THB TtMKS BOUNDED 1SS6. Tlin pifil'ATCK FOJJNDED 1850. WHOLE NUMBER 17,813. RICHMOND, VA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1908. PRICE TWO CENTSi WHITE IS IT President of Raiiway and Former Governor Deny what Each other Says.. ATMOSPHERE WAS TENSE FOR WHILE Both Disclaimed Intention to Bc Discourteouv However, and Grew Caltner?Long Argu ments Over Repeal Bill Before Com mittee. BY LEWIS H. MACHBX. The flght ovor, tho repeal of the stat ute pronlb^tlng the parallellng. ot tbe RIchmond, Frederlcksburg and Poto? mac Railroad w*r tho central fact In yest?rday's leglslatlve history. There were other events, of courae, at both endo of the Capltol, but they were overahadowed - by thls. Judtclal dress reforra received a nutback when the Senate refuscd to concur ln tho IfouEe resolutlon requestlng the Judge* of the Court of Appeals to wear gowns, and ?fiirther decllned to reconslder the vote by whicb the resolutlon. had boen re Jected. There was a-warm debate in tlie Senate ovor the effort to paaa by tepiporarlly the bill appropriating $125,000 to tho slnklng fund. but no action was taken. No bllls were passed by the Senate. tn the- Houaa a number of routine matters were consldered, and a few local ? and unlmportanl bllls were passed. The II.) V. * P. Flglt*. The Commlttees on Tloads or the two houses convened in Jolnt sesslon tn the chamber of tho Corporatlon Cotnmls Hlon at 10 A. M.. apd sat until nearly noon. They reassembled In the Senate chamber at ( P. M.. and sat until 6, rcturntng at ? for a sosslon of over three hours. Large crowda were ln attendance at eacb meetlng. and the deepest Interest waa manlfested. Many epeechea were made, and. at tlmes. the proceedlngt wero anlmated. not to say excltlng. At the morning sesslon consldcrable tlme wae consumed ln determlntng how.- much tlme should be given to tbi hearlng. It was nnally determlned tc allow three hours to those favorlng th?: uncondltlonal repeal and a liltt perlod to thase opposlnp all repeal while an hour waa allotted to tbost who are seeklng a conditlonai repeal The representatives of the varloui municlpa! bodies and buslness associa? tions lu RIchmond and Frederlcksburj were firat heard.' Thelr contentlon wai that the thlng that was needed was srreater .development, through Increas. Ing lines of transportatlon. Complalnfc were made that the monopoly enjoyec by the present rallway between RIch? mond and "Washlngton waa inlmlcal tt the development of all the terrltorj through whlch' lt passes. One speakei epItomUea thls argument by saylng "We are enmeshed ln tho tentacles o: an octopus." There was much tall of the deslrablllty of opening up tb< portlon of the State now closed agalnB new rallroad enterprlses by the prea ent statute. Strong oppoBltlon waa ex presaed to the sanctionlng by the Stat< of a monopoly whlch cs.tabllsdied a dls crttnlnatlon.' There were chargcs tha the rates were not as favorable as the; appeared from the schedulea, and tha tho road was run in the interest o through traffic and transportatlon whlch dld not concern the people o ' Virginia. The doctrlne against specla prlvllege was lpvoked wlth great earn estness and w(th apparent effect Value of State's Interest. The afternoon sesalon was occuplei ? ehlefly by the argument of tho Stati Treasurer, representlng the Slnklni Fund Commlssloners. He showed th. value of-the Interest of. the State Ii the road, declaring that it. was sufll clent to take care .of the publlc deht He pleaded carnestly wlth the com mltteo not to jeopardlze thls valuabl aeset. As to the probable effect of th proposed repeal upon tho value of th stock of .dlvldond' obligatlons, he wa ? rejuetant to' prophegy, but said 'that h was unwilllng ln a matter of such im po'rtanco to the State to take ai}; chances. Ho. was freely plled wlt: . qUestlons, whlch he answered . wlt promptness and spirit, and whlch con elcjerably extended his remarks. The nlght sesslon attracted the large crowd, both on the floor and ln th gallerlcs, and somo teeling develope among the ' opposing speakers, whlc was- more pronounced than ' pleasan Senator Lasslter further compllcate the situatlon .by the introductlon c another oondltional repeal measur Klving tho road flve yoars in whlch t bulld'branch lines natls'fnctory to th Corporatlon Commlssion, the prlce t faliure to be an uncondltlonal repei and compllance to be the retentlon c the, present plan. - . ? The general counsel and former prc: ident of the roa'd gave a historieai r< view. of tho road's htstorv and of tl reasons whlch led tho State to saft guard Its-fntercst. - The president of tho road spokc ea nestly and strongly against tho renet anel, declared that the road was n domlpated by arty fprrfgn corporatlo Thls was in reply to nuinerous insinu; tlonw and soipa direct charges that tl Pennsylvanla. Rallroad controlled tl policy of tlie Richmond, Frederick burg and Potomac Rallroad Conipan .