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Stars Sunday Magazine
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No. 470-No. 10,548.
WEATHER.
Unsettled today; 'Monday
generally fair: light variable
winds.
FULL REPORT ON PAGE THREE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 5, 1014
ftve cents.
G. W. U. MEN TOLD
TO AID THEOAPITAL
Are Cautioned to See Mem
bers of Congress Do Not
Alter Organic Act.
SECOND ANNUAL DINNER
OF LAW SCHOOL IS HELD
Speaker Clark. Senator Lee. Henry
B. F. Macfarland and Others
!
Deliver Addresses.
were upheld as the moving
spirit: of the ration, students and alumni
u or r urged to conscientiously do their
dut> to their country. and they were told
?hcn the:- g?. nut into the states to re
member their duty to the ?* ?pital eity of
the nation last night at the second an
dinner o' the law school or George
Washington T'niversitv. held at llau
scher's.
With song, story and cheers marking oft
th<* courses of th< dinner, and with songs
punctuating the speaking program. t*?o|
students and alumni of the law school sat
for nearly five hours and made merr.\.
r>nriiiR the speeches the men listened to
?idr ice from lawyers of some experience,
? ere urged to "study up" the politics and
history of the nation, to make it their
duty to see that members of Cong:res.- do
not undermine th?- organic at.r of t^e Dis
'rict of Columbia, and were told that to
f'i student U?dy and the alumni tell the
dut\ of providing an endowment fund for
the la? school of tieorge Washington
I iiiversitj-.
? hamp ?"lark. Speaker of the House of
^preventatives led the list of speakers,
uid responded to the toast. "Our < 'oun
t " . 'Jod Keep Her and Bless Her." Foi
ou ing iuni were II. < "raig Jones of the
aw . -rhool facultx. who proposed th*:
??ndownieTit of the law school: Bennett r.
? iark. who represented the student bodv
rr,:U?ro FLlai' !" ,,f dryland and
?ieiu> B. b Macfarland of the board of!
i "u: tees. Hear. Charles Noble Gregory i
a< ted as 'oastmaster.
Clark Causes Laughter.
>peak? : i lark kept the guests In a con
stant stat?- of laughter with the char
acteristic humor with which his speeches
are filled. When he arose to speak, the
entire study body rose and gave three
heers. First off. Speaker Clark started
??> tell the law students why the Speaker
he House o' Representatives Is called
a speaker.
"It isn't his business to make speeches."
he said, "although he sometimes does.
There is no law axainst it. When Henry
lay was speaker it was a habit. I
never heard Uncle Joe make anv speeches
? until one day when I got him so hot he
down and took a shot at me. When
TIM havesomet hing to say I am going
o ?y t. The way the name of speaker
?rose gas in this way: When the King
of Knglwid had anything to say to the
house of \Iords he came down and said
it. and n-hen the house had anything to
?ay to the kin* ft was said by the pre
siding officer, who acted as speaker for
the tody. So it ought to be here.
We have already had one-half of that
to*be? restort"d and the oth?r half ought
T"hen he began to praise lawyers, de
' .aring that practicing law was the seri
ous business of his life, and that politics
was only a recreation with him. He spoke
of prejudice against lawyers, and said
that if you take away all of the lawyers
of this country who are in favor of liberty
then these United States would still be
British colonies. The lawyers are re
sponsible for the freedom of today, he
said. Of the cabinet officers of this
? ountry. he said, three-fourths were law
t*. of the senators three-fourths have
;?e*-n lawyers; of the representatives in
ongress nine-tenths, and nine-tenths of
tne governors of this countrv an ,aw vers
*nd have been lawyers, and that m'etn
,VSt '1 . profes"lon literally swarm in
tne legislatures of the states
Theories of His Own.
?litrm do vOU account for this?" he!
asked. ! have some theories of my own
"?aw?ers are kept In the public eye. They!
are constantly thrown in with all sorts'
or people, and they are the moat ccner- I
ou> people in the wort-'. Thev love ora
or>. have a chance to develop oratorv
and when they see a man develop oratory
the> encourage him. ;tnd he fattens on
?-n< ouraffement. and improve? and gets
" ' offiee. and does good work there
" ' ,h" sets a better on.- until lie
and? in <-ongress.
If I had niv way about it there
????uld ... ver b. any more national con
on face of the earth. They
talk about primaries Why. J am the
'er of the primary idea' I forced
it li, own district If there had
*eeri a primary m 1?12 I sincerely be
Iieve there: would havr been a different
all to tell at that time. However. I
K, , tomt' ,,ero to talk ?*>out that.
