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STRIKE APRIL 1
IS INTENSIFIED
Big Operator Sees No Hope
of Averting Gigantic
Labor War.
All Mine Districts Will
Stand Together Against
Employers.
Wage Conference Unlikely
and Wage Claim Pre
vents Peace.
Formal Demands, Affecting
Half a Million Miners,
Presented.
Recognition of the United
Mine Workers of Amer
ica Is Sought.
By Publisher*' Press.
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WOMEN AS FACTORS
IN COAL COUNCIL
Spring Valley. III.. Feb. 24.Pres-
ident John Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers of America, today by
long distance telephone, summoned
his wife to New York to meet him.
She left this evening.
It is understood that the women
are to have a prominent part in the
settlement of the strike In the bitu
minous fields should one be called and
it is believed here that the calling of
Mrs. MitcheTl to New York has to do
with this matter.
$- By Publishers' Press.
HICAGO, Feb. 24.The fear of a
coal strike April 1 -was intensi
fied today by the report brought
from New York by H. N. Taylor, chair
man of the scale committee of the Illi
nois Coal Operators' association. Mr.
Tavlor has been east, and while there
ho incidentally "held several confer
ences with President John Mitchell of
the Miners' union.
I can see no reason to hope that
the strike will be averted," said Mr.
Tavlor today. "In New York I met
Mr. Mitchell several times. L. Itob
bins of the Pittsburg district was also
there as an individual operator. We
discussed the situation from every point
of view, and my opinion that a strike
seems inevitable was strengthened.
First, the Eyan resolution of the
miners,^which prevents an adjustment
of wages in one district unless the
agreement covers the entire industry,
is in the way. This measure cannot be
rescinded unless the miners call an
other convention, which is not probable.
Second, there is the question of
wages. This cannot be adjusted ex
cept in a conference between the inter
ested parties, and at this time 1 do not
see any prospect of negotiations being
opened again.
"If the strike comes, the first in
jury will bje to the miners. They claim
to have several million dollars on hand
for strike benefits. When this is diliver.
vided among the miners and their fami
lies, it will be found that there is about
$4 for each person."
Mr. Taylor said there was no aton
tempt being made, to unite anthracite
and bituminous operators.
MINERS PRESENT DEMANDS
Now the Matter of a Coal Strike I
Up to Operaotors.
New York Herald Special Service.
New York, Feb. 24.The formal de
mands, affecting 500,000 eoalminers and
more particularly the 177,000 men em
ployed in the anthracite region, which
has been in the hands of the United
Mine Workers' committee for a week,
have been formulated at last. After
receiving a few final touches, they were
mailed today to George Baer, presi
dent of the Reading railroad and chair
man of the operators' committee *of
se^en.
&mong the things asked for area
recognition of the union and a remedy
ing of grievances originally formulated
at a convention held at Shamekin last
Nfivember. Since then this original
demand has been repeatedly revived,
but has met only now with final ap
proval of the scale committee.
At a meeting of the scale commit
tee of the Miners' union, held today,
it was decided that the twenty-nine
members of the committee should re
turn to their homes in Pennsylvania.
Those that remain here, besides John
Mitchell, are D. Nicholls, Fahy and
Dettery, district presidents, and Secre
tary Dempsey, Gallagher and Hartlein,
together with a committee of seven of
the operators.
This breaking up of the full commit
tee of thirty-six members was taken
to indicate that there would not be any
meeting of the committee as a whole
for some time.
Representative Volstead has recom
mended Harvey Harris for postmaster
at Vesta^in piace of M. E. Lewis, re
signe
ROOSEVELT'S EOES
OWN TO MISTAKE
Aldrich and His Allies Against Rate
Bill See Their Jest Is a Boomerang."
ROOSEVELT HAS WON RATE REFORM FIGHT
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 24."It means defeat for those opposing
the rate bill. I means the bitter knowledge of absolute defeat. Al
drich knows the senate better than any other man in congress and he
must be convinced that rate legislation on lines laid down by the pres-
ident is a certainty."
In these words Senator Warner discussed the reported action of
Senator Aldrich in forcing Senator Tillman to take charge of the
Hepburn rate bill on the floor of the senate.
