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A MIXED DECISIGII
SUPREME COURT DECIDES BOTH
FOR AND AGAINST
RAILROADS.
THEY MAY STILL MIKE COAL
But Muit Sell It Before Shipment
Power of Congreee to Regulate
Affllrmed How Roads
May Evade.
Washington, May 4. It baa been
many a day since a decision of the
supreme court of the United States
has been received with so much inter
est as was manifested yesterday In
the decision of that court in what are
known as the "commodities clause"
cases affecting the antraclte coal car
rylng railroads. These casei had
been decided by the United 8tates cir
cuit court for the eastern district of
Pennsylvania, favorably to the rail
roads in that the clause pf the Hep
bum rate law, which prohibits Inter
state railroads from carrying commo
dities manufactured, mined or pro
duced, directly or indirectly by the
roads was declared unconstitutional
and the general impression had been
that that decision would be affirmed
by the supreme court, When, there
fore here was a reversal Instead of an
affirmation, the interest was much
magnified. When again It was found
that th reversal was based on techni
cal grounds and that the effect was
really favorable to the railroads senti
ment took another turn and those
who had been anxiously awaiting the
announcement of the result found
themselves much puzzled.
The judgment was announced by
Justice White, who, while be read
from an elaborate printed opinion, de
clined to give out anything more than
a lummary, showing the net result of
the court's finding.
Analyzed Justice Whites decision is
mat congress urn nut hublcUw
constitutional authority in the enact-
meni ox me comiuuuuieo pimwiuu
on the other hand It was held that the
government construction of the pro
vision had been entirely too compre-
nenslve. As construed by the court
th miA nhlect of the clause is to pre
vent carriers from being associated
In Interest with the commodities
transported at the time of transports
transported at the time or transports-
tion, hence that the law only prohibits
th. transportation of article, wnen
they have been pr oduced by a railway
company which has not, In good faith,
parted with them, when the company
owns or controls, In whole or in part
the commodity to be transported and
when the company has an interest
direct or Indirect in the commodity In
a legal sense. It was especially held
however, that the prohibition does not
apply to the ownership of stock in a
producing company, but that a carrier
may own stock in such a company
and at the same time transport the
product of that company.
Summed up, the act only compels
companies to disassociate themselves
from the products they carry and the
contention from the government that
the law applies to the ownership of
stock and prohibits the transportation
of commodities simply, .because they
have been produced by a railroad com
pany regardless of the fact that the
company has parted with them Is un
tenable and impossible of enforce
ment. It thus appears first that the
commodities clause Is a vital and
operative statute with respect to all
products, such as coal, which the rail
road companies actually own at the
time of transportation and that the
railroads must sell such products to
some body else before they can law
fully ship them and second that unless
the act is promptly amended so as to
Include stock ownership, the railroads
can escape the law entirely by con
verting their direct ownership of coal
properties Into stock ownership by the
organization of subsidiary coal com
panies. The effect of the decision under ex
isting conditions Is favorable to the
railroads and the government lost on
practically alt points except In the
sustenatlon of the principle Involved.
In holding that congress had not gone
beyond Its authority In enacting the
law the court concedes the right to
legislate and It Is believed that If so
disposed congress might enlarge and
antend the scooe of the provision.
Hence, while the railroads gain a
nHtiMi vtMnrv tne government Is
not confronted by a constitutional bar
from further acting in the direction of
nnntrol nt the roads In the matter of
the shipment of their own commodi
ties.
All In tha President's Hands.
Washington, May S. The senate
tariff bill. In the section which deals
with the maximum and minimum
proposition, has In the Judgment of
tariff experts, one very important
feature. It nractlcallr vests in the
president the power to declare a tariff
war acalnst any nation or to retrain
from any auch war. It Is given to him
to decide whether any nation Is dis
criminating against the products of
tha nnited States In Its system of du
ties. This sennit th coverament
through th state department and the
other agencies provided by daw, to
xoak agreements with other nations
s to trade and tariff concessions
wake can b mad ffeeUv by a proc-
lamatloi of tne president witnoot ins
necessity of anything la th way of
legislation of treaty agreement
fuHO HT TEE PST
ALL SECURED IN ONE DAY BY
ROOSEVELT EXPEDITION.
Three Monareha of th Jungle Slain
by th Former President, one
by Kermlb
Niirahl. British East Africa, May I.
Four Hons are trophies of x-Prel-dent
Roosevelt's camp in the Han
hills and the 200 or more native fol
lowers are Joining with Americas
party In the celebration of the unusu
ally good luck.
