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THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD
VOLUME YYICT BIRMINGIiA WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1913 ^ 1‘- PAGES NUMBER 2%
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CABINET GOSSIP
ABOUT THE CAPITOL
Leaders Speak With Defin
iteness Regarding Wil
son's Official Family
CABINET IS COMPLETE
WITH TWO EXCEPTIONS
Secretaries of War and Interior Not
Yet Agreed Upon—Bryan for
Secretary of State—More
Than Speculation
Washington, February 23.—It was
stated positively tonight in high congres
sional quarters closely identified with the
incoming administration of President
Wilson, that the following cabinet ap
pointments hud been determined upon
definitely:
Secretary of State, William J. Bryan,
of Nebraska.
Secretary of the Treasury, William G.
McAdoo, of New York.
Postmaster General, Albert S. Burleson,
of Texas.
Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Dan
iels, of North Carolina.
The foregoing names and positions are
said to have advanced entirely beyond
the state of conjecture or gossip and be
come finalities in the forthcoming cab
inet list.
Other places in the cabinet are said
to be reasonably settled with the ex
ception of the portfolios of war and ag
riculture.
The name of Repiot ntative A. Mitchell
Palmer of Pennsylvania, which has been
prominently mentioned in connection with
the Attorney Generalship, now is definitely
eliminated. It appears that a cabinet po
sition was tendered to Mr. Palmer and
lie declined with tin* expectation that he
would remain in the House of Repre
sentatives to be in a sense the personal
representstIve of Mr. Wilson on the Im
portant legislation about to be formu
lated. This plan was carried into par
tial execution today when the announce
ment of Representative Burleson that he
would resign the position of chairman of
the democratic house caucus at an early
date, was coupled witli the announce
ment.
Daniels W ell Known
Josephus Daniels of Raleigh* N. f\, ha?
long been democratic national commit
teeman from his state. He is l He editor
of the Raleigh News and Observer, in
11 if* last Cleveland ad minis! ration Air.
iJailfeb* was in Waghingiou as cHef chh'k
and appointment clerk of the interior de
partment under Secretary Hoke Smith,
now senator from Georgia.
Representative Burleson of Austin,
Texas, has served nearly 15 years in
congress, having been first elected to
the tifty-sixth congress, and he was re
elected to the sixty-third congress last
fall, lie was one of the staunch sup
porters of Governor Wilson in the flouse
of Representatives from the beginning of
the precon volition contest last spring, and
took a prominent part in the election
campaign. In congress his chief work
has been ns a member ol the appropria
tions committee.
As to the cabinet us a whole it was
said that this had been completed with
the exception of two portfolios—Secretary
of Warfand Secretary of Agriculture. It
is understood that the entire cabinet had
been formulated, but that reconsideration
hud become necessary concerning some
of the personnel, probably the two posi
tions, war ami agriculture, now remain
ing open.
Bryan Secretary of State
Concerning those who are believed to be
included in the cabinet list as now made
op, the name of William Jennings Bryan
loi* Secretary of State is looked upon
as definitely settled. Democratic lead
ers both in the Senate and House treat
this as one of the phases of the cabinet
beyond further doubt. Another name re
ferred to with definiteness was that of
Representative Albert S. Burleson of
Texas, as Postmaster General. Gossip
late in the day, however, Indicated that
Air. Burleson might be shifted in the Sec
retaryship of the interior department be
fore the cabinet is announced.
Other names believed to be settled upon
were those of Josejihus Daniels, of North
Carolina, democratic national cotnmittee
man from that state, usually referred to
in conection with the navy portfolio;
and William G. McAdoo of New York.
Democrats believed to be in possession of
accurate information from Trenton de
clined to indicate tin* exact positions ac
corded to Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Daniels.
Some of the information available was
of a negative character on names which
hud been prominently mentioned, it was
stated with considerable positiveness that
iieither Representative Henry of Texas or
Chancellor Edward R. Walker «»f New
Jersey would be designated as Attorney
General.
Palmer lor Attorney General
Thu selection of Representative A.
Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania for At
torney General or some other cabinet
position was considered probable, hut in
some quarters it was said. however, that
Mr. Wilson was desirous of utilizing Mr.
Palmer's services in Important work soon
ro bo formulated In the House of Repre
sentatives.
Discussion of the foregoing names and
positions was more active today than at
any time thus far during the session of
Congress democratic leaders declaring
that the cabinet formation had now
leached a singe whore formal announce
ment would be made within the next few
days, some of them believing that It
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DANIELS MAY BE
SECRETARY OF NAVY
JOSEPHUS DANIELS
01 Raleigh, N. C„ who will prob- .
ably be the next Secretary of the
Navy.
HOUSE GOMMltTEE
10 VOTE ON MONEY
Committee Completes Read
ing of Analysis of Testi
mony—To be Submitted
to House Thursday
I
—
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.
Senate met at 10 o'clock.
Passed pension appropriation bill
carrying $180,000,000.
Passed Crawford bill restraining in
terlocutory Injunctions to suspend
state laws.
PupSed Indian appropriation bill car
rying $13,057,852.
Sundry civil bill carrying $118,525,726
reported by committee.
Adjourned at 11:30 p. m. until 10 a. m.
Wednesday, without action on the bilf
creating a new department of labor.
House met at 10:30 o’clock.
Resumed debate on naval appropria
tion bill.
Labor committee reported bill to fix
an eight hour day for women workers i
in District of Columbia.
Money trust investigating committee j
held final meeting.
Adjourned' without action on the
naval bill at 10:10 p. m. until 10:30 a. m.
Wednesday.
Washington, February 25.—The House
money trust committee probably will vote \
tomorrow on its report, which will be
submitted to -he House on Thursday or
T i.Ytn Tfcr cojuntittee todu' compJel d
the reading of the analysis of the testi
mony taken throughout the hearings, pre
pared by Samuel Untermyer, its counsel.
The report will be based almost entirely
on Mr. Untermyer’s recommendations.
No session of the committee was held
tonight, but individual members studied
the details of Mr. Untermyer’s proposals
lor remedial financial legislation and will
a? einble tomorrow to discuss them. The
committee expects to conclude its discus
sion and get to a vote before tomorrow
night.
At a hearing held by the committee to
day, considerable evidence of a statistical
nature was incorporated in the record.
Lawrence C. Sc udder, the committee’s
statistician, was on the stand. He pre
sented two charts showing in a graphic
way the details of the affiliations of J. P.
Morgan Co. and other New York. Bos-I
ton and Chicago bankers, with banks and |
trust companies, railroads, public utility1
corporations, insurance companies and in
dustrial concerns through stock owner
ship, interlocking directorates, underwrit
;ug affiliations and voting trusts. These
charts, which, according to Mr. Sc udder,
are based entirely on the testimony taken
by tlie committee, will be included as a
part of the report.
POLITICS BEHIND
THE CIVIL SERVICE
Senator Smith Attacks the Postoffice
Appropriation Hill
Washington. February 25.—‘ There is
more mean, contemptible, little politics
behind the civil service today than is
understood by the public," said Sen
ator Smith of Michigan today in a fight
over the post office appropriation bill in
the Senate.
‘‘There lias not been a cabinet of
ficer in charge of any department of
the government in recent years who
has actually run his fkwn#department,’’
he continued. "He has been blindfolded
by tlie men in the department who arc
protected by the civil service laws. If
you seek to know anything, you have
to go to one, of these men rather than
to the chief who may have been se
lected because he helped iris political
party."
The provision in the postoffice bill
to require popular election of post
masters in fourth class offices paying
salaries of more than $200 provoked
great debate. Senator Bristow said it
would prove a much more satisfactory
method of filling postoffice.s than to
place the postmasters under civil
service rules.
Tire provision was finally stricken
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COMPETENCY OF THAW AS
A WITNESS IS QUESTIONED
, Albany, N’. T„ February 1:5. -The ques
tion of Harry K. Thaw's competency as
a witness in the examination Governor
Sulzer’s committee of inquiry Is making
into charges against William' Clark,
its former secretary, lias been raised.
