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DISCOURAGED.DEMS
ATTACK PRESIDENT
fobbed of Issue, ^Knority Sen
ators Charge Surrender in
Rate Amendment.
OPENLY CONGRATULATE
ROADS FOR A VICTORY
Allison Amendment Draws Fire,
but Famous Iowan Fights
Effectively.
ATTACKS THE PRESIDENT.
Washington, May 12.Senator Bai
ley in concluding an attack on Presi
dent Koosevelt for his alleged surrender
on the railroad rate and tariff questions
in the senate late this afternoon said:
Let us have no more here or thruout
the country, of this talk of an iron man.
He is clay and very common clay at
that."
By W. W. Jermane.
Washington, May 12.The question
of whether the Allison amendment to
the rate bill indicates that the presi
dent and his friends are standing for
broad or narrow court review, had a
field day in the senate yesterday.
Those democrats who spoke on the
question, save one, contended that the
president had surrendered to the rail
roads, and that the Allison amendment
provided for the very broadest court
review that it was possible to give.
Those republicans who spoke denied
this contention and asserted that the
Alllison amendment did not provide
for anything more than the house bill
already carried "by implication, and that
even if the democratic contention were
true, the courts would be very slow to
try de novo any case coming up from
the interstate commission.
The changes were rung on this ques
tion for several hours, and it was left
precisely where the senate found it at
the beginning of the day's session.
Senator Allison was in his seat all day
and during the debate made a very vig
orous ana impassioned speech for him
in defense or his amendment against
the charge brought by Senator Eayner
of Maryland, that under it the court
review was so wide open that a rail
road train could be driven thru it.
Allison Fights, Tho I1L
It is apparent that Senator 'Allison,
is far from being a "WeH man and some
of his friends were fearful that the un-1
usual exertion in which he indulged
might make his physical condition
worse, but it did not seem to do so.
Earjy in the day's proceedings Sen
ator Nelson of Minnesota pleaded with
the senate to permit the Allison amend
ments to reach a speedy vote so that
that senator might return to his home,
but no attention was paid to this plea.
The day was almost entirely spent
in securing negative results, so far as
there were results at all, that is to
say in voting down certain amendments
to the court review and other parts of
the bill proposed by the democrats and
by Senator La Toilette. No affirma
tive vote was taken on any question of
importance.
Late in the afternoon, Mr. La Fol
lette brought up his substitute for sec
tion 15 of the house bill. The effect
of the substitute was to give the com
mission the power to originate com
plaints and to fix a minimum as well
as a maximum rate. This substitute
was rather freely debated and then
voted down, almost the only support
La Follette had being on the democrat
ic side of the chamber.
Bailey Opens Battle.
1
Mr. Bailey began the onslaught on
the president by quoting from thepres
ident's message and speeches and qom
paring these utterances with the Alli
son amendment, which the president has
accepted. He contended that that
amendment placed absolutely no limit
upon the review by the courts of lae
commission's findings.
Mr. Eayner followed, claiming the
game thing, and adding that the presi
dent had deliberately walked into a
trap set for him by the railroads.
After that he had invited the repub
licans of the senate into similar con
dition of voluntary captivity and the
invitation had been accepted. During
Mr. Eayner's speech he mentioned Al
lison, Long and Cullom by name, and
later these gentlemen replied to him.
Mr, Long spoke first in defense of
the Allison amendment, saying that
Mr. Eavner was wrong in the asser
tion that the Long amendment pro
vided for narrow court review and the
Allison amendment for broad review.
Both amendments, he said, provided for
the same kind or review and that re
view did not exceed that guaranteed
by the constitution.
He quoted a number of court-review
amendments which he said were of the
broad character, among them those in
troduced by Messrs. Foraker, Knox and
Lodge. These amendments sought to
confer upon the courts precisely the
same duty conferred upon the commis
sion, and would lead to the retrial by
the courts of every case coming up
from the commission.
Same as Eayner Amendment.
There was also a broad court review
In the Esch-Townsend bill of the last
session of congress, this review having
been pu
inInat
the suggestion
oAlliso
Mr.
Aldrich.t order for the
amendment to provide for a broad re
view, it must contain a statement call
ing upon the courts to inquire into the
question of whether a rate fixed by the
commission is "just and reasonable.
In its present form that amendment
did not go beyond the original house
bill, which was silent as to review, on
the theory that the constitutionality
provisions would apply automatically.
Mr. Aldrich interrupted Mr. Long to
ay that, in his opinion, the Allison
amendment did not go beyond the house
bill on the court-review question and
that the amendment simply gives ex
pression to what everybody had thought
from the beginning was in the bill
anyway.