The Hons were bagged aaturaay ana
Col. Roosevelt's mighty gun brought
three of them to earth, each on the
first ahoL Thus one of Mr. Roose
velt's fondest ambitions has been real
wort and ha la nroud. too, that the
fourth of the Jungle kings fell before
the rifle of his son, Kermlt. wno, How
ever, took three shots to kill nil
quarry.
Both father and son are Jubilant
It was their first lion hunt, and so
magnificent a kill was far beyond their
expectations. But lions have been
plentiful In the hills tor tne pa.i
mnnth and the Enzllsh hunter. W. W.
Selous, has been out for several days
laying plans for their extinction, how
well be succeeded can be seen irom
the results of Saturday's chase.
noioiu at the actual shooting were
not brought down to Nairobi yester
day from the camp, but it was declar
ed that In each case a single bullet
from the ex-presldent's rifle sufficed
tn hrin down his Hon. From this it
Is presumed that Col. Roosevelt is
living up to the reputation- wnicn ue
has gained here of being a crack shot
All of the lions were of normal size.
and after the natives had dragged
them together in the grass they per
formed the usual dance around the
trophies.
EVERYTHING TAXED THERE
0REAT BRITAIN PULLS HEAVILY
ON ALL SOURCES OF REVENUE.
p.,0. nd Race With
- Dr.,dnouahts Re-
Germany for Dreadnoughts Re
quires Additional income.
i-nndon. Anr. 30. Accumulated
de whlch tne
"e"1" M mVulJ called In
- J0Ternmenf. budget which
chancellor of the
' Dra,BntBi , tne houS8 0f
' ,td. e made to bear
178.810.000 deficit
of (he fiscal year incurred by the old
age pensions and the race wun uer
many for Dreadnoughts.
"Socialism and confiscation,- m
..aithv classes are already crying
and a few are clutching at the hope
that the house of lords, which repre
sents these classes, may throw out
the budget entirely, but this is lm-
nmhahia. Increased Income taxes.
death estate and legacies, duties, a tax
of 20 per cent on luture mcroaw "
h. v.ina nf lands due to the enter
prise of the community, taxes on
motors to be devoted to keeping up
of the roads, stamp taxes on sales of
property are the principal levies upon
wealth.
Th rnvarnment gets Its revenge
for the rejection recently by the lords
of Its licensing bill, Dy increasing w
taxes on some classes of public
hnAa and the customs excise duties
on spirits. A tax of three pence on
the pound on aaies oi npuor m nu
i. .tan imnosed and this likely to an
tagonise both the Uouor Interests and
the worklngmen. On the otner nana
lh. la Hap nra nlacated by provisions
made for labor exchangee for the un
employed, expenditures lor anores
tatlon and the promise of an Indus
trial Insurance scheme, as well as the
satisfaction of knowing that tne nen
are to carry the greater share of the
load.
The new taxation bears Beavuy on
corporatlona. The only features at-r.niina-
tha United States are the In
crease In the tobacco tax, a tax of
three pence per gallon on petrol ana
heavier atamp duties on stock trans
actions.
Charged With Smuggling Chinese.
Ro.wpII n. M.. Anr. 30. The fed
eral grand Jury yesterday returned an
Indictment against Buwaro, rm ui
Bl Paso, Texas, former chief of police
of that city, on the charge of conspir
ing to smuggle Chinese Into tne uaueo
rn.ip. rink la allexed to have car
rled on operations from El Paso, bring
ing the aliena into Wis country irom
uiIm Fink was given a prellml
nary hearing here several months age
and was bound over pending action oj
the federal grand Jury. He was subs,
nunntlv released In bonds of 15,000 pro
vlded by local business men. .lavlni
failed to appear yesterday, United
ntatoa Juda-a William P. Pope declared
the bond forfeited. Fink Is believed
to be in Mexico.
Th triumphs of the scholar th pub-
no regards aa inamouai; in proweas
of the athlete la popularly held to -tabllah
th name aad fam of hi col
lege. Of course, this I un reasonable,
for th reputation of a university a
aa tnatltntlom of laaralna ihnnM da.
pond apoa th liberal education ah
give to tho witflln bar gat. But
It tt suite tru that, despite th noai-
lenft vaaanfta hv It ahnuld Bo da anv
th pibllo aontiaa to pay hotnag to
ran rather tbaa brain, la o tar aa
Si lJ
, SOUTH SWEPT BY TERRIFIC
WIND THAT LEFT DkrH IN
ITS WAKE. -.
SIX STATES SUFFER LOSS
Win Are Dawn and Lei of Life and
Property can oniy awnmmra
Until Communication is '
Restored.
