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TO TRANSFER FREE
House District Committee
Favors Wiley Measure.
APPLIES TO ALL LINES
Will Go on Calendar and Be Taken
Up for Action Monday.
AUTHOR IS HIGHLY ELATED
Hopes for Successful Outcome to
Fight He Has Been Carrying
on Several Tears.
A favorable report was ordered by
the House District committee today on
the bill introduced by Representative j
Wiley of New Jersey providing for universal
transfers over all street railway
lines In the District of Columbia.
Ae a result of the action of the committee
the universal transfer bill will
go on the calendar and be taken up in
the House next Monday, which, under
the rules, is District day.
Mr. Wiley is much pleased over the action
of the committee. He began his
flght for universal transfers four years
ago, and has continued it ever since, reintroducing
his bill each session and
pushing It for all he was worth before
the District committee. He is certain
i hat the measure will pass me nuust
with a rush, and is hopeful of securing
favorable action by the Senate at the
present session of Congress.
Provisions of the Bill.
The Wiley universal transfer bill provides
"that thirty days after the passage
of this act the street railway lines in the
District of Columbia shall issue transfers
Interchangeable within the District of
Columbia from the lines of one company
to those of another, the companies
to have the right to stipulate
that the transfer shall be good only
for a trip in continuation of tbe trip
on the line for which the transfer is
Issued, so that a passenger will not be
enabled to use the interchange of transfer
to effect a trip from one point to
another and return on one fare; provided,
that the adjustment of their accounts
resulting from this interchange
of transfers shall be mutually agreed;
upon between the said railway comand
in any case of failure to reach I
such mutual agreement the matters in
di scute shall be determined by the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia
upon petition filed by either party,
end provided, further, that the railway
lines shall not be required to issue a
transfer on a transfer."
MARK TWAIN WEAKER.
Although Suffering Acutely, Patient
Is Able to Sleep.
BEDDING. Conn., April 30.?The condition
of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark
Twain> this afternoon was perceptibly
weaker than it was twenty-four hours
ago.
Dr. Robert H. Halsey, the attending
physician, in a statement as to the patient's
illness, said that Mr. Clemens has
cardiac asthma, with angina pectoris. At
times he suffers a great deal, but generally
he rests comfortably and is able to
* sleep.
LORD KITCHENER SAILS.
Departs for England on the Oceanic.
Dined by Consul.
NEW YORK, April 20.?Lord Kitchener
sailed today on the Oceanic. He
wa' entertained at dinner last night
by Courtenay Walter Bennett, the British
consul general. Lord Kitchener was
much disappointed in not seeing the
base ball game yesterday afternoon.
He stayed at the Polo grounds with the
rest of the fans until there was no
possible chance for the teams to come
together.
The latter part of the afternoon was
spent at the Pilgrims' Club, following
which Gen. Kitchener went to the
U??aI ?if. r*
r idM iu iur mr. cennett's
dinner and to see that all packing
was done for an early start this
mornln(.
TAGGABT FOB SENATORSHTP.
Democratic leader Declares He Will
Contest With Beveridge.
11CDIA.K APOIJS, April 30. ? Thomas
Tag|ait former chairman of the democratic
national committee, formally announced
today that he will be a candidate
before the general assembly next
year to succeed Albert J. Beverldge In
the United States Senate.
If the democratic state convention next
week adopts a plan approved by Gov.
Marshall, and If a candidate for the
Senate be indorsed, Mr. Taggart's name
will be presented.
VOLIYA REGAINS POWER.
Theocratic Party Victorious in Election
at Zion City.
CHICAGO. 111.. A<prll 2a-At Zion City |
WITbnr Glenn Vollva, successor to the
lete John Alexander Dowle. yesterday
won back most of the power he lost at
the election a year ago. The election was
the second test of strength between the
theocratic party, represented by Vollva,
and the' Independents, headed by Mayor
Rltchey. At a close election last year
the Independents won every city office.
Yesterday Vollva elected three aldermen
and a police magistrate, all the offices
voted on.
Penalty of Xnrder.
RICHMOND, Ind., April 20?Charles
Rrvalee pleaded guilty today to the murder
of Mrs. Frank Allison, and was sentenced
to imprisonment for Ufa Revalee,
who had been employed on Allison's
farm. In this county, beat Mrs. Allison to
dsatb and set her clothing on'fli* after
she had discovered him robbing the house.