Kilt '?t me say to you young men if
ou want to make something out' of
ourselves get out of the 1,7* cities
" }ou want to make money then stav
tne biff cities." sta>
He reminded the students that when
? hey do jo out into the world thev art
' do the.r duty as they see it. He urged
.em to study the pontics of the country
ij ** h,a,or> "It Is your dutv "
'?Sfth. ice ?"H"0' "hirk " an"
Appeal for the Capital.
x" ppeal to the student ho.lv and to
? Itimm made by former Oiiiunis
-loner Mac ariand to do their dutv t? the
natK U's capital, after they have g.,rie ou'
'It., the states by doing their pari tow, i
Keeping in the minds ?f the people an.i
!? :members of Congress the broad plans
;hrj,'^>w,'i!p"an;J"m,ne u- ?>
-Mr Macfarland said the National
*pit..l ought to have the t.est of ev
*? li, ~ . llp believed all fB-.
??Ilia. iu Americans desired it to be
?' n"l- 'T|St,<h,l"-tH,i "" ear,h- and that not
? ill., in I'hJSieal am-earan. e. but in its
ami institution-, ami particularly
'i eilucation He expressed the belief
'7'1 ,h' country would
asl.imcd have Its public cduca
I'"1" "r death rate abo\c
.' '???> look upon the citv as an
igi.il whoie atid want it in everv
ay worthy ofthe sreat republic
? eorge \\ asliinglon. uiiose nam.- tl.e
? niversity bears, cannot In- h:,.,ored bet
iii endowing the uiilversitv and
-? I.ruviding that hisher ,d?cut,o? in
,'l'O'n' 1 apital which h. tried lo
""'lid W "' " ??"isre.'s
'lll| ( I,- l > ; |) . .. . I,
?t of the .Morrill act now gi> en in eveM
elat. and t.-rntor). including Corto Klci,
.< 10 Hawaii. I?nt mysterious! v withheld
from the I ,-trict of < olumbia ail these
?ars it would add *J5.i*?i to the uni
l/ r " I}' 'nco""' "i"1 enable it to do larger
If n<rt better work a'ger
Capital Neglected.
? *\hile the lHvtriet people.' he coii
imu^d. "have always done their full duty
to the national government, the national
(Continued on Fifteenth Page.)
Union and Non-Union Labor
Men in Big New York
Disturbance.
"KILL THE CAPITALISTS"'
CRY UNDER RED BANNER
Detectives Concealed in Building?
Around Union Square Are
Attacked by Mob
XKW VIIHK, April 4.? Kill- iMiudred I
city police and desectives swp! from all !
sides into a inob of men an'] women in |
I'ninn Square today when union and non- ;
nnion labor opposed one another mass i
meetings, Concealed in buildings fronting!
tin- square and mingling in twos and j
threes iri an orderly throng that had !
gathered to sympathize with the -Mit hi- .
gan copper strikers, the poli? e \wre pre- j
pared when a mass of the unemployed,
marshaled under the banners of the Iri- j
dustrial Workers of the World, marched
in from the eross streets.
Disturbance after disturbance ensued.
Mounted police galloped down upon surg- j
ing erowiJs The hidden police sprang
from office eorridors and store doorways.
Detectives began making arrests of 1.
W. W. men accused as leaders of the
mob and at one. attempts were made to
rescue the prisoners- Here tin police
drew their clubs and battled their way to
the center ?>f the mob to save the detec
tives from harm.
.Nine Men Arrested.
Nine men were arrested, including
Joseph O'CaroI. a youthful 1. W. W.
leader: Adolph Wolff, a sculpter,known
as "the poet of the East Side," and
Joseph J. Gans, also an I. W. W. leader.
The others were a school teacher, a stu
dent, merchant and unemployed men of
varying trades.
Union labor, represented by lite Centra!
Federated I'nion. had called the L'nion
Square meeting. The union's president.
Thomas J. Curtis, during an appeal on be
half of the copper strikers, repudiated the
I. W. W. and unemployed disturbers,
saying:
"Labor unionists?1 mean men who
wrork and are willing to work?do not
countenance nor sympathize with the
sort of demonstrations you have wit
nessed this afternoon. They do not be
lieve in seeking to accomplish their rights ]
by disorder nor the display of red ban- |
ners. but are confident that relief is to I
be found in the ballot. And through
the ballot alone will they remedy the
ills from which they are suffering "
Forestalled by Labor Men.
The city had given the Central Fed
erated Union its right to gather. The
I. W. W. had announced its purpose of
repeating the parade held through 5th
avenue a fortnight ago. The C. P. U.
forestalled this move by obtaining a per
mit for a parade today, although the la
bor union made no arrangements r I
march. The police were on hand to P' -
vent the unemployed and the I. W.
from parading, and. besides the force of
500 men at Union Square, policemen were
stationed in clubs and churches and
hotels along 3th avenue and Madison
avenue. Police Commissioner Douglas I.
McKav and several of his deputies wit
nessed the rioting in Union Square.
