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WlM&nfant. 1ST I f:- FEARLESS, INDEPENDENT, JROGRE SSIVE NEWSPAPER. II FTtythlrd Year-No, 136-Pr.cc Fivo Cento. OGDEN CITY, UTAH, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1913. Zntered a. Zm Matter ,t the Po.toff,ce, Ogden, Utah I MUST DIVORCE THE S. P. AND C. P. LINES Attorney General McReynolds Says Union Pacific's Failure to Take Over Road From Ogden to San Francisco Will Compel the Government to Institute Another Suit ATTORNEYS SUBMIT PLAN TO DISPOSE OF STOCK Company Will Exchange $38,000,000 Worth of Baltimore and Ohio Stock Will Prevent Dumping Large Block on the Market Court Announces No Decision Before Adjourning St. Paul, Minn., .Trine 12. Union Pacific railmad attorneys ap teared before TTnited States Circuit Judges. Sanborn, Hook and Smith today and explained the additional plans for disposing of tin road's holdings of Southern Pacific stock. Attorney General Mc Reynolds, on behalf of the government, expressed unalterable opposi . tion to those plans which he said were "no plans at all but were merely propositions of something they intended to try to do." The court adjourned without announcing any derision. Presid ing Judge Sanborn indicated that no order might be expected until the attorney general had decided whether the government would ob ject to a proposed exchange of part of the holdings of Southern Pa cific stock for Baltimore and Ohio stock held by the Pennsylvania railroad. St Paul. Minn.. Jane 12 Attor ncys for the Union Pacific presented at the opening of the dissolution hear 1 lng here today a new plan for the disposition of $38,000,000 worth of Southern Pacific stock to the Penn sylvania railroad in exchange for $21, 000,000 worth of Baltimore & Oblo stock. The new plan proposed was supple mental to the two plans reconvy sub mitted The amount of stock Involved in the exchange represents only 14 per cent of th" total Southern I'ar I fir stock. The present holdings of the Union Pacific In Southern Pacific com mon stock represent about J12r,unn. nno N. H Loomis. of counsel for the Union Pacific, said that the Union Pacific did not guarantee to carry out either of the two principal plan', pro posed even though th- court approved both of them. If If should be found that to follow either would Involve too gTeat a sacrifice to the Union Pacific stockholders, the disposition of the stocks" would bo left to th court "How long a time do you think the Union Pacific should bo given to dis pose of the slock?" inquired Judge Smith. "I think the court should be 'liberal with us In tho matter of time because of the present condition of the money market " replied Mr Loomis He thought the railroad should have one year In which to offer the stock and complete the disposition of It. Attorney General McReynolds. op posing the plans proposed by the Uni on Pacific, said that the railroads had been unable to effect a deal s horebv the Union Pacific would acquire the Central Pacific, operating from Og den to San Francisco, In exchange for its Southern Pacific stock He de clared that this failure would compel the government to Institute an expen Blve litigation to compel the Southern Pacific to relinquish its hold over the Centml Ppriflr May Not Object to Exchange. Mr. McReynolds thought the gov ernment would not object to the pro posed exchange but. he wanted to In vestigate the holdings of the various roads before making any definite state He said ho probably could in form the court within three or four davs. "The time has come for the court to order something done," Bald 'ho attorney general. "The Union Pacific does not even guarantee to carry out either of the two so-called plans now j before the court; it asks a year to: try to accomplish one plan, provided, T mark, i conditions will permit such It action without loss to stockholders The railroad counsel say that to I dispose of tho market at present mar ket conditions would be at a great I f-in-rilice It less i Incurred it will I ' t i),, re: ult of wrongful action as construed by the supreme court II which has ordered ibis conn to dis pose of th" stock within reasonable time. Approval of either proposition submitted probably would find the situation Just as it Is now at the end! of the year." Judge Sanborn asked the attorney, general what action he thought fro court should take. Mr. McReynolds' said the court should either appoint I ' receiver to dispose of the stock or W s-hould itself devise some means of I disposing of it The primary plan proposed provided ! for tho sale of Vie stock by popular j subscription similar to city bonds while the alternate plan provided for ' placing the disfranchised Stock with . a trustee and tho issuance of certifi cates of interest against It Those certificates would be exchangeable L only on the filinjr of an affidavit Urn' the holder did not own any Union I Pacific stock I The Pennsylvania Railroad company I savs I "The arrangement is that the com t mon stock of the Baltimore and Ohio 11 railroad held by the Ponnsylvaula