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MEXICAN
KOI. 50.
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1915.
NO. 266.
CURRENC
CAUSES
SATE
Y BILL
HOT
DEI
A MOTION THAT THE HOUSE CON
CUR IN THE SENATE AMEND
MENTS IS LOST, AND, AMID
SCENES OF DISORDER, MEASURE
GOES TO CONFERENCE.
;;he 1 till in ilia lifeline, will head the j
' house conferences, who will Include
iitinuiimitutivpB Knrblv and Hays. An
I effort will be made to agree on a re- J
port which both bouses of congress !
can accent, so that the bill may be en-
! grossed and taken to the White House j
jto become a law with President Wil .
sen s signature ny i uesnay.
The principal points of differences j
which will have to be agreed on or I
compromised are the number of the
regional reserve banks, a guarantee of
deposits, the length of maturing of pa
per for re discount, at regional banks,
the percentage of gold reserve to be
required against the circulating notes
and the time limit of mortgages taken
when national banks would be permit
ted to make farm loans.
DEPUTY CLERK OF
LINCOLN COUNTY
ARRESTED
LEE 8. CHASE IS UNDER ARREST AT
CARRIZOZO ON CHARGES FILED
BY COUNTY CLERK HARVEY.
ALLEGED SHORTAGE OF $1,600 IS
FOUND BY TRAVELING AUDITOR.
LL COMPANYjSTRING . IS TIED TO
MANN WANTS TO TAKE
UP HITCHCOCK'S BILL
BRIBERY CASES
AGAINST DARROW
ARE DISMISSED
HEARING IN CASE
GOES OVER TO MONDAY
Washington, D. C, Dec. 20. After
a hot debate in the house today ad
ministration leaders had their way and
sent the currency bill to a conference
committee. Attempts to concur at
once in the senate amendments were
defeated 294 to 59.
A group of middle west Democrats
made a futile fight to accept the sen
ate provisions for guarantee o depos
its, re-discount of six months agricul
tural paper and five year farm mort
gage loans by national banks.
On its way to conference, the bill
struck a snag in the house where a
fight over the number of conferees
and the question of a separate vote on
some of the senate amendments caus
ed delay. Representative Glass asked
unanimous consent to disagree to the
senate amendments and send the bill
to conference. Hardwick of Georgia,
and Madden of Illinois, contended the
house should have as many conferees
. as the senate and said they desired
an opportunity to vote on some of the
amendments. Majority Leader Under
wood was given unanimous consent to
take up the bill, but Representative
Murray of Oklahoma, moved to concur
in the senate amendments and the
reading of the fifty pages of changes
made by the senate was ordered, caus
ing a long delay in getting the bill be
fore the conference committee.
' The fight in the house developed a
movement to insure retaining the sen
ate amendment for guarantee of bank
deposits.
Representative Glass declared the
enactment of the measure into law, as
it came from the senate would.be a
calamity.
v "I want the bill sent to conference,"
lie said, "because I am convinced that!
he the bill haa- been t,Ss.ipleted-by the
Los Angeles, Dec. 2i. Court records
of Los Angeles county were cleared
today of the last vistage of the famous
McXaniara dynamiting case when the
indictment!) charging bribery when
Clarence Darrow, who was counsel for
the dynamiters, were dismissed. Dist
rist Attorney Fredericks told .ludge
Jackson of the superior court that
Darrow had been tried twice, once
when the jury acquitted him and
again when the jury disagreed, and
that the evidence, in the light of pre
vious experience, was not sufficient to
convict.
The indictments against Darrow
were the outcome of the sensational
episode immediately preceding the
sudden determination of the Me.Nam-
iaras to plead guilty, when Bert Frank
jlin, one of Darrow's agents, was ar
rested on the street, in the alleged act
of bribing George Iockwood, a jury
veniremen summoned in the dynamite
cases. Robert Rain, the first juror
chosen to try the McNamaras, then j
confessed that he had accepted a bribe j
of $500, with the promise of $2,000.
more. Franklin became a state wit
ness against Darrow. The attorney
was acquitted when tried in the Lock
wood case, the jury disagreed when
he was called to the bar on the Bain
accusation.
