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WEATHER. Thundershowers this afternoon or tonight. Tuesday fair, with moderate variable winds. FULL REPORT ON PAGE ELEVEN fcenitw About every one in Washing ton who reads at all reads The Star. ClOHKO si: STOCK QUOTATIONS PAGE 11 No. 19.297. ONE CENT. BAGKLAFOLLETTE Announce Their Opposition to High Tariff Policy of Smoot and Regular Republicans. AGREEMENT REACHED IN CONFERENCE TODAY Wisconsin Senator Outlines Substi tutes He Will Propose for Wpol and Cotton Items. The progressive republican? of the Senate at a meeting today in Senator I.a Follette's office determined to sup port tlie T.a Foliette amendments to the wool schedule in pre erence to those of fered by Senator Smoot of Utah, who Is considered the leader of the stand-pat republicans in the tariff fight. The progressive republicans also de termined to support the amendments to the metal schedule offered by Senator Cummins of Iowa. The progressive republicans are not at all pleased by the manner in which Sen ator Smoot has assumed the republican leadership in the tariff debate, and they intend to make it plain to the public that they do not stand for the high tarifr policy supported by Mr. Smoot and others of the "regular" republicans. Eleven progressive republicans attended the meeting today. They were Senators La Foliette, Wisconsin; Bristow, Kansas; Clapp, Minnesota; Cummins ar.d Kenyon, Iowa; Crawford and Sterling. South Da kota; Borah. Idaho; Gronna, North Da kota; Norris. Nebraska, and Works, Cali fornia. The progressives have decided to make ro effort to delay action on the tariff bill. They realize that the democrats have de termined not tn permit amendments to the bill as framed by themselves, and that they have the votes to carry through their program. Anxious to Have Tariff Stand Clear. The progressives, however, are anxious to have their stand on the tariff made clear to the public. They feel that the duties on wool which will be advocated by Senator Smoot, and which are based on the report of the tariff board, and submitted to Congress by former Presi dent Taft. are too high, and they will support the La Foliette wool schedule in preference. Senator La Foliette outlined the sub stitutes he will propose to the wool and cot to: i schedules and which he will in troduce next week. At that time he will o?si:i his attack on these schedules of to- democratic bill. Senator Kenyon will urge amendments placing on the free list all articles in control of a monopoly, one of them being "... He expecte to speak this ,, ?u" the general policy of free-list ing all trust-controlled commodities. Senator Cummins has an amendment to i.tx all commodities sold throu*H"W&6k < changes, similar to the cotton futures stamp tax included in the democratic bill Mthtr progressive republican senators are io piopose amendments, which the con lerence will consider. Senator Smoot Sees Early Passage. 'he democrats have demonstrated be : ond question that they are determined there shall be no change in the tariff bill as framed by the majority members of the finance committee, and it looks as though they would put the measure through as it stands." said Senator Smoot tah, who has been leading the re publican assault upon the measure dur ing its consideration before the Senate ?Senator Smoot pointed out that every attempt by the republicans to amend ? chemical schedule had failed. He' ? hied that he looked for no delav ?n the consideration of the bill. , /k". I ? the vote on the bill f* i ?.* taken, between August l*i.f?nd saitl Senator Smoot. j ., a" the tarifr bm was? taken up in Senate today Senator Townsend of i Michigan, republican, spoke in defense of] ilie present tariff law, and attacked the I nderwood-Simmons bill. When he com pleted his address the reading of the ?ill was continued for amendment, the earthenware and glass schedule being under consideration. Warren on Election Eesult. senator Warren of Wyoming took up ? tariff debate when Senator Town-j -'?nd ended his address He charged that j 'i:e people of the country had'not voted ' for revenue tanff as opposed to a pro- | lectlve tariff at the last election. He claimed that President Wilson had been elected by a minority of the voters of Wm?<y,n,trT' and !,hat, hl? ?uecess had Z "pHt. '? the r?Pu*>Hcan ? ? a de8,r? on the part of toi tar,fT r?vi3ion. ? n^Ur of the "tates did president and a revenue tariff rpr.iv., ? majority of the votes cast " saiTsen ator Warren, "and twelve of these statIL ^TV?U,thern.J,Utes' ,h? "o1mP south? Arlsona others Were Oklahoma and ?