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I WORLD REPRESENTED v and Mrs, Taft at Sunday School Convention. PRESIDENT PRAISES WORK Tributes to King Edward — Question Creeps In — Almost a Panic. TVBshir.Fton. Mar — President Taft was ?fce centra! figure at to-day's session of the 'TVcrlc's Sunday School Association, now In convention here. At to-night's mass meet f Ijcia in Convention Hall, which was toTOTinded by a crowd fully as large as 1 ihe six thousand •within th* big structure, tse acknowledged the Bible school as a j^vtrerful force in the moral and educational cp)!ft of the world. Again and again his •^erETices on this subject were cheered to tJje echo. •• ]<■ one of the two or three great to ttas,*" he declared, "for making: .y e world better, more moral and more re li-io'js. As th* twig is bent so the tree is Indited. and youth Is the time to Inculcate for results moral and religious ideas. Xo natter what views are taken of general e6aeslkn£ we all agree— Protestant, Catho lic and Jew— that Sunday school education 1« necessary to secure moral uplift and re flslous spirit." As Fresident Taft entered the hall to- Bigbt he was greeted with the Chautauqua ■ salute of thousands of fluttering hand- V»rchiefb. followed by a loud clapping of herds and then by three cheers. Sirs. Taft made her first public appear ji^c* Fince she -was taken ill, about a •'■par ago. at to-night session. Mr. Taft introduced her as "the real President of the United States.'* After the President :-,ad (bed his speech Dr. M«3'er men- Tioned Mrs. Taft's presence, and tie Presi -- cc- took her by th* hand ami led her "Into the speaker's stand. Loud applause preeted her appearance. Except for an r-:a?":r:a' visit to the theatres and on* or two gatherings at which only her intimate fr:«nds were present Mrs. Taft ha? ; not v- - seen in public for nearly a j*ear.j" Negroes Barred from Parade. ' The race cuestion has Invaded the cori i-ecticn. Local negro Sunday school lead ers are protesting because members of their race are to be barred from the men's monster Bible class parade to-morrow. In f stareiaent Issued by them to-night they frsdere that "it la unfortunate that any cti* wfco bears His name should at this time, when the 'evangelization of the 111 1 orld in this generation Is the watch ■«-ord cf millions, should resort to such offensive forms of race prejudice as the local committee of Washington has done Ir. completely. as far as it is concerned, e&ninattag the colored people from any rart to the sixth world's Sunday school convention.** Members of the local committee say the r.^sro Sunday schools of the District of Columbia have had plenty of opportunities to join the Sunday School Association of 5 the District without taking advantage .thereof, end therefore they have "no more [right 1- the parade," as the chairman of ;th* press committee expressed it. ••than .if they were members of « labor union cr any other una-m!-at c organization." -ins Rev. Dr. F. B. Meyer, of England. president of the association, in introducing President Tait. declared that lor the last •-'-:- years he "had prayed for the Pres- J^e-.t of the United States every Sunday srter urayer Bar the Kin? of England. And • this.*" he added, "is a common custom in I'lriand." Mr Ttft replied by Earing he hoped these tra-ers .would continue. "My experience. j be saii "is that these prayers are needed." ! Dc Mayer thanked the President for the nsble cable message which he Bent when lliziz Edward died." Referring to this. Mr T«ft said: • I be reference to the death of the.' Ta.te K:~z and Hal BaaOnt: of mourning: of botn sices of the rrorld brings to mind how tooth such a convention as this means la perprrHitlon of the peace of nations sr>eakir^ cf dM rise of the Sunday school nuywHient and cf its growth in the United rtates. he declared that "a movement of fueh strength should be welcomed In every , ensanaity for the good it is doing . Oder speakers at to-nirht's meeting were •th* Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Greene, of this >tty; €x-Postrcaster General Wanamaker. Sit Rev. J. Monro Gibson, of England; s -£isi!Oi> Yoitsu, of Japan, and Bishop Hart - ■»•;!, or Africa. Had to Clear the Aisles. A Srarnailc incident occurred before the eosrnssxian had . been In session twenty JnfiaiteE. After the first hymn the doors *>a-i , b-en Bane; open, arid those who >.a 5 rot been admitted as delegates fjCsd ail the unoccupied spaces and spare ♦••ait 2nd many crowded into the aisles. T b^ fire officials and police ordered the ■teles eared at once. EL O. Excell, o? Chicago, one of the musi ' r a.l directors, had Just raised his baton to ■ ■ -"* the - • ?.rc of a hymn when Percy S. 1 Fester, C f Washington, sprang to the box «M shouted : "The £re authorities demand that those ■Wm be cleared st once. The fire officers °~3er »t Move out of the aisles quickly." His sharp voice penetrated to the last Parses in the great audience. For a mo- Cieat th^re was an omlnoue silence. Then tawe v.£s an uneasy shuffling of feet in t!-* beck of the baa.. One or two men .'swped on chairs. ' i - x '^<i took in th« situation in a glance. He fe a rr.sr. of great stature, with a p& ', I® I *?** calculated to command attention. 1 r-e«i everything 15 all right, " he said. * boerring- voice, and six hundred voices s*stafi the rat notes of "In the Sweet By* taJ Bye." The great audience joined in fae saving, and in a minute the crisis had Weed. yaate to the memory of King- Edward *^ Paid by all the delegates. Bishop Hart ?P<« the request of the Rev. Dr. Meyer, V* Be:a *c a message of sympathy and con «s«sC6 to the Queen Mother Alexandra, J~* «as cabled to London. 1226 message was* read, and then, sb a _^- °^ approval, the assemblage arose and ?•■**•* standing; two minutes hi Filence. n»n Bishop Earl Cranston, of the Meth !s * Episcopal Church, in Washington. nafc hj 5 r . ra .