Mr. Allison, in his reply to Eayner,
said that the Allison amendment was
substantially the same as the Eayner
amendment, and that no amount of
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GOVEKNOB J. M. PATTISON,
Ohio's Executive, Who Came Near Los-,
ing Office Thru Scheme.
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SCHEME TO OUST
GOVERNOR FAILS
Ohio Senators Block Hot to Man
damus Lieutenant Into Pat
terson's Place.
Journal Special Service.
Columbus, Ohio, May 12.The scheme
to oust Governor Pattison and to man
damus Lieutenant Governor Harris into
office has failed.
Long-distance telephone calls from
Senators Foraker and Dick and em
phatic expressions by them of their
disapproval of the whole scheme, set
tled it, and the backers lost heart and
decided to drop the affair.
Bad politics is the reason. To at
tack the governor when he is ill would
defeat the republican ticket next fall,
say party leaders.
ASKS SOLENBERGER
TO PROVE CHARGES
Tribune, Editorially,
.CfoaJUtengefl,Miinngapolitan'$ At- |v..-,-.
tack on Salvation Army.-'
8pecli to Th Journal.
Chicago, May 12.The Chicago Trib
une leads its editorial page today with
a criticism of the charges against the
Salvation Army made by Edwin D.
Solenberger, manager of the Associated
Charities. of Minneapolis, at Philadel
phia, and asks its accuser to produce
proofs. The editorial is, in part, as
follows:
So far as the telegraphic account of
his remarks goes, it does not appear
that he specified any particular fund
which was misused, but rather made
a general accusation of obtaining
money under false pretenses. It is
hardly possible to reply to an accusa
tion which is not more specific, but the
Salvation Army officers say that a
financial statement is issued every three
months, which may be consulted by
those interested. They say that they
welcome investigation, and that inspec
tion of their accounts by the public
officials of Los Angeles and St. Louis
resulted in an expression of satisfac
tion with the methods of the army.
Public with Army.
If this statement is true, the Min
neapolis manager of Associated Char
ities must be mistaken in his charge
that it is impossible to obtain informa
tion about the receipts and expenditures
of the Salvation Army. It may be an
issue of veracity between the two au
thorities or it may be simply a mis
understanding.
Public confidence in the Salvation
Army is not likely to be shaken unless
some definite misdeed can be proven
against it. Those who have come in
contact at all with the army's work
in the large cities are impressed by the
evident sincerity of the soldiers. Prob
ably there are occasional errors of judg
ment in the expenditure of the armyJ
funds, even now and then a dishonest
officer, as may he found in any church
or organization into which it is profit
able for a hypocrite to enter.
Devoted to Work.
In general the members of the Sal
vation Army are characterized by a de
votion to the interests of the founder
which has made the army one of the
most valuable agencies for good in
modern city life.
It is true the methods of the army,
its theology or personal qualities of
its members, do not appeal to all peo
ple, least of all some enthusiasts whose
zeal for religion or humanity is no less
fervid but differently expressed.
The fact remains that the Salvation
Army reaches people who would other
wise be unreached^ It does work that
otherwise would be left undone. At
any rate, the public will continue to
support it unless it can be proved that
the reports are false. It is up to the
Minneapolis accuser to produce his
proofs.
CHILD LABOR DISCUSSED
Associated Charities Delegates Hear
Factory Inspectors' Reports.
Philadelphia, May 12.Among the
topics discussed today at the section
meeting of the thirty-third national
conference of charities and corrections
were charitable finance, care of the
sick and child labor.
In a paper oft the first topic Walter
S. Ufford, general secretary of the Fed
erated Charities, Baltimore, proposed
three plans for raising money to meet
the outlay of private societies and in
stitutions: Annual reports, personal
appeals thru collectors and the use of
the press.
A general discussion of the child
labor question was participated in by a
number of factory inspectors and prac
tical workers.
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HIS ARMY WASTED,
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SDLTAN GIVES UP
Hunger and Disease Rob Yemen
Troops of Strength and
Britain Wins.
Journal Special Service,
Constantinople, May 12.His army
wasted by disease and in no condition
to fight, even if ho had been daring
enough to court destruction at the
hands of Great Britain, the sultan has
yielded to the British demands in re
ard to the Tabah boundary question.
is said that the acceptance is condi
tion but complete surrender is cer
tain ere the time limit placed by Bri-
tainSunday nightarrives.
In Yemen, the Turkish army is in a
iplorable condition. Feizi Pasha, the
mnander-in-chief is unable to obtain
the supplies so often demanded. Ex
cesses have been followed by disease
and the general decadence of the
strength of the troops.
