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t*' 1 ?$$$$ PRICE TWO CENTS. LAY PLANS TO CONTROL HOUSE Democrats Will Concentrate the Tight in Forty Districts to' Win Majority. Only Fifteen Seats Needed to Put Republican Party in the Minority. Last Speeches Made in Congress Sent Cut as Campaign Literature. aW York Bun Spaoltl Sorvioe. Washington, May 4.Movements about the democratic congressional headquarters here indicate that the minority intends to make a deter mined effort to secure control of the next house of representatives. A gain of fifteen seats would put the democrats in control. The contest will be concentrated In about forty of the closest districts, for, of course, the democrats will lose on a presidential vote some of the dis tricts they now hold, and they must overturn many more than fifteen. New York will be looked, to for an increase in the number of democratic representatives, as her delegation is composed of twenty republicans and seventeen democrats. The democrats also hope to gain several members in Illinois, which now Bends seventeen republicans and eight democrats. In Indiana they hope to gain two or three seats. Chairman Cowherd has already put the congressional committee to work. The democratic speeches delivered in congress during the closing days are going out rapidly as campaign docu ments. Babcock and Overstreet of the republican committee recognize this fact and are preparing to act ac cordingly. PLANNING CAMPAIGN President and Leaders Discuss Tariff Issues and Funds. Vtm York Bun Special Service. Washington, May 4.Yesterday was the third day of President Roose velt'B conference with senators, repre sentatives and other leading republi cans on the party and strategy of the national campaign. It concluded with a dinner at the White House to Cor nelius N. Bliss of New York, treas urer of the republican national com inittee. Figure it as they will, the republi can leaders cannot And any issue that will be paramount in the campaign except the tariff and incidentally the prosperity of the country. Mr. Bliss is one of the leading pro tectionists and he expressed his posi tive opinion that the democrats would hot carry New York, altho the contest might be close. He does not think it will be close in either New Jersey or Connecticut. Mr. Bliss and Senator Aldrlch, of Rhode Island, father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., had a two hours' talk with President Roosevelt about campaign funds. There is an understanding between the Rockefeller interests thru Banker Btillman and the president. The Rockefellers have promised to con tribute reasonably to the president's fund. Inasmuch as the president has this week made J. P. Morgan the fiscal agent for the transfer of the Panama canal funds it is quite likely that the Rockefellers sent Aldrlch to ask how about it. It is settled that Mr. Bliss can be treasurer next time If he cares to take the dace. The question of national chairman Is still undecided. Governor Murphy of New Jersey, Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania and J. W. Blythe, the railroad lawyer, of Iowa, all want it. No other republican of prominence Seems to care for the job. PLATFORM FOR DEMOCRATS John Brisben Walker Defines Issues for His Party. Jfew York Sun Special Service. Nerw York, May 4.John Brisben Walker hired Cooper Union to tell what he thinks the democratic party ought to do, and to read a platform he has prepared for adoption at St. Louis. He came out for Joseph W. Folk of Missouri, for president, opposed W. R. Hearst as "too immature," and spoke against Judge Parker. Mr. "Walker's platform was widely advertised as having been submitted to all brands of democratic leaders and received their approval. He had planks for an "elastic cur rency," trust regulation, tariff reform, for the independence of the Philip pines, for good roads to be built by the government, for the government fhe i i i\ urchase of express companies, and establishment of a parcel post. CANNON WILL DECLINE Speaker Makes Positive Statement as to Vice Presidency. Washington, May 4."Even at the risk of being accused of declining that which I could not.get If I desired it, I answer most unequivocally that if the nomination is tendered to me, I would not accept it under any