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',( ' -Wr -!-! fc -MP' , - j-t -.-oc -$r-- rjyt t-" WxtMn0hin0n Wim Unsettled Tonight; Tuesday Fair. 4 WASHINGTON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1911. Fourteen Pages PEICE ONE CENT. NUMBER 7175. Yesterday's Circulation, 48,449 V"- Jry-v"rr0 j (i i riT Edition ML DESCRIBES M'CABE'S THIRD DECREESYSTEffl Tells How She Was Locked in Room to Face Questioners. iRECORD REVISED BEFORE SUBMISSION Changed Report on Chemist Sub mitted to President by Per sonnel Board. A story of the "third degre," as lit works under the McCabe domina- 'tlon in the Department of Agricul ture, and the development that the personnel board, which preferred icharges against Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, did not send the full record to the i Secrtary and the President, divided i honors before the House committee Investigating the Dr. Wiley contro versy today. Miss Carrie Davis, stenographer in the Bureau of Chemistry, furnished some illuminating testimony regard ing Solicitor McCabe's "third de gre" mthods. Miss Davis spoke with authority, for a few weks ago Mr. McCabe and a Secret Service man locked her in a room and questioned her at length to ascertain if Dr. L. F. Kebler, chief of the drug division, owned any stock in drug manufactur ing concerns. Assurance From Wilson. Miss Davis was told by Secretary Wil son himself "not to be alarmed. You will not be molested In your position, and nothing you tell will be used to your discredit." Then W. P. Walsh, a Secret Service man, led her Into an other room, locked the door, and. with a stenographer, put Miss Davis through the "third degree." A little later So licitor McCabe came In, and she had to tell her story over again. It happened that Miss Davis knew little o the per sonal affairs of Dr. Kebler. Equally as startling was the develop ment today that an expurgated record Rent to the Secretary of Agriculture and the President In the Dr. Rusby case, about which the entire Wiley con troversy centers. The board of person nel, of the Department of Agriculture, It appears. In preferring its charges against Dr. Wiley and his two aeso clateF, quoted from a letter written Dr. H H. Rusby by Dr. Bigelow. In this letter Dr Bigelow said that the manner of employing the Remsen board had been changed, that the members of that board wore paid an annual salary for working only a part of the time. Report Expurgated. Dr. Bigelow suggested to Dr. Rusby that his expert services probably could come under the same head, and then he went on to say what Dr. Wiley thought about engaging Dr. Rusby. The personnel board. In transmitting Its finding, omitted all reference to (he manner In which the Remsen board had been employed, thus putting Drs. Bige low, Wile, and Kebler in an unfavor able light. Dr. Bigelow called attention to the re vised letter while on the stand today. The personnel board. It should be r Cmhred, consists of Assistant Sec retary Hays, Solicitor George P. Mc Cabe, and C. C Clark. Attorney Henry E. Davis seemed to regard this tampering with records as a twin disclosure based on the admis sion of Mr. McCabe, a few days ago, that he had altered a court record be cause the judge's decision mentioned benzoate of soda as a harmful ingre dient, whereas. Mr. McCabe held that It was not. Summoned By Solicitor. Miss Davis than added the weight of her testimony to the story of the "third degree" related in part a few days ago by Dr. Kebler. The latter said that Mr. McCabe had grilled him to know If he owned any stock in a drug con cern. Kebler owned one $100 share, which he has held for years. The chem ists also testified that not content with his explanation Mr. McCabe and the Secret Service man had grilled his itenographer. Miss Davis. "I received a message on June 30 last to report to Solicitor McCabe," said Miss Davis today. "When I reached the solicitor's office he Intro duced me to a Mr W. P. Walsh, who I afterward learned was a Secret Serv ice man. Walsh took me over to the office of the Secretary and said: " 'Mr. Secretary, I have brought Miss Davis hero to have you assure her that no harm will come to her be cause of that she may tell us.' "Secretary Wilson then assured me (Continued on Third Page.) 3 WEATHER REPORT FORECAST FOR THE DISTRICT. Unsettled tonight; Tuesday fair; wariuer. TEMPERATURES. ; U. S. BUREAU. 8 a. m..... 71 9 a. m "3 10 a m 74 11 a. m 75 12 noon 81 1 p m S3 2 p. m 2 AFFLECK'S. S a. m 79 9 a. m...---..... SI 10 a. m 81 11 a. m Si 12 noon W 1 p. m 91 2 p. m 80 TIDE TABLE. Today High tide, 10:59 a. m., 11:21 p. m.: low tide. 6:04 a. m.. 5:20 p. m. Tomorrow High tide, 11:41 a. m.; low tide, 5:50 a. m., 6:68 p. m. SUN TABLE. . . 6.11 (Sun sets. Sun rises. 