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FIVE-YEAR-OLD LED
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Mother Unable to Provide Home,
She Tells Rochester Police,
After Trying to Hide Crime.
nOCHESTER. N. Y., Jan. 14. Mrs.
Edith Melber, self-confessed murder
ess of her five-year-olil son, Georgle,
will be taken to Albany either late
today or tomorrow.
She is in such a state of collapse
that the plan to take her this morn
ing had to be abandoned. An indict
ment on a charge of murder in the
first degree will be returned at the
earliest possible moment and a speedy
trial for her unnatural crime is ex
pected. Grieves for Boy.
Whatever may have been the sor
did motive that prompted Mrs. Mel
ber, who is only twenty-three years
old, to slay her only child, she sur
rendered to her grief today.
On account of Mrs. Melber's
threats to follow her child into the
grave, she is closely guarded to pre
vent any attempt at suicide and is
constantly watched by a matron. Mrs.
Melber showed traces of the terrific
strain under which she is laboring
and today she wept convulsively in
her cell and refused to eat.
Blamed to Insanity.
Relatives declared today that they
would come to her aid, and at the
same time Intimated that insanity would
be the defense.
Among the reports today was one that
the name of a young Schenectady man
would be brought Into the case, al
though not in a criminal sense. It was
said that Mrs Melber had posed to
him as single ..nd that they were en
gaged to be mairied within a fortnight.
Although Mrs Melber retained a great
deal of belf-posses-sion during the recital
of her crime, when she confessed that
t-he had slain her son because she could
not support him, she was on the verge
of hjterics this morning. She slept
very little tossing about upon her cot
and moanrng.
Leads Son to Death.
"I tried very hard to get poor little
Georgie into an institution of some kind,
but it seemed impossible," said she in
her confession.
-On that awful Friday in Albany I
was nearly distracted, so 1 decided to
end it Georgie was wit'i me and we
Btopied into a drug store. I paid 5
cents for some chocolates and 15 cents
foi a little bottle of carbolic acid. All
the rest of the afternoon we walked the
streets.
"At Kist we got on a .street car and
rodf a while. 1 don t remember much
about it, but we got off .in Schenectady
road it was cold and dark and lonely
and there were no Jioues in sight. I
took poor llttl" Georgie s hand in mine
nnd we again started to walk. He was
h tiled he could hardly drag one foot
after another.
"In his other hand he held his choco
lates He cried a little and complained
of being thirstv
Gives Him a "Drink."
"I said to him, 'Mamma will give you
a drink ' I led him across the field Into
the swamp. 'Here is a drink,' I said,
and held the bottle of carbolic acid to
Ills lips. He bcheved me, as he always
did, and took a long swallow. He strug
gled for a minute, but I held him tight,
and he died In ni arms. Then I laid
Mm vpon the giound and kissed him. I
took off his coat and shoes and hurried
away."
The police formed a theory, due to the
manj evasions of Mrs. Mc'.ber to escape
confes-sing her guilt, that her inability
to care for the boy was not the only
motive that led to the murder.
The authorities learned that after Mrs
Melber's husband died, four years ago,
phe lived a gay life until the insurance
monej was exhausted, and has com
plained bitterly ever since of her pov
erty Mrs Melber's trunk is held here by
the authorities and the effects were
searched for any evidence that would
throw light upon the crime. The police
are said to have found a number of let
ters. Mr? J. F Bartlett, of Schenectadv,
bv whom Mrs. Melber was emploved,
told the authorities todaj that Mrs.
Melber showed dislike for the bor and
beat him in an unmerciful manner.
"Mrs Melber brought the child to my
home on several occasions, but always
said he was the son of her brother,"
Mrs. Bartlett said "I was surprised
nnd Indignant at the manner she treat
hlm "
Bv the testlmonj of Mil. Baitlett
the authorities hope :o riddle the ac
taused woman s insanity defense.
WEATHER REPORT
FORECAST FOR THE WEATHER.
Continued unsettled weather with oc
casional rain tonight and Sundayi some
what cold Sunday.
TEMPERATL'RES
S a. m 43 12 noon
9 a. m 44 I 1 p m
10 a. m 44 2 p. m.
11 a. m 44
.. 44
.... -to
.... 46
TIDE TABLE.