Clark is accused of having used the gov
einor's name in trying Jo bring about
Thaw’s release, and in turn hak< accused
James Scott, superintendent of plate in
stitutions and "his immediate\ under
lings of conspiring
nor." Incidentally
sell, ef Mattawan Ji—.-, - ■,
is confined, has charged John >’
* NSW Tork lawyer, with havlz I
him h $20,000 bribe to aid in releasing
Thaw. Anhut is expected to testify to
morrow that lie did not attempt to bribe
Dr. Russell, and the committee will then
go to Mattewan to hoar what Thaw has
to say ahout it all.
"The question of Thaw's competency,"
said Judge Debaney, a member of the
committee, tonight, "has been raised ami.
while Thaw s testimony probably would
not bold In a court of record, wo are
going to examine him. The committee
has issued subpoenas for all those whose
mimes havo been mentioned In connec
tion witli the affair, and we intend to
briar ail of them."
Colonel Scott today made a formal de
mand upon the committee that they thor
oughly Investigate the charges that have
been made against his department.
PEACE IN MEXICAN
REPUBLIC IS SEICHE
Increased Rebel Activities
in Northern Fart of the
Country Reported
REVIV AL OF DIAZ
INFLUENCE FELT
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Pictures «»(' Former President Are
Restored—All States Except Three
in Southeast II — Recognized
the New A j^^iffStion
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Mexico City, Fr £ y 25.—Hope for ini
Cy o
mediate peace i* *\ico is slight. Rebel
activity in the 3 o*h has increased and
the governmc <>.Tprts to enter into ar
rangements ’ ^ ®ne Zapatistas appear to
have failed ^
Whether ebels whose center is the
state of Coahuila, have increase numer
ically is not known. Already communi
cation with the frontier has been stopped,
that region between Laredo and San Luis
Potosi being practically isolated.
In the south the Zapatistas continue
burning and raiding and an attack oil a
military train between Ozumba and Mex- J
ico City leaves little doubt as to their j
attitude toward the new administration.
The attack was of the ordinary ambush
type. 'Fhe train was stopped by a burned i
out bridge and the fighting continued for
more than two hours.
One of the demands of the Zapatistas !
made today by commissioners represent- i
ing that faction of the rebels, was that I
all Zapatista officers be admitted to the'
regular army establishment with corres
ponding rank, some having assumed the j
title of general. To this the government;
strongly objected.
Commissioners left to report to their
chief, and soon word came back that
the Zapatistas considered the revolution
still in progress.
Send Forces Southward
The government has sent forces south-!
ward toward Cuernavaca along the line j
of the Central railway, a portion of which |
destroyed by rebels will be rebuilt.
Reports from the state of Morelos indi- ■
cate that the. work of destruction during j
the last 24 hours is more complete than i
is ordinarily undertaken by the rebels. .
To offset the antagonism of the Zapatis
tas, however, the government believes j
there will be no difficulty in concluding
arrangements for peace with Juan An- 1
jdruw Almazu t and .Ink*" 'tadUUi the nvu
t most promihent leaders in the state of
Guerrero. Nor is there much doubt felt
that arrangements can be made by the j
government agents sent to B1 Paso with i
representatives of Orozco's army.
Benjamin Arguemedo. Cheche Campos !
and the two Orozcos the most valiant:
leaders, it is announced here, have ex- j
pressed willingness to co-operate. If the
expected arrangements are made it is not
improbable that they may be employed,
in combating the elements of the new
revolution centered in Coahuiia:
The official closing of the port of Laredo j
was the first public intimation here that \
the government regarded the rebels to j
trie north of Monterey as unfriendly to j
the new regime. It had been stated of- ;
ficially that Venustiano Carranza, gover- j
nor of Coahuiia, had decided to abandon j
his antagonistic attitude, but hope of this j
has greatly diminished and the cutting j
of the National railroad between Ran i
Luis Potosi and Saltillo indicates that the j
government has much work before it can j
subjugate the rebels.