6:57 I Judge Who Presided at Beattie Hearing, Lawyers and Courthouse Judge Who Presided at Beattie Hearing, Lawyers and Courthouse TUDGE WATSON. i&iiti&iiP l& rf , v W tmmBBKBBBa&smBBBBaKk I Hi; $sHRPSft 1 Iff? 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Bf E.Rr ., x-xdBt&tf I 1L.IIUI Ll 1I1L. I LIUII I . . j- m 'Bl.v jr r,ii u-, txc Promises to Take Lid Oft of H HHfw HllflHBPv l-iirrnpnlioim froK onrl Bk I B B?i' 'j.. L Controller Bay. VK'fB T kw jM' - lHb. .BV iHf t k ' iClM By JUDSON C. WELLIVER. (UVh. WftAV)' !Kj!HJH Controller Bay and the Guggenheim X vBsV'' iBAjB AHIH grab of Alaska command the at- w' 'BBBkSSBKBBIM tention of the House tomorrow T - ,Trr-nrvTTTr 'HBSISDSS&SaHB Controller Bay and the Guggenheim grab of Alaska will command the at tention of the House tomorrow Reresentatlve Graham will rise to the question of personal privilege, and make a speech that will present, for the first time, the committee's defense gainst charges that have been circulated by agents of the Administration, that the Controller Bay investigation has been dropped because it failed to "make good." Mr. Graham Intends to handle the President, his publicity bureau, the Alaska grabbers, and recent Alaska legislation, without gloves. He will take off the lid, and his friends say that he will tell some things that have never before been given publicity. Far from being dropped. Mr Gra ham will tell the House his commit tee Is how equipped with Information that gives It more confidence than ever before, that the Investigation will produce startling disclosures Involving the long series of services which the Taft administration is alleged to have performed for the Guggenheim syn dicate. For three weeks past the agents of the White House have been diligently, cultivating publicity for the theory that the Controller Bay inquiry has proved a failure. Cause of Delay. The facts, as Congress well knows, are that the committee was compelled to discontinue dally hearings because Louis D. Brandets had been engaged as counsel, and cculd not immediately Slve attention to the matter. Accord ingly the committee postponed further roarings till October 15, when the sit tings will be resumed. Meanwhile Mr. Brandeis is arranging all the preliminaries to developing a great case, and the committee is posi tive that the sensation, whlch flnallv will greet the completed exposure, wiil be of such proportions that other sen autlons will shrink to insignificance. Mr. Graham today pointed out that the President, when asked, under the Poindexter resolution for documents concerning Controller Bay. sent, not the documents in available form but an elaborate message defending himself. This message was Immediately distrib uted to the country more widely than any other Presidential message in the memory of people now in public life. But the documents that were asked for were sent to the Government Printing Office, and despite determined and re peated efforts to get them into print, they are at this time missing, and no body knows when they will be avail able. Position of White House. The White House has been working hard for weeks past to kill this investi gation, and to get its view of the Alaska situation "played up" strong before tho country. Democratic leaders have discovered that the Wnite House has seemed more worried about Alaska than about any other Investigation, not even excepting that of -the anti-Wiley cabal. Consequently, they are more de termined not to permit the Administra tion to get away with the satisfaction of suppressing Graham. Messrs. Burke. Humphries, and others have been loaded with the pro-Administration side of the case, and they art nvperted to get busy with Mr. Graham. Several other members are prepared to support tho Illinois member, and It is reported that Henry George may take a hand, being a member of the Graham committee, and deeply interested In the Alaska inquiry. Wheel Tax Decision to Be Announced Soon Decision In the test oase of the wheel tax law will be handed down on Wed nesday by Judge James L. Pugh In United States side of Police Court. This action, in which LeRoy Mark, irpyoml pent automoblllst Is madeilefendant, was brought to test the vaUulty of the law imposing a rax on injf seating ca pacuy oi auiomoDuea, WITS BAN PUT ON IE Would Have Legal Check Placed on Press of the District. If a bill which was introduced In the Senate today by Senator Works of California is passed it will be unlawful to publish In the District of Columbia any detailed account of any murder, suicide, or other crime or alleged crime or accident. The bill makes it unlawful to print details "other than a mere statement of th fact that Buch a crime, tragedy, or accident has happened, or is alleged to have happened, without detalU, or com ments of any kind." Any