The C. F. U. announced on placards
that the advertised meeting of the un
employed had been postponed for a week,
but the unemployed proved the contrary
by assembling under red banners in
scribed. "Tannenbaum must be freed-" j
This allusion was to the young I. W. W.
leader. Frank Tannenbaum. recently
sentenced to a year in the workhouse
for participating in an unlawful ass* m
| blage of the unemployed in a church. ;
Hemmed In by Fighting Mob.
Gans. who carried this banner, was I
first arrested, charged with carrying it ;
without a permit. O'Carol's arrest pre- j
cipitated the wildest disturbance Hem- |
j med in by a fighting mob, the police who |
| had O'Carol prisoner were unable to |
! escape until Sheriff Grifenhagen ran his j
! automobile into the heart of the throng. ,
O'Carol and his captors leaped into the j
car and were borne away as mounted
officers charged and scattered the man
and woman rioters. During this incident
O'Carol's head was cut open. It was
charged that the police clubbed him. .
"Kill the capitalists!" and 'the police |
i are here to persecute us!" were yells
that arose from the crowd as they lied. |
Four persons charged with using such
language, or who refused to move or
interfered with the police, were made
prisoners. .
Speeches in behalf of the Michigan i
copper strikers were made by Curtis.
Joseph Gannon, vice president of the '
Western Federation of Miners, and Mrs.
Gannon. The Michigan circuit court was
attacked as antagonistic to labor in de- i
cisions renting to the strike. It was
announced that the C. F. U would hold
a banquet for the strikers Jn Labor
Temple here April
I RATE HEARING NEARS END.
Lake-and-Rail Shipping Interests
Presenting Testimony.
Officials of the interstate commerce
commission expressed confidence last
night that the long hearings on the pro
posed general per cent increase in
freight rates, sought by tin* railroads in
official classification territory, had enter
ed on its final stage with the opposition
of the lake-and-rail shipping interests,
begun yesterday, before Chairman Har
i lan and Commissioner McChord.
i This last direct testimony, it was
I thought, might take two or three days,
i The shippers base objections on a belief
! that differentials now enjoyed by middle
western interests, would be disturbed.
Council for th" carriers expressed will
ingness to submit the case without briefs
or oral argument. Various shipping in
terests have reserved tin right to file
briefs, however. It now seems likely
that the commission will have these also
to consider.
t Letters by the hundred have reached
: the commission urging that the question
! be settled as soon as possible. A genera1,
j expectation exists that the finding will
be announced shortly after May 1.
I SEEK CONTRABAND ARMS.
I Customs Officials Find Machine Gun
in Traveler's Trunk.
Nl-;W YORK, April 4.?Officers of the
customs service were instructed today
to watch carefully all vessels bound for
Santo Domingo or Haiti, to prevent the
i shipment of arms and ammunition for the
! possible use of revolutionists.
? Vigilance of federal authorities has been
quickened by discovery, last Thursday,
of twenty-five revolvers, a dismembered
machine gun and several hundred rounds
of ammunition in the trunk of a native
of Santo Domingo, about to sail for borne
on the steamsUip Algonquin.
Republicans Seize the Oppor
tunity to Belabor the Sec
retary of State.
SARCASM OF MEMBERS
FEATURES THE DEBATE
Byplay During Tedious Discussion
1 of the Legislative. Executive and
Judicial Appropriation.
Half a dozen republicans on tin n-?or of
the House yesterda\ afternoon arose iti j
their might and save William .Jermines
"Hry an a viuoro-s walloping, and when ,
they got through whalin" him several
democrats across the middle aisle whaled |
back as hard :is they could, and the cli
max of the comedy came when .loseph J
Johnson of South Carolina. who seemed j
to be the only congressman on the io*? ,
who took the thins seriously, arose and)
likened the Secretary of State to Shad
rach. Meshech and Abednego:
"He has been cast in the tiery furnace
of your sarcasm for sixteen long years,
but. like the three Hebrew children who
refused to bow down to the golden images
of Nebncliadnezza. he comes forth un
scathed and his hair unsinged.'*
?And uncut." suggest. 1 a republican. i
! All this was a part of the proceedings j
| in the long and wearisome discussion <>f |
I the legislative, executive and judicial ap
. propriation bill. Pretty nearly everything
j that the republicans could think of except
the bill was discussed, the Secretary of
i State, his hair, his footmen, his lectures. |
j his policies, the fourth-class postmasters. I
the grocery bills at the White Mouse ami ;
I other vital topics bearing on national is
I sues.
