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THE SUN, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1915.
Political Axe Used in
Philippines, Says Tafi
In Reply to Secretary Garrison, Ex-President Asserts
That War Department Relies on "Special Plead
ings" to Defend Island Government,
NATIVES ELEVATED TOO FAST, HE DECLARES
In u Stfclsmanl inwn out last ntghl
M'Frsaldent William H Taft IShSWI (hp
Mft that Hnv.-(len. Hrr1on la ad-
MMMtrinfl the nwnM of m rtiii-
Ipfgnss sloiag -1 riot I y intrtiiaaji HMK
10 the linitiillzntlon of ft : . i - on the
Mi Tafl h Miitcnient in the fourth
niapltr of tin- vontrnv erv I art wren the
ioruivr PltflMlfll tnd Sniotaiv of War
Ullilllt) M i.irtin Mr. Harrison Rave
out a tatemonl Tuesdsy of lant wek
in which he rimmed that Mi Taft MM
acting a "a blind partisan, ' engii-ed
In h campaign to discredit th. prnssnt
AdmtlilM ration Mr. Taft In rjd- ac
i used tin- Dtmocnttf (if misrule in the
t'htlipiln " rotary Garrison In an
other etalsment a few days later renewed-aii
i-srg, and again defended
he Administrations policy toward the
Insular pojaaajlOM,
In hia statement x-l'rrsllent Taft
aa a in part :
1 earnestly and sincerely hoie that
the American people will not he pre
vented from realizing the truth con
cerning the present Administration's
policy nnd in effect iii the I'hilippinea
by wh.it I must rail the special plead inn
with wh.i'h Mr ilarrfaon aeeka to convince
himself that It ean he justified His de
fence of i lie Harrison regime In the
Island when the truth permeates the
local atmosphere, will only awaken ridi
cule and -surprise that he could an de
ceive himself.
Telia of HarrlMiii'e Mark.
" There, has been r,o partlsanahlp in
(ho policy it Is said Mr Harrison Is
reported hy Mr. Osrrlson to have de
nted, and 1 ac-ept the dental, that he said
In the public' press at Honolulu that
be took a sardonic pleasure In r. moving
ftepuhll.iiiis. Yet his first net when
he reached the Inland was to force
Ihe resignation of Col H H McCoy,
who had esrved the Qovstninsnl since
ISS. first an a soldier and then In
taiioiMi positions In the civil service until
ho won hit. way to be Collector of
''tretoms. th. highest fiscal potion In
the Islands .short of membership in the
dntntnlgslon,
' "Me was most efficient No charge
la made agauir. him of efficiency, loy
alty or Integra v. Ha was removed be
cause he held the largely nominal posi
tion of National Itepulillcan I'ommlttee
nSan In the Philippines. There aece no
alectlons In the Island for him to take
n Interest in. There wa no oppor
tunity for him to become an offensive
partisan or to neglect his office In poli
tics. It was not a violation of any civil
service regulation. Kscept for the par
tisan motive, the act Is not explained.
"Mr. Harrison seeks to fasten on to
Preslder, t McKlnley and Roosevelt and
myself responsibility for the course of
ifce present administration In the Islands
in removing American and replacing
Ipotn with h'lllpinos and In etilarglng
the power of Filipino politicians by In
sisting that t Is only a contluuanre
of our avowed policy. If that were so.
why we'e ,i i ess.ii to mike a clean
sweep of the cnmmiss'on of trained
Americans with no politic and substi
tuting partisan gad active iNMiiorrata
and one Profraaalva ? If the policy was
to he the sa ne, what Is there In the
gumeit that the executive officers
"f a colonial service trained by years
f experience and faithful service are
like cabinet officers - at home and
should he fcllod by que blow of ihe
political axe? The Importance of con
'tnulty in a colonial service Is shown
by all the great world sucesses In this
liald. and sir h a sudden sweep as Mr.
Harrison seeks to Justify la conclusive
proof of ihe partisanship that prompt
ed It.
, "As a make-weight in his defence of
the clean sweep. Sir liarrison ssvs
that Vies -Oovsrnor Qllborl and Mr.
Worcester resigned. I iocs he mean to
Intimate that they would not have been
forced out if they had not resigned
fltld that It was nol a deliberate purpose
to make a clean sweep of them as well
aa the others?
Democratic Partlaa aafclp,
"Lit us not be Cpnfuaed as to parti.-,
ship and its moaning in this con
nection. There is the partisanship in a
Democrat i with powei of rsntovst, which
prompts him to tltimlM trained Repub
Heart officoholderg srlthout regard to
the Injury lo the public service, That
kind we have. Just been considering.
Then (bore i- eh own gnother kind of
partisanship i ven nirurt Injurious. That
Is the malting of vaognctas by forcing
reslgnatlona of ompetent ami trained
American civil servants for the purpose
n' giving patronage tn Mr. ytieznti ami
big group Filipino politicians and en
abling them to lacura official berths for
their henchmen In Filipino polities.
Tiien there is partisanship in rsmov
,g competent Fllipinris from office for
the lame purpoaa. There were three
Filipinos, member! of the eomtn lesion,
one of :, em th- Dscretar) of Pinsncs
end Justice, Asafistsi all faithful, loyal,
public ssrvants of ears training, srhoss
heads Merc demanded because (hay bad
been in the previous administration.
