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16 PAGESFIVE O'CLOCK.
SMOOT'S REMOVA
MAJORITY'S EDIC
REPORTS TO SENATE
AT WIDE VARIANCE
Utah Senator Mercilessly Flayed
as Member of Law Defying
Organization.
Jttinority Declares His Bight to
Seat Despite Acts in
Church.
Washington, June 11.The majority
and minority reports of the committee
on privileges and elections in the case
f Senator Reed Smoot of Utah were
today presented in the senate, the for-
Ser
by Senator Burrows, declaring that
r. Smoot is not entitled to his seat,
and the latter by Senator Foraker, tak
ing the opposite view. At the same
time Senator Bailey, who is a member
of the committee, stated that while he
concurred in the views of* the majority
that Mr. Smoot is not enti#ed to his
eat, he believed that Mr. Smoot could
not be unseated under the constittuion
except by a resolution of expulsion.
In accordance with Senator Burrows
request, extra copies of the reports and
of the hearings in the case were or
dered printed. Mr. Burrows also gave
notice that he would call up the case
"at the earliest possible moment con
sistent with the public business," and
Senator Foraker expressed his approval
cf this announcement.
Senator Smoot was present in the
senate chamber when the reports were
presented. He smiled broadly when
Senator Bailey made his statement.
Under the plan suggested by the Texas
senator, a vote of two-thirds would be
riecessary to vacate the seat of the
Utah senator.
The Majority Report.
The reasons for# the action of
the senate committee on privi
leges and elections in declaring
by a majority vote that Beed Smoot
is not entitled to a seat in the senate
as a senator from Utah are stated in a
report submitted to the senate today
by Chairman Burrows and signed by
Senator* Burrows, Uojliver, Dubois^
Pettus, Bailey, Overman and Eraser,
to be as follows:
"That Mr. Smoot is one of a self
perpetuating body of men known as
the first presidency and twelve apostles
cf the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints, commonly known as the
Mormon church.
"That these men claim divine author
ity to control the members of said
ehurch in all things, temporal as well
as spiritual.
Encourage Polygamy.
"That this authority is and has been
for several years past so exercised by
the said first presidency and twelve
apostles as to encourage the practice
of polygamy and polygamous cohabita
tion in the state of Utah and else
where, contrary to the constitution and
laws of the state of Utah and the law
of the land.
"That the said first presidency and
twelve do now control and for a loner
time past have controlled the political
affairs of the state of Utah and have
thus brought in said state a union of
ehurch and state contrary to the consti
tution of said state of Utah and con
trary to the constitution of the United
Btates, and the said Reed Smoot comes
cere not as the accredited representa
tive of the state of Utah in the senate
of the United States, but as the chief
hierarchy which controls the church,
Continued on 2d Page, 2d Column.
RAIN OF BULLETS
STRIKERS' ANSWER
Bombardment of Dillonvale Mine
Shed Instead of Return
mi, to Work.
Dillonvale, Ohio, June 11.'-An at
tack, presumably by strikers, was made
early today on the checkhouse of the
A. Hanna Coal company at Dillon
vale, when fifty shots were fired from
a hill 200 feet distant. There were
four watchmen in the ^building, but no
one was injured.
Officials of the company, who were
folding a conference with Mayor Eberle
at the time of the attack, organized a
fheiry
iart and went to the mine to protect
property. j^Tot a shot was fired
bv the company men.
Not one person responded to the
blast of the whistle this morning no
tifying the strikers to return to work
under the scale that expired April 1,
and the situation at Ramsey and Roby
ville is the same as at Dillonvale.
TICK-TACK ON WINDOW
MINISTER SHOOTS BOY
Special t? The Journal.
Le Sueur Center, Minn., June 11*
The town of Cordova was thrown into
unwonted excitement today when it was
bruited about that Rev. W. W. Vine,
pastor of the United Brethren church at
that point and Le Sueur Center, had shot
a farmer boy shortly after midnight
last night. The preacher used a 22-
caliber rifle and shot the lad thru the
right leg, near the hip.