Today High tide, 7:2s a. m. and 7-4S n
m.: low tide. 1:40 a. m and 1:44 p m
Tomorrow-High tide. 8:25 a. m. and
S 43 p. m.; low tide, 2:33 a. m. and "
p. m. "
SUN TABLE.
... 7:1S Sun sets 5:01
Sun rises.
Heavy Snow in West Ties
Up Railroads
Worst snowstorm in years sweeps
lofty crests of the Sierras.
Southern Pacific trains tied up
for twenty-four hours.
Ten feet of snow blocks tracks
and defies great force of men.
Big rotary plow and six locomo
tives break through drifts at North
Bend, B. C.
No word received from two Great
Northern trains buried in snow be
tween Fielding and High Gate,
Mont
DEMOCRATS SADDLE
Body Blow to Retrenchment
Plans in Next
Congress.
INCREASED PENSION
BILL THE CONTENDER
Opening of Books Will Show
$45,000,000 on Wrong Side
of Ledger.
After waiting nearly twenty years for
nn opportunltey to demonstrate how to
work economies in appropriations, the
Democrats of the Sixty-second Congress
must start off their retrenchment pro
gram with an additional burden of J45,-
OOO.OvO, which the House Republicans
I hae just voted shall be added to the
Government's pension rolls.
If the Senate passes the House bill the
Democratic economists and all Demo
crats have cried for economy for some
ears past will open the books next
December with a $45,000,000 Item on tne
wrong side of the ledger, and no wonder
some of them are sore today, notwith
ctanding their love for the old soldier.
The increased pension bill passed the
House under the spell of patriotic ora
tory. "Uncle .Toe" Cannon hlmselt left
the cnalr, and, upon the floor of the
House, waved the tattered flags of the
civil war. He pictured the needs of the
lame, the halt, and the blind; the pros
perity of a great nation and its ability
to care for its saviours, he quoted Lin
coln and his plea for the man who had
fought the battle and his widow and or
phans. Vote Was Overwhelming.
The debate lasted perhaps an hour.
Then a vote was taken, and 212 members
of the House vote to suspend the rules
and pass the bill, while an ineffectual
vole ot sixty-two was recorded against
the n-easuie. Only the Southern Demo
crats and a few New England Republi
cans opposed.
The Democrats caught their breath,
especially the Democrats from the
South, who have no Union soldiers In
their districts, and who do not have to
appease a constituency composed largely
of waf veterans. In less than a year,
reasoned the flabbergasted Democrats,
their party would come into power in
the House. The country expects econ
omy, for the Democrats have flooded the
country with literature denunciatory of
Governmental extravagance.
The Republican House will not receive
the credit or discredit, according to the
viewpoint, of indiscriminately adding
millions to the pension rolls It will
take months to adjudicate the claims,
and the real task of delving into the
Treasury will fall to the Democrats,
although the Republican House placed
the law upon the statute books, and it
must be followed.
Applies to All Alike.
There was no opposition, even among
the Democrats, to a slight increase of
the pension rolls, but during the debate
it was claimed that the law as passed
will apply to the needy veteran and to
the rich veteran alike. Any man who
served on the Union side in the civil
war, nnd who shall have reached tho
age of sixti-two years, is entitled to be
come a beneficiary. There are now ap
proximately 450,000 of these veterans re
maining, and their pensions will range,
tinder the new scale, from J15 to $36 per
month.
The Committee on Invalid Pensions
estimated that if the law were to be
come immediately operative it would
add about $55,000,000. This amoun', of
course, will be decreased yearly, as the
old soldiers answer the last roll call
Aside from the sentiment of the plan,
however, certain Democrats are some
what perturbed todav. An appropria
tion of this amount Is bound to prove
a body blow to n retrenchment program
but there's nothing for the Democrats
to do but to face the music, or else de
feat the legislation In the Senate.
Verily, the troubles of those who will
control the House of the Sixty-second
Congress seem to be multiplying dally.
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Japan Wants Friendship
of the United States"
TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 14 "Japan
wants the friendship of the tmlted
States," declared Premier Katsura to
day.
The premier has communicated with
the Japanese naval denaitment rela
tive to remarks made by Rear Admiral
Yashlro, of the- Japanese training
sovadron. that "in his opinion it would
be a great mistake for the United States
to fortify the Panama canal."
