \\ela & Co. sundry drafts, with
trill* of lading Attached. novorinie various
shipment, of cotton, ThVs^ iHils "of d r,K
w«re duly indorsed by Steele Miller *>•'«•
and delivered to Stephen M. v\vi,| % V ? o
Ail auch drafte Tl( ' re paid bj Stephen M
W*Jd .v Co. Prior 10 April 24, 191" and the
bUli of lading attached tin reio delivered
If. y&ipZg* P Tior 0 that dale. Stephen M
\\ ejd &-. ( <i. iiave not received any other cot
ton fhir-Pfd by Ft^l^. M iiier A .0 exctrt
represented by tli.- said bill's of
lading which were delivered to Hteph*fl M
v>>ll 4. Co. upon the -payment of .aid
drafts.
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBrXE. 'rrrT RSDAY. MAY lf». l<tlf>.
part. L- D. Brandeis, attorney for the con
sDiratois. issued numerous dragnet requests
for DaD»rs. etc.. and the President failed
to notice them. That. constitutes his most
heinous offence. Not noticing Brandciss
need?, he did not supply them, and he shall
never, never be forgiven for not noticing
Brandeis and hfs requests. The conduct
of the President Is beyond expression.
Words are not adequate to describe it.
THE CRIME OF BALLINGER.— On De
cember .26, 1907, the legal representative of
the Cunningham claimants to certain
Alaska coal lands, ex-Governor Moore of
■Washington, called on Judge Ballinger,
then Commissioner of the General Land
Office. and. asked the status of the claims
he represented. . Mr. Ballinger . sent for
Mr. Schwartz, chief of special agents, and
asked the status. On looking over the
papers brought him by Schwartz Mr. Bal
linger said: "Well, it looks »s " though
these can go to patent all right." "I told
him I concurred with that." said Mr.
Schwartz on the witness stand, adding:
"And I said I would notify Mr. Glavis. He
said. 'All right: notify Glavis.' 1 was in
there probably with the judge about two
or three minutes." That is the. sworn tes
timony of Schwartz which Brandeis re
.fused to challenge. He did not cross-ex
amine Schwa at all. Glavis telegraphed
back that the patents should not be issued,
and the order to clearlist was countermand
ed by .Judge Ballinger, Schwartz preparing
that order also, and the order stands coun
termanded to this day. Moreover, the tes
timony of Schwartz has been amply cer
tified by Fred Dennett. Commissioner of
the General Land Office, and by Secretary
Ballinger himself. These statements are
not among the many undisputed. They are
all testimony regarding which there is no
difference of opinion.
THE INDICTMENT.— Just one word re
gardlng the charge* against Secretary P.nl
linßpr: When put on the stand T,. R.
Glavis. the chief accuser of the Secretary.
carefully refrained from charging any cor
ruption. He said on the stand: "As to the
corruptness, I have never made any charge
cf criminality or corrupt practice, because
i," T had sufficient evidence that warranted
me in making such a charge I would have
preset ted ft to a srand jury, and never
would have gone to the President" The
most direct statement Glavis would make
was that his information "proved to me. 1
didn't thinW the Interior Department was
in safe harlds." Gifford Pinchot made a
clear-cut charge that Secretary Ballinger
had wilfully deceived the President before
lie U'inchoO took the oath, but after taking
ii lie gradually retracted until there was
nothing left of his original statement. Xx-
Secretary Garfleld knew nothing of the
Alaska eo;ii lands, but charged that Secre
tary Ballinger was not in sympathy with
his conception of the conservation policy.
And these, as shown by the record, consti
tute the only charges which the investi
gating committee actually ha? before it.
THE VERDICT.— The Republican mem
bers of the Ballinger-Plnchot investigating
committee had an informal and brief con
ference to-day, at ■which they discussed the
possibility of bringing the affair to a close.
To-morrow will be Senator Hoot's last ap
pearance at the sessions, as he sails on
Saturday for The Hague. The Republican
members of the committee expect to hold an
other conference to-morrow noon, at which
there will be an effort to devise some
method whereby Mr. Roofs vote on the
final verdict may be. counted. The indica
tions arc that the verdict -.will be large! v
partisan, although it is quite possible that
some of the Democrats will vote with the
Republicans. It is sincerely hoped that the
pioceedings may be brought to a close
next week. G. G. H.