President Huerta insists that his will j
not be a government of retaliation or j
revenge.
Many Prisoners Released
An indicating the sincerity of the presi- ,
dent, most of those who were arrested j
immediately after the overthrow of Ma- j
dero have been released, among them!
Juan Sanchez Azcona, Madero's private
secretary.
An amnesty proclamation has been sent
broadcast. The government has not for
gotten to extend rewards. As a general,
Huerta long resented failure of some of
his companions in arms to receive pro
motion, and since his assumption <*f
power new straps have been bestowed
upon numerous officers. Among those
thus honored Is Colonel Diaz Ordaz, Gen
eral Felix Diaz’s -chief lieutenant at Vera
Cruz. He was removed from the military
prison here, promoted to general and
named as commandant of Vera Cruz.
General Angeles, whose reluctance to
join the movement against Madero re
sulted in ills arrest, lias been released
and, it Is said, will retire.
Rodolfo Reyes, minister of justice, prob
! ably will retire from the cabinet, so that
! he may be free to conduct his own cam
paign for the presidency. A report is
current that he lias had a disagreement
with President Huerta. Reyes denies
this, however, and says that if lie re
tires it will be on account of private
' business.
Southern States Rebellious
| In the far south three, states, Tabasco,.
I Campeche and Yucatan, have not yet
recognized the new government. There
Vice President Suarez had a big follow
ing. which has not taken kindly to his
death. Owing to the remoteness of these
states the government is now inclined
to consider their attitude a menace.
The attitude of President Huerta and
ids advisers is one of optimism. They
profess to believe energetic action,
coupled with tUplomacy, will result in
early pacification of the country.
Regarding adherence of the state of
Agnus Callentes. there has been some
du^bt, and General Carlos Garcia Hi
dalgo, chief of the staff of President
Huerta, lias been sent there to take ov**r
the government. He is the fifth general
to be slated for a governorship.
There lias been much unofficial specu
lation as to what the attitude of tne
foreign governments will be concerning
tlie killing of Madero and Suarez, but
diplomats are inclined to believe their
governments will accept for the present,
at any rate, the official version, espe
cially since it appears impossible to es
tablish counter facts.
American Ambassador Wilson called on
President Huerta this afternoon and at
the palace it was unofficially stated tout
he presented representations from Wash
ington for a more detailed and circum
stantial account of the deaths of the
former president and former vice .presi
dent.
The commission charged with the inves
tigation has taken considerable testimony
but has made none of it public.
Revival of tiie Diaz influence in Mexico
is lndicatod by an order issued by Pro
visional President Huerta today that aii
portraits of former President I*>rflrio
(Costisutd m Pagt Msa),
NEXa "Y
OF THti
WlLLlAitl C. M’ADOO
Who was active in handling M il
son’s campaign and who is declared
to have been definitely selected as
Secretary of the Treasury by the
President-elect.
California Railroad Commis
sion Points Out Differ
ences in Plan Favored
by Mr. Wickersham
San Francisco, February 25.—The Cali
fornia railroad commission in a supple
mental finding, published today explains
in part why it disagreed with the plan
approved by Attorney General Wlckers
ham for the separation of the Union Pa
cific and the Southern Pacific lines, as
decreed by the United States supreme
court.
The supplemental finding says:
“The essential elements of the plan of
the supreme court, as added to by the
Attorney General are:
"First—The sale of the Southern Pacific
stock by the Union Pacific.
“Second—The pro.cyrinr by the Union
Pacific Of an outiUi iu uic boast over
the Central Pacific, and.
“Third—The surrender by the Southern
Pacific company of so much Central Pa
cific line as is necessary to prevent the
said Southern Pacific company from con
trolling a line designed to compete with
the FI Paso route.
Purchase by Stockholders
“With the first requirement we have
no direct or official concern, but we in
vite the attention of the Attorney Gen
eral to the contention of the Western Pa
cific Railroad company, that the syndi
cate formed by Kuhn. Uoeb & Co., the
Union Pacific bankers, is in effect accom
plishing by indirection what the supremo
court refused to permit to be accom
plished directly, viz.: the purchase by the
stockholders of the Union Pacific of the
Southern Pacific stock.