Louisville, Ky., May 1. Dispatches
gathered throughout the South by the
Associated Press Indicate that from
50 to 75 people met sudden death in
th great wind that loosed havoc
ihrnnrhnilt the eeCtlOB. Th number
of Injured is probably thre fold th
Hat of the killed, and It will probably
b several days befor a oompiew
list can be gathered.
While the storm, which reached the
South 'from tn upper Mississippi val
ley early yesterday, left It car on
Mississippi, Arkansas, Kentuoky, Ala
bama, Missouri and more remot"
states, Tennessee perhaps suffered the
most severely. It is substantiated
that 38 people were killed.
What the property loss, what home
lessness, how many uprooted houses
caught fire and were burned, how
many heads of livestock ran bellowing
Into the storm when their folds were
split by the wind, cannot yet be told.
Tales of Incidents came filtering
through the wire desolation from time
to time but there was no way check
ing and verifying them.
The storm In many ways played
sardonic tricks with It's victims. It
hurled James Jackson, an aged man
of Montgomery county, Tenn.. 20
yards from his ruined house, snapped
his neck and he was found 'thus Fri
day. It ripped 20 church steeples
from their belfries, stood them point
up in the earth or hurled them Into
tree tops. It tore up the battlefield ol
( ranklln, Tenn., like the cannister did
in the Civil war. After scattering all
the benches in the grandstand at
Latonla race track, Ky., it whirled a.
fence scantling through the front win
dow of George Tlbbetts' house Into a
pile of dishes and through the kitchen
wall Into the yard. At Chattanooga it
played tricks with delivery wagons
and with the roofs of 12 story build
ings. Several persons were injured at
Waldons Ridge, a suburb.
Celebrated First Inauguration.
Alexandria, Va May 1. President
Taft attended yesterday in this city a
celebration of tho 120th anniversary
of the first inauguration of George
Washington and the laying of a cor
ner ton In dedication of a park to
the memory of the first president
VIoe-President Sherman, Speaker Can
non, Gov. Swanson of Virginia, the
commissioners of the district of Col
umbla, a large congressional party
from Washington' and distinguished
guests from a number of states sal
In the stand with the president as tin
notable parade passed In review.
Every branch of the United States ser
vice and some of the most famoui
of the military organizations of th
old. djpmlnjpn were represented, in. th
Imposing array of troops. ' President
Taft made the Journey from Washing
ton and return In an automobile.
A New Turklah Cabinet
Constantinople, May 1. Tewflk
Pasha finally succeeded In forming
new cabinet to preside over th destl
nltles of the Turkish empire, a task
he undertook reluctantly when some
of the Infiuentlal member of the com
mittee of Union and Progress dls
played opposition to mlml Paaha re
suming his bid post of premier.
Mehmed V. drove through the street!
In democratic fashion Friday on hli
way to the mosque to offer up the reg
ular Friday prayers. The pomp and
ceremonial that formerly attached to
the function during the reign of Abdul
Hamld were altogether lacking and
the subjects of the new suuaa mu
. -,.,.i.t. M democratic maanei
and accepted It a evidence of ths
beginning of a more Ueaent ruie.
Burled In Snow 2 Hour.
naiiinrnam. Wash.. May 1. AUve
. ennirinui and scarcely Injured
John Watklns has been rescued aftei
being burled 26 hour beneath ZS leei
nf annw in the valley of the Cacad
river near Rockport, Wash. An aval
anche had overwhelmed aa engi
ra nantn and ela-nt men wers bur
lei AH but Watkln were resuceo
la a hort time, two erlously Injured
amiiT.an men worked It hour!
digging Watklns out He had been
carried 200 yard from wher thi
camp stood, and was not struck by
rocks or trees that came down th
slide and was enabled to breath th
air In tha snow.
Tha aiaunhtar does On.
London, May 1. A peclal dlapatei
dated Merslna, April 18, aaya that am
a ratfni at Aatloeh til Kesaab. ti
th southwest of Aleppo and thai
ihara Kaa been a ilauihtar of Armel
tans la both town. Th dispatch addi
that detail are unoptaiaasi at i
alaa.
Faralnn Cersoratlena Out
Jaffaraoa CUT. Mar 1. Th BOOM
yesterday paaaed a bill prohtbltloi
toralga corporations from bolllni
stock In domestic corporatlona la th
tat. Thla la aa echo of th Standard
A GuEAT
SECOND OATHERINQ OF THE SO
CIETY OPENED WITH FAVOR
. ABLE PROSPECTS.