After Arellano, Chief Justice. Ar.meta is
the ables' Filipino n the Islands Why
d,d those men have to be sacrificed but
for pa rt isa nshlp? 1
"la t us now come to the next removal,
tbst of f'apl Bleapsr from t ne Land Of.
fl -e. I have explained the Importance
of the off i. e in the sale of the Fr'ars
Lands And In the sen lenient of land
Htjes generally In the Islands. Witii
Sleeper s organisation the sinking fund
fof th,. Friars Fund band of 17,000,004
was rowing sui ei sefiilh With his or-
ganiantion and a eompeienl .ii trained
land curt of live Judges there had been
settled grid recorded thouaandi of land
tttlaa, The uncartalnty of tanure and
boundarlag was one of the great evil of
till islands Sleeper had conducted a, -
i urate surveys ami Increased (he land
registi.it .,, s to 10,006. What did this
nAv IMM1partlaan ragfms do? They re
moved Hleeper as soon as Mr Harrison
reached the islands and hia assistant.
Wilson, later. If the record shows thai
Wilson voluntarlt) resigned so much the
urns.- for i ne roourd Mo humorous have
the ret lords in this regard become in the
-lands tnat Hi,- uonl 'resigned' with
quotation marks is a reeognlsed tenu in
the vernacular. In the copy of a rSOOrd
sent me by Mr. WorcsgUr I find UoCoy,
Mlseper, Wilson, leech. Ilogaette all gs
having 'resigned ufier satlsfsotor:
s,-r ,ce ' The wyrk of registering the
and title in the islands has thus been
called and th.- reeled of tin. dun cages fo.
a year under Mleeper Is g dretim of the
pat. an-i the rsorgsntssllon of the
courts lireatl) contrilmted to such a
ball.
'ilr i lat Ms., defends the renrgatuza
Msti nf, th i"irt.s as follows
''ThS feetl ari .is Shown b) Ihe report
' u ins rtov (ten. Ullbsrt, dated gsslem-
et . 1S1I, thai p b well reeognlsed
ihsi , retirganlsgll ind i i ,K .,f
' iris ian neeesssry ii ass bgun
undi Mo. prsvlnus sdmlntstratlon, but
net tniiipetSj until sftsi (iov.-Usa. liar-il-nn
- m In efllee 1
"Thi word uf Mr, Qllbsrl are as fol.
. bovs.
I lo' .Idilllni-lmilrot r.r ti.B,,... U...
ts , i ii taring Ihs vssr srlthnui Vrwui.,.
I J obstraetloB of eonseausm e Tbs set siaet
Of the i iiirts nf (Irsl iBStaBTS line inns
lien s,,.. ,, ,. Imiiffl. lent fer th spredv
c.ompllihment uf all th work devolving
upon them, snd thst of the court of land
registration la entlrei tea mall B piog--
In the registration nf litis lo all the ot
upled real ratate In lb lalanda la to be
.made under ihe sew . adaslral t at the
, aeMfag ret
"There In nothing In till that Indl
cute that a reorKanlxatlon of the
1 courts I neceaiy. Th fact is the
' Filipino politician had for vnars been
I deSlrOUS of changing the Judicial sys
tem. it,.i,. as.n K the nunbSf of Judges,
ao that thei. should he one III each
I province, an utterly Illogical arrange-
ment, as can tie seen by study of the
I populations In Ihe different province.
the Idea apparently taring to make posl-
tlons for Filipinos The American Corn
' mission had fought thta off The most
Important bhlng to strervtlmn the
Land Court. Instead of strengthening
II It iim abolished
' Mr. Harrison declined to conform to
the whole plan of the Filipino poMtician.
which Involved leaving out tried Amerl
can Judges, and this evoked Mr Worces
ter's approval, to which Mr. flarrlson
refers, but ho consented to the abolition
of the Land Court gild to the provlsiot,
by whbVi every province as given a
Judge, although there are many with so
little business and population that the
Judges will have only a sinecure In
this way some eight or more Filipinos
were given Judicial (sprths Mr. Har
rison sajs this wa legislation. Hoes
he thus seek to escape rcgKnsth!l!tv for
himself wloh the veto power, ami for
Mr Harrison with full power to block
such reorganisation in the commission?
Thl i nn Instance of what I mean
when. I call hi defence special pleading.
"Flut let u return to cHpt Sleeper and
to the Land i mice. Mr tarrlon defends
Mr. Tlnlo's appointment to tine most Im
portant bureau by saving that he had
been In a bureau of equal rank for some
jears. lis ,a, beer at th head of the
Bureau of l-itxir. with a salary of 13.
IM, with very simple duties of dealing
with Filipino labor leaders I repeat he
was totally unfit either hy profession or
experience for th. expert duties of the
head of the Land Office, the salary of
which was Iii. I said Hint the ar-
rSSrugfS under TlnlO due to the changes
had reached more than HHu.i pesos
Mr (larrlson seeks to meet thl by re
ferring (0 an estimate of I00t000 pesos
arrearages for the ensuing year pre
Vloual) made b Capt Sleeper. Vice
Oovsrnor Gilbert advised me hv letter,
wiitieu In the fall of lsU. that the ar
rearages had reached more than 1,000,
"00 peeo. and in a letter, written bv
John H Wilson, former Assistant Land
Commissioner, that in riecember, 1S14,
the arrearages had reached 1,IM,S0S
peSOS, I submit that my etatement as to
the result of the removal of Mleeper and
Wilson and the appointment of Tlnlo
was an understateme: t of Its injury to
the public service.
itaeka Sleeper Henioval.