circum stances whatever." Thus strongly did Speaker Cannon in an authorized interview with a Post (reporter yesterday emphasize his de termination with reference to the vice presidency. As he concluded the Speaker added: "If there is any language which can more decisive, write it in." LODGE PREPARES PLATFORM Protection with Necessary Revision Probably the Principal Plank. Washington, May 4. Senator .'Lodge, who is slated for chairman of t, the committee on resolutions of the '.republican national convention, ex A pects to have ready a complete plat tfl form approved by the president. Al- 2A' ready various topics have been sub 'sff/initted to leading republicans for ap fes proval. UV The principal feature of the plat form will be the tariff plank, which will declare in the strongest terms the adherence of the republican party to the principles of protection, but will not bind the party not to revise the tariff. It will say that the party is not committed to any schedule, but that changes should be made only when changed conditions of business or the treasury render it necessary on ad visable. Jl\ SENATOR CLARK TO IE1FABR0AD Bride Was Born in Butte and is Ward of the Bride- groom. New York Sun Speoial .'ervioe. Washington, May -V.The secret of Senator Clark's European trip, his, Washington friends say, is that when he returns he will bring a bride, Miss Anna La Chappelle, daughter of a prominent physician in Butte, Mont., now dead. Senator Clark was left guardian for Dr. La Chappelle's children and his in terest in Miss Anna dates from her early girlhood. She has spent the last eight years in Paris studying the harp and vocal music and is a musician of rare skill. Senator Clark's falling health is given as the reason for his hasty and quiet marriage, altho his friends as sert that he has been engaged to his ward for three or four years. His children are opposed to his re marriage and there has been.some old troubles between the younger mem bers of the Clark family and the La Chappelles dating for years back. Miss La Chappelle is described as an exceedingly handsome young woman about 28 years of age. Her mother lives in Minneapolis with her married daughter. CANAL IS TAKEN OVER FORMALLY Stars and Stripes Hoisted Over Legation and Offices of Company. N Some difficulty has been experi enced In finding the''proper wording for a reciprocity suggestion. Nearly {.Continued on Second Page.) Panama, May 4.The United States canal commission to-day took formal possession of the canal route and of the property of the Panama Canal company. From to-day the canal works will be under the direction of Major Mark Brooks of the engineer corps of the United States army, who represented the canal commission at the cere mony of the transfer. Immediately* after the transfer the United States flag was hoisted over the legation and over the canal offices in the cathedral plaza. PRESIDENT WILL ODST GOTHAM'S POSTMASTER Mew York Bun Speoial Servioe. New York, May 4.Whether Post master Van Cott of New York will be asked to resign before his term ex pires, ten months hence, depends en tirely upon the nature of the report of the second investigation of the New York postoffice, which now is. going on by order of the president. If nothing more conclusive than was contained in the first report de velops Van Cott will be allowed to serve out his term. But Van Cott will not be reap pointed. When Senator Piatt sought this information of President. Roose velt he was informed that he and Sen ator Depew must look around for a new man. NEW ORLEANS MATOR OUSTS POLICE BOARD New York Sun Speoial Servioe. New Orleans, May 4.Mayor Cap deville last night asked the members of the board of police commissioners of New Orleans to resign. Commis sioner John A. Woodville alleges that the commissioners are grafters and are responsible for gambling-houses and lottery shops. The mayor's action produced si sen sation. Riotous scenes attended the meeting of the board and, on adjourn ment, "Woodville was cheered and carried about by a crowd of hiS: sup porters. BABCOCK'S HANDS FULL ASKS BEDE FOR HELP From The Journal Bureau, Colorado,' Build, ingr, Washington. Washington, May 4.