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CLEVELAND'S HAND
FRAMES PLATFORM
Conservative Wing of Party to
Dictate Resolutions at Con
vention.
Leaders Favor Abandonment of
Free Trade Doctrine for
Protection.
Canadian Reciprocity Plank Ex
pected to Catch Many Votes,
in Northwest.
Wrom The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington.
Washington, April 11.The demo
cratic platform which it now appears
will be written by thet conservative
wing of the party is the subject of con
siderable discussion by the members
of that party in congress. And it may
be said that the conservatives out
number the radioals at Washington.
The interview given out by former
Preside nt Clevela nd started the plat
fo rm talk afresh.
The next platform written by the
democrats must be a repudiation of
the Chica go and Kansas City plat
forms, say the men who expect to have
the framing of the resolutions which
will be adopted at St. Louis. I ought
to be brief, they think, and as general
as possible.
It must contain nothing savoring of
populism or socialism nothing about
government by injunction or govern
ment ownership of railways. There
must be no criticism of the supreme
court and no allusion to free silver or
the money issue.
Specific declarations will be made on
the subject of reform, economy, tariff
revision and trusts in addition to
which there will be a restatement in
general terms of what may be called
the cardinal principles of democracy.
This wi th a word about the -need for a
careful foreign policy and the usual
bid for the labor vote, will complete
the appe al of the party out of power
to the people's franchise.
The most significant change in the
democratic platform will be on the
subject of the tariff. There is no
doubt that it is the intention of the
party leaders to abandon the historic
doctrine of free trade and to admit the
need of a protective tariff, only making
the point that the tariff schedules
should not be permittee to oe'eome a
shelter for monopolistic trusts.
The republican party in congress
will be arraigned for its failure to
ratify the reciprocity treaties, and its
neglect to properly revise the sched
ules which have become shelters for
monopoly. I is hoped to secure many
voteH thruout the northwest among
the people who favor reciprocity with
Canada.
The plank dealing with reform will
be drawn on the theory that investiga
tions of the postofflce and other de
I partment s, under Roosevelt's direc
tion, have not been sufficiently thoro,
and that the democratic party would
discover a wretched state of official
corruption, and would at once correct
it.
In a word the democratic platform
will be a slight amplification of the
olrl-Hme slogan: "Turn the rascals
out."
"W. W Jermane.
Long Island Dems Uninstructed.
Now York, April It Senator McCarren
carried seventeen out of the twenty-three
democratic district conventions of Kings
count*, having passed the word that the
custom of not insti acting delegates would
be observed declares, however, that
the state convention will instruct for
Judge Parker.
Adjournment April 28.
Washington, April 11Thexe ii every
probability that congress will adjourn on
April 28. A caucus of republicans is to
decide the fate of the statehood bills
During this week appropriation bills will
have precedence over all other business.
Service pension legislation -will, it Is ex
pected, be discussed in the senate before
the pension appropriation bill sent from
the house is passed.
Woodruff for Chairman.
Chicago, April 11.A Washington spe
cial to the Chronicle (clem) sas Former
Lieutenant Governor Timothy Woodruff
of Brooklyn is being urged on the presi
dent as a desirable chairman of the ne-^t
republican national committee. It is said
that Woodruff's selection would accom
plish more In the dliection of harmonizing
republican politics in Ne York than any
thing else.
TORN LIGHT ON
MADDEN'S OFFICE
Inspectors Discover Irregulari
ties in Third Assistant Post
master General's Dept.
XVom The Journal Bureau, Colorado Build
ing, Washington.
Washington, April 11. So little has
been heard about it lately that few
people are aware that the postoffice
Investigation is still in progress. "n-
specto rs are working under Bris
and Cochran, going thru the records
of the third assistant postmaster gen
eral's department, of which Edwin C.
Madden of Detroit is in charge.
This division is quite as important
and comprehensive as any of the four.
