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THE EVENING STAR
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TO WJITJi SENATE
Finance Gommitee Will Frame
Currency Legislation.
DECISION OF THE LEADERS
Dissatisfied With the House Com
mittee.
MEASUBE ALREADY PLANNED
Many Details Remain to Be Settled.
Senators Aldrich, Allison and
Hale in Charge of Matter.
The House committee on banking and
currency?appointed by Speaker Cannon
noon after the convening of Congress for
the purpose of framing emergency finan
cial legislation?has become unmanage
able. and republican leaders at the Capi
tol have determined that the financial re
lief bill?pressing necessity for which is
admitted by both parties in the two
branches of the national legislature?shall
originate In the Senate. The big three of
the Senate finance committee?Senators
Aldrich of Rhode Island. Allison of Iowa
and Hale of Maine?have been intrusted
with the task of preparing a financial bill
designed to prevent a recurrence of na
tional money disturbances of the nature
of the recent stringency, and have al
ready made good progress, the general
plan having been mapped out, although
there yet remain many essential details
to be decided upon.
Additional Bank Currency.
Although none of the senators named I
? 111 discuss the pending bill for publica- j
tlon. It is understood that the general
plan In question provides for additional
banking currency of substantially the
same form as that now in circulation, and
backed by the guarantee of the United
States government. One of the details
which has not yet been worked out is
with reference to the limitation to be
placed upon the amount -issued by each
national bank?whether this limit shall be
up to the full extent of the bank's capi
tal or Just what proportion of the capi
tal. It seems pretty well settled, how
ever, that the relief bill will not be an
asset ourrency measure, and that it will
contain no provisions which might be
taken as a tentative legislative indorse
ment of clearing house certificates.
To Bestore Confidence.
In view of the many reports that have
been circulated concerning the attitude of
the leaders of both Senate and House
with reference to financial legislation, this
decision ot the republican leaders at both
ends of tbe\Capitol to have the necessary
bill originate at the Senate end with
a view to \ early action by Congress
as a whole 1& peculiarly interesting. The
republican leaders clearly recognize that
something must be done to restore confi
dence?financial, as concerns the mass of
the people, and political, as concerns the
mass of the voters.
This recognition Is by no means belated,
"lero have beejn no misapprehensions _jis
?"tc situation! so far as the republican
rs\in Congress are concerned. But
mIVJacoherenfcy as seems to have aflllct
situaHbn, legislatively? has been
great measure to a cautious grop
the bfest meatjs to attain the de
Id. Tfie early appointment of the
and currency committee of the
was purely objective. Speaker
Cannon had/ho delusions on the subject.
Chairman Fowler's personal views on
neoessac*/CflSnges in the national mone
tary ta*tem do not coincide with the views
a majority of members of the House
%nd there are. besides, several members
ftf his committee who hold rather radical
ttalnlons. But it "Was thought that pos
slaly the exjflwheies of the present aitua
U#1 and the admittedly imperative need
' for conservative action along popular
lines might serve to produce a tempo
t rarily serviceable if permanently question
able financial measure, which would in
voke the efficient if unenthuslastic support
Of a majority of both houses and 8e put
oA'Us paste**' with a minimum of friction
and^ntATical disturbance.
wfate Committee Preferred.
Thwview appears to have been entirely
too optimistic. Up to date the House
banking and currency committee has
shown few symptoms of a desire to pre
pare a relief measure along the lines
desired by the party conservatives at
both ends of the Capitol. It has. in
words of the plainest, got its feet, col
lectively and individually, over the traces,
and there is little hope that ^ measure
prepared by its subcommittee and fa
vorably reported by the Entire member
ship would have even a fighting chance
of approval by both Houses. Consequently
it has been decided to have the bill orig
inate in the Senate finance committee and
be passed by the upper House, where the
more compact organization of the party
chieftains promisesacomparatlvely speedy
perfection of the measure with as little
friction as possible. Opinions differ widely
as to just when action will be obtained
by the faenute on the financial measure
now in preparation. The bill, it is un
derstood. will be introduced soon after
the reconvening of Congress, and will be
given almost immediate consideration. But
it is. of course, impossible to foretell when
final approval will be giver and the meas- !
ore sent over to the House for cousidera- I
tlon.