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President Cabrera Re-Elected.
JfEW TORX, April 20.?Manuel
Kstrada Cabrera was re-elected president
of Guatemala In the elections ended
yesterday, according to a government
oable message received today at
the Guatemalan consulate in this city.
The election was tranquil, and Senor
Cabrera was chosen by "an overwhelming
majority,- the dispatch stated.
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ROOT GOJMOAD
May Meet Roosevelt and Post
Him Politically.
HAS TALK WITH PRESIDENT
Defeat of Aldridge in Rochester
Yesterday Discussed.
COLORED CHURCHMEN CALL
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Justice Crane of New York Urged
for Supreme Bench?Aldrich Notifies
Taft of Intentions.
Senator Root may meet Col. Roosevelt t
in Europe the last of May or early In i
June.
Senator Root said at the White House
today that he is to sail from this coun- ;
try Mlay 1 for The Hague, where he goey
as a representative of the United States
in the settlement of Newfoundland fisheries
questions. Col. Roosevelt is due in |
this country before the middle of June. j
and there will not be much time for '
them to get together abroad. But there j
is strong probability that Col. Roosevelt '
and Senator Root will meet and that the
desire of the African traveler and hunter
to hear from the New York senator on
the political situation in this country
will be gratified.
The conference will take place at a
time, too, when Roosevelt will be about
to leave for America. Senator Root's
opinions are more desired by Col. Roosevelt,
dispatches say, than any other man
or dozen men.
Crane for Supreme Bench.
Frederick E. Crane, justice of the supreme
court of New York, a Brooklyn
man, Is being: urged for associate justice
of the United States Supreme Court. The
President, having knowledge of the qualifications
of Justice Crane, asked for data
regarding him. Representatives Calder
and Young of Brooklyn, accompanied by
Frederick Kracke, naval officer of the
port of New York, today told the President
that Justice Crane stood high in all
circles in New York, both among democrats
and republicans.
Analyzing Aldridge's Defeat.
There was no wailing around the White
House today over the defeat .of George
W. Aldridge, republican, for Congress, in
the thirty-second district of New York.
At the same time, there is no admission
that the defeat of Aldridge is a democratic
victory.
iSenator Root, the close friend and advtoer
of the President as to New York
politics, was with the chief executive
this morning, and the result in Rochester,
N. Y., yesterday was discussed. Afterward
Senator Root courteously declined
to commit himself in any way, remarking
that the result 'Mnrkwi tii<* ,>hapm .-.f
novelty," but he Is known to be In accord
with the views of the President
that the stay-at-home republicans of the
district. Incensed with Aldridge over his
connection with the old-time machine
and Its methods, defeated him by remaining
away from the polls.
The figures, it is pointed out, Bhow that
the democratic candidate received only
1.U50 votes more than the democratic candidate
two years ago, while Aldridge fell
14,000 votes behind the republican candidate
two years ago. That that number of
republicans punished machine methods by
staying away from the polls is the conclusion
that is reached. With even a
small proportion of these stay-at-homes
voting the republican ticket, Aldridge
would have been elected.
Representative Hamilton Pish of New
York, also a caller nt the White House
today, said that the defeat of Mr.
Aldridge was not unexpected.
Both Presidents Roosevelt and Tkft have
turned cold shoulders to Aldridge. who
was fourteen years mayor of Rochester
and a man of great personal popularity
there. When Roosevelt was elected Governor
of New York he refused to appoint
Aldi^dge to a place on the Erie canal
commission and President Taft refused
to consider the Rochester man's name for
surveyor of the port of New York. Aldridge
wak backed for this posuion by all
the up-state republican representatives.
Colored Churchmen Thank Taft.
The members of the hoards of finance
and church extension of the A. M. E.
Church, headed by Bishops Grant and
Derrick, and W. T. Vernon, register of
the Treasury, called on President Taft to
pay respects and thank him for his recommendations
to Congress on several subjects
In which the negTo race Is deeply j
Interested. One of these Is the reimburse-;
ment of depositors of the defunct Freedmen's
Savings Bank. Another is the deep
Interest the President has shown In the
I affairs of Liberia. They requested that
he give further aid In behalf of the small
negro republic In Africa.