\tuioNptierc' Tenae. But by far the most stirring featu of the ontlre .hoartng waa tbe brea] ing away of three of ' the Sta proxies-rMessrs.. Moore, Montague ai Merodjth,?from their' flve coUeagu by deolarlng that Iu thelr opinlon tl Interepts of the State .would not ' darnaged by t|fe repeal. They wo Bharply cross-examlnei} by preslde White and othera, and some of tl passages; b'd falr, to/preotpitate a crts President Whlte especlally resented 1 sinuations by exTGovornor ? Montag that the Pdnnsylva.hlawas.the dbn n^fit influence in tfii> management the Richmond, Frederlcksburg and V tomao Rallway, and declared"the' stat nient -or the ex-Cfovernor wltho foun(Jat|on, Thereupon the latter pr nounced a previauS-statement of Prc Ident Whlte wlthput fouiuiatlon, a the -atmosphere was ten?o for aevei nnlntites, There were dlsclalrners liitentlonal m|srepreaentation. ov d ii i i' i- i ' i ' ' ii '-. iCoutiuuca ou Thlrd, Pase.>. FOR BETTER LICENSE LAWS Mndel Mcenae Lengtic Declare for Temperance, but Condenm Prohltiltlnn. LOUISVILLE, KY? January 32_The Modcl Llcenae League, composed of men Intercsted.In. the nianufacturo ano??lble of en forcement, and assert that the Antl Saloon Lcaguo. far from belng a re form movoment, ls a polltlcal organl zatlon of a "dlctatorlal and danguroui character." . T. DeQulncy Tuller, secretary of th( Enrorcement Soclety of New York, ad dreaacd the conventlon to-day. He said: "The passlng of -local option laws ln Kentucky and the golng drj of numerous -States mean nothlng. I is by no ir.eans an Indlcatlon (hat tlu people of the country want temper ance, but that they want'the contro and the manner of runnlng salooni cliangedi There ls no doubt that I New York Clty was glvon tho privilegi or i*yaj option the. 10,000 saloons woulc be v-ted out. Why? Because the ma Jority of the people want the abusei of the saloons corrected; At tho bot? tom of all law-brcaklng, petty intrlgue small and large graft, debauchery ani vlce, Is the luwlcsa saloon. It ls th< harbor for most of the country'i Inlqiilty.' Wlth'Ita dlsappearanco, bj the enforcement of the exclse law, th< people wlll have better government flner homes and large mdustrles. 1 wlll mean the taklng out of the handi of machlnes and polltlcal cllques thi government of many of our cittes. Thi better class of cltlzens wlll control af fa'lrs. for, robbed of his bottlo througl the enforcement of tho laws, the clul or power wlll be snatched from th' thlcf and the thug." READY FOR THE TORCH nut the Negroes WIiu Were About t Apply It Were Kllled. CLARKSVILLE. TENN'., January 25 ?An attempt waa made last nlght t set flre and dynamtte tho loosc to bacco factory of the Hayes-Sorey To bacco Company, local representatlve or the Italian Regles. Two negroet Tony Allen and Walter Watklns. alla I'rog Eye. while trylng to escape wer kllled by one of the nlght watchmer One other negro escuped. but h ls thought to have been wounded. "When Guard Shanklln was makln: his rounds Just before midnlght h notlced three men standlng In front o a door of the factory on the west sldi One of them struck. a match and whe he dld Shanklln asked who it was. Th negroes broke and ran. Shanklln foi lowed. and at a distanco of sixty yard flred three tlmes at the fleeing mcr One of the negroes dropped dead ln hl txacks and the second ran about seven ty yards. to a colored tenement housi whera he dled. Tbe third negro I thought to have been wounded. An Investlgation *bowed that th door of tht- factory had been saturate with coal and four stlcks of dyna mtte placed against lt. When th bodies of the two negroes wero search ed stlcks of dynamite were found o thelr persons ln sufticlent quantltle to wreck the buildlng. BEFORE GRAND JURY Yellow Plne