person, corporation, or associa tion violating the provisions of the measure will be guilty of a misde meanor, and fined not less than 500 nor more than $3,000, to which may be added imprisonment In the District Jail or workhouse for not exceeding one year. , In talking of the bill. Senator Works said it was high time to call a halt on the publication of details of crime. He said they excited others to crime, and tended to Injure the morals and sensi bilities of thoso that read such details. Sues for Slander. Bessie Speckman today filed suit against William Speckman In the Dis trict Supreme Court for $5,000 damages for alleged slander. She says Beckman declared In public that she was "no good." Her attorney is John C. Fos ter. SOLDIER HELD FOR MURDER. As the result of an inquest held at the District morgue Willie Sabens, a soldier stationed at Fort Myer, will be committed to Jail to await the action ot the grand jury on the charge of killing Ada Haynes, twenty-two years old. at 1322 D street northwest Saturday afternoon. STREET CAR RUNS AWAY. PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 14. Running beyond control when the air brakes refused to work, a "pay within" car on the Chestnut Hill division, dashed down the steep grade at Hlllcrest ave nue, and, plunging over the curve at the foot of the hill, crashed against a tree, "causimr serious injuries to two persona and bruising a dozen more. 1 lllf PUBLCTY Last Minute News Told in Brief CHESTERFIELD COUKTY COURTHOUSE. H. M. SMITH, Chief Counsel for Defense. POPE'S CONOITION IS Physicians Gain Confidence Allow Him to .Leave His Bed. and ROME, Aug. 14. The condition ot Fope Ilus was materially improved to day. The weather was cooler and the patient more cheerful than for a week. The physicians were more confident, and allowed the Pontiff to leave his bed and sit for an hour In his armchair. Senator Luke Lea Is Back in Senate Seat Senator Luke Lea of Tennessee, was back in his seat in the Senate today. Senator Lea was ill for several weeks following the operation for transfusion of his blood, which he underwent to save the life of Mrs. Lea. Later he had to hurry Mrs. Lea by special train to Denver In order to nave her life. Mrs. Lea has since nearly recovered and Senator Lea Is completely restored to health. Senator Percy of Mississippi, who has been absent on account of the Missis sippi campaign, and who was defeated for the Senate by former Governor Vardaman. also returned today. Still a Mystery. Although several telegrams have been sent to different points In Vir ginia, the police have as yet been unable to locate any of the friends or relatives of the aged man, sup posed to be named Henry Turner, who was found wandering on the Btreets yesterday morning in a dazed con dition. GUNBOAT TO THE RESCUE. ADEN. Arabia, Aug. 14. The Italian gunboat Vulturno has Just sailed from this ncrt to search for two boats of the steamer Flfeshlre, carrying thirty" sur vivors of tho wreck of the vessel which went ashore at Cape Gordaufl. the east ernmost point of Africa. CHILDREN BILL WINS. From tHe Committee on Education and Labor Senator Borah made, a favorable report on the bill to establish a chil dren's bureau In the Department of Commerce and Labor. This bill pro poses to establish a bureau for the study of children. THROWS BOMB AT ADMIRAL, Admiral IJ, chief of the Chinese navy, narrowly escaped death by a bomb thrown at him by a revolutionist jn Canton. China, according to dispatches Just received at the State Department. M IMPROVED Daring Aviator Makes First Leg, Touching at Spring field, 111. SPRINGFIELD. III., Aug. 14. Com pleting the first leg of his proposed flight from St. Louis to New York, the ungre' cross-country flight ever under taken Jn the history of aviation, Harry N twcoil, the daring Costoiilnr. who thrilled New York by flirting with death among her skyscrapers, and later flew around the Washington Monument, flighting in the White House grounds, pas-el over Auburn at 10:32, oi'er Chat ham at 10.J). and at 10 :i o'clock ho was sighted flying over the Chicago and Mton tracks Into Springfield, where ho was to make his first landing. Atwood made a great circle to tho east ami disappeared in the haze that was hanging over St. Loult. It was thought ne intended to go completely around the town, land at the fair grounds, take on a new supply of petrol, and then return to circle tho dome of the capitoi Atwood declared he expected to re sume his flight to Chicago, landing in the aviation field at Grant Park Chi cago, late this afternoon. He expects to spend tonight in Chicago before con tinuing Eastward. The weather wag cloudy and murky ar!y tortav. with a cool breeze blow Inu westwaid. Leon Stevens. Atwood's n.anager, said after the flight started that the daring