^ow? conclusively that a major ity of the Americap people has never expressed Itself in favor of a tariff for revenue only." *ann ior Continuing this line of argument ator Warren declared that of ?he elec-" toral votes cast for Wilson, only 15* vofers**11 " y * major,ty of the IN SESSION THREE MINUTES. Republican : Caminetti Filibuster Causes Breaking of House Becord. ? The republican Caminetti filibuster in the Houap clipped a minute off the record for short session of the House today. It took that body Just three minutes to meet and adjourn. Satur day the House was in session four min utes. Immediately after the opening prayer bad been concludcd Representative Gardner. in charge of the filibuster in the absence of "Republican Leader Mann, made the po'int of order that no quorum was present, and Majority leader t'nderwood moved to adjourn. It is probable that before long the democrats will end the filibuster by allow ing time for debate on the Cami netti case. The Judiciary committee, as soon as the members can be gotten together, expects to receive from the Attorney General a copy of a telegam relating to the case, required in the latest resolution introduced by Rep resentative Kahn. The Kahn resolu tion will then be reported to the House adversely, with the data. Heavy Fog in Hampton Boads. NORFOLK, Va? July 38.?A heavy fog enveloped lower Chesapeake bay, Hampton roads and .Norfolk harbor early today, making navigation difficult and dangerous to all shipping. The fog was the thickest seen uu the bay in many months. Militia Division Chief Brands Ironmaster Inconsistent in Praising the Kaiser. HOLDS LONG PEACE DUE TO READINESS FOR WAR Declares Only Germany's Prepared ness Has Prevented Hostilities in Past Quarter of Century VBRIG. GEN. ALBERT I? MIIXS. Gen. A. I* Mills, U. S. A.t chief of the militia division of the War Department, in a statement issued by him today ex pressed the opinion that Andrew Car negie, the apostle of peace, is incon sistent In praising the German emperor. "Mr. Andrew Carnegie again invites public attention to the fact that he is an advocate of universal peace," says Gen. Mills, "by praising the German emperor as the greatest peace force in the world. At the same time Mr. Carnegie and his employes in this country are trying to discourage and discountenance the efforts of those who are trying to maintain peace along the lines which have been so effective under the renowned William. Who for a moment believes that the German emperor could have maintained J peace if Germany had not feeen prepared for war? That the German government has maintained peace for a quarter of a century is the most effective answer to the demand of those who are clamoring for disarmament, particularly when UW countries of the world are far from that universal accord which makes dlsarma ment possible. Vital Distinction Not Realized. "'Mr. Carnegie boast? that he would himself take a gun if necessary to drive out an invader. Would even Mr. Car negie's services compensate for the un necessary death of thousands of brave men which, should the policy of disarma ment he advocates prevail, will inevitably follow? Would they compensate for the humiliation of an invasion which would be Improbable if the nation is even fairly prepared for war? The trouble with us Americans is that we do not realize the vital distinction between available mili tary resources and actual military strength. Time is essential to develop the former into the latter, and this time is denied us by modern conditions. "if Germany was without an army and navy; if Germany had no trained sol diers and competent officers, does any one suppose war would have been averted during the past twenty-live years? When Mr. Carnegie praises the German emperor he praises just what his agents in this country are doing so much to discourage ?that is. the proper preparation of this country to meet war emergencies If they should occur. "All that the friends of reasonable prep aration contend for is that an adequate navy and an adequate and ready military force are the best peace guarantees this nation can possess. I.and and naval forces are mutually dependent, each the comple ment of the other. The navy and the coast defense system which have been built up under successive administrations have helped us to maintain peaceful rela tions with all countries. With a mobile military force of infantry, cavalry and field artillery which will compare favor ably with the navy and the coast artil lery. this nation will be in a position to be an effective peacemaker on the American continent, and at the same time we will have a guarantee tfiat neither the nations of Europe nor the nations of Asia will seek a quarrel with us. War Talk Due to Weakness. "We know that all the talk about pos sible war with Japan arises became of the weakness of this country as regards its available military forces. If we had an adequate military force, well trained.' with officers having experience with large bodies of troops, and with an adequate reserve, which could be promptly mobil ized in case of war. there would be less talk of war