"nut In the exigency Mr Harrison
says that Capt Sleeper was removed bv
Mr. Harrison because of certain charges'
that had ben made a gain at him bv the I
Congress of which Mr. Harrison was a I
member. I Ifke the frank avowal of I
removing McCoy because he wa n Re-
publican committeeman much better
thai I do this. The charges against j
.('apt. Sleeper ad others wre twice
t-ivestlgated. once by a com llttee of
Congress ftnd once by SrerVtarv Plckin-
son while in the islands, and they ere I
completely ami triumphantly exonerated.
The vote of exoneration In Congress was
by twelve Republican ami five Demo
crats tien Mclniyrs, then a now
Chief of llureau of Insular Affairs, made
a report to th- Secretary of vvar In
which, referring to thl vindication of
I Capt Sleeper and the others charged,
lie used this language :
i nfortunstsly the commlttss .ltd nol
6 i i" the origin .,f the t hargra made or to
th animus behind them. While this was I
doubtless proper under Its Instructions, I
rraultsd In the conUlletS exoneration of the;
-ifrl.tsla agulnat whom Mi, rasa grer ntadSl
and left 'h" distinct ImpreSsinn that cer
tain per-. .lis. permitted in pan to remain
snonymou-. had for linprop, i teas .n- int i
ll.ioualy and fslsely sltributsd wrong ,
doing " faithful, hard w irking nfflrlsls.M
III von nf llese fads I SUbmll that)
I Mr. HgfriaOli would ho in a latter DO-
Sit ton to have SVOWed that Sleeper was!
i removed In order lo make way fol a ,
t Finpmo and olasy the tastiest of Filipino
' politician-. 1
"Now let us come to the third con
I tplcuous removal among tlie trained Sg
Iperlsnosd veteran who gave the high-'
eat tone to the Phlllpplng civil erv;ce
las this Administration found it I mean
I the removal of Cratls Carpenter and'
ha transfer to the governorship of the.
Moio Territory. Mr, (larrlson pays him I
la high and deserved compliment as a!
public servant, although he was chafgsd
lat the same lime as Capt. Sleeper and1
was exonerated by the same ConftrssV
slonal oeniinlttss. Ths offics of executive!
sc. rotary is the most important bureau
I Office in tile island- He stands next1
; to the head of g department and to the I
commission, ,
"The executive sc. rel a I'le.- in the isl
I at.ds hsve been Arlhur W PsrgUSSon,
'July l. )nl. to January 3". 19ns. when
i lie dlsd, and Frank W Carpenter, from
' February, ls. until the coming of Mr.
: Harrison to the islands. Mr. c.irteiiler
I had been assistant under Mr Kergusson.
I The duties uf the executive SecrStary
' requlrs ;i man wlio speaks the Spanish
language, as Mr. I', rgusson did, and are
I greatly helped by having a man who
speaks nut Ollly the Sp inlsh IgngUtlgS
hut also the native dialect, as Mr. Car
, pgntar dpss, l.ly his long experience
he had "become Ititimalely aoqualntSd
I with the circumstances and local nf
, fleers of each provides and each mu
' nlelpallty in all Ihs Christian part of
: the ST'nipSlagO, lOOh him really fell
i tlie dlft) of helping the Filipinos to learn
I the practical lesson of self-government
i in the provinces ami municipalities,
arnenter'a "I'roinolloii."
"Now what was done with Mr. Car
penter? He was Invited to leave the
executive secretaryship ami become Gov
ernor of Ihe Moro ProVinoe, Why was
he thus Invited ' Was it because Be
had not properly discharged his diffi
cult, Important und peculiar duties as
executive secretin) '.' Mr. flaiiSSOn does
liol sgy so. Mr. liarrison says that his
transfer to he Oovsrnor of the Moro
Provlnog wus a promotion, and whether
he Intsndsd so or not, ha has left the
impression that this was the cause of
Mr Carpenter's transfer.
"Now what are the facts" The (iov
smorshlp "f the Moro province was not
a promotion for Mr. Carpenter. II was
a position, while Important, of much less
Importance than that of the executive
secretaryship and much easier lo fill. II
was a position for which the salary was
Ifl.non a year. The sularv as executive
Secretary was t,000 a ear and In order
to Induce Mr. Carpenter to accept the
Moro (Invertiorshlp and to make the
forced transfer a palnvtable as. Ihe
Administration could tho commission
raised the salary, In spite of the neces
sity for economy, from $,nnn to S 9,000.
The transfer wus not agreeable lo Mr.
Carpenter, I am advised.
"Tho motive was that of making a
plSCS for a Filipino In accord with the
plan of Mr. Quezon and his political
group, a place furnishing an opportunity
for moat powerful political Influence and
manipulation throughout the Christian
part of the Islands If properly Improved
They selected for this purpose a Filipino
named Vlllamor. who had been Atlor-ney-Ueneral
and had not rendered very
effective service. Oov Forbes advises
me.
"Mr Vlllamor hs eased to ho execu
tive secretary, presumably because Mr.