-The demo cratic congressional campaign com mittee is laying plans for the defeat of Representatives Babcock of Wisconsin and Overstreet of Indiana, chairman and secretary, respectively, of the re publican congressional committee. The best democratic speakers will be sent into their districts and all the money needed will be furnished to the local democratic leaders. Representative Babcock has asked Representative J. Adam Bede to de vote four weeks of his time after Sept. 1 to speechmaking in various states under direction of the commit tee. Mr. Bede is doubtful if he can ac cept the invitation if it will carry him outside Minnesota. He is willing, however, to do what he can to elect a republican congress man from the Minneapolis district and will place himself at the disposal of the committee for speeches in Hen nepin county. W. W. Jermane. HURRICANE RAYAGES FRENCH COCHIN CHINA Saigon, French Indo-China, May 4. A hurricane ravaged Cochin-China May 1. About a hundred natives were killed and great damage was done. All the telegraph lines in Saigon were destroyed. Many native vessels sus tained injuries, but otherwise there was no damage to shipping here, tho small craft in minor ports suffered. WOULD PROBE TOBACCO TRUST. Atlantic City, N. J., May 4.At their final session the National Cigar Leaf To bacco association adopted a resolution asking* that congress probe the proceed ings of the tobacco trust, which the as sociation alleges is operating in defiance of the Sherman antitrust law. feW,4:- HUNGARIAN NOVELIST DYING. Budapest, May 4.Maures Jokai, the Hungarian novelist, is very ill and his death is hourly expected. RUSSIA HONORS NAYAL HEROES Return of Survivors of Variag and Korietz Strengthens War Party. Wave of Enthusiasm Sweeps Over the Country and Offsets Rebellion. By John Callan O'Laughlin Collier's Special War Correspondent at St. Pet ersburg. Published in advance by Arrange ment with Collier's "Weekly. Copyright, 1904. St. Peterburg, April 10.When'the survivors of the Variag and Korietz arrived in Russian territory, M. de Plehve, the minister of the interior, raised the prohibition against patriotic demonstrations. The people became almost delirious with patriotic exultation, and they were roused, it should be noted, not by re turning conquerors, but by men who, however gallant their conduct, had suffered complete^defeat. Public Opinion has no influence upon the policy of the czar, but the emergencies of war demand a "United people, and the attitude of the hun dreds of thousands who took part in the ovations to the Chemulpho fight ers has shown the government, ac cording to its declarations, that it need have no fear of internal strife while the war is in progress. Upon the arrival at Constantinople of the steamer Malaya, which was bringing them home, the unspeakable Turk, with courteous disregard of- the valor of her passengers, held her in quarantine for twenty-four hours. Russia chafed at the new delay. For weeks Odessa, the industrial center of the Black sea, and one of the most imposing cities of the em- Sire,war-stainedocountrymen. prepared receive magnificently er (Continued on Second Page.) WEDNESDAY EYENINGv MAY 4, 1904. ADVANCE OF JAPANESE ARMY THRU KOREA This picture shows a column of infantry-filing out .of Sondo early in March, moving north. The frozen roads were found to be no more than trails climbingJthru and the carts pulled by Japanese ponies broke down in such marching, and the supplies were packed thru the passes on the backs of Japanese and Korean coolies, fifty, to seventy-five pounds per man. Until the breaking of winter, the mobilization of the Japanese forces in northern Korea was beset with such obstacles as are vividly glimpsed in this picture. The hardy soldiers*anu Mr. Dunn, Collier's photographer, likewise bivou- acked in these snows and on these unsheltered hillsides. Photograph by R. L.Dunn, Collier's Special War Photographer in Korea. DRUGGED AMES AND 'WORKED' HIM The Former Mayor's Defense This Time Will Be Rather Pic-' turesque. Conspiracy to Keep Ames Drugged Will Be An Important Feature. $ AMES JURORS SECURED TO-DAY Thomas F. Barber, manager E. C. Atkins company. John C. Hallocan, dairyman. Garrett A. Kelly, plumber. Willls.n G. Thomas, elevator super intendent. Edwin J. Foster," real estate agent. Franklin J. Gerhart, lumberman. JURORS SECURED YESTERDAY Otto Greeley, Insurance agent. George Odlyjm.