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CONGRESS BALKS AT RAILROAD BILL No Legislation to Pass ?( lliis Session. Despite Wilson's Urging SUPREME COURT .ARGUMENT BEGINS ( hairman of Counsel for Roads Opens Attack on A da m son Ad ? i i ? .?in their ,. > for a and such itemsata as Iroad situa - ould con,m??:iil ? lai :?l?ni which 4) the I d third - half of the rail : the re UK held by ? ?"?mmf ?Tort in ? Federal in ? :i the arbif.-ation bill; , 0 any . mpul ; hour legis I ? \?. Legtalatioa l tu* Seealaa ??e ? 4-iallv - more on on : mendation ?rpora ? : ! ber 1 i? now ex ? Int?ntate ? eutivc . to report the bills wanten b* tapalsorj arbitration, ? visits Mr. Wil? li he Warned to .on that the Senate reporting C holds are necessary : ..mine star: ??niton act. He ? r.- the out. W ithm a ? *-oduced in ? the Hi.ti??. the hlghlj icmarkahlc bill I making an.thing more than an eight I hour d?> illegal on rallraad I posin? me and making prBCti? 1 cally Hie same proYialotii far cotapul It ion a? now aie m thl ... the Senal I'lighl of Itrolhrrbood? The tituation I .1 the count rj i?< the deptha \ I pie >ent a laughable contrast. I.ab??i men ? ? ? d governmental mtoi en ta gala an under the nanu- of an ilffht-houi aa i.; .i :hemaelvea in a cal de ghl hour law | the inevitable coro!!?., of eoaapalaan arbitral If, followiag the argumenta ?? I won begun to-day. the Supreme Court finds the Adsmson lavr uncon?t?tut ionnl ual ion on March 4 trill I tad In--1 Augtrat, ' The - lf : law i? he'd co: - a 11 ha\e ' - . ? ami thl ? to mak< | tnplied ?? Comn. ? - him opportunit) - o men i ?hat implied promise mi ; ? ".en. Supreme 4'ourl argument argument ? ? ' . To ? . man of the coiamittei the ra Adam -, on of the ?? , II a limit ration it repeal our last of 1907. An actua Ba**Omplished only i ail road or a speed . trains. Increasin* trains won . . - ? ? omy would nloadi had aned so thai tin j moved at a higher speed. ' . ? teil al the third e the ? pon ion ot the railroad em? ployes for a period of from leren to months. The railroads s a violation of the I-'ifth Iment to tiie Comtitul i ? ? ? ? nterferenei a ith the liberty of contrait, an appropri?t on of property without compensatioi ? ion for the direct ben? fi1 of one ma ',- .. ' ' - another class of the com MOVIE MAN KILLED BY CAR *?*?.?.. on \\ ;?> to \nsster Children - ciel y 4'harge year* lilt I ?.-sixth ,-:d killed ye-ter day a ' eond Aver. ?n fr< ? ;re theatre. ? was on his 0 answer a of admit? il to the play ?y-five lir ! Lambe, summoned from Flower Hos? pital, der the ?;ir to treat '"??nd him dead. aa, of ."67 Park Place. As toria, barged with ! hoiria raigned bafora Coroner held in $3,000 bail ; ?pending sn inquest. He *a?*.s paroled ! ;n custody of his course' until to-day. i A patrolman informed Mac j Cobb of Schwarzkopf's death, and the. mude aga ;?u*ents of: ??ed. G. L. RIVES QUITS COLUMBIA BOARD Trustees Vote Him Degree ?A. Barton Hepburn to Succeed Him . 's bosrd of trustees an nouneod yesterday the resignation af GsaifS 1. Kives. rhsirmsn of the bosr?l IMS. lie has sen-eil s' a truste IMS "?i the recommendation of ttie committee on honors the trustees nded the nil?-? aini the baasra***" degree of lioctor at Law? ??? upon Mr. Rive?, in recognition -. ice. A. Hart?n Hepburn, chairman of the board Of the <ha*e National Hank, arai to succeed Mr Hives. He will take hit place on the board st once. Within a fa? nonthl the construe M School of Bue ?rill be began, it was announce?! y? terday. II was ?Mated by the truste, that i. . for building ?.Mir keeping back the work. meed. Mr? Willism Douglas Sloane ?gave $7S,0#0. t?> be added t?> the ment ??f the Sloane Hospital fot i he othsi r tola Mrs tieorg;.- G i' 0 establish the ?leurjje li. 1>? scholarship in the Law School, in memore of the late C.eorf-e <;. D? of the ?las? of 1> |6,000 froai the e-tate of the late Al? exander Saunderp, to establish s schol? arship m Columbia College. ?i from the American Road and ' run ion in highway etif-incering. onvassaa, fai sslsrie? m ?? part meal of Philosophy. 00 lor instruction in practical penal problems from: Adolph Lea Henry D. Sharp?-, ?"i. da, $-.'