Democrat Leads the Chorus.
j And the odd part of it was that a
democrat led tli^ anvil chorus. This was
I Representative Fowler of Illinois, who
for several years has upraised his voice
j against any increase of salary in almost
; any bill, and who yesterday succeeded
; in reducing, for the time being, at least,
j the salaries of the first, second and third
assistant secretaries of state, lie and
Representative Johnson, in charge of the
! bill, had a merry row over the matter,
the latter charging .Mr. Fowler with mak
ing untrue and unjustifiable statements
"unworthy of the House." However, the
salaries had to be cut. because tiiere is no
law authorizing $5,000 for an assistant
secretary and -S4..~>oi> for the other two as
sistants. They will he placed at
until some one puts them ba.k at
and ?4,500. respectively, as they have
been for twer ty years by continuous cus
tom. *
Representative Humphrey of Washing
ton. a republican, took advantage of the
growling across the aisle to offer an
amendment to raise Secretary Bryan's
^Fflary ta ?1*M)00, but lh* democrats all
rith one a cord snouted that it was not
in order. They feared the old gag about
Secretary Bryan needing so much more
than *1X000 a ?ear to live on that lie had
to lecture to make up the deficit. That's
an old one in the House.
Mr. Humphrey's Next Move.
But they were not prepared for the
motion which Mr. Humphrey then offered,
j reducing the salary to $0,000. He did it
merely to get a chance to talk under
j the rules of the House, and this is what
he said:
"When 1 offered the amendment to
raise his salary I did not have in mind
j as a reason that the Secretary of State
should be paid a large enough sum to
Keep him here. Oh. no! 1 would not do
| anything to retain him in Washington, as
i f believe lie is doing the best service to
i the country that he could possibly per
I form when he is outside of the State De
| partment. The particular idea that was
1 in my mind came from hearing some one
s ty this afternoon that higher salaries in
the government service should be paid so
I as to insure better results. We certainly
ought to pay more money to the Secretary
of State if we think we could get better
service in the State Department.
"We ought to have a Secretary of State
who woukl not have to sell something to
England and violate his party platform
in order to extricate ? himself and the
country from the difficulties into which
it had fallen through him."
"Doc Foster of Illinois, feeling the
j hot lash of sarcasm, made a warm reply
I from the democratic camp, in which he
j predicted that despite the. slings and
[ arrows of outraged and outrageous re
publicans, the people are with President
Wilson and his cabinet, and that the re
publicans would learn this next fail,
when the ballots are cast for a new
1 louse.
Indulgence in Sarcasm.
All <?f this time Frank Mondeli. the
Wyoming master of sarcasm, was finger
ing over a copy of the hearings on the
legislative bill. He arose with his thumb
in a section of the volume:
"I am sure that the Secretary of
State is not going to do any more lec
turing. ' he said, "and 1 do not state
this as a fart coming from him, but 1
gather it. as the result of a process of
reasoning. I read on page 7?> of these
hearings where Secretary Bryan said he
used an employe of the State Depart
ment as a footman and deducted the
time ?? employed from the government's
time, oecause the employe was not in
the State Department service, and the
Secretary saved the I'nited States those
wages, paying them himself. After a 1
difficult mathematical process, I calcu- j
late that MlI.ifT annually has been saved !
to the government in this way.
"But what is most significant is this: j
If the Secretary of State finds that it
is not proper to allow the footman to
accept pay from the government for wor<
done outside of the State Department.
then surely at the end of this year we
will be told by the proper accounting
official that the Secretary of State has
turned back into the Treasury an amount i
of monev sufficient to cover his time lost
away from the Department of State and
spent on the lecture platform; and this
amounts to about two-thirds of his time."
"Don't let us frown upon the employ
ment of an extra footman." said Repre
sentative Sloan, a republican, from the
state of Nebraska. Bryan's own bailiwick;
"1 am sure the Secretary of State wants
to reduce the great army of unemployed
under this administration, and if he can
do it to the extent^of a footman here or a
coarhman there, let him do so. And I do
ii<take part in the criticism of tin* Sec
retary <?f State, who comes from Nebras
ka. for he probably fills the job ;us weli as
any democrat could. He Is known around
the world for his politics and his voice
and diplomacy."
Draws Picture of Social Customs.
Bringing to the discussion a picture of
social customs as practiced in the great
transmissouri regions. Victor Murdock of
Kansas, leader of the progressives, deliv
ered a mighty oration, inveighing against
lace and gold braid, fuss and feathers:
"Out in that great and glorious region
SQUASH CENTER COMMENTS ON CANAL TOLLS ISSUE
where the Secretary of State hails from
the coachmen wear no sold braid, the
footmen wear no livery and the gardener,
when he is called into the leading home?
of Wichita to act as butler for the in
frequent reception, looks only like a
gardener?nothing more. And now some
of you are endeavoring to i'oist a coach
man in gold lace upon the Secretary of
Stat", and I admire his steadfast courage
in refusing one. There is nothing demo
cratic in livery: there is nothing so awful
as the plug hat. I can truthfully say
that 1 never saw anything to equal in
pathos the sight of Representative
Foster of Illinois in a plug hat."
"I never owned one in my life," yelled
Foster.
Mr. Murdock then went on lo describe
the various fathers of democracy and tIn
state of sartorial collapse in which such
great statesmen as Webster. Jackson.