- er and referred feelingly to Q» death of the King, the English dele *Bt-es. of Whom thtre are more than thre* ' "' *ere greatly affected, and son* of * r »»ni -a-ept. ft*> Port& showing the progress of Sunday •^fcool rk throughout the world were I aaeajfcaj . | OOUBTS LONGEVITY TALES | Census Man Thinks No One Ever Reached 110. "^Mhiegton, May IS.— Alter . investigating cm* reoeatly reported cases of longevity. **• CressT L. Wilbur, chief statistician of " sivi£icn5 ivi£icn of vital statistics of the On ri a Surea? i. reports that "it is undoubtedly *ac tfc *t the age of m years is occasion * y attained." but that "it is perhaps WSatOnl Tit-tther th* as>-e or 110 has ever <^n reached or exceeded.' 3»» i= not at all surprising, the report '•"'£. that many unfounded claims to ex '•^e a^e arise, for •it is well known ! •***• *aa£y of ; the statements of exact ***. even in the middle period of life and ■'■ -youth, are not strictly correct. In old ■£*. *** impaired memory, -with possible kxt&l confusion of what has been ** r<l s-nc » -hit has been actually experi •«sed by the individual alter the death '- . '-oGtenipor&ries whose testimony might ttfetaaiet claims to • excessive longevity. **» *Ith the *e!l known tendency of many tfftC i*rsonE to crag^erarf in th» utmost THE7>AyJsnVASHIJVG TOJ* r?rCEs Th« Trftron* Bureau! Washington. May 19. ROOT TO SEE ROOSEVELT.-That Sen ator Root, who sails for The- Hague on Sat urday, win see Mr. Roosevelt before the latter Balls for this country seems now assured. Mr. Root Is reticent regarding : the details of the probable, meeting, but he no longer asserts that he does not expect to meet Mr. Roosevelt, and it is under stood that Mr. Roosevelt's desire for a conference with the Senator before he sails for New Tork will be gratified. It is re marked that it is only a night's run from The Hague to London. There is no small degree of satisfaction in administration cir cles over the expected meeting. It is felt that Mr. Roosevelt has seen a number of the enemies of the administration, and that, while there is not the slightest probability that he would espouse toy cause against the administration or '/m/ m any way yield one Jot or tittle. of his loyalty to President Taft, It will be well for him to have an opportunity to discuss the situation with as close a friend of the administration as Mr. Root, and with . one in whose sound, judicial judgment he reposes as much con fidence as ,he does in that of the Senator from New York. CHAOS IN THE SENATE.— Chaos again reign? in the Senate. The entente between the regulars and the insurgents, arranged at the White House conference last Sat urday night, has been disrupted. The working agreement with the Democrats, whereby it was hoped " the bill could be put through in short order, has fallen through and the regular leaders take a decidedly pessimistic view of the situa tion. The insurgents are confident they will have sufficient votes to adopt the pending Cummins amendment requiring the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve all increases in rates before they go into operation, and they insist that they have the popular end of the situation. The absence of Senators Aldrich and Crane made it necessary to postpone fur ther consideration of the interstate com merce bill until Monday, and it is hoped that pome sort of working agreement can he patched up in the mean time, but it is difficult to perceive the basis for 'such 'a hope. The Senate insurgents insist that if they can control a majority of the votes they will not permit the final adoption of any such postal savings bill as is likely to be reported to the House, and Senator Aldrich himself is reluctant to bend his energies to passing the "state hood bilL Altogether the situation is far from encouraging, and those who insist that the best course for Congress to pursue is • to pass the remaining appropriation bills and adjourn are once more having their inning. TAIT INDORSES SMITH.— The Insur gents were greatly disturbed to-day over a report from lowa to the effect that the President had written a letter , cordially indorsing Representative Walter I. Smith, who is a candidate for renomination. Judge Smith is a regular of regulars, and the House Insurgents were at first disposed to be indignant. Later, however, they came to the conclusion that possibly they had no grounds for. complaint if Mr. Taft had merely indorsed Mr Smith's course in Con gress, Irat they indicated that the Presi dent would be requested to furnish equally --■"■'-'-' Indorsements to all members of the Hcuse who are seeking renomination. The indignation of the Senators from lowa knows no bounds. They are bitterly op posed to Judge Smith, and hopefully pre dict that if he is nominated his district will be represented by a Democrat in the next House. Judge Smith's opponent is H. Webb Ever* Attorney General of the state and an ardent supporter of Cummins. Some of the more radical insurgents insist that rood faith the number of years they have lived, these claims are not surprising."' After careful Investigation in regard to the age of Noah Rab3'. known as "the oldest man in the country," who -was said at the time of his death a few years ago, to have lived 131 years and 11 months, the census officials came to the conclusion that Raby tve.s probably ninety-two years and eleven months old -when he died, or thirty-nine years less than -was alleged. Raby's record was looked up -with as great detail as possible,' a. report in "The New York Medical Record" of March 5, 1304, that "he entered the United States ntvy about as soon as the United States had a navy and after serving for a number of years was honorably discharged in 1S09" being shaken by a report from the Navy Department, which says: "A Noah Raby was on the rolls of the Constitution in VS3& so it is possible that the report of his discharge from the navy in ISO 9is pure legend." _ FOR SCIENTIFIC CURRENCY Deputy Controller Fisher Sug gests Remedy for Panics. A scientific currency issued through the medium of a well managed central