?0; Mrs. H.dridge and Bei beri Psi 0, anonymous, through the Poetry Society of America, for the best boo',: be aork ??f ? ? ;I:/?>m of the, - liahs I in lf?17. appoiated Professoi \ Beligman, MeVickai pi<< itical economy, acting dear. during the .? on leave In the spring session "iVoodbridge, Miss Aaaa amad assistant Mich in the fa?- . cal arts. ? SMALL IS GUILTY IN FIRST DEGREE 1 4.1)1 Inned from page 1 nee threw out hints mall committed Huicide. hut if we ha . more than to construct a complete en I ie, "e ha\ | made a'- lei-? ? ?i1 er line. They no loi -ha* murder u ai "Ai d if you bare watched closely the . ' rial >otl have Dl the obvious shrinking of ins own coun? sel from the respondent, have noticed ime with u whispered dathm ii.;ea I iddei. ...s .- |t bad t ess a ser- '? t?ent thi ed him*' The Attorns*)* Osnsrsl launched early I chronological review of the erime. He recalled to the jury tha* Small hail last been seen aliv? a' 11 - on the morning of '? "H. when a tradesman deli*? erad an order; that Small had I?.-ft the bunpalow nr t'.tm o'clock the Bam? afternoon, and that Kennett, the i.verv man who called to take him to the. Boston train, had neither seen Mrs Small at the window in which her hus? band asserted she was ?tamlinjr. nor had heard her call a farewell. "You have Been," he continned, "the The Talk o' die Town! The Studebaker GOLD CAR See it at the Grand ("entrai Palace i poker with which Mrs. Small's sk ws? crushed, the automatic pistol wi Sfhleb she was shot, sad the rope whii laally ws? kasttsd sraand bat tktot Smsll's pokei. the pistol which I bought two dsyi before the murder. rope like that with whirl? his mot? boat erai flttad, the ?quine, pimetiei sailois kaol that Small SSS Is H habit of tying. "Vou have heard it admitted for tl Hist tima, bare Is ?lay. thai the kan sene which Small bought the no'inin mt the mardei tese far ass In the bous? bave beard of that sinister thrat ahish "? " psndsnl eeaplsd with h admis ifon of .? farm? r attack on h \ ta, 1 bil her on the head wit a bootjack. I eaghl to have kille her, and I Will yet ' "Vou bave board ai an occasio when, after the ?'?man bsd ras thsl raw host aground, be ?/alead as <>ar an teaald save aftrach hoi down save f* the interference of the bag, Phil Davis of another oecaalen ?hen he kicked h? ami cried; '?Oat into the house. We'l -.?tile thsl 1st? ? ' " near) at Dsfsaes ?VssalM Of the "i?-il l-tie" through which th i . .? sought to prove thai M ? - Siaal had been ulive or only s shell tun dead ?hen her hoilv fell into the eelU boors niter the departan ef he husband, TatUe i pa ed s ith facel laai i< I. timon; of the three country practitioners wh? were the respondent's mod on! radietioi sworn la i>\ Dr. George B. kfagrath, o Boston, one of I I ? lega pathologii l - of ? i.?- esaal rj. Repart? i toi y si the ?in??! lock found ni the . i bungsl miisr hah 'I he defence ,n clot nrarti eallj abandoned both "red I sa" an? lock ?s beepMkiag Small's innocence ? already to bsvs l"'''1 crashed by the weigh! of Hi Magrath'i ?any and t b? state bad su? m aatabli . I the side -i""1 through which the reapondent i bis homo for the la ' time wa equipped with ? spring lock, whiel snapped behind h'lil a? he I? ??|- ? !?? went on "ilint Providence directed the search ol the rains to the ???-ws which are ii evidence us exhibits and afterward con tinned Is galas ths itate'i lav? tion of the 4 "Small had taken eveiy po??ih caution to ? aver himself. He h reason for askine: Kennett to bring th? mail down frot . ?? . him. for otherwise .- might have beer delivered after re and be? fore the lire ??< timed to -tart. i. to r. discovery of the I. "And there w .? Ed ' san? i - an .-?.* ?Then raasaas for thai ? aaaan was the only neighbor lefl mi the deserted share oi Lake Osslpae whs woald bsvs been likslj Is ?-all st the bouse thai noon, Conner? OB bil irai to B ?4. m' |d be - 4 ? ?? ? ? ... : .* 'ling of the sort, and Mrs. (onners would n? visited Ml?. Small without h : in . "\i respoadenl had t.. ni ?muran? icy a shi?? II was he ? . from the John Hal Ii'-mii ance ( onipany. Would he not, in mare ano, be a valuable a tu the alibi? ??\ o.i i? ?