EMISENT f.'EN ARE PRESENT
Dr. Trueblood, Addrlna First
slon of th Great eatrnring,
Stat Present Position of
th Movement
Hhlraro. Mar 3. The second na
tional Peace congress opened with
every prospeot of being the great
aat Catharine of Its kind ever
held In America. When Robert Treat
Pain of Boston rapped for order, Or
chestra halt waa filled to the limit,
and In tha audience were acorea of
eminent political economist and dip
lomat of this and outer countries,
and hundreds of delegates appointed
by governors, mayor and all kinds of
organization..
President Taft who la honorary
nreildent of the congress, and Sec
retary of War Dickinson, its presi
dent, were unable to be present, out
an address by Secretary Dickinson,
tha name that he delivered recently be
fore th Hamilton club of Chicago,
Count von Bernstorff, Amnassauor
from Germany.
was read at the meeting, as waa a
hrtAf letter from President Taft, In
which he told of his hearty sympathy
with the alma of the congress.
Welcoming addresses were maae oy
Gov. Deneen on behalf of the tate,
and Mayor Buss for the city, ano.
Rev. A. Eugene Bartlett, chairman of
the reception committee, also greeted
th delegate. "A World Petition to
th Third Hague conference- waa
presented by Miss Anna B. Eck
stein ot Boston.
Th chief paper, of the session was
raad bv Dr. Benjamin F. Trueblood,
secretary of the American Peace so
ciety, hi subject being "The Present
Position of fhe Peace Movement.
Dr. Trueblood sain in part:
r.at me sketch in the barest out
lines what has already been accom
plished. The interpretation will take
care of itself.
a hundred years ago there was
... . Bn.i..ff in ATlstence oreanized
to promote appeal to the forum ol
reason and right in tne adjustment oi
International controversies. To-day
there are more than 500, nearly
very Important nation having Its
group of peace organizations. Their
constituents are numbered by tens of
thousands, from every rank and class
la society philanthropists, men of
trade and commerce, educators and
Jurists, worklngmen, statesmen, ruler
even.
The nosltlon which the peace move
ment ha reached Is no leas distinctly
determined by the practical attain
ments of arbitration. Within th past
20 years so rapid ha been the tri
umph of arbitration tnat more tnan
100 International differences have
been disposed of by this means, or be
tween five and six a year for the
whole 20 yeara. Arbitration la no
innrar an axnerlmant It I the set
tled practice of th nation. A score
ot disputes to-day go naturally to aroi
tratlon wher on gives rise even to
talk of war.
"The first Hague conference, ten
years ago, gave us the permanent In
ternatlonal court ot arbitration, which
has now been In successful operation
for about eight years and disposed ot
aavaral Imnortant controversies. This
court waa strengthened and Improved
by th second Hague conrerenc two
mara am and bv th admission of th
South and Central American states to
It has become the arbitration court,
not nf tha noweri that gathered at
Th Hague In 1899, but ot th entire
world. This tribunal la now laaini
practically all the International differ
ence not adjusuoi ny aipiomacy.
"Another step of still greater mo
ment was taken by th second Hague
u.rnuina In the direction ot provid
ing a perfect substitute for tore la
th settlement ol international niuer
anraa It voted without a dlSSMlUnl
delegation tor th principle of aa In
t.nattnnal eonrt of arbitral Justice
riih inma alwava la service aad
anMina- rerular setalona.'
imnna- the aiatlnculahed men at
tending th congress are Ambaaaadoi
r..ni jnhann Helnrlch voa Bernstor".
t Germany, Hennas d Lagereraata
nvoy trosa Sweden; w
U nines minister: Alfred Mitchell
af th British n
kaaar. and Dr. Halvdaa Koat of th
Calveralty ot Norway.
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LEAD THE WORLD
THE POSITION UNITED 8TATBS
SHOULD TAKE REGARDING
WORLD-WIDE PEACE.
BUSINESS MEN INTERESTED
Representative Bartholdt of Missouri
Thinks it Gratest Moral issue
Now Confronting the Na
tions of Earth,
Chlcaao. May 4. The morning e
ainna nf the Peace congress to-day
were given over to the business men
and the women. George E. Robert,
president of the Commercial National
bank of Chicago, presided over the
commerce and Industry session, and
the speakers made It clear that the
business Interests ot tho country were
In hearty accord with th aims of the
promoters of World-wide peace.
Tmea Arhuckle consul of Spain and
Colombia at St. Louis, talked on "Civ
ilizing Featurea of International Com
merce," and Marcus M. Mark oi
New York, president of the National
Association of Clothiers, on "Business
Wat, Want Peace." Other addresses
were made by Belton Qllreath of Bir
mingham, Ala., and W. A. Mahoney of
Columbus. O., and William J. Calhoun
of Chicago.