"According to the forms of the senate," Senator Warner went
on, "the action of Senator Aldrich is inexcusably vulgar. Tillman
is a radical democrat who is not popular with his own party and
the only result of Aldrich's 'action will be contempt for Aldrich.
must have lost his temper completely. I can only think that the
knowledge of defeat has thrown him off his balance. Theodore Roose-
velt has worThis fight."
By W W Jermane. i
A8HINGTON, Feb. 24.The sessions of the senate next week promise
to be unusually interesting, for it is believed the rate question is to
figure prominently in that body.
An unprecedented position confronts the senate. Senator Tillman,
the most rabid and' unreasonable democrat in either house, of congress, has,
by the vote of certain republican members of the senate interstate commerce
committee, been placed in charge of the most important measure of a republican
presidentrate regulation. Tillman at the same time'is the president's most
bitter and malignant personal and political enemy. No other instance in
thein
history of congress is recalled where a minority member of either house has been
placed in charge of a major policy of the majority involving political policies of
the highest significance.
Points to the Bitter Feud.
Nothing could better illustrate the bitter feud between the president and
such members of the senate as Aldrich, KTean and Foraker, who are supposedly
the representatives in that body of the interests which want the rate bill killed.
The country thought the house of representatives had done an unusual thing
when it reported the Hepburn bill by unanimous vote and passed it with only
seven dissents. But yesterday's occurrences in the senate committee, when the
bill was up for consideration, make the performance of the house seem tame.
Senator Doliver, driven to his last resort, turned on his enemies, and by a
.coup as brilliant as it was effective, forced the issue just at the time and place
best calculated for his purposes. He took a short cut thru the maze of amend-
ments and arguments which confronted the committee, by moving that the house
bill be reported unamended. On this he forced an issue, and it carried. Every
democrat in the committee voted for it. Dolliver and Clapp, republicans, did the
same, and the vote of Oullom was also cast for it on the proxy which Dolliver
held for him.
No "Senatorial Courtesy.""^, .7
No profligate displays of the boasted senatorial courtesy have marked the
consideration of this bill in the senate committee. Every effort of parliamentary
tactics and of outside influence has been employed to defeat the favorable re-
port. Senator Cullom, the venerable father of interstate commerce legislation,
absent because of illness, was granted the right to be voted in favor of the house
bill only after strenuous protest, and upon its being made plain that, if the priv-
ilege were denied, he would take the long journey from Florida at the riqjk of
his life. And even after this had been granted, it was proposd to deny him the
right to have his vote cast against the amendments to the measure, altho he
had telegraphed a general authority to Senator Dolliver to vote him against all
amendments except those regarding which the committee should be unanimous.
Where Aldrich Failed.
It was right here that the opposition overplayed its hand. Attempting to
disfranchise Cullom during the consideration of amendments, they forced Mr.
Dolliver, in order to prevent amending the bill to death, to ignore pending
amendments an|l move at once that the bill be reported as it came from the
house. This brought the issue, sharp and unmistakable and on this issue Dolli-
ver and Clapp, with the solid democratic support, won the day.
But the resources of senatorial discourtesy were not yet exhausted. Beaten
on the real issue, the Aldrich following refused to permit Mr. Dolliver to report
the bill which he had himself written and for which he had fought so long and
successfully. Senator Aldrich moved that Senator Tillman, democrat and the
bitterest antagonist of the president, be instructed to report the bill.
It was a sardonic jest with the president as its butt it was also a means of
depriving Dolliver of the credit of handling his own bill on the senate floor
and, finally, it was an effort to arouse prejudice by making the bill look like a
Tillman measure, and therefore dangerously radical.
The Selection of Tillman.
Senator Dojlivgr did not ask to be permitted to report the bill. He wanted
Senator Cullom, by right of seniority and because of his paternity in interstate
commerce legislation, to do this. But on the vote four republicansAldrich,
Kean,_ Crane and Forakerand one democratMcLaurinvoted for Tillman
two republicansClapp and Elkins, and one democratNewlands, voted for Dol-
The others refrained from voting.