Offleer? Suromoned, Bu Don't. Know What For. NEW ORLEANS. LA.. January 22. Summonses to appear before a Federe grand Jurv were to-day served on thre ofticers of the Amerlcan Yellow Pin Manufacturers' Association. which I holdlng Its annual meetlng ln thls* clt; The offleers wero ordered to produc the mlnutes and records of thls meet Ing and the prestdent's annual addres: The necesslty for curtallment of yel low plne productlon has been the prin ctpal toplc of dlscusslon before th present annual meetlng. The offlcer summoned before the grand Jury ar John L. Kaull. of Blrmlngham. Ala rttlrlng president; H. H. Foster. c Malvcrn, Ark., the Incomlng preslden and G. K. Smith, or St, Louls, secre tary. Federal offlclals gavo no Intlmatio as to tho purpose of the grand Jur Investlgation, and members of the as sociation expressed surprlse over th action. In additlon to President V os ter. the newly elected offleers to-da are A. J. Nelmyer. SL Louls, treasure and G. K. -Smith. St. Louls, secretar: CALLING IN PUBLIC M0NEY5 Sectetarv Cortelyou Cnlln On New Yoi Bnhka for $10,000,000. WASIIINGTON. L>. C. January 22. The Secretary of the Treasury to-da announced that owlng to the. grei Improvement In financial conditio| throughotit the country he had b.egi the gradual withdrawal of deposl of publlc moneys ln moderate amoun from the natlonal banks.. The firat call has been made up< New York banks. and amounts to a' proximately $10,000,000. This is i additlon to about $10,000,000 returm by the New York banks slnce Decer ber 26th. The Secretary also announci that a general qall for a modora amount wlll bo made upon banks other cltles at early date. Copper Rlveted Clothlng Man Tioui SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.. January i ?Jacob XV. Davls, the Invontor ai orlginator of copper rlveted clothln is dead at his home.here, aged sevent; oight years. He began tho mannfa ture of the copper rlveted overal while in Porto RIco, and oreated demand for all hla . wares, whlch l duced hlm to move to San Francls ln IS73. I -?-~ Coiuniutea Sentcncc of floy. NASHVILLE, TENN.. January 22. Governor Patterson has commuted t death sentence. on Lee Holder. ag nlrieteen years, to' llfe imprtsonmet Holder about a year ago murderecjII; father, B. G. Holder, of Unlon Clt Tenn., a preaeher of the Cumber]a: Presbyf.erian Church. For Fouirtcen Tbouannd Uemocrata, . DBNVER. ' COU. ? January 58,?Pla accepted by the Democratlc natjor commlttee on varrangementK for t natlopal conventlon provlde {or sat for 14,000 persons ln tho conventl hall. . . ; . ? ? i.? a . -? . French Women "Now Demand Vote PARIS, Jo.nuary 22.?A pejtltlon favor'of female suffraga in France h boen aigned'by 50,00.0 Fronch women o TlmcM-DUpatcU riillilren'N l.lbrar will he oiieu'ull lu-duy and Smur dny, Mi'iiihem nt the T. I), C. I and. thelr frlend* .wlll lu- iveleoiue und uintle tn (eol ut bumo from 1 A. ai. to 5|', M. ML FILE CHARGES Senator Noel Preparing to Submit Specific Alle* gfations to Committee, REW MAY CALL FOR WITHDRAWAL Friends of Rhea Said to Be Con templating Flank Movemcnt by Attack on Judge Black? stone?Bristol Bar Meets and Indorses Action of Governor. For Open Sessions "So far a? I am personnlly con cerued. t fnvor open KeHalno-. of thc Commlttee on Conflrniatlon. I Luv. not conaultei. wlth nij- colleogucK on the subJ-Ct, und thercfore apenk only for injaelL but In my vle-iv i f tbe caae, thla ln o innttcr In -iThlch mII the people are Interenled. nnd they ahoulil he tnfnrraed prcnnptly b? to ivhat actlon I* tuken. lf Seo atiir \ool ean ntlhatantlate lilx charuea iiKalnat Judge lllicn lln in-oplo nn*.entltled to thU Informu tioit, nnd If he fnll? and Judge Rhea ia vlndlcntrd tfli-re I* e_*s: Judge A. A. Phleg Joseph L Kelly, H. G. Poters, A. Blanchard, John B. Burson. J. Cla Byars, Floyd Roberts, Paul Dulan Hepry Roberts, H. -AV. Su_h--rla James L. Davls, Judge. N. P. Oglet and Judgo John W. price. . "Tho n.ee>t|ng was called to order A. H. Blanchard, and Judge A. Phlegar was called to the chalr. i D; D. Htill, Jr? was made secreta Mr, Joseph L. Kelly stated the obj of the meotlng, and upon motlon '-i followlng committee on resolutions \ ! named by the chalr: Messrs. John Price. Joseph L. Kolly, Floyd Robei IJohn l_. Burson and A. H. Blauohavii I Hi'-ioliitloim ll.iporloel. S "Tho commlttoo, after vathlng, ported tlio followlng resolutions: , "Wberean. us uenliilu Indeftulte un [~~ .