The boy had placed a "tick-tack"
upon the window of the pastor's bed
room and was murdering the sleep of
the household, when the enraged minis
ter issued forth, armed cap-a-pie. The
latter has not been arrested, but in all
probability will be. The boy will soon
be all right again unless blood poison
ing results from his wound.
S ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT,
President's Uncle, Who la Seriously HI.
PRESIDENT'S UNCLE
IS SERIOUSLY ILL
Anxiety Over Condition of Robert
B. Roosevelt, Prominent
Democrat.
Journal Special Service,
New York, June 11.Eobert B.
Roosevelt, uncle of the president and a
prominent democrat is seriouslv ill at
his country home Lotus Lake, Sayville,
L. I. He is 77 years old, and keen
anxiety is felt by his relatives.
Mr. Boosevelt's health has been fail
ing for the past year. In the hope that
a change of surroundings would bene
fit him, he was moved from his city
residence three weeks ago to the Long
Island estate. A change for the worse
was noted on Monday and since tn en lie
has b^een confined to his bed.
TERRORISTS WAGE
A RELENTLESS WAR
Assassinations of Daily Occur
rence in PolandSedition
in Army.
DARE NOT GIVE UP.
St. Petersburg, June 11.The ^debate
on the agrarian question in the lower
house of parliament promises to con
tinue thruout the week. The members
of the house dare not return to their
constituents after a fruitless session of
two months, and undoubtedly will resist
any attempt to adjourn.
Warsaw, June 11.Terrorists of Po
land continue to wage a relentless war
against the state, municipal and police
officials. Hardly a day elapses without
an assassination.
Last night the mayor of Siedlce, the
chief of the governor's office and the sec
retary of the police board were walking
in the streets of Siedlce when a band or
terrorists armed with revolvers at
tacked them.
The first two officials were mortally
wounded and the third was seriously in
jured.
At Bailystok Chief of Police Der
katchoff, against whose life several at
tempts had been made, was shot and
killed by several unknown persons while
he was out driving. His coachman was
severely wounded.
At the, same time the secret police
were atta'cked in another portion of the
town, one of them being wounded.
Army Ready to Rise.
Odessa, June 11.Since the com
mencement of the repatriation of the
troops who took part in the war with
Japan, 152,000 men, including the Rus
sian prisoners from Japan, have been
landed here and distributed thruout the
interior of the country.
The most stringent precautions were
observed during the whole period in or
der to prevent the slightest intercourse
between the returning troops and the
townspeople, in consequence of fears of
mutinous demonstrations, as it was un
deniable that the troops coming home
were largely disaffected.
The spirit of disaffection was even
more noticeable among the officers than
in the men. The former frankly ex
pressed the opinion that if parliament
can hold its own until the spring it will
be able to count on the army to sup
port its demands.
STABS LEGISLATOR ON
STREET OYER A SUIT
Memphis, Tenn., June 11.Thomas B.
Collier, a member of the Tennessee leg
islature, was stabbed on the street to
day by T. E. Tucker, a real estate man.
The difficulty is said to have occurred
over a lawsuit. Collier's condition is
serious. Tucker was arrested.
GIANT 'CBAGKEBS EXPLODE.
Bast St Louis, 111 June 11 An explosion
of 1,600 giant firecrackers in a fireworks fac
tory burned George Beckman and Henry Brock
meyer so seriously they may die, and badly
damaged the factory.
TBAI2T DEKAILED TTWO TNJTOED.
Winnipeg, Man., June 11 The Canadian
Northern limited, running between here and
Port Arthur, v^as derailed forty-five miles east
of Winnipeg yesterday. The accident was
caused by a rod breaking in the tender. Two
passengers, both foreigners, were badly ln
Jure*
COMMON ROBBERY,
BASE OF BUSINESS
Shameful Tactics Win for Modern
Midas, Declares Toledo
Preacher.