Harrison found him unfitted for the place
and therefore he has oeen promoted to
be what " To lie president of the I'nlver
lty of the l'hlllpplnes. an Institution
founded hy the l'hlllpplne Government.
In It English Is spoken.
"The oualtflratlona of Mr. Vlllamor to
preside over an Institution of this sort,
having an enrolment of t.400 students,
doe not appear. When I was In tlie
Islands Mr. Vlllamor had very great
difficulty In understanding and speaking
English. I submit that this promotion
to be president of such a university Is
grotesque and ean only be explained by
the political ne-csslty of retaining him
In offlc an? the official necessity of re
" ivlng him from the executive secre
ts ryshlp
"Difficult as the duties as executive
seoretary were one would suppose
that even If Mr. Carpenter was to go
to amsther field his assistant of long ex
perience and faithful service, Mr. Welch,
would lie retained, but the political axe
fell upon hi nerg and he wa among
the 'resigned,' because It I said that
under the previous Administration he
had not properly conducted an Investiga
tion of the chief of police. Mr. Forbes
found no occasion to criticise him for
this, but Mr. Harrison seem to have
been better advised.
"What was done with the vacancy
made by Mr. Welch's removal? It wa
tilled by Stophen llonaat, whom Mr Har
rison brought with him to the Philip
pine and who, as Mr. Garrison vouch
safes to us. Is a Democrat. Mr. Forbes
advise me that Mr. Ilonsal was. brought
out to the Philippines at tho expense of
the city nf Manila and was then trans
ferred lo the psyroll of the government
of the Islands. He had no famlllarltv
wlth the delicate duties of the office of
assistant executive sectetary. Thl was
soon apparent by his transfer lo a
newly created public utilities board,
where he was able to give the Qvogfll
ment mid the public the benefit of bis
eminent fitness as a professional jour
nalist. The executive secretary s office
at the last accounts was vacant The
duties, so far as they are performed, are
helng carried on by the private secre
tary of the Governor and the Governor
himself.
Olvee Letter From Korbee.
Space doe not permit me to go Into
other instances to show that the same
destructive spirit has been manifested
m all the departments After my article
appeared I received the following letter
from Mr Cameron Forbe. formerly
Governor-General of the islands
" 'I regrst to have to mxy that the SVt
der.re which coin a to me from tUi sources,
from Americana. Flltplnoa, army men and
civilian. In and out ef pabllr service,
travellers new to the attuatlon. and real'
a, nt- f.t.nlllar with tl, ell heara out In Ins
main the eorrectn of your description !
of condition na they exlat in the Island j
to-.lay. tt would he strung if there were
not tomi one to rls up and defend the
toaent order of thine, out except for!
such defence nrt haa hern made by thoaej
responsible for preaen: conditio:, a I have
aeen none.
" 'Alio big for the necessary partlasnnhtp '
of my frtenit sad for the fart that thoae
who corr.sipond with ino would be Imctned I
in say the thing whloh they bstlevs Would
le pc-asing to tne to her there Ii still
Sufficient unanimity In th expressions that i
have come front the lalanda to convince m I
ihnt the spirit of th personnel la b- ,
m.lutely broken. Tin- heat men that mt I
had to th service huv- very general!) '
teft slot s'isl men lire trying to leave, par-l
tlcu'.arly Uioe Mghet .ip In the gcrvios. I
Of twenty-two chief- of linnrtsnt bui'aua
atid iiSiei, excluding the Post and cieo- ,
detlc siurvey. the , hlef of which Is ap
pointed iy the Departmenl of Commerce
In Wsablngton for details of usually two
ntn t ilttie, only alx of 'tins, who geld
t oe position two rears ago now remain,
i ft these sixteen change two only remain
In the servhe. The reat are loT to It.
"'A SOmptstStlOn of the record" "f thj
length of Mrviot of bureau chiefs ii : March
is. ii:, showed that nfiern out f twsnty-
one American Pure., i clilefa hail bem an
average of seven years in hi then poeitten ,
eleven yeii"s Iii tlie ilovernmeiit service In I
the Islands. TM fact would go far to atS
provr any Statement of Instability un.iet
the previous regime in th matter ef bureau
i hiefs Very reepet tfuiiy your.
W i 'AMBKi i F( IKIIB.X '
"1 have also received, ince 'he pubs i
hca. I. hi of my article, a copy of a paper j
b) Prof. T. Llndsey Itlayney of the Rico
Institute, i'rof. Hinyney was sent around
the world by the Kahn Foundation to
Study th,. conditions In the (ineni He I
was picked for this task from among
many applicant". Ho say :
" 'It I the opinion of a.i Americana and '
foreigners thai thr Inviolability of the
civ it service must he reeatsbliobed by Oev
rnortleneral Harrison or i.y hi successor
if the good name of our govsrntnentsl
methods la not to be Irrev ocaic . com
promised. Thai the mere fact of a SillBlno
berns an aspirant for offii shoultl not t. ,
a lufllclsni reAs.ui for his sppolntment, a
has been mo frCQUently lbs cae under thel
present sdmlnlstrstlon. The loss ,,f men
,ik (lov KorU-a, Mr. W'orcea'.r. In '
Helser, OSPts Sleeper and many others!
win. recent'y "resigned" la not only re I
proaoh to present iln. instiioila at Manila !