(.CoiiUnueQ on SooouaTftge?.). BRYAN NOT ENTIRELY OPEN Hnd lleSal* ln 1003 WtintTlc Iloea Vflw, Rcault Would Hirre Been Dlfferent. ALBANY, it. Y? January 22_lix Chlef Judire Alton B. Parker, Demo? cratlc candldate ln 1001 for President of the United States, had-hla attention called thls evening to an extraot from tho speech of Wllllam J. Bryan before the Democratlc rnembert of the Ken? tucky Leglslature yeaterday. tn whlch Mr. Bryan was quoted bs saylng that In 130+ he "look hla medlelno ln Park? er. Parker was the man above all others J dld not want.'* "What a plty," aaid Judgo Parker, "that Mr. Bryan falled to be equally frank In 1903. Had hc done eo the situatlon of the party would ba vaatly better than It ls. Thero were but few Democrata In that year who thought It wlso to have a thlrd-term candldate. But the mnn of sense knew that ifhlest a rnan could be found who would re celvo Mr. Bryan's" support his warm personal followlng wotild seck revenge for the defeata of 1896 and 1900. So slateamen, pollticlans and interested cltlzens sought dlllgently to flnd some one that he would support. "To some, at least, he said he wouli bolt ex-PresIdent Cleveland. Governoi HIU, Senator Gorman and Judge Gray but that It would be hard to opposi Parker. aa Parker had supported him j Thls attltude Induced the irnpresslot ? among many that my nomlnation woulc I be as acceptabto to Mr. Bryan aa anj e:.cept his own. That Impresslon let : ?o pressuro upon me from many quar [ t*rs to change my planc for llfo. ; And It contrlbuted ln no small meas j ure to the movement which led to th< . control of the conventlon. Subsequen ? r-vents showed that Mr. Bryan had no . been entlrely open wlth those who ha< | consulted hlm. For when. to his sur ; prlse, delegates began to be clectei ! favorable to my nomlnation?when, in '. deed, the llde had grown too stroni i to be brensted, ho started out on hl famous tour of denunclatlon. Th' dragons' teeth whlch he then sowei ylcldeil an abundant harveat; aye, al that he could wlsh. "But It would have been very muci i better for tho party ha dbe said I: ' 1903, before sentlment had crystallizec , as l)e saya now: 'Parker ls the ma ! above all others that I do not want.' SHAW MAY BE CANDIDATE Domorrals Enibiirrimard liy Havlng Ba One Candldate. [From Our Regulbr Corrcspondent.J 1 WASHINGTON. D. C. January 22. Tho retlrenient of Leslle M. Shavi former Secretary of tho Treaiairy. froi the presldency of the Carnf-ecle Trus Company. of New York, is belleved t mean that he- Is an actlve candldat n ! for the Republican pre6ldential nomi t i natlon. e I The announcement of his own candl j dacy by Governor Hughes. of Ne-. H York. at Albany yesterday. stlll furtlK Q compllcates the situatlon for the TU " publlcans. There ls no doubt that thl s announcement gave the admlnlstratio I. j reople. all backlng Taft. more concer than the candldacy of all the' oth? men mentloned as opposing Taft fo tho nomlnat'on, The Democrats are embarrassed h the fact that they havo only one car dldate. the Republlcans by tho fn< that they hava so many. NOT SENT BY RUSSIA Pfnral MIninlry Tirny Any Rcaponsibl' Ity Tor nt-lehkoff Trlp. ST. PETERSBURG. January 22.?Th controversy arlslng out of the repoi that Commander Alexls Dlatchkoft, Russlan naval offlcer, ls in an off clal capacity followlng the Amerlca fleet on Its trlp around South Amerlc. has taken a nsw turn from the put t llcatlon of a communlcatlon by tr. r r.ava! mlnlstry, in which it entlrel ., dlsavows the alleged naval attach stating that Diatchtvff never repn scnted Russla ln the United States an never addressed ar.y requests to th government of the United States o behalf of the naval mtnistry. The communlcatlon proceeds thi nelther Commander Dlatchkoft nor an other Russlan naval offlcer ls crulsin wlth Rear-Admlral Evans's fleet BOARD 0F TRADE FEAST n n I -? >ri Vlce-I'resldeut Fnlrbankn and Othel ,,| Spenk nt CIokIuk Banquel. . i WASHINGTON. D. C. January 32. a The annual banquet of the' Natlon: f. Board of Trade. in sesslon here, wi 2- held at the New Wlllard to-nlghL Tl :h speakers Included Vico-Presldent Fal fe banks, Secretary Straus. of the Depar ._ ment of Commerce and Labor; Speal \i er Cannon. the Italian Ambassadc ,* ! Baron Mayor Dee Plancea; : Senato 16j Dupont and Rlchardson. of Delawat and Newlands. of Nevada, and Rcpr ie; sentatlvps Jackson' of Maryland; Bu >r \ ton, of Delaware; Olcott. of New Yor -jBurton, of Ohlo; McCreary, Wang< I Lafean. Cook and Bingham, of Pen sylvania, and Loudenslager and Woc ,s of New Jersey. Ie I . .i ? 