SHERMAN ON . MR.- TAFT
Says There Have Been More
Spectacular Presidents.
Kalamazoo, Mich., May " IS.—Vice-Presi
dent Sherman was the guest of honor here
to-day at a celebration of the Lincoln
League in memory of Abraham Lincoln's
nomination for the Presidency fifty years
ajto. Speeches were made from an historic
mound in Bronson Park, from which Lin
coln once made an address.
In defending the administration Mr. Sher
man said:
President Taft has scon and retains the
admiration and respect of th American
people. lie has moved steadily forward on
the path of duty. without reflection on
any predecessor, I may say. however, he
is less spectacular and ostentatious than
any President for many terms. He is
bringing about in a quiet way, 'without
srreat friction, many reforms in the gov
ernment service that are not given to the
public in a spectacular way, but which
are shown, or ■will be shown, in the an
nual reports made up at the end of the
fiscal year. It will be well then for those
critics who have seen fit to find fault with
their President to look into these returns
and see to what extent the government and
the people themselves have been benefited
by wise legislation and wise administra
tion.
f am reluctantly bound to call attention
to the fact that a few s« lf-constituted lead
ers of our part,'- have styled themselves
Ijrogresslves and assert that, they are not
with the majority of the party regarding
certain disputed points in our fiscal and
other legislation.
Only last week both of the so-called pro
gressive Senators of a nearby state (Iowa)
made speeches at the capital of that state
which were a reflection upon the honesty
and integrity of the President and the ma
jority of Republicans in both houses of
Congress. Let me say to you that your
President does not try to deceive the peo
ple. When he makes statements or pre
sents rlgyree you may be sure they are au
thoritative and official.
REGULARS ARE JUBILANT
_#
See in Ohio Results Indorsement
of Payne Tariff. N
fFriMTi Th« Tribune Bureau.]
Washington. May IS.— The regulars in the
House «re jubilant at the results of pester- j
day's .primaries in Ohio. The vote showed
that no matter how strong the insurgent
sentiment may be in the Middle West it
lias not the strength to defeat any of the
present Republican delegation in Congress.
The result Is also considered a signal vie
tory for the supporters of the Payne tariff
bill, because that measure was made an
issue In several districts. ?'' =■"-."
"It is a signal victory for the tariff bill
and it? authors," Representative Nicholas
Lougworth eaid to-day. "In several of the
districts the tariff issue was the only one
about which the battle waged. I sincerely
regret the defeat of Representative Cole,
but I am forced to the conclusion that it
was dv» to local conditions."
BOY MAKESJRAVE RESCUE
While Men Hold Off He Plunges
After Another Lad Drowning.
While- a number of men stood by hesitat
ing, William Scholtmyer, fifteen years old,
of No. tOk Rlverdol* avenue. Vonkers.
plunged into th« Hudson River yesterday
and saved the life of John Varholia, nine
years old, of No. SO Clinton street, Var
hoJia was Hnkine when Scholtmyer reached
him, and h« grasped hit rescuer convul
sively by the arms. Struggling with his
charge, Bcholtmyer wan borne beneath 1 the
surface and had to release bis hold, on
Varholia. Diving at once, he «saln grasped
the boy and struck out for shore. He was
In a thoroughly exhausted condition and on
the verge "i' sinking when a party. of nsher
mea appeared in A rOwbeat and rescued
both bojs.
The rescue. 7. was ••ffected olf the Ludlow
Dock, near (tie plant of the Federal Sugar
Refining Company. Louis Spreckele, presi
dent of tin- company, was m Impressed
with the hercisro of young; Scholtjnyt-r til at
lie said be would urge lilt name for the
Oirneyte hero medal. Varholia \% <* Placing
on lbs d.ick when he tripi>r*U on ihe strlns
r-iC'.e and fell into the rivei'.
AMERICA AVERTS A WAR
Ecuador and Peru Expected to
Accept Mediation.
OFFER OF THREE NATIONS
Brazil- and Argentina Join in
Plea for Arbitration— Chili
Favors Move.
[From The Tribune Bureau.]
Washington. May Is.— A concerted
move on the part of the United States,
Brazil and the Argentine Republic to
prevent H-ar between Peru and Ecuador
by a tripartite proposal of mediation
was announced by the Secretary of State
to-day. N<-> replies have been .received
from the two governments, but a suc
cessful outcome of the negotiations is
expected.