DEADTOCWOVER
TYPEOF THE CANAL
Senate Committee Divided Be
tween Sea Level and Lock
Ditch.
Washington, May 12.The senate
committee on interbceanic canals is in
a deadlock over the type of canal to be
recommended. The question was taken
up today and the vote showed Ave for
a sea level canal and five for the lock
type recommended by the minority of
the board of consulting engineers.
There were two absentees, Senators
Gorman and Carmack. The latter tel
egraphed from Tennessee instructing
the chairman to count his vote for the
sea level type, which would have made
a majority against the lock canal de
sired' by the administration. After
wrangling for an hour over the ques
tion of accepting the vote of Senator
Carmack, the commission adjourned
until Wednesday next.
OCTOGENARIAN SHOOTS
JIFI KILLS HjSJIJ
Jownaf Special Bervio*.
Philadelphia, May 12.John T. Yar
nell, 80 years, and his wife, only eight
years his junior, had lived long and
happily together, but the old man
longed for the rest the grave gives.
Yesterday he turned to her and said
quite simply:
"Sarah, I'm tired. I've lived too
long, but I don't want to go out alone.''
Then he shot her, and, thinking she
was dead, turned the revolver on him
self and ended the life that had grown
wearisome.
Yet the old man went out alone, for
the doctors say his wife will live.
The home of the couple's only
daughter, Mrs. Joseph J. Wynn, was the
scene of the tragedy.
Judge Charles A. Pollock and wife of Fargo,
I*. P., are lr Washington for a week.
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MSB. OA8SXE L. CHADWIOK,
Famous Swmflet Who la Fast Aging if
in OhU Prison.
PRISON'S PILL ON
PES OFFINANCE'
L. Cfoa&wick Is Rapidly
Aging and'May Die Before
Term Ends.
Journal Special Senrioe*.
Columbus, Ohio,, May 12.Cassie L.
Chadwick is aging .rapidly under her
present imprisonment and probably will
not live out her term. She has lost
flesh in the last few.months and would
hardly be recognized by those famil
iar with th ""queen of finance" as
she presented herself for trial in Cleve
land last year. Shd'-has become almost
deaf, too in the last two months.
In taking her ^depositions for use in
the ease of the Friend estate of Pitts
burg, the attorneys1
His Physicians Say Famcms $ol-
dier-Publicist May, Die
Before Night.
New* York, May 12.Carl Sch%rz, the
famous soldier-publicist and former sec
retary of the interior, is growing weak
er and his physicians say that they
have but slight hopes that he will live
until evening.
Bdward If. Onun of St. Paul, American
consul at Stuttgart, Germany, is In Washing
tun for a few days on leave of absence. He
will go to Texes on business and then to St.
Paul before returning to his post.
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A LONE ST3ARWHAT 19 HIS COURSE?
The political astronomers at Washington discover a star of considerable brilliancy and an ec-
centnc orbit
FILIPINO OUTLAWS
RAID SAMAR TOWN
Brigands Swoop Down on Village,
Sacking and Burning
Homes.
Manila, May 12.The following dis
patch has been received from Acting
Governor Cinco of the Island of Samar:
A band of twenty-four Pullijanes,
having five rifles and other weapons,
entered Inabangan by the Barrio
Wright (Wright ward, named in honor
of former Governor General Wright),
today, killing one and wounding seven
residents, burning and looting thirty
six houses and taking over twenty-resi
dent prisoners. Troops, constabulary
and volunteers are pursuing the band.
George Ottrry, the governor of Samar,
who is nere on his way to consult with
Governor General Ide says that all the
presidentes of Samar will shortly call
on the governor general and indorse the
Jious'y
had to sit within
two feet of, her in ofder tp make them
selves heard. Tha, depositions were
taken in secret and scaled to be opened
by the court at Fjttsburg. It i known,
however, that she said sae did not get
$800,900 from Jfriend. J3he said the
exact sum was $241,000.
SCHURlfiKpO
WW
wlic of extermination ot the rebel
natives, which is supported by
the peaceful inhabitants of Samar.
FRAUD IN PANAMA
ELECTIONS, HE SAYS
Amador Arranges for Repeaters
and to Gag Liberals, De
clares Jiminez.
fcurnal Special Service.
Kingston, Jamaica, May 12.George
W. Jiminez of the New York police,
returning from Panama, lays bare the
determination of the Amador govern
ment to control the coming elections
4 fraud. Mr. Jiminez went to the
isthmus last October to reorganize the
pouce on a New York basis. He says:
I recently was instructed that the
?he
olice force was to be used to control
elections and that my part was to
see that tne policemen voted as often
as possible and prevent the opposition
from reaching the polls. I resigned on
the spot.
