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THO OEMS DESERT,
REPUBLICANSPASS
RATE AMENDMENT
Party Wins Notable Victory
in Adoption of Allison
Compromise.
Loss of Thunder Discour
ages Minority Senators,
Who Attack President.
*,a Follette Votes with Dem
ocrats in Efforts to
Load Amendment.
Bill Now More Radical than
President Ever
Asked For.
By W. W. Jermane.
W
ASHINGTON, May 12.The
Allison amendment wag
adopted by the senate today.
The day's debate followed the same
general lines of the debate of Friday
attack on the president by the demo
crats for an alleged change of position
and the indorsement of a broad court
review, and defense of him by the
republicans who asserted that he had
not changed front.
A novel and highly interesting fea
ture of the day's discussion was the
explanation by Mr. Tillman of the part
the president had played in trying to
line up the democratic senators in sup
port of the bill, at a time when it
seemed to everybody that democratic
yotes would be needed.
Mr. Tillman insisted that there wera
about twenty-six votes which he and
Mr. Bailey could control for the Long
amendment, which was at that time be
ing considered by the president, and
that this number, added to about twen
ty-two yotes on the republican side: of
the chamber, would have been enough
to get the legislation.
Charges Broken Faith.
The- point of Mr. Tillman's state
ment was the charge that the president,
who in the Long amendment had stood
for. limited court review, later aband
oned that position and accepted the
broad review which Mr. Tillman said
was provided by the Allison amend*
ment. Coupled with this was an inti
mation that there had been bad faith
on the president's part, and discourtesy
to the democrats, who, to a man, had
/agreed to come to the president's re
lief. Notice of the president's change
-of front, he said, did not come to the
democrats thru former Senator Chand
ler, the original intermediary, but from
the. newspapers.
Later in the session today, Mr.
Lodge, who had previously telephoned
the president, to inquire about the Till
man statement,
sa*d to the senate that
he was authorized to announce that that
statement was untrue insofar as it
charged that .the president had named
Senators Knox, Foraker and Spooner
as being leagued together in an effort
to defeat rate" legislation. The presi
dent informed Mr. Lodge that he had
no such, talk with Mr. Chandler.
None Was Criticized.
Mr. Foraker's name was not men
tioned by the president in Mr. Chand
ler's presence. Mr. Spooner's name was
mentioned in connection with a state
ment by. the. president of his cordial
support of the Spooner impounding
amendment, while as to Mr. Knox the
president had said to Mr. Chandler thati
while he did not agree with the argu
ments of that gentleman, he conceded
that, they had been forcefully pre
sented.
Mr. Lodge did not talk with the
president about the Tillman statement
as a Whole, and the substantial truth of
that statement is not questioned. It
has been the habit of the president dur
ing the entire winter to confer with
members of the senate, democrats as
well as republicans, on the rate ques
tion, and it is true that at the time
when it seemed likely that the conser
vatives of the senate, under the Al
drich leadership, would be able to de
feat legislation, the president did get
into touch with Mr. Tillman and other
democratic senators with a view to
bringing them over to the support of
the house bill, which then was being
supported, on the republican side of the
chamber, by a small company led by
such men as Dolliver, Nelson and Clapp.
This was late in March and the early
part of April, the time fixed by Mr.
Tillman a.B marking his conferences
with Mr. Chandler and Attorney Gen
eral Moody.
Dems Lose Thunder.
-The -woraswood antl gall of the situa-
Mo30!,.-8o~3f'iBr*V8' the democrats is con
cerned, lies in the fact that the presi
dent^ having
thus prepared with demo
cratic aid,, to. secure the passage of the
rate bill thru the senate, without re
gard to the conservative members of
that body,, later got together with tb/e
Grtatinued on 3d Page, 1st Column,
Veteran Jurist to Continue
as U. S. District Judge
While Health Permits.
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JUDGE WILLIAM LOCHBEM,
Who Will Not Retire from the Federal
Bench.
UDGE WILLIAM LOCHEEN will
continue on the bench of the
United States district court.
For some months the judge fcas been
in doubt as to his course. He has been
on the federal bench ten years and had
felt for a time that the state of his
health might not permit him to con
tinue.