Darrow has been under bonds ag
gregating $10,000 for two years. His
bondmen were dismissed today.
WOULD PROHIBIT POLYGAMY
BY CONSTITUTION
Washington. I). C, Dec. 20. A
stitutional amendment to prohibit
polygamy was proposed today by Sen
ator Weeks of Massachusetts, at the
request, he said, of many citizens of
his Matev, who beUv& Dolveamv exists
senate it would not be a workable law. jThe judiciary committee will give a j court, and two cases are now pending
Hearing. against mm, anu nave ueen set ror
'trial at the February term of court to
1 be held at Roswe.ll. In one ease he
is charged with converting to his own
A tangled condition of affairs In Lin
coln county, is evidently to be reveal
ed shortly by the developments of the
past 24 hours at Carrizozo, where Dep
uty Traveling Auditor T. J. Guilfoil is
making an examination of the books
of the county officials, judging by the
following message received today by
the New Mexican from its correspond
ent at Carrizozo:
"Carrizozo, N. 51., Dec. 20. Former
Deputy County Clerk Lee B. Chase
was arrested here last evening on
charges preferred by County Clerk A.
H. Harvey. Chase gave bond, and his
hearing was set for this morning. It
Is said proceedings may be instituted
against Clerk Harvey by his former
deputy. A shortage of $1000 has been
discovered In the accounts In the
clerk's office according to reports and
restitution has been made by the coun
ty clerk. Sentiment here is divided
as to who is responsible for the short'
age, the clerk or the deputy. These
two men are associated together in
private business."
Late this afternoon the . following
mesage was received:
"Carrizozo, N. M.. Dec. 20. The
hearing of Lee B. Chase waB con
tinued until Monday on motion of
County Clerk Harvey."
At the traveling auditor's office to
day but little was known of the case
as no official report has been received
from Mr. Guilfoil, except that the first
of the week a telegram was received
asking that the amount remitted to
the state treasurer be supplied him by
telegraph quick. This is supposed to
COU- ttlWtP tut uiirgcu nuuiiagc vjviii-
red that is, in the difference actually
remitted the state treasurer and the
amount claimed to have been sent in.
It will be remembered that Chase
was recently indicted in the federal
DIVORCES
WJjL
TELEPHONE TRUST VOLUNTARILY
RELINQUISHES CONTROL OF THE
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO.
AND WILL NOT EXTEND ITS TELE
PHONE MONOPOLY.
NEW RAILROAD
PROPOSAL
NEW MEXICO MUST RAISE $125,000
IF THIS STATE IS TO BE BENE
FITTED BY THE NEW FARMING-
OF RAILWAY.
FEDERAL OWNERSHIP OF
TELEPHONE URGED
He pointed out several provisions in
the senate amendments, which he
said conflicted.
Mr. Glass attacked the bank re
serve requirements as amended by the
senate.
"Under this provision," he said, "the
total reserves of the banks in the sys
tem, both in cash and in credit, with
the reserve banks, would be less than
they are at present holding in cash.
Within a few months under these pro
visions we would have a saturnalia of
expansion, of wild inflation."
He declared the senate guarantee
provision was a "mere pretense".
"There are things in this bill
which would bring calamity to this
country, and they ought not to be
allowed to become law," he declared.
Majority Leader Underwood closed
the debate, declaring that the measure
should be sent to conference, and the
house lined up for a vote.
With the house in disorder, Repub
. lican Leader Mann moved to instruct
the house conferees to disagree to the
senate amendments and agree to the
Hitchcock bill rejected by the senate.
A parliamentary wrangle ensued and
another roll call was ordered to shut
off debate.