1d | .Inliiis Hopklnn va. Virginia. ?i- fSpoclal tn Tne Tlmes-Dlspatch.1 . I BALTIMORE, .MD.. January 22.?T! ? i ann'ual deba'te of the Johns Hopki Unlverslty team wlll be held wlth t Unlverslty of Vlrg'nla students Charlottesvllle Aprll 3d. The subje wlll be, "What national banks ahou bo permltted to Issue, subject to ti and government supervlslon. not bnaed upon thelr general assets?" T Hopktns wlll take tho negative slde. A Reward for a better city than "littlc old, solid old Richmond" ivo.ild remain unclaimed. Who could challenge her po? sition? Her banks always pay cash and are groAving. Con? fidence is never shaken. Business is expanding with conservatipiTi and force. 8,303 lines (593 inches) more bank advcrtising \\*ere printed in The Times-Dispatch the first twenty-tAvo days of January, 1908, than for the same days in January, 11907. Publicity is an cvidencc of self-confidence and a strong conservator of public confidence. The Times-Dispatch Is Supreme in Virginia KILLS MAN AND SELF IN CROWDED CAFE Fires Five Bullets Into Her Former Friend and Three in Own Body. USES TWO PISTOLS AND HAS A THIRD Sensational Double Tragedy in Restaurant of Macey's Big Store, Where Mrs. Clark Kills Frank Brady and Then Shoots Herself. NEAV YORK, January 32.?Sweeplng through the crowded restaurant, whlch takes up tho elghth floor of Macey's department store, and into tho gentle men's cafe, to-day, a tall, atyllshly ? t dressed woman bent for a -momont ovei ' | the ahduleier of a dlner, whtspereO ; somethlng In his ear, and then. draw '.Ing a revolver from her muff, emptlet , the contents of the five chambcrs Inte !{hls body. 1 As her vlctim, Frank Brady, a news "'paper advcrtising sollcitor, sllppcd lifo f!le*3 to tho floor, the woman flung tln ^jweapon from hor, and taklng a secone M revolver from her mufr, shot hersel: *jln the head and then twlce ln thi *'broast. She dled a half hour later. A note found ln tho woman'- pursi proved her to be Mrs. Mary Robert.1 Clark, a manlcurlst, the wldow of i pollce olUcer, and stepmother of a slx year-old son, Raymond. Had 1.1 ved In Her Home. Brady was thirty years old, and the solo tiupport of a helpless, aged mothei for whom he had mado a home. Thj shoottr.g was the culmlnatlon of * serles of vlolent quarrels. and, accord Ing to the woman's Intlmates, In ful fllment of a threat to murder Brady I a public place. The sulclde, who was about thlrt; years of age,. was Mary McLean whei she marrled John Roborts. When tli, latter dled a year ago she assumed th name Clark, and supported herself ani chilel flrst as the wardrobo woman a an uptown theatre and then as a manl .- jcurlst- She was of a propossesaim ? appearance, and had markeej, buslnes ? .abillty. AVhlle she was ln prosperou n circumstances, and before the death o I her husband, Brady had lodglngs a hr-r home, and she doclarcd that sh y|helpe\] hlm to the success whlch h -(aubsequontly attalned. A few month -jago ho left her home and mado u hom for hls mother. whom he brought her j from ?\'ew Jersey. Rocently Mrs. Clark thought tha Brady waa avoid Ing her, and wlien h called at her homo occaslonally tho: e'uarreled. To-day Mrs. Clark wen to her bank. made a cash doposlt, wrot a note identlfying herself and refer rlng tho reader to her attorney, ane armed wlth three revolvers, went t tho 6toro where sho knew that Brad. usually lunched. She mado her wa: hastlly to a small smoklng room to gentlemen just off thQ maln dlnin hall. Tho big room was filled wlth womot who wora lunchlng aftor tho mornlng' fihopplng. and amld the buzz of con versation hor agltatod manner attract ed the attention only of the waltresse: .shoots Hlm, Thca Heraeir. In a moment she stood behin Brady's chalr and spoke to hlm. Be fore he had tlme to reply aho ha shoved a revolver ln hls face and com menced flrlng. The head, the neck, th shoulder,. the breast and tho abdome were successlvely pierced by bullel. and Brady lay dead at her feet. Glvlng ono glanco to the half doze men