Journal Speoial Service.
Notre Dame, Ind., June 11.What
once was regarded as "business acu
men" was declared yesterday by Eev.
John T. O'Connell of Toledo to be noth
ing less than "common robbery." In
his baccalaureate sermon to the grad
uating class of Notre Dame university
he said:
"It is not so lorig since we stood in
awe of that latter-day Midas, whose
every touch made purest gold. The
youth of our land was made ambitious
by the tales of riches But when some
one escaped from the toils and asked
the surprised world to tear off the
flimsy veils that covered our national
idol it was found that its house of
gold was builded on dishonesty, on
bribery, on prostitution of power, on be
trayal of trust that the marvelous
business tact was common robbery and
the fruits of this enterprise and un
paralleled progress were murder, sui
cide and shame."
BALLOT BATTLE
MAY LAST LONG
If Jaoobson Slate-Makers Fail, the
Contest for Governor Will
Be Protracted.
Can the Jao^Bon slate be con
structed?
That is the question Minnesota poli
ticians are everjlwhere asking them
selves, whether gathered in Duluth, or
flocking toward tile zenith city.
It is everywhetie agreed that Jacob
son cannot win without getting sub
stantial addition* to his strength by
deals with candidates for other places
on the ticket, If his numerous man
agers can succeed in building a slate
that will hold together the convention
tangle can be solved in a jiffy. If they
fail, and that seems likely, the conven
tion will settle down to a series of bal
lots, various combinations will be tried,'
and the outcome will be determined by
second choice rotes.
to Duluth tl&W^lw delegates'nlvf
arrived there yet, but most of the jsan
didates are on hand. The slatemakers
are there, most of them, renewing their
efforts. ''Jim" Martin, who is taking
the lead in the Jacobson fight, spent
yesterday with the St. Paul delegation,
but left for Duluth last night without
accomplishing anything definite. He
told the Ramsey delegates that he had
figured Jacpbson ojit a sure winner
without them, but he would like to let
them in. There are plenty of forces in
Ramsey beside Walter Lemon, and they
would drop him if necessary to get in
the winner, for the sake of appointive
loaves and fishes. They are not satis
fied, however, that Jacobson holds the
cards. Jacobson's slate still carries
Carl Pidgeon, and has no room for
Lemon, to whom Ramsey is supposed
to be tied.
MONDAY EVENING, ^UNEjj 1^1906.
ShamefuliAtrocities of the Congo ^re l&dihitted
BRYAN, IN BERLIN,
GETS I00M NEWS
open so th
under private
porate offenders.
a
"Too Sudden,'* Says Nebraska
Globe-Trotter -of Presi-
dentialTalk.
Finds Distinction Between Dem
ocracy and SocialismHits
Beef Trust.'
Berlin, June 11."This is too sud-
den," said William Jennings Bryan
with a laugh, when he was told today
of the adoption by recent state demo
cratic conventiontgpf resolutions favor
ing his nomination for the presidency
of the United States in 1908.
"This is the first announcement of
this news to me,' Mr. Bryan continued.
"I"have been off the main caravan
route for some time and have been ab
sorbed in what I nave been seeing and
doing.''
Mr. Bryan had been moving so rap
idly since he left Vienna on Friday that
letters and telegrams for him did not
reach him until today. As to the pos
sibility of his nomination, he had little
to say, declaring it is too- early to
speak of that question, but taking up
the subject of political requirements of
the day he said:
Democracy vs. Socialism.
"Before leaving home I tried to dis
tinguish between democracy and what*
can properly be called socialism. Dem
ocracy recognizes competition as legit
imate and tries to protect the competi
tive principle from attack. Socialism
sees competition as an evil to be elim
inated by public ownership and opera
tion of alt means of production and
distribution.