The proposal, which was the result of
the initiative of the United States, was
made in accordance with Article 2 of the
Hague Convention of 1899, for the pacific
settlement of international disputes.
This; occasion is the first time the ar
ticle has been invoked, although it lias
been in force for eleven years. The iden
tical note goes somewhat further than
the convention in stipulating that the
two countries shall suspend preparations
for war.
It is believed that the proposal will be
acceptable to Ecuador, which has already
offered to submit, therdispute to the me
diation of tlie United Stales. Peru re
fused this proposal. The government,
which is. not especially strong, did not
dare to run counter to the popular
clamor for war. and military prepara
tions were allowed to go on. It is be
lieved that the proposal of the three
powers will provide sufficient occasion
for the government's* acceptance of the
plan.
The proposal was made with the
knowledge of Chili, which might have
presented an Identical note also had it
not been for strained relations with Peru.
Guayaquil. May 18.— Ecuador has not
yet been officially informed of the offer
of joint mediation by the United States,
Brazil and Argentina in the dispute be
tween Peru and Ecuador.' as the Ecua
doran Minister to Argentina has not yet
arrived at Buenos Ayres. A private dis
patch received here says that Peru has
decided to accept the offer of mediation.
• Lima. May Ifi.— lt is reported that the
Cabinet has decided to accept a proposal
from the United States, Brazil and Ar
gentina for joint mediation in the boun
dary dispute between Peru and Ecuador,
which has brought the two republics to
the verge of war.
COLEMAN GETS 15 YEARS
Cambridge Bank Employe Pleads
Guilty — on Trial, •
Boston, May I?.— Of the three men who
sre held responsible for the larceny of
nearly half the assets of the National City
Bank of Cambridge, George W. Colema.i,
the ten-dollar-a-week bookkeeper, confessed
l:is guilt to-day, and will serve fifteen years
In prison, while his alleged accomplice.
William. J. Keliber and Wilson W. Lock
hart, demand trial.
{(eltber's trial on tha charge of aidlns
and abutting Cole man in the larceny of
5509.000 leg-in as soon as Coleman haJ
been sentenced in the United States Circuit
Court.
, Coleman will spend probably ten years at
Greenfield, to which jail he was sentenced
by Judge Hale, and five years ntay be de
ducted from hi* sentence for good behavior.
That he was not sent to the . government
prison at Atlanta was due to District At
torney French, who construes the statutes
for persons convicted of misapplication of
bank funds as warranting a term in prison
without hard labor. The prison at Atlanta
can only be used for those sentenced to
imprisonment with hard labor.
Boston friends of Charles W. Morse, the
former New York banker, now serving
sentence at Atlanta, profess to see in the
action of Judge Hale, in the Coleman case
to-day a hop* for the release of Morse, on
the plea that his sentence was illegal. In
moving for sentence in the Coleman case.
District Attorney French read Chapter
5203 of the Federal Statutes and called at
tention to the fact that it provides for
Imprisonment of not less than one year
and says nothing about hard labor, while
under the federal act establishing federal
penitentiaries it is stated that 'a prisoner"
can only be sent to Atlanta if his sentence
calls for -a year or more at hard labor.
He therefore as-ked for a sentence to some
jail, and Judge Hale selected that at
Greenfield.
Legal friends of Mr Morse argued to
night that as he was sent to Atlanta for
violation of this same chapter 5209, he may
be held illegally. Providing the Urm of
court which sentenced him shall have ex
pired, it is said that he cannot_be resen
tenced, and his release may be secured on
a writ of habeas corpus.
THROW OFF THE
Coroners Want "Myopic" to See
Prendergast's Parsimony.
Following Judge Foster's recent letter to
Controller Prendergast on the subject of
city paid 'phones for public officials, a copy
of the letter was Bent by the judge (to the
Boar.l of Coroners, and yesterday a reply
was sent to the judge. .:. f .
The Coroners* letter, which i* Figned
''Israel L. Felrvoerg. President of. the Board
of Coroners." reads: ij
The board Is in hearty accord with your
sentiments exprefsed In that letter. The
same petty spirit has been exhibited
inward the Coroners' Office, not only in
relerencs .to -telephones, but in reference
to the payment of. mileage charges and in
cidental expenses entailed by the" Coroners'
in their harry and hustle 'to the scenes of
crimes or to the bedside of -patients at hos
pitals who are tutlier about 10 die or about
to be moved to th" operating room before
the life savins operation is performed.