a matter of grave local llnportanee but It !
is n distinct hsckset to the developtuen I
of better and more atabls lasUtutlons mi
the orient In (he interest of humanity us a;
whole
'The following atiitAtnent. mads to the,
wilier by all Intelligent and highly re - i
epected Filipino, la submitted a ftnat 1
reeume of n situation which cannot poaslbls
conttinn wt'h or edit to our (government I
IP- ealdi
When the American flaa Is lowered I
whether it he In one year or In ten wars;
or In a hundred years. I foe', tliat the
United sHatss will be remembered in our i
island by three principal contributions lo
our nwtlonsl life- -drat, by splendid
srstsnt of public instruettoni ssssndly, by
an escallsnt Judletsl system i and thtrdiv-.l
l.y un all perv luting sytStent of pet t y Tarn mny
politics, 1" lbs fostering of w hich t h
present administration at Mantis ha very
largely contributed And I feel that the
;,tet of thest cont rllcc lotia w ill far out I
ah olow In effect the results of the other
two to th sverlsstlng Ktisfsrlune of mi
CONSUL SUES THt: JOKK.
rrl or lit mil Kqull.r Inillfrer
ii I t KaUrr'i .ptnii.
San PRANCltCOt I . fi. "Whit h 1
carf whether thpy rreil -ns sir ;ik for
my rran?" Mild .hul-Cit-muitl Krunk
Bopp nf UtTiTiiinv t-rtay.
"Thr i no reatrfrtinn ftir th
aprHt of corinnlar MpitMtltsUVf who
hav? riirurnittPtl h criinf. Both "., Mlf
and VU-i OIUIul Vf Shark an1 ubjMM
it nrrent tf tho QovnWQOIIt ofRcUUl
fit t tftko huii gVotloti " Tho wholo
mattt-r neeini'd to bo a hugo J'ki to tlie
fj-ertnuti "it), ml ulio lHU(rlil hurtily.
sMstool if k' oonildorod tho mAtter
funny )t sairl J "Moru one 0MRII la be
hftVlflf a Ht uf fun, bill f dOft't think
ii. will bi h. funny nrhon it in ail ovor."
(tip RddOd that ho had hm iwj ad
VlOM rrom VaT.1npt(ni as tf htl prob
able arn'St or rei'ail.
INQUIRY INTO SHIP FIRE.
dHinnn (tnetlins Crrn nf Hrl(
lli Muaar t eel T nlnghnni.
Tirr CommlSSlonSf Adimsi.n. fftfa.
Uarsasl Brophy and Oapt, Tunne) of
Ihe tomb SqUSd spent most of yest.r-
day afternoon ami evening investigat
ing four tires in No t hold on the
stsmnwhlp Tynlnghsihi loisdlngsuggr for
the Allh off the I'.ne Baal II break
water, mi Sunday afternoon. Mr. Adam
son has ordered a thorough inquiry In
the belief thai the lire Mere tncemllarv
ami the crews of the Tynlngham and
two lighters, the Anna (1. Ure snd
another which transferred many thou.
MUlid bags on Saturday night, were
questioned.
The T iilngham's crew removed the
sugar bags from the hold yreterday
afternoon and found a large burlap
bug, different from the ugnr bogs, and
two bottles, one of them broken. The
bag Itawlf was burned. The skipper
of ths Tynlngham ts Capt. David Jones.
U. S. AGENTS
YOUNG
font (maed: from firm I'ttffr.
lmnmsaionst Brotherhood of lllnck
smltha. both of Chicago, arrived here
eterdnv morning. In the afternoon
they went before the Grand Jury Investi
gating the ltintrlen-Melny ease. They
will be witnessea sgatn before that body
this afternoon
Tho National Peare Council was or
ganised shortly after Rlntelen's arrival
In this country. Repreeenfstlve Krank
lltu'haoan of Illinois waa active In the
society for a time, but he dropped out.
saying he was dissatisfied with the
methods that sunt of the active men
wished to employ Ex-Congreasman
II. Robert Fowler, also of Illinois, was
eotinael for the aoclety. l.amar had not
figured In the plans until adthln the
laat two days. It waa known, how
ever, that Henry B, Martin and Her
man HchuMela boOi friends of l.tmiar.
were Intonated In the project.
i:x-CongTHsnman Fowler at the Ho
tel Knickerbocker last night. Issued a
statement denying the charge made
by Mr. Marshall He said :
"You rsn deny categorically for m
every charge made against the National
lAbor Peace Council. It has handled no
Herman money, It has conducted no
propaganda contrary to its rights and It
Invitee the fullest Government Inquiry.
'The peace council Is and has been
first of all pro-American. It has taken
up the fight for peace with this end
solely In view. Incidentally It has
brought together a maas of evidence
that le a snatching Indictment of the
armor trust.
"Thl Information will be laid be
fore congress. It will prove ao startling
In It nature that a widespread In
vestigation will ensue. The armor trust
has rifled the Treasury of the United
Slates of millions. I'nder the Sherman
ant l-t rust law It Is liable for recovery
of damages which are estimated at close
to a billion of dollars
"Tha fact that the peace council,
which has tn hand all this evidence,
was attacked upon tho eve of the open
ing of Congress Is significant The red
herring trail leads straight to armor
Plate manufacturers and backers of
fraudulent munition purveyors.