To Provide Emergency Belief.
One of the three senators mentioned as J
having charge of the preparation of the
bill said recently thVt the main idea fol- j
lowed in framing the relief legislation
would be to provide for some emergency
relief in which tue people as a whole
would have confidence and resort to when
necessity arose. Whatever additional
hanking currency provided for un
doubtedly will be In such volume as effec
tively to meet conditions similar to those
which have recently prevailed. It is
thought, moreover, that provision will also
be made for the creation of a fund, to lie
raised by the imposition of a small tax
either upon government deposits in na
tional banks or upon existing circula
tion, which will guarantee the United
States against loss. It is also considered
inevitable that another provision will be
made for the retirement of this additional
circulation at the passingoftheemergency
which called it forth?and this provision
may be along the lines of the recommen
dation of Secretary Cortelvou In his most
recent annual report. In which he sug
gests that Congress vest the Secretary
with discretionary powers in this matter
of excess circulation retirement.
Commercial Paper Not a Basis.
It is considered rather improbable, by
those in a position to know, that the
financial bill in preparation will au
thorize the acceptance of even the
most gilt-edged commercial p^per and
leal estate mortgages as security for
national bank circulation, as tl.is would
be an innovation of the mos? radical
"?rt. and would defeat the very prop
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Committee of Republican Club
to Push It.
THE GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE
He Confined Himself Exclusively to
State Affairs.
MAY PLAY HIS OWN HAND
I
His Program Will Be to Govern Em
pire State and I,et Presidential
Politics Take Care of Itself.
Republicans in this city were much in
terested today in the developments in New
York yesterday in connection with the
Hushes boom, and commented freely upon
the two events bearing thereon. These
were the appointment of k committee of
the Republican Club of New York city,
comprising some of the most prominent
members of that well-known organization,
to push the Hughes boom; and second,
the governor's message to the legislature.
The Republican Club's committee will,
it is understood, proceed at once to push
the Hughes boom among influential re
publicans of the city and state. The first
practical effort will be to induce the re
publican county committee, at its meet
ing January 1*1, to put through the resolu
tion endorsing Gov. Hughes which was |
proposed at the last meeting and which 1
went over.
Significant Feature of Message.
The significant featijre of the govern
or's message to the legislature was the
fact that ihe confined himself exclusively
to state affairs and not only kept off of
national questions, but, in fact, accen
tuated In one recommendation, relating to
beef inspection and immigration quaran- i
tine, the necessity of drawing ti?e line
sharply between state and federal pow
ers. It was commented upon that the i
governor also placed himself boldly on I
the crest of the wave of reiform by urg
ing a bill prohibiting betting at race
tracks, and further emphasized his views
on state control of public utilities by
urging the placing of telephone and tele
graph companies under control of the
public service commission. He also rec
ommended ballot reform and a direct
primary system.
These recommendations of the gov
ernor will bring him into conflict with
powerful interests, and they may have"
important bearing upon the Hughes boom
in the state. The machine politicians are
likely tp resent the plans for ballot re
form: the corporation influences may re
sist this further extension of the power
of the public service commission and the
rag-tag and bob-tail will certainly set up
a howl against the abolition of race
track gambling. But it is pointed out
that Gov. Hughes owes entirely his suc
cess in politics to his battles for reform,
and that in his program for control of
corporations he has the example of the
success of one' in higher station.
May Play His Own Hand. ?
It was said today that Gov. Hughes ap
parently seems intent upon playing his
own hand and ignoring the demands of
such leaders as Job Hedges t.:at he
should declare himself upon national is
sues. Gov. Hughes' friends in New York
have contended all along that his pro
gram will be to sit on the Job of govern
ing the state of New York and let presi
dential politics take care of itself.