than we now hear year after year. "While mention is made of Germany, the army of that country does not figure in any comparison. This country does not need a military force like tliat of Ger many or of any other European power. An adequate force means a body of trained soldiers sufficient in size for our needs which can be quickly mobilized, and a reserve force which can quickly assemble with the colors. I mention Ger many only because Mr. Carnegie, who has become an apostle of peace, and whose agents in this country are opposing both adequate miliary and naval forces, holds lip the German emperor as the greatest peace preserver of tl-e world, when we all know that he lias been potent as a peace man only because Germany had an army and navy which maintained her national honor and protected German interests both at h?me and abroad." Killed by Overturning of Car. NBW BRUNSWICK, N. J.f July 28.? Earl Voghte, seven years old. was kill ed near here yesterday when his father, Eugene S. oghte, of Bound Brook, N. J., turned his trutomobile out of the road to permit aifother machine to pass from the rear. The passing car struck the wheels of tiie Voghte car, overturning it in a ditch. Voghte. Ills wife and two sons. Karl and Leroy, were pinned be neath their machine. Karl was dead from a broken neck when the car was raisad. The authorities are searching for the driver of the other car, who put on more speed alter the accident and ctfcapgi. TESTIFIES LODGE Massachusetts Senator Denies Ever Having Met Lobbyist for the N. A. M. TOOK CHEERFUL VIEW OF DEMOCRATIC HOUSE Confident There Wonld Be No Legis lation Antagonistic to His Employers. Senator I.f.dgp today denied statements made by Martin M. Mulhall that he had held conerences with Mulhall In the sum mer of 1010. lie denied that he had ever seen Mulhall before the investigation here began, did not remember ever hearing his name until Mulhall made his charges and was certain that he had no con ference with the witness. The senator said he appeared before the committee because he had seen state ments that he and Charles E. Hatfield, then chairman of the Massachusetts re publican committee, had conferred with Mulhall and that the senator had praised his work. Chairman Cannot Bemember. "I have consulted the chairman and he does not remember seeing him. and cer tainly we had no conferences with him. It Is impossible for men in public life to remember all the men Introduced to them, but so far as I know I never heard his name before." "I certainly am not going to try to contradict r/hat you say, senator, but I do say that I had conference with you in your office. I know I had many con ferences with Mr. Hatfield.'* Mulhall swore A. E. Cox. a Boston manufacturer, was to give him $1,000 for work in the Massachusetts campaign. Beading Last of Letters. Less than 1,000 of Mulliall's letters as a lobbyist for the National Association of Manufacturers remained to be put in the record when the Senate Investigating committee met today, and Chairman Overman was determined, if possible, to complete the reading before the com mittee adjourned. Attorneys for he association and the American Federation of Labor, granted the right to cross-examine the witness through the committee, will attempt to shake Mulhall's story before he is turn ed over to the House lobby committee, about the middle of the week. Expected to Fare Well. In January, 1911, Mulhall wrote to J. P. Bird, general manager of the Na tional Association of Manufacturers about the democratic House: '?j have been gathering information Concerning the appointments of the com mittees for the Sixty-second Congress and I reported to Mr. Emery this morn ing that I am positive that we will fare very much better with the incoming democrats of the House than we have been doing with the present Congress. I assured Mr. Emery that if he would select or name some man that we could agree on for the chairman of the com mittee on labor that we could have him appointed, and I also told Mr. Emery that I am positive that we will control the judicial committee and its subcom mittees. and also the labor committee and its subcommittees in the next Con gress. "I am so convinced of this that I wish Mr. Emery and our friends to name the men, and I am positive that we can get the appointments. This. I feel, ought to be extremely cheerful in formation .for our people, and I am not making this state ment until I am fully convinced that these facts can be accomplished.'' Memory Grows Hazy. Mulhall was questioned about his claims to control democratic House committees by Senator Nelson. " What grounds had you for making this statement to Bird," asked Nelson. "I can't just recall at the present time. I had broke down about that time." "You must have had grounds for mak ing such a statement," said Nelson. "I always kept a-tryin'." "Did