Will Walt ta Vf York.
"ltoged Wood, Asa latent United States
District Attorney, knows where 1 am lo
cated In Now York. 1 aatlsd upon him
a few days ago. I bsWS not received
an Invitation to appear IwfoTc the Grand
Jury, but I shall wait right here for a
couple of days until the matter is cleared
up.
Assertions that David l.amar served
ss a medium to transfer German funds
to Uit peace council are aheurd. 1 met
Mr. Lunar only onco In my life The
ssa council Is organised almost wholly
from members of Ihs Federation of La
bor. It has condtasesl its business hy
popular subscription
"Hsnry Ford was ivmong those wealthy
men who have bSSP SCttValy or passively
Interested In the affitlrs of the organisa
tion. It was at the suggestion of the
oftV-cr of the council that Mr, Ford
gati lils peace voyage to Lurojie. 1 came
to New York to help ham get started and
1 Was at the dock to see the linear II.
put to sea. I shaJl stay here until my
business In Illinois call me back to my
dask."
When told that IHsSrlct Attorney Mar
shall hod sold that the Geivertutwnt had
cvidarnco to tlie effecS thut Duvid Isunar
had coin rttm ted rrstaney frtsm (simian
ssajaeeg to the lanhor IVaco Oosjltoi Mr.
Fowler enid :
"Such a gtateuncti: cannot Le tnio, for
not Ofta cent was reivHvisl from that
sotm-e The jnsvisai'rs of ths council rt.ii
as iattiotlc Ajtieiric-in citizens as any
)iV'eninierK oflsCsaJsV'
charges that pro-German propagand
ist have r.'tJsed a firm! of Sir.ii.nOo to in
fluence member of the National Peace
Council are to lie thoroiighlv InvssUgated
hy that organisation, according to BltlSSI
Rohm, (he treaaurer. Mr Holun issued
a call yesterday for :t simial meeting
of the othVtul and the exesutive com
mittee to Inr.iate what hs promiSSd would
lie a sweeping jtujuiry.
"We shall also hsik Into the aa tlvitie
of Von Fafseti and Hny-Kd, the German
attaches, who are saul to have 1 ti ac
tive in pro-German plots, and will in
vestigate tip- alleged pro-German con
spiracy In general." said Mr Bohm.
"The action of the council will lie In
fluenceil to a considerable extent by the
act Ion of the Government concerning ths
alleged corruption fund, and wthstever
fj.'ts arc saosrtalnsd hy die Oovemmenl
will lie fol lowed up and acted upon by
tlie i-oundl. We have no desire to shield
any guilty person, but sre Just as anx
ious to gel at tile bottom of the allege.)
conspiracy a the Government itself "
DEADLY EXPLOSIVES
SEIZED IN A RAID
Yonna tnstrtan Made Prisoner
Amid Materials for lion has.
i "hlef Klynn of the secret eervlee led
several of his men and four city de
tectives yesterday morning to the third
floor of the model tenements, .Mis Kant
Seventy-eighth street, where he re
vealed to litem a thoroughly equipped
laboratory for turning nut high ex
plosives lie showed ihcm a glass con
tainer holding three cubic feet of chlo
rine gas He disclosed more than one
hundred bottles holding picric add and
other chemicals for making different
sort of SQplOStVSSi There also wens
articles thai easily could have been
employed for making both fire and ex
plosive bombs.
Into the room, with the walls ami
i riling blackened and br.iken by the
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RAID A BOMB PLANT;
AUSTRIAN UNDER ARREST
force of detonat lone of explosions, wus
led a young Austrian named Anton F.
Merits, who admitted that the layout be
longed to him and that he was keenly
Interested In the manufacture of both
electrical and explosive articles, lie de
nied, however, that he IiUd planned U
make or had made any bombs, and as
serted emphatically that he had not
threatened to blow up or Ignite any fac
tory turning out munitions of war for
the Allies.
Despite his excited dentals Mente, a
heavy jowled, small eyed, alert man of
24, waa taken to Police Headquarters,
After having been on the grill for eight
hours he finally wa placed under arrt,
charged first with violating the section
of the Penal Code regarding the pos
sessing of explosives without a permit,
and secondly because there was "reas
onable cause to believe that he waa Im
plicated In placing liquid bombs on board
the Klrkoswald In this port on Msy
2 last."
Prisoner Taken In Vrttark.
Mente had only his laboratory In the
flat, belonging to Kugene Kluge and his
wife. He roomed with Peter Knwach
In the flat of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen
Kanga ai loti Court street, Newark.
Knwach was found asleep In his room
yesterday afternoon and was taken to
the office of Chief Flynn in the Custom
House, where he wa questioned last
night.
The arrest of Mente and the discovery
of the deadly laboratory was the work
of chief Klynn. who was n(llve In un
earthing the Fay case and disclosing
many violations of neutrality. It was
believed last night despite the fact that
Mente was handed over to the City au
thorities that the cose will develop Into
a Federal Investigation of grave pro
portions The secret service chief learned two
weeks ago that a brother if .Mente. who
was empkued us . machinist in the fa -
tory of the Crocker-Wheeler Company I
in ainin i' , aaasst wnwni mm nan a irjt
ill the Austrian trenches; that Menie
had s.tld: This plant which manu-
fsCtUrSS shrapnel ShSllS will Is blown
UH or set on tire soon If It ln't. I will
do It myself."