banking organization was the remedy proposed for constantly recurring financial and commer cial paries by Deputy Controller Edmund D Fisher, in a lecture delivered last night before the New Tork chapter of the Ameri can Institute of Bank Clerks. Th-re was a large gathering of embryo bankers who listened with close attention to the deputy controllers talk upon the bankers' outlook upon current and funda mental commercial and financial conditions. By means of a series of charts prepared from financial returns and thrown upon a transparency the lecturer de J tr^ that a study of the returns showed that pani- periods were the result of abnormal SndtttoM which inevitably followed cycles of Prosperity. These abnormal condmens produced an involuntary readjustment from time to time which was knovm as a panic. Taking a fifty-year period, the lecturer indicated that there was a close inter relation between the upward and down ward movements of business. For instance prior to the panic of 1904 bonds reached ££ h*Ut point in May. I*2. stocks tfaefr higUt point in October of the same :" ar prt*. their highest point" in March. WB. Prior to the panic of 5 the hl*h point in the bond market was reached in August. OK of the .took mar ker in September, 981. and of commodity prices hi February, fa In both cases thes* upward movement, were followed by a rapid downward movement, which re eulted in the involuntary readjustment or conditions during the two panics. Th- remedy for the violent involuntary readjustment periods which ended In com mercial panics was the strengthening of the general credit condition of the country, nd this strengthening. Mr. Fisher said. could be best secured through the «stab lishment of a scientific currency. Issued through a well managed central banking organization, planned upon much the same lines as the Bank of England and bearing a. like relation to the currency and business conditions of the country. HAD HEARD OF PRESIDENT But North Dakota Juryman Couldn't Remember His Name. Minot, X. D.. May IS.— An American-born citizen, a resident of ' North Dakota for the last seven years, was found yesterday bo did not know a single state or county : official by name nor the name of the Presi dent of the United States. During the selection of a jury for a mur- | der trial a farmer testified he- knew noth- Im ~ of the case. He admitted his ignorance : as" to the identity of any county or state ! officer and when asked for the name of 'the President of the United States he re 1 plied: "I have heard the ■ am but nave forgotten "it '•' ' it. *"** accepted on the YEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUXET, FRIDAY. MAY 20. 1910, the President should not interfere in the districts before the primaries, but the ma jority of the House insurgents will be satis fied if the President makes no distinction in his Indorsement of all who have upheld his legislative programme, be they regulars or insurgents. POSTAL. SAVING SCHOOL.—Represen tative Weeks, chairman of the Committee on Postoffices, is holding daily classes in finance, with a view to educating his col leagues on the subject of postal savings banks. It is purposed to hold a caucus on this bill next Wednesday night, when, It is hoped, a substantial majority for the measure can be secured. That accom plished, the next step will be to ask the Committee on Rules to bring in a rule lim iting debate to one day. As the bill is Necessarily somewhat complicated and as most of the members have little under standing of Its provisions and necessities. Captain Weeks is holding a class each af ternoon, explaining the provisions of the measure, answering objections and urging members to support it in its present form. The House leaders axe giving no considera tion to the situation Jn the Senate. They are determined to do all in their power to uphold the President and promote his leg islative programme, and if the Senate then cares to assume the responsibility of de feating this or any other important admin istration measure, the House, in their es timation, must be held blameless. CAPITOL, A GIBRALTAR. -The west front of the Capitol looks like a modern Gibraltar this evening, as there are ap parently six great guns mounted on its parapet. They are not guns, however, but only 16-inch telescopes, which Elliot Woods, superintendent of the Capitol, has caused to be mounted for the convenience of a num ber of Congress comet parties which have been invited to view the Halley stranger. "Visitors who approached the Capitol from the west side to-day were amazed to see what they thought were six large rifles pointing out over the city, and were led to inquire if another Coxey's army was expected to invade the Capitol grounds, or if the regulars were preparing for an on slaught of insurgents. FOREST RESERVES. — Representatives Weeks, of Massachusetts, and Lever, of Bouth Carolina, after a conference to-day decided to make an appeal to the Commit tee on Rules to set a day for a vote on the bill creating the White Mountain and Ap palachian Forest Reserves, of which they are the joint authors. The bill has been favorably reported and Is now on the House calendar, but the Committee on Agricult ure is so far down the list in the call of committees that. Messrs, Weeks and Lever are apprehensive it will not be reached again this session, and fear the only means of securing consideration of their bill will be by a special rule. There is little ques tion that this measure will be passed by the House if it can be brought to a vote. A similar bill passed the House in. a former Congress by a large majority, and Mr. Weeks is confident of victory if he can get the measure before the House. TVIRELESS TELEGRAPH.