you and Emery agree to naine any men?" "Not that 1 remember." "Is that all the information you can give this committee as a basis for these statements?" "All at this tkme. I think the letters will show," said Mulhall. January HI, 1011, writing again to Bird, Mulhall said: "I have the greatest con fidence that we will be completely suc cessful at thi ssesslon, and there will be no labor legislation. Everything looks very bright at the present time." Saw Secretary Meyer. Early In February Mulhall wrote to Bird about his doings in Washington and efforts to defeat the Hughes eight-hour amendment to the naval appropriation bill. He said he had a long interview with Secretary of the Navy Meyer upon the subject and gave him a list of con gressmen who he thought were working against it. The amendment made it necessary for outside contractors to work men on naval vessels only eight bours On February 16 he again wrote Biro: "I had a long Interview with the chair man of the committee on labor yester I day, and he informs me that that com mittee will not have another meeting at this session, so tl'.ere will be nothing conting from that committee between now and the 4th of March. We are also positive that nothing will come out oi either the House or Senate Judiciary com mittees." . Vflll Frequently in his correspondence aaui hall referred to "the labor lobby. . "Who did you mean by the laoor lobby?" asked Senator Nelson. Labor Men Always Busy. "Gompers. Morrrlson and members of the executive board of the Federation : of Labor," said the witness. ? "Were they busy?" "I always found them busy. I ?aw I them frequently about the Capitol. i February 17. 1911. Mulhall wrote once more to Bird with this boast: All dan get- of labor legislation is now passea. we have been completely successful this session." ^ After stating that he feared tne President would have to call a spec session, he added: Wanted Time to Negotiate. "I feel this would be unfortunate for us at the present time, for I believe I we would fare better if we had a few months more to negotiate with our democratic friends." March 13 Mulhall wrote I. H. >?c Mlcliael. one time chief page ol tn House of Representatives, about M** franks that were promised. I " j been waiting for some time to sena those to the New York office. Mul hall spoke in the same letter of *et tio? a. lint oa the doorkeepec 9* v * 4 new House, so McMichael could be kept in his job of chief page. The next day McMichael wrote: "Sent you the franks last evening. No one knows who will be doorkeeper." In addition to looking after the mem bership of committees in Congress. Mul hall became interested in the distribution or books, seeds, bulbs and other articles that congressmen usually send to con stituents. Scores of letters spoke of S2? Presents Mulhall was sending to officials of the association and friends. In March Mulhall wrote to the secre tary of Mayor Mahool of Baltimore that lie would be glad to support Mahoo] for a renomination, and felt positive that the part of the city he lived in would give a large majority in the primaries. Failed to "Fix" House. Mulhall wrote to National Association of Manufacturers' officials about fixing things in the new House. "What success did you have?" asked Senator Nelson. "Absolute failure." said the witness "Who was helping you?" 'Mr. Dwight. Mr. Watson, Mr Fas sett and others." as Senator Nelson brought out that Wat son and Fassett were not in Congress and *h&t all the men mentioned ^etEPUb,"Can8' a,thouKh the House Tdmitted thae/n?Crat,C- Mu,ha11 ""ally admitted that Representative J. T Mc Dermott of Illinois and T. H. McMichael ?f thu House- were about the only persons he expected to jret his in fixTng thingT W*re t0 hC,p him Tells of Paying Money. Mulhall swore that McMichael came to se., him in Baltimore shortly afterward. ! He said McMichael came to get ?100 and he was to ffive half of it to Repre sentative J. T. McDermott of Illinois. He said that McDermott later claimed that he got only fca) of the $100. In a letter to J. P. Bird, irenerai agtr of the National Association of Man "&7ew''inw.? MU,ha11 ^Pokeof an interview with Representative Under wood. new majority leader of the House. He explained that he met Mr Under wood in the Capitol, and that the i, jority leader merely replied to questions ii ou. ^lt'n 1 have any interview with him then." .said Senator Nelson teniew 88 inSiSted t,,at U was a" WANT WELLS REOPENED Health Department, However, to Deny Petition of 10,001 District Residents. mP4e.titlon bearing the signatures of more than 10,000 residents of the District ?r,e ?cLbla, "f t0day Wth trict Commissioners, asking for the re ding of the many shallow wells which, on orders of the District i.u . ment. were cl0S ESS? rhe petition .states that the water /mm these wells has been mmL/l from .jhe'r "u?"