toung Bostonlan prob oablv would "go on home" after reach ing New York, instead of stopping his flight there. He expected to be In Bos ton In eight or ten days, barring ac cidents. Leaving Chicago tomorrow morning, early, Atwood will strike out across Northern Indiana, passing over Elk hart, en route to Toledo, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Utica and Albany, N. Y. He began his flight at St. Louis soon after 8 o'clock this morning, thence up the Mississippi river to the great Eads Bridge, flying over this, the McKInley and Merchants bridges and then darting off toward Bloomington, 111. At 9:14 he passed over Brighton at an altitude of 400 feet. When he reached Shipman at 9:24 he was flying at only 200 feet. Plalnvlew, fifty miles from. St. Louis and 234 from Chicago, was reached at 3:30 a. m. Atwood passed over Carllnvllle, 111., at 9:45 a. m. He was flying about a thousand feet high and at a rapid speed. He circled the depot three 4imes. At Nllwood he circled the depot three times. He seemed to be having engine trouble, but did not alight. At 10:01 he had passed over Girard, 210 miles from Chicago, and was flying fast at an al titude of 600 feet. He passed over Vlr den at 10:05. Mike Kahoe Hears of Death of His Sister Mike Kahoe. the Nationals' scout, re ceived word today that his sister. Mrs. Frank Conrad, Is dead In Springfield. Ohio. She was thirty-seven years old and had but a short illness. The in formation was a shock to Mr. Kahoe. TEN HURT IN COLLISION. CAMDEN. N. J.. Aug. 14. In a head on collision between trolley cars at a single track lay-over signal at Mag nolia, ten miles from here, ten persons were Injured and the cars reduced to splinters. CAMPAIGN PUBLICITY BILL. Senator Dillingham reported the cam paign publicity bill from conference to the Senate. Senator Borah suggested that It be printed and go over until to morrow. It Is expected the bill will then be agreed to by the Senate. WICKERSHAM NOT DEAD. New York's financial world was ex cited Just before closing time by a rumor that Attorney General Wloker sham had been assassinated. Inquiry at the Department of Justice found the Secretary sitting at his desk busily en gaged in his work. BEATTIE INDICTED FOR WIFE MURDER BY VIRGINIA JURY Formal Accusation Returned by Chester field County Inquisitors at 1:15 o'Clock Today. LAWYERS ENGAGE IN HOT FIGHT OVER DATE FOR TRIAL By JAMES E. BREADY. CHESTERFIELD COURTHOUSE. Va., Aug. 14. The Commonwealth of Virginia today accused Henry Clay Beattie, jr., of the murder of his wife, by an indictment returned at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon by the grand jury of Chesterfield county. Fourth circuit of Virginia. It was an intense moment in the little Chesterfield courtroom when the grand Jury filed In, although there was no qustlon whatever that the indictment had been returned. Foreman Robertson handed tho indlctmnt to Clerk Phillip A. Cogbill, who glanced at the document and then announced: "An Indictment charging Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., with murder in tho first degree has been returned." The indictment was not read aloud. It will not be until Beattie Is arraigned before the bar and asked to plead. This will take place at the start of his trial. Then followed a hot argument between Harry M. Smith on one side and Commonwealth Attorney James Gregory and L. O. Wendenberg on the other as to the date of the trial, Smith demanding two weeks from today and the State asking that it begin this week. The court took a recess, and will fix the time of trial later. L TO LINCOLN GETS 0. UFTEI1 FIGHT Chamber of Commerce Spe cial Committee Holds a Lively Session. After one of the hottest committee meetings over held In the Chamber of Commerce, a spectal committee recently appointed to consHer the proposed Richond-Wshlngton highway, as a me morial to Lincoln, it was decided thU afternoon by a vote of 4 to 1 to recom mend to the Chamber that Its previous stand with reference to the Lincoln memorial be reconsidered. Those voting In favor of reconsider ation were R. N. Harper, A. L. Sinclair, E. H. Daniel, and Charles W. Darr. Those opposed were William T. Galli her and William E. Shannon. Text of Resolution. The committee's resolution asks for a reconsideration -of the chamber's In dorsement of the Potomac Park site for the memorial and favors the con struction of a highway bridge and road to Richmond Instead. The meeting convened at 12 o'clock and did not adjourn for nearly two hours. William E. Shannon, a member of the special committee, and vice chair man of the committee of which Glenn Brown Is the head, took vigorous ex ception to the action of the directors in considering the Richmond-Washington highway as a Lincoln Memoi ial. He pointed out