Thus there was a democrat on each side, and the issue was decided by the
republicans and the votes of the four defeated opponents made it a democratic
measure to the' extent of turning it over to a democrat to report and to manage
the senate floor.
There was a vigorous effort on
1 part of the defeated faction to magnify
this incident into the appearance of the predominating achievement of the day.
Continued on Second Page, Fourth Column.
MINNfeAPOLIS,, MINNESOTA,"^FNjDAV MORNIN&, FEBRUARY 25, 1906.
Line Intended to Link Du
1 luth and Albert Lea Is
Sold Again.
Long Sought Entrance to
City at Head of
Lakes Secured.
By Publishers' Press.
SUPERIOR,s
FIRE DESTROYS BIS
PLANT IT CROSSE
Disastrous Blaze Follows an Ex
plosion at Engraving Com- I
pany's Works.
By Publishers' Press.
La Crosse, Wis., Feb. 24.Fire -which
followed an- dv0ffi$$0$^ tin plant of
the a Crosse Eajpjaving Gompany at
L-7 o'clock tonight^estroyisd' that es
tablishment, &ne of the largest in this
city, and seriously 'damaged the plants
of the, La Crosse Cornice and Roofing
company and the La Crosse Camp (elec
trical manufacturing) company. The
plant of the Star Knitting Works, ad
joining, was threatened with destruc
tion for two hours, but was saved.~The
fire started near the elevator shaft in
the engraving ^company's plant on the
first floor and shot upward in a few
moments, causing a roaring furnace in
the*stockrooms.
The combined loss will be between
$75,000- and $100,000, two-thirds of
which will be sustained by the engrav
ing company. The losses are two-thirds
covered by insurance.
HENDERSON NEAR DEATH
mp.
Former Speaker of House May Not Sur
vive Night.
DUBUQUE, Iowa, Feb. 25.For-
mer Speaker David B. Hender
son is sinking rapidly. He isthe
sleeping at midnight. The attending
physician says he may not survive the
night.
BISHOPS iNVITED TO BALTIMORE.
La Crosse, Wis., Feb. 24.Bishop
James Sehwebach has received an invi
tation to attend the centenary celebra
tion of the laying of the cornerstone
of the Baltimore cathedral in'that city,
some time the latter part of April.-^ All
bishops of the church have been in
vited, and many will attend.
N1and
WIS., Feb. 24.The Chi
cago, .Milwaukee & St. Paul rail
road ha bought the Mankato,
Glencoe, St. Cloud & Dnluth railroad,
which is partly constructed from Albert
Lea to Duluth and the purchase of
which was attributed to the Illinois
Central. For years the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad has tried to
reach the head of the lakes and it is
assumed that for three years it has been
back of the road which has secured
right-of-way from southern Minnesota
to the head of Lake Superior. Agents
of the Milwaukee road declare that the
line will be pushed to completion at
once.
Eailroad men say that .in competition
with the Wisconsin Central, the Chicago
& Northwestern, the Great Northern,
the Northern Pacific and the Soo lines,
the Milwaukee road is forced to make
this extension north in order to gather
its share of traffic from the head of
the lakes and from the Canadian lines.
THEY'LL WAG THEIR TAILS AWHILE LONGER., cJivWV
/No Tariff WarOne of 'Em Dassen't, T'other's Afraid. ^M4Ml^
Dtfectiv* Po9
ENTENARIANS III
ALTAR OF HYMEN
Mexican War Veteran and
His Bride Were Lovers
Fifty Years.
Special to The Journal.
-jsvyj-ARYSVILLE, Ohio, Feb. 24.
f^'l For fifty years they have been
lovers, but not until each had
passed the century mark could Samuel
Kuhns and Sarah Jackson make up
their minds to wed. The ceremony has
just taken place in Penfield township.
Captain Kuhns is 101 and his bride
is a little over 100. She is a daughter
of Andrew Jackson and a relative of
Abraham Lincoln.