Wnere telephones have be<*n necessary at
all noun of the day and night in li i -=,
class of cases, whether storming or freez
ing: or weather conditions that may hinder
us in our duties, and we tried to reach the
scone with -the Rid of a taxi- ab. the learned
Controller seems 'to think that we are
mulcting the treasury of the city.
i regret to say that on a visit to the
honorable Controller* oftjee some nix or
seven we»-ks ago, I noticed that the fur
nishirp* and th*> rugs were entirely new:
that the whole, office was being remodelled
and that th»» estimable official did not seen
to spare expense for his own official com
fort.
In the name of the Board of Coroners of
Manhattan, I thank you for your kindness
in sending up a copy of your letter, and I
hope and trust thai this open discussion
of the matter .will "throw the blinkers"
from the eyes of the myopic and that ou r
official life in the. next four years will not
in- ypent in petty bickerings.
The present Board of Coroners of the
Borough of Manhattan have all had tele
phonos at their homes before they were
honored by tlu i iti»Hui- of the borough, and
they Vshvo paid and are : MM paying for
ii- ■ i • » out of their own pocket*.
COMMUTATION FOR MATRIMONY
Washington, May is,— Because a former
banker wanted to be married before. Christ
mas, President Tuft has commuted by
thirty dayi the sentence of live years' im
prisonment, imposed on Charley T. Thorn
ton, convicted of embsssllng funds of the
Hamilton National Bank, of Chicago.
CANNON FIRST APARTISAN
9
fnntlnned from first p»r*
g-ivpn as moral. Well, let me tell you
that professor never lived on ths TVa
bash. He never has seen the great
Northwest Territory,- and that's the
trouble."
Figures to Snow Prosperity.
He read then from census figures Io
show that our vrage earners' receipts had
grown from $379,000,000 in 060 to ap
proximately $6,000,000,000 In 1010. and
the value of the products manufactured
in the same period from"?l. 500.000,000 to
$20,000,000,000. Our total wealth in the
same period increased from ? 10,000,000,
000 to $130,000,000,000.
'This errowth. this expansion." lie said,
'has been tinder Republican sway, in
the main, and let me tell you that under
the Democratic tariff law Jn 1860 only
*«J0 per cent of our imports came In free
of duty, while under th» first nine
months of the Payne law M per cent of
our imports have come in free of duty.
•"We have people— doctrinaire?, college
professors— l am sorry to say," he went
on. 'that look out at the world through
their gimlet holes and measure things
by the range of their vision.
"My (iod! Would either the employers
h«*re or the employes they employ place
the?e uplift magazines and thrse college
professor.* In command? Theory is
cheap, but the proof of the pudding is in
the eating."
For those who might say that he was
disappointed, and speaking from a per
sonal point of view, the Speaker had a
word.
"Gentlemen," he said. "I might drop
dead to-mcrrc". and my two children,
and the boy who married one of my
daughters, and my grandchildren would
be the only mourners in a few days. I
know that you would pause for a few
brief moments, but I know that there is
no man in these United States whose
place cannot be filled. All that aside,
however, the -juestion is no personal
one. It i« a question of policies, and a
question of placing aright the responsi
bility. Personally, I'd like to see
the Cummins-DolHver-La Follette-Clapp
crowd joining hands with Champ »'ark
and company next year. I would wel
come that, for then, in J U I 2 — well, you
know the story of the bulldog and dad.
ltd be hard on dad. but It'd be the
making of the pup." ,
Cheers for Roosevelt Also.
The Speaker dominated tho audience
Of manufacturers throughout his ad
dress. The great body of men time alter
time greeted his points with cheers, and
when he sat down they yelled themselves
hoarse for him.
Ludwig Ntsscn. the toastmaster, in hip
opening remarks delivered a eulogy of
Theodore Roosevelt which brought forth
prolonged applause-
"This Ib comet day," said Mr. Nissen.
"but there will probably be more pas
emitted from this table to-night than
from Halley's comet. That comet Is re
ceding:, but there Is another star com
ing toward us that will raise more dust
in a minute than Halle3''s comet, does in
a year.