^c^prt company. I .---f%' a country forbidding and difficult. Pack trains "x"-:.-Investment ''\-i'..u'.i..it: E. FltQfc^ffljfry]btatraotor, Amer ican Bridge cafoiptmy.. $ ^A conspiracy between Irwm A. Gardner, Thomas R. Brown and others to gather in the "graft" and lay the blame upon the mayor who was kept drunk and under the influ ence of some drug to make possible the machinations of the "ring." This is what the defense in the trial of Former Mayor A. A. Ames will attempt to prove, and upon it as the corner stone they will endeavor- to rear a perfect defensive structure. The plea.of insanity which figured largely in the former Ames trial will in all probability not be heard. from. The efforts of the defendant's quartet Continued on Second Page. THAN THE SWOBD. RussiaOld Man, I have the Other Eye Black Now. The Only Hope I Have Now Is in Your Fighting My Battles for Me. -s4. St. Petersburg CorrespondentI Think I Have Proven Wtrself Equal to the Task, .'JH' 3,000 METHODISTS SUFFER IN WRECK Special Train Bearing Delegates to Los Angeles Breaks Down. Stranded and Hungry, Passengers Have to Help Build New Track. New York Sun Speoial Servioe. Los Angeles, Cal., May 4.Over 3,000 Methodists to the world's con ference which opens here to-day, were stranded in the Grand canyon of the Colorado, without food and water from 3 o'clock Sunday until late Mon Iday. More than 800 were forced to I remain until the next morning. Dr. S. W. Thomas, editor of the Philadelphia Methodist, told the fol lowing story: "Every car was dangerously loaded down and when the train began the ascent from Williams Junction, sev eral of the, engines went dead and the roadbed gave way, causing a general TJrreeki, "All Sunday afternoon and night tralhmen, hotel hands, ranchers and Methodists helped to construct a new railroad. It was literally a Methodist rail. "Monday morning found every able bodied man at the pick and shovel and so it continued until nearly sun down Monday. '.'The new rail was built around the wreck and the first load of worn-out Methodists pulled out for Los Angeles about 4 o'clock. "I never heard of a more complete isolation than was that. The people were only a few hours distant from relief and yet the entire contingent hung on the brow of the great canyon, helpless, foodless, drinkless." Convention Opens. Los Angeles, Cal., May 4.The thirty-first general conference of the Continued on Second Page. SAM PARKS DIES IN PRISON CELL '& New York Labor Leader Suc cumbs to Consumption in Sing Sing. Ossinlng, N. T., May 4.Sam Parks, the New York labor leader, who was sent to Sing Sing prison some months ago after his conviction on a charge of extortion, died in the prison to-day. He had consumption at the time of his conviction and had failed rapidly since he was sent to Sing Sing. The prison physician visited Parks in the hospital at 9 o'clock last night. The patient was then barely conscious. Later he became unconscious and re mained in that condition until his death. Only the hospital attendants and one or two prison officials were at his bedside when he expired. Parks after his first brought to thes On securing a new trial he was re leased on bail Sept. 5. After his sec ond conviction he was brought,back to the prison Nov. 6 to,serve a term of two years and three months. He was at first put to work in the fibre brush shop, but his condition soon became such that he was ad mitted to the hospital and was under treatment there to the time of his death. convictio7n prison Aug. 2 last MENACES LIFE OF JUSTICE. FULLER Insane Preacher, Failing to Get Hearing for Grievance, Be comes Dangerous. New York Sun Speoial Servioe. Cincinnati, Ohio, May 4.The first news of an atte'mpt recently made on the life of Chief Justice Fuller of the United States supreme court got out to-day. Two government officials arrived here last night with John Buchanan, a negro preacher, who went to Wash ington to interest Justice Fuller in a grievance. He was refused admittance to the justice's chambers, and then tried to get into his house. Then he made threats against the life of the justice, and was-arrested and found insane. THREE DIE IN LABOR RIOT IN ARGENTINA New York Snn Speoial Servioe. Buenos Aires, May 4.A collision occurred Sunday afternoon between the police and the workmen's federa tion.