that the people of Virginia might be expected to object ttr the name of the road, and insisted that the 12,000,000 appropriated for the memorial to Lincoln should be spent upon some structure in the District of Columbia. Already on Record. Mr. Shannon said that the Chamber was already on record in favor of the memorial to be erected upon the Ma.ll and that It would be inconsistent In de parting from Its former position. He also thought that the directors should have referred any proposition concern ing a Lincoln Memorial to tho com mittee upon the Xuture development of Washington instead of to a special com mittee. A. Leftwich Sinclair replied that the highway proposition was not even sug gested when the Chamber favored the Mall structure and said that the direc tors had the right to consider whether it would be advisable for the Chamber to reconsider Its former action. W T. Galllher explained that no dis courtesy to Mr. Brown's committee had been Intended and that the special com mittee had been Instructed simply to confer with Mr. Brown about the new proposition and report back to the di rectors the result of Its conference. Train Hits Qpen Switch And Fireman Is Killed WESTON, W. Va., Aug. 14. Fireman William Tims, of Weston, was crushed to death under the wreckage of an engine cab when Baltimore and Ohio train No. 18 was wrecked near Buchan non this afternoon. Five cars and the engine were overturned when the train hit an open switch. Several passen gers are reported Injured. Physicians are being rushed to the scene on a special train, MM Jam in Courtroom. The prologue of Chesterfield coun ty's great murder trial drew a large and curious audience today. When the grand Jury took up the case of the Commonwealth of Vir ginia against Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.. charged with wife murder, hundreds of countrymen from the surrounding farms and hundreds of others from Richmond surrounded the little red brick courthouse. Not one-fifth of them could find room within, and the sheriff's force of the county, aided by the Richmond police drew a cordon of guards about the little building, keeping the crowd in order. For Virginia was opening its most famous and mysterious murder trial, and Virginians were not to be cheated of their morbid fete. They came on foot, on horseback, and In every kind of old and new vehicle that Virginia has known since the war, from "one-hoss-shay" to the latest high powered motor car. They were of all colors, creeds, and previous conditions of servi tude. Ancient, gray-haired colored men and women, who knew "Marse Beattie and Mlnsy Owen when they were knee high to a grasshopper," and many who were related more or less distantly to the accused man or the murdered woman, were there to watch the opening scene in the final act of the sordid drama. Gaze At Beulah. The great throng gazed eagerly at Beulah Binford when she arrived In a motor car at 10 o'clock. The car, which also contained L. L. Scherer, L. O. Wcndenburg, and County Detective George Jarrell, whizzed into the. court laid, and Miss Binford, dressed in modish tailor-made gown of blue, with a big blue picture hat, stepped out the car as self-possessed as Jny person fa the ground. More so than some of the excited inhabitants of Chesterfield county, who literally were running around the courthouse In circles this morning. Miss Binford ivas taken into a side room of the courthouse. Paul Beattie arrived in another auto mobile with Sheriff Gill a few minutes later. Curiosity ugain was keen, but not so great as the interest in the Bin ford girl. Four witnesses were officially sum moned this morning. They are T. It Pettigrew, Drt Herbert Mercer, and Thomas Owen, all of whom sat on the porch of the Thomas Owen home when Beattie arrived with the, body of his wife, and Paul Beattie. It is expected (Continued on Third Page.) IN CONGRESS TODAY SENATE. Children's bureau bill favorably re ported. Senator Bourne introduces bill limit ing power of Federal courts In con stitutional cases. Senator Works wants newspapers prohibited from publishing crime details and introduces bill to pre vent it in the District. HOUSE. The House took up the conference report on the wool bill. Representative Mann made the point of order that the conferees had ex- "ceeded their authority In the con ference report, and a lengthy parlia mentary discussion ensued. The Investigation of the Wiley con troversy was. resumed. The committee Investigating the De partment of Justice resumed Its In quiry Into the Greene and Gaynor case. White House Callers. SENATORS. Jones, Wash. Burton. Ohio. REPRESENTATIVES. Ashbrook. Ohio. AUenrOhlo. Willis. Ohio. Goeke, Ohio. Claypool, Ohio. Swltzer, Ohio. Morgan, Old. Post, Ohio. White, Ohio. Francis, Ohio. Taylor, Ohio, '$