The delegation also expressed appreciation
of the President's favorable attitude
toward a celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the emancipation of the
slaves. The President briefly addressed
his visitors, assuring them of his deep
concern In the race and Its affairs and
his willingness to give his moral aid in
all directions that will be helpful to
worthy causes.
Representatives Morehead and Cowles
of North Carolina called on the President
with a big delegation of republicans
and democrats to protest against withdrawing
the nomination of J. M. Burrows
aa' postmaster at Ashborough, N.
| C. Burrows' nomination went to the
Senate recently, but efforts have been
made to get the President to withdraw
It, pending the Investigation of some
charges made by a democratic official
of the county.
The President today sent to the Senate
the nomination of Henry Reynolds to be
collector of internal revenue of the fifth
district of North Carolina, and" of M.
Drew Carrel of Illinois to be secretary of
Porto Rico.
Regrets AJdrich's Retirement.
Senator Aldrleh called on President Taft
late yesterday afternoon and informed
him of his coming retirement from Congress.
The President expressed regret
over the decisions of Senators Aldrleh
and Hale. The President has always believed
In the sincerity of Senator Aldrleh. 1
He is confident that the retirement of the
Rhode Island senator will not Interfere
with the success of the legislative program
sf tbe administration.
The President will confer frequently
with congressional leaders in an effort to
get through his program of legislation.
He will keep In close touch with senators
and representatives working upon the
railroad bill.
W. R. Heargt Sees President.
William R. Hearst, of Npw York
spent half an hour this afternoon with
president Taft, the visit being socipl.
Mr. Hearst has a strong admiration for
President Taft, and the visit was mutu- j
ally plehaanU^* f \ 0 |
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ORDEALFORMOTHER
Identification of the Remains
of Murdered Girl.
TRIAL OF ALBERT WOLTER
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Death of Ruth Wheeler, a Fiftcen w
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x ear-uia oienugrapuci, u nder
Investigation.
NEW YORK. April 20?With the resumption
today of the trial of Albert Wolter
for the murder of Ruth Wheeler the
case entered upon a most important
stage, from the viewpoint of the prosecution.
Yesterday, after the jury had been
completed, Assistant District AttorneyMoss
devoted himself for the most part
to an effort to establish the fact that it
was in reality the body of the fifteenyear-old
stenographer that was found in
a gunny sack on Wolter's fire escape. To
this end Ruth Wheeler's mother underwent
the ordeal of Identifying soro.- of the
exhibits in the case.
One Phase of Case.
Today it was expected the evidence of
identification would be concluded by the
testimony of Adelaide Wheeler, sister of
the victim, who alone of the family was
able to nerve herself up to viewing the
dismembered and charred body. Pearl
Weaver was expected to tell the jury of
her hunt for her young sister and of what
befell her In Welter's apartment, thus
bringing the testimony to a point where
Wolter's direct connection with the crime
Is sought to be established.
Jennie Pisher, the salesgirl, who is alleged
to have sold a can of paint to Wolter
the day the crime was committed,
and whicfc the state seeks to show was
used' to obliterate traces of incineration
from the fireplace In which Ruth Wheeler's
body was burned, was called as a
witness. She testified that on the day in
question she sold a can of paint and a
brush to a person whom she positively
identified as Wolter. Her testimony was
unshaken on cross-examination.
Memorandum Identified.
Police Captain Edward P. Hughes identified
a memorandum book taken from
one of two trunks whloh had been
brought to the station house after the
discovery of the body. In it was found
the entry, "Ruth Amos Wheeler, aged
fifteen, American, hves with parents.''
This was presumed to be the book which
the prosecution will seek to show belonged
to Wolter, and in which he made
the entry in regard to Ruth Wheeler.
Capt. Hughes also identified a garment
claimed to have been taken from the
fireplace in which Ruth Wheeler's body
was Incinerated. Borne pieces of charred
wood adhered to it. Capt. HUghes identified
the rope found twisted around the
young victim's neck, and other articles
found in the gunnysack, including the
braid 01 hair which Ruth Wheeler's
mother had testified looked like her
daughter's.
Adelaide Wheeler identified one by one
various articles of clothing and Jewelry,
which the prosecution produced as evi
dence, as having been worn by her sister
on the day she disappeared. She wept as
she told the story of her sister's departure
from home in search of work on the
day she met her death.