— The action of the Committee or. Merchant Marine and Fisheries to-day in reporting favorably the bill making it compulsory for all vessels carrying passengers and making trips of more than two hundred miles in length to provide themselves with wireless telegraph apparatus affords a prospect of legislation of this character at this session. The Sen ate has already passed the bill, and it is believed that if the House gets an oppor tunity to vote on It it will be passed by a substantial majority. ♦ The also compels every such vessel to carry a com petent wireless operator. G. G. H. DEFENDS PAYNE LAW Long-worth Invites Insurgents to Return to Fold. [From The Tribune Bureau.] Washington, May 13. — Representative Nicholas Long-xorth called on the Insur gents to return to the fold through the medium of the Tariff Board provision in the sundry civil bill to-day, and made it clear that the House leaders are willing to let bygones be bygones, and desire to make the party solid in the coming cam paign. As the insurgents intend to sup port the Tariff Board, it is considered cer tain that they will accept Mr. Longworth's invitation. Mr. Long-w-orth chose the tariff as the subject for his first speech of the year. He defended the Pa;-ne bill from the charge that it is responsible for the increased cost of living, citing several examples to show that where the duties have been decreased the cost has increased. He called particu lar attention to the lumber schedule, which was reduced -without decreasing the price of lumber, and to the increased price of shoe?, on which the duty was greatly re duced. He explained the Tariff Board pro vision, and said It Is necessary because, while most schedules of th© tariff bill carry out the pledges of the Republican platform, there are some which do not. and these should be changed as soon as some logical reason can be given. Mr. Hamilton, of Michigan, defending the tariff law, portrayed prosperity as existing. a.nd gave statistics to show that prices in h*s district were lower than In free trade Windsor, Ont. On the Democratic side speeches were made by Mr Byrd, of Mississippi: Mr. Dixon, of Indiana, and Mr. Borland, of Missouri. All attacked the tariff. The House refused to agree to the Senate amendment to the agricultural bill, by which the money paid to the states which have forest reserves was increased from 25 to 35 per cent of the amount, collecto-i by the government. NO PROGRESS IN SENATE Vote on Railroad Bill Still Seems Far Away. — — jTYorrT The Tribune Bureau. ~ Washington, May 19. — No progress on the interstate commerce bill was made, by the Senate to-day. Nearly the entire session was given over to Senator Cummins for dis cussion of his substitute for Section 9," re quiring the Interstate Commerce Commis sion to approve all proposed increases in rates, classifications, etc, before they bo come effective. The lowa Senator has talked so long and bo often on the railroad bill that he has exhausted the patience of the Senate, and it was necessary for his friends frequently to suggest the absence of a quor um to obtain an audience, even for brief periods. Further consideration of the railroad bill will not be resumed until Monday. It has been agreed that the naval appropriation bill shall be taken up to-morrow- and that Saturday's cession shall be devoted to eulo gies of dead members of the house. The leaders are bending every effort to fix a time for a final vote-on the railroad bill. To-morrow and Saturday will be devoted to conferences, with a view to reaching an agreement on those parts of the bill still *n dispute. The oratory of the insurgents seems to be inexhaustible, and both Repub licans and Democrats are showing signs of impatience at the attitude of the half dozen insurgent." who are making the railroad bill a vehicle for campaign speeches. The lead ers hope that a final vote may be taken o/ the end of next week, but admit this ho.xi Is founded on a belief that ■ this session of Congress will adjourn before the middle of next month.' Senator La Follecte, who «rpata to close the debate on the railroad bill with a modest, speech of two or three days, probably will object to fixing a time for a vote unti! he Is ready to unburden btaseirof hi* oratory. - ... NOW ACCUSE GARRELD Continued from first pate. Mr. Pinehot -wanted Mr. Newell to do was to join in the attack on Secretary Ballinger. Mr. Perkins refused to draw inferences, but admitted it was rather strange, if the thingr referred to was merely the campaign to secure Mr. New ell's retention, that Mr. Newell was re luctant — inasmuch as he had theretofore approved the programme to secure his retention. Mr. Perkins then told of a conversation he had with Mr. Newell in Chicago on July 26, 1909, in which Mr. Newell said he would not do anything against Mr. Ballinger so long as he was working un der him. Judge Vertrees tried to elicit further information as to the reasons for this comment, but Mr. Perkins said he was unable to recall any other conversa tion. At the time of this talk Mr. Newell was on his way to the irrigation congress at Spokane, where Secretary Ballinger was attacked by ex -Governor Pardee of California. There was another meeting between Mr. Newell and the witness when the director of the Reclamation Service was in Chicago on his way back from Spokane, but Mr. Perkins said noth ing of importance was discussed. Their next talk was on October 29, when Mr. Newell said he intended to make Mr. Ballinger the "goat." Friends of Secretary Ballinger b<Mi< : >"'-« the testimony of Mr. 