There has been considerable specula
tion in political circles recently as to the
possibility of a combination by which
Gov. Hughes might take the vice, presi
dency with Secretary Taft at the head of
the ticket. It was pointed out by some
that Gov. Hughes could well afford to do
this as he is a tyro in national politics.
One of the main objections, however, dis
coverable in the plans by politicians has
been that it would still leave unsettled the
question of "who is who" in New lork
politics; that either Roosevelt or Hughes
will have to be supreme in the state and
that they cannot divide their authority.
CONFER ON SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
Workers Meet Representing 14,
000,000 Members.
BOSTON. January 2.?Men representing
all phases of Sunday school work in North
America are in Boston today to attend
conference called by W. N^ Hartshorn,
chairman of the executive committee of
the International Sunday School Asso
ciation. The executive committee, uni
form lesson committee, the Sunday School
Editorial Association and the denomina
tional publishing concerns of the coun
try were represented in the assembly I
of the .leaders who are authorized to !
speak for nearly all the denominations 1
of the Christian churches representing I
some 14,<*K).<*K> members connected with
1.15.1)00 Sunday schools.
The topic for discussion is "How Can i
We Improve the l^esson System?" The !
international lesson committee prompted
by action taken at the last triennial con
vention at Rome In the spring of 1!H)7
has had under consideration the ques
tion of changing the system to meet ad
vancing conditions, and there has been j
much discussion of plans by members of
the editorial association and the pub
lishers of the' lessons helps of the vari
ous denominations.
While various conferences have been
held by the several branches of ithe in
ternational association, this is the first
time in the history of the organization,
which was founded in lSTIi. that the four
great branches of the work have been
represented at such a meeting.
Clarence Darrow Still 111.
Social Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES. Cal.. January 2.?The I
I condition of Attorney Clarence Darrow
today was not as favorable as had been
hoped for. According to the report from
I the California hospital where he is being
I cared for, Mr. Darrow passed another
bad night anil his condition Is considered
critical.
Dr. Haynes hopes that by the end of
the week Mr. Darrow will be in a fit
condition to undergo an operation, if this
proves a necessity.
Religion and Chilblains.
FORT WIL.LJAM, Ont., January 2.?
Twelve Doukhobor pilgrims started out
yesterday without clothing for one of
their strange marches through the
streets. They were finally rounded up
by the police. Seven men and five women
were in the party, and they marched a
half mile in scanty attire - before being
stopped.
, Castellane May Fight a Duel.
PARIS. January 2.?There was a violent
quarrel in the Rue Chlllot today between
Count Boni de Castellane and Prince
Helie de Sagan. The count Is reported to
have denounced the prince in unmeasured
terms, and a duel is believed to be im
minent.
News Note?A Fairbanks Club of Six-footers Has Been Organized in Chicago.
GUILD INAUGURATED
INSTALLED AS BAY STATE GOV
ERNOR FOB, THIRD TERM.
BOSTON". January 2.?Curtis Guild, jr..
was inaugurated today for a third term
as governor of Massachusetts. The two
houses were assembled in joint conven
tion and several hundred business men
crowded the aisles of the chamber and
the area in front of the speaker's desk,
whiie the galleries were filled with women.
Th? oath having been administered to
Gov. Guild and Lieut. Gov. Draper, the
former proceeded to read his inauguraj
address.
Gov. Guild's Address.
The need of today is ,peace and peace
with honor?peace between nations, comi
ty between states, good temper as well
as honesty between individuals. We must
enforce, we have enforced the law.
whether those who encroach upon its
provisions are corporations or Individuals.