It was reported today that he had rec
ommended that Rear Admiral Yashlro
be detached fi-om the fleet and ordered
. 1,1. tin.. Illrnl, foet.lt tViqt u
nOnlP .win .r- ..... .wu.v mi lie
would be nubllclv reprimanded for reck-
ipcjj tercn iiivi..ti .ic uij.uitiaiic re
latio'"t his country.
mi T.nnnacA frfiltilnr' qiiinHrnn to ni
en i oute to Mexican waters after a visit
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IN YEARS BLOCKS
THIS IN WEST
Southern Pacific Tracks Over
Lofty Sierras Covered
by Drifts.
SEARCH ABANDONED
FOR MAIL CARRIER
Whole Railroad Force Battling
With Elements for Twenty
four Hours.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 14. For
twenty-four hours the working forca
of the Southern Pacific has been bat
tling in the lofty Sierras for a traffic
way through the worst snowstorm
that has swept the mountain crests
in years. Several hundred feet of
snow sheds near Cisco have been
wrecked by many slides and by inter
mittent gales of wind that make the
storm a most treacherous one.
Heavy Snowfall.
The fall of snow has been heavy, be
ing eight feet at Truckee and six feet
at the summit. Since yesterday after
noon none of the westbound trains has
been able to pass through Truckee.
Mail Carrier James Bowen Is lost be
tween Truckee and Lake Tahoe, and
search for him has been abandoned.
Five eastbound trains are stormbound
betueen Colfax and lue Canyon, while
six westbound trains are reported to be
between Reno and Truckee.
A fe wmiles west of Blue Canyon there
Is a snow slide across the tracks for a
distance of 100 feet and ten feet deep.
Chief Dispatcher Qulgley, of the West
ern Pacific, states that the wires are
down east of Spring Garden, and there
Is from five to ten feet of snow between
Spring Garden and Chilcoot. making the
blockage absolute.
Trains Stalled.
One westbound Western Pacific train
is stalled at Portlla and another is held
In the grip of the storm at Gerlach.
Two eastbound Western Pacific trains
are at Orovllle and -another qi BeJden,
and both have been ordered back to
Oakland by the traffic officers of that
road.
The Southern Pacific has dispatched
three rotary snow plows, two push
plows, and 2U0 men with shovels to
points between Cisco and Reno to battle
with the elements H. V. Sheridan, su
perintendent of the division at Truckee,
directed operations from that point.
(Trains Break Through
Drifts Near North Bend
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j SPOKANE, Wasli , Jan. 11 Word
reached here today from Vancouver,
I British Columbia, that the efforts of a
j big rotary plow and six locomotives
have succeeded in getting the first of !
the delaved express trains through the
j drifts near North Bend, British Colum
, bla. The first delayed westbound train
will anie In Vancouver tonight, hav
ing been freed in the same manner.
No word has been received from the
i two Great Northern trains which are
buried In the snow between Fielding and
' High Gate. Mont. Not a wheel has
turned east of Columbia Falls today,
I and as the tracks between here and the
i buried trains are blocked bv dead en
gines and snow plows, the probability
of being able to get to the imprisoned
men and women is slight. Both of the
trains were due here Monday night.
Fog in New York
Ties up
Traffic
NEW YORK, Jan. 14 One of the
heaviest fogs in years held New York
in its grasp today, tying up traffic.
ThP lower bav was crowded with
great coastwise and trans-Atlantic ves
sels that could not make their way be
vond Quarantine.
Hyde to Return From
His Exile in Florida
NEW YORK, Jan. 14. Charles H.
Hyde, city chamberlain of New York,
who has been missing since early In Oc
tober, when he was sought to give tes
timony as to an alleged pool of $300,000
to defeat racing bills at Albany, is
coming home. Mr. Hyde Is nowr on his
houseboat "Stop-a-Whlle." at Daytona,
Fla., but his mall is being forwerded
to the New Christian Home for Intem
perate Men, at Mt. Vernon, which is
also the Chester Crest Sanitarium. His
mall Is sent there by Instructions of a
persona) representative and friend In
this city.