The bill went to conference, with
the house managers instructed to ac
cept the senate amendments extend
ing the re-discount privilege to six
months commercial paper and permit
ting national banks to make five-year
farm mortgage loans.
I'J a vote of 211 to 51, the Demo
crats voted down instructions offered
RI.ANO DENIES SPANISH
VIOLATED NEUTRALITY
use, funds coming into his hands as U
S. commissioner, and In the other he
is charged with falsifying certificates
of entrymen, appearing before him in
his capacity as U. S. commisisoner.
SPANISH MINISTER AT WASHINGTON IN Thr,arf ,?fcC0UnB inone indct'n,cnt:
ct it and six in the other It was stated al
STATEMENT SAYS SPANIARDS IN MEX- j the federal building this morning.
ICO HAVE NOT FAVORED EITHER SIDE- Ch"Be 1,as a,f P"blished c-!" r;
...... ..... . zozo for several years past, the Out-
VILLA SAYS IF GUILTLESS THEY WILL 'look, a Republican weekly, and it is
BE INDEMNIFIED i saici !le 'las ueon vp,'-v Prominent In
i Republican county politics.
Washington, D. C, Dec. 20. Senor
Riano, the Spanish ambassador, act
ing under instructions from Madrid,
formally denied to the state depart
ment today that. Spanish subjects in
Mexico aided the Huerta cause, as
contended by General Villa, who de
fended his action in confiscating Span
ish property by charging that Spanish
residents in Chihuahua had violated
the neutrality laws. The following
was made public by Acting Secretary
Moore:
"Reports received at the department
of state through the Spanish embassy
deny that the Spaniards in Mexico I
have taken part in politics there and
affirm that they have always observed
the strictest neutrality in the affairs
of Mexico. These reports also declare
that statements that have been sent
out from El Paso that the Spaniards
expelled by General Villa had made a
ACQUITTAL IS
LOOKED FOR IN
NEW JERSEY CASE
by Representative Mann to substitute ; public demonstration in favor of in
the Hitchcock bill. During the debate, j tervention by the United States or
Representative Glass declared that no shave committed other acts of ques-
immediate agreement between the tionable propriety with reference to
two houses was likely, although other
leaders predicted early action,
"There are serious differences be
tween the two houses," said Represen
tative Glass, "and I cannot see any
prospect of an immediate agreement."
Then, after the house had wrangled
back and- forth for more than four
hours. Speaker Clark finally got to a
point where he could name the con
ferees and he formally named Repre
sentatives Glass, Korbley and Hayes.
The guarantee of deposits amend
ment was passed during the fight on
the floor, but when the conference
committee was ready to meet, it was
generally understood that Representa
tive Glass and the house conferees
'would stand against it.
Conferees Meet.
Preparing the administration cur
rency bill for President Wilson's sig
nature was begun today when house
and senate conferees met to compro
mise differences between the Owen
substitute as the measure was known
as it pased the senate, and the Glass
bill which was the administration
measure in the house.
Senators Owen, Reed, O'Gorman,
Pomerene, Shafroth and Hollis, Demo
crats, and Senators Nelson, Bristow
and Crawford, .Republicans, will rep
resent the senate in the conference.
Chairman Glass of the house bank
ing committee, who was sponsor for
political affairs
founded.
The department issued this sum
mary of late reports from Chihuahua:
"The confiscation of Spanish prop
erty in Chihuahua is confirmed by
state department advices. General
Villa is said to claim that the expul
sion of the Spaniards saved their lives
as they were in danger of massacre by
the populace. Participation in politic
al affairs is also charged but these
persons who could prove themselves
guiltless of participation will be per
mitted to return and will be given in
demnity for their losses."
Toms River, N. J., Dec. 20. Joseph
Moriarty came into court today for
the last day of his trial confident of
acquittal. If the jury decides that
Moriarty, who has gone by the name
of Wm. J. Leehan, did not murder
Mrs. Caroline Turner the mystery of
her death will be darker than ever.