nearby, who were momentarll stunned by the pltlless murder,- Mr Clark whlpped another weapon froi her furs and put a bullet near he rlght ear and two others in her bosor The report of tho dlscharges oreate the wlldest ccnsternatlon, -and tho: wns a rush for the elevators. Employe of the place quickly closed the door shuttlng off n vlew of the smokln room. and reassured , tho -wome patrons, taw of whom reallzed Avhi had occurred. The pollce broke tli news to Brady's aged mother, and th Gerry Soclety "took charge of the dea woman's body.1 Tbe ''-.lvlngr Skcleton" Dead. ANSONTA. CON"**"*.. January 22.?Ec ld ward ? N'eldllng. known all over ti ix country aa "the llvlng skeleton," es dead here. Ho was thtrty-five*yea'ra o' ie|and had been exhlblted ln muscun I throughout the country for years. DRITICIZE THE PRESIDENT Tnkou tn Taak by Scnatora for Making Tnrlfr Trrnty Wltli Oermnny. WASHINGTON, January 22.?Preal dont Roosevelt to-day transmllted to the Senate and the Houae coples of the tarlff regnlatlona negotlataj some tlme ago between the United States and Germany, together wlth a proposed amendment to thecuatoms admlnlstra tton act, putttng the same in force aa a statute. In the Senate the message arouaed llvely dlscusslon In executlve sesslon when lt was taken up. The President'a courso, not only In negotlatlng the agreement. but ln proclalmlng It to the world, as he dld last July, waa nhnrply crltlclzed. It waa declared that the agreement makes changes whlch are oqulvalont to leglslatlon, and It was potnted out that all legls? latlon affectlng tho tarlff must, under the Constitution, orlglnate In the House of Representatives. Attention I was called to the thlrd section of the McKlnley law as possibly permlttlng tha President'a course, but his erltlca contended that his action ln thls caso harf gone far beyond tho llmlta per mltted by that section. Tt was pointed out that the Germar Kalser had not only referred the agree? ment to tho Relchstag for Its action but that he had even consulted botr the local and the natlonal boards ol trnde. Hence the President wai charged wlth belng even more auto cratle than the head of tho Germar Empire. It was also declarod thal under the'aystems of valuationa pro. vided for by thn treaty, great lnjuatlci would be done to the United States ft waa flnally declded to refer the mea eage to the Commlttee on Flhance. WILL OF MRS. SEMPLE Interentlng Antique* nnd Art Rellc Bequrntlicd to Loved Onea. WASHINGTON, January 22.?Mr I.etltla Tyler Semple, daughter c President Tyler, and once mtstress c the Whlte House, who dled thre weeks ago at the Louise Home in th! clty, left personal property conslsttn of money in bank nnd a large collet tlon of antlques and art work, whlc are bequeathed to relatlves by a wl which was flled for probate to-da; The wlll Is one of the most Interest Ing doouments ever flled In the court house, and it Is a graphlc descrlptlo of Mrs. Semple'a possesslons, many c whlch havo hlstoric slgnlflcance. The money left by Mrs. Semple ls bt qucathed to Louls Armlstead Jones, so of Robert Tyler- Jones, .a nephew, an Thomas G. W. Settlc-. to be us?d fc their education at Wllllam and Mar College, Willlamsburg, Va. Of he nephew. Robert Tyler Jones,' MrB. Sero ple says ho "waa born ln the Whlt House and carrled the flag of the Coti federac-y up the helghts of Gettysburi and was ono of the .flve who reache the aummlt of Cemetery Ridge." Governor Swa!?>n recelves, on hehal or the State of Virginia, a large o palnting of Mrs. Semple's mother. upo condltlon that It be plac'ed ln th Exocutlve Man.ilon at Richmond. large portralt of Governor Tyler. c i Virginia, ls hcqueat^d to' L. Gordo ' Schooley. of thls clty. MAY GO TO KNICKEBOCKER y Thought Cortelyou Wlll Aceotif Prci Idciicy if It r? HeiilUed. [From Our Rosular CorreipondnntJ ?WASHINGTON. D:" G. January 22. The probabllity Of the immedlate rei Ignatlon of Secretary Cortelyou Ib bc ing wldely discussed ln- washlngtot The absence of any authorltatlye state ment from the secretary himself doe not tend to clear a Bltuatlon whlch I puzzllng. The overwhelmlng opinlon amon well-lnformed publlc men Is that th secretary has made up his mind t get out of the Cablnet at the flrst op portunlty. The opportunlty will be th reorganizatlon of the Knlckerbocke Trust Company. That accompllahei he will accept the prestdency of th instltutlon. Tho mattor of reorganlza tlon ls now in the courts. J. P. Mor gan has seoured control of the stocl It is underatood, antl Is bendlng over energy to reorganlze the company. ? that his cherlshcd deslre to own a true company, the need'of whlch he has te tor a long time, may be reallzed. 