"He is the one man who can captivate
the who'» world, the one man who can
make thr, world think of the- same
thing at the same minute, and that man
is Theodore Roosevelt."
John Klrby. jr., who was re-elected
president of the association at the busi
ness session preceding the dinner, made
a. brief address of e.r-logy for the former
president, the late James W. Van
Cleave.
MORE SPEED FOR MICHIGAN
Battleship Makes? Mile at Rate
of 19.54 Knots. -
Rorkland. Me., May 18,—Th* battleship
Michigan, which is supposed to b*> th* arm«
of perfection In th* lfi,ooo-ton class, was
pent over the measured mil"? course off
Rockland to-day for twenty successive runs,
varying in speed from 12 knots to better
than 19 knots. Her fastest mile was at
the rate of 19.54 knots, which exceeds
by more than half a knot the fastest mile
she made in the builders' acceptance stand
ardization trial. Good as this showing was,
the • member.-, of the trial board made it
cle^t ' that th« Michigan was not working;
up to her ability to-day, and that the trials
which are being held to test the relative
merits of the Rockland, Provincetown and
Delaware Breakwater courses are not de
signed to bring out the full speed capacity
of the several ships, but to demonstrate
how much horsepower js developed or en
ergy used to maintain similar speeds on the
thre« course*. .
BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS. BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.
UAU A GREAT NOVEL"
NATHAN BURKE
"If the reading public retain?, its faculty of knowing
what's what when a new hook appears. Nathan
Burke will be among thr best read f not the most
icad books of the year, ft is a long, strong, homeh ,
humorous, friendly story which hohis your intere-t
and deepen? your affection a? you go along.' 7
NATHAN BURKE
'"One should carry away for vacation reading a
novel of goodly length, thai it may not be done with
before vacation has really begun; of pervasive and
persuasive humor that it may entertain a mind
above the cheaply comic above all a story
whose characters are >o real and friendly that the
reader is content to spend his vacation's leisure
hoars in their company. Just such a book is Xathan.
Burke."— The Ouikoh.
NATHAN BURKE
'"There is a slowly increasing group of novels
which seem likely to last much longer than the great
ma>s ot fiction which is talked about for a few
months and then totally forgotten. This group is
not large. Once in a decade an addition is made to
the group Perhaps this sounds like faint praise
The number of novels which are trumpeted as "des
tined to endure' is so great that camion hangs over
a reviewer like a cloud ; In the enthusiasm aroused
by a first reading of 'Nathan Burke' one is inclined
to extravagance of praise. For here is a novel so
sound, so filled with much that has inspired
great novels, that it is hard to maintain moderate
standards of comparison." — Boston TrmueriH.
By all means get the book at once. You will enjoy
rending and lending it. Few novels giv« r,uch last
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ARMY AND' NAVY NOTES
Paymaster General Rogers May
Retire as Rear Admiral. "
[From Th» Tribuns Eur^au-1
Washington. May is-
ROGERS MAT RETIRE AS ADM^ Al J
-Paymaster General E. B. Rogers will ap
ply for retirement and will retain bis
place as chief of the Bureau of Supply
and Accounts of the Navy De P artm /"'
until that application can be acted on thus
effecting the transfer with the rank and
>ay of a rear admiral.
That officer has that relative rank ami
active duty pay during his tenure of office
as paymaster general of the navy, but
there la some question whether his retire
ment on his own application, after thirty
years' service, in the midst of iii." term a*
a bureau chief will give him the retired
pay of a rear admiral.
r
ORDERS ISSUED.-The following order?
have been issued:
Major GEORGE W. BURR, ordnance 4"l"lJ
m*nt. upon arrival at Augusta *«»««'•'*
report a* chief ordnance officer £"^rtm*nt
Of th* Gulf, vice Captain ADAIT F. CASAD.
ordnance department, who will «*»•»» ,'/
' commanding general, Department of the << iif
hr assist an t to rtn*f ordnance offl'--r.
Major THOMAS W. GRIFFITH and First Un
tenant THOMAS J. ROGER?. ff»th Tnfantrv
■lotaileri for duty p*rtainfn» to th» national
match for 1910. _ , , fcm
The following aMignnrnts «f afßrfra of mv
m»"1i.:al corp 3 to duty at tb« camp ox in-
Rtru«Uon at Gettysburg r|:inns July »«'•
*>»<:n ordered- Major EGBERT E. PER
SON?. to accompany troops from tort •'*>•
it fommand statin— r» hospital: My* 1 '
< -HARI.BS R. REYNOLDS, to be m*"li'-8.