We must control, we have controlk-d great
public service corporations. The alterna
tion of such control Is not individualism,
but socialism, If, however, there is a
year when it is particularly desirable to
avoid recklessly sensational onslaughts on
property, shattering public confidence,
curtailin-g commerce, checking Investment,
reducing alike the earnings of capital and
the^ employment of laibor, it is this year,
. The most serious question to foe de
termined in this sesion is the settlement
of the transportation problem of Massa
chusetts. It should be taken up in a
broad spirit, free from prejudice. Espe
cially should legislative action that Is
merely destructive be avoided. No policy
which has not been thoroughly and care
fully followed to its conclusions would be
adopted. It is not an exaggerated charge
but a simple statement of fact to say that
no steam railroad operated in Massa
chusetts is giving the service that it
shculd give to the public. Delay in the
shipment of freight and a general tardi
ness of all trains has marked the service
on ali of our railroads.
Existing law is inadequate to deal with
public control of railroads. The Massa
chusetts railroad commission, the pioneer
in state control of public service corpora
Hons should be clothed with ampler
powers. It should at least be given the
same control of railroads within Massa
chusetts that is given to the interstate
commerce commission In regard to roads
doing an Interstate business.
SENOR CARBO RETURNS.
He Called on Secretary Root to Re
new His Relations as Minister.
After an absence of tight months Senor
Don Luis Felipe Carbo has returned to
Washington in the capacity of minister
from Ecuador. He called upon Secretary
Root at the State Department . today to
renew his relations with the department.
Senor Carbo was recalled to Quito from
his post here in order temporarily to as
sume the duties of minister for foreign
affairs, but now that the emergency that
caused his return to his country lias
passed he has been relieved of his duties
in the foreign office by Senor Puja, the
minister of the interior,, who for the pres
ent will undertake the' discharge of the
duties of both offices.
ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
Will Occur Tomorrow. But Not Visi
ble in This Section.
An eclipse of the sun is scheduled for
tomorrow, but will not be Visible in this
section of the world. In some of the
southern states the phenomenon may be
seen as a partial eclipse just before sun
set. A party of scientists irorn the Lick
observatory has gone to Flint Island in
the Pacific to make observations and cal
culations.
They will be joined by Benjamin Boss
assistant astronomer of the naval ob
servatory at Tutulla, Samoan Islands
ATLANTA STILL DRY.
Brewers* Application for Injunction
- Denied.
f-perial Dinpatcit to The Star.
ATLANTA, Ga.. January 2.?Judge
Newman of the United States circuit court
has refused the application of brewers
to restrain by injunction the new prohibi
tion law. which became effective January
1. The application was made by repre
sentatives of brewing Interests outside of
the state of Georgia.
The companies announce, however, that
they will proceed with their litigation
even though they cannot secure the in
junction. Suits will come up In about
two months and will give the federal
courts an opportunity to pass upon the
new law.
ECHO OF DRUCE CASE.
Claimant's Attorneys Dissatisfied
Over Conduct of Exhumation.
LONDON. January 2.?The attorneys of
George Hollamby Druce. the claimant for
the vast estates of the Duke of Portland
and for the duke's title, have given out
a statement expressing dissatisfaction
over the conduct of the exhumation of
the body of Thomas Charles Druce be
cause the floor of the vault was not
opened.
They say that their representatives at
the exhumation were instructed to de
mand .that this be done, because they
had received letters stating that a second
coffin, containing lead, would be found
there.
ANSWERS RULE TO SHOW CAUSE
WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT COM
PANY MAKES STATEMENT.
Contention That the District Com
missioners Are Not Entitled to
Writ of Prohibition.
The answer of the Washington Gas
Light Company to the rule issued by the
Court of Appeals to show cause why a
writ of prohibition should not issue
against the company and Justice Gould
was filed today. The rule was issued
at the instance of the District Commis
sioners, who claim the Equity Court is
without jurisdictlaon to ascertain the ac
tual cash value of the company's plant
as a basis for an Increase of its capital
stock.
The answer of Justice Gould will prob
ably be filed by next Monday, when the
matter is scheduled for argument. Jus
tice Gould will file a formal return de
claring that he decided he is clothed wjth
the necessary jurisdiction, and still thinks
so.