1 ls bclleved he has offerod the presi dency to Mr. Cortelyou. Mr. Cortelj* denled thls. but as the offer had al taehed to lt tho strlng. "lf the court will allow us to resume business." th secretary' may have felt justlfled i denylng that any offer had been mad MORRIS K. JESSUP DEAD Well Known Sctcntlttt uud Pbllni throplM Dlen In New.York. NEW YORK. January 22.?Morris 1 Jessup, retlred banker nnd lorg pron Inont ln clvlc affalrs. dled thh mon Ing at his home. No. 197 Madtsc Avenue. from heart dlsease. The II ness whlch caused Mr. Jessup's deal was of two years' standlng and ha necessltated constant treatment. Mr. Jessup was seventy-elght yea1 old. Roslgntng as president of tl Chamber of Commerce a year ago, M Jessup severed practlcally his . la connectlon wtth actlve buslness Intei ests. Mr. Jessup was promtnent- i phllanthroplc and sclentiflc nssocls tlons. He was president of and or of the chlef contrlbutors to the Ame: Ican Museum of Natlonal Utstory, ar was president of the Peary Arct Club -and tho Audubon Soclety. ? contrlbuted Vargely and took an ii terest in varlous lnduatrlal schools at other phllanthroplc Instltutlons estal liehed among the poorer classcs in Ne York. NOT ACTUALLY RESIGNED Ilut: Sltnw Huh Conlrncted for Snle IToIdliiK und Wlll Itvtlre. NEW YORK. January 22.?Ex-Sccr tary Shaw stated to-day that he lt. not reslgned from the presldency the Cnrnegie Trust Company, but hi contrncted to sell his hokllng:i In '1 company, and. lf pald accordlng terms, would reslgn on March lst. I decllned to dlscuss the dlfferenoi whlch have existed between hlm at Mr. Dlcklnson, who controla the i atitutlon. _? ? _ AGREE UPON TRUSTEES Those Wlio Wlll Conduct Affalrs i Southern Steel Company. BIRMINGHAM. ALA.. January 22. It ls learned that credltors of tl Southern Steal Company, which wi declared bankrnpt yesterday, have vi tually agreed on the 'three trustees < be elected February. Sd to.conduct tl eompany's affalrs. The men. tentatlve agreed upon are J. E. Colllns ar W, H. Hassongor, of Birratngham, ar J, S. Kyle, of Gadsdeiv It ls understood that the wlro mi at Ensley, the steel plant at Gadsde and somo ot tho furnaces wlll rosutr operatlons tn a fow days. i ?? i ? VlrKliiImiM Wi-d ln llitlllimiro. * ' BALTIMOltE. MD.. January 23.?W J'OBepli P, Clark, of Travllle. Va., w; married Itare to-day to Mlss Edlth 1 Fostur. of thls clty. After a reooptl Mr. and Mrs, Clork left on a weddii trlp, They wlll iho at Travllle. Lleen*e was Issiiert hero to-day t thn .weildinn' of Mr. Knoch XV. Carleto forty-thri-e years old, wldower. to Mi Lola V->. Curloton, th'rty-two years Ol wKSow, bovli e? JJrasvlivlUo, Vo, ^ OF THftf SIMFANCY She Tells of His Nervqus Sleepiessness and His?'?]. Strange Eyes. MAY HAVE DOCTORS ON STAND TO-DAY Those from Rome, Paris and Lon*< don to Testify as to Man's Con-; dition When They Treated .." Him?Dr. Comstock, % _? Teacher and Alien- ."? ;. ist, on Stand. NEW YORK, January 22.?The en* of tho aecond Thaw trlal Is fast ?_?? proachlng. Thls was indlcated l?t* to-day. when Dr. Charles G. Wagh'et"', the first ot' tho allenists to be called . by tho defense, took tha stand tor hla prellmlnary * examlnation. Anthdiij* Comstock, vlce-presldent of th? Society for the Suppresslon of Vlce, had been heard aa a witnessr earller ln the day. and Mrs. Wllllam Thaw. mother of the defendant, had completed her testi mony. The klndergarten teacher wKo had chargo of Harry Thaw as a lad ot slx, also testlfled. Mr. Comstock's testlmony, whilo n'etV, had beon dlscottnted hy thc' known facts of Thaw's appeal to hlm to asslst In closlng up the houses where Stan ,*_|ford Whlte was allegod to have maln taln'od elaborately furnished apart ments. and where young glrla wora sald to havo been mlstreated. A doaen letters Thaw wrote to Comstock r&r gardlng the matter, glvlng a detaljed descrlptlon of the Twenty-fourth Street house, were admitted.in evldence, and wero read to tho Jury. DIStrict At? torney Jerome seemed as pleaaed as tha