“It is urged that this banking house and
the syndicate formed by it are controlled
by the large stockholders of the Union
Pacific and that by making the Southern
Pacific stohk an undesirable instrument,
the stockholders of the Southern Pacific
company will be deterred from buying
and the Union Pacific controlled syndi
cate will thereby secure control of this
stock, thus leaving the Union Pacific
and Southern Pacific controlled by the
same stockholders and an arangeim u
which the supreme court has already con
demned.”
Left Union Pacific in Control
Stockton, Cal., February 25,—“The plans
by which the Union Pacific and the
Southern Pacific railroads had intended
to dissolve were so excellently pre
pared," according to a statement made
by Railroad Commissioner Max Thelon.
today, "that they would have left the
Union Pacific in complete control.
“I have no doubt that the Union Pacific
intended to gobble up the Southern Pa
cific and it would have been enabled to
do so under til# decision of the Attorney
General, had not tiie state railroad com
mission of California taken the action it
did.
“The evidence adduced at the hearing
showed that every effort was made to
weaken the Southern Pacific so that it
could have been nothing but a servant of
the greater Union Pacific. The South
ern Pacific stock in New York was ham
mered down to a low rate so that the
stockholders in that corporation would
become frightened, whereupon the Union
Pacific, through its purchasing syndicate
would have become the actual owner of
the Southern Pacific.
"In granting the request for dissolu
tion under the plans of the Attorney Gen
eral the railroad commission imposed
conditions which will make the dissolu
tion as proposed impossible,”
BRYAN CERTAIN AS
SECRETARY OF STATE
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
Noted democratic statesman, who,
in the opinion of political authorities
at Washington, ia practically certain
•a Secretary of State under Wilaon.
THE ADMINISTRATION
MORE HOPEFUL OF
u. M/ 'N MEXICO
Nothing Re. De
partment But Li
of American Interei»
ATTITUDE OF THE
REBELS UNCERTAIN ‘
General Conditions in Republic Con
sidered Hotter—Wilson to 1st*
Own Discretion in Dealing
With New Government
Washington, February ^, The ad
ministration is taking a much more
hopeful view of the outlook in Mexico.
This was reflected in tile cabinet indit
ing today when all of tine recent dis
patches from Ambassador Wilson and
American consuls in various purrs of
Mexico were read and destroyed. The
conclusion was readied that nothing
remains to he done at this time to safe
guard American interests in Mexico,
in view of the excellent disposition pro
fessed towards Americans tic the Huerta
government.
The only threat of serious trouble
came from the consul at Ciudad. Por
firio Diaz, who reported that Col. Jesus
Carranza, brother of th*> governor ol'
Coahuila, had arrived in that town
today with an armed band of 200 men
with the intention of establishing
headquarters in the city of Monclova
for the purpose of maintaining order.
It is strongly suspected, however, that
the apparently bellicose attitude of
some of the Mad«*ro governors and
other officials, as well as that of a
number of rebel leaders had been as
sumed in the hope of thereby induc
ing the new government to provide
them with remunerative offices.
Attitude Problematical
The attitude of the revolutionists In
the Durango district toward the Huerta
[regime remains problematical. A band
of 68 bandits sacked and partially i
(burned property of the American Smelt
ers Securities company near Volardenu
Sunday night and the American man
ager, who was attacked and beaten,
[saved his life only by the payment of
I$500 (Mexican) to his assailants.
| The consul at Durango further re
ports that 200 volumeers have deserted
from the1'Torreon garviso' presumably;
to light against the new government.
He says bridges on the Mexican rail- j
road have been burned north and south i
I of Torreon and between that city and
Saltillo.
Although there is some increase of I
brigandage around San Louis Potosi, .
railroads are operating to tUe south
and east in that section. HermoslUo
remains quiet except for the excite
ment attending sensational rumors
which have reached the city from the
capital.