"The liberals, in a fair election,
would overthrow the Amador govern
ment by 1Q0 to 1. I gathered that both
sides expect a revolution, and inter
ference by the United States in favor
of the Amador government. Fighting
will promptly ^begin."
GETS $27,000 YEAR BUT
DEMANDS $12 PENSION
Journal Spools! Service.
Cleveland, May 12.If you had an
annual income of $27,000, but were un
able to do manual labor, would you ask
Uncle Sam to give vou a pension of $4
a month because or your incapacity to
toil with your hands!
If you wouldn't you are not so anx
ious for money as is Dr. E. E. Beeman,
whose claim to fame is that he used to
make chewing gum, and who now de
mands that the United States govern
ment raise his pension from $8 to $12
monthly, because "of total incapacity
for manual labor," despite the fact
that he receives $27,000 yearly in divi
i dejnds.
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GENERAL SAMON CACESES,
President ot Santo XJomiaffo, Against S
Whom Bevolt ia Planned. I
U. S. WARSHIPS TO
STEM REBELLION
State Department Finds Porto
Rico Base of Dominican
Revolutionists.
Washington, May 12.Reports have
reached the state department of the or
ganization of another revolutionary
movement directed against the govern
ment of President Cacereae oi Santo
Domingo. It is understood that the
island of Porto Bico is the base of op
erations and it is supposed that former
Presidents Morales and Jiminez are the,
leaders.
Instructions have been sent to the
insular governor of Porto Rico to take
steps to carry out the neutrality laws,
which would prevent the organization
and departure of any hostile expe
dition, and the American warships sur
rounding the island of San Domingo
will also be instructed to prevent any
landing of hostile forces.'
COACffiFSDUST
IN HERO'S TOMB?
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Cardiff Western Mail
Welchman Was Honored as
John Paul Jones.
Journal Special Servioe.
London, May 12.According to the
Cardiff Western Mail, which asserts it
consulted the best archaeologists famil
iar with the circumstances, and to have
made an investigation of the archives
in Paris and in Wales, the remains re
cently brought from France to America
and so signally honored by an escort of
fleets of the two nations are not the
ashes ofi John Paul Jones, the naval
hero, but are the remains of William
Jonos a Welch coachman.
Plain "Bill" Jones, as he was
known, was a native of South Wales
having been born on the famous Pem
broke estate. He was a groom to the
English envoy in Paris during the
French revolution and met his death |n
a drunken brawl in a public house
Paris near the stables of his employer.
Even the house is still standing and
has been positively identified. He
was buried without nonors in the Pro
testant cemetery in Paris, and accord
ing to the English authorities will be
considerably astonished to wake up
when Gabriel blows his horn to find
himself resting in a splendid mausoleum
at Annapolis, across the Atlantic.
DASHING WIDOW IN
JAIL FOR MURDER
Woman Arrested Following Suspi
cious Death of Man Who
Willed All to Her.
Journal Special Serrloe.
Worcester, Mass., May 12.Mrs
Myra A. Bemis, a well-to-do widow
whose comeliness of face and figure
and liking for fast horses have made
her a striking figure in the community
of Barre, where is situated her farm,
has been arrested on a charge of mur
der today.
Her arrest is the result of several
weeks' investigation of the death on
her farm of John Hammond, Detec
tives working on the case have re
ceived reports of at least two other
cases oi sudden death of men engaged
to work for the widow.
Hammond entered into an agreement
by which, it is said, he was to leave
Mrs. Bemis all his property for the
privilege of passing his declining years
on her broad acres.
Hammond's body wa^ exhumed and
the stomach and intestines were sent
to Professor Whitney, Harvard college,
for analysis. Traces of arsenic and
morphine were found. Professor Whit
ney recently analyzed the stomach of
Mrs. Erich Muenter, wife of Profes
sor Muenter, and it was on his report
that Professor Muenter was accused of
murdering his wife with arsenic.
BRIBE TAKER OWNS UP
Gray, Who Betrayed His Trust,' Fined
$2,000 at Green Bay.
Green Bay, Wis., May., 12.Former
Alderman Albert L. Gray Uoday plead
ed guilty to accepting two bribes of
$800 each in 1901 in connection with a
paving contract, and was fined $1,000
each case.
DECLARES PAPER
TRUST "BUSTED"
F. Nelson Does Not Look for
Reorganization t* Cir- *g
cumvent Law. if
NEW COMBINATION IS
THREAT OF OTHER MEN
Reorganization of Dissolved Com
pany and Higher Prices,
to Re Planned.