STRIKERS ARE YIELDING.
Many Steel Plant Laborers Returning:
to Work.
PITTSBURG, April '30.-The strike of
the foreigners employed in the erecting
department of the Pressed Steel Car Company
is disintegrating and. according to
the car company officials, the plant is
today operating with more than 2.800
men, an increase over yesterday of 1,700.
Storekeepers who refused credit to the
striking men are said to be responsible
for the breaking up of the labor war.
There was no disorder on the streets
at McKeea Rocks today. About a thousand
men will meet today to determine
further procedure in their demands upon
the car company for recognition of their
organisation, the Industrial . Workers of
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J^'AU $$.
THE ANGLING SEASON.
NEXT STOPJSPARiS
Roosevelt Writes Letters as
Train Speeds On.
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RAIN FALLS AT VIENNA
Ex-President Walks Platform at
Station During Wait?France
Preparing Big Welcome.
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ATTNANGr-PUCHtTEIM. Upper Austria,
April 20.?Although after midnight when
the train bearing tlie Rooeevelt party left
Budapest, the colonel was up at 7 o'clock
today.
During the stop at Vienna he got out
and walked up and down the station platform
for half an hour. As the train left
Vienna a heavy fall of rain obscured the
landscape, and Mr. Roosevelt turned his
attention to a vast accumulation ot correspondence.
For three hours the former President
dictated without interruption to his stenographer.
The letters and telegrams
which reach Mr. Roosevelt increase in
number daily.
While many are from friends and acquaintances
in America and Europe the
majority are from persons of whom the
recipient has never known anything.
Many are received from those known to
Mr. Roosevelt only by reputation.
A feature of these letters is the
unanimity with which the writers look
to the former President for leadership
of any cause in which they are in
terested.
France Preparing Welcome.
France is preparing a great welcome
for Mr. Roosevelt. The leading newspapers,
which have sent special correspondents
to the frontier to accompany
the former President to Paris, are filled
today with historical and laudatory
sketches of the distinguished American,
and with words of warm greeting.
The merchants are arranging to decorate
their places in honor of Mr. Roosevelt,
and will present him with an address
of homage.
EJvery seat In the Sorbonne has been allotted
for the occasion of Mr. Roosevelt's
lecture. Thousands of applications for :
tickets of admission have been received,
only to be refused. ,
The former President will have little
time for rest In the French capital, for, 1
in addition to the long official program,
there will be private visits, excursions and i
dinners to crowd the week. <
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New Antelope Named Roosevelt. ,
LONDON. April 20?Edmund Haller. J
the aooloffist, of Riverside, Cel., who ao- ,
companied Mr. Roosevelt on his African i
hunting trip, has decided that the sable i
antelope killed by Kermit Roosevelt is a 1
new species peculiar to the Mombasa re- j
gion and not heretofore described.
It will be named the Roosevelt
Abbot Jansaens Sent to Monastery, j
Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON. April 20.?A ^ispateh from
Rome to the Central News s^ys the Pope
has ordered Abbot Lawrence Janssens,
secretary of the Congregation of the Affairs
of the Religious, who called upon
Col. Roosevelt while the latter was In
Venice, and, when he found the colonel
wgs not at home, left his card on which
he wrote a note congratulating the ex- ,
President on the Bupport he had given
Catholics in America during his "glo- ]
rlous career." to resign all his Vatican ,
offices and retire to a monastery for
three months. ,
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Seal Hunters Use Motor Boats.
VICTORIA, B. C., April 20.? Japanese '
.sealers reaching Vancouver yesterday
report that motor boats are being used
for seal hunting this year by some of
the. forty vessels sent from Japan to
Bering sea. International sealing regulations
provide that only sail craft may '
he used for pelagic seeling, but Japan
is not a partyito; the treaty, and main- .
tains that .the. regulations do not apply :
to Japanese sAitfcra.-' ;
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RESUMESHER STORY
Nurse Tells How Hyde Bled
Jarges M. Hunton.
OTHER DOCTOR PROTESTED
Testimony Admitted in Trial for
Murder of Col. Swope as an Attemnt
tn Shnw
KAXSAS CITY. Mo., April 20.?Following
the overruling of the defense's objection
to testimony not touching directly
upon the death of Col. Thomas H. Swope
being introduced in the Hyde murder
trial Miss Pearl Keller, a nurse, resumed
the witness stand this morning.