Inspector and accompany engineer troops
from Washington Barracks, acting: a* *" r "
seen of that command: Captain GEOKUK.
P. PEED, to tv» sanitary onirer. assistant io
medlcil inspector: Captain WIIXIAM R.
— DATTS. to b» sanitary ..f«c»r. assistant to
m«<<i!<-f!; Inspector, to accompany troop» from
Fort Porter.
Captain LAIVREN'CE D. CABEM.. nnartermas
ter. to assume charge oitict- depot quarter
master. Jen>rsonvlll*. duringr th« absence or
Major JOSEPH T. r>AVirj?O.V. aaaterma»
t»r, An rhief quartermaster at the camp or
Instruction at Sparta. Wis.
Captain JOHN W. GUUC3C, coast artil>r>-. de
tail^ a? obsener at Ik* ramp « instruc
tion at Gettysburg during July.
Captain JESSE R. HARRIS, medical corps, upon
arrival at Boi?* Barracks of First Lieuten
ant ARTHUR C. DELACROIX, wi«»eal f*
serve coirs, to proceed to the Pre»idlo m San
Francisco, general hospital. ' .»..„
l^ave* of absence: Colon*! JOHN M. BANIS*-
TER. medical corps, four mon'.li" from tep
"•mh-r 1: Captain SAMUEL SEAT. 2M In
fantry, four months, upon completion of ex
amination for ironiotion:- Captain HARR*
J. HIRSCH. «juartf rmaster. twelve days from
May 31.
NAVT.
Lieutenant Commander D. E. THELEEN. *>
tached from Washington: to duty as fleet
engineer Faclflc fleet on the California vice
Lieutenant Oommander F. H. CLARK. Jr..
to navy yard. New York, as Inspection of
ficer.
Lieutenant Commander S. E. W. KITTELLE- to
navy yard. Boston, as inspection onlc«l.
ESiiICTJ R. R. STEART. detached from the com
mand of the Worden: to the navy yard. Boa
ton, In connection with the navy rifl* team.
Ensign W. W. LAWRENCE, detached from the
New Jersey; to the Marietta.
KnsJjm W. L. BECK, detached from the New
Jersey: to th» Rhod^ Island.
Ensign C. MC M'GIWU to the Georgia.
Midshipman J. W. BARNETT, Jr., detached
from the Macdonoush: to the Hartford.
Midshipman E. H. LOFTIN. detached from th-
Missouri: to th»« Marietta.
Midshipman M J TORLINSKI, detached from
the New .lo'-'^v; to the Wisconsin.
Assistant snre«»on A. 11. DODGE, deta<-h«d frctn
th*» California; to the naval hospital at Mare
Island.
MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS.— The fol
lowing movements of vessels have been re
ported to the Navy Department:
ARRIVED. •■• ■
May IB— The Dubuqu", at Bluefields.
May 17— The Dixie and th* Severn, at. Boston;
the Penaeeok. at the navy ;.-ar>!. New x«rk;
the Wolverine, at Detroit: the Montgomery,
at Tompkinsvllle: tfte Cleveland and the
Chattanooga, at Cavtto.
May IS— Pompey. at Guam.
SAILED.
May 17 — The Rocket, from Norfolk tor. Indian
TT»3d and Washington: th r>- T.cnz. from
the navy yard. N*w York, for Nerfolk: th '
, Salem, from Tompktnsvili* for Orient Point
»nd Gardiner's Bay; the Chester, from Bahia
Blanca for Bueos A^Te.».
TENNESSEE DEMOH^ACY SPLITS
Mass Convention Has Harsh Words for
Governor Patterson.
Nashville, Term.. May Nearly •»•
thousand delegates were present to : <lay at
a mass convention of Democrats, which in
dorsed an independent ticket for Mm Slats
Supreme Court and th*> Court of Civil Ap
peals. The Democratic primary of .Tun" 4
v.ill also nominate judicial tickets, and
that mean? two sets or Democratic candi
dates in the field. Republican leaders have
declared they would not put out a ticket.