It has charge, among other things, of
the collection of all moneys due the
department, the payment of accounts,
the disposition of the postal revenue,
the supervision of all stamp business
the classification of mail matter
(which includes the determination of
the admissabili ty of publications to
the second class), the management of
the registered mail, the redemption of
stamped paper, the receiving and dis
patching of all corresponden ce be
tween the department and the outside
world, and the letting of contracts for
tags, envelopes, wrappers, cards,
Stamps, registered blanks, etc The
inquisition is nearing its end and the
results will soon be transmitted to the
president. Particular care has been
exercised to keep discoveries from
E-
nature publicity. I is known,
'ever, that numerous Irregularities
teen found,
*JET*JIW' JVLM &i
iiifc*SsJ
HOBSON IN CLOSE
POLITICAL FIGHT
Captain Is Candidate in Alabama
Primaries for Seat in
Congress.
Birmingham, Ala., April 11.A gen
eral democratic primary is being held
thruout Alabama to-day for the nomi
nation of seven supreme court judges,
president of the state railroad com
mission, ni ne congressmen, seventeen
circuit judges, five chancellors, seven
teen circuit solicitors and numerous
coun ty officers, and for the selection
of delegates to the state democratic
convention, which will be he ld in
Montgomery May 25.
Five of the nine congressmen mow
in office are unopposed for a renomi
nation. I the sixth, the warmest
fight of all is taking place. Capta in
R. Hobson is opposing Congress
man Bankhead, and the result will
be close.
WOOD DESTROYS
HOSTILE COTTAS
ifhtrji^
Sultan of Taraca Refuses to Con
sult General and Attacks
Troops.
Washington, April 11.A report
posted at the war department from
General Wood says:
invited the Sultan or Taraca to
meet him at Vicars on Mar ch 81 for
consultation and that the sultan re
fused to come and instead made ex
tensive hostile preparations.
Marching columns from Marahui
and Vicars left on the 2d of April to
assemble the cavalry. The Vicars
column was fired into all night ten
miles from Vicars and one enlisted
man was seriously wounded.
The Marahui column was strongly
resisted at the mouth of the Tararica
river, altho every effort was made to
acornnjish a peaceful landing, two
enlisteu Inen were seriously wound
ed.
The combined forces assembled in
the valley April 4 and a large number
of hostile fortified Cottas were de
stroyed. The troops then returned to
their prop er stations.
Newcomb, Company K, Seventeenth
infantry, and Wampler Company
Twenty-third infantry, were killed.
Every effort was made to bring the
Moros to terms peacefully, but in_each
instance the troops were attack ed "be-
fore firing a shot and force was only
used when all peaceful methods failed
and the enemy attacked.
MAYOR DECLARES
CHICAGO PDRGED
Carter Harrison Avers City Has
Been Rescued From Cor
ruption's Clutches.
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New York Sun Speoial Servioo.
New Haven, Conn., April 11.
Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago,
in an article on commercial politics
that will appear In the Yale Shingle,
a Yale law school publication, thus
speaks of New York city:
It cannot be forgotten that but little
more than a decade has passed since a
number of officials of the great city, at a
large public expense, were stowed away
for varying periods of rest and reflection
because the compensation for the grant
ing of a franchise to a great public utility
found its way into their pockets and the
pockets of their friends rather than into
the public treasury, where these moneys
and hundredfold more than was paid
should rightfully have been deposited.
Then he touches up Chica go in this
fashion:
In my own city of Chicago, within the
past six months, a number of petty offi
cials have been driven from the city serv
ice for "petty grafting," to use the slang
expression for robbery of the public, and
an investigating committee of the city
council in its work has found evidence of
corrupt practices in a number of depart
ments.
And if we turn back the pages of the
past to seven years ago we learn that the
legislative branch of Chicago's municipal
government had taken every degree in the
order of municipal corruption, and. in
deed, had established a few advanced de
grees in which only the truly occult could
aspire to membership.
In passing, let me say that In the last
six years, by herculean effort, patient at
tention to detail, and an everlasting
sticking at it, Chicago) has rescued its city
council from the clutches of the corrup
tionist, and has to-day an executive body
of as high character and standing as any
legislative body in the land, and in saying
this I bar none.
ytt.