'Perkins substan tiates the statement made by George Otis Smith, director of the Geological Survey, that the critics of the Interior Department directed their batteries against those public officials who refused to "go along" in the campaign to dis credit Mr. Ballinger. Judge Vertrees put in the record a let ter from Mr. Garfi>ld recommending Mr. Kerby for promotion. In a letter writ ten to President Roosevelt on March 14, 1907, the transfer of Kerby, "my confi dential clerk," to the Department of the Interior was recommended by Mr. Gar neld. Lawlers "Grudge" Against Glavis. Most of the forenoon session was de voted to a discussion as to whether the committee should call for papers relating to the trial of land fraud cases in which Assistant Attorney General Lawler ap peared for the government. It appears that Glavis disputed the fitness of Mr. Lawler to try these cases. The Attorney General passed on the question and de cided that Glavis's criticism was un founded. Mr. Lawler tried the suits and was successful. In view of this incident Mr. Brandeis sought to show that Mr. Lawler was not a proper man to pass on the Glavis charges against Secretary Ballinger. When it had been pointed out that Mr. Lawler had not passed on the charges, but had merely made a memorandum of findings made by the President, and that to call for the papers in the land suit with a view to showing Mr. Lawler"s prejudice against Glavis would serve no purpose except to pro long the inquiry, Mr. Brandeis withdrew fcis request. Ke intimated that he might call for them later, end on this intima tion Mr. Denby insisted that there be a record vots showing that it was ths sense of the committee not to inquire into collateral issues of this character. There were no negative votes against the Denby motion. Senator Purcell and Representatives Madison, James and Graham voting "present." May End To-day The investigation is likely to end to morrow — so far. at least, as the taking of evidence is concerned. The "defence" practically had rested when the day's hearing ended, and Mr. Brandeis, for the "prosecution." was quoted to-night as saying that his side would consume little time in the ex amination of witnesses in rebuttal Mr. Vertrees. counsel for the "defence." will call one or two witnesses to-morrow, but expects their contributions to be brief. Both sides to-day appeared anxious to wind up the investigation, of which all have become wearied. In furtherance of this desire they have decided to dis pense with a number of witnesses they had expected to call. It is probable that the departure of Senator Root had a good deal to do with the decision to bring the hearings to a close. The committee has not yet decided whether counsel shall make their clos ing arguments orally or by written briefs. Arguments will be made by Mr. Vertrees for Secretary Ballinger, Mr. Brandeis for Glavis and Mr. Pepper for Gifford P4nchot. DETAIN COLEMAN'S FRIEND Mr. Taylor to Testify at Keliher Trial, at Boston. Concord. N. H.. May IS.— Mrs. Margaret L. Taylor, of Cambridge, Mass.. was de tained here to-day as a witness in the trials of William J. Keliher and Wilson W. Lockhart, charged with aiding and abet ting George W. Coleman, bookkeeper, in the looting of the National City Bank of Cambridge. Mrs. Taylor left her*) for Boston accompanied by government Secret Service agents Boston, May 19 —Mrs. Margar-t L. Tay lor, who was detained in Concord. X. H., to-day, and Coleman attended the same school in Cambridge and were ne:?hbors for some time. Several years ago M:?. Tay lor and her husband separated and a di vorce followed. The federal authorities say that Mrs. Taylor was frequently en tertained by Coleman and that she was one of a number of the bookkeeper's friends who visited him at the bank occa sionally. The government, officials do not niak« any charge against the young woman. They desire to know if she can furnish information concerning the rela tions between William J. Keliher, who is on trial on a charge of aiding Coleman in looting the bank, and the bookkeeper. At the time the bank was closed Mrs. Taylor was in New York. The government at the opening of the Keliher case to-day explained that the de fendant so dominated Coleman that the latter could not resist numerous Induce ments to "buck the Uz°r" in New Tork, despite the fact that losses were continu ous. According to "William H. Garland. As sistant District Attorney, who made the opening address to-day, Coleman began stealing from the bank in 1906. and took $20,000 in a year in a vain effort to win at faro, with the aid of a man known as "Jack." Then came a year and a half of honesty, but in May. 1909, Coleman met Keliher, an<T once more listened to the tempting words of great winnings gained quickly. From that time until February of the present . year, the. assets of the bank were transferred In $5,000 and $10,000 lots to the gamblers in New York, always with the cry that just one more play would be. suf ficient to make up all losses. Mr. Garland declared that Keliher personally advised the taking of the bank's; money and was the tempter throughout. . CHARGE BAD MONEY GAME Two Alleged Associates of 'Red" Adams Arrested. Philadelphia. May I?.— Accused of having been associated with "Bed" Adams in the notorious gold brick swindle by which sev eral titled Europeans were defrauded of large sums of money, and of having used the mails to defraud many persons in this country' in a greengoods game, E. A. Stark loff and George W. Post were arrested here to-day by Postal Inspector Cortelyou and his assistants. Adams was arrested last April in New York, and is now serving a four and a half years' eentence in th« Atlanta federal prison. The men arrested to-day have been living in fine homes at Wynnwood, a fashionable suburb, where they took a prominent part In church work and social activities. Starkloff. according to the authorities, was also known under the name of Frank Morris and A. B. Cline. It is alleged that he was arrested In Detroit on May 5, but jumped his bail which had been fixed at $1,500. It Is also said he was sentenced for a similar offence at Albany in 1892. He was held !n $3,000 at a hearing to-day by Commissioner Craig. Post, who was held in 82,000 bail, was never arrested be fore, although the postal authorities say they have been on his trail for several years. The alleged scheme for which they are now under arrest consisted in writing to various persons to the effect that they had stolen a die from the United States mint which would make money which even the Inspectors could not tell from the real arti cle, and offering to sell $1,500 worth of this bogus money for $500. genuine cash. ROOSEVELT ON RULES Tribute Paid to Work of Thomas B. Reed, Washington, May 19.