I railroad would be cold at par and the i preferred stock at $St) per share and the Southern Pacific stock to bo wur- f'jiiu'd .'it par "The whole transaction will involve I in transfer to the Pennsylvania of SS2.r24 t-hares Southern Pacific com i 1'V.vj iiDC-V and will xmTHBem the de- livery by the Pennsylvania railroad J to the Union Pacific of the entire j holdings of the Pennsylvania railroad I system in the stock of the Baltimore, and Ohio railroad." No Transcontinental Road. .New York, June 12 Local repre-! -entatives of the Pennsylvania dis- i Claim any idea of the establishment of a transcontinental road should the Southern Pacific stock be acquired by the Pennsylvania rond. It was pointed out that even were this de sirable, the phslcal means would still bo lacking Pennsylvania's farthest western connection, even through its leased lines, is many hundreds of mlle3 away from the Southern Pa - j clfle's nearest eastern point According to the last annual report of the Pennsylvania railroad company It had 142,7fi2 Bhares of preferred stock of the Rcltlmore & Ohio with a par value of $14 273,600 an.! 57,250 shares of common with a par value of $5,725,000. Including the Pennsyl vania company, which controls lines west of Pittsburg, the Pennsylvania intereBt9 own about $43,000,000 of Baltimore & Ohio stock. Confirms the Report Philadelphia. June 12. Pennsyl vania railroad officials confirmed the statement that an arrangement had heen entered into for the exchange of the company s holdings of Baltimore and Ohio railroad stock for $38,000. 000 worth of the Southern Pacific stock owned b;. Union Pacific. Ii wan, stated that the exchange, if approved by tho court, would be made on the; basis of the relative market value Ol Baltimore and Ohio and Southern Pacific stock. It was stated tint the Pennsylvania ha9 no interest In ihe management of the Southern Pacific and that the arrangement Is purely a business one I designed to prevent the throwing on the market of such an Immense block of Southern Pacifc stock. It was stated that the Pennsylvania has no Interest In the mauagenieut of the Southern Pacific and that tho arrangement is purely a lmslne-ss one I designed to prevent the throwing on the market of such an immense block I of Southern Pacific stuck no SUBSTANTIAL COMPETITION New York. June 12 "Substantial competition" existed between the Carnegie and Federal Steel companies at the time they were acquired by the United States Steel corporation Judge Elbert H Gary so testified on ! cross-examination todav In the gov ernment's dissolution suit against the corporation. They were substantially In com petition, I don't want to minimize that especially in rails," was his testimony, "but when ou consider 1 they respective territories of the two there was not so much competition as would apiear." Judge 'Iar added that during one period the Carnegie company sold rails in the Chicago district at Vs a ton. "I willingly admit. " he said, ' that this had a gTeat effect on the Illinois Steel company a subsidiary of the federal i Ii forced the Illinois to sell theh rails below cost and they were fast getting into bankruptcy." The Federal and th.. ('arm ,.lo com panies each produced rails, sheared plates, tin plate bars, billets and merchant steel. Judge Gary said be did not think the Carnegie company made any profit by Belling rails In I the ( ftllcagO district. " Would you be surprised to learn." asked Jacob M. Dickinson attorney for the government, "that the records show that rails were the chief busi ness of the arnogie compauy and showed ihe most profit.'" ! "I would like to say tnat In tho old days meihoiia oi bookkeeping were SENATORIAL IMPRESSIONS OF THE LOBBYIST. - j t- B-SY-l-W - aTN ' Lyp) To Bfr A KOHSTCR- v.ulHC (J ikl L such that the books frequently show ed a profit where there was no profit In justice to Andrew Carnegie wish to Bay that since 1S97 there has been a very material change In this re gpect, largely due to Charles M Schw ab.' TO RELEASE CURRENCY "Washington, June 12 Secretary McAdoo said today that his state ment announcing that $500,000,000 ol . n ergency currency would be forth coming should banks need It, was made In response to numerous In quiries from bankers who were anx ious to know whether additional cur rency would be available for crop movements. The treasury department, it was stuted today, had been Informed by bankers within the last few weeks that some stringency might be experi enced in moving the crops if they had assurance tlii relit I could be had un 1 r the provision of the Aldrleh-Yree-land act. they would be able to meet that situation, and that It would be of great value to these generally if they were informed now of the depart ment's attitude. Causes Much Surprise New ork. June 12. Secretary Mc Adoo's overnight offer to issue emer gent currency completely surprised the financial districts. None of the bankers would express an opinion on the subject but it was clear that the BeCrotary B announcement was inter preted, even before his