The particular points upon which the
defense objected were the giving of details
of James Moss Hunton's death. The
court held the state was attempting to
prove motive on the part of Dr. Hyde
in the alleged killing of Hnton.
Miss Keller immediately began to tell
of the death of Hunton. He was suffering
from a stroke of apoplexy when Dr.
Hyde was called. He and Dr. Q. T. Twyman
bled the patient.
"Dr. Hyde made the incision in Hunton's
case," said the witness.
"After a pint of blood had been drawn
Dr. Twyman suggested there had been
enough bleeding. Dr. Hyde dissented
from this opinion and more blood was
drawn.
"A second and a third time Dr. Twyman
suggested that enough blood had
been drawn, but Dr. Hyde continued.
That's enough blood to take from any
man,' said Dr. Twyman. Then Mrs. Hyde
said to her husband* "Dearie, I think you
ho/l hotter ctnn HYpPilinflr ' T)r thpn
closed the wound.
"I took charge of the blood, and upon
measuring It found there was two
quarts."
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DENIES RUMOR OF DISORDER.
Statement by Cuban Secretary of the
Interior.
HAVANA. April 30.?Secretary of the
Interior Lopes Lelva today Issued a statement
positively denying the existence of
the least disorder In Santa Clara or any
other part of the Island.
The secretary said that reports had
reached the government that there was a
condition of suppressed excitement among
the negroes of Santa Clara and the east- .
em provinces In consequence of the Incendiary
utterances of the negro agitator
Glen. Evarlsto Estenos. Because of these !
reports, the secretary said, the govern- !
ment had decided to send troops for the ,
sake of the moral effect which their 1
presence would have in overawing possible
disturbers of the psace and In giving
confidence to loyal, law-abiding citleena
Secretary Lelva added that the government
did not entertain the slightest
fear that there would be any disorder
liCUUUlUIIlg 111*7 UK) VI iuc iruupg.
CARGO THROWN OVERBOARD.
Efforts to Release Steamer Minnehaha
From Reef.
HTJGH TOWN, ?t. Marys, Scilly Islands,
April 20.?The remainder of the cargo of
the wrecked steamer Minnehaha ' was
being thrown overboard today" in the 1
hope that the vessel thus lightened might
escape from the reef upon which she
struck and be saved. Cases of .' motor
cars, typewriters, sewing machines and
other valuable merchandise were dumped <
Into the waters. <
Many small boats hovered about the
wreck picking up the flotsam. ^
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Weston Finds the Roads Heavy J
BATAVIA, N. Y.. April 2?.?Edward '
Payson Weston left here this morning
at .1 o'clock for -Rochester, thirty-six .
miles distant. The weather is clear <
but cold. The roads are heavy, after ,
r? rainfall of nearly twenty-four hours. '
Weston expects tq, spend tonight at .
Palmyra. ? .. /
READY FORMS
Nominations of D. A. R. Vice
Presidents General.
ELECTION THIS AFTERNOON
Ten Vacancies in the List to Be
Filled by Congress.
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RECEPTION OF REPORTS
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Incident of Yesterday Recalled by
Motion to Expunge Resolution
Censuring Miss Wilcox.
Essentially the feature of this morning's
sessiof! of the Continental Congress
of the Daughters of the American Revolution
was the nomination of vice presidents
general, and the election which
will occur this afternoon will be one of
the most exciting Incidents of the weeklong
gathering. The terms of ten of the
board of twenty vice presidents general
expire with this session of the congress,
anu manifestly only ten can be c.ceted.
In consequence a rare struggle will occur
when the politicians in the organization
get busy.
List of the Nominees.
The nominations for vice presidents
genera! included the following list:
Mrs. Egbert Jones of Mississippi,
Mrs. Virginia Randolph Shaekleford of
Virginia, 'Mrs. La Verne Noves of Illinois,
Mrs. John II. Masury, Massa
chusetts;' Mrs. Samuel Limon Munson
of New York. Miss Ellen Mecum of New
Jersey, Mrs. . Charles R. Davis of
Minnesota, Mrs. C. H. Tebault of
Louisiana, Mrs. William E. Stanley of
Kansas, Mrs. Edmund Randall of
Texas, Miss Anna Caroline Banning of
Georgia. Mrs. Bertha Din coin Heustis,
Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Emily T. S.