This means that the ca se of the
state against, the Northern Securities
merger must go back to the Ramsey
coun ty district cou rt for trial.
Inasmuch as the Northern Secur
ities company is now in the proce ss
of dissolution, the furth er prosecution
of the case by the state will be care
fully considered before action is tak
en. The law prohibiting the consoli
dation of parallel and competing rail
way lines has not been tested, how
ever, and the present case may be
pushed with a view to estab
lishing the state's legal powers
in regard to the merger idea which
railw ay operators will seek to pre
serve.
Begun as State Case.
Question of Jurisdiction.
On appeal to the United States su
preme court, the question of jurisdic
tion was distinctly raised and the state
was directed by the court to file a
supplementary brief on this point. I
the meantime the Northern Securities
company had joined with the state
in seeking to establish the jurisdiction
of the federal court. General Douglas
bas ed hJs argument for ^jurisdiction
V
The ca se of the state of Minnesota
against the Northern Securities com
pany was begun in the state courts,
the complaint being filed in the Ram
sey district. O the ground that the
Northern Securities company was a
New Jersey corporation, the defense
moved to "transfer the case to thel said that in case Harriman secured
federal circuit court. This move was
not strenuously opposed by the state,
but Judge W Douglas, then serv
ing as attorney general and in charge
of the prosecution, early called at
tention to the possible lack of juris
diction on the part of the federal
courts.
When the ca se was argued before
Judge liochren, he took jurisdiction
without much question being raised
and assumed to decide the ca se on
its merits, holding that the Northern
Securities company was a legal cor
poration and beyond reach of the laws
that the state sought to invoke
against It.
GERMANS ROUT
3,000 AFRICANS
Natives Put to Flight at Cost of
Three Killed and Eleven
Wounded.
Berlin, April 11.The foreign office
received to-day the following dispatch
from Colonel Leutwein, the governor
of German Southwest Africa:
"With the united principal division
and western division, I attacked the
enemy's chief force, about 8,000
strong, at Onganjira.
The Herreros' position was broken
thru at nightfall after eight hours'
fighting, and they were driven ba ck on
all sides. The chief forces apparent
ly retired in a northeasterly and east
erly direction.
Our losses include Lieutenants von
Estorff and von Erffa and two caval
ry men killed. Lieutenant Rosen
berg and five men severely wounded,
and five men slightly wounded. The
enemy's loss has not yet been ascer
tained, but was heav y, owing to our
artillery fire.
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MINNESOTA MERGER CASE SENT. BACK TO"STATE COURTS:
JUDGE LOCHREN'S ADVERSE RULING HAS BEEN NULLIFIED
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Washington, April 11.The United States ^rpreme court to-day decided the case of the state
of Minnesota vs. the Northern Securities company and the Northern Pacific and Great Northern
Railway companies, involving the validity of the^merger of the two railways, holding that it was
without jurisdiction and reversing the opinion of the court below. The opinion was by Justice
Harlan, who said that the circuit court should not have entertained jurisdiction in the case. The
effect is to remand the case to the state courts.
on the point that the alleg ed viola
tion of the state law was virtually an
offense against the federal antitrust
act,as "well, and also that under article
four of the United States constitu
tion state laws of a certain class were
vitalized to the extent that the fed
eral court should take cognizan ce of
offenses against them.
Lochren's Ruling Nullified.
its decision to-day the supreme
court says in Effect that Judge
Lochren should never even have tak
jurisdiction, much less render a
decision on the merits of the case.
The action is now exactly where it
started.
TTTT.Ti ISN'T WORRYING
But Harriman Is, and I Showing the
Strain.
Speoial to The Journal^
New York, April 11.As report ed
in recent dispatches, J. J. Hill really
control of the Northern Pacific he
could buy Great Northern at his own
price. But he supplemented this re
mark by asking:
"Do I look as fne I were worrying
about the prospect of losing the rail
road that I made and that made me?"
It may be stated here that Mr. Hill
does not look as tho he were worry
ing very much oyer anything. is
looking younger, strong er and happier
than he did before the merger de
cision, and has not lost one iota of his
usual confidence and courage. has
been working so hard of late that he
says he sometimes forgets about lunch,
but he does not show the effect of the
work at all.