By the answer filed through Attorneys
R. Ross Perry & Son. R. H. Goldsborough,
Wilton J. Lambert and Edward McLean
it is explained that the company is ad
vised by its counsel that the petition does
not show upon its face or through its
averments such facts as entitle the peti
tioners to the relief prayed, or to the
writ of prohibition.
Not Entitled to Belief.
Not waiving thii objection, however, the
respondent says that the averments con
tained in the first, second and third para
graphs of the petition are substantially
true, but aver they are not a full state
ment of the proceedings had before the
Supreme Court of the District of Colum
bia; that there are only two gas com
panies in the District of Columbia, the
Washington Gas Company, which supplies
gas east of Rock creek, and the George
town Gas Company, which supplies gas
west of Rock creek.
It is set forth that by the original in
corporation of the gats company the capi
Ital stock was placed at $.">0,000, divided
into shares of $20 each; and that by dif
ferent acts of Congress, the final one be
ing on the 2Nth of May, 1872, a further
Increase to $1,200,000 was authorized, and
that the- present capital stock of the gas
company issued under authority of law
is $2,000,000. When the motions were
heard upon the application to dismiss the
petition they were overruled by Justice
Gould.
It is further set forth that the order
remains in full force and efTect, and is
not appealed from at the present time.
The position Is taken that under the act
the District Supreme Court lias exclusive
jurisdiction of the case, and that its ju
risdiction is final, and that the only power
that exists in the Court of Appeals to
issue writs of prohibition are In cases
where It has absolute Jurisdiction, and nu
merous authorities are cited to show that
where a court has appellate jurisdiction,
except in extreme cases, the courts have
held that the writ of prohibition should
not be granted,- but the right of appeal
should be followed. The court is asked
I to dismiss the rule.
MORE DUMA CHARGES
SOCIALISTS TO BE BROUGHT
TO THE BAB.
ST. PETERSBURG, January 2.?Indict
ments were returned in this city today
against all the members of the executive
committee of the popular socialist party
and their trial before the court of appeals
will begin shortly.
The accused men belong to the intel
lectual section of the social revolutionists.
They are mostly veterans of the revolu
tionary struggle who withdrew from
the social revolutionary party in
order to participate in the elec
tions to the third duma. Among them
are M. Annensky, who. in 1906, was ex
iled on account of his political activities;
Ivan Miakotln, the well known Russian
author, who shared Maxim Gorky's im
prisonment in a fortress in 1905; M. Lu
tugin, the organizer and first president of
the League of Leagues, which co-operated
with the labor organizations during the
| era of strikes which preceded the is
suance of the October manifesto, and
several prominent attorneys.
Like the Viborg Cases.
The men are accused of being members
of a secret organization which aimed to
overthrow the government. The penalty
on this charge may be penal servitude
for eight years.
The case has the same general fea
tures as the trial of the social demo
cratic members of the duma and that of
the former deputies who signed the' Vi
borg manifesto. The social revolutionary
organization is the only radical political
party which has not already been brought
to the bar.
It is understood that the authorities in
tend to use the case of Nicholas Tschai
i kovsky as a basis of procedure against
the men indicted today. Tie duma will
| bje asked to suspend its sittings pending
Premier Stolypln has informed M
j Khomyaoff. president of the duma, that
M. Kosorotoff. a socialist member of the
duma. has been indicted for making a
post-election speech at Ufa in which he
incited to murdering the police and re
sisting the authorities.
SUMMER HOTEL BURNED.
Colonial Arms on New England
Coast Prey to Flames.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
GLOUCESTER. Mass.. January 2. A
fire which started presumably from the
brand of a firebug, resulted in the total
destruction of the well-known Colonial
Arms, the largest summer hotel on the
New England coast, last evening. The
loss is estimated at about $o00,00o,#whlch
is covered by insurance.