explanatory statement today, as an act to reas sure the legitimate Interests of the country, especially those of a mer cantile and Industrial character Local banker- believe that the of fer will have the effect of releasing large amounts of tme money, In which a severe stringency was threatening No later than yesterday over-year money was utterly lacking in this market, while the rates for four, five and six months hardened perceptibly. (,,,,. i-itVi (,' the proposed meas ure was a sharp rally In stocks today and stock exchange houses reported B better Investment demand than at any i ini" Bince the recent depression. No email part of the Inquiry came from out-of-town sources, whero the ef fect of Secretary' McAdoo's announce ment appears to have been received with greater eucouragemeut than In local circles. , uu TINKER SUSPENDED Cincinnati. O. June 12 President ugust Hermann of the Cincinnati National league team received word todaS from President Lynch of the ;, ague th.it Manager Tinker had tben suspended for his conduct In yester day's game pending the receipt of the umpire's official version of the affair Tinker had a fist fight with Second Baseman Knabe of the Philadelphia team. SAN FRANCISCO WITHOUT LIGHTS Sou Francisco, Jun. It -A large part of the residence portion of this city was without electric light Lib? night because of an explosion in a tower conduit The downtown busi qi bb section wbb not affeded Officers of the Pacific r;as and Elec trie company, acainst which a strike has been in progress for several weeks, declared their belief tbet striken were responsible for the ex pic sion. MINE PROBE I VIEWS SITES Senators Go to "Bat tlefield" of the West Virginia Coal Districts Operators Caused Interference With the Mail of Strikers Charleston, V Ya , June 12 Five Lnlted States senators today started ba(k into the West Virginia hills to view the "battlefields" of the coal strike on Paint Creek and Cabin Creek. A special train on the Chesapeak & Ohio railroad was provided and an itinerary was arranged which Inclu ded the principal mines on both the Paint Creek and Cabin Creek spurs of tho railroad The commltteo heard one witness on the subject of Interference with the postal service John Goldsbor ough told that his letters had been opened at the High Coal ostoffice in the Boomer mine field. No further witnesses were on hand and the committee adjourned to pre pare for the trip to the mines Interference With Postal Service. Charleston. W Ya . June 12. Down from the sunbaked hills of West Vir i ginia today came a hundred brawny j coal miners to tell the senate coal I mine investigating committee how j their country was transferred into a theater of civil war Thev thronged the lobby of the hotel where the com mittee of former Governor Glasscock, I the star witness of the day Governor 1 Glasscock was chief executive of the ; :Uato when the mine, workers struck ! on Paint Creek and Cabin Creek, and issued the. proclamations which placed j the strike district under the dominion I of tho state militia. From him the committee desired to secure the rec ord evidence as to conditions which I preceded the declaration of martial I law and the proceeding under martial law. Through the testimony of Governor Glasscock the mine operators planned to place in the record their conten tion that when the militia superseded the civil courts In the strike district the civil authorities had notified the governor that they were unable to cope with the situation. I'rped by their desire to cut as short as possible the hearings al I barleston, the committee members today planned ! to hear hut a few of the small army ol : witnesses summoned and in attend ance. The ruling of the committee thai no witnesses should be compelled to answer questions tending to In criminate himself had the effect of eliminating much of the cross-examination of witnesses by the attorneys of the operators. I This becamo qpilte apparent In the examination of John Seachrlst, a young miner summoned to testify as to Interference With the postal serv ice Attorney Knight for the opera tors undertook the cross-examination himself. Ho began with a discussion of the mine owners' plans of Issuing scrip to minors as an evidence of work done, negotiable at the com pany stores Seachrist sad that to negotiate scrip for cash at a 10 per cent discount waB a pretty good trade " When Attorney Knight elicit ed that Seachrist had admitted that h wa one of a party that, attacked the village of Mucklow on February j 10 of this year "How many men were there?" he was asked ' About 100,' said the witness. "Were they armed?" "Yes." "How many shots were fired?" "Well I reckon I just couldn t say " "Didn't vou fire any shots?" "Yes." 