In his possession wa found n pnetal
card with a picture of a munition fac
tory In Youngstown. Ohio. Kurt her
more, when asked If he ever had been
to 24 State street, the offlOSS of the
AtJStrO-Hungsrtan Consulate, alleged to
he the headquarters of the German spy
System, he said '
It was suggested to me hy my friends ,
UlAl I SteMII'l So iiiim ! Iliril' III.il leKISier
gfl that I could be found If an oppor
tunity came nit for teserves to return to
Auslria-llung.,r "
Ind l ived Near Fay.
lie denied he had gone and th.it hs
had received orders from anybody there
regarding Ihs setting of bombs "f any
kind. He lived m Union Hill hist sum
mer, near where l(ots?rt Fay and WaltSI
I Mchols had their quarters, but he as-
serted he never had mot those two men
; who were engaged in making isamhs for
blow ing up munition ships.
There are scores of clues leading in
i many different directions, and It Is ex-'
J pected that there will tie more arrests '
I tO-da) Mente has been under sur
j VelllancS for more than tvetl weeks. His j
'assertion about the destruction of thel
Crocker-Wheeler plant was related to,
j Chief Klynn. w ho Immediately detailed
i James A. Savage, Fratik Hurke audi
Frank Gran berry to follow the man. Hy i
arrangement with the company Mente I
I Waa discharged on Thursday and thus j
had more freedom to wander, lie Waal
limited to 'he room In Kust Seventy-j
'eighth street, and then on Saturday
jcapt. Tunnsy, Detectives Barnlta, ltur
i pity. Fetiell, y and Sterreft were called.'
'Mente slept In Newark until noon Sun-1
dav, at which hour he started out, visit- I
ling places in New JersO) and New York
ami meeting men who have been under I
surveillance for some time.
, Mente went to the tenement .n Seven
v-eighth street at 9 o'clock yesterday
morning. Immediately afterward chief
I Fiynn held a consultation with Guy
Scuii. Deputy Police Commlssfonsr, and
ICaptain TUnney, it was decided to raid
I tlie KlUger tint After every en t had
been guarded, Flynn railed upon th
Kluge ra lie found Ment.- on a couch In
I t he dining room.
I lu answer to questions, Mente said he
did not really live there, but that he had
I spent the night tin re lie explained he
I had nothing there that belonged to him.
not even clothes, Thereupon he was m-
! Vlted to produce the key to the lab r.l-
lor lb- grew excited at once and began
j 1 1 in. i Its denials
I "-it was opened Chief Flvntl was
I iimiitwt when he looked around at the
I SOOreS Of Pottles. There were two la.ge'
cajsag, Containing seven shelves each
j jammed with bottlSS There was a work'
I isnch on whloh wer retort, mortars,
glass tuis's and other receptacles used ;
In chemical work. There were parts of I
clocks with spring! and cogwheels lying'
around A mlCTOSGOps of great power
was handy. Klectnc batteries lay aliiiti
In profusion TVsk on chemistry, on I
explosives and machinery were at hand.
Just a few of the chemicals on hand
reveal the nature of th- laboratory.
Hsrs the) are. One-half gallon of nitric
acid, one-half gallon of aulphuric acid. I
a bottle of picric, acid, ben sins, ben sol, j
iron oxide, lead oxide, acetic geld and
carbolic acid. Then there, were charcoal, !
which Is used in making StnokelfSS pow
der, flftv feet of green Insulated wire
with Chemically treated ends and a
Hunssn burnsr,
in' tne most startling thing were two
giitt., percha hollies containing hydro
fluoric acid, which Is so strong that it
Will sal through ordinary glass and can.
not be kept in glass tubss. Inspector
I.lebrrmnn of the Bureau of Combusti
bles, who was summoned, looked st ths
glass contAlner with Ihs chlorine gas
and he remarked that the quantity was
sufficient to kill everybody In the house.
"What are you doing with all these
things?" asked Chief Flynn.
nealea Making Aag Bosabs.
"Well, I always hsve had a fondness
for experimenting with high explosives
and I used to rome over here for that,
but I don't know anything about mak
ing bombs," Mente stammered.
'Well, who asked you anything about
bombs'" retimed Flynn. "What do you
do with this Picric acid?"
"1 used thst to wash my hands with,"
said Mente.
Inspector Dleberman explained that
among the acids ware ths component
parts nf chlorine gas and also various
exjdoelvrs. The entire squlpment was
gathered together for transfer to Pollca
Headquarters. In the examination of
various articles Chief Flynn came upon
a little blsck notebook. Perusal re
vealed many startling things.
First of all Mente hua Inscribed for
mula of various explosives, such as
gelatine dynamite nitroglycerine, gun
oottuta, cordite end smokeless powder.
lb- had all the chemical analyse care
fully recorded with (he nicety of a
scientist. He had In his book such nota
tion Us this: "It take Are. smokes and
i xphxles In the air."
tin the second page of the hook was
found the beginning of a code. It ran
thus :
"A My answer.
"AH A big Job.
"A lie Quick as you.
' A BCD Job wait."
Then followed th s.gimiure Hint
looked like fleorge Menyer or Georg
Meyer In the book Ihe prisoner
showed that he had :i knowledge of laitln
and Greek end though he Insisted he
never htid gone to public school he had
written (Ireek signs with the neatness
of n scholar.