Said ft
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I do not look for any reorganization
of the General Paper company," said
B. F. Nelson, president ot the Henne
pin Paper company, today. The dii
solution comes at a favorable time.
Every mill in the company is rushed
to full capacity and there & a demand
for every pound of paper that can be
turned out and more beside. Stocks'
also are low. The companies organized
as the General Paper company will con
tinue their business as individuals, I
believe, at least the Hennepin company,'
will."
But opinions vary in interested eir-i
cles regarding the plan of procedure
that will now adopted by the former
members of the General Paper company,
the selling organization of the paper i
trust, which is to be finally dissolved!
June 16, by order of Judge w. H. San.-]
born of the United States circuit court,*
whose decision was filed yesterday.!
President James A. KSmberly, president'*
of the General Paper company, declares'
a reorganisation on new lines as ef
fective as the old, but immune, will be.'
effected. He even intimates that step*3
to this end have already been taken.
An opposite opinion is ventured by*
Vice President George A. Whiting, one]
Of the wealthiest and heaviest mana-j
facturers of print paper in the United]
States.
Hints at Higher Prices.
Mr. Kelson coincides with Whiting's,
view. Speaking of results of Judge'
Sanborn's decision today, Mr. Nelsoa
said:
I do not look forvany reduction in,
prices. Since the General Paper com
pany was formed, prices have eontin-.
ued to fall, and are now less than half
what they were before. The first ad
vance was ordered less than sixty
days ago. On the other hand, wages
have-increased from 25 to 40 per cent
and raw material from 25 to 100 per
cent. By selling thrn the General Pa*
p^oompanjY^which -was enry*~a"-,
aatg i
agent for^jthe mills represented, we
were able to save the expense of taav
eling men- This expense of selling
amounted to 10 per cent of the cost
of the goods sold. The General Paper
i company handled the business for 3
per centa saving to us of 7 per cent,
which is considered a good margin in
the paper business. We must put out
our men now, and the 7 per cent addi
tional cost of business must be pro
vided for in some way.
"As a rule all large consumers were
provided under contracts with one miU
represented in the sales company. I
suppose these contracts will be con
tinued thru their terms. The contracts
were made thru the General Paper com
pany, but run between individual mille
of the company and the consumer.
Bad Taste to Reorganize.
I do not know what kind of an
organization could be effected. As far
as I know there is no plan now under
consideration. After the action takes
yesterday by the paper men and the
granting of their requests by the Qourt, 1
it certainly would be in very bad tastd
to immediately undertake plans for']
another combination similar to the one
dissolved. I do not believe it wiil be 3,
possible anyway, at least not for some
time. Some man or men with unlim*
ited means might purchase all the mills
of the General Paper company, as wail
done in the case of the IntesnationalT
Fairer company. I am ready at any, i
time to sell my mill if paid Its value,'
and there are other mills that could tie
bought. But transactions oftkis-mag*'
nitude would take time.
"The General Paper company wasj
merely a selling agent marketing otuH
paper for us at less cost than would be
possible otherwise. It' is effectually
killed now, .but I believe thai furtive?
developments will snow that it was an
economical plan for all concerned. I
believe that the individual mills wil}1
continue business aa individuals as the
Hennepin company plans to do. should
say also that if any consolidation is'
ever attempted that it will be along the
lines I have suggested, by the pur-^
chase of plants by some individual or
concern making the ownership of alii
mills private and in the hands of one'
individual or concern as process both
alow and expensive.
MEW TRUST PLANUHD
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General Paper Company Will Be Beor-^-2
ganised, Declares a Manuf actnrer. /yg
Milwaukee, May 12.-^John A. Davis,
fhe
Sie
am
ore powerful selling agency than was
General Paper company. He inti
mated* that several more mills will be
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general manager of the General Paper J*|
company, today sent out the following^
letter to the trade:
"The General Paper company hasl^f
withdrawn from the field as a selling
agency. All mills heretofore manufac-1
turing paper and selling it thru the
General Paper company will now supply
the trade direct and all unfilled, or^.
tartially unfilled orders, placed with|j
General Paper company prior to
this date will be filled by such mills andjj|
invoiced direct. 5||
Temporarily and until each mill can Ip
adiust itself to new conditions all or
ders received by the General Paper
company will be turned over to the
mill heretofore supplying the customer,
giving such orders."
& Ownership Combination. jShgl
It is not the intention of the paper
manufacturers, however, to remain in
the field as individual dealers in paper
product, according to a responsible^
source of information. A reorganiza
tion will be effected as soon as possible.** -_,
The proposed concern will doubtless be
an ownership.
An interview with a prominent paper
manufacturer is to the effect that the
reorganized company will be a much,
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