When the fire was first discovered it
was shooting from one of the upper floor
windows, and by the time the firemen ar
rived, the structure was doomed.
The hotel was built about three years
ago. Just before it was opened to the
public the hotel was tlie,scene of an elab
orate compliment&ry dinner, given Am
bassador George Von L. Meyer, who was
then visiting this country.
? Mount Royal May Be Safe.
ST. JOHN, N. B., January 2.?A steamer
thought to be the overdue Canadian Pa
cific liner Mount Royal, twenty-five day*
out from Liverpool.' with 485 Immigrants
aboard, was passed Monday list oft Sable
Island. N. S.. by the steamer Lake Cham
plain of the same line, which arrived here
last evening from Liverpool. Capt. Web
ster of the Lake Champlaln reports that
when off Sable Island he passed a four
masted steamer about fifteen miles away,
on the same course as he was steaming,
but moving slowly. No signals were seen.
As Capt. Webster did not know of the
anxiety about the Mount RoyaJ he did not
attempt to identify the steamer he passed
Harden Trial Postponed.
Special Cablegram to The Star.
BERLIN. January On a medical cer
tificate that Maximilian Harden was too
fll to be present in court, the arguments in
the case against him for criminal libel
upon Count Kuno von Moltke were not
resumed today, and the case went over.
OHIO REPUBLICANS
Meeting of the State Central
Committee Toda>
IN THE CITY OF COLUMBUS
Another Conference Between Sena
tor Dick and Vorys.
PLANS FOR THE CAMPAIGN;
Contentions of the Managers of Taft
and Foraker?Date for
Convention.
I
i Special Dispatch to The Star.
COL.UMBUS, Ohio. January 2?Al
though no arrangements have been made
| for another conference between Senator
Dick. representing the Foraker forces,
and Manager Voifs before the meeting
of t?he republican state central committee
this afternoon, another one Is quite li^cely
some time today. Senator Dick, it is un
derstood. is not averseio another meet
ing to discuss the question of the date of
the convention, and Manager Vorys is
also willing to talk the matter over.
It is said that Senator Dick is willing
1 to let the Taft men have full sway, with
out any attempt to cause any disturbance
In the committee meeting, if there are
some little concessions made for the For
aker men and for a few of the candidates
for the slate offices, whom he represents
unofficially. The senator's idea Is that
the call should be Issued In such a man
ner that there will'be as little friction as
possible, or at least as little appearance
| of friction as possible, to make sure of a
good, old-fashioned republican campaign
next summer. If {here must be arbitrary
action, he wants it to be taken in a way
l which will not appear as arbitrary.
With tills lever there is a probability
that the Taft men will make some con
cessions. There will, they say, be no de
I viation from the plan for a primary elec
j tion, to allow the voters of the state to
I decide, once for all. their preference for
a presidential candidate. Whether the
Foraker forces really want general pri
maries is still a question, despite the let
ter of Senator Foraker on that subject.
The general opinion is that they do not.
Dick's Contention.
It Is said that Senator Dick is contend
ing either for some plan of selecting dele
gates which will give the people a chance
to vote on their choice for state candidate
or for no primary at all. In other words,
he thinks that when the primaries are
held the voters should be allowed to ex
press their choice for President, governor,
secretary of state, attorney general, and
so on clear down through the list. He
thinks, according to statements made by
his friends, that the presidential ques
tion should not be allowed to dominate a*II
others. What his plan is for allowing
this general vote he does not give. An
early date will be selected f&r the conven
tion.
The committee meets today for the put
pose of selecting a date for the state con
vention which will name a state ticket
and also delegates at large for the na
tional convention. Senator Dick said that
he Is here In the interests of the whole
party.
"I am against the proposition to- a state
convention In February," he said. "I
think most of the members are with me.
I think that March will be a better time.
I am not here to attend the meeting of
the committee, as I am not a member.
All I care for is to insure the election of
the ticket."
Rumors of all sorts are rife as to some
sort of a compromise between Taft and
Foraker, but those on the inside say they
will fight It out to the bitter end.