"While this distinction between
democracy and socialism should not be
overlooked, the democratic platform
must be one of progress and reform
and not merely" of opposition to repub
lican policies or socialistic ideas.
Skies at Trust Gifts.
"In our fight for the absolute elim
ination of private monopolies and for
the regulation of corporations in gen
eral, it Is necessary that the party
shall be free, from any suspicion of al
liance with the corporate interests that
have bee a dominating American poli
tics. To this end, campaign contribu
tions" must be limited to those who have
the prrblit: interest to advance.
*~Beef Scandal Not Surprising.
Continued on 2d Page, 8d Column. Continued on 2d Page, 4th Column.
"-'Alluding to conditions in the meat
industry, Mr. Bryan said:
"The beef trust is not different in
character and methods from other
trusts. The inevitable tendency of a
privote monopoly is to increase the
price of a product and to lower its qual
ity. Why should anyone expect any
thing else from a trust than the lower
ing of quality when a monoply is es
tablished!
"Observe, I have used the words
'private monopoly,' not public. In a
private monopoly a private interest is
set up against those of the whole peo
ple. Quite a different principle comes
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"Isn't this a dainty dish
To set before a king?"
*S*
BOMB OF TODAY AN
ENGINE OF DEATH
Improvement in Construction of
Anarchists' Weapons Vexes
Secret Service Men.
Journal Special Servioe.
New York, June 11.The most dan
gerous feature of recent bomb outrages
is not their number, as indieatod by se
cret service officials, but the great im
provement that is being made in the
construction of bombs.
The number of persons who can be
killed by a single bomb is now much
greater than it was when these engines
of destruction'were first introduced. No
less than twenty-four persons were
killed by the explosion of the bomb
aimed at King Alfonso and Queen Vic
toria a few days ago and about eighty
were more or IOSB seriously injured.
When such a .man as Morales, who
threw the bomb at King Alfonso, turns
anarchist, the result can be appalling.
He was a profound student of chemistry
and a practical chemist end he made
the bomb which literally scattered
death. GASH IN HEART IS
MENDED MAN LIVES
Pulsating Organ Removed from
Body and Sewed Up
It Beats.
Journal Special Servioe.
Philadelphia, June 11.For over
forty minutes the pulsating heart of
William Wyatt was held in the hands
of two physicians at the Pennsylvania
hospital Saturday night while Dr. Rich
ard Hart, hospital surgeon, sewed six
stitches in the organ and then replaced
it in the body. Wyatt, who was at
first thought to have been fatally cut,
is reported to be resting comfortably,
and the physicians say they have every
reason to believe that the patient will
recover. It was the third time such
an operation has been performed in the
city.
Wyatt and a friend were scuffling
for possession of a long knife when the
former slipped and fell on its point.
Dr. Hart made an incision in Wyatt'g
left Bidelong enough to put uia fca.ua
as it sent the Blood coursing thru the
arteries.
Examination showed that the knife
had inflicted a wound on the organ
an inch and a quarter long. In order
that the heart's action should not be
interfered with, it was^ necessary for
the surgeon to make stitches between
pulsations. When the operation was
concluded the organ was put back in
its proper place.
DEOWNED IN SHALLOW WATER.
Speoial' to The Journal.
Menominee, Mich., June 11.Jerry Sullivan,
a young man employed on a drive on the
Menominee river, was drowned some diatance
up stream from this city. The water where
he fell in was shallow, and had he stood up
he would not have drowned He tried to swim,
floundered around and was drowned.
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CANNIBALS HIRED'
O EAT THE LAZY,
KINO LEOPOLD,
Belgium's Ruler, in Whose Name It Is
Charged Shameful Crimea Have Been
Practiced in Congo Free State.
CURSES COURT FOR
A SHORT SENTENCE
Illinois Wlfe-Stabber Begged to
Be Sent to the Gal-
lows.