Moore, Vermont; Mrs. Milton J. Durham
of Kentucky, and Mrs. A. K. Gault
of Nebraska.
The nominees for the one vacancy on
the board of honorary vice presidents
general were as follows; Mrs. Charles
II. Deere of Illinois, Mrs. Sarah T. Kinney
of Connecticut and Mrs. A. R Beadle
of New Jersey.
Announcement was made that a reception
will be given by the Illinois delegation
at the Willard Friday, from "? to 7
o'clock, at which President General Scott,
Mrs. Adlai Stevenson, Mrs. Ames of Illinois,
Mrs. La Verne Noyes of Illinois
and Mrs. Donald McLean of New York
will be the guests of honor.
Mrs. Mussey's Report Adopted.
Some little discussion followed the presentation
of Mrs. Mussey's report regarding
the expense attending the publication
of the official organ.'but the report was
adopted. The record of the nineteenth!
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MRS. BLLEN SPENCER MUSSEY.
Reported for the magailne committee.
Continental Congress will therefore be
printed and bound In a separate book.
Immediately following this action Mrs.
Martha Overton Dickinson, the chairman,
submitted the report of the committee to
prevent desecration of the flag. She
spoke of the hearing which was accorded
the members of the committee 'by the
military committees of the Senate and
the House of Representatives, and quoted
from a letter recently received from Representative
R. O.. Moore showing the
present status of the Goulden bill, which
provides "for punishment for the desecration,
mutilation or improper use of
the flag of the United States of America."
Mrs. Dickinson also reviewed the history
of the agitation for protection of the
lag, and quoted a part of the address of
Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball, retired presiJent
of the Potomac Woman's Relief
^orps, before the military committee of
be Senate in April, 190S. Adjournment
for the noon recess followed the last of
.be nominating speeches.
Echo of the Storm.
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Some echoes of the storm of yesterday
were In evidence at the opening of the
morning session, incident to the reading
and approval of the minutes of yester-:
day's meetings. Several minor corrections
were ordered,* and a miniature bomb
was tossed on the floor when Mrs. M A
B&llinger, regent of Manor House Chap^
ter of the District of Columbia, made a
motion that 3II reference to the vote of
censure against Miss Wilcox, passed at'
the morning ' meeting-yestferday, be ex-'
punged from the minutes.
Cries of "No" came from ail corners
oi the hall, and the motion was neither
seconded nor put to vote.
A rising vote'of appreciation followed
the Introduction to the convention of
Mrs. Euphasia Smith Granger, a "real
Daughter of the Revolution," and a delegate
from. Sophie de Mareac company
Cnapter, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mrs. Grander presented $50 to the Michigan
room fund, and it was explained that
the amount came from the estate of her
father, Ebenezer Smith, who was the last
>f three sons to enlist in the continental'
irmy. * J
The* presldental general announoed the!
-eoelpt of a check for $1,082 from the, 1
itate. legislature of Pennsylvania, being
he balance of $2,000 appropriated by the!
ita*e,to pay for the Pennsylvania column 1
>f the memorial portico. This portico Is, '
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CONGRESS IS UPSET
Havens' Victory Charms
Democrats. ,
MR. RUCKER RUBS IT IN
Asks If House Has Received New*
Prom Rochester. I
SPEAKER
WOULD LAUGH LAST
Adjournment Likely to Come Early
to Permit Members to Go Home j
and Mend Fences. j
With mock seriousness. Representation
Rucker of Missouri, a democrat, axosa
! to make a parliamentary inquiry soon
i after the House convened today.
"Has the House yet heard that the
thirty-second district of New York had
an election yesterday?" asked Mr.
Rucker.
When the democratic demonstration
precipitated oy the suggestion that a
] democrat had been elected to fill the
| vacancy caused l>v the death of a republican
member had ceased. 8j>eaker
Cannon with equal gravity replied:
"Answering the par'io'T1?,ntary inquiry,
i the chair observes ttint one side of the
| House and the gentleman 'rom Missouri
seem to he enthusiastic."
Then, raising his voice, the Speakar
added, prophetically:
I "He laughs best who laughs last."