The meeting to-day was in opposition to
the course of the Democratic State Com
mittee In calling a general primary for
June 4. the judiciary candidates '"^inar in
eluded. The resolutions adopted to-4ay
"repudiate the so-called State Democratic
Executive Committee as at-DoßOcratlr,
arbitrary, tyrannical and guilty of cross
usurpation of power, not entitled to the
support of any Democratic voter in Ten
nessee." -*"
The resolutions further "unqualiftedJy de
nounce, and condemn the effort of the Gov
ernor and his executive committee to ever
come and ccerce the Supreme Court of the
state In the decision of a case pending be
fore it" and appeal to all voters to refuse
to participate In th« primary. This was a
reference to the Governor's pardon of Culo
riel Cooper.
To-day's convention was distinctly inimi
cal to Governor Patterson, and he was
vigorously assailed and criticised by the
speakers.
"•6B Fifth Ay...
New York
STIR JERSEY ■- DEMOCRACY if
i
Three Senators at Newark Taf.f
to 300 on 'Back to Constitution j
Thr»* United ' States S«n*tcr*~a'j Dri&ty
crats— pr»ach»d t ;-,.». BMpei or ■ a.-»-w t^',?* : '
Constitution" at a meetirt-r in Krt*^
ditorlum. in Newark, las: nisht. h«M m* "■
the. auspices of. the ,Drrrocm-> Unt«a'*"l
!!•« Jersey. , ?t,.'
J. P. Sprit of Ess** Veils. ;,-. j p „..*;' I
man of the union. In canin- fh» m»»tj V."
order, explained. lts 'purpcs<\ 'Th» *p«av^C
were Senators Joseph A. Bailer, *f !>*
Joseph F. Johnston, of Alabama. z Z 1 Wlf
lam E. Puroeir. of North Dakota, s^r,
Charles J. Hughes, «f Colorado. h**f JT*
Invited t.i attend, but HI health pr*^^J
his coming from Washington. " Hs*
Senator Bailey, "trho ras th- !a'3t spialgftjj
predicted future Democratic success 'i;!*
urged New J*rsr>y tr» mak» up jn t^ "V,
ten years for the "mistakes'* 'o* th» 1&&
jrssjra
"You will have h-lp in tftiv 'he s£fa
"There are. Republicans who are >*9ss3
to get conscience stricken.' They are 'k* *
Insurgent*. Do you >-■ - :raJK
is.' It is a half apology for b»lr~ a &£h
publican.* ;'■<%
He said that F»ri' i wh-» a:» «-^ -.
posed to the principles r.f t;-.<» rewjari'j'-'
should got °ut of th party, citin? flut s;
j «>i Democrat; quit their parry "Uke -jj-^, *
when th«y dM not a?r?e with I?,' awt ej» a*
insurgents ghoaM do the *4m» thin? twt \v
*'Cannoni.«m" an*. "AldrtcMmn'* hescopi-i " '■
with a challen;;? to any insurgT.: t>> Ug£jM
over the rollcalis of Congress. Th»r« fa*?'- :?
would find, he aid. that Tann-an . .-. j*s ;<J
rich for years had been votin? rith !&&*
publicans: Therefore, h* contmuei. "£**
publicans should not condemn Camufa ir.l ;
AJdrlet) and at Mie- "«raV: tfciw t<jt» htmjqii
thaf party. "For." .«aW h<\ •• > Caa^J
i." republicanism and WMrichfrrn* is k^-*
publicanism. AMricii never ln."?jrE?fi m~,
rich never voted against the levlTstiip a* -
a Republican."
Senator PurceU. the first speaker. i£jf4
that he was born in New Jersey. "Ar.d'r -
am glad." he said, "to see th" di.'pos'itienV'*
New Jersey to return to Democratic «fl* *
cfples. This aTrakenhtpr !=? .«prfaiin? or«: ?;
every state. Th« movement mantra v* 1
here. lllghl is stronc everywhere. Is'
particularly in the s^cat Northwest* „7;' J
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HOLDS the AKi/li^
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. ture, the tired muscles and -^.
strained ligaments are re-" *-^
lieved by the help of &•
Coward Arch Peop Snor.
The correct *". anatomical
construction of this shoe,
holds the arch muscles up in •" -
their natural position a3 42H
eases the pain. ITora ■>■
time, prevents failing areb t
and " flat-foot."
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