^which was parading -the"streets on the occasion of Labor Day. Some One fired a shot. and thff police emptied their revolvers into the air. One policeman and" two mani festahts were killed. The municipal ambulance picked up twenty- three wounded, but it is known there were about 100. The manifestahts carried away the corpse of one killed, but an armed po lice .picket obliged them to surrender. Meanwhile, a demonstration was or ganized by the socialist party and car ried out with perfect order. CLOUDBURST IN TEXAS FIYE CHILDREN DROWN Austin, Texas, May 4.As a result of the cloudburst in central Texas and this section, not a train has moved to the north. About five miles of the International & Great Northern tracks have been washed out north of here. Five children were drowned in a creek five miles from this city. Fields are under' from four to eight Inches of water to the south of here, for fifteen miles. Rivers and creeks are swollen far beyond their banks. NEW YORK TIMES SUES W.R.HEARST FOR LIBEL New York, May 4^The Times this morning makes the following state ment: Papers were served yesterday in an action for libel brought by the Times against William R. Hearst and his newspapers because of the publica tion in .the New York American and the Evening Journal of April 7 of an article which, it is charged, was in tended to injure the reputation and business of the Times. The article In question was of a na ture to create in the minds of those who should be its readers the belief that the Times is owned and. con trolled by August Belmont, and that its editorial influence has been and is employed to erve the private, personal and political.interests of Mr. Belmont. The Times adds that it has' also brought action against the" Chicago American. It announces that Adolph S. Ochs, editor of the Times, has be gun a similar, set of actions. No amount of damages is mentioned. ATTEMPTED TO KIDNAP^ CONVENTION DELEGATES Hew TWk Swn SpeoUl Serrioa. ,V. Peoria, III., May 4.At "thV county "convention held. here yesterday the Peoria delegation wrangled over Com mitteeman W. E. Hull being a can didate for renomination opposed by County Clerk Lucas Butts. At noon Butts kidnapped one of the delegates from the country who was standing front of the National hotel, putting him into a closed carriage in "which two men were waiting. They drove off rapidly, intending to get their prisoner out of the city and keep him away from the caucus. He fought them for fourteen blocks ahd succeeded in making his escape and returned to the hall with his clothes in rags and covered with blood. Three other country delegates, friends of Hull, reported attenips to kndnap them. -_ g^ "PIUQRIM'S PROGRESS" IN -PLAY^ London, May 4.A dramatisation of ''Pilgrim's Progress" will be prodtacted next season in New York and L0ndl.^a?hers will be nineteen scene* and over- per- juma in the oast. Authorities Declare Togo's Last V' Attempt to Block Channel| :^v Successful.^ Two Stone Laden Vessels Said to Have Been Sunk at Harbor Entrance. Russians Land Guns from Fleet and Prepare to Make Des perate Defense. Speoial to The Journal. was Tokio, May 4.A report "of Admiral Togo's attempt, Monday night, to bot* tie up Port Arthur has been receive* by the Japanese authorities. It has not been made public, but it reported that the channel was blocked and that two stone-laden vessels now lie in th* harbor entrance. It is also reported that the Russians are reniovlng the guns from the dis abled warships and are being taken, ashore. The Russians are preparing'^., for a desperate defense. k4j Admiral Togo Is still bombarding the forts. He is believed to havf' three battleships, four cruisers, two or! three coast defense vessels and several torpedo boats and destroyers before the stronghold. MJ WELL NOT ADMIT DEFEAT ./5* Russians Take Heart from Reports of Fight onYalu. S Petersburg, May 4.The gloom which prevailed here yesterday was almost completely dispelled this morn-1 ing, when the people read the story, of the glorious fight made by General1 Sassulitch's handful of rough regi-, ments against the flower of the mi-! kado's legions at the "Ealu, and of the utter defaet of Vice Admiral Togo's' new. attempt to seal the entrance to Port Arthur. It is now plain