?: The Dettilon fc.. k m these source.. healthdewnmeS. been ?< the. Held to Be Dangerously Polluted. 11 ,wa? Btated a* the health depart ment today that no recommendation for the reopening of the wells will be made. Dr. W. C. Woodward m.V . . health officer, stated that the last of the shallow w ells were ,.inu ^ last of eight years ago, the work havlng^beS done during the summer of 1907 after careful chemical and bacteiiniotl, i analysis of the water f!Sm X ?5SiJ luted t0 bC dan^rously pol-j recommend the reopening? nr ontr of these shallow well," S Drg la5 ward, be a return to the 'dark ages, rfhd this department will certain ly not recommend any such step " The petition was filed with the r?i? trict Commissioners by Dr. C. Rovs 631 F street northwest. ? * ' 631 Opposition Cause of Delay. Opposition to the appointment of Sum mers Burkhart as United States attorney for New Mexico induced the Senate judi clary committee to delay action on his appointment today. It is understood pro! tests have been transmitted to the com mittee, but no prolonged fight against hie confirmation is expected. RETAIN MRS. YOUNG, IS DEMAND ON MAYOR Chicago Women Insist That Board of Education Shall Be Reorganized. CHICAGO, July 28.?Woman voters of Chicago will call today- upon Mayor Har rison and demand that he use his power to force the retention of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young: as superintendent of schools. They also will request that he eradicate from the board of education the hostile influ ences which caused Mrs. Young to proffer her resignation. The mayor soon will appoint seven new members to the board, and the women will ask that these be friendly to Mrs. Young and that at least three of them be women. Returns From Vacation. A delegation of prominent women will wait upon the mayor following a meet ing at the Woman's City Club. He ar rived early today from a Michigan re sort. where he went the day Mrs. Young announced her resignation. A special session of the board of edu cation, called for Wednesday, is believed to have been requested by the mayor. It is not thought that any action will be taken on Mrs. Young's resignation then, there being a disposition to await the result of a huge mass meeting of women planned for Thursday night to protest against the loss of the superintendent. Many ministers referred yesterday to her resignation as a "public calamity." IN AMERICA 56 YEARS BUT NOT NATURALIZED Mr. and Mrs. August Arndt of Saginaw, Mich, Held at EHis Island. Because neither had taken out nat uralization papers during their fifty six years' residence in this country Mr. and Mrs. August Arndt of Saginaw, Mich., were detained at the immigra tion station at New York city Satur day following their arrival on the liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria from Germany, where they had visited their birthplace. They were sent to Ellis Island pending an investigation, but it is probable that they will be allowed to return to their Michigan home At the immigration bureau of the Department of Labor today it was stated that the case had not been brought to the attention of the depart ment. It will be handled by the New York office and the old couple probably will1 be permitted to re-enter this countrv although it is entirely within the nower of the immigration officials to Krt them. ?In thH S*"1*/ C^rse after thelr arrival Mr and Mrs Arndt were questioned by a public health surgeon frcm Ellis Island who found both suffering from s Su T!?e immigration Jaws sav that und< r such circumstances the afflicted persons must be transferred to the imm?VnH,.r. i station on Ellis Island. Mr Arndt wld the immigration inspector and the sureeon that he and his wife had hved most of their life in Saginaw, Mich., and that he had considered himself an American cltU sen for more than half a cmtwy even If So?hwr^ ,ed ,0 Uke ?ut ?????" Lived Here Since 1857. * h*;e bee" this country since ltw.." said Mr. Arndt when he was told iff eit': szt wife here, who is the saine age as nfv d?df' Wt^crowti T the same time that'I i were born " ?,d tub before >'t,u "I don't believe there wen> *nv such !ihmeSSI sneankatnfa,i^tl0n P?P?s ?t the time I speak of. Anyhow, it never oc- j curred to me to take them out, although 1 saw quite a good deal of the civil war. I wasn't a soldier, but I supplied many of the soldiers with food when they needed it, and I think I was a good American citizen for that reason. I lost all the money I had saved when the war broke out. But then I went into the hotel business In Saginaw, Mich-, and made money again. Not a Citizen, But Voted. "The good woman anil I have plenty of money for both of us. We won't become public charges, you may be sure of that. I helped to elect a good many good Presidents {Ms country has had " "Yon' donT mean to say you voted without being a citizen?" said