Robert E. Elder, assistant district at
torney of Brooklyn, is said to have un
earthed letters to and from Hyde re
vealing Hyde's part In the anti-race
track legislation.
Baby Breaks His Neck
In Fall From Coach
Failing from a baby carriage on the
front porch of his home, ane 1 o'clock
this afternoon, David C. Kerr, the
eight months' old son or James W.
Kerr, a tinner 303 Thirteenth street
southwest, struck on a brick pavement
ana susiainea a Dronen necK. The child
1 was dead when picked up.
Mrs. Kerr left the child In the car
riage while she went to the basement to
do some work. Returning to the porch
1 In about ten minutes she was surprised
to find the carriage empty. Looking
over the railing she saw the child on
tne pavement.
Mrs. Kerr picked up the baby and
carried him Into the hous and sum
moned a physician. On his arrival the
doctor said that death had been instantaneous.
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Principal Figures in
JUDGE L. S. JORDAN,
Presiding at the Trial of Mrs. Schenk.
J. BURNIER HANDLAN.
Prosecator in the Schenk Case.
MAY SEAL REPORT
on mm 0. 1
Commissioners Not Expect
ed to Make Public Engineer
Allen's Explanation.
No public explanation has yet been
made of the statement of W. C. Allen,
Electrical Engineer, that the arc lamps
which for the last ten years have been
furnished to the District by the Po
tomac Electric Light Company meet
every requirement of the law as to
candlepower. Mr. Allen Is preparing a
statement to be submitted to the Com
missioners, and which it was said today
probably will not be made public.
The report will be made In connection
with the overcharge by the Potomac
Electric Light Company for arc lamp
service since 1901. The law calls for an
arc lamp of 1,000-candlepower, while,
according to tho statements by Engineer
Commissioner Judson and Gen. George
H. Harries, vice president of the com
pany before the House Appropriations
Committee In the hearings on the Dis
trict appropriation bill, the company
has been using a lamp of only 700
candlepower. According to the records of the elec
trical department this type of arc light
was recommended by Mr. Allen in 1901,
the recommendation being accompanied
by the statement that "this type of
lamp meets every requirement of law
as to candlepower.
The explanation of this statement.
Commissioner Judson said today, will
be made at Mr. Allen's, own request
Whether It will be made public, he said,
will not be determined until after the
Commissioners have read the report.
Mr. Allen today declined to discuss
the matter, asserting that all informa
tion concerning the case, must come
from the Commissioners.
Man Who Threw Bomb
Unidentified in Morgue
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. H. In Oak
land today lies the unidentified body of
the man who exploded the bomb on
the ferry boat Berkley, wnich resulted
in his death and serious Injury to six
other men, two of whom will dlj. One
man had his right arm blown ort and
another lost both legs and is ternoly
mangled.
The explosion blew a great hole In
the side of the vessel, and created a
panic among the 2,000 commuter3 who
were on their way home from business.
The excitement subsided when it was
found there was no danger of the ves
sel sinking.
Rapid Fire Guns Await
Rebels at Tegucigalpa
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Jan. 14.
Rapid-fire guns were, placed at various
approaches to the city today following
a report that General Duron's army is
rapidly approaching the city.
The province of Choluteca has gona
over to former President Bonilla, and an
attack oi Tegucigalpa Is believed Im
minent. President Davlla has completed
preparations for flight as he distrusts
the loyalty of the government army.
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EXCEED SALARIES
Secretary of Navy Asserts Increased Pay
and Pension System Would Result
in Higher Degree of Efficiency.
By GEORGE VON L. MEYER,
Secretary of the Navy.
I appreciate the positions In which our civil service employes are
placed with respect to their salaries from the Government, and the de
mands made upon them by reason of the high cost of living.
The same applies to the officers of the army and navy. I doubt if any
of them are properly paid. I have had occasion to inquire into the ques
tion as it involves the officers of the navy, and I am convinced that their
present incomes and those of the .civil employes are relatively inadequate
are not large enough to meet their needs.
The movement for the relief of the clerks in Washington has attracted
my attention, and tho questions involved in the discussions in The
Times have been more than once taken up and discussed at meetings of
the Cabinet
At the same time we consider higher salaries for the civil employes,
we should consider a pension system that will retire the aged. This will
result in better pay for the active, and will in the natural course of
events, give us a higher degree of efficiency.