GIRL STILL MISSING
NO TRACE OF ITALIAN WHO DIS
\ APPEARED TUESDAY.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 2.?After an all
night search of the hospitals and the
morgue. Enrico Pescia returned to his
home this morning, at 154 East 116tlv
street, without the slightest clue as to
the fate of his young sist#r. Elvira Pescia,
who disappeared Tuesday under cir
cumstances of much mystery.
In addition to the general alarm sent
out by the police, private detectives re
gained by the girl's family are engaged
in a search for some trace of the missing
girl, and a close watch is being kept at
all the up-town docks. The father and
mother and also the brother have not
accepted for a moment the suicide theory,
which the girl herself sought to estab
lish in a letter mailed to her home short
ly after tier departure. At the same
tinie they realize that it is a possibility
at any rate and are doing? everything to
prevent the girl killing herself, or to learn
of her death in case she has already
taken her life.
The fact that the girl had only five
cents when she left home Tuesday led
her brother to the conclusion that if sul
vide was her object the only course she
could well pursue would be to drown her
self. She might, of course, have pawned
the diamond ring she wore and so pur
chased poison, but Enrico Pescia said to
day that the girls bringing up was such
that this was most unlikely.
The giri's mother is ill from shock, and
it was chiefly to satisfy her that young
Pescia made his search last night.
The Only Explanation.
The only explanation other than suicide
which the family offer for the girl's pe
culiar disappearance is that she has
eloped. Enrico has maintained this view
throughout. In his opinion the gil l's let
ter to her family discussing suicide and
disowning all thoughts of a love affair
was probably a blind, intended to deceive
her family until she should be well away.
The elopement theory gains some sup
port from thp girl's dissatisfaction with
America and her longing to return to
Florence, her native home. She came to
this country two years ago at her broth
er's earnest pleading. He has been here
six years, and lives with ?his wife and
family in a'handsome house, which he
owns, e Is engaged In the real estate
business here. . '
The family is said to .be well known
and prominent in Florence, and the father
has the title of marquis. Young Pescia
renounced all claim to the title when he I
took out his papers to become an Amer- !
ican citizen, a year ago. The father and j
mother came to visit their children last j
spring.
Enrica declared this morning that while
his sister could not possibly have any
suitors among the Italians here, it was
possible that she might have .arranged to
meet and elop? with sora? lover who had
followed her here from Florence. J
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Weather.
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Fair, coldcr tonight; mini
mum temperature about j6
degrees. Tomorrow fair.
RECEIVERS NAMED
FOR THE SEABOARD
Action Taken in U. S. Circuit
Court at Richmond.
DROP IN EARNINGS CAUSE
S. Davies Warfield and R. Lancaster
Williams the Men.
NO SERIOUS RESULTS EXPECTED
Income Simply Was Not Larg*
Enough to Meet the Fixed
Charges of the Road.
S. Davies \\ arfield. president
ot the Continental Trust Com
pany of Baltimore, and R. Lan
caster Williams, a brother of John
Skelton Williams, former presi
dent of the Seaboard Air Line
railway, were appointed receivers
for the road in Richmond today.
1 he appointment was made br
Judge Jeter C. Pritchard and
Judge W addill, sitting together in
the United States district court.
Application for the receivership
had been made to Judge Waddill
yesterday, but he thought it best,
because of the extensive territory
over which the road operates, tew
have Judge Pritchard pass on
the matter. Accordingly, Judtje
I ritchard was hurried from Ashc
ville, N. C.. on a special train.
RICHMOND, Va.. January 2.?Judge
Pritchard, Judge of the United States cir
cuit court, entered a decree today nam
ing: S. Davies Warfleld of Baltimore an.t
R. Lancaster Williams of Richmond as
receivers to take immediate possession of
the property of the 8eaboard Air Line
railroad. The bond of each was fixed at
$30,000.