'By far the most Interesting testi
mony was the story of a woman who
said that on the night Mrs. Turner
was supposed to have died, an auto
mobile was wrecked near the wit
ness' house and that she heard n
voice she identified as Mrs. Turner's
calling for help. The defense con
tends that Mrs. Turner's death was in
some way connected with this auto-
Washington, D. C, Dec. 20. The
greatest anti trust victory or Presi
dent Wilson's administration thus far
the voluntary dissolution of the so
called telephone trust commanded
the attention of all administration of
ficials today.
Next to the fact that all the fea
tures against which the government
was preparing an anti trust suit, will
be eliminated with the consent and co
operation of "big business" itself,
without years of court fighting, the
principal topic of discussion in admin
istration circles, was what effect the
dissolution will have on the move
ment for government owenrship. It
has not been generally expected in
congress that such a plan would soon
be urged as administration measure.
With the voluntary . dissolution of
the so called trust actually under way,
however, Attorney General McRey
nolds and the Interstate commerce
comniisison today prepared to scan
the details of the separation of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company from the Western Union, and
the work of dissolving telephone af
fairs throughout the country which
threatened federal actiou.
Not only has the American Tele
phone and Telegraph company agreed
to give up its control of the Western
Union, but it has agreed not to ex
tend its monopoly of local companies
in the telephone field.
Representative Lewis, of Maryland,
author of the parcel post law and ac
tive In the movement for government
ownership of telegraph and telephone
lines, introduced a resolution to direct
the house postoflice committee to go
ahead and reporta bill for govern
ment ownershipv'tif telephone lines, to
be operated by the postoflice depart
ment. In a statement accompanying his
j resolution, Mr. Lewis contended that
the action of the Bell Telephone com
pany to prevent litigation under the
anti-trust law, did not affect the leg
islative situation at all.
"The action of the Bell company will
not reduce a single telephone or tele
graph rate in the United States, and
so the public necessities for legisla
tive action to postalize these methods
of communication, as they have been
in nearly all other countries, are not
affected in the least," said he.
The Lewis resolution embodies a
plan by which the telephone lines
would be appraised by the Interstate
commerce commission and the com
panies might appeal to the United
States circuit courts on the awards.
Pending litigation, interest at the rate
of four per cent, a year would be paid
to the owners.
The government would issue three j
per cent bonds from time to time as
the acquisition of properties demand
ed. President Vail Talks.
New York, Dec. 20. Referring to
the relations between the American
Telephone and Telegraph company
and the Western Union, T. N. Vail,
president of both, said today in part:
"No such thing as dissolution has
occurred, for the reason that no such
thing as a merger ever occurred in
the past. The relations between the
American Telephone and Telegraph
lompaiiy and the Western Union have
never beeu in the nature of a mer-
ger. The development or tne mutual
relations has been of a complimentary
iiflernoon between Mr. Green, Colo-!
nel Hopewell. Colonel Dobson and
several of (lie directors of the Com- !
mereiiil club, looking to the raising of :
some purl of the $12.",imif needed !
from citizens of Albuquerque. After i
the conference, President Kaseman j
would give out none of the details of
what took place further than to say
thar the parlies ended just where they
had started.
Mr. Green stated that he would
probably remain in the city for a day
or two before returning to Chicago.
The Culf, New Mexico & Pacific
Railroad company Hied articles of In-
TON-ALBUQUERQUE-ROSWELL LINE ! iZZZ Zr '
I The mileage of the new road as giv-
j en in the incorporation papers is as j
follows: Farmingtoii to .Moriarty, 2'A2 '
mih's. Santa Fe to Hoswell 222 miles. !
Frost to llagan 14 miles, a total of 4K j
miles all in New Mexico. Of this
mileage the line from Santa Fe to j
Torrance is already In operation,!
while the line from Moriarity to Al- j
buquerque Is graded. I
W. H. Bucher of Ilillsboro, Is the
treasurer of the company and the in
corporation papers state that 10 per
cent of the amount of stock sub
scribed for has been paid into the
treasurer's hands.