On May 21 it will become optional
under the law whether he retires from
active service. Fifty years ago this
summer Judge Lochren made his first
appearance at the Minnesota bar, and
next fall it will be twenty-five years
since he took his place upon the bench
in the district court of this judicial
district. The recent meeting of the
Minnesota State Bar association op
portunely fell upon his seventy-fourth
birthday, and the ovation that was ten
dered to him at that time must remain
for years as the finest honor bestowed
by the bar of this commonwealth to
one of its^number.* At $hat time Judge
Lochren" announced that \he had not
yet determined whether he would re
tire fxom the bench or not, but that it
would be largely determined by the
condition of his health.
But Judge Lochren's health has been
steadily improving of late, and much
of his old-time vigor, and enthusiasm
for his work has returned. He has
been attending to his duties as regu
larly as of yore and shows no signs
of needing a protracted vacation.
Accordingly the veteran jurist has
decided to retain his seat for an in
definite period.
GAEL SOHUIRZ BETTER
LIVES THRU NIGHT
Slight Improvement Manifest in Con
dition of Famous Soldier-Publicist
and Family Leave Bedside.
By Publishers' Press. i
New York, May 12.At 1*0 o'clock
tonight Dr. Jacobi came from the sick
room and announced that there had
been a slight improvement manifested
in Carl Schurz's condition during the
last hour that he had been conscious*
and recognized all about the bedside
during the evening and that the family
would retire as there was every indi
cation that Mr. Schurz would live thru
the night. He stated that there would
be no further bulletins issued until 9
Two Men to Reap Riches of
Canadian Transcon-
tinental.
Special to The Journal.
TTAWA, Ont May 12.Altho
there are some immense indi
vidual personal property holders
the ownership of an entire transcon
tinential railway system by two men
only, has as yet no equal. A new rail
road across Canada will soon be com
pleted and will be owned by two in
dividuals, practically without a debt
upon it.
Eiches, even beyond the fondest
dreams of modern avarice appear to be
within the almost certain grasp of the
two Canadians, who started in life poor,
William McKenzie and Daniel D. Mann.
The firm of McKenzie & Mann is
known in the western financial centers
as combining intrepid courage, great
foresight, tireless energy and a business
capacity which makes for success in
every venture in which they determine
to embark. It is possible that they
will hold all the common stock of their
big road and all the bonds eventually
will be retired.
When it is considered that Mr. Hill's
system earns $40,000,000 per year and
the Canadian Pacific over $50,000,000,
it can be imagined what a great in
come these two men will be receiving
from a like source, to say nothing of
their receipts from electric street rail
ways, which pay better than any gold
mine ever operated.
O
THO DYING, SAYS
HE WILL
Dowie, Slowly Sinking, As
serts He Will Speak
in the Temple Today.
Special to The Journal.' .^f
Chicago, May 12.John Alexander
Dowie was reported today by his closest
friends and attendants at Zion City to
be sinking slowly. He is not expected
to live thru this week. That he is.near
death from a broken heart as the result
of recent reverses of fortune and his.
betrayal by trusted advisers, thos.^ who.
have his confidence profess no doubt.
Dowie, these persons say, has, lost
his splendid courage and self-confidence.
On waking today he called for the
morning newspapers of, Chicago, and
read with emotion the reports circu
lated in Zion City that he could live
only a few days longer. Bursting into
tears, he threw the papers on the flopr.
It is truetoo true," he said sadly.
Those about the bedside strove to
rouse his spirits, and later the invalid
assured them that he was not destined
to die, when his people needed him so
badly.
I will not die," he declared. I
will live twenty years longer.'' He as
serted his intention of preaching tomor
row afternoon in *the tabernacle de
spite the efforts of his family to dis
courage such an effort.
PERHAM'S CLASS, i
Special to The Journal.'
Perharn, Minn., May 12.The com
mencement exercises of the Perham high
school will be held on May 31. The~ grad
uates will be Misses Georgia ana?' Stella
Tillsoh, Beatrice Berthold and Clara
Henn. Professor B. T. Reed of the
Moorhead normal school will deliver the
address.