that not more than 8,000 Russians were actually engage*) in the fighting at the Talu against the Japanese army of a total strength of between 30,000 and 40,000. The lossas on both sides, which are ex pected to reach 1,000 and possibly, 1,200 in the Russian force and twice' that number for the Japanese, make it one of the bloodiest fights in history. At the river crossing the Japanese dead lie piled up literally in heaps andl General Kuroki's success was purchased at such a heavy cost that the Russians are disposed to regard it as rather.a defeat than a victory fop him. General Kuropatkin's dispatcli shows that the Russians fought with such bulldog tenacity and bravery against the overwhelming superiorityj of the enemy that the latter's nominal victory was eclipsed by the prowess of the ^czar's so'Idiers. About bulletin boards, the people are especially impressed with the desperate bayonet charge*of the Elev enth regiment. The mental picture of the regiment advancing against the enemy with bands attd bugles blaring, and the priest with cross aloft at the head, appealed to the dramatic sense of the Russian population as nothing else could. The survivors of, this heroic regi ment which cut-.itSivjway. out declare' that the position Was surrounded by, more than a thousand dead Japanese.' The loss of the" guris was, according to the best information obtainable,! twenty-two field pieces and eight ma*i chine guns. JAP VICTORY DENIED Rumor of Capture of Niu-chuang I*" Not Believed. New York, May 4.A special tele gram to the London Chronicle dated Chi-fu asserting that the Japanese had taken Niu-chuang is obviously false. Niu-chuang which is on a river, and about thirty miles from the sea, could not possibly be taken ex cept as the result of an attack of at least two or three days' duration. The Associated Press has American correspondents at Chi-fu, Shan-hal kuan, Niu-chuang and Yinkow any one of whom would have certainly reported an attack upon Niu-chuang. THE RUSSIAN VERSION General Sassnlitch Submits Official Account of Yalu Battle. i 1 St. Petersburg, May 4.The em peror has received the following tele- i gram from General Kuropatkin: 1 "General Sassulitch's report on the i fight of May 1 says that the battle was fought under the following cir cumstances: ,i ".'The Twelfth and Twenty-second regiments and the Second and Third 1 batteries of the Sixth brigade of ar tillery were engaged in the battle. which began with heavy cannonad ing of our right flank by siege guns at Wiju and field batteries in the distance. After a luir, the fighting was re sumed with extraordinary violence 1 against the left flank of our main post tlon at Kiulen-cheng and our position -r at Potietihsky. A fusilade was also i begun by small parties of Japanese A across the Tiho river. 'The situation of the defenders* position became increasingly difficult, especially at Potietinsky, which was bombarded on the front and on both 1 flanks. ''iar9 'Thirty Japanese guns were pitted against our battery at Potietinsky which after having silenced thf enemy's mountain battery, directed its fire on the Japanese infantry, and sus* tained few losses as long as it was not obliged to take up another position 1 owing to. the withdrawal of our ln fantry- from the bank. 'The Japanese, under onr fire, ifM, made continual bayonet attacks onouf -^H troops. Japanese bodies lay in heap* at the river fords. "&**$$&> 0 1 Attacked on Flank. "Simultneou8ly with the attack at Potietinsky an attack was being made on our left flank at Kiulien-cheng, and, the Russian trenches had to be aban doned under the Japanese enfilading fire. Our reserves several times mingled with the first line, thus en abling it for a long time to maintain its position. "Finally all of the supports frert! brought up into the firing line, bu|| owing to the great distance from oue main reserves it was impossible for' them to-reach the advanced force ia.- time, and our men retired from th* principal position to another, position' in the rear of Kiulien-cheng, folio by the concentrated .fire ^of the anese, who could noPnntke up minds to descend from the crest tXfat occupied and face the fire of our batfe teries at Poulematts. They dog fresftl trenches and opened a lte&vy artillery $ 1 i v.fj (Continue* en ***&& %Vlffl