By the decree Ihe receivers are empow
ered to borrow money If needful to pay
such rental as may become due, purchase
cars, etc., and pay for labor and supplies,
but not for any other purposes without,
an order of the court having primary
Jurisdiction. They are ordered to pay
forthwith all installments and interest
that was due and payable January l,
1908, notes or trust equipment certlti
cates and all coupons and interest matur
ing January 1. m8, on the first mort
gage bonds of the Seaboard Air Line and
embraced roads, such, as the Raleigh ana
Gaston, Raleigh and Augusta Air Line,
the Georgia-Carolina and the consolidated
mortgage bonds of the Carolina Central.
The language of the decree retarding
Payment of interest is that the recovers
are hereby ordered to pay forthwith all
Instal ments and interest thar^,^"1
m?n, a?U.ary l- 190s- ot ?r ?n any Uulp
merit, notes or equipment tnmt n+r+tn
Seabolrd'Ti^UT or o?aU
inH ^ cortlPan'ea; and all coupons
and Interest maturing, or that matured
January 1. i908, on the first mortg^?
bonds of the Seaboard Air Line Com
V? , Raleigh and Gaston 4ilr??
Au?u8ta Air line, th?
% 9ST2,"na and Northern railroad
and the Florida Central and Peninsula
Company, and of the first consolidated,
mortgage bonds of the Carolina Central
railroad and of the Georgia and Ala
bama and of the Florida Central and
ComPany. and the first
^1ds 2 the Florlda West Shore
railway, and the first mortgage land
f?, e*tension bonds of the Florlda Cen
tral and Peninsula Company "
The receivers are directed to borrow
money to make such payments. The
receivers also are directed to take lm
'n Zf9ea?J?" ot -all and singular
the property of the corporation in all
nra?hS' ra?id co"tlnue operation
of the railroad system and to run and
operate the said railroads and such
other property as is held by the cor
poration, and In suih manner as will
In their Judgment produce the best re
sults, and to exercise the authority
and franchises of the complainant, and
to conduct systematically the business
occupation of a common carrier of pas
sengers and freight."
Stockholders Satisfied.
They are also ordered to direct an*
protect the railway property, as it has
formerly been controlled, so that it may
be advantageously used and developed.
They are empowered to employ and
discharge, and moreover to fix the com
pensation of such employes, counsel,
lawyers, superintendents, agents, etc.,
as are needed to assist them in the dis
charge of their duties.
In reply to inquiries by a representative
of the Associated Press -John S. Wil
liams & Sons, one of the partners of
which firm, R. Williams, was made onn
of the receivers, expressed themselves a*
very well satisfied with the present situa
tion, which they believe will quickly lead
to a complete reorganization of the man
agement and readjustment of the finances
of the road and so enable the property to
resume its position in the upbuilding ot tun
south. They view the present arrange
ments as a union of ail the interests in the
system in which heretofore th?re have
been strong antagonisms, and as the pre
liminary step toward harmonious action
for the development and the earning of
profits.
The title of the case In which the decree
is entered Is Seaboard Air Une railwa\
complainant. against the Continental
Trust Company as trustee under the first
mortgages made by the Seaboard Air
Line railway, defendant.
Seaboard's Annual Report.
The annual report of the Seaboard is
sued recently showed that the railway
was unable to pay its interest and rental
charges. The gross income of the com
pany last year was $17,204,182.24, and the
operating expenses and taxe? amounted
to $14,103,148.30, leaving net earnings from
operation amounting to $3,101,033.04. to
which must be added Income from other
sources amounting to Klt.802.e6. which
gave a total net Income of 13.132 g:t# f?>
This latter sum was all the companv had
to meet interest charges and rcntaU
amounting to $3,i;,j,434.?j?; in other word-1
its report showed a deficit on this item
of fixed charges amounting to $42..V.W.0fi.
I he actual deficit under charges which
was shown by the company * own report
to exist July I last was $304,19020
The October statement, however 'show.