Trickery and Bribery Are
Charged in Chicago
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Former Agent Declares }cie
Practiced Fraud in Com-
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pany's Service.
Special to Tlie Journal.
HICAGO. May 12.An amazing
story of Standard, Oil corruption
and bribery,-, of the systema*tic
training of employees to commit de
ceitful practices, if not actual crime
wholesale debauching of human char
actera story that discloses a business
record so black as scarcely to-be cred
ible in the twentieth centurysuch
a tale was told upon the witness stand
toda& before the Interstate Commerce
commission.
The story was the climax of a three
days' investigation, during which for
mer employees turned informers on
Standard Oil. It was the day of the
independent dealer, and if the- record
goes for anything it serves to even up
a long score in which the debit side
heretofore was largely in favor of the
Standard company^
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School for Crime.
After hearing the revelations of al
leged crime committed to drive inde
pendent dealers out of business, of al
leged deceit practiced, to convince deal
ers that there was no virtue save in
Standard Oil products^ of men's honor
purchased by wholesale that the Stand
ard Oil monopoly migfit be strengthen
ed and increased, of a well kept school
of law evasion which was, perhaps no
better and no worse than that of the
celebrated Fagan, the commission ad
journed to meet in Cleveland,' May 24.
In the latter city will be heard the in
dependent refineries' side of the Stand
ard's alleged oppression and sinister,
if not illegal J^tyQ$%^&fatfs& itrade. se
il
curing a firm gragn'-fcpon *n
lenders lo'Spe^ *v,
The stories -which have/7
been told
here hasre been those of the independ
ent jetailer and of the. independent
Irholesaler. The stories to be hear$ in
^Cleveland will deal with the struggles
Ibf the independent refiners to keep
their heads above watera struggle^
the Standard foes say, of honest. meth
ods and squai*e dealing against dis
honesty and double-dealing.
The commission also succeeded in se
curing the first evidence regarding the
secret and mysterious six-cent rate
which the Standard Oil company, ac
cording to Commissioner Garfield's re
port, enjoyed for years.
Charles J. Smith, assistant secretary
of the Illinois Railroad and Warehouse
commission, declared that the rate had
never been on file. H. E. Blouney,
rate agent of the Burlington,
declared that his company had
filed an application sheet with the
Interstate commission stating that
Whiting, Ind., took the Chicago rate.
Prouty Denies It.
Commissioner Prouty took the witness
in hand and showed that while this
may have been done there was nothing
on file with the commission showing the
Chicago rate. There could be but one
conclusion, he said, and that was that
the Standard Oil company had enjoyed
that rate secretly and unknown to any
one for years.
Continued on 2d Page, 5th Column.
THE RIVAL PRESIDENTIAL FLOWER GARDENS.
Clear: Lake, Iowa, Excited
by an Alleged Attempt
to Assassinate.
Speoial to The Journal.
C,LEAB
LAKE, IOWA, May 12.
Intense excitement reigned
here today over an alleged at
tempt to assassinate former Mayor E.
S. Young.'''/''
Shots were fired at him by .unknown
men hidden in a park while he was
going home from a visit to the scene
of a fire which had aroused the inhab
itants at an early hour, but he was not
hurt.
A small blaze in the residence por
tion of town prompted a fire alarm,
and occasion, it is believed, was taken
to wreak vengeance upon the former
official.
The feeling between Young and for
mer Mayor Clausen, rivals for office,
has engendered bad blood, and Clausen
has gone so far as to bring charges
against Young before the grand jury
now in session for alleged malfeasance
in office while a trustee.
Young brings countercharges before
the. same body, charging Clausen and
his son with running a "blindpig.''
Each side is doing its utmost to get
sufficient evidence for an indictment,,
and both have friends who are assist
ing them.
The grand jury adjourned today
without making a report, but will re
turn on Monday.
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Alfred N. Chandler, Phila
delphia Clubman, Has
Long Ride Thru Air.