defense with the letters. and later in tho day read Into the record hlmself most of Comstock's replles to Thaw. The wltness Indlcated ln hls-testlmony, that nothlng ever* came of the $orii-' plalnts, legal evldence' being lackingr. n.n-i Her Afllda-vlt. Mrs. Wllllam' Thaw, stlll unable.ta walk unasslsted. because of her recent lllness, told of Thaw's early Ute, of' lnfluonces before hls btrth, and of tho mental unsoundness of two of her brothers. She was not cross-examlned. Mr. Jorome contcnted hlmself wlth readlng to the Jurors the affldavlt made hy tho elder Mrs. Thaw last year when the questlon ot her son'a sanlty was before a lunacy commlselon. In that affldavlt sho declared that lr> tho d'rect llna of descent th?T?; had been no Insaptty Ir Harry Thaw.'n famlly for four seneratioris. As to tho collateral cases, Mrs. Thaw sald in the affldavlt there were but two, and they were eoally accounted for. _n hor statement to tho commlsslon. Mrs. TJiaf**' also resented the tnslnuatlons which, she sald, she had been compelled to suffer because of the newspaper re? ports of Insanlty In the famlly, and she asserted that there were no famlly secrets to hlde and thero was no akole ton to be bared. Mr. Llttleton may contlnue wlth ex pert testlmony to-morrow, or ho may offer aa wltnosaes the doctora from Rome. Parls and London, wlio are t? testify brlefly of attendlng Tha**" In thelr cities. Another doctor is expected to testify about an outbreak on a traln, and that wlll ond all save the expert testlmony. Codlcll of AA'IU "Read. To-day the codlcll to Thaw's wlll was placed ln evldence, but tho "wlll Itself was tamporarily ruled out -bt; cause of Insufllcloncy of evldence sl*ow? Ing Its custody slnce 1905. Mr. Llttle* ton sald that ho would. supply. thU ta morrow or Frlday. Tho codlcll pro? vlded a number of bequests to lawyers and others to aid alleged vlctlms ot Stanford Whlte to prosecute claims tor damages agalnst him and tor the prose,-, cutlon of all persons engaged "ln sijch unlawful practlces as sald Stanfora Whlte." Thaw named a numher of young women now on the stage as possible clalmants agalnst Whlte. . Complalnt to Coms-oelc. ? Followlng the readlng of the codtc.l Mr. Llttleton called Anthony. Comatock to the stand. Mr. Comstock sald that Thaw called at hls ofllce ln Febru&ryi 1901, and complalned of a man-who was wronglng young glrls. Thaw went Into detalls, which the wltness re peated as far as ho could romember. Mr. Comstock also sald ho had recelved . several letters from Thaw. On croes examlnatlon Dlstrlct Attorney Je'rqnia asked Mr. Comstock If he evor sot into the Twenty-fourth Street house. ..... "No, slr." was the reply. The prosecutlon devoted much of,its tlmo wlth the wltness to calllng. ai tentlon to the fact tliat tho statements ln the letters wero coherent, under standable and ratlonal ln thelr refer ences to hlstorlc events. Mr. COhl* stock produced, at Mr. Jerome's re quest, a lotter copy-book contalning the replleis aont by Comstock to Thaw'a letters. '"?.,-?? There woro also several letters' wrli ten by Mr. Comatocf. io the Children--1 Soclety concernlng the matters' com plalned of by Thaw. Tho lattor.Jet ters Indlcated that the alleged crtrnes more properly belongea to the provlhce of tho children's orcanlzatlon. .; The cross-examinatlon qulckly ende'd, (ind John B- Gloason, ot counsel .*for Thaw at tho flrst trlal, was callee) jn conneetlon wlth provlng T"*iawt*a iwill. The Dlstrlct Attorney -. attem'pte^*'to questlon Mr. Gleason as to any lcUex* wrltian hy Stanfora AVhlte to Bvelyn Nesblt whloh may havo come Into'.lftjs poasession, but Avas blocked by the ?X erelso of the attorney's protesslonaj privllega. TcIIh ot IIU Infaucy. Mrs. AYlUlam, Thaw, the mother. was recalled to conclude her testlmony. Mrs. Thaw told of waklng up opo nlght shortly before Harry's blrth and .Indtpg that her eldest ohlld, an Ip fant, was doad In hor bed. Tho nervous shock was so sevfre, sho declayed. that for more than saveii months she scarcely slept at all. Aa an lnfaiit Harry Thaw suffeved the most remarkable sloeplessnass she h*d ever known ln a chlld. He waa nerv? ous, and Instead of sleeplng at nlffli.t would jnsUt upon being proppe-1 -up tii* a sltting postm-e In bed, his ey?? liiivlns' ie wlde-awako nxprosslort. fha iT 'iyonuuued ?a sttconi _PM*?.y >,u