B. Harriman, on the contrary,
looks as tho he were on the verge of
a nervous collapse. Tour correspond
ent, talking to him, found him ner
vous, restless and apparently not him
self in any one respect. is ex
tremely thin and delicate in appear
ance. His peop le say he has "worn
himself out wi th wor k. They ay he
has been even wor se in this respect of
late than ever before. has always
done the work of an army of clerks
RACE WAR RAGES
IN TEXAS omn
Negro ShooiA4yhtte \Man From
Ambush, Boasts of Jffurder
and Disappears.
Houston, Texas, April 11.Reports
from Waller county, near here, indi
cate that race feeli ng is very high
owing to the murder near Hempstedt
of Tucker Pinckeny, brother of for
mer Congressman John Pinckeny
of the Houston district.
Pinckeny and a companion were
riding by a negro church when they
were fired upon. While the dead man's
body- lay in front of the churhc a
negro with a shotgun rode by and in
formed the crowd that he did the
shooting, and afterwar ds disappeared.
This negro had a finger shot off,
which indicates that Pinckeny and his
companion, whose name is not known,
returned the fire.
New Orleans. April 11.Daniel Kelger,
the Confederate soldier who sounded the
last bugle call at Appomattox, died sud
denly here yesterday.
SUCH A SAFE PLATFORM.
GroverNow* you loiow I-think I'd lust enjegr standing on a platform like that*
himself, but recently he has done more
than his usual quota. His advisers
have found him impossible and have
given up' all effort to restrain him in
any way. Jacob Schiff, his oldest and
best banker, is in Europe. Mr. Pierce,
his counsel, is more of a Gould man
than a Harriman man, and his sym
pathies are not devot ed by any means
exclusively to the Harriman interests.
Mr. Harriman asks his help only in
legal matter s.
THE COURT'S REASONS
Given by Justice Harlan in Delivering
the Opinion.
In delivering the opinion of the
court Justice Harlan called attention
to the fact that the proceeding was
for the purpose of enforcing both the
state laws and the federal anti-trust
act, saying that the circuit cou rt could
not have taken jurisdiction if only the
state statutes had been involved. Tak
ing up the federal law and analyzing
Its provisions, he said it was clear that
the ca se did not belong to any of the
classes provided for by it.
"It is, he said, "not a criminal pro
ceeding nor a suit in equity in the
name of the United States to restrain
violations of the antitrust act, nor a
proceeding in the name of the United
States for the forfeiture of property,
no ran action by any person or cor
poration for the recovery of three
fold damages for injury done to busi
ness or property by some other per
son or corporation."
Injury to State.
The contention that the ca se in
volved proprietary interests of the
state was not allowed to influence the
opinion. O that point the cou rt said
in part:
"The injury on account of which
the present suit was brought, is at
most, only remote and indirect, such
an injury as would come alike, altho
in different degrees, to eve ry individ
ual owner of property in a state by
reason of the suppression, in violation
of the act of congress, of free competi-
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FIYE KILLED, 20
HURT IN WRECK
Brake Defective and Street Car
in Santa Barbara Jumps
Track.
Santa Barbara, Cal., April 11.A
street car loaded with passengers re
turning to town from the Old Mission
ran off the track and five residents
of Santa Barbara were killed.
Over twenty of the passengers were
injured, many of them being frightful
ly mangled.
The accident was due to a defect in
the brake. The motorman discovered
that something was wrong and en
deavor ed to set the brake, but failed
to check the spe ed of the car.
A the intersection of Garden and
Mission streets there is a very abrupt
curve. The car was moving at its
highest speed down a 5 per cent gra de
and was thrown from the track upon
its side. On section was smashed
into splinters. Many of those who
were most seriously injured were
standing on the guard rail on the side
of the car as it crash ed into the ditch.
SECRECY VEILS
QUAY'S ILLNESS
Senator Under Physician's Care
and Messages or Visitors
Are Barred.
i m i m
SENATOB. QUAY.