Special tb'THe Warmly
Philadelphia, May 12 -*Alfred N.
tJhiandler, clubman, sportsman and
stock broker, made his successful
maiden balloon trip today in The
Initial," the Paris sky traveler which
he bought from Count de la Vaux.
'He 'was accompanied by Charles Levee
of the Aero club, Paris, and Henry
M. Gratz of the New York Aero *club
of which Chandler is also a member.
The ascent was made at 1 p.m. and
at 2:50 the party made a successful
landing at South Amboy, haying made
the trip of seventy-five mile's in 1 hour
and 50 minutes. They had expected
to land at Brown Mills in the pines,
but a southwest wind was too stiff
for them.
The balloon passed over the city at
a height of 3,000 feet, moving north
west rapidly. Chandler dropped a
leaded note on the Bellevue Stratford
rcof from that height. It read:
"Three thousand feet and going
fine."
Next came: "It is a great tripfine
speed, fine motion, everything smooth."
FORT DODGE LOSES PIONEER.
Special to The Journal.
Fort Dodge, Iowa, May 12.Celebrating
her golden wedding last August and
surviving her husband but a few months,
Mrs. John Brennan, aged 79, succumbed
today to heart trouble. She had been a
resident of this county for thirty-five
years and was one of the early pioneers.
She was a native of Ireland and married
in New York in 1871.
RESULTS OF STORM
^ggOVER MINNEAPOLIS
FATALLY INJURED.
Captain C. W. Osborn, Engine'
Company No. 23, fire department./
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Lester Healey, 3351 Lyndale ave
nue N.
Howard McMahon, 3618 Aldrlch
avenue N.
SLIGHTLY INJURED.
Stephen Shembo, 416 Thirteenth
avenue S.
Lieutenant Hlldreth. Are depart
ment.
PROPERTY DAMAGED.
Hotel at 314 Hennepin avenue. 1'
I Residence at 709 Third street N.
Dwelling at 629- Twelfth avenue
SE.
Automobile shed at 3434 Blalsdell
avenue.
Several buildings at Western ave
I nue arid Twelfth street.
The Phoenix 'building. First ave
nue 8 and -F6urth trset.
Building occupied by Stern Broth
I ere on .First avenue S.
children are kept from -the police" and
factory inspectors, the boy said, by fre
quently changing the lodging places of
the older ones and, keeping those of
tender years locked up for days at a
time. t.
The youth who revealed the work
ings of the alleged! child-slavery sys
tem among his countrymen .told what
he knew only on assurance that his
name would not be revealed. Con
densed the secrets of the alleged system
are as follows:
Some Come to Minneapolis.
Boys are brought to Chicago from
the various Greek jort in groups,
sometimes running as high as fifty at
a time.' The arrangement is that per
sons securing the services of the boys
pay their passage- money, usually about
$35 each, and a fee to the padrone.
In return they get a year's service of
each boy, they agreeing to pay each a
small wage after the first year.
The boys are led past the immigra:
tion officials at Ellis Island by agents
of the system among the immigrants,
who pose as relatives of the children.
"Each child is thoroly schooled be
fore -leaving Greece and told what re
plies to make to officilas.
On arriving in Chicago the groups of
children are divided, some being put
in care of agents of the system in
Greek colonies, and others-being deliv
ered to Greeks owning small, stores in
small cities of Blihois,
Indiana and Iowa.
f,Minnesota,
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DEATH*ANKHAVOC
INFIERC E STORM
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Greek Boy Recalls Alleged
Slave Trade Extend-.'
ing Into Minnesota.
Special to The Journal.
HICAGO,- May 12.Secrets of an
alleged Greek padrone system of
slavery and oppression of young
boys in Chicago, for years concealed
from government and state investigat
ors, were revealed today.,
A young victim of the system de
clared that at least 3,000 young children
are kept in, virtual bondage in the
Greek fruit stores, restaurants, saloons
and shoe shining establishments of the
city. Their masters, it is asserted* beat
them if they complain against working
'as many as nineteen hours a day.
Locked Up, He Says.
The overworked children, it is added,
find their few hours daily rest in djbrty
lofts or dark, ill-ventila^gd basements, I knocked to the bottom of the cart.
sometimes under iocE and key. Tne
CENTS.