— Speaking on the House rules on Monday, Mr. Bennet, of New York, quoted from a speech made by President Roosevelt in Portland, Me., on August 26, 1902. Mr. Roosevelt said: I wish to say a word to you in recog nition of great service rendered not only to all our country, but to the entire prin ciple of democratic government through out the world, by one of your citizens. The best institutions are of no good if they won't work. I do not care how beauti ful a theory is: if it won't fit in with the facts it is of no good. If you build the handsomest engine that ever had been built and it did not go. its usefulness would be limited. Well, that was just about the condition that Congress had reached at the time when Thomas B. Reed was elected Speaker. We had all the machinery, but it didn't work — that was the trouble— and you had to find some one powerful man who would disregard the storm of obloquy sure to be raised by what he did in order to get it to work. Such a man was found when Reed was made Speaker We may differ among ourselves as to pol icy. We may differ among ourselves as to what course government should follow, but if we possess any intelligence we must be a unit that it shall be able to follow some course. If government cannot go on, it is not government. If the legislative body cannot enact laws, then there is no use of misnaming it a legislative body: and if the majority is to rule, some method by which it can rule must be provided* Government by the majority in Congress had practical ly come to a stop when Mr. Reed became Speaker. Mr. Reed, at the cost of Infinite labor, at the cost of the fiercest attacks, succeeded in restoring that old principle, and now through Congress vre can do well or ill, accordingly as the people demand, but at any rate we cm do something — and we owe it more than to any other man to your fellow citizen, Mr. Reed. It is a great thine for any man to be able to fee! that in some one crisis he left his mark deeply scored for good in the history of his coun try, and Tom Reed has the right to that feeling. "MURDER" IN STEEL PLANTS Labor Man Calls Them "Human Slaughter Houses." Washington, May 19.— Steel manufactur ing concerns in Pennsylvania wen char acterized as "human slaughter houses" and it was charged that in the hospitals "wilful murder" was committed on the theory that dead men were less expensive than cripples at a hearing before the Sen ate Committee en Public Health and Quarantine to-day in connection with the Owen bill providing for the creation of a Department of Labor and Health. These statements were made by Arthur E. Holder, legislative agent or the American Federation of Labor "A few da3-s ago." said Mr. Holder, "I ■was sitting in the office of a Pennsylvania member of Congress and was informed that in the hospital of one of the Pennsyl vania steel concerns wilful murder vras committed when It was found that It would be better for the company to have a dead man than a cripple." Senator Smoot asked tiie name of the concern, and Mr. Holder replied that it was the Bethlehem Steel Company. He also said that one manufacturing concern in Ohio was reported to have "killed 1,200 men in nine years. Senator Smoot challenged these figures, and Mr. Holder said he had no first hand information con cerning them. BLAME FOR CHERRY DISASTER Mine Inspectors Knew Laws Were Broken, Says Coroner's Jury, Princeton. I!!.. ,Alay 19— The coroner's jury investigating the cause of the Cherry mine disaster, which resulted in the death of 265 miners last fall, has returned 250 separate verdicts. The Jury says the mining laws were broken with the knowledge and consent of the mine inspectors. The verdict is a vindication of John Cow ley, the engineer who was in charge of the caee in which twelve rescuers lost their lives. The verdict says these men lost their lives "indirectly by a confusion of signals regulating the movements of the casre." The following verdict was brought in for each of the IST men who lost their lives in the second vein. "We find that they came to their death by suffocation and that the fire was caused by a pitched load of baled hay coming in contact with an oil torch. And we further find that there was great delay in notifying the men of their dan ger." The verdict giving the cause of the death of the men in the ,third vein says: "We find that they came to their death by ex posure and suffocation. We further find that the mining laws of the State of Illi nois in relation to means of escape were violated with the full knowledge and con cent of the mine inspectors for District So. 2." NEW MORTALITY STANDARD Life Companies Plan to Look Into 5,000,000 Special Risks. The big life Insurance companies of UM United States and Canada ar»: about to be gin an investigation of the records in five million special risks to determine the ac curacy of the standard of mortality used in issuing policies known as "special risks" taken in insuring- the lives of those engaged in seventy business lines and occupations, held to be hazardous, and those who coma under seventy-five different heads as being afflicted by medical impairments. "This Is the biggest 'thins attempted in life insurance in eight years," said Arthur Hunter, actuary of the New York Life In surance Company, last night at the annual dinner of the Actuarial Society of America at the Hotel Astor. Eighty medical direc tors, actuaries and other officials of life in surance companies were present. The Actuarial Society will hear more of this plan at a meeting this morning at the Hotel Astor/ -JV .j SNOWFALL IN ADIRONDACKS. Malone, X. V.. May 19.— Following a eo!d rain Wednesday afternoon and evening, enow began to fall throughout ih-rs Adlron dacks about midnight and continued steadily until sunrise to-day. There is about two inches of snow on the level In th© woods and the hills ar« as white as ■ wint** • • '-■ \ vi:v 'i: :"»'■■', ■'.