Cleveland and others were a? all times:
"And T have never seen anything so ?
ridiculous," he finished, "than the sight ,
of Ambassador Wilson, our diplomatic !
representative at Mexico, who appeared
In a galaxy of foreigners with his dress
clothes touched off by golden button?."
Asks for Information.
Mr. Mondell got another chance late?
on when the House was solemnly dis
cussing a hundred-dollar item providing
"equipment of driver"?the one who
drives the Secretary of State around on
official calls, and the like.
"This means uniform. 1 suppose." sug
gested Mr. Mondell. "and the only ques- ;
tion about this uniform, since the sur- i
render to Kngland the other day, will be I
whether or not the British I'nion Jack is ;
to be worn on the front or the back. At !
any rate, the question had better be stt- ]
tied, because it's an important one."
And so on They riddled and ragged <
and fiddled around for five hours on I
the same strain. Representative Fowler, j
u ho had succeeded in reducing the sala
ries of the a&_">tHnt secretary of slate
and the two officers immediately follow
ing. arose and made a warm defense of
Bryan:
"lie has done more to put the govern
ment of tlu-M'nited States in the hands of
the common people than any other man
in the country. r would rather be the
author of the 'Prince of Peace' than the
author of all the slanders that have been :
heaped upon the illustrious Secretary of I
State." , j
A few seconds later the House ad- t
journed for the night.
TRUmS THENIED
Department of Justice Soon to An
nounce Board to Direct Trolley
Lines Divorced by New Haven.
Trustees for the Rhode Island and
Connecticut trolley lines, which the
New York. New Haven and Hartford
railroad is to give up, probably will
be announced this week.
Ever since the railroad officials and
the Department of Justice reached a
definite understanding for a dissolu
tion of the railroad and its subsidiaries
without a suit the Department of Jus
tice has been seeking suitable men for
these two boards. Many names have
been considered, but the lists have not
been completed.
In several instances Attorney Gen
eral McReynolds has met with regrets
from the man chosen. It seemed prob
able last night that both boards could
be announced shortly.
No official information has reached
tlie Depa'rtment of Justice of reports
from Baltimore that the Mercantile
Trust and Deposit Company of that
city was about to buy the New Haven
holdings in the Merchants and Miners'
Transportation Company, one of the
so-called "outside" lines which it prom
ised to divorce. It is probable, how
ever, that the only requirement the
government will make will be proof
that there is no connection bet wen the
railroad and the trust company.
MILLIONAIRE IS FREED.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 4?A charge
of obtaining money under false pretenses
brought against Walter Greer Campbell,
the financially embarrassed millionaire,
who was brought hack here from Port
land. Oreg., recently was dismissed in
court today for lack of evidence. The
amount involved. $1250, was settled and the
prosecution failed to bring to San Fran
cisco from Chicago a witness who was es
sential to its case.
liarlier in the week a charge of negleet
brought by Campbell's first wife was die
missed at her request.
TOLLS DEBATE SET
TO BEGIN IN SENATE
Poindgnter Resolution First to
Come Up, Probably
Tomorrow.
OTHERS INTEND TO SPEAK
SOME TIME DURING WEEK
Committee May Grant Hearings on
House Bill?Scheme to Change
Rules on Foot.
I'ebate on the Panama canal lolls re
peal bill will begin in earnest In the;
Senate this week, notwithstanding the J
fact that the bill may not In- reported !
back from the interoceanic canals corn*- !
mittee for another week or two. Senators
Met.'umber, Lodge, Thomas. .Yon is and
Poindexter have already given notice
that they intend to address the Senate
during the present week on the subject
of canal tolls.
Senator Poindexter has a resolution
pending before the Senate calling upon
President Wilson to take the Senate into
his conlidence regarding his real reasons
for demanding the repeal. This should
come up for consideration tomorrow in
the ordinary course of events, and if |
it does it, probabl> will lead to sharp i
debate.
May Be Hearings on Bill.
The interoceanic canals committee, ai
the call of its chairman. Senator O'Gor
man of New York, is to meet Tuesday
morning to consider the repeal bill. While
leaders on both sides of the repeal ques
tion are declaring that they expect the
committee to lay the bill before the Sen
ate without delay, some members of the
i Senate are not so optimistic. Senator
' Chamberlain of Oregon, one of the lead
ing opponents of repeal, said last night
that hf thought the bill would be hefo e |
the committee for at least two weeks
more before it was reported out. He
-aid that he understood there would be
requests for hearings, and that he felt
sure the committee would be willing to
hear persons who desired to submit state
ments for its information.
May Be June Before Vote.
"It may be June 1 before we reach a
vote on the bill in the Senate," was Sen
ator Chamberlain's comment. He said j
that he believed the committee might de- 1
velop a majority In opposition to re- ;
peal, and that an adverse report on the
bill would be made to the Senate. It is !
possible, in case of a deadlock in the
committee, that the measure may be re
ported out without recommendation.