Behind this singular romance lies a
story of the war. The couple first met
in Springfield, 111. Mr. Kuhn, born in
Richmond, enlisted in the Mexican war
and won a captain's commission. I
the civil war he served under Grant
and Sherman. He was one of the first
to go up against that terrible wall at
Fredericksburg, when men of the union
were mowed down like sheep under the
hail of Confederate bullets. He was
at the taking of Vicksbsrg and was
in Sherman's march to the sea.
was twiee imprisoned in Libby. -r\
Ktihns heard that his sweetheafTwp
married and for many years he wan
dered over the country, finally settling
in Columbus. At a recent reunion of
army veterans the long parted couple
met again and renewed their old vows.
15 IN RUNAWAY OAR
ON PRECHPI0E BRINK
ITTSBURG, Feb. 24.At 9 'clock
p.m. an Allegheny & Milvale elec
tric car, running at high speed,
this evening an Allegheny & Millvale
electric car, running at high speed,
jumped the rails at a point near the
terminal of the line. The car plunged
over an almost perpendicular embank
ment, alighting on its forward edge on
a ledge and fortunately remained in
that position. The variation of only a
few feet either way would have sent
the car to the bottom of a precipice
and doubtless all on board would have
been instantly killed.
Miss Alferetta Cutts, aged 28 years,
was probably fatally hurt. Fifteen
other passengers were piled in a heap at
end of the car and were removed
with great difficulty. All were more
or less bruised.
ARMY OFFICER AS DESERTER
Washington, Feb. 24.First Lieuten
ant Arthur H. Freshwater, Twenty
ninth infantry, has been dropped from
the rolls of the army for desei*tion, hav
ing been absent without leave from his
station at Fort Bliss, Tex., for three
months. Charges of embezzlement and
other financial irregularities nave been
filed against him and it is believed he
went west to Mexico.
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OME N OF DISASTER
I N CABLE'S SILENC E
Break in Communication With the
^West Indies Is Announced and An-
other Martinque Horror Is Feared.
EW YORK, Feb. 24.Announcement was made tonight by the Commer-
cial Cable company that the cables between Porto Rico and St. Thomas
Porto Rico and St. Croix are interrupted, cutting off all stations
south of Porto Rico.
The cause of the internfiption is not known, but the fear is .expressed that it
may be due to new eruptions of the volcanoes in those regions, attended perhaps
by earthquakes. If such is the case it may mean that there has been serious
loss of life and damage to property as occurred at the time of the eruption of
Mont Pelee four years ago.
By Publishers' Press.
ES MOINES, Feb. 24.Informa-
tion received at Des Moines to
night gives almost positive as
surances that the railroad lobby which
has been at the capital ever since the
legislature opened, six weeks ago, will
be subjected to official investigation
on the charge by Governor Cummins in
a recent open letter, announcing his
candidacy for a third term, that the
railroads are using money to beat the
primary bill now pending.
The senate has adopted a resolution
asking the governor for specific facts.
Tonight it became known that the
house would pass the resolution, and
also that Governor Cummins possesses
sufficient evidence of a sensational
character, which, after he gives it to
the assembly, will form the basis of an
investigation.
i
Primary Doomed to Defeat.
The state-wide, primary election bill,
one of the Cummins reforms before the
present legislature, is doomed i-e
feat by fusion of the stand-pat ~"~ahd
democratic members. There are 100
members of the house, of whom twenty
one are democrats. Of the republicans,
Governor Cummins has a bare majori
ty, but tonight it became known that
the stand-patters had effected a com
bination with the democrats by which
the defeat of the bill is certain. I
view of the certain action of the house,
however, the attitude of the senate
cuts no figure.
Cummins will go before the people
for a third term with the defeated pri
mary bill as an issue.
LONGWORTHS GUESTS
OF PRESIDENT PALMA
Gala Performance at the Opera, with
Cheers for the Couple.
AVANA, Feb. 24. President
Palma tonight entertained Mr,
and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth at
dinner at the palace, and afterward
accompanied them to the opera, where
they were the guests of honor at a
special performance. The theater pre
sented a brilliant appearance, having
been especially decorated in honor of
the occasion.
American and Cuban flags inter
twined were set off with hundreds of
colored electric lights, while among the
guests were members of the foreign
legations, the United States minister
and the leaders of Havana society.