Tile incorporation papers give the
capital stock as $12,000,0(10 divided in
to 120.000 shares of a par value of
$100 each. The incorporators sub
scribe for $ii00,ono worth of the capi
tal stock, held as follows: W. S. Hope
well, $2H6,00); W. II. Hucher '$.1,000;
Herbert Green, $11)0.000; G. O. Win
ston $5,000, and E. W. Dobson, $5,000.
THIS AMOUNT IS ONLY
A LOAN, SAY PROMOTERS
The only thing that stands in the
way of taking the New Mexico Central
railroad out of the. hands of a re
ceiver, the extending of the Albuquer
que Eastern and the construction of a
modern railroad from Farmington to
Roswell with branches to Santa Fe
and the Hagan coal fields is the mat
ter of raising $12ii,0W) by citizens of
New Mexico within the next thirty
days, says the Albuquerque Journal.
This money is not expected as a gift
or a bonus, but merely ns a short-time
loan. It is not to go through the
hands of promoters, but tthould he
sent direct to the Credit Lyonaise, in
Paris. Within approximately sixty
days it will be returned to the lend
ers In the form of checks of the
Kquitable Trust company, of New
York, who are the American agents ol
French bankers undertaking to
nuance a rejuvenated New Mexico
Central railroad.
Such is the substance of an inter
view given out last night by Herbert
Green, of Chicago, in his room at. the
Aivanido hotel. The interview lasted
for more
FEDERAL ARMY
IS DESERTING
GUAYMAS
MANY MEN AND OFFICERS FROM
OJEDA'S COMMAND DESERT TO
THE REBELS. THE FALL OF
GUAYMAS SEEMS ONLY A QUES
TION OF A FEW HOURS.
OJEDA MAY GIVE UP
IF OFFERED AMNESTY
ASK PUBLIC WORKS
TO EMPLOY ALL
IDLE LABORERS
Los Angeles, Dec. 20. Representa
tives of the Socialist party, Industrial
Workers of the World, and several
other organizations petitioned the city
council today to appropriate at once
than an hour and covered ijFrfi.noo and take steps to provide $.',
many details or the series or confer- inon.oon more tor pumic woi-ks on wnicn
ences that the Chicago man has been 1 .15,000 Idle men can be employed. The
conducting here during the Inst few council referred the petition to the
days; but the vital point developed j finance committee wjie.h u j ! meet
by the talk which was had was that jnext Monday. The petition was draft
if New Mexico wants the new railroad ed :it a mass meeting last niirlil. Tt
it will have to put up $121,000
do so, there will
atjwas presented by Tlios, W. WHMams,
an officer of the Socialist parly, win
was accompanied to the city hall by
more than 1,000 men and women.
POOR LO IS IN HARD
i LINES, SAYS REPORT
Idlnte establishment of camp hospitals
for tuberculosis on the reservations.
FEDERAL OWNERSHIP IS
OPPOSED BY MACKAY
once. If it fails
be nothing doing.
Present at the Interview were. Col.
W. S. Hopewell, vice president of the
New Mexico Central, Col. E. W. Dob
son, attorney for the receiver of that
company, Mr. Green and representa- i
fives of the two Albuquerque news-1 Washington, f). C. Dec. 20. Tra
papers. A certain air of formality choma menaces the Indians and tuber
was thrown about the matter and 'culosis threatens to wipe out the race,
great care was taken that everything laccording to a report to the senate to
given out should be just so. (day. 'V the joint congressional Indian
Mr. Green exhibited to the no,..a. committee which recommended imme-
paper men what was apparently a
contract between himself and certain
French bankers whose names are
withheld from publication. This pa
per wa9 in French, but an Knglisli
translation of it purports to obligate
the French financiers to take up the
bonds of the Gulf, New Mexico & Pa
cific railway to the amount of twelve
million dollars, and Tr flrfpn tv.
plained that the first payment of HEAD OF THE POSTAL TELEGRAPH AND
$7ii0.000 on this amount was due in j
New York, January 31, 1914.