an in quirer. "Of course, I voted, and surely I am a citizen," said Mr. Arndt. "I voted for all the big ones down to President Taft. Sometimes I'm a democrat and sometimes a republican, but 1 always pick out the good ones. I voted for a lot of small ones, too. But wliy shouldn't I when I own houses?" Then Mrs. Arndt interrupted. "Why," she said, "all thQ friends we have are in this country. We didn't know anybody in the old country. They were all gone, and all the faces we saw were new ones. Even the old places we knew as children are so changed that we didn't know them. Of course, we are Americans, and surely you are not going to send us away from the only home we have." HOPEFUL REGARDING JAPAN. Officials Here Optimistic as to Land Law Protest Negotiations. Administration officials here are dis poser! to take an optimistic view of the negotiations with Japan arising from her protest against the California anti-alien land law. and believe that a complete un derstanding almost is in sight. Although there may be another inter change of notes, administration officials feel that the diplomatic correspondence so far has established the frfendlfffiss of the I'nited States government for Japan and the absence of intent upon its part to discriminate against Japanese. Al though there has been no specific solution of the questions arising, it is said a frank understanding of the purposes of the two nations has arisen from the ne gotiations. TAXPAYERS ARE WARNED Next Friday Is Last Day for Making Returns on Per sonal Property. Next Friday, August 1, is the last day for making returns of personal property taxable in the District of Columbia. After that date the tax assessor is at liberty to work his own sweet will with what you own, and to make out your schedule of personal belongings "from the best in formation" he can secure. Furthermore, the law directs the assessors, after they have made out a schedule in this manner, to add iiO per cent to the total, as a penalty. Personal taxes in the District of Co lumbia are assessed on every manner of property aside from real estate. Live stock. Including dogs, automobiles, cloth ing, jewelry, furniture, works of art, libraries and, in short, "all other tangi ble personal property owned or held in trust or otherwise, on the first day of July, li>13, which has not been specifically exempted from taxation." No deduction for debt due on any of such j.trsonal property is permitted. Blanks for filling in schedules of per sonal property are to bo had at tne as sessor's office, and the law does not re quire the assessor to send out such blanks unless a request is made for him to do so. LOSS OF BRIDGE DISREGARDED, j Secretary Daniels and Wife Cross | Gulch by Lantern Light. PORTLAND, Ore., July 28.?Because of a burned bridge Secretary Daniels of the Navy Department, Mrs. Daniels und! Gov. West of Oregon groped their way a? ross a canyon near Isadora, a siding r>n the Southern Pacific, twenty-two miles north of Koseburg, about 10 o'clock last night. They made the crossing by the light of trainmen's lanterns. The gulch ts about fifty feet deep and 125 feet wide. HO SLACKING UP ON CURRENCY PLAN i | President Indicates There Is No Likelihood of Change | or Compromise. PARTY LEADERS CALL AT THE WHITE HOUSE Three Senators Support Adam ?. Patterson, Colored, for Begister of the Treasury. There is not the slightest wavering or slacking up on the part of the da ministration in reagrd to currency legis lation. President Wilson allowed it to become known this morning. There is no likelihood of change or compromise in the attitude of the administration toward currency legislation. The currency measure, as prepared in the House committee on banking and currency, has the administration ap proval. Indorsement of the bill in cau cus is expected by the administration. Making it a party measure, it is con sidered, will in no way militate to drive away republican support, wherever such support might have been given under conditions that would have removed the party mandate from its support. Senator Owen and Representative Glass, chairmen of the Senate and House committees on banking and currency, respectively, were early visitors this morning at the White House. The amendments to the currency bill, as prepared by the House committee, have the individual approval of Senator Owen. While he will not speak for other mem bers of the Senate committee, he freely declares his own favorable view of the form of the bill as prepared by the com mittee of which Representative Glass is chairman. There is every evidence of full accord between the two chairmen of the congressional committees and the President. Representative Glass, although stating that his visit to the White House today was not in the Interest of the currency measure, discussed the bill. He is satisfied with the attitude