Some of the many proposed com pro- j
inise measures may also be reported :
in the same manner, leaving it to the
Senate to determine the whole con
troversy.
Some senators look upon amendments
l to the Senate rules proposed by Sena
tors Hoke Smith of Georgia and Over
man of North Carolina as designed to
have bearing on the tolls exemption
repeal debate. Senator Smith, who is
to be one of the democratic leaders
In the tight for the repeal bill, gave
notice that he would seek the adop
tion of a rule which would compel a
senator to speak directly to the meas
ure before rhe Senate for discussion.
Modified Forms of Cloture.
Senator Overman, also an administra
tion supporter 6n the repeal bill, has in
troduced an amendment to the rules
which would provide that no senator
should "directly or indircctly, by any
form of words, impute to another senator
or other senators any conduct or mo
tives unworthy or unbecoming of a sena
i tor, or in any mnnner refer disrespectfully
? <?r offensiveh to the President of the
( TTnited States or to the Vice President."
I The impression <>f some senators is
ihat these amendments constitute modified
1 forms of cloture and ;t right on them is
certain. In fact, if they should be pressed
upon the Senate a right more bitter and
longer than that exported over the tolls
j repeal bill itself may develop.
WIFE AND CHILDREN SLAIN.
Francis Says Stranger Did Deed and
Fired His Home.
A RKAOKLP111 .A. Ark.. April 4.?On rec
ommendation of the coroner's jury, Klihu
Francis is held in jail here, charged with
the murder of his wife and three children,
whose charred bodies were found yester
day in the ruins of their home near
here.
Francis declared his wife and children
were murdered with an ax by an uniden
tified man. who set fire to the house and
lied down a road leaJing past his place.
Neighbors who rushed to the Francis
home when they saw the flame8, testified
they saw no one leaving the place. An
a\ bea.ing bloodstains, and which. Fran
cis said, belonged to him, was found in
the ruins of the house.
CONFESSES TO MURDER.
Chinese Boy Says He Slew Mrs.
Millard at Vancouver.
VAXCOrVKIt. B. April 4.?Jack
Kong, the seventeen-year-old Chinese
boy suspected of the murder of Mrs.
Charles J. Millard, confessed today that
he committed the crime.
The boy told the police that at break
fast Wednesday Mrs. Millard had found
fault with him. He struck her with
a chair and stunned her and then chok
ed her to death, he said. Later he took
her body to the basement, where he cut
it up and placed it in the furnace,
pi^ce by piece. Fe hid the clothing in
order to convince Mr. Millard that his
wife had gone out in the morning.
The skull and other bones have been
found in the chimney beyond the fur
nace. the police said.
ALABAMA JVOTE NEAR
Underwood and Hobson Close Cam
paign for Senatorship With
Rallies.
AlO.VTUOMIiRY. Ala.. April 4. Rallies
in Birmingham. Mobile and Montgomery,
the state's largest cities, and in numer
ous smaller cities and towns tonight
closed the campaign of Representative
Oscar \\ Underwood and Richmond P.
Hobson. candidates for the democratic
nomination for United States senatorship
at Monday's primaries. The largest vote
ever polled in Alabama is expected.
Although national interest is centered
in the Underwood-Hobson race, whereas
in the others nomination means election,
state interest in the campaign is inten
sified by the fact that a candidate for the
unexpired portion of the term of the late
United States Senator Joseph F. John
ston will be chosen, in addition to can
didates for governor ?nd all elective state
offices.
Because of the length of the ticket,
counting of votes, it is expected, will be
slow and results may not be definitely
determined until Tuesday night.
The four-cornered gubernatorial race is
being fought out between B. B. Comer,
former governor: Charles Henderson,
president of the state railroad commis
sion; Capt. R- F. Kolb. commissioner
of agriculture, and Walter D. Se^d, lieu
tenant governor. The contest to serve out
the unexpired term of Senator Johnston
Is between Frank S. White of Birming
ham and Ray Rushton of this city.
Bandits' Daring: Exploit Fails.
LOS ANGELES, April 4.? Four ban
dits blew out the front of the building
occupied by the Glendora Bank at Glen
dora. a suburb, early today, but were
driven away by citizens before they
could reach the money vault. They es
caped.
SAYS WILSON AIMS
TO BE A WAR HERO
Maj. C. E. Gillette Prophesies
Second Term Ambition Will
Lead to It.
MEXICAN POLICY IS BOTH
i CRITICISED AND DEFENDED
Situation Discussed at Meeting of
American Academy of Social
and Political Sciences.
| PHII.AUK1.PHIA. April 4.?The foreign
policy of the United States, both with re
gard to Mexico and the Pacific, was criti
cized and defended today at tlTe closing
session of the American Academy of Po
? litical and Social Science, at which the
I situation in the neighboring republic, its
problems and obligations were discussed,
but there was a general agreement
among the speakers that there will be no
permanent peace in that war-torn coun
try until the land problem is settled.