Who is under physician's care.
Special to The Journal.
Atlantic City, N J., April 11.It
was learned last night that United
States Senator Quay is quite a sick
ma n, but how serious his illness is
could not be ascertained.
Friends of the senator who called
to-day to pay their respects were
not admitted, and reporters were told
that absolutely no one could see him
nor would any message be delivered
to him, as he was under the care of
a physician. The physician gave strict
orders that no verbal or writt en mes
sage pertaining to politics or busi
ness should be taken into the sick
chamber.
The senator, it was said, must have
rest and be free for the present from
ail worrx and care.
ENDS FIGHT ON
SHIPPING TRDST
Receiver Smith- Admits Legality
of MortgagesHolders De
posit Bonds.
Trenton, N J., April 11.Judge
Kirkpatrick, in the United States court
to-day, sign ed an order instructing
Receiver James Smith of the United
States Shipbuilding company to ad
mit the validity of the $16,000,000
mortgage held against the company
by the Mercantile Trust company of
New York and the $10,000,000 mort
gage he ld by the New York Security
and Trust company.
Receiver Smith admitted that there
was no adequate defense to the pro
ceedings instituted to foreclose these
mortgages.
A affidavit by W W Lee secre
tary of the reorganization commit
tee, stated that there had been de
posited with the committee all the
twenty-year 5 per cent mortgage
bonds, aggregating $10,000,000 and
known as the Bethlehem collateral
bonds. Also that there had been de
posited with the committee $13,437,-
000 of the first-mortgage sinking-fund
gold bonds, and that arrangements are
pending for an additional deposit of
$760,000 of these bonds.
It is further stated that the total
issue of these bonds was $16,000,000,
of which $14,500,000 were sold to the
public and $1,600,000 retained in the
company's treasury.
POPE CELEBRATES
ST. GREGORY'S DAY
Pius X. Makes First Public Ap
pearance in Mass at St.
Peter's.
Rome, April 11.For the first time
since his coronation, the pope went
this morning to St. Peters to say mass
in celebration of the thirteen th cen
tennial of S Grego ry the Great.
The Immense basilica of St. Peters
was filled, more than 70,000 persons
being present.
The pope was in the best of health.
appeared in the sodia gestatoria,
altho the motion of this chair, carried
on the shoulders of bearers, makes
him ill. O his express recommen
dation the audience refrained from
applause or crying out, contenti ng
themselves with the waving of hand
kerchiefs.
St. Peters offered, as usual, a grand
sight which once seen is never for
gotten. There were only three
tribunes, for members of the aristoc
racy, diplomatic corps and royal fami
lies respectively. A speci al place re
served by the pope's family was occu
pied by his three sisters.
The Sistine choir, directed by Abbe
Perosa, who together with Maestro
Bella has been its organizer and In-r
structor for to-day 's Gregorian chant,
had a special box near the throne.
Grouped around it were 1,200 youths
of practically every nationality, race
and color from the ecclesiastical
colleges of Rome.
America was represented in the
papal procession by the Most Rev.
Robert Seton, titular archbishop of
Heliopolis, formerly of Jersey City,
N. J. The Rt. Rev. John J. O'Con
nor, Bishop of Newartt, N J. Mgr
Thomas Kennedy, rector of a,the
American college at Rome, the very
Rev. J. Farelly, formerly of Nash
ville, Ten n, spiritual director of the
American college at Rome Mgr J. A
Stafford and Father C. Carroll of
Newark, N J.
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AMERICA GUARDS
JEWS IN RDSSfA
Repetition of Eishinef Massacre
Prevented by Note to Ozar's
Government.
United States Assured That Ru
mors of Impending Movement11
Are Groundless.
Step Amounts to a Warning That
Outrages Must Not Be
Repeated.
Mew York Sun Speoial Service.
Chicago, April 11.Walter Well-j
man in a Washington special to then
Record-Herald says:
The American government is doings
everything within its power to secure
protection for the Jews In Russia. I
recently took a st ep which carried it
well nigh beyond the limits of propri
ety in diplomatic intercourse, but
which was believed to be fully war*
ranted by the conditions prevailing.