But. Mr. Green explained, in order I
for this amount to become available !
in 1'aet, before the French govern
ment will allow a cent to leave the
country certain formalities musi be j
observed, such as the payment of a !
stamp tax, a transfer tax, an inher-1
itance tax, and charges "for pub-'
licny. I hese charges amount to the
tidv Kllm rtflil t.
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. .-..v tin- r.pi'i:ifu io SHOW I
.their interest in the new entertirise
waning up inis amount, not as a
bonus or gift, but as a loan to be
repaid out of the first instalment of
$7"0,O0fl to be shipped over by the
French bankers.
Mayiorena, Sonora, Mex., Dec. 20.
Deserters from the federal garrison at
Guaynnis, a few miles to the south of
the insurgent camp here, were arriving
I today. Their number, It was expect
ed, would aggregate 500,
Already eleven officers have sur
rendered. Among them was Major IS
Figueroa, a member of the staff of
General Pedro Ojeda, federal com
mandant at Guaymas, and commander
of the cavalry stationed at the gulf
port. The enlisted men appeared in
groups of five and ten, dust covered
and suffering from want of water and
food. The federal officers here say
hat many have not reached the con
stitutionalist lines and are wandering
from ranch to ranch, or are lost in
the mountains.
It was asserted that practically all
of the outposts placed about Guaymas
by the federal commander had desert
ed with their arms and ammunition.
The developments since yesterday
morning were considered a death
blow to the Huerta government in.
the northwest, marking the overthrow
of General Pedro Ojeda, whose stub
born fighting along the border and
at Guaymas long las been a menace
t" !'.!? southward progress of tieneral
Carranza's forces. Deserters brought
news of the disarmament, of the entire,
tenth battalion of infantry numbering
more than 500 men. These were dis
armed following the discovery of a
plot, to desert in a body, officers and
men, to the Insurgent side. This is
believed to have reduced the federal
garrison by one-half.
That General Ojeda himself would
accept amnesty was indicated by a
report reaching here from Cruz de
Piedra, the nearest point to Guaymas
held by the Insurgents. Col. K. Men
des, commanding the constitutionalists
there, reported that, the" federal com
mander hud sought an interview with
him under the agreement that each
should leave his base with an equal
number of men and meet on neutral
ground. Colonel Mendcz said he had
declined the offer, fearing a trap.
General Alfaro Obregon, command
er of constitutionalists forces in the
northwest, remained here today. The
federal officers who arrived assisted
in locating the scattered groups of de
serting federals. The deserters did
not constitute any one command, the
ollieers saidi but came from various
regiments and battalions. This was
taken ns an indication of the coianiete
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Mr. Green was asked why the sumthat , nre not.
den anded by the French government .., (1P110minnlinK ie tol
could not be deducted from the ' nu ,,,,,
$7"o,(ioo before it left France.
reply was that, it "couldn't be done
that way.
CABLE COMPANIES SAYS IT WOULD
BANKRUPT THE GOVERNMENT TO BUY
THE TELEPHONE LINES, WHILE SERVICE
WOULD BE ROTTEN,
There are 1,100 Mayo Indian troops
New York. tee. 20. Clarence IT. stationed here under command of
Mackay. president of the Maekay com- I Gen. Juan Cabral, and 1,100 Insurgent
panies, being asked what: he thought j troops are at Ortiz, a few miles to
of Postmaster General Burleson's re- the north, all of whom will be moved
that the government take over into Guaymas as soon as the city is
telephone and telegraph lilies, said: I evacuated and it becomes certain that
"The postmaster general is mistak-1 there will be no danger of a bombard
en in his idea that telephone eom-jmenf by the two federal gunboats
panies are subject to the post road which have been lying in the harbor.
aetofcongressofIS.se The supreme; No Rebels at Tampieo.