Representative Bartholdt, of Mis
souri was one of th principal speak
ers to-day. The idea which gave
birth to the congress, he said, was
the greatest moral Issue now confront
inv .11 the nations of the earth. He de
clared that it was not his optimism
but his deliberate Judgment wnicn
nn,neA him tn bellve that when that
Idea once had penetrated the minds
and hearts of the masses it wouiu
sweep the world.
Mr. Bartholdt too tne potiuuu m
nations are two-faced and their at
.....j. an annnkinclv inconsistent as
to be untenable before the forum of
either reason or morality, ne uuuu
i.ia that a-nvernments did not re
gard th obligation to keep the peace
imposed on the cltisen oy me uu.
nnnn tha nation Itself, and
that by praising battleahlps as implfr
ments ot peace tney actually
)d their own cii
Individuate is to be
maintained by law; peace betweea na
tions by torse." Th result of those
contradltlona was, he declared,
that the nation s peace wmco
.-in.. i ufeauarda aa the moat
priceless boon at home, 1 In foreign
affaire made a mere w,
. i Am nt rnrernments and rut
in IUV mm- m
er to be either cherished or broken
at their arbitrary will.
-w. m ia alnwlv but surely
l no ww. .w
rallying around th banners of peaca
It gravitate la an aecenoing
the higher plan of one common broth
rhood, whence th ahoddlng of hu
man blood for th aaa . '
any other purpose Is regarded as a
relic of barbartem aad wnere m
three watebworda or a new w.. .
gaalsaUon wlU b humanity, Juetlc
and pc. ln thla wward march
United Statea anoum --
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tn luiuiiw'. - - -
Urn mission. It will lend a aew slgnl-
ncanc to the flag ano w.u
mankind to bless it a th. emblem
of their salvation s well as our.
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BURDENS OF WAR
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MAKE RICHEST NATIONS REEL
Two-Thirds of All Revenue of United
States Uaed to Pay War Expense
(,000,000 Men In
Arm.
Chlcazo. May 2. President Schur-
man of Cornell University addressed
the Sunday Evening Club last night
on the evils and burdens of war. Th
meeting was tn a measure preliminary
to the Peace congress which opene
to-day, - "
President Schurman said In part:
In modern times wars are compara
tively inf refluent The actual loss of
life therefore, and the sufferings from
wounds and Injuries, are small In our
own time in comparison with what
they were centuries ago. On the otn
er hand, the preparations for war in
modern times bear with tremendoua
weight In times of peace upon all
classes ot the community. And the
financial load la enough to make tne
rlobest nations reel and stagger. As
Senator Hale has stated, two-tniras oi
all the revenues of the United States
are used to defray the expensea entail- .
ed by past wars or necessary In the
preparation for future wars.
Taklna- Burooe as a wnole some- .
thing like 6,000,000 people are now in
arma, all withdrawn from inousinai
puraulta, In order that they may be
trained for war. And their main
tenance la, of course, all the time a
burden on the productive classes of
the community. It Is estimated that
Europe la regularly upending on her
standing armies from 16,000,000,000 to
17,000,000,000.
But thla rat qf taxation cannot ot
course, go on indefinitely. It' must
soon reach th limit of possibilities In
all nations which are afflicted by It
And aa the money raised by this bur
densome taxation la expended In th
main for military objects w may ex
pect soon to hear a demand from th -propertied
classe In all countrle that
aome way be found to reduce th cost
of defense and preparations for war.
Partly through th Induenca of o
clalistic teaching and tiU more by th
advance of educatloa and th growth
of Intelligence, th working classes In
all countries will come to denounce
the spirit of militarism, oppo th .
current policy of huge military and
naval expenditure and advocate th
policy of International peace aad good
wiu- . ' . ,,'
Another fore operating agalnat mil
itarism and tending to humaalse In
ternational relation Is th growing
intercourse among th nations on th
part of tradera. travlrs,stndents aad
mlssionariea.
Conditions Better In Turkey.
Washington. May 1. - Increasing
confident obtain In the state de
nartment regarding the situation in
provincial Tarkey that condition will
-ontlnu to improve. Thla feeling la
haaed largely oa th dispatches from
th, American embassy at Constant!
aopl. These yesterday said that re
ports from Hadjln and other place la
th disturbed provinces Indicate that
th troubles ar almost over. Th ar
rival of th troop aad th chaag
of government ha had a most !
tary affect
the, aX
Oil UUiatlea.
th aadergreduata bj eoaceme.