FIRE CAPTAIN IS:
FATALLY HURT BY^
LIGHTNING BOLT
Captain Osborn of Engine
Company No. 23 Is
Struck by Shaft.
Companions Injured, an$
Several pther Persons
Victims of Storm.
Many Chimneys Hit,, an&
Hundreds of Persons
Caught in Downpour.
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APTAIN CHAELES W. OSBOBH1
of engine company No. 23 of th
Minneapolis fire department, was
fatally injured and three other persona
were seriously hurt by the terrific eleG
trie storms that swept the city yeafcer*
day afternoon and last evening. Not
a ward in the "city escaped the bomr
bardment, and there were many-narrow
escapes and property losses.
The injury to Captain Osborn o&
curred last evening while he was
turning to the engine house at Hea*
nepin avenue and Thirty-fourth street*
He had just been to a fire at 3434 Blaia*
dell avenue, where the lightning, had
fired an automobile shed, axicL-was on
the hosecart. Suddenly there was 9
blinding flash, accompanied by,a deaf
ening crash, and Captain Osborn fell
limp against the driver of the hosecart.
Lieutenant Hjldreth, who was standing
back of the seat with his' shoulder
againsj^ihe captain, was stunned and
The
driver "was shocked, but kept bis hold
on the reins.,
Turning to the captain, the drives
asked him if he was injured. He re4
ceived no reply and stopping the horses,
he saw that the man was unconscious.
Urging the horses' to full speed, he
drove to Bethany home,.the nearest hos
pital, and the injured man was carried
in and placed under the care of a phy
sician. He gradually grew worse, and
early this morning the physicians said
there was little hope for his recovery*
Old Mail in the Service.
Captain Osborn is one of the old
in the service and was for many yearf
captain of Engine company No. 1 &|
Sixth avenue S and ^Third street*
which is the nearest station to the mill*
ing district. Engine house No. 23 haM
been built but a short time and he ka4
been in command there but a month. 1,
Storm Was General. -}J
The storm of last evening was but a]
part of a general electric storm thali
swept Minnesota and South Dakota. If
first struck Minneapolis yesterday a&
ternoon at 4 o'clock, when several pen
sons were injured or made ill by thf
continual activity of the lightning.
Probably the most serious accident
in the afternoon was the injury o
Lester Healey and Howard McMahon,
boys who were'bathing in the river at
Thirty-eighth avenue N.f* when tha
storm broke. At the first loud thu&*
der clap the boys rushed from tha
waters and stood under a large oaty
tree to don their clothes. ,5
Just as they had finished dressing
there was a terrific crash.
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Tha
lightning struck the tree, tearing ofjj
two of the large limbs, and both boys,:
who were leaning against the tree, 'i
were hurled to the ground, unconscious* 1
Several workmen in the lumber yarda
had seen the boys and as soon as they
fell several men left their work and^'c
went to" help the boys. The patrol
wagon was summoned and before- it-\J!
arrived both boys had. partly regained*^
consciousness. "They were both taken St
to their homes, the Healey boy at 3351
Lyndale avenue N., and Howard Me"*'^
Mahon at 3618 Aldrich avenue K.'^S
Their clothes had been torn to rib-*sS
bons and their bodies slightly burned,
but their, injuries are not thought to
be serious.
Struck by Lightning.... ^0f#*r5
Stephen Shembo, driver^j^of a
sprinkling cart on Cedar avenue, was.
also painfully injured as a result dfc
the storm. His wagon was struck by
the lightning as he was crossing Sixth
taken to his home, 416 Thirteenth ave
nue S, and a physician was called.
Aside from the personal injnriei,
fires were started and several bniidinga
wer6 damaged.
At the Bellevue hotel, S&fiqgiaephi
avenue/ the telephene wire leading
into one of the rooms was overcharged,
setting fire to the building on the aee*
ond floor.^} The fire department ex
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street and he was knocked to the pavo-"~:
ment, sustaining a, broken leg. Hes
was also stunned by the shock and the
fall and when he was picked up it waa
thought he had been killed. He was i