Mexico City, Mex., Dec. 20. The
rebels have not returned to the vicini
ty of Tampieo since their retirement
on December 14. Everything is quiet
there today and telegraphic communi
cation is open between Tampieo and
court of the Vnlted States in the
Aiehmond case (174 l S. 7(il I. held
elegraph busi-
:ness as being monopolized in its na-
His jture he is also mistaken. If there ever
has been more continuous, keen, even itlie federal capital.
u , . . . .
lie WHO very expilCH, now- Ihiitor mmnMlllAii hn Cl.nt hoti.-on
v-vn, hi maim); inai no part or tne
sum would go to promotion charges,
and that in fact the promoters would
not handle a cent of the money. The
people of New Mexico, he said, would
deal directly with the French bank-
mobile incident and that Moriarty is
innocent. character, or an extension of each ot " wouiu turn tne money overlthan that
Hptnrp t if Biimmnif nn hnp-an pnlin. i ,1. n a m.inn i ICI lne l renpll pnv-f.rnnii-.nf 1
- -- - " 0-" imp oilier s lai-uiiiec " -
Paris, Dec. 20. The underwriting
by an international group of bankers
of a loan to the Mexican government,
sufficient to meet the bond interest
payments falling due in January, was
the Banque
in Mexico, are un-'sel for the prosecution agreed to ad-j "fare has always been taken that i If this detail is arranged
here to a stipulation tnat conviction lathing be done which would affect
would be asked for first degree niur- j whatever competition might be consi
der only and that if Moriarty was not
guilty of that crime he was not guilty
at all.
In closing his speech for the de
fense W. H. Jayne denounced the
methods of the prosecution. The
case against Moriarty he said, had
been worked up by detectives as a
"commercial undertaking" to advertise
their profession. The state's evidence j work may yet ,e accomplished.
he asserted, was wholly circumstan-: "rhere is no set-back in this separa
tint nnit much of it nerinred. He con-!.! i. naiai l.itoroato nf ..Ithet
1 ' I 1 Hill. IU UIC UIOICMBI ...L.OLU " . -
tended that the defense had accounted
ered to exist.
"If a real merger were made - and
time given to complete the merger,
some economies and additional new
services of advantage to the public
t be introduced. Whatever has
been done already, it is believed, will
be allowed to stand, it is probable
that some additional co-operative
the Postal and Western I nioii, I will
be pleased to know when and where.
"The money question, however, is
the main question. $!mio,ooo,imio would
not be a lookln. The Hell Telephone arranged today through
i companies alone would demand more de Paris et des Pays Has.
Then there are the thou- j The group is composed of ParlB,
sands of independent telephone com- 1 London and New York bankers and in-
said Mr. : panics and farm lines scattered all i eludes Snevers of New York. The
ureen. everytmng else will be clear :0Ver the country. The entire bill, in- Paris banks will not advance more
sailing. A "tentative agreement," he ; eluding telegraph lines would be j than their proportionate share of the
declared, has been reached with the about $2. .VM.uoo.oao, which is about ! amount underwritten by the group,
trustees for the bondholders of the two-thirds of the national debt in the J The negotiations were conducted
present company, by which, after the close of the civil war. when many in- , here but the amount of the loan anj
expense, of the litigation in which telligent men despaired of the solv-1 the terms on which it is to be ad-
the New Mexico Central is now in- ency of the republic.
volved are settled, the property will j "Nor Is this the worst. Judging
be turned over to its new owners and from past experiences lhat vast sum
the work of development will begin j would be entirely lost because under j
without delay, subject, of course to government management the operat
the ratification of the court. I ing expenses year by year would ex-!
At this point, Colonel Dobson jceed the Income:
wishe d it to be made clear that noth- "One of the worst
I vanced were not disclosed.
MONA LIZA IN ROME
ENROUTE BACK TO PARIS.