-:.'* STEALINGS FOR CHARITY Defaulting Treasurer of South bridae Bank Sentenrrd. TELLS REMARKABLE STORY Gave 'Away and Lost $370,000 —Spent $7,500 a Year on $2,500 Salary. Worcester, Mass.. May 19.— After a plea of guilty to thirteen of the fifteen counts in an indictment charging the larceny of $104,000 from the Soathbridge Savings Bank and a subsequent recital of his disposal by gifts to charities, to relatives and 1 by tad investments of a ' sura of money which he estimated at J3TO,«W. John A. Hall, defaulting treasurer of th- bark, was sentenced by Judge Robert T. Ray mond In the Superior Court to-day to serve not less than twelve, nor more than fifteen years, in the state prison at Charlestown. One day of this sentence is to be passed in solitary confinement. Characterizing: Hall— a man who handled hundreds of thousands of dollars while treasurer for twenty years of the South bridge Savings Bank and while treasurer also of the town of Southbridge and of the Southbridge Young Men's Christian Asso ciation—as a degenerate, with no sense of responsibility in money matters, three physicians testified in his behalf. They were Pr«. Frederick Coggeshall and Harry H. Coleman. of Boston, and William Freed, of Southbridge. They declared Hall's mother to have been hopelessly in sane, and said that the defaulting treasurer had many of her traits. Other witnesses. one of them. George W. Wells, a trustee of the Southbridge Savings Bank, testified to Hall's good character. Hall's peculations had their beginning at out twenty years ago. he said on lbs stand, when he took $100 out of the cash drawer in the bank to take a flyer in Atchison stock. This Investment, like many others in later years, was unsuccessful. Although he kept no records. Hall said he estimated the total amount of his steal ings at about $370,000. His conviction to day was on a charge of taking only $104,« m Expert accountants who have gone over his books at the bank since the discovery of the shortage assert that about |800,{te> is missing-. When asked by the court what he hail done with the money. Hall produced a memorandum from which he read extracts showing, among other things, a gift of $5">. 000 to the South bridge Young Men's tjhris tian Association for a new building; $30,000 to his brother. Clare Hall, to help estab lish a sheep farm in Montana; $6.50> for the education of his brother, Frederick Hall, and to start him in business; 550.000 in a stock deal, various sums to the Good Will Home and the Home for Orphans and Little Wanderers in Boston, to the Worcester Young Men's Christian Association and State Toms Men's Christian Association, about SIO.COO to poor people at different times and $So.<>» in unfortunate real aatata deals in the Back Bay District, Boston- Hall said his living expenses had averaged 57,500 a year and that his salary as ban* treasurer was 52.5C0. In imoosins sentence Judge Raymond said that Hall had shown himself to be an habitual criminal. WHh he had given to chanties, "it is easy to be charitabla when it costs nothing," Judge Raymond re marked. Hall showed no si^n of emotior.. ALLEGED CHECK SWINDLER Career of "B. N. Garstin" Halted in Buffalo. [Ey Telegraph to The Tribuns.] I Buffalo, May With the arrest hers to day of B. X. Garstin. alias George Davis, alias George Curtice, a chain cf alleged ; bogus check operations extending into Can i ada was unfolded. I Garstin said that he was at one time superintendent of the KerwicS: Social Set tlement Colony in New Jersey. Ha said hat ha had been arrested in Albany for floating bo^iis checks, and bad served time at the Rochester reformatory for the of fence. He also said that he had been ar rested and convicted in Cleveland. He ad mitted that he had also served time in nuilwilcmii prison, near Boston, en a charge of forgery. He declared he had an office in the Singer Building, Xew York City. He is thins;-rlve years old. 5 feet I inches Mall and dresses fashionably. Garstin tried to pass checks on the State Bank, in Grand street, where, ths police say. he has no account, saying he wished o present a JS.COO automobile to his "bride." Ke also tried to pass a check for $3,000 on the Buffalo agent of an automobile com pany, it is said, but did not get the car. He also gave C. X. Chouffet. a jeweller, a. J2SO check for a ring, it is said, and bought a typewriter with a bogus 5100 check. He stayed at the Iroquois Hotel for two days and entertained lavishly. Oscar L. Richard, president of the State Bank, at No. 376 Grand avenue, Brook"::-. said last night that Davis was introduced to him under the name of "Curtice' by Brooklyn people who had met him in church circles. Mr. Richard assented to his open ing an account in the State Bank, and ac cepted his first deposit, which he said whs a check on a Cleveland bank. The bank officials, following their usual custom, tele graphed to Cleveland, and trere informed that the check was no good. Shortly after, according to Mr. Richard, checks began to come into the bank bearing tie signature "B. K. Garstin." As each checkbook is numbered Mr. Richard said he had no difficulty in discovering that the name "Gamin" had been assumed by th* supposed Curtice, and word was sent to those who had presented the checks that tie man was a swindler and that the police had been notified. One of the checks signed by "Garstin," Mr. Richard added, was re ceived from Hamilton. Canada, and was in payment for an automobile. At the Singer Building last night It was said that no man by Ike name of Garstin occupied offices there. MUST ACCEPT MESSAGES Boston Banker Wins Suit Against Telegraph Company. Boston. May 19.