War department reports today re
ferred principally to the extensive
movements of troops toward Galveston
under the recent concentration orders.
General Steever, after having person - [
ally inquired into the situation of the i
souihside of the river near Brownsville, |
Tex., which led to a threat of a Texan
invasion, reported to the war depart
men that the apprehension was ground
less. United States Deputy Marshal
Linton had told General Steever that
everything was quiet on the American
side of the river; there had been no
outrages there and lie knew' of none in
Matamoras, on the Mexican side. Alto
gether the outbreak was peaceable.
Other Marines Transported
Announcement was made that the
transport Meade, with a detachment of
marines aboard, which is now at
Guantanamo, will at once proceed to
Galveston to take her place with the
other army transports there.
The killing by bandits of Boris Go
row, an American citizen, last Sunday
at Los Laureles, Hacienda. Tepee, when
three other Americans and a Spaniard
escaped, was reported here today with
the information that Ambassador Wil
son had requested the Huerta govern
ment at Mexico Glty tj> send troops
for the Americans’ protection.
Ambasador Wilson reporting that
public sentiment in the Mexican cap
ital seems undisturbed by the Madero
tragedy, added that private and unof
ficial telegrams indicate the same sit
uation with few exceptions throughout
the republic. The government evi
dently suspicious of the loyalty of
Governor Carranzea of Goahuila, has
refused to accept his professed adhe
sion and is sending troops against
him.
Volunteers in Chihuahua City are re
ported in arms against the new govern
ment. The state government has elect
ed Rabago, the military commander, to.
the governorship to succeed Gonzales,
now in prison. Consul Edwards, who
reports the situation at Juarez strained,
says former military and civil officials
continue to hold their posts. Madero
sympathizers are said to he destroy
ing railroad property in the vicinity
of Chihuahua City. No trains left there
for the south yesterday forenoon.
Excitement in Nogales
Some excitement, but no disorder, Is
reported from Nogales. Ambassador
I Wilson reports that John Kenneth
I Turner, a writer, for whom fears were
| entertained, is in no danger. John K.
I Chapman is reported safe at Pearson,
|and Consvl Hhanklin reports that If. U
| Pond anu family are safe, and that
| Dr. Harrison has left for Dallas, Tex.
Consul Garrett telegraphed from Nuevo
I Laredo that he was yesterday attacked
i on the street by a saloonkeeper be
cause he had caused the arrest of crim
inals who were operating from the
saloon and were robbing Americans.
Ambassador Wilson will bo permitted
to continue to exercise his own dis
cretion in dealing with the new gov
ernment. and some satisfaction is de
• lived from his report that not only is
the new government very friendly to
ward the United States, but that It lias
shown a disposition to meet reason
able requests for the protection of
American interests in Mexico, which
were to a large degree ignored by the
Madero administration.
Officials do not expect immediate resto
ration of peace throughout Mexico. It is
recalled that the dominant party in that
country now practically is a new one:
unless, indeed, it can be considered a.
reincarnation of the old party of Por
fhio Diaz. There is nothing in common
between it and the revolution'party which
i.C®»tinned on Page Nine.)
REPRESENTATIVE HI itl.ESON ^
Of Texas, who. it is claimed by lead
ing authorities in Washington, will he
named Postmaster General under
Wilson.
ISSUES WARNING TO
Says He May Come Back
and Fight for Reforms.
Breach of Party
Discipline
Trenton. N. J., February 25.—«inventor
Woodrow Wilnon warned members of tin*
New Jersey legislature tonight that an
President of the United States ho would
feel privileged to come back even as
early as next week to fight half of th>’
people of the state for pending reforms.
Mr. Wilson resigned the governorship
today to take effect Saturday. Both
houses hardly had received his notice of
resignation when the assembly went on
record by an overwhelming vote against
pushing the jury reform bill from first
to second reading. This bill had been
urged particularly by Mr. Wilson In his
messages. It would take away the power
to draw juries from sheriffs, lodging it
with a commission appointed by the gov
ernor.