There was a long list of speakers, who
took up various phases of the complex
Mexican situation, and most of them
agreed there should be no intervention
except as an extreme resort.
Mai. Cassius E. Gillette, formerly of
the T'nited States Army, described con
ditions in Mexico and declared that it
was his belief that the President of the
United States would not be unwilling to
become a war hero In order to get a
second term. The speaker had no soon
er delivered these words than hisses came
from different parts of the hall. He said
he kmw what he said would arouse pro
test ar?d prophesied that such a situation
would come about.
i Dr. L. S. Howe Defends President.
i Dr. L. S. Rowe. president of the
j academy, said, before proceeding with a
j prepared address, that he was not able
j to make a psychological analysis of the
: President and that he must, therefore,
j assume that the President is unalterablj
' opposed to intervention, that in his
sages to Congress he was sincere and
! that in formulating his Mexican policy
Mr Wilson believed he was doing the
i best thing for Mexico and his own
country.
Under a tive-minute rule for dis* a?i^n
Representative S- F. Prouty of Iowa. w. o
was in the audience, took the platform
and resented the remarks of Maj. Gillette.
??Although I am a republican and have
fought all my life to defeat democrats."
he said, "f will uphold with all my
power the President of my country in his
Mexican policy and in his efforts to avert
war. He also resented, he said, the
"dragging of the President down to the
level of Huerta."
The killing or foreigners in Mexico, t.ie
Iowa representative said, is an incident of
war and he ventured to add that there
have been fewer Americans killed in
Mexico than there have been by gunmen
in New York.
Austen G. Fox Backs Wilson.
Austen G. Fo>. a delegate of the Amer
ican Bar Association, who presided at
I today's session also defended the Presi
dent! He said he believed Mr. Wilson
"would father see the Monroe doctrine
an absolute myth than engage in war
with any one."
Louis Livingston Seaman of New York,
speaking to his subject on the program,
was of the opinion that the lifting of the
embargo 011 arms was an error and that
Huerta should be recognized. A. B.
Farquhar of York. Pa., with manufactur
ing interests in Mexico, indorsed much
that the administration has done, but
believed the President should put "his
pride in his pocket" and recognize
1 Huerta. ... ,
Other addresses dealt with internal so
lutions of affairs in Mexico. Prof. S. X.
Patten of the University of Pennsylvania
said the United States should change its
attitude toward Mexico from that of po
litical to economic.
Favors Land Distribution.
Prof. L. C. Wells of Clark College.
I Worcester. Mass.. was one of those who
believed that the distribution of land
among Mexicans would solve many of her
troubles. "Much of the millions of acres
of land legally held is morally open to
confiscation." he said.
United States Senator Gore of Okla
homa presided at the night session,
which was given over to a discussion of
the elements of a constructive American
foreign policy.
Senator Gore said wars should be abol
ished and defended the foreign policy
of the United States. He said disputes
j between nations should be settled by
{arbitration and that the treaty obliga
tions of the United Slates should be
! kept. , T
\mong the other speakers were Rep
resentative Edward W. Townsend of New
Fersev John Temple Graves. New ^ ork.
and W. Morgan Shuster Washington,
D. C.
Executive "Dreaming," Says Shuster
.Mr. Shuster. who recently was treas
er-general and financial adviser of Persia,
who spoke on ' The Elements of a Con
structive American Foreign Policy, said:
' "The foreign policy of the United States
up to the present time, so far as th-re
has been any at a I. has insisted of spo
radic asservations of the Monroe doc
trine."
Sir. Shuster pointed to the words of
President Wilson in his Mobile speecli ot
October 27. 1913:
??It is a very perilous tiling to deter
mine a foreign policy ill terms of ma
terial interest. It is, indeed, a degrading
thing.'
"That is language. said Mr. Shuster.
"which might well he placed on the top
of the stationery of our State Depart
ment taut the President was 'dreaming.' "
he said, "when. In the same address, he
declared that the United States deemed
it a duty to assist In the emancipation
of states which were in danger of being
dominated by foreign interests because
of concessions granted.'
Mr Shuster termed this "a remarkable
example of the state of 'mental guar
dianship.' which those who subscribe to
the bundle of declarations known as the
Monroe doctrine are apt to feel toward
all other nations." He said under no
previous construction of that doctrine
had the United States ever attempted to
say what concessions should or should
not be granted by any Latin American
nation. It was a policy analogous to
telling a man who Is starving to death
I that he should not pawn vr sell his
I watch.
i Pleads for Trained Diplomats.
At the afternoon session of the academy
discussion was shifted from Mexico to
the policy of the United States in the
Pacitlc. Rear Admiral C. H. Stockton,
presided.
Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright.
speaking on American interests in the Pcu
(Continued on Second Page.)
CM. HOLUHER
ENDS HIS 01UFE
,Head of First Police Precinct
' Was Worried by Finances
and in III Health.