of the committee and anticipates that the currency bill will be reported out of committee in practically Its present form within a week or ten days. There will be no compromise on any essential provisions of the bill, he is confident. Government control of reserve banks is an essential, in his opinion, that will be surely maintained. Objection to that feature of the bill he is confident will not prevail. Some Minor Modifications of Bill. Some modifications of the bill, along the lines of improving its provisions, and not in the nature of change or com promise. he said, are still under con sideration. He is sure the House will approve the bill when the committee, where the greater complications have been encountered, has acted upon It. Senator Owen brought to the White House Dr. John T. M. Johnson, presi dent of the National Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Mo. President Johnson favors the administration currency policy, inoluding the government control of reserve, but had some minor, changes to suggest. Adam E. Patterson, colored, whose nomination for register of the Treasury, opposed by Senator Vardaman of Missis sippi. hafl three advocates to plead for him with the President this morning. Sen ators Gore and Owen of Oklahoma and Hoke Smith of Georgia all went to the front for Patterson. Senator Gore said that his original candidate had been a full-blooded Indian, but he is for Patter son. Senator Vardaman. who would deprive the colored voter of the franchise, and is leader of a movement for the repeal of the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution, is opposed to Patterson on the question of color. Since the days of President Cleveland the post of register of the Treasury has been regarded as a perquisite of the colored race. T!ie in cumbent has since been of that complex ion. Senator Vardaman \is prepared to fight every nomination of a colored as pirant for office under the government. Appears for Idaho Democrats. Senator Pomerene of Ohio regards him self as the representative of the demo cratic voters of Idaho in the Senate, which Is represented by republican sena tors. He came to the executive offices this morning to oppose a candidate for postmaster at Moscow, Idaho, whose democracy is under question. Patronage cases in North Carolina brought Senator Overman to see the President today. Senator Overman pre sented his views briefly, and was not long closeted with the President. Local patronage matters also interested Senator Fletcher of Florida. He also made an engagement to see tue --resident Thursday morning to discuss with him the trip abroad of the agricultural com mission which has been Investigating the operations of rural credit systems and agricultural banks. Other callers were Representatives Hef lln of Alabama and Clark of Florida. Twenty-Seven Injured in Wreck. BOULDER, Col., July 28.?Twenty-seven persons were injured, some seriously, in a wreck on Switzerland trail near here yes terday, when four cars filled with tour ists overturned. The cars were on the Rio Grande. Boulder and Western rail road. Among the probably fatally in jured were Mrs. Martha Chalfont and Miss Blanche Chalfont of Shinston, W. Va. All suffered Internal Injuries and cuts from breaking glass. DAY nr CONGRESS. Seaatei Met at noon and resumed general debate on tariff bill. Senator Town send criticised "executive Interfer ence" and caucus domination. Judiciary committee recommend ed favorable action on appointment of Representative John W. Davis as solicitor general. Lobby committee continued hear ins?:. Eleven progressive republicans : agreed to support Senator La J Follette's substitute schedules I on wool, cotton and several < parts of tariff bill. ' Senator Bryen proposed before ? post office committee legisla tion to prevent Postmaster Gen eral from making changes In rates and size leg ,i<tilous of parcel post. House t Met at noon and adjourned at 12:03 p.m., a record hhort session, because of Republican Leader Mann's filibuster tor% debate on Caruir.etti-Dlggs white slave case. Representative Howard (Ga.) in troduced a resolution calling up the civil service commission for infor mation on soiciting of campaign funds among government employee in Atlanta in 1012. * nous ACTION IS TAKEN BY U. S. IN DIXONSHOOTING Demand Made on Huerta to Punish Mexican Soldiers for Injuring American. i' RELEASE OF BISSELL AND Mcdonald also is urged Ambuwdor Wilton at White Home for Conference Regard ing Crisis. DENIES MAKING STATEMENT Has Offered No Solution for Trouble for Publication, He Says, Be fore Conferring With the President. In an effort to formulate a definite pol icy to !h? pursued toward Mexico. Presi dent Wilson this afternoon talked with Henry I^ane Wilson, the American am bassador at Mexico City, and also received from Secretary of States Bryan Informa tion