-all thai ! be responde I ton in his grip a compi? ventory of his house furnishing-. He ,4 afe ? .:; the ' '.?. compiled it, not imm?diate!;, bail lite bul the last fall. In tion it i- pointed out that it was a $li stove i rar? Small had replaced It montha ago with one that COai h.m W<. But do you redit this diabolical nun.: the foresight thafl to stamp a fictitious: date into hi? it,-, i l'oint h Made by Defence William 8. Mat for the detente, had la as the ?iiat Small ha?i shopped ?round before taking out the jois' life anee policy, and'1 that he might have saved |210 -"mium hatl he taken insurance offering as large a deatii DOnefli but lesssr ulti advantages. 1 h i, ha argued. ?was proof that the respondent had not contemplated profiting bj murderwhsn insuiing himself an?i Probably DO feature of the defence's summing up was brought out with sui-h emphasis. The other point! made by Mr. Matthews were that his client had no* had sufficient, motive, a -1 < i e from profit, for the murder, and thai his ac? tion.., after newij reached him of his wife's death arare thoae of a man mno c( n- of crime. "The question of the premium wa? not an important mattw," the Attorney ral n-plied to this argument. "It ition more than one of ?2l?*i, of whicii Bgsnl he could 'work' more readily. That agent was (onners "Also, when ho took ou' the policy Small had only $1,000 in the bank and no regular income, yet the payment of rat premium took a quarter of hi' entire capital. I suggest the inference -**?ong he didn't irr.-n-l to make ; ajrmeata " Mr. Tattle also a.-keil 'he 'm ? thai had any interest in the complete de strurtion of the body. the fact that a man of the I mechanical ben' could bat for a timed tire with an app that would not fail once in a hundred trials. "Shall we say. when we hear that wept during all the motor trip the mountains from Boston, after he had been iiifornv-d by telephone that his bungalow had burned and his Ig, that ne was not a ?ild have acted a part?" the Attorney <>eneral demanded of th? jurors. '?Then let us eoasider the postal card he mailed to bil irife from Young's Hotel in the city, datad with the day, hour and i-ven the m?nate "l poal "I?'?' UB c? it, a broken man supposedly helpless in the hands of -, hs argued with the chauffeur carried him from the city to .Mountain View, and then struck him. Would friends be able to keep an inno-' ?? an fiam going al once 'hat night to search the ruins, a man ? fe had per " When Small stayed ?wav that ?fi ? trom the lake ? h?>r- . h s knowledge that, his w. murdereif. and eaaYsSSiOS the admission that he was the murderer. Tie was cunning enough to say that there had been pSjbOG worth of dia? monds in the bungalow, thus ??'tint up a robbery moti\e if it wire discov I red Mia. Small had b..?-n slain, and ?neon ta co ox g in the ruin?, wiping out m ihcir pa*sage whatever clews might arrived the tire. Defendant Recomea \er\ous I to th<? Bia there il a com me r i .?i product which produces a heat i.hout like that of the tiery furnace where the real devils are. Do you sup? pose this half human offshoot of the infernal family would beoitate to in? voke the aid of hell flame?" Through the first half of the Attor ney General's three-hour address to the jury Small had been apparently , unmoved. Then nervousness seise?! him. He rose several times from hi chair and went whippity hopping on his good left foot and his cripple?! i right foot, of which only the toe ; touches tho |-round, to whisper sugges ? tions to counsel. ! A chill ?hook him and h? drew hi? cvereoat ever hi? ahou ten Pinslly, I lei'ger to fare the a-'a': | flinchingly. he barfed I ? face hands in os*nch-like. evasion of the verbal storm. SOLD?R-RANCE KILLED, GIRL DIES Stenographer, 17, Shoots Herself?Youth Was Slain in France ?, .???*?._ Msiion Lewis, seventeen yesi? al?, who hsd brooded since Chrislmss over thl di'sth of a young man OB a ?front th |.attleti..|?l. shot and killc.l herself last High, in her home, ai Ml s?4st4 IMth Streot, The yoaag aaawa'a family woulil nal ?livulgs the name of the man for wliniii aha gr.'-.cl. i.." did 'hey ex? plain how she obtsined a ie." I'ntil eight month.? ago thl Muplfl h;i?l -..