ABLE BUSINESS MAN.
It is a little less than four years since
George von Lengerke Meyer came for
ward as a great business administrator
in governmental affairs. He has been
one of that remarkable class of big,
able men of large concerns whom the
Roosevelt era found.
Mr. Meyer came to "Washington fc-om
the post of Ambassador to Russia.
There, and theretofore, be had had an
experience which ought to have pre
pared the country for the record of
efficient administration which he has
since made. But the country knew Mr.
Meyer chiefly as a wealthy man who
had sought the distinctions of a diplo
matic career. It did not know that he
was to prove also one of the greatest
practical administrators the Govern
ment had drafted in many years.
Yet the business career of Mr. Meyer
ought to have put the country on no
tice that he would presently b doing
things. His personal interests ha.'e
long associated him with many of the
biggest and most successful concerns in
the country, and in none has he been
a figurehead.
Official Career.
He was a useful, hard-worklns, prac
tical member of the Boston common
council twenty years ago; then ot the
board of aldermen, and finally of the
Massachusetts house of representatives.
After serving as ambasasdor to Italy
in a time when the routine " state
dining and official functions was the
only opportunity for a diplomat to dis
tinguish himself, he was transferred to
the post at St. Petersburg, and there
won his spurs as a diplomat.
Vnv It- xi-n through Mr. Mever thnt
' nphAruYm-A TCfinapvlt nnpnpH nppntttflnna
with the Czar of Russia which finally
resulted In the Czar assenting to the
Initiation of the diplomatic representa
tions that brought the Russo-Japanese
war to an honorable close, with a treaty
signed on the soil of the United States.
Brought back to the United States as
Postmaster General, Mr. Meyer set
about to make something out of his
opportunities. He was a constructionist.
He had observed the workings of the
many-sided postal services of other
countries, and he wondered why the
post of this country should not perform
some of those facilities which have
made the same service so useful in other
countries.
Started Postal Bank Plans.
Out of that Inquiry and the studies
that followed came the recommenda
tions which are now bearing fruit In tha
establishment of postal savings banks,
at Wheeling, W. Va
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and In the impending establishment of a
parcels post.
Transferred to the Navy Department
under the Taft Administration, Mr. Meyer
undertook another task in business ad
ministration. He is now in the midst
of It, with excellent prospects of quietly
getting results in naval reform where
others have failed.
That is the public record of the man
who today, from his place at the Cabi
net table, declares himself for The
Times' campaign to get Justice done to
the civil employe of the Government.
In his private business relations, Mr.
Meyer Is a director of the sreat Amos
keagManufacturing Corporation, which
makes more fabrics than any other con
cern on earth. He is a director in the
Old Colony Trust Company, the most
famous financial concern in New Eng
land; in the Amcry Company, the Na
tional Bank of Commerce, and the Na
tional Electrical Securities Company.
Certainly such a showing of experi
ence and of successes In varied activi
ties should command some attention to
Secretary Meyer's declarations on the
subject of fair treatment of Govern
ment employes.
Independent Study.
Secretary Meyer has made an inde
pendent study of the salary question for
Government employes. This he has done
in connection with his Investigation of
the salaries and expenses of the officers
of the navy. He has figured out the
cost of living to them and he knows
that the salaried employes of the Gov
ernment In tha civil service arc In al
most exactly the same position.
The Secretary said:
"I appreciate the position In which
our civil employes are placed with re
spect to their salaries from the Govern
ment and the demands made upon them
by reason of the high cost of living. The
same, however, applies to the officers of
the army and navy. I doubt if any of
them are properly paid. I have had oc
casion to inquire Into the question as it
Involves the officers of the navy and I
am convinced that their present Incomes
and those of the civil employes are
relatively Inadequate are not large
enough to meet their needs.
Discussed By Cabinet.
"The movement for the relief of th
olerks in Washington has attracted my
attention and the questions Involved In
the discussions In The Times have been
more than once taken up and discussed
at meetings of ths Cabinet. So far, how
ever, no definite policy has been fixed
upon by the Administration, so far as I
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GIVE SCHENK PILL
Says Wife Tried to Bribe Her
to Poison Wheeling
Millionaire.