concerning the situation which the Secretary had previously gleaned from Reginald H. Del Valle, his confidential agent: from President Brown of the Mexi can National railways and from tele graphic messages from "the front." Ambassador Wilson went into the con ference with the President, he said, pre pared to map out a plan for relieving the situation if such plan was desired by the President. Secretary Bryan was with the President just before Mr. Wilson called, and therefore the President was fortified with all the latest Information from Mexico. Ambassador Denies Statement. Just before Ambassador Wilson went Into conference with the President he re ferred In conversation with inquirers to the proposals for the solution of ths Mexican difficulty published today aud attributed to him. He dictated this state ment, which he said he was anxious to reach the Mexican people especially: "With reference to published proposals today, I disclaim all responsibility for them; their origin Is unknown to me and I regret that anything like them was made public." It was considered significant In official circles that Mr. Del Valle, who returned from Mexico at the ^ame time as did | Mr. Wilson, was closeted with Secretary i Bryan all the morning. It was stated in the same circles that Mr. Del Valle is in very close touch with the best ele ment of people in Mexico, and therefore in a portion to give reliable information to the administration. Prompt Action in Dixon Case. In the meantime prompt and vigorous action was beink taken by the adminis tration in the case of Charles B. Dixon, an American immigration inspector, who was arrested and then si^ot in Juarez last week, and in the cases of Charles Bis sell and Bernard McDonald, mining en gineers, imprisoned by federal soldi.-rs In Chihuahua City, and said to be threatened with execution. A demand was made on the Ifuerlii government for the immediate release ol Binsell and McDonald, and for the eourt martlal of the soldiers who shot Dixon. A full report of the Dixon affair was received by the immigration bureau this morning, in which it was stated that his arrest was "entirely without justitiea tion. Dixon has been release, and is now in the EI Paao hospital. The re ports this morning- said he was improv ing. A complete denial was made today at the White House and by Ambassador Wilson of the authenticity of an alleged plan for the solution of the Mexican trouble reported this morning to have been submitted by Mr. Wilson. The am bassador said he had never written out any plan and had discussed a plan witli nobody. The alleged plan was said to have been an old one discussed at o:ic t ine by the Taft administration. Attitude of U. S. Unaltered. There has been no Washington develop ment In the Mexican situation in the past week or ten days calculated to alter the attitude of the administration This statement was authorized this morning by President Wilson. The administration is prosecuting dili gent inquiry to determine Just what course shall be pursued toward Mexico. While evidence has been presented to in dicate the stability of th' Huerta gov ernment. there have been many wit nesses on the other side. This is an epitome of the aspect of the situation as far as regards the administration pur poses. The Huerta government in Mexico has an unqualified advocate in Ambassador Wilson, it is positively Indicated. He sees the only hope for tranquillity and prosperity, and institution of reforms calculated to redeem the republic from class oppression, in the maintenance at the head of the government of the only man who in his opinion offers, with evi dence of strength of character and sup port from the best elements of the peo ple, to bring about conditions favorable to a better day for Mexico. Ambassador Visits Dentist. Ambassador Wilson did not see Sec retary Bryan this morning, but spent part of the morning at a dentist's. He said^that since reaching Washing ton he has, received more than 200 messages from all parts of the 1 nit<-d States commending his attitude on the Mexican situation. -He expressed pleasure at the prompt response which the government s rep resentations concerning the Dixon case had called forth. He added that he had received no word today disclosing any changes in the situation. Information on Traffic Sought. Secretary Bryan sought today informa tion on traffic conditions In Mexico and their effect upon the financial situation through a conference with President Brown, head of the Mexican National Railway system. President Brown is especially equipped to give the State De partment expert opinion on those subjects in their relation to the general para lysed condition of commerce and indus try hi the southern republic. It Is thought his counsel may play an lm portant part In the determination of tbe policy ot ths United States. The latest