LEAVES NO MESSAGE
TO EXPLAIN HIS ACT
i Sends Bullet Crashing Tluougli
i Head in "Den" of His Home
in Northeast.
j t ?I*T. J. THOMAS HOI.I.INHKNbEN.
i ,W''.ile seated in ?<- rocking chair in the
! den he had fitted up in the basetne. ?
,at Ins home. KA Massachusetts avenu-.
I northeast, at o'clock yesterdav af?.. -
noon. Police Capt. J. Thomas Ifollin
I !r/'Tr ?r ""* finst f>rer'nrt sent .1 bill
rom a heavy Colt automatic depart
i men* pis*j crashing through his he*d
"ollc, berger died at Casualt
Hospital, Where he was taken at ?_?.
octock. exactly an hour after the ahor
was tired, never having -egained con
SCI o .is ness.
At home with Capt Hollenberser a;
tne time or his death were Mrs. Hollin
berger. his wire, and two of bis daugh
noMh i Mabe! D"?n'V. IKK 15th street
Tit/i? Julie, Hellinberget
c ontinued -111 health, resulting from In
juries received several years ago ,n,
financial worries are said to hare been t -
impelling causes. Capt. Holllnberser left
no message or word of any kind to explain
his contemplated act. though member* ,.f
his family said last night that he had lWll
much depressed and in a highly nerv.,,,
condition for riie past few days.
Capt. Hollinberger went to his ? den
yesterday afternoon just before the trag?
dy. his wife and daughter being on a ,
upper floor of the house
Found Him Unconscious.
Hearing the sound of a shot. Mrs u. I
linberger ran to her husband's r0..?, s,,.
found him clad only in his night . lotln ?
and Siippers. seated in a big rockcr. in
his right hand was craspi-d the heavy de
partment pistol will which the d-cd hao
j been committed. ?; he bullet had entered
I illf ?r'Bh,t ?ide,of hls lleiid Just above ti
eat. and blood was pouring trom tl ?
wound He whs unconscious and tatspin
tor breath. .. ' "
Mrs- pelaney, Uie daugi.ter. ran to i.'as
ualty Hospital, a short distance *'rom the
residence. To Harry Fleischmann. an,
oulance driver, she exclaimed:
"Something awful lias happened ai
home. Come over quickly.'*
The ambulance, with Drs. .1 \v Bar
non and Francis X. Field, responded to
i the call, and the wounded man was rush
ed to the hospital and placed on tin- 6'
crating tabic. Dr. \v. <\ Borden, dean
ol George Washington College of Medi
cine. assisted bv the two ambulancc -u.
geons and by Dr. c. P King, resident
physician, and Dr .Voble P Barnes ol
the hospital s visiting staff, at once op
erated.
Bones of Skull Shattered.
It was found that the heavy bullet from
the police department pistol had crush
ed its way completely through the skul..
entering at a point on the right side Just
above the ear and lodging just under Lhe
scalp on the left side of tiie head. Th
bones of the skull, the surgeons found,
had been shattered by the bullet until the
entire upper part of the skull was simply
a mass of broken and splintered boie
As soon as the extent and nature of
: the wound had been determine*, th~
j surgeons recognized the fact that
death was merely a matter of moments
| and i apt Holllnberger expired one
hour to the minute after the shot was
fired.
The tragedy was reported to the
ninth precinct police station and Act
mi; <apt. Bremmerinan of that pre
cinct went at once to Casualty Hos
pital. There he was joined bv In
spector Hoard man. Chief Clerk E. B.
Hesse of the police department. Sergts.
L.ee a ml Lohnian of the tirst Precinct
Detectives Hurlinglame and (Irani o,:
headquarters and other members of
the police force. Other officials ant:
members of the force called at tile
hospital and at the Hollinberger home
LmVj" *n eveIl'nS- Commissions.
Mddoiis called at the home shortlv
after S o clock to extend his sympath}.
In Poor Health.
Capt. Hollinberger had been in poor
health for some time, and last Sunday
was granted leave of absence. A few
years ago he sustained serious inju
ries to his right leg. the hurts being
aggravated later by a fail from a stree
car Since being granted the request
ed lea\ e he had not been at the tlrst
'* 'K understood that he
visited a daughter and son-in-law i.i
Annapolis early last week, the visit
T?VhLr<'asons. it is said
i .. , f 2?rk He*se at the hospital
ife.' 1 fnhlng s'"' Holl,nherger said that
her husband had been ill and appai -
KIVa y depressed for the last few
da.>s. She said she. had remained with
Jil!" fis constant'v as possible during
onlv ^ fe and,that sh'? had left him
shot f f ? ?ilnut?B h, fo^ the fatal
shot >?>s flred. r0 Clerk Hesse ?!>?
ve^XT L'^a'ib,*en ,0K"thei' for thirty.fo.i
sears. and 1 cannot bear tUe th(ru$at of
*