'With what"" "With a pun." "Where did vou get it?" I bought it," said the witness, shifting a cud of tobacco, and reach lug for tho committeos official cus pidor He explained that he bought the gun "on the road" from a man he had never seen before shortly before the strike began last April. Attorney Knight wanted to know who told him to KO to Mucklow hill lo attack the town and where he got his ammuni tion for his gun. He said he just "happened along there" and that "most of his ammunition be bough; In Montgomerv At this point two questions brought the committee to its feet and resulted in a ruling that the witness need no answer questions tending to Incrim inate him. Attornev Knight wanted to know of Walter Diehl had ordered Seachrist to go to Mucklow bill for the battle and If G F. Parsons had furnished him and other men with ammunition. Neither question was answered. Attorney Knight urged in vain that he expected to prove a con spiracy involving meu now present before the committee" connected with the Mucklow hill battles The committee expected to keep down the list of witnesses as much as possible in order to shorten the hearings and the scores of miners who crowded the room, although un der subpoena, wero not expected to be heard at length. The committee hopes to conclude the hearings here this week cu TRY TO SAVE FRANKESOLA San Francisco, Juno 12. Five sus pended policemen are willing to plead guilty to conspiracy with bunco men If the sentence to be Imposed on their fellow officer. Frank Ksola. convicted of grand larceny in the same set ol cases, can be lightened. District Attornev Flckert said to day the offer had been made to him It has not been accepted as the view Judge Lawlor and Judge Dunne of the superior court might take ot such a motion Is unknown All five ofucerB, while asserting their willingness to plead guilty main tain their Innocence to their personal trlends as well as to counsel They protest that (hey will make no con fession, nor any statement Implicating anybody else. In return for pleading guilty, the fhe would receive six months sen tence. Instead of the year possible on conviction and all felony charges would be dropped. Two offieen of the seven uuder Indictment refused to listen to any proposals A decision must be reached today or tomorrow, for on Saturday a da'e will otherwise be set for the trial en masse of all seven men. and Judge Dunne will rule on Esola's pending motion for a new trial ALFONSO WANTS CABINET Madrid June 12 King Alfonso has requested Count Alvaro de Romanones to remain In office as premier and to form a new cabinet. MOROS KILL ! AMERICANS G e n e ral Pershing's Forces Meet Stubborn Resistance From Na tives Under the Lead ership of the Sultan of Jolo Tribesmen Take Up Positions in the Mountains Manila. June 12. -The entrench ments of the rebellious Moros under the sultan of Jolo at Bag6ag wer taken by the American forces today after a fierce battle In which tho rnerlcnn casualties were six killed and twelve wounded. The killed were two privates of companv M. Kighth United Stales Infantry, three members of the Fit ty first company of Scouts and one member of the Twenty-ninth company of Scouts. Lieutenant Edwin H Rackeley was wounded in the leg The casualties are regarded as few In view of the stubborn resistance which the Moros made to the Amcri can advance. The attacking forces had been made unusually strong ap a precaution, there being in addition to the company of regular infantry, a troop of cavalry, seven companies of Scouts, two companies of con stabulary with a battery of fou mountain guns and a machine gUD platoon The main position of the Moroc was taken. Although there remains nno point still occupied, In the mouc fains, the mountain guns will be In B position to shell it easily. Brigadlei General John I Pershing, commander of the department of Mindanao, who led the forces, declares h will con tinue operations In Jolo until all the i tribesmen's gnns have been taken, and the Island Is wholly peaceful. Wood Calls for Report. Washington, June 12. General Wood has cabled to Major General Bell, commanding the Philippine divi sion, for an Immediate report on the operations Brigadier General Persh Ing Is conducting against the Moros in the Jolo archipelago. The war department knows nothing of the details of the operations, as General Pershing had beu given a free hand to deal with the problem Of disarming the Moros in his own way. and the distance from Zamboan ga. the Jdlo capital, to Manila, Is so great and the communications so un certain that reports from the seen5 are very meager. The general staff Is considerably disturbed by the mention of the sultan of Jolo as leading the hostile Moros, for It had been understood that lie had thrown his Influence with the Americans in the disarmament pro iram. ROOSEVELT PLANS TRIP Buenos Ayres. June 12 It was an nounced here today that Theodore Roosevelt is coming to Argentine to lecture on the progress of the United st ites I Confirms Report. Now York. Juno 12 Colonel Roose velt'fl private secretary today con firmed the report that the colonel con templates a trip to Argentine but add ed that the details had not been set tied Present plans call for his departure this fall. "That's all we care to say about it now," said tho secretary on PEACE DOVE IN BALKANS St. Petersburg, June 12. The