Breach of Discipline
Mr; Wilson regards today’s develop-1
ments as a breach of party discipline. Ho j
believes, however, that the principle of |
justice In this country is at stake and j
he considers the inane flo vital that Sir
declared tha. soon after his inauguration j
he might deliver several speeches on |
this subject before the people of north- j
ern New Jersey, most of whose assembly
men voted in effect against the governor
today.
"Yes, it looks as if the bill were
beaten. ' said Mr. Wilson tonight, “but
it isn't deud yet. It is perfectly well |
known that the persons who* are exert
ing pressure on the legislature to de
feat this bill are those who wish to con
trol grand juries because they want to I
break the law, and the ’people of this I
state will understand that abundantly be- :
fore I get through with It.”
Tlie President-elect said if the jury re
form bill were defeated lie would con
aider that he was booked to speak in j
the primary campaign next fall against
assemblymen seeking renomination, who j
had voted against the measure.
The governor’s declarations caused a
flurry of excitement in political circles.
Mr. Wilson had little national business ,
before him today. He will be at the state |
house tomorrow for his last working day.
Saturday he will attend the inauguration
ceremonies here of his successor, James
Fielder, president of the state senate.
TENNESSEE AFTER
Senator Lee Suggests Tulla
homa Instead of Anniston
for Troop Maneuvers
Washington. February JS,—(Special.)—
It was the purpose of Senator Lea today
to ask unanimous consent in the Senate
to consider a resolution ro.-ignating the
government grounds for the maneuvers
of troops for the corning summer at Tulla
Itoma, Tenn., but Senators Johnston and
Bankhead were both on hand to object.
If Senator Lei should succeed In getting
iris resolution through. Anniston would
r.ot get these maneuvers, as they did last,
year. It Is said that tile maneuvers rrt
Anniston were highly successful and the
army officers were well pleased with the
grounds and both the Alabama senators
will oppose arty plan to clrnnge them.
Pass Boxing Bill
Salt Lake t’ity, Ftah, February jy TA
1.111 legalizing boxing and creating a box
ing commission to control tire sport was
passed by the Ftah house of representa
tives this afternoon. The hill Is similar to
the New York law except that it makes
the limit 15 rounds instead of 10.
DISCOVERER OF CURE
IN UNITED STATES
I)r. Friedmann's Claim of
Cure Is Officially
Recognized
OF.n Anpc opiipnv
Has Been Working Fourteen Yean
on Ture and Wants Mankind
to Be Benefited by His
Discovery
New York, February 25. -The Unite<9
States government took i>ffi«ial recogni
tion of the el-vim of Dr. Frederic* f\
Friedmann to i he discovery of a cure fer
tuberculosis when by order of the anr
seon general, a physician of the Lmtad
States Marine Hospital service, Dr. MU
ton II. Foster, was sent to meet the
young German physician on his arrival
bei*c today aboard tho steamship Kroa*
Pt.' i ice seen Ceoelie.
At the request of the government sur
geon, Dr, Friodmaiin, after half an hour's
conference aboard the steamship on the
trip up from quarantine, consented to
turn over a quantity of ids bacilli to be
tested by the government and to demon
strate the efficacy of his cure beloro
physicians of the hospital service. He
agreed to meet i- laboratory expert of ilia
government'In this city Thursday to ar
range lor a lemonstratlon which will !»•
tried on tuberc ikuds patients.
Remedy No Secret
Dr. Friedmann, who comes to this coun
try at the Invitation of Charles U. Fin
lay, a New York banker, who hopes b«
physician will be able to cure his son-in
law of the disease, declared tonight font
his rcraedx wns not a secret and that li#
purposed 10 make known "to all ta«
world” the me the d by which if was cro
ft ted and tho manner in which it was ad
ndnistered. It consists of bacilli taken
from a turtle, In which the tubercular
bacilli from a human being lnd be«n in
jected, he explained.