Ft was then the turn or the republicans
tn ]q t'oli a nrl o nnlo n/i Tba Womnrrot a
?* ?-? U l<* UU M ? ?C* V ~f
! good-naturedly, joined in the laughter.
Wheelhorses iq Danger.
| "Great Scott! Why, If this thing keep*
I up, even John JJalzeli and (Jen. itairy
I Bingham ain't safe."
Thus ejaculated a representative from a
rock-ribbed republican district today, in
discussing returns from the Rochester
election. "But
hold," he added; "what .la a
rock-ribbed republican district, and are
there any now?"
Whereat he shook his head sadly and
ambled on his way.
And there was more truth than
poetry in his reflections, as evidenced
by the sentiments voiced by republicans
in the House today in private conversation
over the returns.
A more downcast bunch of politicians
it would be hard to And than the rank
and file of the republicans In the lower
uia.itv;ii ui ' ungirss.
"Is this the handwriting* on the
wall?" they were asking one another.
Practically all are up for renomlnation
and. re-election. The fate of Candidate
Aidridge comes home to them
pointedly.
nlster significance attaches to the
crushing defeat in the Rochester diat:i
num irn- iHi i that ttie republicans
we it- ocpendin;; upon tneir machine organization
to pull them through. It
iaiieti. Tnis, their expected staff of support
in tiie coming campaign, turned out
to be but a broken reed in this instance.
Failure of Machine Appalls.
i iic i epuLM<i'?wi ifttuers are nui uniy
*urprised but dismayed by the result in
Rochester. They confidently counted on
their wonderful and time-tried organixa!
tion in that district to overcome the de[
fection in republican ranks occasioned
by the moral crusade against their candU
date. ,
"When that fails, what is there to fall
hack on?" the republicans were asking today.
' How can the rising tide be stemmed?"
To be sure, it was claimed by the republicans
to be a local fight, entirely. The
republican congressional campaign committee
kept hands off, and did not send
speeches or speakers into the District.
Rut it was not regarded as a local fight
by the democrats, who injected national
issues into the campaign.
N i one can analyze the result sufficiently
to determine the proportion in
which the result was affected by the
national issues or the local moral issue
raised against Aldrldge. But the ba <1
fact stands out that the tariff and the
high cost of living were made issues, the
republican party was charged with responsibility
and the v.erdict of the voters,
it is said, was in part based upon thosa
considerations. _ r.
Early Adjournment Likely.
One result of the landslide in the Rochester
district, it was said today, la likely
to be an early adjournment of Congress,
to allow members to get beck into their
districts and l.x up their fenoea.
"Let us get out of here end look after
our districts," was the 'frantic cry of
many republicans at the Capitol today.
The prospect of being held In Washington
until the middle of June or the first
of July'was appalling to many. '
Night sessions of the House will ba>
more frequent in the future. It la said.
In other ways the business will be ex?
pedlted.
National Leaders Comment %
at the Defeat of Aldridge
William J. Bryan?It Indicates that*
the trend Is toward our party, and yet It
would not he fair to attribute the raault
entirely to that. It indicates that a treat
majority of republicans in that district
are independent enough to protest against
a candidate who* Is personally objectionable
to them. But that also Is encouraging.
;
William Randolph Hearst?I regard
the election as an excellent result. I am
much delighted. Being somewhat of an
independent myself, I am glad to see the
independent vote gaining In strength,
1 am convinced that Mr. Aldrldge wa? defeated
largely by Independent republicans.
, Richard Croker?I rejoice very much
over the result of the election In Monro*
county.
Fraak Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation of Labor?That's
good.
Norman E. Mack, chairman oI the
democratic national committee: The e eotion
of Mr. Havens is an unmlstakab'e
repudiation of the tariff policy of., ths
republican party. It is a more lmpvcsgive
expression of public sentiment th& i
even the*victory of Mr. Dickinson in Missouri.
or Mr. Foss in Massachusetts, for
It was won against the .most perfect
political machine that modern pollii ;>i
activity has produced Mr. Havens ma.ie
his fight on the tariff issue, and In hi i
success the democracy gains not onlv ?,
eery'able man in Congress, but the voter*
have shown that they are tired of accepting
promises from the republican party
which are never redeemed, k believe it
foretells for tne state of N<nwlfYork a
iemocralic prate administration and n?>