Mente, with Mr and Mrs, Kluger. was
taken to Police Headquarters, where the
chemical and laboratory equipment
wus spread out before Mante and he
was submitted to a rigorous examination.
He admitted that he waa not an Ameri
can cltlsen and never had applied for
naturalisation paper He admitted pro
Teutonic sympathy, and said he )md
Joined llotick White's Church of the
Soda Kevoiutlon. He had n pamphlet
on the meaning of neutrality, prepared
by Richard 8. Haugh cople of FofJlfr
finii. and nn Insurance pOllejf made out
In favor of his mother, now In Hungary
Me said he bought a-lth his own money
the entire laboratory, worth a couple of
thousand dollars He said he had at
tended bi-tures on hi favorite subjects
wherever possible ami that he had mads
DOtSS of those ISOtUTSS, His knowledge
of abstruse scientific subjects was ex
trem, ly deep.
He said he had come to thl country
when 15 years old. but that hia parents
had returned to Austrtu-Hungary several
years SgO, He denied everything crim
inal He WM evnslve In many of his
answers and the police and the secret
service questioners got little informa
tion from him. It was learned, how
ever, that he had admitted unwittingly
to the police many things that cor
rolsirated other information obtained
against him.
After thorough study of the chemi
cals and vsrlous other paraphernalia tho
police produced a fire bomb which had
been found lntCt in the hold of the
Kltknewald In Marseilles, France, on
June s laat. The polio thought that
hs might know something about It and
they quizzed him at length, only to
meet with emphatic denial.
Thi.s bomb, only two inches long, was
made of lead tubing about an Inch in
diameter. The tube was divided Into
two sections by a sheet of sine, on top
had been placed sulphuric tu ld. which
would eat through the gino in about four
or Ave days. Below WAS sulphur and
chlorate of potash. The uniting of the
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three chemicals a-ould make a fire that
would burn away the paraftlne bottom
and thus set lire to the ship. The little
bomb was equipped with a tiny vent and
also had a small stopper that locked Into
the upper end.
The potior finally decided to hold him
on suspicion of lielng Implicated In the
placing of that bomb and wait develop
ments. Meantime secret servloe nvn
called on the Itangas In Newark and
there picked up Kowach. whom they
escorted nwny for ftitthor questioning.
They found some papers In Mente's room.
Mente was locked up In Hdice Head
quarter. NEW SHIP INQUIRY.
North lirrsias I. lord Line Likely
to Be a Flaw re.
As a sequel to the prneectitlon which
led to the recent conviction of Pr. Karl
Huenz and other Hamburg- Amerlean
I.lne official for conspiring to vio
late the t'nlted State customs laws
In sending out chartered ships to coal
and provision (lennan cruisers another
Investigation Is likely to be started by
the Federal authorities In which the
name of the North (lennan Uoyd
Steamship Company may figure promi
nently. A Federal official when asked ss to
the likelihood of such an Inquiry based
on testimony brought out at the
Hamburg-American trial said yeeterday
that he considered such nn Investiga
tion not only possible but probable.
The name of the North Herman LsOJrd
company wns brought out several times
during the trial which resulted last
week In the conviction of Ir. Huenz,
managing director of the Hamburg
American Line ; (Jemtg Koetter, gen
eral superintendent of the line: Adolf
Hachmeister, the purchasing agent, ami
Joseph roepptflghllUS, a lUpSTCafgO. The
first three were sentenced hy Judge
Howe of the ITnlted States Ptstrli t
COUrt to eighteen month in Atlanta and
I'oeppingh.ius to n yen for conspiring
to defraud tlie t'nlted States by filing
false manifests In order to conceal tho
real purp-.se for which tlie supply ships
.bartered by thr Hamburg-American
Islne were sent out from this and other
ports.
Assistant Frilled States Attorney Wood,
who prosecuted the Hamburg-American
men. hinted several times that tho North
Herman Lloyd might have played it pari
In the scheme fur supplying iermai.
ruiser on the Ugh seas.
The first WltltSSg to mention the line
was tiustuve R Kuleiik.impff. an Im
porter and exporter, who testified con
cerning the tTOO.OUd received by him
from Germany and distributed by ('apt.
Hoy-Fd, the i lennan Naval Attache, In
the plot w supply the Herman fighting
ships. Kuienknmpff it the time of the
chartering of the ships was a member of
the firm of W'essels, KulsnkSmpit . Co.
He said lie received the f?60i000 from
the Deutsche Hank in lterlin ami under
the direction of t'apt Boy-Ad ssnl $I80
nno tn the Wells Fargo National Hank of
San Francisco. 1115.000 to PhllsdslphlS,
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! dates were psrfscting m lieme f.u pr
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EIVE NEW INDICTMENTS.
ew lllll aalnst Fay end His A
soclate.
Supplementary Indictments ac. II
Robert l':iy. Max Breltung si i th r n
soclate In tho plot to blow up - . t
ships were retained yesterday hy , i
eral Grand Jury They accuse " ..
fondants of conspiring to coi
der and felonious assault- There a
five Indictments.
JUdgS H.ilgbt In Jersey f!t J (list si
yesterday the writ of hsneav
in liehalf of Haul ntseche, vnunl
Bavarian who wa grrssted h i v
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