WOMAN ON TRIAL
FROWNS AT BLOW
Watches Witness Steadily During
Narrative of How She
Shadowed Home.
WHEELING, W. Va., Jan. 14. A
terrific blow was struck at the de
fense of Mrs. Laura Farsnworth
Schenk today by Juliette Kline, who
had nursed John O. Schenk during
his illness from poison.
She testified that Mrs. Schenk had
said that she felt like killing her hus
band, and suggested that the nurse
give him a pill, offering her $1,000 to
do so. The nurse testified that she
told Mrs. Schenk that she wanted
$5,000, but Mrs. Schenk said she could
not pay so much.
Story of Miss Kline.
She gave her name as Elnora Zoeck
ler, told of being employed through a
detective agency, to work on the
Schenk case. She is a pretty, slight
woman, and she gave her testimony In
a tiny voice, almost Inaudible. She
was strikingly dressed In a dark suij
and shirtwaist, with a heavy wyi
thrown back over a black felt hat.
The witness first told of meeting
Mrs. Schenk.
"Did she become friendly?" the
prosectuor asked.
"She was very reticent the first day "
the witness said. At that tinae Schenk
was in the hospital.
"The next day when Mrs. Schenk
came to the hospital I Invited her In
to a private room for a conference."
the detective related. "While we wrp
in the rowm 1 told hr that Albert
Schenk had Just called with a papyr
for John Schenk to sign. I had been
instructed to do this. She asked me
what it looked like. I told her it
resembled a receipt or a check.
Afraid of Losing Estate.
"She said she was afraid of Ale t
inducing John to sign a will and try
to "do' her out of her share of the es
tate. I said I thought it would bo a
very mean thing to do. She ordered
me to tell her when Albert came to
let her know, or order Albert out i?
the room.
She expressed a fear that Albert was
trying to get the keys to his baothor's
safetv deposit box. She insisted that I
get them In the eent of her husband's
death.
"Mrs. Schenk came to the hospital the
following Sunday.
"She said she had just learned her
husband was worse," continued the wit
ness. 'I wish to god He'd die,' she said.
"I asked her whv?
" "If vou knew how we have lived you
wouldn't blame me,' she replied.
"She said Schenk had treated her like
a dog. Once, she said, he left her wlfcn
she was seriously ill, and that on the
same occasion he was indifferent."
The detective said Mrs. Schenk re
marked ftrther: "
"If Dr. Hupp knew how r had Hed
he wouldn't fcr so anxious for John to
get well."
Papers Are Discussed.
The witness told of requesting a con
ference with Mrs. Schenk ocr some
papeas Sh suggested a meettig in tiw
countrv. Mrs. Schenk declined to cocte
to the hornital.
"We flnallv agreef" to meet at 7:15 o
m.. a block from the hospital," wtnea
said "S:rs. Schenk came in her "uto
mobllo and we drove out into the
country.
"Did Mrs. Schenk every say anythlns
to you about killing her husband?-'
"Yes."
"What did she say?"
"She asked me what my price w;.
and I told her I might consider tfy
proposition for $3,000."
Mrs. Schcnk's face paled at this dans
aging assertion and she leaned forwaitl
in her cbalr, grapplng the arms aiki
glaring at the witness.
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IN CONGRESS TODAY I
The House proceedol to a further dls.
cusslon of the army appropriation bll
The Senate was not in session today.
WJjite House Callers.
SENATORS.
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Stephenson, Wis.
du Pont, Del.
Dick, Ohio.
Simmons, N. C.
Johnston, Ala.
Bank head, Ala.
Terrell, Ga.
Percy, Miss.
Depew, N. Y.
RBPRESENTATIVE&
Goode, Iowa.
Smith. Mich.
Broussard, La.
Butler. Pa.
Slemp, Va,
Richardson, Ala,
Dent. Ala.
Clayton, Ala.
Dalzell. Pa.
Beall, Tex.
Burnett, Ala.
Hobson. Ala.
Craig. Ala.
Kendall, Iowa.
Former Senator H. O. Davis of Wjt
Virginia.
Senator-elect Townsend of Michiga
Representative-elect Willis of Ohlori
Albert H. Walker, of New York, j
Elmer Dover, of Indiana.
Commissioner R. G. Valentine.
Governor Noel, of Mississippi.
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