Rome, Dec. 20. Da Vinci's "Mona
Liza" arrived here today from Flor-
jence. The picture was in charge of
v. ..... .. . wiupii. aiiwMr, , jj-, l ai rauu rucci, director general ot
comnany. but on the contrary, now . iug had been done or agreed upon -that would bHqo vnuld be in regard I thin arts tn Home whn wan neenm.
Further reports from Chihuahua say for Moriarty s movements on tne uay that ti,ere is some understanding ot i which would in any way infringe on jto the contracts between the telegraph I panied by Prof. Giovanni Poggi, direr
General Villa denies ordering the de-of the alleged murder so closely that jwhat t.an be done and what cannot be the province of the court, and that all ' companies and the railroad. Eng-Uor of museums in Florence, and num
tention of women and children-refu-1 only seven minutes remained unac-ldnn ereater progress along the lines . dealings between the parties were land found this out when it took over! ormiH nffifinlu Tlio train nn whirl
counted for, and it would have been j d(lfin(,a can be expected. i with the understanding that they ! the telegraph lines and then had to j the painting was brought here was
impossible for him to commit the mur- j ..Tlie attorney general has been very j niiiKt receive judicial sanction before i pay the railroads nn enormous sum o j guarded along its entire route by sol
der within such a short time. considerate of the material interests j they could become effective. jget full control of the telegraph lines jdiers in the same manner as a train
of the companies so lar as consistem i .0ne of the parties to the Inter- iwnicn was built on the railroads and bearing a royal personage,
with his public duty and his attitude j view would go so far as to say that j in which the railroads had an inter- j The Mona Liza was taken from the
was clearly reflected by the president, j tne agreement with the trustee for jest, the same as in this country. The i station to the ministry of fine arts.
We think the problem has been work-j the bondholders constituted an op-KnP,ish railroads were not modest in j where it was inspected by the king
ed out to the best interest of the pub-. tion on the bonds of the present com-1 their demands and the result was j of Italv and then consigned to Camilla
pany or on any of Its property, which; 'hat a perfectly enormoirs and unex-; Barririe, French ambassador to Italy.
gees. They are said to be free to
leave at will.
A brief dispatch from Rear Admiral
Fletcher says the situation at Tampieo
lis unchanged.
HEAD OF TELEPHONE AND
W. U. QUITS RAILROADING.
Boston, Mass., Dec. 20. Theodore
N. Vail, president of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company,
resigned today from the directorate of
the Boston and Maine railroad. It was
stated that Mr. Vail, who recently re
signed as a director of the New Haven
railroad, desired to lessen his business
responsibilities.
WRECK ON T. & P. NEAR
EL PASO INJURES MANY.
El Paso, Texas, Dec. 20. Thirty
five or forty people were injured 53
miles east of El Paso this morning Iic an(j the companies."
when the Texas and Pacific passenger
train No. 3, west bound, left the track
due to a broken rail. The day coach.
chair car, diner and one Pullman left
the track and many passengers sus
tained bruises and cuts, but none were
killed. Doctors and nurses were sent
out from El Paso.
To the foregoing,' Vice President j ,)e bondholders virtually own. It jpected sum had to he paid by the gov- j On Monday he will return it tem-
Kingsbury of the American Telephone was described throughout as a "ten-
and Telegraph company, added that tative agreement," but it was stated
no plan for the disposal of the com- tnat (he agreement was in writing,
pany's holdings In the Western Union j Asked what time limit had been
had yet been considered. placed on the agreement, Mr. Green
' stated there was "ample time."
(Continued on page eight). ( A conference was held yesterday
ernment to the railroads to get rid j porarily to the Italian government for
exht-Uion here, for three days. After
wards the picture is to be exhibited
of the contract.
"And as to service government ser
vice would be a joke compared with
present service. If you don't believe
it, just try the government service
telegraph and telephone in England."
in Milan, before being handed over'
finally to the French authorities for
transportation to Paris, where It is to
be replaced in the Louvre.
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