An immense crowd cheered the Long
worths as they'entered the operahouse.
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\AIE SUNDAY, MONDAY, FAIR AND WABMBB.
S AFTER.
RAILROAD LOBBY
Iowa Governor Ready to Ex
plain Charges and Inves
tigation May Follow.
BANDED TO SE EP
SAFETY AT POLLS
Clubwomen Unite to Gain
Protection Against At
tacks in Streets.
Effort Will Be Made
Force Saloon License
to $i,oop.
Movement Is Started
Secure the Ballot on
City Affairs.
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Unsafe Metropolis of West
Is Aroused to Stamp
Out Perils.
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Meetings in Churches Wfll
Seek Means to Sup
press Crime.
Special to The Journal.
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.Characterie*
ing as a "disgrace to a civilized
community'' the harvest of crim*
reaped in Chicago in the last few j'3,
months, the women's clubs of Chicago, t--g
bound together in the Cook County Lea- W
gue of Women's clubs, have called upon "tj
every organization of women in the city ~-t
and every industrial clubwoman to %'J
work tirelessly for tire passage of the
high license ordinance in the city conn
cil March 6.
Immediately following the adoption ft
of the resolution demanding the $1,000 j^
license, the league unanimously adop- P^
fid a resolution calling for a mass meet
of women, at which all questions
pertaining to the safety and welfare of
IfiffiF&tffi&mim be thorofy dis-^
cussed.
At this mass meeting the club women
of Chicago propose to assert themselves
in favor of a municipal Suffrage plank
in the new Chicago charter.
Protection Thru Ballot.
They believe that with the ballot in
their hands they will' be strong enough
to compel the authorities to afford their
sex the protection which has been de
nied the unprotected women who by
the nature of their employment are com
pelled to venture alone in the publio
streets.
At this meeting a demand will b
made upon Mayor Dunne to enforce the
ordinances forwidding the sale of ^giquoi
to minors and to close all disorderly
dance halls in the city limits.
The mayor also will be called upon
to refuse to grant temporary liquor li
censes to the keepers of dance halls.
Becent action of the leading clubi
of the city in declaring for high license
is being followed up effectively. Today
the political action committee of th
Union League club sent a letter to each
of the 1,500 members of the organiza
tion reminding them of the resolution*
adopted by the club Feb. 10, and urging _
them to request their alderman to vota 1
for the higher license. $
Endless Chain Plan.
Similar letters were also sent out by
the directors of the Chicago Commer-y
cial association, urging the members, i,
not only to speak to their aldermanic 'pi
repres'entatives about the issue, but to
create an "endless chain" of pressure
by making the same request of then
employes and friends. Hibbard, Spen-.
cer, Bartlett & Company sent such let-,
ters to all their employes.
President Shead has called a.
meeting of the Anti-Crime association
for tomorrow evening at the Grand Pa-,
cific hotel for the purpose of perfecting"
the organization by the adoption
constitution and by-laws..
Churches in Movement.
Churches in Chicago will take a con-^f|
certed stand tomorrow for the suppres-||
sion*of crime. Mass meetings and spec-F*
ial services will be held in many of tne
cburches for the purpose of stirring
tne
city authorities to action in the cam||
paign against vice and disorder.
The largest meeting of the- day will be*?l
held in North Shore Congregational
church. Invitations have been extendedjl|
to all voters of Buena Park to attend^
this meeting. Rev. N. Hall of Wes-^j
ley Methodist church, who is leading a
movement for the union of all churches
and civic leagues in an organization
to rid the city of crime, will be one
of the speakers. He will invite the
people of Buena Park to join the gen
eral crusade, which now reaches into
every corner of Chicago.
The women of Wesley Methodist'
church, of which the murdered Mrs.
Bessie Hollister was a member, are in
earnest in their desire to learn jiu-jitsu
and other methods of defense from in
structors of the art. Encouraged by
their pastor, Rev. N. Hall, tbe wo--
men are forming classes for 'the pur
*pose of studying the art of defense.
Many of the women are carrying cay
enne pepper- to punish jnea wlw tfV'l
insults to them, -_-