-cm much of inch athor, their 11 lendi not lead, H "d aal mir?. 'OBBg man BBI ?'? freOUBBl Calloi ;?? h?-i home, in the apriag be began ?<? talk of the lure of Hi?.' combat .?? the Atlantic, and light months i?k" he aailod im England, ahora hi enlieied in the llriti^h mi my. Word came thai be had been wounded and in-- lettei i i topped ' 'h i ' ? noa? o; hi- death. Blood poi ???inn?; had Ml in. Tin' In iff BI ? ''t little moie. II aai a ihoci id n> namli rl'a tenaibilitiea. She tronl about itiei mechanically, ami t hi v.huh iha announced a fan dayi ago t ? a' she had abl i nod ;? poi.n typewriter conciTti was delivered with little of the enthusiasm II would have ? i month before, She ?.<,.???? to btgin work as a stenog raphar yeaterday aad lafl her home i early in the morning Her family ?aw n?'f ?l"part. with ri-lief, for they hoped uterest m her arould her Uriel*. II was nearly I o'clock when il ? re tamed to her apartment on the fourth floor of the hou-e. Her brother .luhus ?????I her ilatei Ida acre the only m .-m ?f the family at home. Marion took ? ; coat and hat and hung tlu-tn in the hall, and without . ing ?oat to the bathroaai. The door slammed and like an echo came the report of I Her brother aad tiator raahod to hoi aida il.o bullet, had penetrated h?M' right' temple, 1 ha i it .?i?. er lay In SOCIAL REBELLION SHAKES PRINCETON I tafUaaaaatOd from pase I the sophomores classed as "desirable" early in March, but the r.ewlv clec'i-ii men do not become active in the or they join until the begin ? r j u n i o r ?. - Try Where Wilson Tailed . powerful lyatem that young i lerelaad aad hit ?.?--?oc?ate1? have set out to destroy. Woodrow Wilson, when ha was preaidenl of Pi ? him -elf the same ta?k. How well h? suc I may be judged by the fa. all of the clubs winch existed in his day still exiat, and several more be? ul?.? If may be that the ion of a far? ? he i n ' *. .1 St a tea can accomplish what th?. pi f Y.\ ? wa? unable to accomplish. Young Geratend ?in?l h-,; aaeociatei wasted no words in s'stinj; the ?'udent body tlua morning. " 'Making a club' is usually considere?! the most Important event in college life," they lay, after announcing pledged themselves not to join any clubs. "Not. ??? 'make a club' is con lidered failure, and a man' measured by the preatigO of the club to which be hele "There are always torn** men who are not elected to any club Vhataoe men feel thai le-renlaefl el arefully learehed'their class i foaad them ? .i -??i.-? 11 ssbi?. ? ? i ? a loss of Memberi ' m eltth ? much ftOS i?.-r ?apitii expense. As a result, si - par?ate, to gratify the wishes of til sons, make "reater outlay tl 11 affoi ?I The iiiaed) i??"i1" led I clubs shall gnulually pass out of exi eaee by the aader elaee mea'a refu ? tlii'm. and that all Prmeei undergraduate! ?hall centre their lee life about i I'nlveraity Hall. The revolutionary movement of ' lophomoii O''-' .? qaii ? the apper class nun Tea of these, j of them clubmen, will publish to RM I row an open letter te the ? admitting that the critu-itm of the cl I ayatem la wholly |oe( ami offering cooperate with the iimlei- elaei mea OUI I" I'd for Among the men who have latter an- George ft, '.'? rkia -, ir.. ehaj man of the Senn??- < oaacil, A. I.. M Kaig, editorial ehalrman <?f "The Da I'ri.ii-loiiiaii," and .1. S. Nicholas, e , ? ? i', aeeteniaa " ? i . ommend the i lot emenl baarily waa .? i Pre ?dent Hlbben weald - CHALONER INSANE SUPREME COURT OF U. S. DECIDE* Highest Tribunal Refuses to Dis charge New York State Guardian of His Property H uhingtaa, J ? ' ** Ai mitronj Chaloner, of M.-rry Mills, Virginia by a Supreme Caarl decision to-day annul New York pi" eeedinga, in which insane, and which wa? dealgBI IttaiOB, >om hi-- lunac; it ?mated at nearlj . The court deelined to dis tiirb ? y prociedings, leavin?. ? uer's property in the trustee' hand?. Hg ( haloner is. in his own word?, :. "geographical lunatic' d< l ?ar.