"J have been working upon the < u*«
for J4 years, and the last two and a half
years l have treated from J-500 to • <j0
patients,” he asserted. “How many [
have absolutely cured l cannot estimate,
but their number has mu into the hun
I dreds. The remedy cures all forma of
tuberculosis exec pt such case .is ar#
j quite hopeless -that is, on the point of
I death. The process i.-s a slow one, but the
j first effects ar** to s*cn two or • h»’ve
m afii. . i . . , i*hi i;» -' w » -p .
| an absolute cure can be said to be ef
fected is a matter of months. The meth
od of administering is 50 per cent of^the
cure.
To Benefit Mankind
“l want all mankind to benati* b> icy
discovery. I have already turn* d ovor
somt; of my bacilli to the German qovci u
ment, and T am very glad to turn it uv< r
to the American government."
Dr. Friedmann denied that he had he* n
offered $1,000,000 by Mr. Finlay if be wovihJi
cure 95 out of 100 patients in this country,
lie admitted that be was to receive a
j “substantial com pen sat lor.’’ in oven lit
i cured the banker’s son-in-law, Ray Paris
<*f this city.
“I am not mercenary,” he said. "All
1 I care about is sufficient reward to on*
i able me to domonstrtitf my cure to the
i world.”
j Dr. Friedmann, who was accompanied
by an assistant and a private secretary.
| war met at the pter b.v Mr. Finla> and
taken as his guest to a banquet tonight
at the Lotus club. The surgeon brings a
quantity of his baci’li with him which h«
expects to administer to the banker's son
in-law tomorrow.
BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT
l BEGINS IN SHEFFIELD
Sheffield, February 25—(Special.)—The
Hoy Seoul movement was successfully
launched this week In Shetiielcl. (Mi
next Thursday evening at the Kheflield
Hotel a committee on organisation and
arrangement will meet at 7:lt0 o'clock to
finish the work.
i There Is a wild cat on exhibition at the
restaurant in Sheffield, captured nea,
Cherokee. It Is very ferocious looking
und seems about four years old.
.
TODAYS ACE-HERALD
1— Cabinet gossip about the cabinet takes
ac tive turn.
House committee to vote on money
trust report.
Hope for Immediate peace in Mexico i*
very slight.
Disagreement with dissolution plan of
merger explained.
Administration more hopeful of out
look in Mexico.
Governor Wilson issues warning to
New Jersey scions.
Discoverer of cure tor tuberculosis »n
United States.
2— Louisville and Nashville will light re
cent decision of the commission.
S -Humor says Bryan and Wilson have
disagreement.
4— Editorial comment.
5— Caldwell ap|>eals against : moke plan.
Trial of grocers’ case begins next
weJk.
Citizens ask for filtered water.
First 100 acceptances to newspaper
banquet.
0— Society.
"—Sports.
8— Negro assassin » hot to death.
9— House discusses naval bill.
11— Markets.
12— O’Neil talks on Alabama Roads.
CONFESSION THROWS LIGHT
ON POLICE GRAFT METHODS
New York, February 26.—A confession |
throwing further light on police graft
| method* was obtained by District Attor
I ney Whitman today from Ashley Shea, a
former poolroom keeper Indicted yester
day for alleged bribery. Shea. In jail un
der $10,000 ball, sent word that he was
prepared to tell all he knew. With his
wife and his counsel. Shea was brought
to Mr. Whitman s office and there nar
rated how, at a time when lie was paying
$00 weekly for protection for his pool
room, he became a graft agent and col
lector, he declared, in the district com
manded by Dennis Sweeney, the former
l »
inspector, since demoted, who is under
indictment.
For eighteen months Shea spied on pool
li GIU8 and gambling bouses, lie told tho
district attorney and reported regularly
lo Sergeant Peter Duffy, one of Swee
ney’s men now under indictment. This
Itilormation was used to regulate tho
price ot tribute levied on resort keepers,
said Shea, who gave a list of thirty places
from which he said he collected graft.
Tills money, he declured, he turned over
lo Duffy.
Shea’s revelations will be used by the
district attorney In seeking new indiot
intntB against Sweeney to supersede the
present ones, which Sweeney’s c«uun>
hue declared to be defective.
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