For more than two years, President
Roosevelt and Secretary Hay had been,
using every agency at their command!
for impressing upon the Russian gov
ernment the great need of exercising*- J
precaution in protection of the Jews, i
They have kept at their work in sea
son and out of season, at times with
serious dang er of offending the dignity
of the Russian authorities.
Their latest move was in harmony
with all their previous efforts. In
formati on having been placed before*
them to the effect that there was ser-,
ious dang er of anti-Jewish riots dur-^
ing the Easter period in Russia, this
government directed Ambassador Mc
Cormick in St. Petersburg to inquire^
of the czar's ministers what assur-"'
ances the Russian government was
able to give the United States as to the'*
groundlessness of these apprehensions.
Our consul general at Odessa was at
the same time asked for information^
as to the outlook in southern Russia.
To Ambassador McCormick's in**?
quiry, the Russian government gave e&4
reply of reassuring character. Thisf?
reply was promptly given to the pre ss
by the state department and the pub-,
lication may be regarded as notiflca^*
tion upon Russia that the eyes of the,,
world, and of the United States in parV
ticular, are upon her
This step amounts to a warning
the czar's government that it must see'*
that there be no recurrence of the"
terrible outrages of a year ago The
United Stat es could not directly med
dle with fh internal affairs of thaT1
Russian government, 3ut in diplomacy*
there is more than one way to remove
the hi de of a cat.
There is reas on to believe that the
British government recently took simi
lar action and expressed to the cjar its
hope that effective precautions would
be taken to avert outrages.
Prominent Jews in this country are
hopeful, almost confident, that the at
titude assumed the United Stat es
and by Grea Britain will result ir*
ample protection to the Jews.
EASTER PASSES QUIETLY
Prompt Measures Taken by Governor*
Prevent Anti-Semitic Outbreaks. 7f
St. Petersburg, April 11.The Eas*
ter merrymaking is in progress, busUi
ness bei ng suspended, the government'
departments are closed and the wan
bulletin boards are bare, except foil
the order for the mobilization of the
naval reserves. Only three newspapers.!
appear and they are in the form of
fly sheets.
The Russian Easter passed quietly*^
and there was absolutely no attempt
to molest the Jew s, the provincial gov
ernors acti ng in accordance with in*
structions from St. Petersburg.
The faithful executi on of the gov*
ernment's orders to the local authorial
tjes and the police prevented the out*|
breaks which were feared at Kishinefj
the scene of the disturbances last I
Easter.
There was not a single case there la]
which the Jews and Christians were,!
involved.
The Associated Pre ss is informed?
officially that up to 6:45 this after*
noon the government has not received
any advices of Easter disturbances
anywhere in European Russia. Coma*
plete quiet reigns, according to re*
ports from all the Jewish centers of
population, and fears of an outbreaHI
are gradually becoming less.
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NEWSPAPER MEN
LAND IN KOREA
Fourth Division of Japanese
Army and Correspondents
Leave Transports.
Sew York Sun Special Service.
Seoul, April 11.The fourth divK
sion of the Japanese army is landing
in the north at several points. Wit$
it goes the first batch of foreign cop*
respondents. The majority of them
have been living in Tokio for several
months, and it is thought that the*
he ld a sort of prescriptive claim*
Therefore they accompany the first
arm y.
The weather is rainy and this baton
may have some further leisure on the
banks of the Yal u. The first army
headquarters will move north of
Pieng-yang at an early date.
JAPS HURRY O YAIiU
Troops from Coast Sent on fraqfc
Pieng-yang Immediately.
Vvw York SUB Speoial Service.
Pieng-yang, April 11.The Japan?*,
ese are advancing northward front,
here in great force. Three thousand
me n, with eight large cannon, left yesw
terday for An-Ju and more are to folfcfi
low to-day. Reinforcements arriving
daily take the place of the advancing
troops.
The river is now navigable to with**,
in five miles of this city, the ice havHt
ing practically disappeared. A easy}
path of communication between Pieng*
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