Joliet, HI., June 11.Elias Kuntee,
convicted of attempted wife murder,
pleaded in the Will county court today
to be sent to the gallows. The court
sentenced him to serve one to fourteen
years in the penitentiary. Kuntee
then became greatly enraged and cursed
the court and those about him. Kuntee
stabbed his wife, to whom he had been
married six months. She recovered,
Sivorce.
rosecuted him and is now suing for
ROOSEVELT WON'T
*SI0 EftflfflM
Tucker, the Massachusetts Mur
derer, Fails in Appeal to
the President.
Boeton, June 11,Governor Guild
made public today a telejrram received
by him from President Roosevelt, in
which the president, after pointing out
that he had been requested to interfere
with the execution or Charles L. Tucker,
declares that in his judgment Governor
Guild's decision not to interfere with
the carrying out of the sentence on
Tucker seemed to him entirely sound
and commanded his hearty approval.
Tucker is under sentence of death
this week probably tonight, for the mur
der of Mabel Page at Weston, March
81, 1904. President Boosevelt's tele
gram follows:
"Have been requested on behalf of
certain parties in Boston to interfere
with the execution of Tucker, it being
alleged that it is my duty so to do, in-
federah
smuc as I have the power under the
laws.
"No showing has been made to me
that I have such power, but without re
gard to this I desire to state to you,
that in my judgment your decision not
to interfere with the carrying out of
the sentence of Tucker seems to me
entirely sound, and commands my hear
ty sympathy. It seems particularly a
ease in which there should be no inter
ference with the carrying out of the
sentence."
Tucker awoke in his cell at the
Charlestown prison this morning with
a realization that'his laBt day on earth
had arrived. He continued to demon
strate his remarkable nerve, and in
formed the death watch that he had enr
joyed a good night's sleep. Later the
prisoner ate a hearty breakfast, after
which he began preparations to receive
the sacrament ortbaptism. It was for
the purpose of administering this rite,
that Tucker's spiritual adviser, Ber.
Thomas W. Bishop, secured postpone
ment of the death sentence, Tucker
having consented at the last moment to
become a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church.
It is the general belief that Tucker
will be sent to the electric chair shortly
after midnight tonight.
HOTTENTOTS SLAY
GERMANS IN BATTLE
Berlin, June 11.Two German offi
cers and eight men were killed^, and ten
men were wounded June 4 in a fight
with Hottentots, between Warmbad
and the Fish river.
PATRICK IS DENIED
NEW TRIAL BY GOFF
New York, June 11.Recorder Goff
today denied a motion for a new trial
in the case of Albert T. Patrick, the
convicted murderer of William Marsh
Rice.
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WATEE TAXOnS ENDED.
Cincinnati, Ohio, June 11.According to the
city waterworks officials the famine In this
city is practically at an end. The hilltop sec
tions, which have suffered most since Friday
morning, now have plenty of water.
The following appointments were made in the
rural carrier force, commencing June 16:
Charles H. Lei, Beltrami, Minn., route No. 1
1 MASSACRES FORCED
WORKFORTHEKING
Many Atrocities Laid to Door of
Leopold's Trust Found
True.
'White Washing" Commission
Admits Charges^-King Vir
tiially Defies Interference.
41
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Speoial Cable to The Journal.
London, June 12.The Congo eom-t
mission, which was called
intohas
being for
whitewashing purposes, been
forced practically to admit the truth
*f many of the most terrible charges
which have been made against the Con*
go Free State.
Among the allegations made against1
the government have been the follow
ing:
That it has ruled the country, not
with a regard to the good of its inhab
itants, but almost solelv with a view to
increasing the profits of the rubber com
pany, in which King Leopold is the
chief stockholder.
Soldiers Slay Hundreds.