Ser vian and Bulgarian governments have both agreed to accept Russian arbi tration in their dispute over the ter ritory acquired during the Balkan war. To Mobilize Their Armies. Belgrade Servia, June 12 The Servian government sent a note to tho Bulgarian government today pro-j posing that three-fourths of the ar mies of the Bulgaria and Servia be demobllxed to relieve the existing j tension and to facilitate a settlement of the differences between the two got srnmenta. May Lose All Gained London, June 12 Sir Edward Grey, the. British foreign secretary, speak ing in the House of Commons today, expressed the hope that both Bulgaria and Servia would accept tho offer ol Russian arbitration. Ho xaid it uas impossible to ex press too strongly the feelings of dis appointment, aud disapproval the out break of a war between the Balkan allies would cause. It would he continued, alienate tho sympathy of Europe and Involve 'he risk to tho Balkan stales of losing all they had gained in tho war with Turkey. 00 Richmond. Ya., June 12. - Delegates to the Travelers' Protective Associa tion of Amcricn convention went down fames river for an all-day excursion to Jamestown Island today. LOBBY HUNT I AND JUGAR I Clashes Between Wit- : nesses and Committee on Wednesday Brings Announcement That the Investigation Will Be Limited to Ques tion of Whether a Lobby Is Being Carried On Washington, June 12. Free raw wool immediately and free sugar In three years as endorsed by President Wilson and adopted by the house were approved today by the majority mem bers of the senate finance committee. The action sustaining the administra tion on both schedules was taken af ter amendments to alter them had been voted down. Washington June 12. Truman G. Palmer. Washington representative of the United States Beet Sugar indus try, testified today before the senate lobby investigating committee that a series of charts prepared by him ar gumentative against free uugar and published as a senate document ha. I attained a circulation of 320.00"! copies ' under the franking privilege of Sena tor Lodge. The charts first appeared In the senate during a speech Mr. Lodge made last July It developed on cross-exam (nation that after Mr. Lodge had secured permission to print the documents. Palmer got a proof ' from the government printing office and somewhat revised them. ( hairman Overman announced that officials of the government printing office would be summoned to tell how such a document had been sent to private hands for revision and that if Senator Lodge wished to testify he would be allowed to do so. "The mailing of this document. T find, would cost five cents." explained Senator Reed to Palmer, "and you, therefore, saved $16,000 for your em plovers." "I'm very glad to know it" replied Palmer Washington. June 12 The senate lobby Investigating committee planned to confine the investigation to the scope of the senate's instructions when the hearings were resumed to dav. References to President Wil son's attitude on the sugar tariff and frequent clashes between witnesses and committee members which char acterized yesterday's sessions, led members of the committee to limit the investigation to the question whether Insidious lobbying is being carried on In Washington. Witnesses connected with the Lou isiana Sugar Planters' campaign Bgalnat free sugar were ready to be heard when the session opened Paul Christian secretary of the Louisiana sugar planters offices In Washington, testified today that all industries in Louisiana were required to Join in writing to President Wil son what disaster tbey believed would follow the free admission of foreign sugar BI Truman G Palmer, secretary of the United States Beet sugar industry, testified he had been In Washington since 19ii2 when he came here to op pose the Cuban reciprocity bill. Palmer gave a long list of beet su gar men members of the association he represents, which has for its ob ject the promotion of the beet 6ugar Industry. jf? Part of the work of promotloa was to look after legislation, he said. 00 x TODAY'S GAMES Senators Take Game. Washington. June 12. (American.) R. H K. Chicago j ' J j H Washington H - MM Batteries Clcotte. Scott and jSS Schalk; Groom and Henry. iff Athletics Beat Naps. Philadelphia, June 12 l American ) RUE Cleveland 1 5 :! H Philadelphia 0 KKS Batteries Falkenherg. Blanding and CarlBCh, O'Neil, Plank and Lapp. Red Sox Beat Browns. Boston. June 12 (American l R. H. E. St. Louis J I ifl Boston 4 J 1 H Batteries Baumgarden and Mc Lean, Bedleut and Carrlgan. Yankees Defeat Tigers New York, June 12 I American.) R. H. E. Detroit 1 5 2 JB New York " 6 IjIM Batteries Lake and Rondeau. Sc liulz and Cossett. Pirates Lose Game. Pittsburg. June 12 (National.) 11. H. E. New York 6 JJ jj MB Pittsburg ; " ffg Batteries - Tesreau. Crandall and Meyers; Camnlty, Robinson and Gib son, Kelly. Dodgers Escape Shut Out Chicago. June 12. (National Brooklyn 1 6 - ;lJ Chicago c n jHH Batteries Rucker and Miller, Fischer. Humphries and Archer. (Additional Snorts on Page Two)