-d legall] insane m New \??rk and legally .?une in Vii ? olir.rt. He is n brother of ? Lieutenant Oorernoi il ('hauler and i '.' ? nier, the former hint band ?if PrinC4 I Live? Trou of the I He is best know- Who's ?d when his brother Hob ? r.l L?BI : were married. Chale eentr?l of h*ii big he waa committed to the i an order ef il?, i eaped ear ami went to Virginia, whin- the courts adjudged him sane Sir ce (hat time he has fought a long and unsuccessful in the - have Thomas T. Sher man diaeherged aa the committee of . -"ti and proper''.- in New York The decilion of the State Supreme Coui ' ? : ?n 1912 h'- ? ? "ion thii decision in Supreme Coui cecision, banden down to-day. ?lisposes I n.illy of the question. Ticket Speculator Sentenced I ' Wenty-eigh' years old, ? tenced r a hearing in the West erdaj -on a charge of ; 14 umminga i ? e,-aro in I li ppodron Viecaro Rad i tit ?? d to iSOTHERN RESTING QUIETLY; GREATLY REGRETS ILLNES \?. Shirker." Saya Actor?Took Onl a Short Walk I H. ??'othern, ordered home fror ? tro, where he was playing for th benefit of the British Red Cross Fund and commanded to give up the foot ? lights forever, both by Chicago docfori and by Dr. Joseph HisselL, his New Vori physician, yesjterday declared that n< mere shirking of d'i'y had led him tt give up his work. "I deeply re-fret tfyat my illness ha? forced me to abandon the enterprise and that the members of my company bave been left :n *uch a strait in the middle of the season." Mr. Sothern said. "I underwent a serious operation in Chicago, whi h inrapac.fated me from playing, and my Chicago doctora ad? vised that I should close the tour. Dr. Hissell has pron'iunced that, I must on no account a? | again. "I'nfortunately, the newspaper ac COnntl have caused a good deal of mit apprehension. Dr. Missell has been quoted a-? saying that I wai no more ili than I have been at any time during the la??t twenty years. Wha', Dr His said was tha* Mr, j Sothern at any lime during tr,. I tweatf years was liable i that has now overtaken r... taken about twenty years to form tk* 1 stones that now exist In th? kidneyi" Mr Sothern said that he * ??d "??-??;,. a few blocks in the park" upo,, , ordered to do so by his physku had taken no pro'rs?'"! re?'ing quietly and be.ng prepar. ..pera'ion thai there ii still a ?$ i sibility he may have U und?rjo. Many"* of the meirher? ef pany. which sun pin 'If ? Were King" when hi? il|r,.H fare? ?so, ?**[? aack ? m tni .vas all for h.m, and their - I at. the abrupt 'ermmatton of ih* pl(r ' ur* chiefly occasioned by their it?. ' aathy for him. Few actor? rav? ,-,_ been so closely in touch wth the m?B. bers of their ca?*s and bo much ?ort^ by them a? Mr. Bathara. Four Warships Leave New York The battleships New York and T*ua the cruiser Panther and th? Utiti Taaktan left the New York Vavy ylr| ! yesterday for Hampton Roadl prepi,-. tory to Southern mann-urres. They-aiQ be joined at Hampton Roads to-morrso by the Pennsylvania and ?he Wy?mj,_ and num? royera srd subma* ass. >?x<-*?vv>:->:-* fxanp WORLD'S CHAMPION The aStutz exhibit at the Automo? bile Show compels attention and admiration. The Stutz is a sturdy, pow? erful car. decant without being freakish; it is the development of years of experi? ence in construetinjc* and perfecting i four-c\ linder motor and a C&MfM of the higbett grade materials. Its enviable reputation for winning speed contest?. h.is not been equalled by any other mod? ern car. For Maagatitencj il II without prer?Hl^nr four big raeai recently Btati acore?! four con ?ecnt?re titets and four second piaros. See the Stutz at Space Xn. 22. Second Floor, Grand Central Palace. STUTZ MOTOR CAR CO., Indianapolis, ind. William Parkinson Motor Sales Co., 1,804 Broadway, New York-, \ 372 Central Are., Newark, N. J. J E. J. Monti-rny, I,?81 Bedford Ate., Brooklyn. /'-** i Look for the Winner! of the B. R. T. Song Contest in the cars of The Brooklyn Rapid Transit System on February 1st, 1917 After careful consideration of the hundreds of Words and Music submitted for the proposed Song of its Advertisers, entitled "I Saw It in the B. R. T." A decision will have been made by February 1st, 1917, and a car card announcing same will be shown in the cars on that day. Watch for It v- R.?This contest has created widespread interes? find the public w?l soon be ringing tlte m?rite and praise? of />'. I?. T. Advertisers' good? a? they are now ratine, and using them.