— Telegraph companies have no right to refuse te. receive and transmit a proper message for which pay ment has been tendered, says the full : bench of the Supreme Court in an opinion j handed down to-day overruling the exo«p- | tions to the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company of Massachusetts. In a suit brought by William M. Vermilye, a Boston business man. Vermilye tried to send a messag- fcj which he had appended the following r.c- 1 tice on a sticker or rider: "Notice !s here- i by given that this is a business message and that failure to deliver it proraptiy and correctly is likeiy to cause the sender financial loss ' The telegraph company declined to ac- j cept the message. In the Superior Court j Vermilye obtained damages and the com pany appealed. ■ CHESBROUGH DEFENCE BEGUN, i Trenton, X. J.. May 13. — Tne government ; closed its case to-day in the trial of Mrs. Matilda M. * hesbrough. of Boston, who is charged with smuggling goods into Ho- I boken in May, 1909. CbaNtl for the defendant opened this afternoon, and made i the defence on Mrs. Chesbrough'a ignorance ' of the custom* laws. Mrs. Chesbrough, while on the stand, said she bought the trunk with the false bottom in which the : alleged smuggled goods were discovered \ because the thought the bottom when re- ' moved wsu!<3 make a good ironing beard, j QUALITY Quality really means ; econ omy — true economy. A dress suit for $15.00 is the wildest sort of extravagance. Cheapness and costliness often mean the same thing. A building contract toast' ensure quality or it cannot ensure economy. Our Co-t Insurance contract keeps an Owner in such close touch with expenditures that be buys his building as he buys a pair of s'-oes over the counter- Quality is the first essential to building economy speed is the second. Cos 1 Insurance gives you both. THOMPSON'-STARRETT COMPANY Building Construct)** Fifty-One Wall Street CHANCE SHOWS MURDER Black Hand Hunt Reveals Unsus pected Man Killing. Plainneld. X. J.. May 13 (Special).— ln a : determined effort to round up a gang" of Black Hand men that has been operating in Xewark ard other parts of the stats the police of that city brought to light yes terday details of a recent murder at South Plainfleld. The Newark police arrested i Luigi Cerenca, who was wanted in th« ' Black Hand Investigation, but instead at obtalr.'ng Information about the secret j order of the Italians the police* wer» star tled to hear h'm make an alleged confes : sion to the murder of Patrick CahUV * farmer of South Plainneld. ; Through the third degree the police. It la alleged, obtained from Cerenca detailed tax formation about the crime. It is said to have been committed on ths night of Mar 10 at uahills home. Following CereUca-'* instructions. Captain Brown and Detective Sergeants Cardoni and Tenore. of Xewark. I came here to-day and, accompanied br # Chief Kiefy and Detective Sergeant John Flynn. of the local police department. went to South Plainneld and found Cabin* : body just where Cerefica said it was. An j examination showed that the man had bean chopped to death with an axe, and. In ad dition, two bullet wounds wer* found in bi< back. ; The body irai discovered m the rear cf an outhouse- on the farm where Cahill was employed, and was covered with corn ■ stalks. According to the Newark police. Cerenca gave robbery as his motive. Cereflca ha^: been employed on an adjoin ing farm, and so far as known the two ' men always got along well together. Cereflca has been living at South Plato- M 1 about ten years, and the Newark po lice arrested him at that place last night. following the round-up of the Newark gang earlier In the day. Cerenca, believing, that ho was wanted for the murder of Cahill. ; made the alleged confession. > ! Cahill. so the neighbors say. had a habit of frequently going on =<. spree, and would be away a weak or two at a time. Prob ably for this reason his last disappearance did not cause any unusual excitement in : the neighborhood. Another fact that has had a tendency to prevent comment on CabiU's disappearance is that he had been living alone recently, his wife having been : committed to the Somerset County Jail from North Plainfleld on a charge of beta? drunk and disorderly. She is still a pris oner at the jail, and consequently knows nothing of her husband's death. ! After finding the body of CaiHl the police informed Coroner J. V. Hubbard. of New Brunswick, who ordered the removal of th© body to Ru^yon's morgue. New Bruns wick. The Newark police will co-operat* with the Middlesex County authorities, who will plan to bring the a«i before the grand I jury at once. COTTRT trPHOLDS RBBATIHS Big Four Must Live Up to Contract Despite Federal Law. Cincinnati, May That an act of Con gress cannot invalidate- a contract Involv ing rebating on commerce that lies whollr within a state was the gist of a ruling br Judge Howard C. Holllstsr to-day. The court sustained a demurrer of T. C. Hirsch in the suit of the Big Four Rail road to evict him from property in Ivory dale, Ohio. The railroad admitted It mad« a contract in 1904 promising Hirsch. C4Mk yearly rebates for shipments of iron and steel handled by him. It also rented a busi ness site to him. The- railroad company al leged in Its suit that the contract had b# cone void because of the present lavtr against rebating. PASSION PLAY PICTURES as a supplement to the SUNDAY TRIBUNE The great religious spec tacle beginning at Oberam mergau this -month and coo> tinuing through the summer will be attended by Americans from all over the United States. THE TRIBUNE has timely arranged to offer to its readers handsome litho graphed reproductions of scenes and incidents of die beautiful sacred drama, with perfect likenesses of the char acters enacting the principal roles. These pictures are of postcard size, arranged six on a sheet. That they are popu lar is evidenced by the extra demand for THE TRIBI \ r last Sunday. Newsdealers sold out entirely and many people were disappointed. It would be advisable, therefore, to place an order earl ' for next Sunday's paper. NOTE— These lithographed Passion Play Pictures should not be confounded with the hand colored Photogravures secured by cutting coupoos from THE TRIBUNE.) THE PASSION PLAY PICT URES WILL BE CONTINUED EACH SUNDAY FOR SEV ERAL WEEKS. _!