That when the people have failed to
bring in as much rubber as the repre
sentatives of the company thought thev
ought* native soldiers have been sent
out, who have perpetrated the most hor
rible massacres to stimulate the work*
ers' energy. On one expedition 900
natives were murdexed on a six weeks'
rubber "hunt." and on another of
three weeks, 300.
That cannibals have been officially
employedon one occasion as many as
500 in one partyto kill and eat the re
fractory inhabitants who refused to
work.
Reduced to Slavery.
That forced labor, amounting prae
tically to slavery in its most revolting
form, prevails everywhere. ^&
That, in consequence of the barbaric
ties nerpetrated and the inabilitv of the*
natives to both support themselves anct
supply %he demands upon them for rub
ber, the death rate has increased appall
IngrTy. Ana the entire Congo country
being rapidly depopulated.
King Leopold signs, the feeommewoV"
fe
tions for reform of the report, but the./
are not -sweeping and are, therefore?,
severely criticised by the London monu
ing papers.
"L'etat e'est MoL
The most notable features of the re*
port is a letter from King Leopold^ S'-,
which is a frank declaration of "Petatr, *g
o'est moi." He says:
"My position in the Free State ls
I admit, de facto and de jure without
precedent, but all the burden, all the re
sponsibility, has been left with me.
Belgium has certainly shown a desire
to help with money in some measure,
but the work of constituting the new
state devolved upon me alone.
"The constitution of the Congo state
has been and cannot be anything but
my personal achievement. Now, there
can be no more legitimate right than
that of the author over his own work.
Powers Are Defied*,
"The powers gave the birth of tho-|j
new state their blessing, but none orX
them has been asked to share in my"
efforts. Therefore, none of them pos
sesses in'the Congo Free State any right
of intervention that could be justified.
"There is no special international
law concerning the state My rights on
the Congo are indivisible. They are the
result of my toil and of the expenditure
of my monejr. It is essential that I
should proclaim these rights aloud, for
Belgium does not possess any except
those which emanate from me."
42 DOSES OF POISON
IN AVERAGE MEAL
Sensational Indictment of Modem
Foods Comes from Anti
Adulterant Champion.
Journal Special Service. &
Kansas City, Mo., June 11."By
studying a bill of fare in a restaurant
not long ago, I found that the average
man takes forty-two doses of poison at
every meal he eats," said Harry B.
Walmsley, champion of the pure-food
bill in the last legislature. "The but
ter is covered with coal-tar dyes, the
meat has more or less embalming fluid.
the lard in Which his potatoes are fried
probably contains portions of hogs that
have died natural deaths and not been
slaughtered under sanitary conditions
the catsup is colored with coal dyes and
has salicylic acid in it.
"The bread is full of alum the tea
and coffee contain coffer the vegeta
bles have different varieties of eoal
tar dyes. You can't get any pure pep-
Sust
commencing July 2, Hiram W. Euaaell, Salem, signed Harry Haxby, St Marys, Miner coo*-
S. D., mt No. ft. ^Z^MS^-i ty, 8. D., vice B. J. McLeod, resigned.
er it is full of cocoanut shells, saw
and clay. You buy a nice red
apple on the 'stand. It is rosy because,
nine times out of ten, it is painted
with coal-tar dyes. Even the cherished
illusion of new potatoes is not always
ours. Old potatoes are freshened up
in alum water after being scraped.
"Fifty per cent of the deaths that
occur in this country are the direct
result of impure and dishonest foods.
The packers are not alone to blame.
It is practically impossible to get any
pure .food in tjiis country."
*r* BBAWl COSTS THTJtTEEV LIVES.
Tiflis, June 11.A brawl between Armenians
and Mussulmans at Erlvan led to serious riot
ing, and the troops were turned ont to sop
press the disorders. Eleven- Armenians and
two Mussulmans were killed and sixteen,
wounded.
The following fourth-class postmasters were
appointed June 9: Lewis N. Prescott, Alsea.
Cavalier county, N. D., vice A. O. Saysea, r-